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.
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?
Is the “AI CEO” an AI…? It should be lol.
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?
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.
Couldn’t his agentic AI figure out to do that on its own?
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.
Nope.
You must be talking with different “tech bros”.
Or I’m misinterpreting what you mean by “tech bros”.
Loud recoil and push-back from “tech bros” from where I’m at.
Free as in freedom.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tech+bro
If you’re hanging out with what most call a tech bro, I’m kind of impressed bit still don’t really care for what you say.
I guess it depends, where I work that’s all I see…
Nerds fascinated by their one intellectual trick are like religious people trying to sell their particular fairy tale and getting doors slammed in their faces.
Just go away and shut up and keep that nonsense to yourself.
Talentless hack and way out of his depth grifter who knows the position he has reached and the money he makes in it is really just supported by cultivated connections and his bullshiting ability, rather than any superior strategical capabilities, when the business “strategy” he chose as CEO merelly because “everybody else is doing it” starts to be perceived as not just broken but a bit of a shit show, keeps on trying to push the impression that, actually, he’s just a misunderstood visionary and it’s others that don’t yet recognize how wonderful the direction he chose for the company is.
By using such arguments, maybe once again he’ll “fake it until you make it” his way into success (after all, that’s how he became MS’ CEO in the first place) or, at worst, it will extend how long he can keep on getting paid the big bucks for nothing more than being a lucky bullshitter with the right connections.
I’ve been in Tech on and off since the 90s, including in Tech Startups, and nowadays “leaders” in it are pretty much all grifters, not techies with a vision.
I’ve been reading the posts here and most people are coming from a “decent honest person trying to do his jobs as well as possible” point of view in their reading of the guy (probably because that’s the kind of person they are) and thus giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, whilst from what I’ve seen in that world this guy is almost certainly a talentless hack at anything other than grifting and who, lacking any above average strategical thinking abilities, went for the “everybody else is doing it” strategy which is now blowing up, so of course he’ll use typical grifter skills to try and dig his way out of that hole or, at least, stave off the innevitable end of getting big fat $$$ for holding a position he’s not actually competent at.
The guy is gaslighting because he’s a grifter not a strategist and the “it’s others, not me” line of argument is a common “defend & delay” tool in a grifter’s toolbox.
“the fact that people are unimpressed with me … is mindblowing to me” – Trump
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
unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
That fluency is a pure illusion. Either he doesn’t know this, or he thinks we don’t.
Reminder that Linux has never been better than it is right now for gaming!
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…)
My mind would be blown if the computer always answered correctly.
I am unimpressed because a majority of answers are at least slightly bullshit, and very often they are entirely incorrect.
The global financial system will collapse because they added AI to Excel. You just watch
Of course, tech CEOs are just gaslighting us to get those last AI bubble dollars. But there can be a legitimate argument made here too.
It’s a classic trap many software and game developers fall into, where they keep adding more and more features to their product/service. At some point it becomes bloat and nobody uses the new features, but from the dev’s perspective they are improvements. If only corporations ever cared about user feedback and not shareholder feedback.
“You WILL like my AI. Why don’t you like my AI? mmMOOOOMM!!!”
It’s time for me to build a new gaming pc. With the current cost and this…(keeping in mind I’m no computerologist) I may just get the Steam Machine.
Not saying that that’s a bad idea, but you could also just install Linux. Bazzite is similar to Steam OS and was a breeze to install. Pop is might be easier to get into if you also use your computer for other stuff than gaming, and was also easy to install.
If you want to install apps don’t use bazzite since it’s immutable, meaning you can’t install apps other than what bazzite puts on your computer.
What is really impressive, is how people in this day and age of connection, are still able to be so out of touch.
Connect.
Yep. Maybe got suckered in by the AI’s positivity-ninnyism about itself and how much people like it.
Testament to the brain atrophy from using such things.
They must think we’re more stupid and gullible than we are.
Good sign.
