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.
Github copilot can do some impressive things, but it also ignores my instructions to not try to run anything and leave testing to me that I’ve stopped bothering saying it and just block the attempt when it asks permission. Just yesterday, it confidently said it had figured out an issue I was debugging with it and made a bunch of code changes that literally only affected comments. If I leave it in agent mode (which allows it to edit code) when asking a question to clarify something and not intending any code changes but wanting to think about the answer (and telling it that), sometimes it still runs ahead and tries to make changes anyways.
When it does well, it’s uncanny how effective it can be these days, but it’s not reliable enough to be trusted to be in control of the whole system. Plus I don’t trust Microsoft enough to put my data on onedrive, and believe that access to data is the real reason behind their AI push, no matter how much usefulness and reliability improves.
The most useful thing I’ve done with LLM coding tools is using them to write a markdown file that instructs them to not edit my code without my explicit permission.
Yes, because your bank account depends on your incredulity.
Fuck all the way off.
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.
- Be & keep getting even more increasingly disproportionately rich.
“We’ve released this feature which works 80% of the time and which we feel morally obligated to tell you can install malware, or simply send all your files to a malicious actor. Why aren’t you jizzing yourselves?”
Do you guys not have phones - energy
Yeah i already have chatGpt, and copilot is le shít
Truly disconnected.
Its mindblowing to me that this asshole can’t smell the bullshit he is spewing.
As long as ppl buy it, he is motivated to produce even more excessive amounts of bullshit.
Why do you think AI is for? No single human or bovine can create such amounts of bs.
LOL
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.
Does the guy even use a computer?
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.
AI is in fact not meaningfully repeatable in actual usage patterns.
Agreed. The word “patterns” is an important qualification. LLMs are great for one off tasks, but not as part of a repeatable process.
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“Slightly advanced autocomplete”
Perfection. I love it. I’ll be borrowing this, if you don’t mind.
“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”
