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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
(www.irishtimes.com)
Not much of a "boom" then is it?
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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I didn't read anything and I don't know who this man is but the picture is just.. I can't.. He looks like a baby with the headband eye glasses. That expression... He's enjoying his puffed rice cereal bites while signalling that he wants milk.
Has there ever been a true world-changing invention where the "inventors" had to beg the public to use it?
The stone hasn't bled enough. Squeeze harder.
- The American Economy
I can't wait for the full on gaslighting to start. They're going to tell us that the economy will fall into recession if we don't embrace AI.
Capitalism: “The customers get decide what suceeds and what fails!”
Capitalism: “What a load of horseshit, and they’ll eat it up, too, the idiots.”
Always incredible to me how staunch supporters of capitalism are routinely ok with handouts to the tune of billions of dollars when they aren’t getting any real benefit. They’re even the type say they don’t negotiate with terrorists and I guess they’re right, since they just immediately fall to their demands.
We'll try to keep shoving it down your throats anyway though.
-Tech companies as evidenced by how many new places it keeps cropping up
Translation:
“AI bubble could burst without us shoehorning it into everything, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns”
Get fuct “big tech boss”
I for one look forward to buying a dirt cheap GPU in about 2 years.
Come on guys, the copilot button is right there…
getting nervous
Any moment you want! Hehe.
sweating intensely
Just right there for the clicking to improve your life.
Looks over his shoulder at the pile of money that’s burning to ash
Man, I cannot wait for the comedy movies that come out based on this farce, explaining exactly how these jokers lost all their money.
Lost? More like took all our money.
The best comedies will be made by them... like the NFT cartoon that was made using the bored ape pictures that was so bad that even the biggest advocates of NFTs had no idea what the hell they were doing.
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Oh no! Anyway...
Finally some good news.
Pictured: Nadella holding in his hands all the profit M$ can make in the next 30 years even if AI booms like he really really really wants it to.
artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.
Oh, you mean there is a risk it becomes the thing it already is? Boy, imagine that!
The really funny thing is how he says that "the benefits need to spread outside the tech sector". Golly gee, I wonder why other sectors haven't benefited yet! Could it be that it's not worth the hype and it does not improve anything that typical computer systems are already working on, like managing electrical grids, keeping track of shipments, avionics, etc? Nah, it's all the doomers' fault
So they‘re finally reaching the „we could fail…“ stage of the hype cycle. This is great news, actually. The sooner this charade ends the lesser destructive it will be. Even when it already caused devastating damage to society.
If nobody is using your product then you made a shit product and should scrap it before you lose any more money.
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I am so here for this.
Dear Rooty,
We promised investors adoption we could not achieve, and we had to rebrand our best product to create the illusion of adoption.
This leads to our question:
How can we make more of our product offering icons look like butt holes?
Thank you in advance for your wisdom!
but what about FORCING everyone to use the product whether they want to use it or not? I heard that if you're powerful enough there's no need to ask permission, "they let you do it."
“Ponzi scheme could falter without wider adoption, warns early Ponzi scheme investor”
They're all so deep in debt on this shit, if it doesn't work, titans will fall.
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Don't tease us with a good time, fucker.
Microslop chief Satya Nadella warns
AI is not a bad thing, but it's way more niche compared to what was promised. There's certainly way less demand for it than these big investors want people to believe.
If people aren't adopting it, it's not a boom.
It's an investment boom.
It's an investment boom.
Well said. I'm going to steal this.
I can only hope that THIS time, with the sheer amount of information available, that future historians will convince society that it's better to run society based on evidence and progress and humanity.
We have the old boys club running our companies, grifting and building a giant economic bubble to make a quick buck they have no use for, and casually destroying some of the most valuable brands out there.
They are running many of our governments too, and that's not working great.
The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power of any sort shouldn't be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.
It's nice to wake up to good news.
Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?
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As this asshole and his asshole company tries to force adoption via shoving it down Windows 11 users without consent.
Reminder that now is a great time to switch to Linux desktop.
Now is a great time to lobby the companies you work for to get them to dump Windows and switch everything to Unix/FOSS/etc wherever possible.
I'm not an AI hater but make literally one functioning AI product bro before you say that
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“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,”
I would correct that to say 'for this to not be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this a. Exist and b. Are significant enough to justify the extreme costs of building these systems'
Right now I don't see anything coming out of this that justifies even 1/10 of the $trillions being poured into AI.
In fact I think you could make an argument that the net result is negative, even for businesses that adopt it, due to the increased prices they will pay for hardware over the next few years. If it makes your employees 5% more efficient great, if it makes your technology 50% more expensive in return, not so great.
the horror! why dont the people think of the shareholder dividends! The rich people yacht money!
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