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Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

Microsoft jumped fully on the AI hype bandwagon with their partnership in OpenAI and their strategy of forcing GenAI down our throats. Instead of realizing that GenAI is not much more than a novel parlor trick that can’t really solve problems, they are now fully committing.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI, and reactivating 3 Mile Island is estimated at $1.6 billion. And any return on this investments are not guaranteed. Generally, AI is failing to live up to its promises and there is hardly any GenAI use case that actually makes money.

This actually has the potential of greatly damaging Microsoft, so I wouldn’t say all their decisions are financially rational and sound.

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billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
On the other hand, if they ever admit the whole genAI thing doesn’t work, they could just sell the electricity produced by the plant.

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- homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  if they ever admit the whole genAI thing doesn’t work
  
  . . . The entire multi-billion-dollar hype train goes off the cliff. All the executives that backed it look like clowns, the layoffs come back to bite them - hard - and Microsoft wont recover for a decade.
  
  I mean . . . a boy can dream
  
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  - ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The workers will take the blunt of the executive’s mismanagement.
    
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    homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Unless they unionize
    
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the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My org’s Microsoft reps gave a demo of their upcoming copilot 365 stuff. It can summarize an email chain, use the transcript of a teams meeting to write a report, generate a PowerPoint of the key parts of that report, and write python code that generates charts and whatnot in excel. Assuming it works as advertised, this is going to be really big in offices. All of that would save a ton of time.

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- datendefekt@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Keep in mind that that was a demo to sell Copilot.
  
  The issue that I’ve got with GenAI is that it has no expert knowledge in your field, knows nothing of your organization, your processes, your products or your problems. It might miss something important and it’s your responsibility to review the output. It also makes stuff up instead of admitting not knowing, gives you different answers for the same prompt, and forgets everything when you exhaust the context window.
  
  So if I’ve got emails full of fluff it might work, but if you’ve got requirements from your client or some regulation you need to implement you’ll have to review the output. And then what’s the point?
  
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  - the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Keep in mind that that was a demo to sell Copilot.
    
    And whether it works as well as they described remains to be seen. However, they did prove that there’s a legitimate use case for generative AI in the office, in most offices. It’s not just a toy.
    
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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- hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  GenAI = Generative AI AGI = Artificial General Intelligence
  
  You are talking about the latter. They were talking about the former.
  
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