Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, has shared his opinion after recent pushback from users online that are becoming frustrated with Copilot and AI on Windows. In a post on X, Suleyman says he’s mind blown by the fact that people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
His post comes after Windows president Pavan Davuluri was recently met with major backlash from users online for posting about Windows evolving into an agentic OS. His post was so negatively received that he was forced to turn off replies, though Davuluri did later respond to reassure customers that the company was aware of the feedback.
How to be a tech shithead:
- Be disproportionately rich
- Surround yourself with yes-men
- Disregard any valid criticism as “haters”
- Become completely out-of-touch
- Get your mind blown by most basic, obvious things.
Somehow, this guy is the CEO.
Don’t forget the most important prerequisite: be a psychopath. Something something 12-15% of the world’s top CEOs are clinically psychopaths, so this is the world we get.
Yes, because your bank account depends on your incredulity.
Fuck all the way off.
Do you guys not have phones - energy
Yeah i already have chatGpt, and copilot is le shít
I’m impressed by AI, but I don’t want AI, now go away, you’re just as annoying as that blabbermouth droid and that freaking paperclip.
Truly disconnected.
There are things that AI does well and certain features should be available in an operating system. For example the AI features on my Samsung phone I actually really like them I use them all the time.
Especially the highlighting feature for copy and paste absolutely fantastic for my work.
But what Microsoft is doing is just all intrusive AI it’s completely unnecessary and nobody wants it.
How does highlighting have to do with AI?
It just isn’t impressive and not worth the trade of damage to the planet. Writing some emails or something fine. But vibe coding and it being sold as this living learning machine is just sci-fi isn’t true with current AI. Find some green way to power it or remove it from society at this point before it gets worse.
as amazing as snake was as a toy on phones, it still doesn’t make sense to put a copy of snake in outlook. Or notepad, or paint, or office, or as an always available widget in the task bar
^ This.
It’s a neat, under-construction tool.
A. Tool. An ‘agent’ to do niche things is neat.
…But I don’t need a chatbot on my fucking toaster.
Even as a tool it lacks predictability / reproducability. If I give instructions to download a paint program, start a new canvas of 1920x1080 and use the gradient tool to go from red to green, you’re going to get the same result every time. If I instead told a class of students to ask an AI to generate a red to green gradient on a 1920x1080 canvas, the results would not be consistent.
I use AI, but it is a tool with flaws.
I don’t get the analogy… of course a bunch of students using different tools with different inputs will yield different results? But if they use the same model and input at zero temperature, they will, in fact, get the same results, just like any code.
Predictability has never been a strength of ML, of course.
…That’s not really what it’s for. It’s for finding exotic stars in a mass of astronomical data on a budget, or interpoliating pixels in an image, or for identifying cat videos reasonably well. That’s still a useful tool. And the modern extension of getting a glorified autocomplete engine to press some buttons automatically is no different if structured and constrained appropriately.
The obvious problem, among many I see, is that these Tech Bros are selling underbaked… no, not even half cooked agenic systems as sapient magic lamps. Not niche tools for very specific bits of automation. Just look at the language Suleyman is using:
I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.
Even as a tool it lacks predictability / reproducability
If you use the same seed on the same model with the same weights you get the same results.
That’s not the predictability we want. If I write a calculator that adds the output of rand() to any result, it will also be repeatable with the same seed on the same machine. It will be non-functional as a calculator though.
Depends on your use case. Adding 0.000001*rand() to a large number retains the functionality as a calculator.
Your argument that AI isn’t useful may be valid, but claiming that AI is not repeatable is false.
God these dumbfucks will find any excuse to force you to treat your OS like anything other than an OS. Linux doesn’t need to do anything at this point except not suck.
They turned Windows into an IoT device. It’s your refrigerator with a TCP/IP stack and a touch screen bolted on the front. How many watts does the fridge use? Oh, I don’t know, but look, it has a digital calendar! How long does it take to cool items down? Who cares! You can use it to set reminders! When will I need to replace the gasket? What? I don’t know. But it can scan barcodes and send it all to the cloud. Isn’t that neat?! Cool, cool, but why does my fridge need to do that?
It can automatically order eggs for you. That’s neat, eh? It’s not
Some things are only cool in movies. AI is one of them
The real AI will be cool if it’s even possible. Or terrifying. Or a combination of the two.
Slightly advanced autocomplete has nothing to do with it though
“the fact that people are unimpressed with me … is mindblowing to me” – Trump
“Ok, toast for breakfast, great idea!” “Would you like me to outline 289 jam options?” “Send nudes”
Reminder that Linux has never been better than it is right now for gaming!
And with the help of Valve, it’ll continue to get better. Hoping companies like EPIC also take note and really start adding things to Unreal to really push Vulcan and Linux. Like, I don’t want a monopoly or anything, but if big companies make big moves towards supporting Linux, others will follow. ( I know Unreal supports Linux, I’m talking like actively pushing tech, support, pushing for games to be compiled for linux, pushing for native code and not needing compatibility layers, etc.)
Epic has come out and said it won’t happen. He’s butthurt and childish about it.
GeForce could gaming is a work around. Sometimes laggy. But what game isn’t?
I’m sooo locking forward to ditch Windows on my gaming station - tomorrow is the day! yay! (on linux for decades, but current gaming station is from 2017 when gaming on linux wasn’t that much enjoyable…)
His post was so negatively received that he was forced to turn off replies
Wait, what? How was he forced? He literally couldn’t take that people don’t like his product? He would have died if he didn’t do it?
Couldn’t his agentic AI figure out to do that on its own?
The agent has analyzed all replies and has decided the best course of action is immediate self-combustion.
I can just picture them seeing all the negative feedback and dropping to the floor in the fetal position calling out for their Mum, who then came into their room to turn off replies.
So they acknowledge the backlash, now what? They’re probably not gonna change anything regardless.
Anyway, why does Microsoft need an “AI CEO” and how is CEO different from president? Is there also a Windows CEO, or an AI president at Microsoft?
I hope he punishes us by removing it from windows.
AI Assistant to the AI Regional Manager
They’ve all got so much invested in AI that they’re not going to back off.
Any kind of acknowledgement of failure might pop the bubble.
That bubble is popping whether they acknowledge it or not.
“Fake it till you make it” is a time-tested business strategy.
Especially when you’re considered too big to fail.
And also when you don’t consider survivor bias when trying to “learn” from the success stories of the past.
Is the “AI CEO” an AI…? It should be lol.
CEO is the only job where replacing it with a chatbot makes sense.
Shouldn’t this guy have been replaced with CEO Clippy?
They’re completely out of touch with how normal people use their computers. The only people who want AI in their OS are the AI tech bros.
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.
I’m a young millenial and I definitely know people using ChatGPT. They shouldn’t be, but they are.
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?
Biggest innovation since 3D TV.
Excuse me, but are we forgetting about the miracle of e-ink?☝️😌
/s
