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Is "How to be a decent human being and an innovative CEO" one of them? This reeks of desperation.

aurareturn 1y ago
This reeks of desperation. Nah, I think this is the future. You may not like it because HN is very privacy focused and hate giving data away to companies. However, I think it's inevitable that people will want to feed all their work data (and probably personal as well) to an LLM and let it help. I think Nadella's examples are pretty spot on for what current LLMs can do for workers if the LLMs have access to work data. I think it's exciting personally. I think companies who care about data privacy will run some kind of private inference cloud or private DGX racks.
- mrcsharp 1y ago
  > You may not like it because HN is very privacy focused and hate giving data away to companies. This is a big assumption from your side. Care to back it up? Where did I talk about Privacy?
  - aurareturn 1y ago
    Apologies. Not referring to you specifically. Just general HN opinion. People here values data privacy far more than the general public.
    - mrcsharp 1y ago
      I didn't mean to sound aggressive, apologies for that as well. Let me explain: in my view, he is doing a lot to try and hype up Microsoft's AI offerings and this latest attempt feels like the kind of thing an employee does to hit some arbitrary KPIs.
      - aurareturn 1y ago
        He's the CEO of Microsoft. I don't blame him for trying to hype up Microsoft's AI offerings. But at the same time, I like what he demonstrated even if it doesn't work as well as his demos. I believe all work data should be ingestible by an LLM. I'm just anticipating a wave of opposition on HN because people here value data privacy far more than the general public.
- al_borland 1y ago
  All those prompts seem like they’d have a high probability of hallucinations. Is he making decisions to steer a massive company based on stuff the AI may have simply made up? If a person feeds me bad data as often a Copilot does, I wouldn’t trust them with anything. It’s incredible the error rate we are willing to tolerate from AI. It’s drastically higher than the error rate we would ever tolerate from a coworker. Considering how much money Microsoft put into OpenAI, he has a very vested interest in hyping it to try and get it to pay off, but I can’t believe he actually relies on those queries.
fennec-posix 1y ago
Yeah, at the very least extremely tone-deaf.

This reeks of desperation. Nah, I think this is the future. You may not like it because HN is very privacy focused and hate giving data away to companies. However, I think it's inevitable that people will want to feed all their work data (and probably personal as well) to an LLM and let it help. I think Nadella's examples are pretty spot on for what current LLMs can do for workers if the LLMs have access to work data. I think it's exciting personally. I think companies who care about data privacy will run some kind of private inference cloud or private DGX racks.

mrcsharp 1y ago
> You may not like it because HN is very privacy focused and hate giving data away to companies. This is a big assumption from your side. Care to back it up? Where did I talk about Privacy?
- aurareturn 1y ago
  Apologies. Not referring to you specifically. Just general HN opinion. People here values data privacy far more than the general public.
  - mrcsharp 1y ago
    I didn't mean to sound aggressive, apologies for that as well. Let me explain: in my view, he is doing a lot to try and hype up Microsoft's AI offerings and this latest attempt feels like the kind of thing an employee does to hit some arbitrary KPIs.
    - aurareturn 1y ago
      He's the CEO of Microsoft. I don't blame him for trying to hype up Microsoft's AI offerings. But at the same time, I like what he demonstrated even if it doesn't work as well as his demos. I believe all work data should be ingestible by an LLM. I'm just anticipating a wave of opposition on HN because people here value data privacy far more than the general public.
al_borland 1y ago
All those prompts seem like they’d have a high probability of hallucinations. Is he making decisions to steer a massive company based on stuff the AI may have simply made up? If a person feeds me bad data as often a Copilot does, I wouldn’t trust them with anything. It’s incredible the error rate we are willing to tolerate from AI. It’s drastically higher than the error rate we would ever tolerate from a coworker. Considering how much money Microsoft put into OpenAI, he has a very vested interest in hyping it to try and get it to pay off, but I can’t believe he actually relies on those queries.

fennec-posix 1y ago

Yeah, at the very least extremely tone-deaf.