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I don't see where he admits what the headline claims.
He doesn't. He says he cares more about generating growth (and thus presumably revenue) than about AGI.
Also, this thing is from February.
Social media sucks. Reporting on reporting sucks. News aggregators suck.
AI may suck, but it's definitely not alone in being shitty. We're all clearly very good at tool-less, artisanal misinformation.
Sturgeon's law
On the plus side, at least on the instance I'm on I was automatically given a link to when this same story was posted here three months ago. Saves some effort.
I guess it depends on how much you do your homework. I just spent a while listening to Satya Nadella regurgitate self-congratulatory CEO-speak just to verify that yes, indeed, this link is gargbage. I feel entitled to at least a bit of resentment for that.
Ironically, the time I spent doing this was much shorter because the podcast that originates the blatant misquote has an AI-generated searchable transcript.
Even more ironically, you could probably shorten that time even more by having an AI analyze the transcript for you.
I've found Firefox's Orbit extension to be quite handy whenever someone directs me to a 30-minute Youtube video as "proving" whatever point they're trying to argue. I can pop it open and ask it to tell me what the video says about that point in just a few seconds. I wouldn't use the AI summary as backing if I was doing surgery on someone, but for a random Internet argument it's fine.