I don't use a Windows Copilot PC as a daily driver, though I have several in my office. But there's one absolutely critical Copilot feature that forces me to swap out my current laptop, attach a Copilot PC to my docking station, and boot it up. Very few people have bought a Copilot PC in the last year. So these features, which are currently locked to Copilot PCs and their NPU, aren't well known: Windows Recall; Paint's Cocreator, Generative Erase, Object Select, and Sticker Generator; Click-to-Do; Photos' Super Resolution, Relight and Restyle Image; the intelligent search features within the Settings menu; Windows Studio Effects; and Live Captions. My editor assumed I would prefer the last feature, Live Captions, probably because it's both useful and cool.

In October, Microsoft unveiled a roadmap for next-generation AI experiences within Windows 11. Today, two of those -- in Paint and Notepad -- begin rolling out to testers. Microsoft's October AI roadmap included tweaks to Paint, Notepad, and Search. Microsoft Recall was expected soon, too. Recall, of course, has been delayed again until December, as Microsoft works to ensure it's secure and private.

Adobe Photoshop has taken a simple but powerful tool, Generative Fill, and beefed up its AI capabilities in a big way alongside a new Firefly AI art tool.

Adobe is ushering in the next generation of AI art with an upcoming version of Premiere Pro. It's been about two years since Midjourney ushered in AI art, consisting of art generated entirely from scratch as well as "inpainting" and "outpainting." Outpainting attracted attention because AI art was being used to essentially extend the boundaries of photographs and paintings, creating a plausible addition to what wasn't there. Now Adobe is doing the same with Premiere Pro. On Monday, Adobe showed off a video version of what it calls Generative Fill, the same technique that it uses for Adobe Photoshop and its Adobe Firefly generative AI art.

The Mona Lisa is small. Less than three feet tall and about two feet wide, it hangs tiny in the biggest exhibition room at France's Louvre Museum. And in the past two or so weeks, some vigilante AI artists have decided that it should be bigger--much bigger. They're making that happen using a beta tool in Adobe Photoshop called "generative fill." It launched late last month and allows users to fill in, augment, or expand an image using AI--think ChatGPT but for Photoshop.

An Adobe Photoshop beta with AI art tools from Adobe Firefly has begun shipping, with the general release scheduled for the second half of 2023, Adobe said. "Generative Fill," the feature that will tap Firefly for creating backgrounds and other digital objects via AI. For decades, Adobe Photoshop has been synonymous with creating images that don't correspond to real life. Adobe tip-toed further into this realm earlier this year with Firefly, a superb AI art generator that was then a standalone project. Adobe characterized Firefly as one of its most successful beta launches, with users creating hundreds of millions of digital images.

As generative AI has taken the tech world by storm, it was only a matter of time before Photoshop got in on the action. Adobe announced today that a new Generative Fill feature is coming to its ubiquitous photo-editing software later this year. The company promises "a magical new way to work" as the Firefly-powered feature lets you add, remove and extend visual content based on natural-language text prompts. "Generative Fill combines the speed and ease of generative AI with the power and precision of Photoshop, empowering customers to bring their visions to life at the speed of their imaginations," said Ashley Still, Adobe's senior VP of Digital Media. Adobe's Generative Fill is equivalent to DALL-E 2's inpainting (generating AI content within a section of an image) and outpainting (AI-generated content extending beyond the image's borders).