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

[Mnementh]

CaptainExplosion said:

Mnementh said:

I remember the dot.com crash and a certain company that had always written losses up to that point, even increasing them. But then, in the crisis they started making winnings. That was Amazon. I think that is the pattern: we will have quite a lot of companies that go bankrupt or are bought out, but a few winners.

And yes, one way or another profitability will come. Either by cost reduction or by milking customers (preferably company customers)... or both. At which point we level out is the question though, what will the tech look like?

Hopefully taking up way less space and not stealing our drinking water or jobs.

Well, you can always run a local model on your own hardware. And there has been progress, it isn't terrible. Personally I tried Llama with some models. But as my machine is a dev machine without much graphics card power, I only could try a highly quantized model which was working not that great. Still, I was impressed, because it was shrunk to a hundreth of the paramters, which is incredible. Would you or I even be able to form sentences if only 1% of our brain works? I doubt. Anyways, with decent hardware (and Apples stuff works well), you can run decently good local models and avoid a lot of the problems you notice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJUD2c3QRQ