on January 20, 2026, 12:06:41, in reply to "Apparently you can just tell Opus 5.2 an Erdos problem and 42 minutes later,"
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it has a solution. Terrence Tao approved even. Previous Message
they're trying to shoehorn into their existing products. Copilot is Clippy 2.0, and they're really overselling its capabilities.
Machine learning can do some neat things, and offers the potential to create tools that enable people to solve challenging problems in novel ways. But to really get the most out of it requires specialized skills that most people don't have. You can't just walk into the monastery and plop a printing press down on every monk's table, and expect to conquer the world. Previous Message
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Mr Nadella on Tuesday said that the long-term success of the fast-developing technology would depend on it being used by a broad range of industries as well as on uptake outside of the developed world.
“For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” said Mr Nadella. He noted that a “telltale sign of if it’s a bubble” would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.
However, Mr Nadella said he was confident that AI would prove to be transformative across industries, such as helping to develop new drugs.
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