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Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

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Re: Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

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Post by zitterbewegung »

curiousmindz wrote: post #124

I expect this deal to be a must for Microsoft. OpenAI is probably very happy to raise the stakes as much as possible. So we will see how many billions Microsoft ends up paying for this. Still, is there a world in which we look back 10 years from now and think that we were overvaluing the impact of AI? (For example, this did happen with tablets, when people thought that the iPad would replace "computers"...)

I thought they would have been bought out by Microsoft. It would be a good play to lockout others to use chatGPT and GPT3 and it would actually work well with bing to have something that Google would eventually have to copy (but it would only give them a slightly larger moat for Google to cross).

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Post by fsloth »

zwily wrote: post #167
qbasic_forever wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kids have moved on to Roblox, Minecraft is the old thing now. Roblox has far better monetized its game than Minecraft too (some might say Roblox has gone too far monetizing it). Minecraft has gone the way of every Microsoft acquisition--stagnated and bled talent while competitors continued to innovate.

The kids I see are done with Roblox and actually gone back to Minecraft.

This. Minecraft seems to have much more stickiness. Minecraft really seems to be the Lego of current gen kids - they keep returning to it. Freeform creative building is the key here, I think.

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Post by leokennis »

agentwiggles wrote: post #138
MildlySerious wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VSCode, Minecraft, Teams. They have renewed their grip on several audiences.

I guess two out of three ain't bad. Minecraft and Code are both awesome, but Teams is probably the most annoying piece of software on my work laptop.

Teams has all the features one could wish for (purchasing managers are happy), all tunable to an incredible degree (IT departments are happy) but all implemented in the least performant manner imaginable (users cry).

Re: Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

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Post by fsloth »

comboy wrote: post #190
fareesh wrote: post #161

Clippy: It looks like you're writing a job application, do you want me to write it for you?

Clippy: It looks like you're browsing through job applications, do you want me to filter out those which I wrote?

Clippy: Or, would you like me to forget the application letters and just go through the LinkedIn accounts of the applicants and suggest top three candidates for you?

Re: Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

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Post by version_five »

Expect all kinds of (additional) trickery by MS to default upload everything you type in word and use it to train language models

MS also has a long track record of the most annoying and nagging user experience possible. Regardless of the value of the underlying tech, I expect to be inundated with irreleclvant suggestions that add seconds of lag because they have to ping an API, default autocorrect according to some language model irrelevant to my document, and no way to turn it all off. Oh wait, that's the current state of office. It will only get worse

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Post by MuffinFlavored »

TekMol wrote: post #121

Does anybody else have the feeling "Microsoft is back"? With GitHub and OpenAI the have put their finger on two pretty significant new projects. What new things has Google come up with over the last 5 years?

Does their GitHub division make them profit overall?

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Post by alex_sf »

oceankid wrote: post #200

Not long ago, Microsoft acquired Lobe.ai by Apple designer Mike Matas and others. Really well thought out app. Effectively dead now. Is anyone building a GUI based service for training domain specific models? Such as image creation (or correction) based on a trained style, image recognition for security, sales data classification and forecasting.

I've come across a few, but they are so neutered that they are effectively worthless. The latest round of commercial AI offerings are hobbled to an extreme extent.
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