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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value (ca.finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 2 days ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/fuck_ai

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.jeena.net/post/119614

"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I began to wonder where that quote was, it’s here:

"The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent," he added. "Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we'll be fine as an industry."

[–] ilinamorato 2 points 1 day ago

See, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he meant economic growth (though that sort of requires a commensurate birth rate growth, but we can leave that aside for now), but this kind of makes that feel like an unmerited concession.