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Lol please let this happen.
I read the article here is summary.
He is scared the people microsoft lays off will go work for their competitors.
He thinks if they lose “the AI race” they may be replaced by another company.
Microsoft still pledged to give $80 billion for their AI projects.
OpenAI wants to go for-profit but computing costs is not affordable for microsoft so they made a barely official agreement instead.
Workers suffered the most in this as the company has a culture where you may be sacked at any time due to a tweet from Musk.
My thoughts.
Microsoft won’t become irrelavent. Every single school and university go to unimaginable lengths to use their suite.
Highschools have a “microsoft word class” and colleges that pride themselves on their “academic integrity” give all students premium chatgpt accounts.
But they may do what AT&T did and go from a huge monopoly to just some random big company.
So you’re saying there are some upsides to AI?
Oh if only you fucks would lie in the bed you made once…
Microsoft pushing their AI on me sure isn’t constructive.
So you’re telling me there’s a use case for AI after all?
Why do we talk about CEOs like anything they say is not complete bullshit?
Good, burn it all down.
you spent billions upon billions building data centers to host azure/openai, with no returns of value.
Do it. Do it hard.
God I hope so. Fuck microshaft.
I’ve been noticing weird stuff with Microsoft online products since they have been leaning into ai.
I don’t really know how to describe it. My old windows pc had a virus back in the early 2000s that slowly ate away at .dll and .exe files. It basically caused very random errors and noticeable weirdness for a few days until core system services eventually started dying. That’s what Microsoft online products feel like to use for me now. Random loops of confirmations and links that go nowhere. Even the payment system rarely seems to work.
His concern seems valid to me.
Then stop building it?
AI and robotics is going to destroy many established companies in the same way the Internet did. Some will adapt, but most will simply have run their course. Microsoft is the GE or this era. Will still be around in a decade or two, but once AGI has been achieved, who needs a software company when you own AI agent could literally develop your own OS and productivity apps tailored exactly to your needs.
Lmfao. Microsoft will be destroyed for embracing this idiocy. Not because they didn’t.
AI in it’s current state is a farce. A limited tool with limited uses. It is not the answer. It cannot cannot create anything it hasn’t already been fed. It cannot conceptualize, it cannot ponder, it cannot wonder, it cannot innovate and it cannot and will not ever replace the human spirit.
Trying to do anything with this experimental under researched area of computer science is a braindead move and you deserve your company to die for trying to rely on it.
Do you honestly believe we’ll achieve AGI? I have a great doubt about that.
I am unsure myself. I am fairly certain that if all other current AI metrics were the same, but logic was significantly better, we would have the start of AGI now. Logic however seems to have been the one metric that did not show much improvement when training sets and compute scaled up. The AI industry is clearly avoiding talking about this massive issue in a meaningful way (some are of course), but you better believe this is the focus area right now as the first to crack will have an instant advantage. Will it be cracked and if so when? No one knows. Could be any day now, could be 10 years + or maybe we discover there is a hard cognitive valley that will be extremely hard to cross.
Given how many companies, small teams and even individuals are trying to crack logic, I suspect we will have some progress in the years to come. If not, AI, and even robots will never really rise to the potential we are expecting.
If logic is not cracked, a lot of people are going to loose a lot of money as the ROI is just not there with the current state of AI. Sure, AI is not going anywhere as it has its use cases in its current form, but the errors inherent in the current tech will hold it back in a big way.
