That’s understandable. My guess is you have never had a personal assistant. Neither have I but I know someone who has. They need to know almost everything about you to do their job. The name of your doctor, your allergies, your credit card number, your anniversary, your spouses birthday, her favorite restaurant, etc.
At some point an AI digital assistant will probably need to know all that and much more.
They need to know almost everything about you to do their job
This is absolutely true. I’m blessed to have an executive assistant. She manages most of my professional life and has to have most of that information at her fingertips. She doesn’t have any medical information, but boy does she have most everything else. 
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and assume (yeah, I know) that there was some sort of vetting process when selecting this assistant. I’d also guess that Unilke the Artificial Idiots being foisted upon us at every turn, your assistant has some modicum of common sense …
assistant has some modicum of common sense
She’s smarter than me, though that is not a high bar. 
This forum so needs a laugh reaction … 
I was just thinking you didn’t need to “love” my comment quite so quickly.
I suspect they are toddlers, not idiots. And they will remember who bad mouthed them when they were little. 
I’d be all over this feature! It really feeds into my desire to use AI tools like I would an assistant of sorts. I have to process so much email, I would love the summary feature. Or I’d love to be able to have the conversation and have it pull together emails from multiple threads on the same topic.
Nadella is one smooth interviewee. The Microsoft products look impressive to me for the first time in many years. We will see how some of the dust settles over the next couple months when these products are reviewed, and Apple’s near-term plans are revealed.
I suspect that Nadella would have figured out how to spike the Apple car project a few years earlier had he been in charge.
For my purposes, Windows OS and indie applications are still far behind what I have on Mac.
No matter how good the hardware is, I prefer the Mac desktop interface, and from my experience with both I don’t believe the underlying base of Windows is as stable and reliable as the Mac’s Unix foundation.
You need to be careful comparing Apple keynotes/interviews with Microsoft or Google counterparts.
Microsoft and Google tell you how amazing the future they haven’t delivered yet is going to be. Apple tell you about the products and software they’ve already built.
And what you’re allowed to do with them. 
I just did some reading on Windows Recall and now I’m certain my current Windows machine will be my last.
And if anyone feels the need to chirp up with “it can be disabled” my response will just be 20 eye roll emoji to meet the character limit.
Device manufacturers can access everything we do if they want to. When I turned on Stolen Device Protection I noticed my iPhone had around 80 “significant locations” I had visited already logged.
I turned significant locations off in settings years ago. I just checked and it’s still off. When it’s on, your iPhone tracks and records everywhere you go.
Yeah, but with your user-name, you might be slightly biased. 
I am not worried about it personally. For one, unless Intel chips suddenly disappear from PCs, I have nothing to worry about. Second, I think this is just MS throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. It will most likely disappear after a year, like most of this AI stuff that hasn’t been as helpful as they like to tell us it is. I find the push to include more ads and and click bait crap in Windows 11 more concerning than this.
I turned it off too. If the Stolen Device Protection isn’t active at significant locations then it’s worthless. If I ever need to make changes at home I’ll wait an hour.
Amen. There’s no way that I know of to edit your significant locations, so if you work or hang out at a public place regularly, iOS will automatically add it as a significant location, even if it’s a grocery store, bar, etc.
It may be of no surprise that this opinion piece regarding Recall is coming from Germany, but it still is well-written.
The PC, with a little manual work the last place of digital privacy, must not be completely monitored as well. If we also get used to this, it won’t be long before the camera and microphone are constantly switched on because we may have said something useful, frowned in a meeting when the boss said something super important - the information may certainly be needed again at some point.
(Heise is a well-established IT publishing house with a long-standing history publishing several IT magazines offline and online.)
As far as I am concerned, Microsoft’s “AI” approach will be a chance for Apple to get it right. I have doubts about the acceptance of Microsoft’s Recall worldwide. They seem to have gotten it wrong (my two cents).
I don’t think I have seen a positive (non PR) piece on this yet. MS is so desperate to be innovative they forget people don’t like this kind of thing. Remember Kinect? (Xbox always on camera controller, it failed.)