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This is just him aping every other AI CEO. Every single one has to act like the agents are super-geniuses mere moments away from achieving the singularity like people can't try them out themselves and be disappointed. Some of it is "we think this will work soon so it's ok if we pretend like it's working now", but I think a lot is just needing to constantly shove hot air into the balloon before it pops.

On the other hand, if it's true, it explains a LOT about Microsoft's silly AI strategy.

Maybe he's like Saddam Hussein, being gaslit by his own minions, but in this case the minions are barely functioning word regurgitators...

> he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond.

What a dorky thing to do. Does the CEO have some concept he's living a life that precisely _zero_ of his customers do? Who would even think to do this?

> “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job

Yea, I have actual work to do, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with this?

Are you kidding? You get to be the star guest of every podcast you listen to and everything you say is amazingly witty and insightful.

I know exactly the kind of people who would think to do this. Unfortunately. :)

> He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond.

I remember reading that when it first came out and all I can think is: No, he doesn't like podcasts, if you like podcasts you listen to them.

That's like saying "He loves food, but instead of eating it he feeds it to an analyzer that tells him what elements were detected in it".

I have to assume it's all BS/lies because if that's a truthful statement (about podcasts and the other things) then I really question wtf they are doing over there. None of that sounds like "the future", it sounds like hell. I cannot imagine how shitty it would be to have all my emails/messages to the CEO being filtered through an AI and getting AI slop back in return.

> in the car on his commute to Redmond

This was funny to me, because he lives like 8 minutes away.

Maybe he has Microsoft Copilot Full-Self-Driving installed

Does that number include hours wasted in traffic jams?

The podcast thing reads like something he made up that sounds cool and futuristic on the surface, but doesn't actually make any sense. Maybe what's actually happening is he's just having the LLM give him the cliff's notes of the transcript, but that isn't interesting enough so he's making up some BS about having a conversation with the AI.

Nadella has to have his own custom agents. It isn't even possible for an enterprise like MSFT to not have custom agents that are still remotely useful.

So, his experience with Copilot agents != Average Customer's experience

Look, if the CEO of a five trillion dollar company investing hundreds of billions into AI can come up with some custom agents to handle every aspect of the CEO's work, surely your average Microsoft 365-subscribing corporation can do the same.

It's just another example of the rich being wildly out of touch. Yes, Beyonce has the same 24 hours in a day that the rest of us have, but she also has enough money to pay people to do every aspect of her life that isn't bringing her joy or wealth. Yes, AI can be used to streamline workflows or help you find signal in the noise so you can focus on the important things better, but if every company has to build that themselves then no company is going to see the value of spending a bunch of extra money on something that they can only get benefit from if they spend even more money.

If the 'AI agents' that Nadella is talking about were part of Copilot then sure, okay, I could see a benefit, but when people in this thread are saying that Outlook can't even tell you who is in a meeting then it certainly explains why Nadella doesn't understand the lack of value.