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.
I don’t want anything to do with AI. I disabled it everywhere. Yet, you keep shoving it down my throat. The more you do that, the less I want to interact with it. Toss more AI on me, and I’ll look to disable it.
Because it’s just an inference machine. That’s impressive on its own but you fuckers keep pretending it is intelligent. It’s not. It’s a toddler with an enormous vocabulary and shareholders.
For some reason it is not mindblowing to me that the Microsoft AI CEO is astronomically out of touch with normal people.
I think it is probably the behavior of Microsoft as a company that makes me feel that way.
This what happens when fucking weirdos who have never talked to other people are in charge of tech. they come up with something that can’t talk like a person and is always wrong and they are super impressed with it because it’s the closest they come to socializing.
LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that’s it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.
For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can’t do better or do something i don’t want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without
punctuationsuggestions.When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I’m not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don’t want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don’t need help).
Microsoft, I don’t owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn’t suck. Impress me.
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.
people are unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer “open this”. I type into a search field to communicate “find this string”.
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer “log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn’t what I’m asking for.”
I already communicate fluently with my computer. I double click an icon to communicate to my computer “open this”.
Wish I could upvote this twice.
At no point do I want to communicate to my computer “log everything I do, then use those logs to give me something that isn’t what I’m asking for.”
Won’t stop them from trying to shove it down our throats.
Of course they will never define “fluent”. They can’t do that because then they’d be proven as lying hacks, or else setting a low bar that was met several years ago.
Fluent seems weaker than valid, which is weaker than sound, philosophically speaking.
It[“A.I”]'s like a 2 year old.
Do you guys not have phones - energy
I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.
Call me old fashoined, but i like my computers to do exactly what I yell them to do.
Best typo ITT by far.
Exactly, if I wanted a discussion with a computer, I wouldn’t have gotten married.
Wait, Microsoft’s “AI CEO” is a human? If AI is supposed to be replacing jobs, why not start there?
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
Pro tip: when your customers don’t like your product, it’s not their fault. It’s yours, and the appropriate response is not complaining or incredulity that people don’t like it. The appropriate response is to change the product or scrap it completely.
“The customer is always right” might get misused a lot, but it is correct in this instance.
If a lot of your customers don’t like something, it’s not something wrong with the customers.
One of the older variations of the expression is, “The customer is always right in matters of taste.” Here we’re talking about reactions to reality, so it doesn’t quite apply directly, but still, these people are probably honest about what they feel.
There was a clip recently from a former silicon valley worker, saying that AI was everywhere, the talking point of every part, and basically the god they all worship. They can’t understand other people not wanting this.
Have they tried removing their heads from each other’s arses?
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
Why won’t the cattle enter the chute?!
Too long in monopoly, this logic escapes them.
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
AI is becoming impressive. But that doesn’t mean I agreed to let companies steal my data and art to train it.
