@gentoobro @lanodan @hj @mangeurdenuage

> What they believe is that "AI iS tHe FuTuRe!!" and that chatbots will replace all the plebs and somehow they will get richer off this, rather than get hanged by a starving, unemployed mob.

That's the hype, that's the sales pitch; I'm not sure that's what Microsoft's C-levels think.

Researchers a year or two ago said the training data was going full-Ouroboros and that there wasn't enough novel information to feed these things. Presumably if they can say it in public, they can tell management.

One thing about Microsoft is that they are driven by massive government contracts, enterprise contracts. It's entirely possible that they understand the limitations but want to corner the market because there's demand from the government or the Fortune 500. Who and why would be *really* interesting in that case.