Microsoft: "Greetings, fellow Trekkies."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12466174
Resistance is rule (what is this ruleshid Microsoft?)
Description: Microsoft ad with a man on the right doing a hand sign associated with star trek and wearing a white t-shirt and black glasses with thick borders. On the left the text reads white on black " Resistance is futile - get AI-ready with Azure" Blue button says "learn more".
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- Borg slogan used positively
- Human
- Vulcan
symbolgestureJust not sure if trolling or being called a nerd by a clueless marketing department.
I've got faith
in their marketing.
They could have said "Today is a good day to AI"
Actually, I think that would have been better.
Everybody is complaining in a way that implies it's a real ad.
Is it?
Not sure, but I found this:
How many fandoms can they possibly try to offend?
A scifi nerd founded a company called Cyberdyne and released a product called HAL. It's a exoskeleton made for physical rehabilitation.
Exoskeletons you say?
NUUUKE!
More like this.
That's cool, but still needs more Robocop.
Today on "Tech company uses horrible vision of the future from science fiction as marketing for their own horrible vision of the future":
Sorry, best I can give you is the Torture Buffer (which I would like to propose the alternate name, the Suffer Buffer)
Vogons agree!
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me
Like furgled grableblotchets on a lurgid bee.
I remember back in the 90s during the Macintosh-Windows flamewars people would frequently make early image edits of Bill Gates as a Borg. Now they're doing it unironically.
Gods, I can't wait for AI to die down to its eventual form of better auto-complete.
Le sigh.
I want AI that can potentially destroy the world, but in a fun, Hollywood way. Not like this... Not like this...
Team Microsoft, reliably unreliable.
Well Double Dumb-ass on you!
thinks resistance is futile...
Is this a legitimate ad? WTF?