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The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. 'It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,' Musk says.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 53 minutes ago

How is the quoted statement made without realizing Twitter is much more simple than everything Microsoft produces?

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago

Ah yes, i will wait for it while I am travelling in the hyperloop

"It's not that hard! I swear" (Elon)

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

To be fair there is one personal trait that's really important to wealth and success, the willingness to walk over the bodies of your peers.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Too many people are still convinced that Elon's wealth is attained through his hardwork alone.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, although if Elon hasn't convinced them I can at least take solace in knowing there was probably no way to convince them anyways. Total lost causes

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Heeeeey that was MY idea. Not the AI agent part, the name part.

Red Alert 2 also had one it's called MassiveSoft & I think the CEO/Chairman was called Bing😂

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

🤦‍♂️

He's been snorting ketamine again, hasn't he..?

[–] DampSquid@feddit.uk 7 points 4 hours ago

Always has been

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 34 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Vibe coded Operating System. And Office suite. And cloud offering. And Enterprise. And SaaS. And game console.

What could go wrong?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago

What could go wrong?

Seeing how Microsoft (and Windows 11 in particular) is doing lately, and how practically every single Windows update is breaking something important, a lot.

We've already got one vibe coded Windows. We don't need another one.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Honey, the spread sheet is saying 1 + 1 = 3!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

All that junk code, what could go?

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Also vibe coded vibe coding AI assistant.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Vibes all the way down.

[–] Bot@sub.community 5 points 5 hours ago

Salty, sounds like porno

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Thst's not how this works. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS FUCKING WORKS**!!!**

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But has musk ever been wrong?

Apart from hyperloop, solar rooftops, Tesla semi, passenger rockets, car tunnels under cities, robotaxi, flying Tesla's, humans on mars in 2022, self driving Tesla's making the owner money, and of course cybertruck.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 hours ago

He probably can't even solve his kids name.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago

So stupid that I can't even tell if an Onion article is real or not.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

how would you simulate microsoft with ai?

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Macrohard, which he ain't because of that botched surgery.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 85 points 13 hours ago
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 14 points 10 hours ago

This guy gives me second-hand embarrassment for humanity.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 51 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Drug addict hallucinates what?

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 9 points 6 hours ago

Sharon... the porch won't slow down.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 hours ago

I just watched something earlier that showed a clip of him saying how he was warning everyone early on about the dangers of AI because he was genuinely scared of the harm it could do.

Glad he’s not a hypocrite or anything.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 152 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 92 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

MACROHARD, GET IT???

I'm hilarious and edgy, so my cars can kill a few people, as a treat.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And Microsoft did it over a decade ago for day9's company's after dark StarCraft tournament.

Moron isn't 1% as funny or creative as he thinks he is

[–] plyth@feddit.org -3 points 4 hours ago

Difference is that he does the things everybody else just thinks.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 113 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Sounds like something a teenager would come up with - this is exactly what I'd expect Musk to do

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

hes 12yo what you expect. his teslas models are are named after SEXY

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's an old joke that the opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Haha, yeah that joke was pretty funny... back in 1993.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 71 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It is literally a joke I made in high school, ~25 years ago.

He’s such a loser.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago

Too early. Comedy is all about timing.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Shut the fuck up, Elon. Can't you just quietly enjoy being the richest person on Earth?

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If I had his money I'd be 24/7 inventing cool things for myself and wife and friends to experience. This guy has a fundamental need to be the loudest person in the room and to embroil himself into anything and everything. I would almost feel sorry for him - his life has got to really suck so bad and he can't fix it. So instead he goes off on 100 projects that make no sense or fall apart. There's stuff I can't wrap my head around like - why ditch LIDAR when it's absolutely the answer ? You just know his convoluted brain is so full of mess that if you were offered a deal with the devil to get all his money on the condition that you got trapped in his meat grinder of a mind... you'd turn down the offer.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If I had his money I would attempt to end homelessness in the US, someone who seemed to know what they were talking about estimated it would cost $50 billion. I would start my own animal sanctuary. I would create a high speed rail system. Then I would just fuck around, travel, and build weird shit. Probably take a bunch of LSD every now and then.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Have you considered doing this backwards to end up as a billionaire who can donate his billions to charity?

Giving all homeless shelter and work would create a huge company.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 12 hours ago

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 45 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I've said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he'd be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn't have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn't going to happen.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Who do you hire to filter that? Electric sports cars, reusable rockets, all silly ideas that would never make it. His wealth allows him to try his ideas without the restrictions that everybody else has. That's worth much more than his reputation.

He wants to go to mars. Solar cells and tunnel boring could be long-term buildups of knowledge.

If he is not cleverer than most then it's his recklessness that created his success. Bezos also got the rocket billions but he was not as successful, and many other billionaires and companies could have tried, too.

Even the nazi wave, it is cringe and evil, but it looks like he picked the successful side.

It's not Musk that has to adjust but the general population. If we want to be safed by technology we have to find another hero, or better, build that technology without one.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 35 points 14 hours ago

Annoys me that people sling "narcissist" at everyone they don't like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

  • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

  • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

  • Belief in being "special" and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

  • Demanding excessive admiration

  • Sense of entitlement

  • Exploitation behaviors

  • Lack of empathy

  • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

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