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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 213 points 5 days ago (3 children)

So...he has something USELESS and he wants everybody to FIND a use for it before HE goes broke?

I'll get right on it.

[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago

Nice paraphrasing!

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It‘s insane how he says „we“ not as in „we at Microsoft“ but as in „Me, I and myself as the sole representative of the world economy say: Find use cases for my utterly destructive slop machine… or else!“

Tech CEOs have all gone mad by protagonist syndrome.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Well, he is the "money man". He doesn't DO any of the work himself, he "buys" workers.

He has NO skill, NO knowledge, NO training, NO license. Just money. All you need is money.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was expecting something much worse but to me it deels like he's saying "we, the people working on this stuff, need to find real use cases that actually justifies the expense" which is.....pretty reasonable

Not defending him or Microsoft at all here but it sounds like normal business shit, not a CEO begging users to like their product

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it would be a lot more reasonable if the entire tech industry hadn't gone absolutely 100% all-in on investing billions and billions of dollars into the technology before realizing that they didn't have any use cases to justify that investment.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh you don't have to convince me it was a mistake, his comment just wasn't what it's being made out to be. "Find a use for it or we're fucked" is a lot different than "please use our product or we're fucked"

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk I don't really see much of a distinction really

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I dunno, there's a pretty big distinction. "Please use our shitty thing" vs "Please make our shitty thing better so people want to use it"

It's placing "blame" on the industry leaders for failing to make something useful

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

But HE is the industry leader.

It's not like it wasn't him that sunk every successful product they still had in the last couple of years.