When Microsoft "Integrates" Something With "AI" It Means It's Losing Money and Is Generally Hopeless
Just like GitHub, which got tied to the endless "Ponzi wallet" a couple of months ago [1, 2] (losses are "OK" because they are "investment in AI")
In the sister site today: Microsoft Still Soul-Searching for a Search Future
Microsoft never really took off in search. It actually did a lot better back in the MSN days, or back when Windows was predominant as "smart" "phones" did not yet exist. Whatever they call their portal/s right now (e.g. "Bing" or "Bing Chat" or whatever mindless gimmick comes next), it won't be "intelligent" or "superintelligent" or "revolution" or whatnot... it'll be just another incarnation of digital excrement.
As shown above, and as explained in the sister site just moments ago, 3 years ago Microsoft (by proxy, Scam Altman and the circus clowns) introduced some chatbot with LLM muscle behind it. It did not perform too well, but the media was paid to pretend it was the most amazing thing since sliced bread or the greatest invention since the Internet. Anyone not checking it out - or so they had us believe - was "missing out" and people who don't use it for work or general life stuff (like checking medical symptoms) were "left behind". Then they did the same with code and got sued (class action). There was no potent innovation there, it was just a desperate attempt to show a supposed "use case" for LLMs. Now there's a report that says "AI Coding is Massively Overhyped" (many more like it on the Web this past week) and my remark on that was, "you can get real code and hack on it; that would generally have something functional as a starting point"...
"LLMs don't generate code for software engineers or even for developers," an associate has explained. "It generates code for managers that can't and don't want to know if software works. As mentioned other times, LLMs generate only legacy code -- code which no one on staff has written or understands."
Now going back to search, how did Bing fare after 36 months of LLM slop being hyped up as "replacement" for search?
Not too good, right?
How does it perform financially? Good luck finding out. In early 2023 a lot of Bing staff got laid off (this was criminally under-reported) and Microsoft just deemed it "hey hi", i.e. part of the opportunity to fake "growth" by rebranding many things based on the latest buzzword/s. █