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> AI models are used in almost every one of our products, services and operating processes at Microsoft Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this appa
by peteradio 2y ago
> AI models are used in almost every one of our products, services and operating processes at Microsoft
Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this apparent hell-hole?
- rbanffy 2y agoI hope they are not drawing inspiration from Steve Ballmer's brain.
- ramon156 2y agoNow we can take this LLM, and paste it right into windows's write!
- rbanffy 2y agoIt shouldn't be a very large one. Lot's of empty space and dead synapses leading nowhere in the source material.
- anonzzzies 2y agoI can write that with 2 lines of basic with print and goto. It also has the word Developers a few times.
- htrp 2y agoDevelopers! Developers! Developers! Developers! becomes CoPilots! CoPilots! CoPilots! CoPilots!
- kevindamm 2y agoCo-copilots! Co-copilots! Co-copilots!
- mjhay 2y agoI'm really looking forward to the Trough-of-Dissillutionment phase of LLM's hype cycle. This insistence of shoehorning it into everything is getting beyond stupid.
- wildrhythms 2y agoWhen the metric for success starts and stops at "engagement"!
- schmorptron 2y agoThe big problem with these things is that the people responsible for the misery they cause will not feel any of the consequences.
- DragonStrength 2y agoIn fact, they'll likely be rewarded for delivering results.
- procgen 2y agoWhat misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.
- schmorptron 2y agoMisery might be a bit hyperbolic, but I'm referring to the larger scale model of engagement being a tier 0 metric for success. Instagram & cohorts stealing people's attention spans is something I'd describe as negative and almost evil, with the larger scale problem of the smartest people in our industry having been at ad companies for the past 2 decades. In the context of LLMs I think that they're useful tools, and if "we" play it right they can be a great boon. Short-term they'll lead to the enshittification of the internet even more though imo.
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- lobsterthief 2y agoThis remind me of when they were shoehorning voice assistants into everything. “Alexa can play music through my smoke alarm? Alexa can start my microwave for me instead of pushing two buttons? Why not”
- Rinzler89 2y agoWhat do you expect exactly? I'm sure every big tech has had AI in their products for a while now: Who do you think filters the spam in your Gmail, if not their AI Bots? Or the music suggestions in your Spotify? Why do you think Microsoft would be a hellhole for doing the same? Especially considering all the productivity use cases they've shown for the Office suite. I swear HN needs to hate everything Microsoft is doing just because.
- peteradio 2y agoIt's true I'll hate on micrsoft for about anything but they didn't say "some products" "some services" "some processes", they said "EVERY SINGLE THING!!!", see the difference?
- Rinzler89 2y ago>they said "EVERY SINGLE THING!!!", see the difference? Where did they say this? I read "almost every".
- peteradio 2y agoDoes it make a difference of context whether or not they've successfully shoehorned only 99%?
- Ukv 2y agoGiven the quote is referring to what they've done "for years and years and years [...] in our product groups" outside of the OpenAI arrangement, the fact that a large number their of products have come to make some use of AI models without much fanfare (search, spell-check, spam filtering, voice dictation, language translation, recommendation systems, ...) is not inherently due to the more recent LLM shoehorning. Machine learning is just the best choice for a good number of tasks.
- peteradio 2y ago