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"AI" is just a tool like .net is a tool. It's not a product or idea. It's not a service. It's cool to be excited about your HoloLens and 3D calendar, but it's j
by gone35 10y ago
"AI" is just a tool like .net is a tool. It's not a product or idea. It's not a service. It's cool to be excited about your HoloLens and 3D calendar, but it's just a calendar, and after the hype has worn down most people would prefer to look at a calendar on a laptop anyway. "AI" is Microsoft's new .net
This. It is as vacuous as saying "betting the future on the Fourier transform", or something.
And besides, they just closed the venerable Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, so it's not that they are putting their money where their mouth is.
- bearcobra 10y agoAnd besides, they just closed the venerable Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, so it's not that they are putting their money where their mouth is. That was almost 2 years ago and it doesn't seem like it had much of an impact on their R&D spending http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Google+vs+Apple+vs+Microsoft+R%26D+Expense&x=0&y=0 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Google+vs+Apple+vs+Micr...
- internaut 10y ago> they just closed the venerable Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, so it's not that they are putting their money where their mouth is. I seem to remember they fired Leslie Lamport.
- internaut 10y agoAm correct. https://j2kun.svbtle.com/what-microsoft-lost-when-it-closed-msr-silicon-valley https://j2kun.svbtle.com/what-microsoft-lost-when-it-closed-...