Windows 11 is great once your strip out everything like their app store and Copilot and create an offline account (Windows Pro required).
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
91–100 of 392 posts
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#92A quote I saw today: "Maybe AI seems like a creative solution, if you aren't a creative person.", seems to explain a lot of this maybe. Edit: Found the source: https://www.eurogamer.net/maybe-ai-is-a-creative-solution-if...
I'd love to read more wherever this came from if you could link the source
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#93> 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…
Instead of "pushing back" I wish he'd actually listen to and address his critics' points.
He is deliberately and disingenuously missing the point. It's not that the features aren't good (maybe they are, maybe they aren't). It's about how coercive Microsoft and Windows are with its users, and this exec is failing to address that one.
Just once, I'd like to hear a question get through to these assholes asking them why they are forcing so many unwanted things onto their users. From Microsoft accounts to forced windows updates to Recall... Gone are the days when users had any control over what their computers are running.
But these kinds of questions never seem to get through to them.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#94I'll be impressed when they manage to fix Windows 11! There are still many regressions compared to Windows XP through 10. They can add all this AI nonsense to the taskbar, yet they can't reinstate the features people have been asking for.
Meanwhile we get a react native web app for a start menu, and you can't even move the taskbar's location on the screen. A feature that has existed in Windows since 95.
Something is seriously dysfunctional in Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#95With this attitude I'm worried about GitHub and VSCode..
Microsoft has been pushing AI features into both VS Code and GitHub for quite some time
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s partly that, but it’s also partly that the quality SUCKS. I’m frustrated with AI blogspam because it doesn’t in any way help me figure out whatever I’m researching. It’s such low quality. What I want and need is higher quality primary sources — in depth research, investigation, presented in an engaging way. Or with movies and shows, I want something genuine. With a genuine story that feels real, characters that…
The thing is, for us normal consumers AI only has downsides. AI blogspam is made to serve you ads and make you buy stuff. AI posts / comments on Reddit are made to make you buy stuff. AI videos are made to keep you engaged, and then serve you ads which at the end make you buy stuff. Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $.
I mean, it gives product recommendations when you ask it to, so it's already doing that, I'm sure. It might not be making money by giving specific recommendations; but I bet it's at least getting money off Amazon referral links.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#97Microsoft AI CEO thinks AI is cool. Film at eleven.
If Elon musk bent over and sucked shit from his own ass and Tesla stock went up, every CEO would start stretching.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#98> 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…
Reminds me of the classic in the genre:
how about a couple of weeks of gratitude for magic intelligence in the sky, and then you can have more toys soon?
Sam Altman, Sep 12, 2024
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#99> 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…
"If I want AI I'll actively seek it out and use it - otherwise, jog on." If I want MS Windows I'll actively seek it out and use it - otherwise, jog on If this is not a statement you can make, then Redmond gets to decide what you use, not you
Linux and Mac users would disagree.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#100Copilot in Visual Studio is so hit or miss that frequently it's not worth using.
Today I asked it to add a constant as an argument to every call to a specific method in a unit test. The result was pure slop: The prompts leaked out into the proposed diff, and there was just a list of every method call, not placed where the method calls were in the unit test.
Just get the darn stuff to work before you shove it into every corner of my life.