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.
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.
Do you guys not have phones - energy
Yeah i already have chatGpt, and copilot is le shít
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.
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.
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?
“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”
Reminder that Linux has never been better than it is right now for gaming!
And with the help of Valve, it’ll continue to get better. Hoping companies like EPIC also take note and really start adding things to Unreal to really push Vulcan and Linux. Like, I don’t want a monopoly or anything, but if big companies make big moves towards supporting Linux, others will follow. ( I know Unreal supports Linux, I’m talking like actively pushing tech, support, pushing for games to be compiled for linux, pushing for native code and not needing compatibility layers, etc.)
Epic has come out and said it won’t happen. He’s butthurt and childish about it.
GeForce could gaming is a work around. Sometimes laggy. But what game isn’t?
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…)
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?
AI Assistant to the AI Regional Manager
They’ve all got so much invested in AI that they’re not going to back off.
Any kind of acknowledgement of failure might pop the bubble.
That bubble is popping whether they acknowledge it or not.
“Fake it till you make it” is a time-tested business strategy.
Especially when you’re considered too big to fail.
And also when you don’t consider survivor bias when trying to “learn” from the success stories of the past.
Is the “AI CEO” an AI…? It should be lol.
CEO is the only job where replacing it with a chatbot makes sense.
Shouldn’t this guy have been replaced with CEO Clippy?
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?
Couldn’t his agentic AI figure out to do that on its own?
The agent has analyzed all replies and has decided the best course of action is immediate self-combustion.
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.
Some things are only cool in movies. AI is one of them
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.
I’m a young millenial and I definitely know people using ChatGPT. They shouldn’t be, but they are.
Of course! I’m GenX and I use it at work and home as well for a variety of purposes but do I **need ** it? Does anyone **need ** it?
Biggest innovation since 3D TV.
Excuse me, but are we forgetting about the miracle of e-ink?☝️😌
/s
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.
Ah, right. Thanks. Very different beast to the tech enthusiasts I was thinking of.
And this is why Digit wanted a clarification. Let’s make a quick split between “Tech Bro” and Technology Enthusiast.
I’d maybe label myself a “tech guy”, and forego the “bro”, but I could see other people calling me a “tech bro”. I like following tech trends and innovations, and I’m often a leading adopter of things I’m interested in if not bleeding edge. I like talking about tech trends and will dive into subjects I know. I’ll be quick to point out how machine learning can be used in certain circumstances, but am loudly against “AI”/LLMs being shoved into everything. I’m not the CEO or similar of a startup.
Your specific and linked definition requires low critical thinking skills, big ego and access to “too much” money. That doesn’t describe me and probably doesn’t describe Digit’s network.
Their whole point seemed to be that the tech-aware people in their sphere are antagonistic to the idea of “AI” being added to everything. That doesn’t deserve derision.
I guess it depends, where I work that’s all I see…
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
