Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Is AI the Future of OS


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Don't diss my man Satya. Under his command Microsoft grew 10X. The motherfucker knows what he is doing and he started as an entry level employee at Microsoft. None of that "I was there when the company started so it's my turn to be CEO" shit.

Despite what a lot of people belive, Microsoft is full of very capable people. I can say this based on experience. That doesn't mean everyone there knows what they are doing or that they are pefect at executing.

If you guys are keeping track then you know I'm an AI believer. This doesn't mean I believe the tech is perfect because it's not, it's far from that. Also, I can't say for sure ASI/AGI will be a reality within our lifetimes but what I can tell you is that this is the closest we have evern been at at least emulating intelligence. Yes, even with all the hallucinations, costs and security vulnerabilities. A few decades back when the Internet was in it's infancy it was riddled with all kinds of security vulnerabilities and bugs. Microsoft was one of the first companies that actually saw the potential behind that technology. Imagine looking at a website back in 1994 and saying: "this shit will go nowhere, it looks like crap compared to my word document". Yes, there were people that thought that way but look at where we are now.

All this shit is completely transitional but unlike back in the early 90's when nobody but a select few had the chance to access high end tech, we are all exposed to it and can take advantage of it even if it's far from perfect. I draw fucking strategy plans for the company I work for getting help from Gemini and it has improved the quality and speed of my work like no other tech in the last 15 years. I still read the books but I don't need to take notes (that would make reading the book 3x slower). I can read it, load it into one of my Gems and pull specific knowledge I need.

None of this will replace the usual interfaces we all know and love. At least not while there is people like us that still want to use them. Future generations will probably have less of an issue jumping into something totally different. Humans are just not great at adapting to change. There is no way that the only way to interact with Windows in the near future will be voice because there are many situations where it is not appropriate. For example: an office environment or people that want to use a computer for something during a call or whatever.

These guys are not stupid (OK, some of them are) and many of them are certified geniuses in whatever discipline you can imagine. If they are placing a huge bet on stuff like this is because they genuinely believe there is a chance it might pan out.

Luckily tech research and advancement presses on despite the reluctance from some members. Like that quote that floats around the web and that they attribute to Henry Ford (although most likely he didn't say it): "If I asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses". End users not always know what they want, specially when we are talking about radically different - reality changing technology.
 
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