Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
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#2Given this is Microsoft, I’ll assume the “whether you want them or not” is implied.
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#3That's just Clippy
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#4That's just Clippy
"It looks like you're trying to fine tune an LLM, do you want help with that?"
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#5That's just Clippy
Clippy on steroids. Probably no way to disable it unless you ditch the whole OS
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#6> But AI supporters argue that in order to be truly useful, these tools have to be deeply embedded into our lives: that they can only be really helpful if they know the history and context behind what they are being tasked to do.
The problem is these AI assistants won't work for me, they'll work for Microsoft. They won't help me as much as they will point me in the direction that is the most profitable for Microsoft.
When the agenda is not mine then these things are of no use to me.
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#7I can't wait until little Johnny's AI assistant (that's been with him since birth) can communicate to Big Tech's Global HR Overlord AI and they can decide together that a good job is not a privilege that a wrongthinker like Johnny should enjoy.
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#8MS Head of AI says there'll be more AI. News at 11.
In other news, MS Head of AI says Clippy is making a comeback...
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#9They misspelled "ever present user data collection"
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#10I expect we’ll look back on this in 5 years and laugh our asses off. AI offers glimpses of brilliance and then sprinkles a bunch of turds around it. 60% of the time it works every time.