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Omg our path forward on how to avoid the consequences of our actions isn’t aligned with our fundamental business needs of doing whatever we like with no consequences. If only my MBA training and Six Sigma/Lean Leader certs had prepared me for this. I better go post on LinkedIn about how GenZ did this.
- someone somewhere at MS
He is nervous because the two groups that they count on to reliably buy their shit, gamers and corporations, are seriously looking into the readily available free alternatives. If they lose them chasing AI, Microsoft is done. They have no way to recover from that.
Corporations are locked into the Azure cloud, Excel and PowerPoint.
Not copilot though.
It’s not as hard to become unlocked as you might think. All it takes is someone in IT knowing enough accounting to show how much they can save next quarter switching to Linux servers.
He is not on the list of people who get to “transcend”? Remember, they want to exterminate humanity.
They should. Fuck, AI doesn’t even need to implode for them to get bent. I’m forced to do some stuff with it at work for ‘research’. Copilot is the worst of the worst. I don’t know how they could fork GPT and come up with an even worse product, but there they are.
I don’t know how they could fork GPT and come up with an even worse product, but there they are.
That’s a Microsoft specialty… have you seen Edge lately?
Lately, no. I had switched to them from Chrome for vanilla testing assuming Microsoft was less able to market my data. Had it running in Linux, no less.
Then they dedicated to dropping manifest v2. YEET
I saw the rebranded o365 to copilot, Making the one last product that some people still had an appetite for look incredibly unappealing.
They’re going to lose their shirts over this shit.
They’re trying to force their utopian vision of robot and human slaves serving the “elite”, but they need the slave’s help to get there. Probably, that time will come, but not in their lifetime, and that’s what’s pissing them off. It’s all about them–their selfish, psychopathic desires, humanity be damned. It’s also why they’re trying to develop immortality drugs–they see the dream of all past capitalist overlords as finally, possibly in their grasp, but they can’t quite get it. They’re like frustrated monkeys reaching through the cage bars and fighting each other.
They’re going to lose their shirts over this shit.
Lmao billionaires never see consequences. It will implode and millions of regular people will lose their jobs and have the tools they need blow up and stop working. But the billionaire that caused it will be just fine in the end.
He is effectively saying specialised ai has a possible future and llm are a huge waste of time and money. But he doesn’t know that he is saying that.
Once those companies will be held responsible for everything AI (copyright issues with training, resource waste and people getting harmed and killed from their output), they’ll have every reason to be nervous.
That’s not how capitalism works. Everyone else faces the consequences, the ones up top suffer nothing.
Best we can do is a government bailout
Can I just say I love how Iceland treated its 2008 banking collapse? They didn’t bail out anyone, but they did protect investments by people. Some banks died, losing their investors billions. People didn’t lose their house or their own retirement.
This is the way we should treat all of this. Let the companies die, and let private equity take the hit for being stupid.
I love that for him.
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If you need a new type of nuclear reactor to power your shit it means your shit is too complicated.
AI is not complicated (hard but solvable with time and effort), it’s complex(easy but numerous and their interactions make it hard)?
sigmoid(aX+b) is not that complicated
That wasn‘t even the argument. The argument is that AI is a resource waste; it uses too much power and water for what is a shit return.
Who cares how complicated it is.
once it no longer needs massive amounts of expensive resources, what then?
Its already here, it’s called the average Redditor.
This isn’t a joke. You already know what a low power LLM is, its a 40W human brain with high school level knowledge and a confident human tone writing on Reddit. But not the entire brain, only the natural language and superficial knowledge part… Meaning having the human is better anyway.
high school level knowledge
I love your optimism. These are the people who add an S to mass nouns like ‘email’, and who pluralize with an apostrophe. A successful high-school education isn’t being shown, there, at least in terms of literacy (admittedly, we are represented by how we write).
Is it correlative, in that many Redditors live in a country where 54% of them do not communicate above a 6th-grade level?
How about Louisiana or Mississippi or Missouri high school level?
That’s a massive assumption on your part. Exactly how do you propose that the entire architecture of LLM’s be restructured to not be the massive resource hog desperately seeking a profit that it is? Mind you, it’s shit now and you’re basing your argument on a hypothetical “maybe”, like maybe you’ll win a massive lottery payout tomorrow.
You make a compelling argument, it will never be achieved. I am convinced. Not one human is capable, nor are one thousand humans. It is unsurmountable mountain.
It is the year 5000. Aliens look at the wreckage of earth. They see what little remains of our meager existence. The goal that haunted humanity for all eternity, a doomed plan from the start, only ever resulting in certain failure? making chatbots use as much energy as a gaming rig. It never happened. It was… impossible.
Oh good. If you resort to hyperbole to prove your argument you’ve already lost.
Okay, since its obviously hyperbole that it isnt possible, its a potential outcome so lets return to my original question (deemed a massive assumption on my part by you):
once it no longer needs massive amounts of expensive resources, what then?
What kind of shits require nuclear power to be pushed out, mate? You’re getting me worried. Been having your fibers?
There are plenty of things that are complicated and could use a new type of nuclear reactor.
Training LLMs just didn’t seem to be one of them
Nadella is adamant that these kinds of boosts that AI provides will justify AI and carry the industry, stressing less spectacular and more practical applications of the tech.
This is a huge about-face on the earlier proclamation. I really wonder what changed his mind from “AI will radically transform every industry” to “it doesn’t need to be used to discover the ‘magical molecule,’ but provide some other tangible, less extraordinary benefit to developing the product.”
Sure, everyone here has seen the writing on the wall for years, but until now his paycheck has depended on him not seeing it. I wonder if he’s getting internal pressure from some on the board of directors.
Shareholders told him he’s not getting a golden parachute
Oh. He’s still got a golden parachute, but rather than being a bazillion crap loads it’s only half a bazillion crap loads.
Only half a bazillion?
Ah man,… oh well, only 3 personal cruise ships this year then I guess. tightens belt
He’s the guy gonna be left holding the biggest bucket of slop
