Technology

LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that's it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.

For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can't do better or do something i don't want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without ~~punctuation~~ suggestions.

When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I'm not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don't want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don't need help).

Microsoft, I don't owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn't suck. Impress me.

If he thinks the reaction was people not being impressed then it shows that CEOs are psychopaths who can’t relate to normal people.

Determinism is generally a quality I look for in computers

"Why don't people like our user surveillance systems? they're so impressively good at invading your privacy!"

I 👏 don't 👏 want 👏 or 👏 need 👏 AI 👏 on 👏 my 👏 computer!

Good thing I don't use Windows so I won't have to deal with it whatsoever. 😌

Honestly I stopped using the OS because of the ads, it was such a ballsy move to keep spamming me with "use one drive" "try edge" "look at alllll theses aaaappppsssz that yoouuuu can pay for" or even "activate windows" my OS is my home not your billboard ffs

Doesn't understand the company's customers at all, sounds like maybe he's not cut out to be CEO. Also, yeah, I'm not impressed by your agentic BS that your own company is already warning may install malware.

Fuck AI. I don't want it.

I was just thinking about this yesterday. AI has not helped me in any way shape or form. I don't need it, i don't want it, and it should NOT be forced onto people.

I grew up teaching myself how to research and use Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, AOL, and now Google, Duck Duck Go. I don't need a dumb AI to tell me what i can find myself.

Stupidity is one of the more prominent signs of megalomania

I can't recall ever liking almost every single comment in a post before, what a fucking rush.

AI is becoming impressive. But that doesn't mean I agreed to let companies steal my data and art to train it.

Real answer is that the direction AI is going right now is to save money for billionaires, not to improve the lives of everyone else.

Github copilot can do some impressive things, but it also ignores my instructions to not try to run anything and leave testing to me that I've stopped bothering saying it and just block the attempt when it asks permission. Just yesterday, it confidently said it had figured out an issue I was debugging with it and made a bunch of code changes that literally only affected comments. If I leave it in agent mode (which allows it to edit code) when asking a question to clarify something and not intending any code changes but wanting to think about the answer (and telling it that), sometimes it still runs ahead and tries to make changes anyways.

When it does well, it's uncanny how effective it can be these days, but it's not reliable enough to be trusted to be in control of the whole system. Plus I don't trust Microsoft enough to put my data on onedrive, and believe that access to data is the real reason behind their AI push, no matter how much usefulness and reliability improves.

I don’t want to talk to a fucking computer. I want to spend more time with my friends and family. Give me that and I will be impressed.

The harder they'll try to force feed it down their customer's throats by making it increasingly prominent and obnoxiously insisting in the interface, the more people will hate it.

How can Microsoft still not know that fact after doing it for over three decades is beyond me.

This what happens when fucking weirdos who have never talked to other people are in charge of tech. they come up with something that can't talk like a person and is always wrong and they are super impressed with it because it's the closest they come to socializing.

Didn't manufacture enough consent. That's on you

unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.

That fluency is a pure illusion. Either he doesn't know this, or he thinks we don't.

CEO, Microsoft AI
Microsoft · Full-time
Mar 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos
Redmond, Washington, United States

but also

it's giving "Don't you guys have phones?"

I'm amazed by AI and what it can do, compared to what computers could do in the past. Its truly astonishing at how far we've come and we can marvel at the capabilities.

I still dont want to use it though. It's not reliable enough for what I would actually use it for, and if I had a job that could make use of it, I'd be counting down the days until it puts me out on the street.

CEO articles most often than not are just corpo salespeople telling you about trash they are trying to push on people. They are literally paid millions of dollars by the wealth class to not tell the truth unless under oath in court or a deposition. They're not paid for hard work or leadership, if you've worked in a corp setting for at least a week that much is obvious. They are paid buckets full of money to ignore or suppress their morality for stock prices. It's obvious when it's garbage like language models sold as agi, but the same is true for the rest of the pr vomit they feed to news agencies.

"the fact that people are unimpressed with me ... is mindblowing to me" -- Trump

"I have a radical business strategy: Fuck our customers, and fuck what they want. It's going to be great. They'll love it. Or else."

20 years ago I would have been excited: when Microsoft made Clippy to try and help people. Now we know you created this to harvest data.

I'm mind-blown that people feel no shame when data harvesting from computer illiterates, or programmers who write anti-features (like forced online accounts for a local OS).

I don't like your LLM because A) It's a piece of junk and I cannot trust it's answers, and B) It's designed and built by an organization focused solely on gathering every bit of data about me that it's possible to gather and use that information to squeeze every nickle out of me you can.

I honestly cannot think of a single reason why I, or anyone else, would want this crud built into anything other than toys, and even then I doubt it would end well.

My mind would be blown if the computer always answered correctly.

I am unimpressed because a majority of answers are at least slightly bullshit, and very often they are entirely incorrect.

"I don't understand why people dislike this thing that works less than what was used previously and we keep forcing on our customers."

please clap

I don't think I know anyone who has been excited for a single microsoft product in the last ~15 years. It's never "wow, that's cool", it's "I wonder how they fucked it up this time".

Remember Blizzard and diablo immortal, when they got booed during the reveal of the game, and then the devs were like, "does no one have phones?" Some of these CEOs and DEVS are so out of touch with what their customers want because they would rather huff their own farts all day, enjoying the smell of their own brand, instead of admit that they led product development to an area where there wasn't market demand amongst their consumers.