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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns (www.irishtimes.com)
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Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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[–] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This isn't how fucking markets work you God damn dweebs. Has nobody in Silicon Valley taken econ 101

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I really think they did it so easily with the adoption of the smartphone and the centralized Internet they genuinely are confused why their strategy isn't working this time around.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I would also like to add that this is our fault as consumers for lapping up and becoming dependent on the smartphone and centralized Internet. (Though on the fediverse you are probably aware of that, but almost all of the content here originates from it).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    The big difference is that smart phones and centralized internet are somewhat useful. Smartphones at least. Centralized internet... meh, but maybe a dependency.

    AI is useful in only very niche and intentional cases. A 'generic' LLM is pretty bad at almost everything.

    If 'AI' had been sold more like: "Give us a year of data samples from your production line and we can use ML to optimize time and temperature based on current weather patterns..." (real world use case I was working in on 2019) etc. then they would have really made the world better. Instead, I have crappy clippy constantly reading my email and suggesting words I wasn't going to type*.

    • I don't understand how corps accept the idea that their internal emails are no longer internal, since everything is sent to chatgpt/copilot/gemeni/etc as it's created. Shouldn't Legal have thrown a tantrum over this?!
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