Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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    Has there ever been a true world-changing invention where the “inventors” had to beg the public to use it?

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    I didn’t read anything and I don’t know who this man is but the picture is just… I can’t… He looks like a baby with the headband eye glasses. That expression… He’s enjoying his puffed rice cereal bites while signalling that he wants milk.

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I can’t wait for the full on gaslighting to start. They’re going to tell us that the economy will fall into recession if we don’t embrace AI.

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      Capitalism: “The customers get decide what suceeds and what fails!”

      Capitalism: “What a load of horseshit, and they’ll eat it up, too, the idiots.”

      Always incredible to me how staunch supporters of capitalism are routinely ok with handouts to the tune of billions of dollars when they aren’t getting any real benefit. They’re even the type say they don’t negotiate with terrorists and I guess they’re right, since they just immediately fall to their demands.

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    Translation:

    “AI bubble could burst without us shoehorning it into everything, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns”

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    Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

    Let me rephrase:

    “Smart” entitled person says our product is not showing value, so we need to force people to use it more than we already are after years of cramming it down their throats.

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    Come on guys, the copilot button is right there…

    getting nervous

    Any moment you want! Hehe.

    sweating intensely

    Just right there for the clicking to improve your life.

    Looks over his shoulder at the pile of money that’s burning to ash

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    Man, I cannot wait for the comedy movies that come out based on this farce, explaining exactly how these jokers lost all their money.

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      The best comedies will be made by them… like the NFT cartoon that was made using the bored ape pictures that was so bad that even the biggest advocates of NFTs had no idea what the hell they were doing.

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        Who’s going to do that? Everyone with any money is already leveraged up to the eyeballs in this shit.

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            Oh, we’ll see about that.

            The key difference between tech giants and the banks, is the tech giants aren’t holding everyone’s money hostage.

            Sure, those gen Z kids will lose all their photos of grandma because they couldn’t fathom a world without Instagram, but we’ll cope.

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              No, but when the AI bubble bursts it will wipe out between roughly 40% and 60% of the value of the US’s stock market, depending on which estimate you go by. For comparison, the initial crash of 1929 saw the stock market losing around a third of its value.

              So either the government does bail them out, or it’ll be worse than that crash was.

              Neither option is good for the little people

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    If nobody is using your product then you made a shit product and should scrap it before you lose any more money.

    Follow me for more business tips.

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      Follow me for more business tips.

      I am so here for this.

      Dear Rooty,

      We promised investors adoption we could not achieve, and we had to rebrand our best product to create the illusion of adoption.

      This leads to our question:

      How can we make more of our product offering icons look like butt holes?

      Thank you in advance for your wisdom!

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      but what about FORCING everyone to use the product whether they want to use it or not? I heard that if you’re powerful enough there’s no need to ask permission, “they let you do it.”

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    “Ponzi scheme could falter without wider adoption, warns early Ponzi scheme investor”