Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

gerowen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People desired Cortana in their devices.
  Until they found out what it is being made out of.

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve literally never heard of someone “asking for” Cortana outside of the C-suite at Microsoft.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mostly Mass Effect fans back then, I suppose.

      I myself considered the idea kinda fun, with the cool graphics it was portrayed with, in the game trailers.
      Even though I never ended up playing the game, that was probably one of the things that caused me to give a try to Google Assistant for a few hours, before I realised how it just wasn’t worth it.

      And now they’ve got stuff with extremely high price/performance ratio, expecting people to find it desirable just because it is “fluent”.
      I have enough experience listening to people who fluently speak information that they understand nothing of and don’t need a machine to do the same, just because it has a bigger dump of information and lower rational capabilities.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was taking my kids to the dentist yesterday and was listening to the radio with them.

  It’s anecdotal and a small sample size but the only people talking about AI are journalists and money men.

  I work in IT and the consensus is it is a valuable tool but it really isn’t taking anyone’s job.

  For my kids and those their age and younger (15) the consensus is AI can fuck off and it’s responsible for polluting their social media with crap.

  Tl;Dr - the only people pushing AI are the money men and the policy makers. No one wants this.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Biggest innovation since 3D TV.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excuse me, but are we forgetting about the miracle of e-ink?☝️😌

      /s

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        e-ink is a wonderful thing. But, it’s really only useful for e-readers and maybe price displays in stores. It has a frame rate in seconds-per-frame rather than frames-per-second. That’s fine if what you’re looking at is pretty static, but for general purpose displays it’s pretty useless. But man, it is just great for e-readers.

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      • 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d more like put color e-ink into that category - as gimicky and half-baked technology building on a more established one (e-ink is doing quite well with readers, low-power displays, etc.)

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a young millenial and I definitely know people using ChatGPT. They shouldn’t be, but they are.

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course! I’m GenX and I use it at work and home as well for a variety of purposes but do I **need ** it? Does anyone **need ** it?

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      • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just don’t touch it. I don’t even get the desire to use it.

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope.

  You must be talking with different “tech bros”.

  Or I’m misinterpreting what you mean by “tech bros”.

  Loud recoil and push-back from “tech bros” from where I’m at.

  Free as in freedom.

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  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess it depends, where I work that’s all I see…

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