Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It‘s insane how he says „we“ not as in „we at Microsoft“ but as in „Me, I and myself as the sole representative of the world economy say: Find use cases for my utterly destructive slop machine… or else!“

  Tech CEOs have all gone mad by protagonist syndrome.

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  • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, he is the “money man”. He doesn’t DO any of the work himself, he “buys” workers.

    He has NO skill, NO knowledge, NO training, NO license. Just money. All you need is money.

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• jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nice paraphrasing!

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was expecting something much worse but to me it deels like he’s saying “we, the people working on this stuff, need to find real use cases that actually justifies the expense” which is…pretty reasonable

  Not defending him or Microsoft at all here but it sounds like normal business shit, not a CEO begging users to like their product

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  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, it would be a lot more reasonable if the entire tech industry hadn’t gone absolutely 100% all-in on investing billions and billions of dollars into the technology before realizing that they didn’t have any use cases to justify that investment.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh you don’t have to convince me it was a mistake, his comment just wasn’t what it’s being made out to be. “Find a use for it or we’re fucked” is a lot different than “please use our product or we’re fucked”

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      • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Idk I don’t really see much of a distinction really

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