MS CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

[highplainsdem]

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

In a conversation at this year's rich person convention—aka the World Economic Forum—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."

"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness, across all sectors, small and large, right?" said Nadella. "And that, to me, is ultimately the goal."

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"The demand side of this is a little bit like, every firm has to start by using it," said Nadella, throwing in some industry-standard hyperbole by calling AI a "cognitive amplifier" that gives you "access to infinite minds." The CEO added that the AI industry needs to encourage job seekers to pick up AI skills (undefined), in the same way people master Excel to make themselves more employable.

"People need to say, 'Oh, I pick up this AI skill, and now I'm a better provider of some product or service in the real economy," said Nadella.

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So it's people's fault that genAI is looking more and more like a waste of electricity, time and investment money. It isn't the fault of the tech bros offering hallucinating chatbots and AI slop.

[Klarkashton]

1. So they can't because it's worthless and puts people

Out of work right now because corporations are banking on it doing shit that it can't do.
When that CEO asshole who would surely know the status and ability of that shit is saying that it's useless then guess what?

[SheltieLover]

2. Kick

[FakeNoose]

3. The mistake is thinking that AI is some kind of profit generator

It's never going to be a profit generator. It's always going to be an expense. But the billionaire CEOs are hoping to reduce their payrolls by 90% whenever those bots are finally operational.