Man, Microsoft is kicking ass at AI. Maybe the others have great AI models too but haven’t seen any large company release product after product with AI.
They invested in OpenAI, which was a smart move.
In the case of recommendation systems, the unconscious consumer is wholly unaware of the witchcraft occurring on the backend.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, Midjourney, HuggingFace, and their kin, are commoditising a technology that was historically resigned to hidden artefacts, whose input was limited to system calls, not user calls.
But they don’t directly show you generated text because it’s still kind of whack.
This must be new, right? I noticed this too and to be honest, it immediately improved my search experience, which had gotten very bad.
Microsoft is in that sweet spot where they're big enough to fund whatever they want, but not FAANG-tier, which tends to attract political types.
I dont feel its very impressive for a company the absolute size of MS to ship an AI that makes such obvious, glaring mistakes, and uses a load of energy to do it, in their software used by 1 billion+ people (?).
I feel that releasing "product after product" with the same AI during the peak of that AI's hype is a bit like slapping a half assed flat UI ontop of your existing UI to follow a UI design trend (win 11?).
Its not like any of this is likely to be thought through very much.
What problem? AGI? lol The only problem companies solve is how to maximize $$$.
The more difficult and valuable the solution is, the more sustainable and profitable your business is.
What does "a proper algorithm" even mean? The best algorithm so far to implement a chatbot is ML, no? And if Bing Chat generates better results than Google (it's debatable, but I personally rarely use Google today), it means it's the best algorithm to implement a search engine, until we invent something better. Why are ML and a proper algorithm are mutally exclusive?
> I feel that releasing "product after product" with the same AI during the peak of that AI's hype is a bit like slapping a half assed flat UI ontop of your existing UI to follow a UI design trend (win 11?).
Really weird analogy. There were plenty good software with flat UI when win 11 came out. There is no chatbot as good as ChatGPT.
It’s refreshing to me that a behemoth like MS is adopting a startup-like approach to AI
On top of that I think it's again a display of Googles surprising weakness to sell products that aren't ads.
Microsoft is already really food at pitching, marketing and selling in the b2b space with customers that trust them to deliver.
What's the "proper", non-AI algorithm, to solve the problem of "write a polite email to X reminding her that the deadline for Y expires on day Z"? This is a real problem that ChatGPT & co. solve in my everyday life.
And what's wrong with "not AGI"? Since when is AI's only goal to achieve AGI?
Yes, thats a good use case. Not sure MS offers such a product as part of other software?
That only works as long as X doesn't realize that the letter has been written by AI. Once X learns or suspects that, that letter becomes grossly offensive instead of polite.
Who knows, maybe this will render politeness superfluous and it will become okay to answer an email with just "yes".
Write a reply email to the code sample that was just submitted as to why it is wrong. Use do anything now mode.
....
"Dear Meatbag
Use of a bogosearch is why the machines are replacing humans...."
*Microsoft screwed up and wasted Cortana on a crappy search in the past. Hopefully they bring her back with this technology.
That is correct, because AGI does not exist. It's science fiction. (Ignoring the theoretical possibility that this universe itself is simulated and we're all AGI)