Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
“The torment nexus could falter without more public support for tormenting people”
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
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AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 day ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Take all those billions and go unfuck Teams. Thank you.
– millions of office workers
deacon@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
oooh, promise?
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Please, please buy into our grift.
signed microslop
or isit macroslop?
AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nobody wants your shitty, unethical and environmentally disastrous product. Go back to the design room and make good things people want and stop trying to force AI down our throats.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m going to express a perspective that goes against a lot of the Lemmy hive-mind, so I’m sure I’ll be downvoted, but here goes anyway cause I don’t give no fucks about downvotes…
When I first heard about LLMs (around 2021 I think), I was pretty neutral on it. “Meh, sounds like some annoying bullshit to piss off customers and attempt to take call-center jobs away. Probably going to flop…” was the perspective I had around the time of my first introduction.
Around 2022 or 2023, the place I was working at the time started heavily pushing people to use it. I was a Cloud Engineer at the time. There wasn’t a lot of justification as to “why” we should be using it, other than, “it’ll make things easier.” Because of my org pushing large numbers of engineers and developers into using something without demonstrating an actual benefit, or reason why it will help immediately caused my brain to signal red flags and become suspicious of it. My neutrality shifted into an ANTI-AI sentiment.
By the end of 2023 (or so), I was pretty vehemently against AI. I don’t need to articulate on that too much, we all know the reasons why. Towards the end of last year, I found myself in a weird spot of starting a business and didn’t know wtf I was doing, at all. That was the first time that I had a good experience with using Claude. It guided me through the process of creating an LLC, and a bunch of other bullshit that’s associated with that. I’ve had a few good experiences with it for the past few months… it’s a lot better than it was.
At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that a large problem with AI was what happened in (what I’m calling) the early days (2020-2021), of pushing people to adopt some bullshit that was wholly unsubstantiated, and quite frankly sucked. The expectation for a “boom” was greatly miscalculated.
If companies were starting to push people to use it for the first time in 2025, I think we’d be having a much different conversation about AI / LLMs in 2026. I think it has some viable uses, and it does some of the technical aspects of my role substantially faster than I can do them. However, my concerns around the economic, environmental, and political implications of AI still have me maintaining a perspective that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. In short, “AI isn’t all bad on it’s own… the system we’re trying to add AI to is already fucked and AI is making it worse.”
Zoutpeper@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
No the problem is that LLM keep being shoved into products and processes that are not stored for.
Why the fuck does a fridge need a text-prediction model, or notepad or even google when it isn’t useful for fir most basic searches?
It has the economics of a bubble, is making or computing extremely expensive and in most cases degrades my experience. Obviously they are running into a wall.
LLMs used for purpose can be very useful! They will however not lead to AGI.
Much like my underwear doesn’t need a Bluetooth connection, so do most of these products not need an LLM.
And we’re not even talking about how there are people in jail for a fraction of the piracy these companies committed out that they used peoples private data to train these models. Based on how IP law is wielded against people we should get a payout for every single time an LLM is queried.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s being shoved down everyone’s throats for the same reasons it was shoved down everyone’s throats 6 years ago… they need to train this shit so they can replace everyone.
It has the economics of a bubble, is making or computing extremely expensive and in most cases degrades my experience. Obviously they are running into a wall.
This screams fraud more than anything to me. It feels more like Enron than pets.com but maybe it’s a bubble. I won’t argue with you there. The rest of this statement, I agree with.
They will however not lead to AGI.
I’m not confident about that. How are you confident about that? I’m also not saying you’re wrong… but I don’t think you know this.
And we’re not even talking about how there are people in jail for a fraction of the piracy these companies committed out that they used peoples private data to train these models. Based on how IP law is wielded against people we should get a payout for every single time an LLM is queried.
Fully agree with you.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“The only way to save this shrinking ice floe is for more people to jump on”
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 day ago
If people don’t keeping buying our fake perpetual motion machine we aren’t going to make back the money we invested in building it!
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🤞
scarabic@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Thing could slow down if its loses velocity. Film at 11.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oooh so he does know what’s going on. You know what you call a boom without adoption? A bubble!
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We could just stop all the investments in it
DrFistington@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It will falter, because in present state it’s a complete scam
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
“We’re not seeing the numbers we want, so we’re putting copilot in everything to expand our active user base. Hell, rename everything copilot!”
tangeli@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Who needs separate apps when you can just tell copilot what you want and it can put the slop straight into your trough?
jj4211@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yes, because Microsoft’s revenue growth is in fact the most important thing the folks at Davos had to think about…
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
good.
mintiefresh@piefed.social 1 day ago
Maybe try innovating to survive.
Better yet, ask your precious copilot for some innovative solutions lol.
Binturong@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
I don’t think that guy is as smart as he thinks he is. Maybe it’s all the evidence that Microsoft is literally committing suicide on his watch… maybe it’s a hunch… but the suspicion it’s strong.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Mvlad88@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was adopted in those places where it makes fucking sense, you deluded prick.
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 15 hours ago
That moment when for a split second a brahmin realises the world doesn’t revolve around them… Just for a split second though.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I kinda hope loca models become or are available that capture the best of what is available ot whats coming tho.
It took a while but their code generation alone has been a huge positive for me as well as its abillity to edit code to make it work. I wouldnt trust it for anything super important but I use it regularly to spec a solution to smaller problems that i can immediately test and feed back to it if theres issues
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
“Loca models” such as great typo
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Patent pending
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
AI will do fine without Microsoft, nor does it need Palantir and Dogey America. As someone who likes and supports AI, I don’t want crappy institutions to influence how it develops.
Anyhow, I will be switching to SteamOS Desktop when that is available. Or CachOS, when Microsoft starts using AI to spy on people.
Balldowern@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
2025-2026 - Year of the Linux Desktop
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Good lord, this guy is the absolute ugliest spoiled toddler ever roaming the planet, crying that he wants canndddyyyyyyyy wah wah.
GET A DIAPER AND GO SUCK ON YOUR THUMB YOU OVERGROWN BABBIE and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I remember living in an era where the market decided what was successful and what wasn’t. Good times?
Greddan@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Look at his ugly face.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
haha lol
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Nadella, stop trying to make ‘AI’ happen, it’s NOT going to happen!