Microsoft wants to bring AI enhancements to Paint, Photos on Windows 11.

Windows Copilot might not be the only AI feature we might get in Windows 11. Microsoft reportedly wants to bring AI-enhanced features to other apps, including Paint, Photos, Snipping Tool, and Camera.

The news comes from Windows Central, which quotes internal sources at Microsoft. The Redmond company has been developing several AI-related features for its apps on Windows 11. Some of these functions may require an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) or VPU (Visual Processing Unit).

MS Paint, Photo, Snipping Tool and Camera could get AI features

According to the report, MS Paint may get support for generated AI and you can use it Create some artwork based on criteria of your choice. An internal mockup image shared by the blog shows a redesigned version of the app with a "Magic Paint" button in the toolbar that can be used to access AI features. We can also see a text box where you can describe the content of the image as well as a thumbnail image, which may have been taken from the web. The AI ​​image generator in MS Paint is said to be similar to the AI ​​image generator in Bing Image Creator.

(Image source: Windows Central)

Moved to the Photos app, the image viewer/editor will allow its built-in AI tools to identify photos objects and characters in. Users can then select and paste them into other applications. This feature sounds very similar to what the Photos app in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS can do, and the Google Photos app for Android can do it, at least on Pixel devices.

Microsoft wants to bring OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to the screenshot tool. This will enable the tool to recognize text in the screenshots it captures, and possibly in existing images. This text content can be copied to the clipboard for pasting into other applications. The company is also said to be bringing similar OCR functionality to the camera to take photos and detect text in media.

AI features are still in the experimental stage. It's unclear whether they will be released for Windows 11 users. I wonder if these apps will be affected by a recent update to the Microsoft Services Agreement regarding the use and ownership of AI-generated content. This also raises the question of whether these AI-related features will work without logging into a Microsoft account.

Bing Chat is extremely popular among users, so it’s no surprise to see Microsoft looking to integrate its AI into other apps. The company has embedded it in Microsoft Edge, Skype, and even in sliding key keyboards for Android and iOS. That being said, Microsoft may have gone above and beyond by cramming AI into almost every application. Not everyone will like these improvements, but as long as these are optional, i.e. can be disabled, it shouldn't cause problems for most users. Also, not everyone has access to Edge or Skype, but probably more people might use Paint, Photos, Snipping Tools, so from Microsoft's perspective this could be a good way to get more users.

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