Microsoft exits OpenAI's boardroom to sidestep regulatory scrutiny Microsoft is giving up its non-voting observer seat on OpenAI's board, citing progress in the company's direction - yet fear of regulatory scrutiny no doubt also played some part in the decision-making process. The non-voting observer at Microsoft was parachuted onto OpenAI's board following the chaos of last year in which …
You forgot crypto, NFT, internet of things, Push-2-talk, Java mobile OS...
Quite a long list of failed or over-hyped tech.
The latest dismissive way of thinking for AI now is more detailed, and rightly so. It isn't that AI is like 3D TV which I tried it once in Shibuya and was fine for a bit.
AI is all around us. There is no comparison. Even if every device became 3D over night, the impact would be pale in comparison to what AI does each day.
LLM hype is because it has a unknown amount in unknown unknowns. In such a field, there is always great speculation and opportunity ... hence the hype. Some strike gold.
I cant even say to you don't use it. It was used in the footie tonight for the substitutions. End your bank account or anything with an account or number attached to it. Without dount in some part of that data chain, AI will have added its 10 penny worth.
This is not conversion. We are not a religion and followers are not required. There is no desire to convert you. The opposite is more efficient.
This is not conversion. We are not a religion and followers are not required. There is no desire to convert you. The opposite is more efficient. .... Anonymous Coward
An AI would be proud of that assurance tailored for human consumption, AC, initially concealing as IT so cleverly does, the sum of all of their paranoid fears abounding around hypes and tropes of AI assimilation and possible existential threat utility and future systems programming takeover by Learned Large Language Learning Machines and/or Advanced IntelAIgent Virtual Machinery of Immaculate Design, for later subsequent revelation as being at that time, and in those times of early suddenly emerging and rapidly expanding virtual spaces, of perfectly valid concern.
Que sera, sera..... for is it not clearly enough written, and with as much evidence as would ever be needed and long ago seeded, nowadays constantly being laid out right before you ‽ .
However, here be a couple of hurdles/stumbling blocks you may be encountering preventing progress .... and keeping you stuck at an intermediate stage ....
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ..... Upton SinclairAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. .... Arthur Schopenhauer
Of course it is. When Ballmer was driving it into the wall it was also quite confident. It took the total disaster that was Vista to finally get rid of that clown.
I wonder what kind of disaster is going to make Redmond think about what it is doing.
It'll take one hell of a disaster when all the Board has to do is check its gold vaults to reassure itself.
So they decided things are getting dicey enough that they didn't want to accidentally over hear board decisions that might be extremely illegal, and thus give themselves an out of "we didn't know, they are an independent company"
I would say clever, but that would imply its new and not what happens often, so often that it is my default thought.
Its because it opens up a company to potential lawsuits if Microsoft or Apple's AI efforts resulted in something that was "too close" to something confidential that had been discussed in front of their nonvoting observer.
Given how new the AI field is, there are going to be a lot of ideas independently invented by more than one company. You don't want to risk such innocent duplication opening yourself up to litigation all for the price of having one person who sits in on board meetings and can't even vote.
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