Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash

Post by conartist6 » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 11:37 AM UTC

archerx wrote: post #337

conartist6 wrote: post #333

I am still puzzled by how you can be a human being in this world and not be impressed by people . The more we study AI, the more we discover one fundamental truth above an the others: people are really, really, really, really impressive. A human being still absolutely melts an LLM like a Salvador Dali clock if the challenge is to innovate. In the race between human potential and LLM potential it isn't even close. Not…

Yes people are amazing but they are also tedious, annoying, frustrating, unpredictable and undependable. Finding someone that will flow and synergize with you on a project is like winning the lottery. People love to talk the talk but when it’s time to walk the walk the reality and disappointment sets in. Work with enough people and this painful reality sets in very quickly. However I don’t want an agentic or “A.I.” o…

Post by franktankbank » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

netdevphoenix wrote: post #331

AndrewDucker wrote: post #322

I am impressed by AI. I just don't want to use it. "Look at how realistic this extruded text looks from a distance!" is definitely an achievement. It just doesn't add to my life in any useful way.

>It just doesn't add to my life in any useful way. Most products don't add value into our lives imo. They are the means by which we get money flowing which is needed to keep the economy alive. Some might argue that they actually subtract from it hence the need for dopaminergic products. The question for the tech CEOs is how to make LLMs reliably dopaminergic in the way Instagram/Tik Tok and the like are.

Post by hprotagonist » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC

OptionOfT wrote: post #82

anon7000 wrote: post #40

Earlier 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 $.

Post by hereme888 » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #187

ckozlowski wrote: post #45

This Microsoft response reminds me of the 2018 Blizzcon event, where the Diablo Immortal developer challenged the audience with "Do you guys not have phones?" when the audience asked if the game was coming to PC. Then - like now - it seemed that they couldn't understand that what they made was not what their customers wanted.

And yet Diablo Immortal made about a billion dollars, orders of magnitude more than the other Diablo games combined. Sound like they knew exactly what their customers wanted. https://mobilegamer.biz/three-years-after-a-fiery-launch-dia...

Post by franktankbank » Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

joshribakoff wrote: post #312

rexpop wrote: post #299

Insofar as "All ambiguity is resolved by practitioners at the sharp end of the system", a tool that resolves ambiguity higher up the org chart is going to be less impressive to those of us who resolve ambiguity day in and day out. What I mean to say, is that we know our way around the tools and this is why we're not impressed when somebody else uses AI to find their way around the tools.

There are some potential biases here. Of course it is unimpressive when someone does something familiar to you, that is subjective. That same thing could be framed as impressive, to someone else, such as the person who is now able to do the unfamiliar as if it is familiar. The other bias would be to assume that there aren’t unfamiliar things (you don’t know every tool every made, therefore you may potentially benefit…