I had a feeling this was coming.
„Microsoft stopped building AI data center infrastructure, therefore Microsoft signals that there’s not enough demand” is a valid point in itself but not enough to merit a blog post that’s this long.
I’m getting an impression that minor fame and success went into Ed Zitron’s head because he now brags about those word counts and other pretentious shit on BlueSky constantly.
AI is a tool, like a hammer. Useful when used for its purpose. Unfortunately every tech company under the sun is using it for the wrong fucking thing. I don’t need AI in my operating system or my browser or my search engine. Just let it work on protein folding, chemical synthesis and other more useful applications. Honestly can’t wait for the AI hype to calm the fuck down.
It’ll balance out. I’m old enough to remember many web tech being this way from flash, to Bluetooth to Cloud.
You forgot mass surveillance. It’s great at that.
Preach it. I have been so sick of AI hype and rolling my eyes any time a business advertises it, and in some cases moving on. I don’t care about your glorified chat bot or search engine.
Yeah I mean, when has Microsoft of all companies ever been wring about the future of technology…
Hmmm let me just bring this on Internet explorer on my windows phone.
Hmm, not meaning to get my conspiracy hat on here but do we think this could relate to the fact that Microsoft now has a quantum computing chip that they can hype to their investors to show they have the next big thing in the bag?
AI has served its purpose and is no longer strategically necessary?
Since they are only spending investors money it doesn’t matter if they burn billions on leading the industry down the wrong path and now they can let it rot on the vine and rake in the next round of funding while the competition scrambles to catch up.
It’s not like Microsoft has their finger on the pulse of technology advancement, they only got involved with AI to seem relevant, and now it’s not worth doing anymore.
I see it more like they are confident to get running LLMs less resource intensive 🤔
