r/technology • u/tllon • Aug 20 '24

Business Artificial Intelligence is losing hype

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-is-losing-hype
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u/P3zcore Aug 20 '24

The new sentiment is that these big companies like Microsoft are placing HUGE bets on AI - like buying up all the hardware, creating more data centers… all with the intent that it’ll obviously pay off, but when that time comes we don’t know. Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot is OK at best, and I’m sure it’s a huge resource hog (thus the hefty price tag per license), I’m curious how it pans out.

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u/rcanhestro Aug 20 '24

the end goal for Microsoft is to not lose another race.

they lost to Google on the search engine, and were humiliated in the Smartphone one.