... Wow. "It must be the users who are wrong".
I mean, MS has always had elements of this problem, but this is unusually bad.
Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
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#192"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
That "quote" is most likely a modern invention anyway:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/23/horses-quote-henry-fo...
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#193Ai basically kills human creativity.
For me it’s the opposite. AI has enabled me to write songs and create pictures. I can’t draw but AI helped me to implement ideas I had.
AI is paying for talent, like soliciting a prostitute for sex. You get the same "thing", but in the end it's just a transaction.
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#194> 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…
100% this. Useful tool sure, don't need it to be in everything all the time for no reason.
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#195> 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…
That and, a circus dog playing the piano may certainly qualify as mind-blowing in the context of circus, but if you make it your project to generally replace pianists with dogs concert-goers will rightly tell you to go lick nettles.
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#196> 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 - 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.
Isn't it just the second person? If there were just a Generate button/tab without explicitly addressing me and asking/begging I wouldn't mind it.
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#197> people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video > super smart were there any US presidents named Bob? No U.S. president has ever gone by “Bob” as a first name or nickname. A few presidents had “Robert” in their full name, but none were commonly known as Bob: James Abram Garfield — middle name Abram, not Robert James Earl Carter Jr. (Jimmy Carter)…
... Bloody hell. I do not routinely talk to our magical robot overlords, but I had vaguely assumed that they were better than that at this point. > George Herbert Walker Bush / George Walker Bush — no Robert I do like how it seems to have decided that Bush I and Bush II are the same person.
To be fair, it’s pretty good at some things. But it’s often hard to tell in advance which things, and it can fail on really dumb stuff. Like I don’t know why “presidents named Bob” sets it off.
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#198AI in search I could go for:
"Find that meme I downloaded last year with the girl standing by the burning house"
Creating AI slop though? No thanks.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget the audience member who literally asked if it was a joke - and got cheers and applause from the rest of the audience. It was probably one of the biggest PR disasters in gaming history - and it does seem like the AI CEOs have been taking quite a bit of inspiration from it.
I think the intent is to provide a sense of pride and accomplishment when rivaling the same monetary dedication on the mobile platform comparable to the PC counterpart. You think you want bread, but you don’t: we are making subscription-based cake available which is better in every way.
The EA-speak is strong with this one.