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Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah man, what an absolute moron. History will remember this guy betting $4 Trillion USD on a dark horse and losing.

    AI as it currently exists is a bust. It’s less accurate than an average literate person which is basically as dumb as bears. The LLM models will never be able to reach human accuracy as detailed in studies publisbed by OpenAI and Deepmind years ago: it would take more than infinite training.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.

      Could we start calling it ‘degenerative AI’?

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      LLMs are actually really good at a handful of specific tasks, like autocomplete. The problem arises when people think that they’re on the path to AGI and treat them like they know things.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nah mate, its shit for autocomplete. Before LLMs autocomplete was better with a simple dictionary weighted to use percentage.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dunno why the downvotes. I think it’s useful for menial stuff like “create a json list of every book of the Bible with a number for the book and a true or false if it’s old or new testament” which it can do in seconds. Or to quickly create a template.

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.

      This is such a delusional and uninformed take that I don’t know where to start.

      The people behind LLMs are scientists with PhDs. The idea that they don’t know how to uncover and repairs biases in the models, which is what you’re suggesting, is patently ridiculous. There’s already plenty of benchmarks to disprove your stupid theory. LLM tech is evolving at an alarming rate. To the point that almost anything 1-2 years old is considered obsolete.

      LLMs are useful tools, if you actually know what the fuck you’re doing. They will continue to get more useful as more research uncovers different ways to use it, and right now, there’s a metric shitton of money being poured into that research. This is not blockchain. This is not NFTs. This is not string theory. This is actual results with measurable impacts.

      I’m not trying to defend this rich asshole CEO’s comments. Satya can go fuck himself. But, I’m not so delusional that I’m going to ignore the tech as some NFT-like gamble.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Its funny how anti ai people here are. Even if you hate AI which I do you have to recognise it has uses and is disrupting industries. Billions of people use AI every day. Chatgpt has like 500m daily users, every google search gives an ai summary, most developer uses it. This is already here and people are adopting it.

        Even at it’s current state AI is useful. Then when you look at the progress of benchmarks and watch them getting better and better and better. You see the tooling being built out new developments every week. Its moving very fast.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Seethe Cope Mald

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  • wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Supports a genocide too. I don’t know if I count in that 9000 statistic. But a lot of us have been fired for speaking out against it too. Fuck Microsoft.

    They literally went as far as restricting emails with the word “Palestine” in them. Would take sometimes hours to arrive or not at all. They are actively supporting and enabling a genocide; and may history judge it’s leadership.

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    • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and its involvement in genocide goes much farther than firing people

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      • wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Absolutely. Sorry, I’m so close to this that I just forgot to explain. These are the things my coworkers and comrades got fired for speaking out against.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seriously, I think most rich people are mentally ill and are compelled to keep accumulating and hoarding until they own everything.

    Carnegie became critically aware that J. P. Morgan would totally kill him to take his assets. Carnegie even wondered of such a monster lurked in his own heart. ( Narrator: Yes. Yes, it did. )

    We don’t know the point at which people get greedy and lose empathy with their subservient co-workers, but even small business owners are stereotypically mean employers.

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  • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everyone stops talking when they get punched in the mouth.

    Just a weird observation that sprang to mind

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    • KnitWit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s ok cuase Maynard has The Remedy. (Sorry for Youtube)

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know people like to get angry and kick things, but i guess it’s not very effective. I.e., would that really improve the world long-term?

      If not, then why do it? Shouldn’t we focus on actual measures such as demanding tax reforms from our cities and local governments? Shouldn’t we invest our power into researching workable economic plans for our community? Why waste it with anger, that is like a wind that soonish turns into thin air.

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      • wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Those are the types of measures that have been attempted for generations. It’s how we got here. There is no hope changing a system from within that is designed to serve the interest of the wealthy. That system will only ever offer temporary measures when it feels it is within its own interests to maintain itself. Social security and Medicare were not some idea FDR came up with to help the working class. They were fought for a pressured for by socialist, communist, and trade unionists literally taking up arms and threatening capitalist production. These social programs were an offering prevent the actions that threaten to tear it down. They were an offering to the working class to prevent revolutionary change.

        But, here we are again. Hoping for another FDR without any of the material threats to capital. That will not come about without organized labor and with a means to defend themselves.

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      • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Demand away. When words fail. Then act

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  • shapeofquanta@lemmy.vg ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, Satya Nadella, let’s get you to bed.

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