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I feel Microsoft's desperation to put LLM's into every product suggests mismanagement. Same as Microsoft's past efforts to Bing everything. Adobe seems to be t
by init2null 3y ago
I feel Microsoft's desperation to put LLM's into every product suggests mismanagement. Same as Microsoft's past efforts to Bing everything.
Adobe seems to be the only one with an empowered product team that's consistently finding sensible and profitable uses for machine learning.
- internetter 3y agoI agree. The only two examples I've seen of embedded AI that "works" is Bard in search results, and generative AI in Adobe's. Everything else feels tacked on. Edit: And on my iPhone, the offline photo categorization and image OCR
- mhh__ 3y agoMicrosoft haven't really taken any deep interest into the (say) Office suite in decades so now they have no intuition at all for where its value is, thus the "umm copilot?"-ing everywhere.
- chucke1992 3y agoIt is hilarious that people are trying to portray MSFT's moves in AI as "desperate" lol
- Spivak 3y agoMS got the score of the century. They're selling the shovels and access to the mines.
- mcphage 3y agoThis is true, but most big AI companies are the ones selling shovels, and tons of money is pouring into the field because everyone wants to get in on shovel selling... but I don't know if it's yet determined that there are enough motivated shovel buyers.
- TeaBrain 3y agoThe GPUs that Nvidia is selling to Microsoft, Google, Meta and the venture-backed AI bandwagon are arguably the shovels.
- chucke1992 3y agoMSFT's main benefit their chokehold on corporate software. They can provide high priced software, deals etc. due to sheer force of Office and Azure. Even Amazon does not have that.
- init2null 3y agoThey are oversaturating their products with internet-based LLMs. It is a desperate attempt to milk all possible potential value from their smart investment. A careful plan for a product would be less hamfisted and include more flexibility to deal with the backlash.