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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 1 year ago

They called the idea nutty, even seedy, but the Copilot mascot turned out to be a seminal piece of marketing that spawned generations to follow. This was a huge release that left a lot of the more conservative viewers clutching their pearl necklaces. Cream of the crop. Busting once and for all the myth that Microsoft isn't a fertile place for breeding marketing innovation. Coming out of nowhere, a climactic moment in the 2025 AI summer. Truly a moment to refract on during the upcoming period. All the money they've splooged on AI is finally coming to fruition and not just blown off and swallowed. The success will surely rub off on the AI industry as a hole or at least jack up Microsoft shares with vigorous excitement. And other semen jokes.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 42 points 1 year ago
[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

November's especially tough at the actual office for M$ Edge drones.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:

I mean… yeah.

Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

cumputer*

You dropped this.

[-] dshan@mastodon.au 6 points 1 year ago

@BlueMonday1984 I never thought I'd say this but, bring back Clippy!

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Whilst we're at it, bring back Tamagotchi - they don't ruin the planet, and also they're cute

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

kintamagotchi

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

colonise the light cone by exploring latent space

Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"

like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

Another Oglaf reference???

[-] johsny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

Looks a lot like the computer from the recent movie Elio

[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I’m into Clippy

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

Strange, ever noticed how many of the genAI logos looked like an anus? https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action", what is dozens of times?

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, it is crap.

[-] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Breaking free from the butthole

is this the best thing i've ever read?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, right. I forgot the obligatory comment.

@dgerard why did you make the header image so sexy again?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

because i know what you like

Gotta get those clicks where you can, amirite?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago
[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I hate my desktop

Should we tell him that it's Microsoft's fault?

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it

Sidenote: It would be hilarious if YouTube began demonetising videos featuring Microsoft Copilot's Cum Zone

[-] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Or is it the fat just walking away? anyone remember the Adipose

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NGL, they might've been better off skating the edge of IP and managed it after a little fat blobule, like the Partners In Crime adipose here. Adipilot has that "atta boy" sound, and selling fat to dumbfuck Americans is their business model already, so: apropos on so many levels. 🤷🏽‍♂️

edit: yes, now I see the earlier comment. 🤪

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Tofu, if it were orange the article would read "...looks like a blob of orange semen"

[-] patatas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

something something facial recognition

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Young and dumb

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