Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI
80.lv
“Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.”
Mustafa Suleyman19 November 2025- What you'll lose1/5
Users asking for a working Windows got a reply about Snake.
- Condescension5/5
'Jeez there so many cynics!'
- Tone-deafness5/5
Snake on a Nokia, offered as an argument.
- Doom0/5
None.
- Hypocrisy0/5
None.
Full time11 pitchforksof a possible 25
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The occasion
X (post), 19 November 2025.
Context
Posted on X a day after Windows president Pavan Davuluri wrote that Windows is "evolving into an agentic OS", which drew heavily critical replies from users who wanted the basics fixed. Windows Central and others read Suleyman's post as a response to that backlash. The wording is the embedded post on GIGAZINE (its article text paraphrases the post differently).
Crowd reaction
Widespread criticism
Gamepressure reported that people criticised him for not understanding the issue ("It's not about resistance to artificial intelligence itself" but about Windows 11 problems); 80.lv reported users pushing back that Microsoft puts AI into everything "to appease shareholders" instead of fixing what users care about; TechSpot (40 comments) wrote that he expressed "barely concealed contempt for non-AI-lovers" and that "people are sick of these systems being shoehorned into literally every aspect of our lives".
- 80.lv: Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI
- GIGAZINE: Microsoft's AI chief is fed up with cynicism after criticism of Windows AI products
- Gamepressure: Microsoft's AI CEO doesn't understand the lack of excitement about artificial intelligence
- TechSpot: Microsoft exec lashes out at AI skeptics, calls criticism "mind-blowing"
- Where the exact words are printed