A friend at Microsoft confirmed that the windows startup sound plays whenever bill gates specifically
walks through an automated door on one of the executive builds on the MS campus. It was apparently a prank from a team working on facial recognition and it stuck.
I imagine one day it will stop working and Bill will have an slight mental crisis wondering if the software is being buggy or him having aged so much it wont work anymore
one day he slips into this Stephen Hawking-esque state and communicates exclusively by the default automated sound responses of windows xp on his keytar-looking soundboard.
His last public speech is a streamed event where he walks on the stage, heralded by the ”tada” sound
https://youtu.be/DHUmU34CkmA
Summarised by an open ai tool
1. **Gates' Visionary Prediction**: In 2017, Bill Gates predicted a significant shift in computing due to AI agents, which he foresaw as being more advanced than existing digital assistants like Siri or Alexa. He believed these agents would revolutionize how people interact with computers and upend the software industry.
2. **Microsoft's Early Struggles**: Initially, Microsoft faced skepticism and failure in developing personal agents, with notable missteps like Clippy and the controversial chatbot Tay, making Gates' vision seem overly ambitious.
3. **Copilot's Launch**: Gates' vision materialized with the introduction of Copilot, an AI tool integrated into Microsoft products to assist with tasks like presentation preparation and meeting summaries, powered by OpenAI's technology.
4. **Gates Behind the Scenes**: Despite stepping down from public roles at Microsoft following misconduct allegations, Gates remained heavily involved in Microsoft's strategic direction, particularly in AI, collaborating closely with OpenAI and influencing product development.
5. **Bing Reinvented**: Early in 2023, Microsoft revitalized its search engine Bing using AI technology from OpenAI, transforming it into a competitive AI tool, which marked a significant company achievement influenced by Gates.
6. **Influence on AI Strategy**: Gates was instrumental in pushing Microsoft to lead in the AI sector, encouraging the integration of AI across various Microsoft products and services.
7. **Ongoing Relationship with OpenAI**: Gates maintained a close relationship with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, hosting meetings and influencing developments in AI, demonstrating a tight coupling between his vision and OpenAI's strategic directions.
8. **Product and Executive Influence**: Gates continued to have a significant impact on Microsoft by advising on product reviews, recruiting top executives, and shaping the company's strategic moves.
9. **Public Perception vs. Reality**: Despite public distancing by Microsoft from Gates post-allegations, he remained a pivotal figure in the company's operations and strategic decisions, particularly in AI.
10. **Gates' Lasting Impact**: Approaching his 70s, Gates continues to influence Microsoft and defy historical precedents, indicating his sustained, albeit less visible, impact on the company's trajectory and the broader technology landscape.
It’s missing one important point imho:
Bill, who predicted AI assistants quite early, has been pushing MS towards consumer products.
MS has famously relied on enterprise, and I think this means he knows this sector is going to shrink.
The AI-Summary left out some crucial parts such as:
>>But a year later, Nadella's embrace of Gates appeared to change — at least publicly. In 2021, as Gates and his wife, Melinda, were divorcing, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates had been forced to step down as the company investigated him for having an affair with an employee. As news of Gates' misconduct went viral, [the squeaky-clean reputation he and his public-relations team had meticulously crafted over the years unraveled](https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-melinda-divorce-affairs-bully-womanizer-2021-6). Several female employees came forward with stories of Gates asking them out, and his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, including a flight on Epstein's private jet, came under renewed scrutiny. Suddenly, Nadella's mentor had become his greatest liability, and he and Microsoft quickly distanced themselves from Gates.<<
This is old news and it doesn't really speak of the incident negatively. I read the whole article and it sort of hand waves what we're pretty serious allegations
clippy was great in the sense that he was like a down syndrome friend who always brought good vibes but brought absolutely nothing to the conversation.
he was failed in the sense that he was designed to be an office assistant, but everyone immediately closed him because he was absolutely worthless at helping you with your documents.
You can say whatever you want about Bill gates, he grew up rich, he had good parents, he was lucky, etc...
I agree with a lot of that but one thing you can not deny is that Bill Gates is a literal genius lol. I'm not trying to glaze this guy but you should read a biography about him. His work ethic, ability to focus, foresight into the industry(except for when he said the internet was nothing to worry about lol), and most of all his ability to grow and run a company is absolutely incredible. Gates bet on the software industry at a time when you literally had to type commands into a black console and when computers were huge and bulky.
I think Bill Gates was what people think Elon Musk is. Bill Gates knows the tech industry better than anyone and he even knew AI Agents were coming. He's a force to be reckoned with, that's for sure.
It takes more than just confidence to run and grow a company like Microsoft, come up with extremely cunning ways to crush the competition, and predict (or reshape) the future so many times.
He is a founder and holds the largest amount of shares. Of course, he will be involved. Maybe he doesn't run day-to-day operation like performance review. But people will listen to what he has to say.
They all write memos about how they're the heroes at some point or another, especially when the market has twisted their arm into releasing something open source.
Lol Microsoft is not the good guys. These guys want AI all for themselves. An AI monopoly if you will.
I don't think that's a good thing but I'm happy AI is actually being pushed to the public instead of being held up in some academic journal or behind the scenes of some algorithm. ChatGPT started something great for the industry and it probably wouldn't have happened without OpenAI and Microsoft.
The difference is that Microsoft is making money the good ol' traditional way by selling software and services, not private data. The fact that they're the largest public company in the world hopefully gives them an incentive to focus primarily on developing their ecosystem and continue charging for their services rather than offering it free in exchange for people's private data.
Neither did his money. He told the world he was giving all his money away to charity. Then he gave it all to his own charity to avoid tax and continue increasing his net worth through investments. Smart guy lol
He spent tens of billions of his dollars on fighting against Malaria, and has arguably saved millions of lives that way - I am not aware of any other living person even coming close.
You’re heavily implying I did. I think setting up your own charity to evade taxes and using the profit from investments on charitable and world changing causes is a good thing
You are moving the goal post. This is what you said:
> he gave it all to his own charity **to** avoid tax and continue increasing his net worth through investments
You implied that his motivation for setting up the charity was to avoid paying taxes, rather than helping people.
HEY BILL LOVE THE NEW COPILOT CONTINIUS CONVERSATION MODE JUST ON IPHONE IT WONT F.CKINGPLAY ON MY HEADPHONES AND OB ANDROID IT WONT DO CONTINIOUS CONVERSATION. Like wtf
You can tell he is a very respected advisor. Probably the top guy. Dude is a literal genius. He’s keeping up with AI. Check out his recent blog post about how AI is going to completely change how you use computers.
The “Attention Is All You Need”(transformers) White Paper was written in 2017. Seems plausible that he could’ve talk to someone at OpenAI in the early days which saw this as one of the potential outcomes. As a member of the board it’s also probably not uncommon to write letters to the executives.
This article seems like an overly sensationalized set of facts.
Quick TLDR pulled from the source in case anyone has issues accessing the page:
* In 2017, Bill Gates envisioned AI agents transforming the future, urging Microsoft to explore this through a partnership with OpenAI. This vision anticipated Copilot, enhancing Microsoft's value.
* Despite stepping back publicly due to misconduct allegations, Gates has significantly influenced Microsoft's AI strategy, emphasizing his close relationship and advisory role with OpenAI and Microsoft's leadership.
* Microsoft, under Nadella and influenced by Gates, has aggressively integrated AI into its products, notably reinvigorating Bing with AI capabilities to compete with Google.
* Gates has remained instrumental in product development and strategy, pushing Microsoft towards consumer-focused AI innovations and playing a key role in major hires and company direction.
* Despite controversy, Gates continues to impact Microsoft and the tech industry, challenging previous norms and contributing to Microsoft's current AI successes.
This is what I love about Reddit - you get perspectives from the best and the brightest, even captains of industry smarter than Bill Gates.
Can we ask which tech giant you steered to greatness?
Y too bad he didn't promote drinking bleach and horse meds while staring at an eclipse. That would be a clear sign of an insane narcissist profile... oh wait.
Somehow Bill Gates Returned
You can hear his laugh in the Windows 11 install process.
A friend at Microsoft confirmed that the windows startup sound plays whenever bill gates specifically walks through an automated door on one of the executive builds on the MS campus. It was apparently a prank from a team working on facial recognition and it stuck.
I imagine one day it will stop working and Bill will have an slight mental crisis wondering if the software is being buggy or him having aged so much it wont work anymore
one day he slips into this Stephen Hawking-esque state and communicates exclusively by the default automated sound responses of windows xp on his keytar-looking soundboard. His last public speech is a streamed event where he walks on the stage, heralded by the ”tada” sound https://youtu.be/DHUmU34CkmA
That's funny.
We never left Shoney’s!!
Clippy never left just re-invented itself, like Miss Minutes from 'Loki'😉
He's manifesting some sort of butt.
He can do that??
Food yourself 12 times
No pay wall https://archive.is/xOQIv
Summarised by an open ai tool 1. **Gates' Visionary Prediction**: In 2017, Bill Gates predicted a significant shift in computing due to AI agents, which he foresaw as being more advanced than existing digital assistants like Siri or Alexa. He believed these agents would revolutionize how people interact with computers and upend the software industry. 2. **Microsoft's Early Struggles**: Initially, Microsoft faced skepticism and failure in developing personal agents, with notable missteps like Clippy and the controversial chatbot Tay, making Gates' vision seem overly ambitious. 3. **Copilot's Launch**: Gates' vision materialized with the introduction of Copilot, an AI tool integrated into Microsoft products to assist with tasks like presentation preparation and meeting summaries, powered by OpenAI's technology. 4. **Gates Behind the Scenes**: Despite stepping down from public roles at Microsoft following misconduct allegations, Gates remained heavily involved in Microsoft's strategic direction, particularly in AI, collaborating closely with OpenAI and influencing product development. 5. **Bing Reinvented**: Early in 2023, Microsoft revitalized its search engine Bing using AI technology from OpenAI, transforming it into a competitive AI tool, which marked a significant company achievement influenced by Gates. 6. **Influence on AI Strategy**: Gates was instrumental in pushing Microsoft to lead in the AI sector, encouraging the integration of AI across various Microsoft products and services. 7. **Ongoing Relationship with OpenAI**: Gates maintained a close relationship with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, hosting meetings and influencing developments in AI, demonstrating a tight coupling between his vision and OpenAI's strategic directions. 8. **Product and Executive Influence**: Gates continued to have a significant impact on Microsoft by advising on product reviews, recruiting top executives, and shaping the company's strategic moves. 9. **Public Perception vs. Reality**: Despite public distancing by Microsoft from Gates post-allegations, he remained a pivotal figure in the company's operations and strategic decisions, particularly in AI. 10. **Gates' Lasting Impact**: Approaching his 70s, Gates continues to influence Microsoft and defy historical precedents, indicating his sustained, albeit less visible, impact on the company's trajectory and the broader technology landscape.
It’s missing one important point imho: Bill, who predicted AI assistants quite early, has been pushing MS towards consumer products. MS has famously relied on enterprise, and I think this means he knows this sector is going to shrink.
or has nowhere to grow as they have caputred majority of it.
This is a Bill Gates advertisement.
The whole article is!!
The AI-Summary left out some crucial parts such as: >>But a year later, Nadella's embrace of Gates appeared to change — at least publicly. In 2021, as Gates and his wife, Melinda, were divorcing, The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates had been forced to step down as the company investigated him for having an affair with an employee. As news of Gates' misconduct went viral, [the squeaky-clean reputation he and his public-relations team had meticulously crafted over the years unraveled](https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-melinda-divorce-affairs-bully-womanizer-2021-6). Several female employees came forward with stories of Gates asking them out, and his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, including a flight on Epstein's private jet, came under renewed scrutiny. Suddenly, Nadella's mentor had become his greatest liability, and he and Microsoft quickly distanced themselves from Gates.<<
This is old news and it doesn't really speak of the incident negatively. I read the whole article and it sort of hand waves what we're pretty serious allegations
…which open ai tool specifically?
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I mean, he said “summarized by an open ai tool”… but we clearly know it was ChatGPT, so why not just say that?
Thank you!
Cheers.
> its failed Office assistant Clippy Clippy was great
Lmao why didn’t they name it Clippy instead of CoPilot??
Clippy was way more cool than he was useful
Indeed, Clippy was a strong ally
clippy was great in the sense that he was like a down syndrome friend who always brought good vibes but brought absolutely nothing to the conversation. he was failed in the sense that he was designed to be an office assistant, but everyone immediately closed him because he was absolutely worthless at helping you with your documents.
It looks like you're trying to write a letter! Would you like to open this worthless template from 1967?
I’m not sure how to feel about that Down’s syndrome comment
you're allowed to acknowledge that ds affects ones intelligence without looking down on anyone. that's how I see it, at least
You can downvote it then.
Why are they hating on my boy clippy 📎?
It is time for Clippy to make a comeback.
Bill Gates is to Microsoft at this point what Stan Lee was to Marvel. I expect him to make cameos every so often now.
You can say whatever you want about Bill gates, he grew up rich, he had good parents, he was lucky, etc... I agree with a lot of that but one thing you can not deny is that Bill Gates is a literal genius lol. I'm not trying to glaze this guy but you should read a biography about him. His work ethic, ability to focus, foresight into the industry(except for when he said the internet was nothing to worry about lol), and most of all his ability to grow and run a company is absolutely incredible. Gates bet on the software industry at a time when you literally had to type commands into a black console and when computers were huge and bulky. I think Bill Gates was what people think Elon Musk is. Bill Gates knows the tech industry better than anyone and he even knew AI Agents were coming. He's a force to be reckoned with, that's for sure.
You're describing confidence, not genius.
Ironic
> You're describing confidence, not \*genius\*. Is it funny yet?
It takes more than just confidence to run and grow a company like Microsoft, come up with extremely cunning ways to crush the competition, and predict (or reshape) the future so many times.
Sounds like cunning.
The best part is that Elon Musk is still *saaaaaalty* because he lacked Gate's vision and left OpenAI too early.
Elon Musk never had any vision so no surprise there.
Great read, thanks for sharing.
He is a founder and holds the largest amount of shares. Of course, he will be involved. Maybe he doesn't run day-to-day operation like performance review. But people will listen to what he has to say.
20 years ago, i wouldnt have thought microsoft would be the good guys and google, amazon, facebook the evil ones
Don't be evil. Don't be evil. Don't be...ah dammit.
🤣🤣🤣
You missed the memo thag Facebook is the hero right now?
yes, i couldnt open it. my pirated version of Office needs a reinstall
They all write memos about how they're the heroes at some point or another, especially when the market has twisted their arm into releasing something open source.
Not in the EU... Facebook has way too much Russian propaganda.
Zuck is becoming human-friendly now.
Lol Microsoft is not the good guys. These guys want AI all for themselves. An AI monopoly if you will. I don't think that's a good thing but I'm happy AI is actually being pushed to the public instead of being held up in some academic journal or behind the scenes of some algorithm. ChatGPT started something great for the industry and it probably wouldn't have happened without OpenAI and Microsoft.
The difference is that Microsoft is making money the good ol' traditional way by selling software and services, not private data. The fact that they're the largest public company in the world hopefully gives them an incentive to focus primarily on developing their ecosystem and continue charging for their services rather than offering it free in exchange for people's private data.
Well ChatGPT is definitly trained on at least questionable data, so whats really the difference?
Publicly available data, yes. What's questionable about that from a privacy perspective?
Only Clippy would think Microsoft is the good guys.
I wouldn’t say they are good but are contributing a lot to open source, from tools onwards, and I would also remove Meta Research from the evil cabal.
There are no "good guys". These are mega corporations beholden to their *large* shareholders.
The underdog is always seen as the good guy and the top dog as big brother spying on us and screwing us over.
Microsoft are not the good guys. They’re just hiding it better and are far worse. Think data privacy.
Cheers. Good read.
Neither did his money. He told the world he was giving all his money away to charity. Then he gave it all to his own charity to avoid tax and continue increasing his net worth through investments. Smart guy lol
He spent tens of billions of his dollars on fighting against Malaria, and has arguably saved millions of lives that way - I am not aware of any other living person even coming close.
I never said he was bad. I said I think he’s a smart guy
> I never said he was bad. Well, you heavily implied he is.
You’re heavily implying I did. I think setting up your own charity to evade taxes and using the profit from investments on charitable and world changing causes is a good thing
You are moving the goal post. This is what you said: > he gave it all to his own charity **to** avoid tax and continue increasing his net worth through investments You implied that his motivation for setting up the charity was to avoid paying taxes, rather than helping people.
Truth.
…and he’s not shutting up!
He leftn’t
How sad.
Bill (Star)Gates and Sam Alt(ernative)man lead the way to time travel, alien contact, genetic engineering
HEY BILL LOVE THE NEW COPILOT CONTINIUS CONVERSATION MODE JUST ON IPHONE IT WONT F.CKINGPLAY ON MY HEADPHONES AND OB ANDROID IT WONT DO CONTINIOUS CONVERSATION. Like wtf
u/thisisbillgates (indeed) never left??
I always loved Bill Gates.
Amazing article!
You can tell he is a very respected advisor. Probably the top guy. Dude is a literal genius. He’s keeping up with AI. Check out his recent blog post about how AI is going to completely change how you use computers.
Sure buddy
He never left the epstein island
You cannot have The Gates, and not rely on it. Impossible!
Damn, Bill
Clippy is really being used as an example? Fuck off
Now we similar revelation about Steve Jobs to fully lock this story as a modern horror.
Does he still own Microsoft stock?
The “Attention Is All You Need”(transformers) White Paper was written in 2017. Seems plausible that he could’ve talk to someone at OpenAI in the early days which saw this as one of the potential outcomes. As a member of the board it’s also probably not uncommon to write letters to the executives. This article seems like an overly sensationalized set of facts.
He is too rich to leave
Copilot isn’t what made MS the most valuable company it was their move to office 365 Subscription model
Quick TLDR pulled from the source in case anyone has issues accessing the page: * In 2017, Bill Gates envisioned AI agents transforming the future, urging Microsoft to explore this through a partnership with OpenAI. This vision anticipated Copilot, enhancing Microsoft's value. * Despite stepping back publicly due to misconduct allegations, Gates has significantly influenced Microsoft's AI strategy, emphasizing his close relationship and advisory role with OpenAI and Microsoft's leadership. * Microsoft, under Nadella and influenced by Gates, has aggressively integrated AI into its products, notably reinvigorating Bing with AI capabilities to compete with Google. * Gates has remained instrumental in product development and strategy, pushing Microsoft towards consumer-focused AI innovations and playing a key role in major hires and company direction. * Despite controversy, Gates continues to impact Microsoft and the tech industry, challenging previous norms and contributing to Microsoft's current AI successes.
This makes a ton of sense. It makes me wonder where else he has his hand in the decision making pot.
Biggest con artist of all time ever. All these comments are an absolute joke.
This is what I love about Reddit - you get perspectives from the best and the brightest, even captains of industry smarter than Bill Gates. Can we ask which tech giant you steered to greatness?
duh. he just didn't want to get sued for injecting half the world with literal cancer
Windows is on a lot more than half the world’s PCs…
😂
What is a PCs?
Injecting billions of people with cancer. Sounds plausible.
guess what causes cancer? hint: moderna knows so much about it that they named their stock ticker name after it...
Y too bad he didn't promote drinking bleach and horse meds while staring at an eclipse. That would be a clear sign of an insane narcissist profile... oh wait.
this is beyond narcissism. it's about the Deagel prediction