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Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026 (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 132 points 10 months ago (16 children)

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication," Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools." "...and develop a new equilibrium in terms of our “theory of the mind” that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other."

There's that word 'hope' again. It seems to be the main driving force behind a.i. implementation.

Also, I think "cognitive real-time amplifier product" makes for a better acronym.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Talk about putting the cart before the fucking horse.

    Calling them “cognitive amplifier tools” doesn’t make them “cognitive amplifier tools”. They’ve yet to show that they do anything of the sort.

    Spitting out some basic code that probably has to be edited anyway is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.

    Generating smooth skinned avatars with questionable anatomy is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.

    Writing creepy, repetitive prose is not a “cognitive amplifier tool”.

    Hell, the term “cognitive amplifier tool” is just nonsense anyway. For fuck’s sake, I hate these people.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    They hope that's what they'll become. Spoiler: they won't. You amplify your cognition by using it, not relegating it to a dumb computer.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    They don't even need to do that. They just need the general population to believe that they're "cognitive amplifier tools". If you say something enough times, eventually people will start believing it even if it isn't true.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    There's that word 'hope' again. It seems to be the main driving force behind a.i. implementation.

    "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." - Friedrich Nietzsche

    Dude's gonna be disappointed when it's still called slop because people recognize it as slop

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago*

    I've never heard Satya Nadella say a single thing that wasn't just buzzword garbage. He's like a human slop-generating machine. Maybe that's why he can't recognize AI slop when he sees it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The "hope" is that they will make shitloads of money from gullible dipshits buying their bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    That's more of a bet, which is the other word I keep seeing used about a.i.'s financial prospects. More or less the same thing though, so yeah.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Explain the fundamental difference between "hope" and "bet".

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