AI failed at Microsoft because they already lost the consumer trust. I doubt they would have this issue with AI integration if people didn’t feel that installing windows is a hostile corporate takeover of your computer.
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
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#12He seems to be intentionally missing the point of most of the complaints in order to direct away from his core area. The many legitimate criticisms of windows poor user experience lately will eventually drive change, but long will that take?
Not to mention, I can find AI perfectly impressive and still have absolutely no day-to-day use for it… certainly not enough to justify it taking over my operating system experience.
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#13They spent billions of dollars on compute costs and they need to pump the PKIs to justify it. That is the only explanation. It is the same reason every app (be they web or mobile) gets a redesign every year.
That's gotta be it.
At Ignite yesterday they announced that Security Copilot will now be included for free with E5 licensing.
The tool that until yesterday way $50k for a single tenant deployment. Aka, no one bought it, but they need to juice the KPIs so might as well make it free so it looks like someone is actually using it.
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#14Smart AI? You mean probability based token generator?
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#15> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me. It's not that people are unimpressed with AI - they're just tired of constantly being bombarded with it, and it sneaking its way into where it's not wanted. "Generate any image you want!" "Analyse this thing with AI!" gets pretty tiring. If I want AI I'll actively…
"we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AIwe can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI"
But we can't. I can have something styled as a conversation with a token predictor that emits text that, if interpreted as a conversation, will gaslight you constantly, while at best sometimes being accidentally correct (but still requiring double-checking with an actual source).
Yes, I am uninterested in having the gaslighting machine installed into every single UI I see in my life.
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#16I don’t know much about him, but I’m immediately put off by his post with obvious grammar errors. And I’m not even a native speaker!
He grew up in Britain so he's most likely a native speaker.
It's a Twitter post, not an English essay that's about to be graded.
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#17At this particular moment in time, the old quote about "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" feels relevant on a couple of levels. I keep waiting for the bubble to burst and for these executives to be forced into finally confronting the realities of this technology, but it is taking a very long time indeed.
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#18Microsoft AI CEO thinks AI is cool. Film at eleven.
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#19"It must be the customers who are wrong," said no successful businessperson ever.
This made me think of Henry Ford's quote about people wanting a faster horse. Granted, he was an extreme outlier, which is why he's worth quoting
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#20People think Windows sucks. People think AI sucks. Combine the two, ??? Still sucks