Microsoft’s 3 billion bet on Copilot is assessed to be a disaster

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

I wouldn't use Skynet as an analogy personally; as I understand it, AI in its current form is unlikely to become the sort of malevolent superintelligence depicted in films like The Terminator.

What worries me more is issues like the enshittification of the internet and economic fallout.

Frankly I think AI is a buzzword, it isnt AI.  It is a digital library that be searched at lighting speeds.  It is basically google chrome on steroids.  It isnt thinking.  

What AI does to jobs is flatly terrifying.  What used to take a week in analysis can be done in 30 minutes.  That is going to be a massive problem.  

Yeah the name is a marketing ploy; it doesn't actually "think" or have any real awareness or intelligence.

The problem with AI (one of them at least) is that it hallucinates and makes mistakes; I've read quite a few companies that were eager to replace all their workers have found this out the hard way and have ended up having to re-hire people to fix all the AI's mistakes.

It's ultimately a tool, but as a tool it can be misused by those who want to cut corners to save money.