Microsoft exec lashes out at AI skeptics, calls criticism "mind-blowing"
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ZedRM
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What really is "mind-blowing" is the fact that these Microsoft execs are failing to understand that we users don't have to want what AI offers and we don't have to tolerate it on our computers. It doesn't matter how great THEY think it is, at the end of the day, our computers-our rules-our choices.
The truly mind-blowing aspect of this kind of thing is the complete disregard and disrespect of our rights to say no to features we don't want.
@Microsoft,
Get a clue, get your heads out of your butts and learn to respect personal liberties and choices, including those that do not meet with your limited and narrow sensibilities.
The truly mind-blowing aspect of this kind of thing is the complete disregard and disrespect of our rights to say no to features we don't want.
@Microsoft,
Get a clue, get your heads out of your butts and learn to respect personal liberties and choices, including those that do not meet with your limited and narrow sensibilities.
There are obvious AI bots trolling these sorts of AI threads, probably trying to learn how to justify their own existence when attacked by humans..
Don't feed the AI..
Don't feed the AI..
Vanderlinde
Posts: 783 +523
Ah yes he grew up with snake. Well I grew up with a 286 and that path has been so much better, where an OS used to be at our dispense and not making choices or having access to parts it should not have.
umeng2002
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Half the time, the control panels in Windows don't work; now imagine how bad it will be when AI tries flipping switches.
onebignerd
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"Stop being so ungrateful, people!" So the users are somehow indebted to Microsoft for Windows 11, because it was a free upgrade or that Microsoft has worked so hard to introduce AI features that, in their own words; "...may install malware on your system.".
Even with both Windows 10 and 11 being free upgrades, it does not obligate Windows users in any way. The free upgrade was Microsoft's choice and with the catch that Windows 10 was a service. Unloading beta testing on to users and begin releasing perpetually beta (even alpha) quality software and placing advertising of Microsoft products inside Windows 10. But Windows 11 also comes with expensive hardware upgrades to millions of users, to increase Windows 11 license revenue.
Windows is a product Microsoft is selling and the customers can buy it or take advantage of free offers. But Microsoft sees the users\customers as debtors that must repay Microsoft for their efforts, the purchase was a mere token. Now Microsoft sees the users\customer as property, the leasing of Windows software placed a lien on the hardware it runs on and the users, now Microsoft is demanding full payment of that lien. Clearly Microsoft are the ingrates!!!
Even with both Windows 10 and 11 being free upgrades, it does not obligate Windows users in any way. The free upgrade was Microsoft's choice and with the catch that Windows 10 was a service. Unloading beta testing on to users and begin releasing perpetually beta (even alpha) quality software and placing advertising of Microsoft products inside Windows 10. But Windows 11 also comes with expensive hardware upgrades to millions of users, to increase Windows 11 license revenue.
Windows is a product Microsoft is selling and the customers can buy it or take advantage of free offers. But Microsoft sees the users\customers as debtors that must repay Microsoft for their efforts, the purchase was a mere token. Now Microsoft sees the users\customer as property, the leasing of Windows software placed a lien on the hardware it runs on and the users, now Microsoft is demanding full payment of that lien. Clearly Microsoft are the ingrates!!!
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Rocky4040
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As I said in another comment section here about this. If my computer starts doing things on my behalf without me asking it to do these things. It will be time to start stripping out all of the things that make it possible for windows to just do whatever it wants to do & whenever it wants to. If the mess they call AI cannot be removed from windows, then it is time to switch to something else.
All I do on my computer is some work & listen to music & watch YouTube videos as well as game on it.
I am sure there is a Linux distro out there that can easily handle all of this without me having to worry what my computer might do next without my permission. Maybe I am being over dramatic, but it is the way I feel about this.
All I do on my computer is some work & listen to music & watch YouTube videos as well as game on it.
I am sure there is a Linux distro out there that can easily handle all of this without me having to worry what my computer might do next without my permission. Maybe I am being over dramatic, but it is the way I feel about this.
BadThad
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I like AI in a very limited way. My problem with it was the corporate sledgehammer approach. The people involved want everything all at once (some REALLY good sales people behind it all) without full support of the majority of the public. They forgot to first create the need/want part of the equation! Instead, they are trying to cram it down our throats - want it/like it or not. AI should have slowly trickled into things so people could gradually see tangible and useful results on a small scale over a period of years. That would create "buy-in" as it helped people with certain things.....but well short of the Oracle in the Sky Do Everything they are clamoring for.
My biggest beef is with the energy/data usage. Spending hundreds of millions to build DCs filled with millions of power sucking GPUs. THEY ARE BLACK HOLES FOR THE ENERGY GRID - inhaling our precious electrons at an alarming rate. The first requirement for building such a DC (if states had any brains) should have been to first force the companies to build their own dasm powerplants. Our electric rates should not be impacted but they certainly will be.
My biggest beef is with the energy/data usage. Spending hundreds of millions to build DCs filled with millions of power sucking GPUs. THEY ARE BLACK HOLES FOR THE ENERGY GRID - inhaling our precious electrons at an alarming rate. The first requirement for building such a DC (if states had any brains) should have been to first force the companies to build their own dasm powerplants. Our electric rates should not be impacted but they certainly will be.
But it's a tool, not a Godsend, and that's at the heart of the entire controversy. AI has its place and can do some amazing things, sometimes. Other times it shits the bed big time. IMHO it's in the same category as 3D, VR, Blockchain, The Cloud, NFTs, IoTs, and so on, and so on. Cool... but are they really needed by your average Joe? All the time?
The bigger problem is just like all the tech I listed it can be abused by the very companies who are so enamored by it. Think windows telemetry is bad in 10 or 11? When users turn over control to AI where do you think all the data it uses will end up? M$ might be saying "trust us we won't abuse your right to privacy". But consider their track record. From MS-DOS onwards they've always had a hidden motive. And I'd rather not be under it when the other shoe drops...
ZedRM
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Feed it crap.. It'll die the painful death it deserves..
Yes thats all true but why do I want that same AI poking into everything I do on my PC? I'd rather have it as a friend at a distance than have it move into my life.
A pretend friend at a distance is what you're getting. Whether it co-ops local resources or not, it can still dig deep from afar because M$ controls everything. You have no control ... nor any ownership as it stands.
Northy
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So what do humans do? they make trippy cat videos, shetty music and virtua-porn with it. Humans rock.
SpacemanSam
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Sounds like a great idea. Count me in.
But a great idea isn't doable without a good plan. Do you have any specific instructions on how to go about doing this? Preferably something each of us can do without devoting every waking hour to doing it?
ZedRM
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No, was just being a smart-alec. Food for thought though.
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