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"Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming" Suleyman says. "I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."

Suleyman's post is also curiously timed with a recent damning report from The Verge that found Copilot's current capabilities don't match what Microsoft is advertising. The report found that in most cases, Copilot was unable to seamlessly or fluently achieve requests made by the user, the same requests that are shown in Copilot advertisements.

It's all terrible timing for Microsoft, as the company has just announced a new tagline for Windows: Your canvas for AI. The company is moving ahead with plans to evolve Windows into an agentic OS, spearheaded by AI agents that will ideally be capable of completing tasks for you. But given the current state of AI, and Copilot in particular, it seems that vision is still just a pipe dream.

Microsoft has a perception problem currently. With Windows' reputation at an all time low, the company's obsession with AI seems severely misplaced in the eyes of many users. The company should be focused on fixing fundamental issues with the Windows platform, but instead it's too busy trying to shove AI into every UI surface it possibly can.