Below are posts associated with the “Microsoft” tag.
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.
🔗 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.