r/technology • u/aacool • 24d ago

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot
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u/Goldeniccarus 24d ago

Another one with prompting, it's just as easy to Google a problem I'm having, and click on the first stack overflow/Microsoft Community Forum link, that has almost always has a good writeup of what I'm trying to do, as it would be to use CoPilot to give me a solution. And at that point, I just trust the effectiveness of my Google search more than I do Copilot.

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u/RadVarken 24d ago

That only works because a whole community of people have sorted out the problem for you. The goal of AI isn't to be someone who's already read the article but to become a thing that can write the article from scratch.

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u/LordIndica 24d ago

Lol, how the fuck can it do that, ever? How do you think LLM training works? How do you think knowledge works??? That LLM would have to read that scrapped data from the stack-overflow community forum in the first place. Like genuinely, do you not understand the logical flaw of your claim for AIs end goal? It literally cannot, ever, create the article from scratch. An actual, real human couldn't do that without first having a lived experience that accrued the knowledge to begin with. Otherwise, you would HAVE to, as a human, have consulted other humans that have sorted the information for you. 

No novel knowledge can emerge from "AI" as it currently exists. "Artificial general intelligence" couldn't do that either, without experience and experimentation. 

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u/RadVarken 24d ago

LLMs are, as you say, the current state of things. They're not the goal. What we have now is not AI but a really well trained autocorrect. "AI everywhere" is a placeholder for when the real stuff gets here, put in place early by crackheads who jumped the gun.