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Never seen someone with a mind so easily blown.

Microsoft is truly the king of putting out a product that no one wanted or asked for, then wondering why no one wants it. I'm sure they will soon begin the second phase of any Microsoft product: spending a small country's GDP marketing it to try to get people to use it, despite it being prominently displayed on approximately 5 billion operating systems already.

A tried and true strategy to piss through more money than god to justify spending more money than god building the thing that no one wants. Looking at you, IE and edge.

Well my guy have you actually used and I mean really sat down and used your burning pile of slop for an excuse of an OS? I bet you haven‘t because you don‘t have to. Your assistants have to deal with that and they get paid to not complain about it. Meanwhile you get paid to waste oxygen and have lost touch with reality to the point you‘re no longer able to contribute to society in your current position. How sad.

You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.

As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.

What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?

Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.

Lay off the coke man, talking to a computer isnt impressive when the average persons hydro bill goes up each month to support your bullshit

I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.

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I dunno if I'd say I'm "unimpressed" with AI. I certainly find the technology itself fascinating. I worked with machine learning for years before consumer generative AI became mainstream and it's profoundly impressive what decades of research and development have yielded. I genuinely do admire the painstaking work that underappreciated computer scientists have put in to make such things possible.

That said, "AI" is the new "blockchain" insofar as virtually every company on the S&P 500 has decided this is the new be-all-end-all feature that must be integrated into every aspect of every project. I don't need AI to be part of my OS. I will open a new tab in my web browser if I decide I have a task for it. Granted, I am not a representative sample of a typical computer user (I use GNU/Linux btw).

To say nothing of the unethical manner in which these models are trained, using works produced by actual writers, artists, programmers, etc. Obviously profiting from their works while offering zero compensation (and actively taking work away from them by offering AI as an alternative to their craft).

As has been said elsewhere about everything Microsoft is pulling:

If your LLM was worth using you wouldn't need to force anyone to use it.

AI bros are beyond delusional.

Same energy as when they pushed Kinect and Cortana as the future of computers.

people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.

I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer "open this". I type into a search field to communicate "find this string".

At no point do I want to communicate to my computer "log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn't what I'm asking for."

Doesn't understand the company's customers at all, sounds like maybe he's not cut out to be CEO. Also, yeah, I'm not impressed by your agentic BS that your own company is already warning may install malware.

Business Idiots. Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about how many business leaders are out of touch with users and their own products. They live in their own little pocket dimension with each other, and only really care about shareholders.

The harder they'll try to force feed it down their customer's throats by making it increasingly prominent and obnoxiously insisting in the interface, the more people will hate it.

How can Microsoft still not know that fact after doing it for over three decades is beyond me.

If he thinks the reaction was people not being impressed then it shows that CEOs are psychopaths who can’t relate to normal people.

"Why don't people like our user surveillance systems? they're so impressively good at invading your privacy!"

If you think you need to blame the people for not being impressed by your product, the problem isn't with the people.

it's giving "Don't you guys have phones?"

I don't like your LLM because A) It's a piece of junk and I cannot trust it's answers, and B) It's designed and built by an organization focused solely on gathering every bit of data about me that it's possible to gather and use that information to squeeze every nickle out of me you can.

I honestly cannot think of a single reason why I, or anyone else, would want this crud built into anything other than toys, and even then I doubt it would end well.

CEO, Microsoft AI
Microsoft · Full-time
Mar 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos
Redmond, Washington, United States

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20 years ago I would have been excited: when Microsoft made Clippy to try and help people. Now we know you created this to harvest data.

I'm mind-blown that people feel no shame when data harvesting from computer illiterates, or programmers who write anti-features (like forced online accounts for a local OS).

Pro tip: when your customers don’t like your product, it’s not their fault. It’s yours, and the appropriate response is not complaining or incredulity that people don’t like it. The appropriate response is to change the product or scrap it completely.

"I don't understand why people dislike this thing that works less than what was used previously and we keep forcing on our customers."

Suleyman says he's mind blown by the fact that people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.

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"I have a radical business strategy: Fuck our customers, and fuck what they want. It's going to be great. They'll love it. Or else."

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I couldnt give a flying fuck what this clown thinks. My brand new Beelink EQ14 came with Win11. Its now running Ubuntu server

Talk about gaslighting your consumers into us thinking we're Luddites. Not to look at the ransomware that Win11 has become.

Also if CEOs are starting to shake about AI not evolving anymore does that mean... a bubble is doomed?

"And my farts smell delicious!"

...And other signs that you may be in a cult.

I can't recall ever liking almost every single comment in a post before, what a fucking rush.