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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] mii@awful.systems 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

There’s something I’ve been wondering about: is the management (of not just Microsoft but really any company who’s pivoting to AI this hard, so also Duolingo and Klarna, &c.) really convinced that there’s going to be a foom event soon and the chatbots become capable enough to actually do the work they attribute to them? Or do Nadella and friends know this is all bullshit and just play along until they can’t anymore and leave the sinking ship?

I honestly can’t tell anymore.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

My take is that the Silicon Valley overlords live in a bubble, where they believe that.