43 comments

  • igor47 an hour ago

    > Unfortunately, Nadella also refers to AI as “super intelligence” throughout the post.

    What's the deal with these clowns? Nadella's estimated net worth is like $600M. Is that still not enough for him to buy himself a spine?

      kumarvvr an hour ago

      At 600M, if keeping a spine has a risk of slight reduction in that wealth, then the spine is thrown out in a jiffy.

      No rich man or woman is a friend of society.

      That is why governments fear revolt from the poor. They have nothing more to lose.

      timcobb an hour ago

      No he's an automaton optimizing for status

      dumberquestions 41 minutes ago

      Not having a spine goes a long way when you're trying to make billions.

        khazhoux 31 minutes ago

        If he stands up to Trump, Trump declares Microsoft a national security threat and decimates the company. That’s what this is about.

      tbrownaw an hour ago

      I would expect people selling AI to like that term for marketing reasons, completely independent of their opinion of the person who provided a crystallization point to organize the terminology change around.

      bushbaba an hour ago

      You assume he’s a human and not a super intelligent being himself

        Xirdus an hour ago

        I am pretty sure he's not super intelligent.

      NordStreamYacht an hour ago

      He has to keep The Orange House happy.

        dudeinjapan 40 minutes ago

        ELI5 why he needs to please the Dutch royal family?

          anon7725 30 minutes ago

          The Orange House, not the House of Orange.

          See also: Peoples’ Front of Judea vs Judean Peoples Front.

      coliveira an hour ago

      He wouldn't have this net worth if he ever had a spine. Mind you, he's very tough to people under him, and that's a very important characteristic of this kind of people, but he really doesn't have a spine.

      khazhoux 33 minutes ago

      His own net worth isn’t the point.

      Bend the knee or Trump will destroy your company. And every Republican in Congress is cool with that.

      blagie an hour ago

      I don't quite see the problem here.

      My AI is regularly solving master's thesis level, and sometimes Ph.D thesis level problems for the purpose of, e.g. routine tasks like filling out random paperwork.

      It's been very odd.

      I'd only assume Nadella has access to more advanced models than I do, just as much as I have more advanced models than my relatives.

        UnlockedSecrets 41 minutes ago

        Can you ask your AI to answer the ultimate question, that being the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

          jonah 14 minutes ago

          I hadn't tried that question before. Gemini knew the answer.

        idiotsecant 39 minutes ago

        Because it's a political loyalty test. Nobody started using it organically until they were ordered to in order to prove their loyalty.

        Using it is embarrassing.

          dofm 14 minutes ago

          It's a bit more than a mere loyalty test, in that Trump knows it is humiliating for them to listen to him on anything like this.

          He knows humiliation (from his father and from Putin) and he loves to dish it out to others.

          This is Reek, basically.

            Terr_ 2 minutes ago

            [delayed]

  • butwhentho 35 minutes ago

    Should I then assume that Copilot is "compromised", and given that they've shoehorned it into all Microsoft products, then, by extension, that means all Microsoft products are compromised?

  • thih9 an hour ago
  • tbrownaw 37 minutes ago

    Well of course.

    If you blindly assume it works and it doesn't, that's a problem.

    If your process can handle it not working, it's much less of a problem.

  • rsalus an hour ago

    I assume he's referring to the long-standing Microsoft engineering principles of "zero trust": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/zero-trust/zero-t...

    and "least privilege": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/se...

      greenthrow an hour ago

      Microsoft didn't invent either of those concepts. They are long standing security principles. Especially least privilege.

        dudeinjapan 37 minutes ago

        Microsoft invented those principles when they added UAC to Windows Vista. Also, Al Gore invented the Internet.

  • dcmatt 35 minutes ago

    > More advanced models will require more advanced containment technologies that we need to standardize on.

    How about yanking the cords, or maybe a big red “shutdown” button

  • xscott an hour ago

    Someone will vibe-code Office and Windows, and he knows it.

      Xirdus an hour ago

      Didn't someone vibe code Photoshop this week?

  • vehemenz 20 minutes ago

    Once again, why do all these CEOs think they are thought leaders all of a sudden?

  • khaled4vokalz an hour ago

    Yeah, after having a meeting at the Oval office, it's for sure everyone got taught by our bro "Dario" regarding containing things as the Chinese are catching up. Give this a break...

  • sandeepkd an hour ago

    so the grapes are sour for some after all

  • TZubiri 13 minutes ago

    Here's a video of Nadella speaking about AI a year ago.

    I couldn't for the life of me understand him, it sounded like when someone I know did cocaine and spent like 8 hours per day with ChatGPT and developed their own internal vocabulary, right around peak AI psychosis era with 4o as well.

    One thing you can hear is that he was super excited about AI, which is very obvious by how Copilot was slapped everywhere. And now that the market is expressing their backlash about AI they are just hopping on the bandwagon.

    But I remember, and I think the MSFT customers will remember how AI was slapped into everything INCLUDING NOTEPAD.EXE

  • stogot an hour ago

    I was expecting he was going to finally acknowledge these are trained on CSAM, been compromised and used to perpetuate abusive crimes.

  • ulfw 43 minutes ago

    Satya Nadella is compromised as he just does whatever Fuhrer Trump wants. Mr. SI.

  • ChrisArchitect 26 minutes ago
  • gexla 37 minutes ago

    I don't get why using “super intelligence” is an issue here. It seems the US admin sort of politicized this and now US companies have their own reasons for selecting terms that may not make sense to people who aren't making the same decisions.

    Everything else seems reasonable? Assume the worst and put the controls in place to handle that scenario? Isn't this how we approach security normally?

    NOTE: NOT a security expert, so I may be talking out of my...

      davesque 11 minutes ago

      Because it's creepy and Orwellian, not to mention hypocritical (MAGA is supposed to hate thought policing). Do you like people telling you what words you can and cannot use?

      khazhoux 30 minutes ago

      Because literally one person came up with that term, just to put their own stamp on it.

        dofm 14 minutes ago

        Not just to put their own stamp on it. To force others to use it.

          khazhoux 8 minutes ago

          Naming it is taking credit for it. “No one’s done as much for tech as me!”

          Forcing others to use it is just par for the course with this administration

        jiggawatts 13 minutes ago

        It is a loyalty test, of the type favoured by dictators, emperors, and heads of mafia families everywhere.

        America is lost.