Oh, Joy. Microsoft and AI. Here We Go.
Right, so apparently Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s CTO – the guy who gets paid way too much to state the bleeding obvious – blathered on at TechCrunch Disrupt about their whole “AI strategy.” Surprise, surprise: they’re throwing *everything* at it. Like a toddler with a bucket of LEGOs, but instead of plastic bricks, it’s billions of dollars and compute power.
The gist? They’ve built this massive internal AI infrastructure – think more data centers than you can shake a stick at – to basically make everything “AI-powered.” Copilot is still the star (because *of course* it is), but they’re shoving AI into Teams, Office, security tools…basically anything that doesn’t run away fast enough. They’re also obsessed with custom silicon, because apparently existing chips aren’t good enough for their ego.
Scott keeps droning on about “responsible AI” and “trustworthy AI” which is corporate bullshit. They want to be the ‘platform’ for everyone else’s AI, meaning they want a cut of *everything*. They are also trying to make it easier for developers to build their own AI apps, because apparently letting loose more unchecked AI into the world is a good idea.
And naturally, there was a lot of hand-waving about how this will magically boost productivity and solve all your problems. Yeah, right. Just wait until Copilot starts rewriting your important documents as haiku. It’s going to be *fantastic*. They are also trying to get everyone on board with Azure AI Studio, because they need more cloud subscriptions.
Honestly? It’s a lot of money, a lot of hype, and a whole lot of hoping something sticks before the whole thing implodes. Don’t expect anything revolutionary, just more features you didn’t ask for that will probably break half your workflow.
Source: TechCrunch
Speaking of implosions, reminds me of the time I had to debug a routing table on a Cisco box that some intern decided to “optimize.” Took three days and enough caffeine to kill a small horse. And *that* was just one router. Microsoft is building entire data centers based on this stuff. Good luck with that.
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