Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI
Mustafa Suleyman had his mind blown by the community's negative reaction to Microsoft's "agentic OS" comments.
I get where he's coming from as a tech person... I'm old enough to remember chatting to ELIZA and Alicebot. The current state of AI is impressive to me, as well as "worrying" and "destroying the planet" and "being rammed down our throats" and all the other bad stuff.
It's wildly tone deaf of him to say it in the middle of a backlash, though. 😬
If you've tried to build chatbots before, you'll quickly understand how impressive LLMs are.
We essentially solved the problem of a chatbot sounding human and having reasonably intelligent things to say by throwing insane amounts of hardware at it. This wasn't possible before now really.
The algorithms are impressive, but still naive compared to what people believe AI really should be.
This is not AI anymore than chatbots from the 90's were.
This is just the best chatbot from the 90's we've made so far.
Yea, but he's (intentionally?) misrepresenting things.. people are not "unimpressed" by AI, what they are is not interested in MS "agentic OS", these are not the same things.
It's irresponsible to hand in control of your machine to an AI integrated that deeply into the OS, particularly when it's designed to be tethered to the network and it's privately owned and managed by human entrepreneurs that do have the company's interests as first and main priority.
I guess you could say I'm impressed if we were discussing it like a beta preview of something that might be cool eventually. But what we're doing is treating it like it's amazing for all sorts of things it sucks at because it's unreliable and shoving it in everything.
So yeah, I'm unimpressed with the reality vs the sales pitch.
The ELIZA effect and the experiences of that experiment should have been guidelines as to why those utilities should not be mass-market. LLM's, if used for conversation or personal advice, lead to delusion and irrational actions.
I might be impressed if it wasn't so fucking overhyped. It's good at some stuff, it's not very good at most of the other stuff. Stop shoving it down my throat.
Yeah, it's a real mystery you narcissistic fuckhead.
Amazing that he doesn't even feel the need to pretend that he is in sync with what the customers want
pretend that he is in sync
no need. M$ and pretty much every other big tech behemoth has been forcing unwanted bullshit on the customers for decades, and guess what--people still buy their shit
yeah... fuck MS and Windows. I've already prepared a Live USB with CachyOS and I'm going to install it on my PC this evening. My laptop is already running Linux Mint for a few months now.
Edit: the installation is complete and was surprisingly easy and unproblematic. everything seems to work just fine up until now but I'm going to test it a bit more in depth over the next few days.
Honestly, I've been planning to install it on my media laptop for a while and I think I've found the perfect excuse for myself to do it; yesterday I turned it on to the windows 11 data recovery screen, which took an hour to fix the damn thing.
I have actually installed CachyOS on one of my spares and it's pretty damn good so far, and it's a really shitty speced school laptop from a couple years back.
What I am concerned about though is the fact my media laptop is an Asus vivobook 15 with screenpad, and I'm not awfully sure if the GPU (mx250) would be as fast as it currently is under windows (or work at all), as well as if the screenpad would work as a touch monitor or a regular touchpad, since I'm not sure which I'd prefer honestly.
Maybe if these arrogant techcunts tried to use it for the benefit of everybody instead of using it to spread lies and propaganda, and to enrich themselves by stealing other people's work, I'd give them a second chance. I'm not holding my breath.
Total incompetence.
"Why arent people impressed with the inaccurate slop machine that sets the earth ablaze during the hottest years on record, steals everything, and outputs nothing but worse amalgamations of what its ingested? We shoved it into everything...."
Try to play tic tac toe against it. I'm unimpressed by any intelligence that consistently loses in tic tac toe against my four year old daughter and I didn't invested many million dollars to teach her that 🤣
Ask it for a book reference on a subject you are discussing and it will just make shit up and tell you it exists despite it clearly not.
Ask it for ASCII art
Who would have thought that shoving privacy nightmare AI "tools" into the most used OS would have negative reactions huh
He doesn’t get it till he’s replaced with AI
Marie Antoinette?