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

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Chrkeller said:

curl-6 said:

The problem is that even in its current heavily subsidized form, more than half of surveyed companies say they're not seeing financial benefits from AI:

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/03/17/why-most-ceos-see-no-return-on-ai-investments/

https://fortune.com/article/why-do-thousands-of-ceos-believe-ai-not-having-impact-productivity-employment-study/

https://gizmodo.com/yet-another-study-shows-that-most-companies-arent-making-any-money-off-ai-2000688655

If AI companies were to start charging what they would need to to make their services profitable, then the price of AI to the customer skyrockets to many times what it costs now, and companies will be less inclined to use it because it would start burning into their bottom line.

Again, that is today.  Amazon spent a decade losing money.  Give it time.  I am positive my company would pay large sums for AI.  It will balance out.  AI is here to stay.  

Or it could simply be a dead end; AI primacy is in no way guaranteed, it could simply be that the technology has too many problems and limitations to ever really deliver what AI companies have promised and so far failed to deliver.