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- Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri and Alexa were "dumb as a rock."
- His comments come as excitement around generative AI has reached a fever pitch.
- Microsoft has poured more than $10 billion into ChatGPT's creator OpenAI.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the first wave of voice assistants like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and its own Cortana "dumb as a rock," in an interview with the Financial Times.
Nadella who raved about the voice assistants in 2016 saying "bots are the new apps," has changed his tune since then, the FT reported.