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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant

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Re: Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant

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Post by warumdarum »

GuestFAUniverse wrote: post #10
warumdarum wrote: post #7

They botched the phone, thry botched AI, just overall so obsessed with themselves, they tend to forget the customers

An ad free, minimal notification, calm design and thus _Pro_ like in (former times) _pro_fessional signature edition OS would be too simple. Instead we get a marketing platform. Because "growth"... whatever that means until (and after) the next bubble pops. Plus: that euphemistic /bubble/ is more like a puss and cancer ridden zombie needing constant life support. Keep the numbers high, yeah! Cheer the numbers!

Certainly has a cooperate socialist product feel too it..

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Post by x______________ »

warumdarum wrote: post #7

They botched the phone, thry botched AI, just overall so obsessed with themselves, they tend to forget the customers

After some time in the industry, once you reach a certain amount of zeros in your revenue, the org mindset almost always changes from something of a survival state into messiah-mode where everything it does and produces must-be and will-be accepted as the next best thing since sliced bread, at no matter the cost.

It's a human trait, Microsoft is not immune.

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Post by OgsyedIE »

righthand wrote: post #14

That’s probably why they pushed out Phil Spencer and handed over the Xbox division to a very pro-AI employee.

To be fair, the fundamentals that pre-2019 Xbox (and all other consumer gaming) relies on were already slowly going away and have recently been confirmed to have an extremely tiny chance of recovery, if at all. Embracing the pivot to gambling and tobacco-style customer retention philosophies is purely an effort to salvage the sunk costs in an industry whose traditional customer base is being forced to shrink and input costs are being forced to rise by largely macroeconomic headwinds.

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Post by Defletter »

noitpmeder wrote: post #15

Literally every company on the planet would jump at the chance for their product to be addictive.

Who'd've guessed that the profit motive being the primary if not sole concern would sometimes (often) create incentives that are hostile to humanity.

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Post by saurik »

Maybe trying to engineer addiction is what should be illegal, and if you want to question "how do you define whether something is addictive" you don't need an objective measure: you determine whether it seems like the people making the product seem to think that's their goal.

Re: Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant

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Post by tetris11 »

saurik wrote: post #19

Maybe trying to engineer addiction is what should be illegal, and if you want to question "how do you define whether something is addictive" you don't need an objective measure: you determine whether it seems like the people making the product seem to think that's their goal.

"you know it when you see it"
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