A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren’t impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an “agentic OS,” which immediately triggered backlash.
“Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming,” tweeted Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO for Microsoft’s AI group. Suleyman added that he grew up playing the old-school 2D Snake game on a Nokia phone. “The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,” he wrote.
One of the best comments in the discussion thread there:
Rich technologists like this guy, who live for their work instead of working for a living, of course cannot understand why normal people who have a firm grasp on technology are not thrilled or impressed with this stuff. For one, we know that these things are not trustworthy even though at work we are being asked by nontechnical leaders to trust these things. Managers are very susceptible to technologist snake oil salesmen. Secondly, in capitalist societies like the US we know that business leaders would happily replace all of us with machines if and when they can, their only downside to us all not working is that we may not have money to spend. Since they cannot understand those of us who work for a living instead of living to work they cannot understand why we don’t all want to be entrepreneurs or engineers and they also do not understand what life is like for people who do not make enough money to have a huge nest egg. Most people live paycheck to paycheck even if they have a moderately high paying job. I have to say, those Microsoft commercials with the people talking to their PC certainly do not represent how I want to use my PC. I do not want my PC to attempt to trick me into thinking that it is intelligent and my companion, I personally think that is gross.