Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model

https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/report-microsoft-working-on-far-larger-in-house-ai-model/

by orenaluf • 2 years ago

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peteradio7• 2 years ago

AI models are used in almost every one of our products, services and operating processes at Microsoft

Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this apparent hell-hole?

rbanffy2• 2 years ago

I hope they are not drawing inspiration from Steve Ballmer's brain.

ramon156• 2 years ago

Now we can take this LLM, and paste it right into windows's write!

anonzzzies• 2 years ago

I can write that with 2 lines of basic with print and goto. It also has the word Developers a few times.

htrp• 2 years ago

Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!

becomes

CoPilots! CoPilots! CoPilots! CoPilots!

mjhay• 2 years ago

I'm really looking forward to the Trough-of-Dissillutionment phase of LLM's hype cycle. This insistence of shoehorning it into everything is getting beyond stupid.

wildrhythms• 2 years ago

When the metric for success starts and stops at "engagement"!

lobsterthief• 2 years ago

This remind me of when they were shoehorning voice assistants into everything. “Alexa can play music through my smoke alarm? Alexa can start my microwave for me instead of pushing two buttons? Why not”

Rinzler893• 2 years ago

What do you expect exactly? I'm sure every big tech has had AI in their products for a while now: Who do you think filters the spam in your Gmail, if not their AI Bots? Or the music suggestions in your Spotify?

Why do you think Microsoft would be a hellhole for doing the same? Especially considering all the productivity use cases they've shown for the Office suite.

I swear HN needs to hate everything Microsoft is doing just because.

peteradio7• 2 years ago

It's true I'll hate on micrsoft for about anything but they didn't say "some products" "some services" "some processes", they said "EVERY SINGLE THING!!!", see the difference?

ThrowawayTestr• 2 years ago

Who do you think filters the spam in your Gmail, if not their AI Bots?

I would hope it's a purpose-built ML model and not an LLM that was cajoled into doing spam filtering.

redserk• 2 years ago

I think there are two ways to go about implementing AI.

The low-key implementations that assist are the most elegant ways to implement AI functionality. If I can use a product and not realize AI is behind it, the product has successfully utilized it. Spam filters fall into this case. Automatic “radio” stations from streaming services fall into this too.

The worst forms of AI implementation are the kind that spend more screen real estate advertising AI as if the product has something to prove. This hinders my experience as a user because I do not care about AI if it isn’t seamlessly fitting in my workflow.

I’m not sure what’s happening at Microsoft, but their insistence on AI in very unusual places doesn’t give me confidence they want to embrace AI in a manner that’s helpful. It feels like someone’s resume boosting exercise. It gives me the feeling they are desperate.

shrubble• 2 years ago

So it is 7x larger than a 70B parameter model?

paulmd• 2 years ago

nice try, extremely human user shrubble

grugagag• 2 years ago

I doubt anything good will come out of it, probably some corporate enterprise thingie

nxobject2• 2 years ago

That's a very plausible strategy – after all, Google Gemini regardless of its technical merits is probably making money from GSuite corporate customers. (I say this as someone in a large but fairly conservative Google shop with policies that initially allowed OpenAI and Gemini, but is now limited to Gemini.)

Brian_K_White• 2 years ago

Surely they all are. Surely for the next while, no one takes the lead by more than an inch for more than a minute.

ourmandave• 2 years ago

Branding names under consideration...

.NET for Copilot

Pilot for Copilot

Clippy 2

nxobject2• 2 years ago

Copilot Subsystem for Windows. Or is it Windows Subsystem for Copilot?

albert_e• 2 years ago

.GPT

airstrike• 2 years ago

Copilot 360

XCopilot X

XCopilot Series X

lizardking• 2 years ago

Bob As A Service

_boffin_• 2 years ago

Been trying to sell people on this for over 10 years. No luck so far though.

aussieguy1234• 2 years ago

I would not be surprised if AGI is already here, hidden away in some lab

pyinstallwoes• 2 years ago

Since the Cold War days and analog computers were turned into a psyop

windows2020• 2 years ago

I would be very surprised and question my existence.

Drakim• 2 years ago

Maybe, but on the other hand, I imagine the stock price of the first company that can go public with having AGI would go up by a lot. It would be an expensive secret to maintain.

hollerith• 2 years ago

If AGI were already here, we'd probably all be dead, IMHO.

botanical• 2 years ago

The best trillion dollar companies can do is a token generator that defies logic. And they have personified these generators to make them seem intelligent. For AGI to exist, I doubt it will have anything to do with LLMs.

procgen3• 2 years ago

Intelligence is next-token prediction.

See: active inference, predictive processing.

GaggiX• 2 years ago

Why does Microsoft spend resources on their own model when they can freely use OpenAI models? The model must have some specific characteristics.

gwervc• 2 years ago

Embrace (done), extend (in progress), ...

xgkickt• 2 years ago

“<CEO’s sector of ascension> all the things”, so currently “Azure all the things”

namrog84• 2 years ago

Maybe they want to explore or iterate or have control over the models in ways different than what OpenAI is doing.

Also they only own like 49% openai. So they don't have full control and would have interest in having a full control models.

mr_gibbins• 2 years ago

How about finishing Azure first

cshores• 2 years ago

What do you think that Microsoft is doing with all of that telemetry?

Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model

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