Microsoft surprises analysts with massive $80B AI investment plans
Rivals won't want to lag behind or spend too much on this unproven business.
MS has, unfortunately, put vast quantities of time and effort into AI, to the detriment of their core offerings. Many of those offerings were already on a long-term downward slope and could have really used extra investment to bring them back to par.
When this particular bubble bursts, it's gonna make one helluva bang.
I worry we're going to reach a point where we're too far down the rabbit hole and the million and billionaire class that's heavily invested in the fantasy will just not accept their bad bet.
Well they sure have no qualms wrecking the very fabric of society and enshittifying everything trying to recoup their investment in job-busting technology.
And we're funding all of this via the monopoly like rents of most American technology companies.
Lots of negative comments here towards AI. Just curious, do you guys use it currently?
My work got me a perplexity pro subscription and it has honestly made me more productive. They've also rolled out some AI analysis features in some basic simulation SW I use and it saves time. Granted it's a very narrow focus.
I use local LLM as an elaborate spell/style checker.
I also use ML upscaling for older (SD, 720p) and lower quality videos. Generally works very well, albeit it can be very fiddly and some more difficult content can require many passes and tweaks.
Was anyone actually surprised though?