Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that we must “do something useful” with AI or they’ll lose “social permission” to burn electricity on it | Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.

Please, we’ve spent so much money on this venture, have some sympathy.

Edit: also, the arrogance and deference here is astounding – it’s not Microslop’s fault for gambling on an unreliable product, it’s everyone else’s fault for not finding applications for it 

Nothing ever worth learning needed to be demanded

Social permission boat has sailed dude and you don’t care. All of you have made that known.

It’s your fucking product, come up with something useful to do. Don’t just throw shit out there, wreck our economy over it, and then tell us we have to figure out how to make it useful. Fuck you Satya Nutella!

You never had “social permission” to burn all that electricity in the first place, what you had was the ability to do something quick before people noticed what you were doing and started to push back on their communities being polluted and their energy bills skyrocketing. 

Stop shoving it down people’s throats then.

People don’t having things they’re not comfortable with forced on them.

Cognitive amplifier, lol. Mostly, it’s just making people dumber. Sure, maybe when used sparingly for specific tasks it can help. But the problem is when it’s being abused as a crutch… which is happening more and more often. Less critical thinking dulls the mind and we’re going to see the effects of this over the next few years.

This AI Ponzi scheme hits the wall this year. I use AI a lot in my work, the platform we sell etc. but i know that we simply don’t need this many companies spending multi-billions or maybe even low trillions to replace workers or get AGI

AI is useful, it’s just not as useful as these companies have made their investors believe or buyers hope it will be across all industries

Not liking the AI arc of Satya’s leadership. He was doing fine until Windows 11 and AI.

Don’t most studies show it actually makes someone dumber?

I suggest he receives a lobotomy, I heard it was a great cognitive amplifier. Fucking asshole

It is not. There is literal data saying it makes ppl dumber if used incorrectly.

They invested way too many resources and caused untold environmental damage and now they’re panicking because it’s not gaining the general use and appeal they wanted. AI is a tool, not the panacea they try to pretend it is.

They made a hammer that’s way too expensive and now they’re upset because there aren’t enough nails to justify it.

Part of my temp purchase ledger job involves using Oracle Fusion and its crappy machine learning AI system to recognize and auto fill invoice details. It genuinely fails to work much of the time and has made my job a lot harder. All the advice I’ve really had is to keep training it, but after thousands of invoices across maybe half a dozen suppliers it can only somewhat consistently recognize one of them.

Not to mention I already have other gripes with the software: laggy, can only view five item lines at a time, often glitches out with greyed-out input boxes or broken drop-down menus that spontaneously stop working, requiring a browser restart. Also has a tendency to sign you out when you’re halfway through processing an invoice or credit memo.

I genuinely wonder how it made Larry Ellison the second-richest man in the world because holy crap it’s bad.

The separate helpdesk system I use to answer emails has Copilot integration which tries (to often moderately inaccurate results) to autofill my tickets with boilerplate resolution notes more verbose than Java syntax and more lengthy than the novellas of text you’d see printed on a modern day Yu-Gi-Oh card.

AI is genuinely making things bleak.

That’s hilarious.

“YOU GUYS HAVE TO INVENT SOMETHING GOOD RIGHT NOW OR THE AI BUBBLE WILL POP”

“Isn’t AI the invention?”