Microsoft's CEO is Hyping Up 'AI' (Plagiarism) to Distract From Falling Interest in It and Missed Expectations (Investors Run Out of Patience as Reality Does Not Meet or Match Early False Promises)
IN the previous reasonably short article we said that the Nadella nonsense is "maybe a distraction" and the same goes for 'President Smith' with the lies he tells this week about Europe (he already told some Big Lies earlier this year). The top priority is "stickiness" with shareholders, even if it's based on lies and false expectations.
Microsoft clearly needs 1) a distraction and 2) hype about "AI" (e.g. saying that to steal other people's code is "AI" and Microsoft is 'dogfooding' its own garbage plagiarism).
We're still waiting for data about how much Microsoft's debt grew. It'll come out soon and be properly calculated, defying the corporate media with its pro-Wall Street parroting of Microsoft's false "results". Waiting another day won't harm, but we wanted to give a more detailed breakdown of the Microsoft lies, based on the 'literature' (or press) review of an associate.
People wrongly assume that everything Microsoft's CEO tells must be true, including the wellbeing of a company which frantically lays off lots of staff this year. The associate argues they'll delay the facts (or reality) as much as they can to allow the deceptive insinuations to spread properly and settle in. Once the false perception of economic soundness has been locked into place, by getting into awareness first, then they will allow a weak and quiet correction to be issued. Quoting the New Yorker: "Once formed, the researchers observed dryly, impressions are remarkably perseverant".
Some months ago Microsoft quietly "changed" the way it reports "clown computing" profits [1, 2] (if any!). How many people noticed or still remember?
Microsoft is "politics + ideology", remarks the associate, "not tech, [as] their tech is an afterthought which can be produced by LLMs and only has to work well enough to win during the sales demo..."
Regarding the claims about coding by LLMs, the associate says that one of the articles in today's batch cite 30% to 40% (as proportion of slop used instead of real code). And "that's a lot of slop," the associate said, and "their substitution of LLMs for developers shows that tech is secondary and their expenditures show that politics and ideology are foremost..."
Aside from the links included in our previous article the associate found this report which says: "Such developments naturally lead to job displacement concerns for new programmers, particularly in today's competitive job market."
No, Microsoft stopped hiring (de facto hiring freeze) due to financial problems, not because slop has any real promise. A Microsoft-funded article from a Microsoft-funded site just parroted Satya Nadella and said misleading, vague nonsense like: "“written by software” powered by AI."
Many other sites did the same.
That barely makes sense. Maybe he just doesn't know what he's talking about. They repeat what he says regardless. This article speaks of "hallucinations" instead of dangerous defects:
The study, which used 16 of the most widely used large language models to generate 576,000 code samples, found that 440,000 of the package dependencies they contained were “hallucinated,” meaning they were nonexistent. Open source models hallucinated the most, with 21 percent of the dependencies linking to nonexistent libraries. A dependency is an essential code component that a separate piece of code requires to work properly. Dependencies save developers the hassle of rewriting code and are an essential part of the modern software supply chain.
Go figure what Microsoft adds to its codebase. Most likely thing is, even Microsoft does not know or understand. This new article says "AI-generated [sic] essays don't yet live up to the efforts of real students, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UK)." They're easy to detect and over time their quality will fall due to a lack of good training data.
One blogger (UNIXdigest) has just commented that "[i]f you work at Microsoft or somewhere else and you're also having AI write your code, how can something as dumb as AI possibly help you with your code? What exactly is your job?"
UNIXdigest also wrote: "AI [slop] is hyped up to be something it isn't and it's "stupidity" (you can't really call it stupid, because it cannot be smart to begin with) is concealed behind what appears to be solid and authoritative answers."
Facebook's face cannot quite believe what Microsoft CEO said (remember that the founder of Facebook nearly went to work for Microsoft) and, as The Register put it:
A few minutes into their chat Zuck asked Nadella “Do you have a sense of how much of the code, like what percent of the code that's being written inside Microsoft at this point is written by AI as opposed to by the engineers?”
Nadella responded by saying Microsoft tracks accept rates, which he said are “sort of whatever 30-40 percent it's going up monotonically.”
It's probably a false figure. If not, it does not say "AI" for code works; it shows Microsoft is in a state of disarray. It is also a giant waste of energy for plagiarised and generally poor "code" (slop), which increases one's chance of getting sued.
And apropos waste of energy, regarding Bitcoin the associate noted that: "1) it is likely that most "HODLers" are merely lost wallets; 2) the experiment ended in 2009 prior to Sastoshi publishing. That bubble is popping and might take some of the other energy wasters with it."
Similar points were made back in March.
Just because Microsoft wasted a lot of money (and energy, exacerbating global heating contrary to what the Linux Foundation tells you!) building some glorified and overhyped models doesn't mean it'll pay off, ever. According to this, we're seeing a collective "mea culpa" and a rush away from slop. To quote: "Leaders regret firing workers for [slop] primarily because there is little knowledge readily available on how to implement [slop], making it hard for the switch to be worthwhile."
The investors will lose a lot of money while Nadella gets to keep all his bonuses.
Regarding slop in place of real code, go read The Drunken Plagiarists by George V. Neville-Neil. █