The ONLY thing keeping people in WIndows anymore, is propietary software, that is how TERRIBLE Microsoft has become.
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
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Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#102> 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…
I would be impressed if AI was actually 'super smart' but what we have now is not.
But Sam promised us the gpt5 was a PhD level intelligence!
Now excuse me while I go talk to my PhD wielding friend about whether the seahorse emoji exists. /s
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#103> 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…
> It's not that people are unimpressed with AI Oh no, I am definitely unimpressed. That AI you can have a sorta-kinda fluent conversation with is often a complete moron and a habitual liar, and the images it generates are awful - did he not see how horrible that Coke ad looked? It'll probably end up useful in a bunch of applications soon-ish and I'll probably want to use it eventually, but in the meantime their AI is…
It's just Eliza. Once you toy with it and see the patterns it is just Eliza with more power behind it.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#104Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI CEO) is a grifter. He dropped out at 19 and later ran "product" for Deepmind, riding the coattails of Demis Hassabis. He's known for: - bullying employees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Suleyman#cite_note-14:... - reorgs, pointless meetings, toxic culture (example: extra office day for his org): sources who work at Microsoft - https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1972584701736157664…
I mean, if they want to put a grifter and a con artist in charge of their division and torpedo themselves, I say let them go for it!
Something, something, never interrupt your opponent whilst they’re making a mistake.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#105> 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…
Well, and companies are papering over usability problems with AI. LLMs are not a substitute for good human-centric design.
It's almost as if all the focus has been on eliminating the human... for products designed for humans.
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#106This is Microsoft's "Do you guys not have phones?" moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjVdPtB9lU
Considering Diablo Immortal generated a ton of money, I hope you are wrong. I believe users are stupid enough to stick to Microsoft "agentic OS" anyway.
My biggest issue with “users choosing to stick with it” is the inordinate number of users in corporate environments who simply won’t be given a choice.
They’ll be given some garbage W11 laptop by IT, which will be irrevocably infested with whatever garbage MS wants, and there will be _nothing_ they can do about it. I can see it happening in real time with my partners work computer.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#107> 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…
I have never in my entire life wanted to "generate an image or video". I like taking photographs and recording videos because they represent the reality of my life. Who would ever want to "generate" fake images as a matter of normal daily activities?
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#108> 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…
> It's not that people are unimpressed with AI Oh no, I am definitely unimpressed. That AI you can have a sorta-kinda fluent conversation with is often a complete moron and a habitual liar, and the images it generates are awful - did he not see how horrible that Coke ad looked? It'll probably end up useful in a bunch of applications soon-ish and I'll probably want to use it eventually, but in the meantime their AI is…
> If anything, their current approach is only going to make people hate AI even more
Personally I'm long past hating AI
I am pretty much at the point of viewing AI research and development as a crime against humanity
I hope I will turn out to be wrong, but as things are going right now all I can see is this path leads to misery for the vast majority of living humans.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#109> Jeez there so many cynics! Jeez there are so many clueless CEOs! > It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. This is your business. It should "make you curious." Saying it "cracks you up" is ridiculous behavior from someone in your position. I will never do business with someone like this. > I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! Because you were bored? Or because you literally set time aside eve…
If it weren’t so tiring having to wade through all the ai slop they add to products I’m forced to use, the fact that leadership in the field are getting petty and childish about how not everyone thinks their toy is shiny is a real “telling on themselves” moment.
If it actually, truly, world-changingly good as they are _begging us_ to believe they are, they wouldn’t need to care that people disliked it or chose not to use it.
But because they’re practically going red in the face screeching about it, it really comes off as “cope”, to use the hip new word.
Re: Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
#110Microsoft is a multi-trillion dollar company. Is it too much to ask for them to develop and maintain two separate Windows flavors with different focus?
1. Windows 11 - keep doing what they are doing, add AI, ads, all sorts of guardrails, whatever the 80% of users need
2. Windows 11 Enthusiast - Bring back Win 2000 theme, no guardrails, best-in-class dev experience, hyper-optimised for gaming, no AI, no ads
I would pay significantly more for the special version that I did for my Win 11 pro copy.