Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI Microsoft announced its latest "multi-year, multi-billion dollar" investment into OpenAI on Monday, cementing its position as the startup's exclusive cloud provider. As far as some are concerned, the Windows giant is the de facto owner of OpenAI, having poured tons of resources into the precocious machine-learning lab so far …
Invent a technology that can serve humanity.
Give it away for free.
Invest in it.
Monetize it.
Alter the technology to serve corporate profits.
Die from customer distrust.
Die from profits forbidding innovation.
Lost customers become fertile ground for another company.
I knew Google wouldn't stay on top for much longer but I wasn't expecting Microsoft to do them in. In hindsight, the Microsoft campus growing in the middle Google HQ was good foreshadowing. Now MS can buy neighboring buildings as Google vacates them.
"Microsoft is reportedly exploring how ChatGPT-esque responses to queries can be used to improve its web search engine Bing, and its Microsoft Office programs, such as Outlook, Powerpoint, and Word."
It can't.
I don't need Bing to reply more convincingly. If I need it at all, I need it to give me real and trustworthy information relevant to my search query.
As for Outlook, Powerpoint and Word, I don't need its opinion at all. Why would I?
-A.
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