Technology

Never seen someone with a mind so easily blown.

How to be a tech shithead:

1. Be disproportionately rich
2. Surround yourself with yes-men
3. Disregard any valid criticism as "haters"
4. Become completely out-of-touch
5. Get your mind blown by most basic, obvious things.

Somehow, this guy is the CEO.

I don't want anything to do with AI. I disabled it everywhere. Yet, you keep shoving it down my throat. The more you do that, the less I want to interact with it. Toss more AI on me, and I'll look to disable it.

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.

Because it’s just an inference machine. That’s impressive on its own but you fuckers keep pretending it is intelligent. It’s not. It’s a toddler with an enormous vocabulary and shareholders.

This what happens when fucking weirdos who have never talked to other people are in charge of tech. they come up with something that can't talk like a person and is always wrong and they are super impressed with it because it's the closest they come to socializing.

For some reason it is not mindblowing to me that the Microsoft AI CEO is astronomically out of touch with normal people.

I think it is probably the behavior of Microsoft as a company that makes me feel that way.

LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that's it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.

For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can't do better or do something i don't want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without ~~punctuation~~ suggestions.

When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I'm not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don't want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don't need help).

Microsoft, I don't owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn't suck. Impress me.

They're completely out of touch with how normal people use their computers. The only people who want AI in their OS are the AI tech bros.

Do you guys not have phones - energy

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.

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."

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.

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.

AI is becoming impressive. But that doesn't mean I agreed to let companies steal my data and art to train it.

Wait, Microsoft’s “AI CEO” is a human? If AI is supposed to be replacing jobs, why not start there?

as amazing as snake was as a toy on phones, it still doesn't make sense to put a copy of snake in outlook. Or notepad, or paint, or office, or as an always available widget in the task bar

It feels like Microsoft doesn't remember how Cortana was received. Why don't you fix Windows' file search instead?

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.

It is interesting to see his reaction to reality. He finds out that people think he's peddling bullshit, and instead of asking why they think that, he dismisses them as irrational... That's one way to run a company, but only if your company has a monopoly and customers can't run away even if they want to.

His post was so negatively received that he was forced to turn off replies

Wait, what? How was he forced? He literally couldn't take that people don't like his product? He would have died if he didn't do it?

Reminder that Linux has never been better than it is right now for gaming!

I was just thinking about this yesterday. AI has not helped me in any way shape or form. I don't need it, i don't want it, and it should NOT be forced onto people.

I grew up teaching myself how to research and use Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, AOL, and now Google, Duck Duck Go. I don't need a dumb AI to tell me what i can find myself.

Fuck AI. I don't want it.

I 👏 don't 👏 want 👏 or 👏 need 👏 AI 👏 on 👏 my 👏 computer!

Good thing I don't use Windows so I won't have to deal with it whatsoever. 😌

God these dumbfucks will find any excuse to force you to treat your OS like anything other than an OS. Linux doesn't need to do anything at this point except not suck.

When a sewer pipe blows up with a fountain of sewage, people are impressed for a few minutes.

When it just leaks and stinks, people are not impressed even for a few minutes.

I don’t want to talk to a fucking computer. I want to spend more time with my friends and family. Give me that and I will be impressed.

I'm amazed by AI and what it can do, compared to what computers could do in the past. Its truly astonishing at how far we've come and we can marvel at the capabilities.

I still dont want to use it though. It's not reliable enough for what I would actually use it for, and if I had a job that could make use of it, I'd be counting down the days until it puts me out on the street.

So they acknowledge the backlash, now what? They're probably not gonna change anything regardless.

Anyway, why does Microsoft need an "AI CEO" and how is CEO different from president? Is there also a Windows CEO, or an AI president at Microsoft?

Real answer is that the direction AI is going right now is to save money for billionaires, not to improve the lives of everyone else.

The fact that it's mind-blowing to him is unimpressive to me so. Potato tomato.

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

Stupidity is one of the more prominent signs of megalomania

"Talking fluently". You get completely meaningless answers. Big walls of text without content.

AI is a hindrance, not a helper.

Arguments about the validity of it being impressive aside, I think he's mistaking impressive technological achievements with things people want in their operating system.

I don't need to talk to a computer (nor do I want to). I'm fine using a keyboard. All I need is a machine that performs my tasks fluently and flawlessly.

I think, the main misperception here is that ordinary people do not have half of the enthusiasm about AI, that the tech industry leader have, while those try to throw AI into everything they have to make it (and the corresponding investments) somehow meaningful and profitable.

Github copilot can do some impressive things, but it also ignores my instructions to not try to run anything and leave testing to me that I've stopped bothering saying it and just block the attempt when it asks permission. Just yesterday, it confidently said it had figured out an issue I was debugging with it and made a bunch of code changes that literally only affected comments. If I leave it in agent mode (which allows it to edit code) when asking a question to clarify something and not intending any code changes but wanting to think about the answer (and telling it that), sometimes it still runs ahead and tries to make changes anyways.

When it does well, it's uncanny how effective it can be these days, but it's not reliable enough to be trusted to be in control of the whole system. Plus I don't trust Microsoft enough to put my data on onedrive, and believe that access to data is the real reason behind their AI push, no matter how much usefulness and reliability improves.

If you're "mindblown" about this then you shouldn't be the CEO of any division of one of the most profitable businesses on the planet.

"Don't you have phones" moment

He might be the dumbest ceo out there, and that is an impressive feat.

CEO articles most often than not are just corpo salespeople telling you about trash they are trying to push on people. They are literally paid millions of dollars by the wealth class to not tell the truth unless under oath in court or a deposition. They're not paid for hard work or leadership, if you've worked in a corp setting for at least a week that much is obvious. They are paid buckets full of money to ignore or suppress their morality for stock prices. It's obvious when it's garbage like language models sold as agi, but the same is true for the rest of the pr vomit they feed to news agencies.