Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was a little embarrassed at a Salesforce conference today when he tested the company's personal virtual assistant during a presentation. Slightly fluffing the question 'Show me my most at-risk opportunities', Nadella was dismayed to find Cortana offering him a Bing page with the search term 'Show me to buy milk at this opportunity'. Two further efforts to discover the exposure of his shares failed to achieve their aim, and eventually the CEO of Microsoft gave up. The fact that he stumbled over his first attempt at the question seemed to floor Cortana, which uses the 'Einstein' AI engine, and which has been more praised for its accurate speech recognition than its ability to understand what an array of interpreted words actually mean.

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Re:Cant see why this is a problem.

[MightyMartian]

Yes, goddamit, I want to know "why is fish?" and if Microsoft's shitty assistant can't answer question, well Microsoft's programmers are all fucking incompetents who should be forced to work licking grease of the floor at McDonalds.

Actually, I felt that way after spending half a day trying to figure out why the fuck WinRM can't listen on the port provided to it by a Group Policy. "Why is Microsoft?" is probably a better question.