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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
(www.irishtimes.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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I would also like to add that this is our fault as consumers for lapping up and becoming dependent on the smartphone and centralized Internet. (Though on the fediverse you are probably aware of that, but almost all of the content here originates from it).
The big difference is that smart phones and centralized internet are somewhat useful. Smartphones at least. Centralized internet... meh, but maybe a dependency.
AI is useful in only very niche and intentional cases. A 'generic' LLM is pretty bad at almost everything.
If 'AI' had been sold more like: "Give us a year of data samples from your production line and we can use ML to optimize time and temperature based on current weather patterns..." (real world use case I was working in on 2019) etc. then they would have really made the world better. Instead, I have crappy clippy constantly reading my email and suggesting words I wasn't going to type*.