Below are posts associated with the “Microsoft” tag.
🔗 linkblog: UK among first universities to collaborate with Microsoft on AI
This just makes me want to dig my heels in further.
🔗 linkblog: Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner
Ugh, this article makes it sound even worse.
🔗 linkblog: What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.
Karen Hao’s Empire of AI really emphasized for me how much stock is being put in AGI—especially as a motivator for AI companies. I am fine wirh concepts being hard to define, but I do think things get tricky when you can’t articulate how you’ll know when you’ve met the goal that serves as your raison d’être.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
It feels like it’s Big Tech’s world and schools are just living in it.
🔗 linkblog: Laid-off workers should use AI to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec
I can’t find the right words for how this story makes me feel.
in criticism of Microsoft Outlook Reactions
Once or twice a week, I get a “Reaction Daily Digest” in my work email account catching me up on some of the emoji-style reactions I’ve received to recent emails that I’ve recently missed. I hate these emails for enough reasons that I’m taking a break from clearing my morning email to write a post about this.
email shouldn’t have emoji reactions
This isn’t a criticism of emoji or emoji reactions. As I’ve been increasing my use of Signal over the past week or so, I’ve been pleased that it supports emoji reactions and that it allows a wide range of them instead of locking you into a select few. However, one of the (few) great things about email is that it’s pretty much an open, cross-platform means of communication, and adding emoji reactions to Outlook email in a way that isn’t accounted for in the protocols that email is built on just feels dumb. It’s even more annoying than seeing phones trying to account for iOS and Android’s differing approaches to emoji reactions in a mixed group chat. Emoji reactions are great, but they don’t belong in email.
🔗 linkblog: AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change'
This sucks so much—and encapsulates our world’s obsession with financial success over environmental health.
🔗 linkblog: AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'
If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions'
Such a depressing article.
🔗 linkblog: Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'
Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it.