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Current CEO: > Boeing spent about $300,000 to help Ortberg move to Seattle. His decision comes more than two decades after Boeing leadership decided to move company headquarters out of Seattle. Ortberg received about $18 million for the months he was the CEO in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ortberg Previous CEO: > In 2022, Calhoun received $22.5 million from Boeing. Most of his 2022 compensation was in t…
Not referring to the CEO. I was referring to short term stock price and shareholders being your only customers versus the people buying your product
Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
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Re: Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
#372https://www.visualcapitalist.com/microsofts-revenue-by-produ... Helpful chart to draw conclusions
Is Bing now called "Copilot" too?
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#373As a .NET developer who actually likes some Microsoft products, I can say this: the Copilot series is the worst thing they've shipped since Internet Explorer—and honestly, it might overtake it. The sad part is they had a huge head start before competitors gained access to powerful models, yet this is what we got. If you haven’t seen how bad it is, here’s one example: Copilot Terminal. In theory, it should help you wi…
IE6 was a really good browser when it shipped in 2001, especially compared to Netscape 6.
The problem was it didn't improve for the next 5 years.
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I would expect Siri to be able to do anything on the iPhone that I can - change settings, report stats, kill/launch apps, etc. It would be nice if it could control 3rd party apps too, like GMail, but being able to control the stuff that Apple themselves have built doesn't seem a lot to ask.
Apple is somewhat privacy focused, allegedly. I would imagine that letting an unpredictable LLM read whatever system data it wants is not something they want to partake in.
However, the original Siri, obtained from SRI ("Siri" = SRI) was pre-LLMs, and there should have been no more concern over accessing system settings or controlling apps than things like reading/sending messages. For some reason Apply completely dropped the ball with Siri; initially it was expected that they would expand it into revenue generating areas like restaurant reservations etc, but then nothing. I'm not sure what documentation exists, but even today it's not clear what Siri is actually capable of.
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#375IMO, it's time for leadership change at Microsoft. Satya revitalized the company but now it needs a Product person that knows how to rebuild the quality of it's products.
Perhaps they could replace the leader with a LLM trained exclusively on the MSDN documentation. It'd be technical-focused.
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#376Re: Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
#377https://www.visualcapitalist.com/microsofts-revenue-by-produ... Helpful chart to draw conclusions
Copilot and AI are not on the list anymore.
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#378They bought Dragon a few years ago, and 2 years ago they debuted the Dragon Ambient Experience, then renamed to Dragon Copilot. We had dozens of doctors try it, after a handful of months most had quit, it was a bad product. We switched to a competitor at literally 1/6th the price, and we don't even have to offer it, the doctors tell each other about it and they ask for it. Nadella has done a lot of listening through…
So, you're saying it's a Bad Dragon?
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#379Well, the major problem Microsoft is facing is that its AI products are not only shoddier than average , which is nothing new for them in many categories, but that this time the competition can actually easily leapfrog them. Like, I have a 'Copilot' button prominently displayed in my New Outlook on MacOS (the only platform where the app-with-that-designation is sort-of usable), and it's a dropdown menu, and it has...…
There are SO MANY Copilots There's the Copilot cli, then we have the Copilot built in to VSCode, then we have the Copilot that's in Github, then we have th M365 Copilot and the Windows Copilot and maybe a few more. All work very differently and have different skillsets.
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Keep following through the logic... You manage to hook someone who absolutely knows you're a scammer, and they keep responding to you taking up precious time you could be spending with someone who is actually likely to give you money. So, what is the upside to getting a response from someone who is never ever going to give you anything?
Occam's razor says they are just bad at English grammar because it isn't their native language/dialect and their education probably wasn't that great. This is easily demonstrable by conversing with the scammers and noting that their actual English ability is the same as exists in the initial letter. Even when they have no chance of the scam succeeding and have been outed they write the same way. You can see plenty of…
It's literally a platitude. It's like the saying 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going': it's reallyemorable and descriptive and is maybe a good guideline in many situations.
But using it to evaluate the tensile strength of various metals according to their velocity would be wild, because it had never pretended to be anything like a rule. It's not like theory of gravity or 'I before e except after c', which are based on actual analysis and results.
Legit assuming that everything is as simple as it can be, that the most obvious idea to occur to any untrained observer is the most accurate, is literally a guaranteed way to go though life without understanding anything, at all. Using it to argue with people who appear to obvious what they're talking about (and there are so, so many undisputed studies on the exact reasons scammers do what they do: it's too filter people or. There is no debate, academically) is a pretty slippery slope to 'anybody who doesn't think and act exactly like me is lying, because no reasons or facts exist unless I personally hold or after with them', and it's definitely a thought process worth challenging.
Although to be fair, its best application might be re. online arguments that you don't really care that much about. So if you just meant that the previous poster had given a reason and you were going with that because it's easier, my bad.