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

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Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.

They're those guys that spend hundreds of hours in pickup artist courses rather than being a person people would like to be with, yeah.

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post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob You can go straight to hell for making me feel old.

As a kid I absolutely loved these interfaces.

it was a knockoff of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Cap

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

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company. damn, he quickly disavowed the statement and got panned anyway would falling on the sword worked better??

He's lying or incompetent, your choice

Both of those things can be true at the same time for some people.

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

#114

Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.

That’s always been Microsoft in a nutshell though. They constantly stumble around never making anything truly great but still doing a good enough job to keep their existing customers.

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post #100

Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.

They are also just bad at almost everything they do. I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted. Although maybe it doesn't take much, given that it sounded at one point like the Microsoft execs were addicted already.

I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted. This is absolutely a thing. Social media, mobile games, LLMs, tobacco.

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

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post #100

Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.

They are also just bad at almost everything they do. I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted. Although maybe it doesn't take much, given that it sounded at one point like the Microsoft execs were addicted already.

> They are also just bad at almost everything they do

Huh? Have you forgotten Clippy, the first AI agent?

/s

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

#119
I'm really worried about what happens when we mix these kind of dependency-oriented business strategies with the sensitivity of a human's personal context. With no "file format" equivalent for personal context, how do I ever switch "assistant" in this provisional future?
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