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Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't think that guy is as smart as he thinks he is. Maybe it's all the evidence that Microsoft is literally committing suicide on his watch... maybe it's a hunch... but the suspicion it's strong.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 365 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 103 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That’s just crazy talk. You’ll never create a blackhole moneypit that manages to keep you a billionaire that way.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 40 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Something something where to place the cart in relation to the horse.

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[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 hours ago

That's how faster horses work. If you want to sell something actually new you have to take some risk. Speculative investment is good. It's just group-think me-too investment bandwagon bubbles that are bad. And to be clear I think the world is overinvesting in AI by a lot. The strange thing is that so thinks a lot of financial experts, but "the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent" so here we are.

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 83 points 9 hours ago

Whining that nobody wants to use your product worked pretty well for Zuck and his Mii-verse. Oh, that’s right, it didn’t, never mind.

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 201 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

Such an under rated comedy set by DG. Maybe not under rated... just not as well known as it deserves to be.

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[–] Greddan@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Look at his ugly face.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 17 points 7 hours ago

The customer is always right in matters of taste and style.

If you can't get (and keep) customers for your product: that's your problem.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago

Gooooooooooooooooood

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 13 points 7 hours ago

Not boom, we're waiting for a kaboom

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 116 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Fantastic! Let's work to get to that point.

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

how can i turn off the automatic ai resumes that get thrown at me at every other website and app?

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

https://tenbluelinks.org/ - this will clear the AI chaff out of google's search and default you to the old-style "web" results with no AI on the pages..

As to any individual site, am not sure as each one is using something slightly different.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 92 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

You could have every single piece of technology on the planet using AI and it would still falter, because HUMANS DON'T WANT AI! Time and time again it's been shown that people don't like this shit. You're spending money that hasn't been made, on ram that hasn't been produced, to be installed in AI data centers that haven't been built, to run AI farms that have zero interest from humans, to chase profits that will never come.

I would normally say "congratulations, you fell for it again", except nobody is tricking you here. YOU are the one tricking yourself. Every expert has stated that CEOs everywhere report no actual benefit from their AI use. Tech experts everywhere report that customers don't want AI in their toilet. Or their toaster. Or their TV. Or their cell phone.

So who is this for?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 hours ago

You mean you're telling me that the technology that can't even correctly predict my next word in my text messages, is untrustworthy at an even bigger scale? I remember when AI first came out and I talked about that, they went on and on about how they're different.

Also, please don't anyone forget that the CEOs of these corporations were firing and replacing their workers in proportion to the amount of trust they gave LLMs. Do not forget.

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[–] worhui@lemmy.world 71 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If he wanted people to like it then he should have made it do things people want it to do.

It is the new metaverse.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (7 children)

Hell I'd almost settle for just "making it work". No disclaimers, no bullshitting. Computers should be optimized and accurate. AI is neither.

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[–] kyonshi@piefed.social 9 points 7 hours ago
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Don't get too excited folks, Nadella's never been right about anything before...

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

Businessman warns attempt at creating profit engine out of mass piracy may fail if people don’t cooperate

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

Please use our products. Don't you see our lack of growth??

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 33 points 11 hours ago
[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

"Please pay us money and we will trickle down more of those 2000-era wages to you dirty lazy masses."

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

oooh, promise?

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 36 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (13 children)

Nadella maybe knows a lot more than any of us about LLMs/GenAI tech, but one doesn't need to know anything about LLMs (or even technology) to know that an oligarch like Nadella cannot be trusted (in any context).

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Thing could slow down if it loses velocity. Film at 11.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 hours ago

"Its the customer's that are wrong" is essentially what he is saying. Anyone with any marketing ability should know how insane that sounds. Build something that people want to use to drive growth. This is pretty much an admission that LLMs are a solution in search of a problem.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Please, please buy into our grift.

signed microslop

or isit macroslop?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Nadella, stop trying to make 'AI' happen, it's NOT going to happen!

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago

Oh no.........anyway

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"We're not seeing the numbers we want, so we're putting copilot in everything to expand our active user base. Hell, rename everything copilot!"

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[–] illi@piefed.social 22 points 11 hours ago

Don't threaten us with a good time

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

It will falter, because in present state it's a complete scam

[–] weegee90@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago
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