Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model
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Also they only own like 49% openai. So they don't have full control and would have interest in having a full control models.
See: active inference, predictive processing.
Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this apparent hell-hole?
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In the context of LLMs I think that they're useful tools, and if "we" play it right they can be a great boon. Short-term they'll lead to the enshittification of the internet even more though imo.
Why do you think Microsoft would be a hellhole for doing the same? Especially considering all the productivity use cases they've shown for the Office suite.
I swear HN needs to hate everything Microsoft is doing just because.
Where did they say this? I read "almost every".
But remarks more along the lines of "Looking back over the past decade, we've made use of ML models in some part of almost all of our products" seems fairly reasonable to me, not necessarily indicative of much other than machine learning being the best tool for an increasing number of tasks. If they weren't using ML-based echo cancellation in Teams calls for instance, they would have a worse product than competitors that do.
A spam filter based on regex or manually-selected criteria and thresholds would not be ML for instance, whereas modern effective spam filters typically do make use of machine learning.
I would hope it's a purpose-built ML model and not an LLM that was cajoled into doing spam filtering.
Trained ML Models have been in use long before LLMs came out.
The low-key implementations that assist are the most elegant ways to implement AI functionality. If I can use a product and not realize AI is behind it, the product has successfully utilized it. Spam filters fall into this case. Automatic “radio” stations from streaming services fall into this too.
The worst forms of AI implementation are the kind that spend more screen real estate advertising AI as if the product has something to prove. This hinders my experience as a user because I do not care about AI if it isn’t seamlessly fitting in my workflow.
I’m not sure what’s happening at Microsoft, but their insistence on AI in very unusual places doesn’t give me confidence they want to embrace AI in a manner that’s helpful. It feels like someone’s resume boosting exercise. It gives me the feeling they are desperate.