Fuck AI

Hey, it’s almost as if everyone is realizing that AI is total bullshit .

There's clearly an AI bubble. Let's just pop this shit and get it over with. The sooner the market corrects, the sooner it can start recovering.

He's CEO of a company that went all-in on forcing AI into everything, including all of MS internal procedures.
They made it mandatory to use Copilot for internal performance reviews and writing progress reports. All coding must start with a prompt and devs are called into meetings with HR if they don't use Copilot enough.

He's also in the position to see how little users interact with Copilot, how code quality took a nosedive, how productivity hasn't increased after investing billions, and Linux desktop market share is showing exponential growth now.

He's right to be nervous.

It only takes one of these large companies to walk away for everyone else to panic and the bubble will burst. I really hope MS takes a step away from it and actually tries to innovate something.

He's the guy gonna be left holding the biggest bucket of slop

If you need a new type of nuclear reactor to power your shit it means your shit is too complicated.

They're going to lose their shirts over this shit.

They're trying to force their utopian vision of robot and human slaves serving the "elite", but they need the slave's help to get there. Probably, that time will come, but not in their lifetime, and that's what's pissing them off. It's all about them--their selfish, psychopathic desires, humanity be damned. It's also why they're trying to develop immortality drugs--they see the dream of all past capitalist overlords as finally, possibly in their grasp, but they can't quite get it. They're like frustrated monkeys reaching through the cage bars and fighting each other.

He is effectively saying specialised ai has a possible future and llm are a huge waste of time and money. But he doesn't know that he is saying that.

For anyone curious and lazy:

Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of AI tech hinges on it being used across a broad range of industries — as well as seeing an uptick in adoption in the developing world where it’s not as popular, the Financial Times reports. If AI fails, in other words, it’s everyone else’s fault for not using it.

Nadella explained the pitfalls the AI industry would need to avoid, perhaps betraying his own anxieties about its future.

“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” Nadella said, as quoted by the FT. The “tell-tale sign of if it’s a bubble,” he added, would be if only tech companies were benefitting from the rise of AI. He gave the example of a pharmaceutical company using AI to accelerate drug trials; it doesn’t need to be used to discover the “magical molecule,” but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product.

Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.

“I’m much more confident that this is a technology that will, in fact, build on the rails of cloud and mobile, diffuse faster, and bend the productivity curve, and bring local surplus and economic growth all around the world,” he proclaimed.

Good, maybe he'll back off on pushing this crap.

Once those companies will be held responsible for everything AI (copyright issues with training, resource waste and people getting harmed and killed from their output), they'll have every reason to be nervous.

Good.

seems like, if it's bad for microsoft, it's good for humanity.

Nervous that AI has been the biggest driver of people switching to linux, I did. I didnt want cortona and I certainly dont want copilot or recall

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Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.

This is a huge about-face on the earlier proclamation. I really wonder what changed his mind from "AI will radically transform every industry" to "it doesn’t need to be used to discover the 'magical molecule,' but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product."

Sure, everyone here has seen the writing on the wall for years, but until now his paycheck has depended on him not seeing it. I wonder if he's getting internal pressure from some on the board of directors.

Omg our path forward on how to avoid the consequences of our actions isn't aligned with our fundamental business needs of doing whatever we like with no consequences. If only my MBA training and Six Sigma/Lean Leader certs had prepared me for this. I better go post on LinkedIn about how GenZ did this.

• someone somewhere at MS

Because his product isn’t winning?

They should. Fuck, AI doesn't even need to implode for them to get bent. I'm forced to do some stuff with it at work for 'research'. Copilot is the worst of the worst. I don't know how they could fork GPT and come up with an even worse product, but there they are.

I love that for him.

Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. 🤞

I mean, they could shut down most of their shit tomorrow and still rake in twenty billion a quarter for the foreseeable future. Because businesses are stupid and pay for it.

He wants more adoption pre-bubblepop, but he’ll probably be the only one besides NVIDIA to actually make money on it. Eventually.

He is nervous because the two groups that they count on to reliably buy their shit, gamers and corporations, are seriously looking into the readily available free alternatives. If they lose them chasing AI, Microsoft is done. They have no way to recover from that.

honestly if the technology is lightweight to run on ordinary PC, I'd have tinkered with it long ago. I did try once but it's pretty slow to generate texts on my laptop, I quickly lost interest.

But also the typical implementation of the tech is built on cloud, locked behind registration, is enough to turn me off. It's just like any other free useful tools but works via web that requires login, so I never bother to try.