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

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

AI speeds up some processes, but it also makes mistakes, requiring additional time to be spent fixing these errors.

AI itself also cannot innovate because it cannot produce original ideas, it can only remix and regurgitate whatever data is fed into it.

It's a useful tool for some tasks, like say upscaling, but there's major limits on what it can reliably do, and it's mostly not cost effective as it's expensive to run at scale. AI companies are bleeding billions of dollars and are kept on life support by investors who still buy into the hype.

Massively speeds up processing and is a massive advantage.  If everyone sidelines except China, might as well hand everything over now, we live in a global economy.

As for bleeding money..  so did Apple and Amazon when they were emerging.  

It can also be a pretty massive disadvantage; just last month an AI system deleted a company's entire database: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database

The difference with Apple and Amazon is that those companies had a realistic path to profitability; AI companies on the other hand currently don't, there's just not enough demand to balance out the vast amounts they're spending.

Open AI's Sam Altman for instance openly admits he has "no idea how we may one day generate revenue": https://www.startupbell.net/post/sam-altman-told-investors-bluntly-he-had-no-plans-on-how-to-generate-revenue