didnt find the original article, but here's a similar one.
interesting to see that Satya.
By "we", btw, he didnt mean Microsoft, nono, he means developers using LMs to do stuff.
iguess by now its a goid move to be open about the usage, but the article made it sound like his own products aren't useful which obviously wasnt what he meant.
Thank you very much, I want people to start actually linking the articles they talk about instead of focusing on the headline - the thing that is the reason term clickbait now exists
Anyway, I think this is the article on the screenshot:
I've never been interested in yearbooks personally, but I've seen enough people enjoying looking at old yearbooks that I at least understand why they continue to exist.
This is how I’ve always felt, I remember being super excited to find family members old yearbooks at my grandma’s house and stuff. So I’m pretty much only holding onto mine so that eventually somebody else might find them too and be excited.
I've seen this at my company - but have heard of other companies doing this too. This year, our bonuses are tied to Copilot adoption. Meaning we don't get paid if enough people aren't using Copilot.
I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but I'm positive that CEOs are getting together and pushing the message that AI adoption needs to increase.
I like to do stuff like feed it emojis and say "recreate this but holding a knife" then put them in group chats instead of regular emojis. It keeps my usage metrics high.
I would only be comfortable with that if an independent group was doing that for a good cause and would publish their results for all to see. You know, for the good of humanity.
If a corporation does it they'll do everything in their power to gatekeep it, so they can bankrupt anyone who needs it and profit off their suffering. I say that as someone with a lot of medical debt myself.
Especially wild coming from Microsoft, who I'd rank slightly below the dumpster outside my house on the list of things likely to produce any useful software.
It would be better for everyone if people who wanted to use AI just ran AI models themselves locally on their own hardware and people stopped giving money or data to these trillion dollar tech companies.
And of course if they don't want to they don't have to, I'm not your mom, do what you want.
AI is not useful and never will be useful, it is fundamentally incapable of being useful due to the way it is designed, and the inherent limitations in its training methods.
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Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 99 pts · 73d
They already lost social permission to burn electricity on this a while ago - they just put their fingers in their ears and stopped listening
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 73d
did they ever had it to begin with?
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 87 pts · 73d
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 17 pts · 73d
If we haven't killed them and taken it back they still have it
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 73d
didnt find the original article, but here's a similar one.
interesting to see that Satya.
By "we", btw, he didnt mean Microsoft, nono, he means developers using LMs to do stuff.
iguess by now its a goid move to be open about the usage, but the article made it sound like his own products aren't useful which obviously wasnt what he meant.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 15 pts · 73d
He says "AI developers" which is ambiguous, I suppose.
But I don't know if demanding customers find something that his product is good for is better.
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 73d
yea its a weird way to say that they've not found something themselves or that their customers are uncreative.
Zgierwoj@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 73d
Thank you very much, I want people to start actually linking the articles they talk about instead of focusing on the headline - the thing that is the reason term clickbait now exists
Anyway, I think this is the article on the screenshot:
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 73d
Thanks for doing the digging. Seems this source is mostly made up or taken out of context.
Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 73d
yyyyes seems so.
EDIT: actually, it almost feels like this is the exact post specifically made to be reposted so peeps got stuff to talk about...
oh well-
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 73d
Capitalism, supply and demand. The free market.
“Here, I made this thing no one wanted or asked for. Use it. USE THE THING! YOU HAVE TO USE THE THING!”
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 73d
That reminds me on the time when I was told I must buy a yearbook, else next year there won't be one
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 73d
I've never been interested in yearbooks personally, but I've seen enough people enjoying looking at old yearbooks that I at least understand why they continue to exist.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 73d
This is how I’ve always felt, I remember being super excited to find family members old yearbooks at my grandma’s house and stuff. So I’m pretty much only holding onto mine so that eventually somebody else might find them too and be excited.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d
My dad's HS yearbook had Burt Reynolds in it, which was about a 4/10 on the excitement scale. No mustache, for whatever that's worth.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 73d
I've seen this at my company - but have heard of other companies doing this too. This year, our bonuses are tied to Copilot adoption. Meaning we don't get paid if enough people aren't using Copilot.
I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but I'm positive that CEOs are getting together and pushing the message that AI adoption needs to increase.
jwu@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 73d
I'm just wasting tokens asking it for jokes or a news summary or just saying hello because there's a metric for daily GenAI usage.
Occasionally I will use it for real, but mostly it's just a waste. Wonder how much it's costing the company.
Tobberone@feddit.nu · 8 pts · 73d
Going to start asking copilot for daily positive news. Finally a worthwhile use of it!
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 72d
I like to do stuff like feed it emojis and say "recreate this but holding a knife" then put them in group chats instead of regular emojis. It keeps my usage metrics high.
Glad we're using all of our water for this.
MashedTech@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d
It becomes inevitable once you think it's inevitable.
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 73d
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 72d
I would only be comfortable with that if an independent group was doing that for a good cause and would publish their results for all to see. You know, for the good of humanity. If a corporation does it they'll do everything in their power to gatekeep it, so they can bankrupt anyone who needs it and profit off their suffering. I say that as someone with a lot of medical debt myself.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 72d
I think it's important that we take this to heart: we can revoke permission.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 73d
Especially wild coming from Microsoft, who I'd rank slightly below the dumpster outside my house on the list of things likely to produce any useful software.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
The technokings are concerned the peasantry might have feelings of unrest if the LLMs can’t pacify them.
MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 72d
It would be better for everyone if people who wanted to use AI just ran AI models themselves locally on their own hardware and people stopped giving money or data to these trillion dollar tech companies. And of course if they don't want to they don't have to, I'm not your mom, do what you want.
texture@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d
if you think ai is wrecking the planet, wait till you learn about meat consumption
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 73d
AI is not useful and never will be useful, it is fundamentally incapable of being useful due to the way it is designed, and the inherent limitations in its training methods.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 72d