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.
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: