Can I come to your party? I'll bring my good balloons :-). We can wear Facebook privacy-invaders and roast Clippy for entertainment.

I've clapped my hands in the dark to know if there's a wall in front of me. Seems to be instinctive to try this, though I didn't practice enough to call it a skill. Did anyone else have the instinct to try this without having been told?

So sad that huge companies have to be sued or otherwise legally threatened, in order to get them to treat their customers fairly. Makes you wonder how they got so big in the first place, and whether they will stay that way much longer.

We had mood rings in the 80's - no need for batteries. Anyone in your proximity could see whether you were red or green. Of course, you had to also wear a decoder ring (no batteries) to decode the colors. And if you were color blind, you needed a friend (again, no batteries) to tell you the color. If the color was black, the wearer had messed up their medication and was dead.

"Our business is changing because the world around it is changing."

More like you tried to push products on people (Windows 11) and companies (CoPilot) that they didn't want. Worse, you did it as a money-grab, and smacked xbox down for good measure.

I guess the Microsoft of old has returned; this time, with myopic vision.

That is what we've been doing for generations. Each teaches the next, and some of it gets absorbed into automation. We certainly don't make buggy whips the same way we used to.

Buying a 'tech' firm at the peak of a tech boom is a dubious idea, at best.

Good move Microsoft. That stock price isn't going to inflate itself you know!

I'll bet it's logo will be a flying pig.

ChatGPT was trained on all the stuff that happened in the past, and none of the stuff that will happen in the future. Nonetheless, if we were living in a business-as-usual world, this could be a great tool. But the world order has recently "ruptured", and the financial lessons of the past may not apply. Tread with caution.

Sorry to interject, but "fuckstick" is correctly spelled "fuck-stick". Not sure if that was a typing mistake or a spelling mistake.

If you're wondering why your AI is trying to seduce you with corny lines and false flattery, it's because the geniuses back at the training garage let the damn thing read a bunch of Harlequin Romance novels.

For a man of science, that's a remarkably dumb thing to say. He should likely know that just because it "feels" alive, doesn't mean it's so.

He's going to say the same things in internal meetings as he says publicly? Really?

"We will not allow trial lawyers to profit from our platforms while simultaneously claiming they are harmful."

Why not? That's where all the harmed people are.