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I don't know if I buy the whole Microsoft got lucky part. I can remember years ago seeing Azure ads pushing machine learning. Github Copilot is now almost 2 yea
by rgbrenner 4y ago
I don't know if I buy the whole Microsoft got lucky part. I can remember years ago seeing Azure ads pushing machine learning. Github Copilot is now almost 2 years old (since the first "tech preview" announcement). Copilot is built on OpenAI/GPT-3 just like ChatGPT... and then a few months after Copilot, they made it available on Azure's OpenAI service. This is all in 2021. So they've been working on this and collecting data for a while through Azure and Github.
Edit: Azure ML launched in 2015.
- m463 4y agoThey also did a course correction for "the internet" years ago... I have to give them credit, but the other side of the equation is that though they react quickly, they tend to duct-tape feature and products together. I'm thinking of how office went online yet has always lacked cohesion. Or how teams competes with zoom/slack/etc, yet is frustrating to work with.
- flanked-evergl 4y agoMicrosoft treats working software as secondary to marketing. They only build software to the point where it makes their marketing plausible to people who will never use the software and don't understand what it does, or what characteristics matter for it.