Look cure cancer with it. Then I'd be ok with electricity
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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'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.
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.
Going to start asking copilot for daily positive news. Finally a worthwhile use of it!
It becomes inevitable once you think it's inevitable.
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!”
They already lost social permission to burn electricity on this a while ago - they just put their fingers in their ears and stopped listening
If we haven't killed them and taken it back they still have it
did they ever had it to begin with?
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.
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:
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.
yea its a weird way to say that they've not found something themselves or that their customers are uncreative.
Thanks for doing the digging. Seems this source is mostly made up or taken out of context.
yyyyes seems so.
That reminds me on the time when I was told I must buy a yearbook, else next year there won't be one
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.
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.
The technokings are concerned the peasantry might have feelings of unrest if the LLMs can’t pacify them.
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.