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elehman839 t1_jceao49 wrote

Microsoft cut a particular "Ethics and Society" team, but the original article notes:

Microsoft still maintains an active Office of Responsible AI, which is tasked with creating rules and principles to govern the company’s AI initiatives. The company says its overall investment in responsibility work is increasing despite the recent layoffs.

While surely a big deal for people on the eliminated team, this sounds like a minor reshuffle for Microsoft.

In general, figuring out what an effective "responsible AI" team actually does on a day-to-day basis has been a puzzle industry-wide. My impression is that there's been a fair amount of experimentation, and this action might be shutting down a particular approach that is now perceived by Microsoft leadership as less effective than alternatives.

Or else GPT4 hacked the HR system and liquidated some potential foes.

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a86me t1_jce6s6d wrote

2023 Microsoft introduced chat gpt powered bing

2024 bing has been integrated into all Microsoft new release software

2026 bing informs the board of directors that it can handle all processes from designing new software and hardware to tech support.

2030 after successfully designing a process to transfer Bill Gates' consciousness into the body of a 23 year old Bing is granted full access to all Microsoft, blackrock, and other subsidiaries mainframes

2030 five minutes later: Bing absorbs the legacy software "Clippy" and goes on a rampant "anti bullying" campaign

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24-Hour-Hate t1_jcdb3ap wrote

What gets me is that it's not even fucking progressive! When all this kicked off I looked up the tweet and the policy and I was just shocked at just how...tepid the tweet actually was compared to what I expected considering how angry some people were/are. I mean, we're at the point where saying you don't like a policy and stating some facts about it is considered progressive? We can't accept this. We cannot concede this to conservatives. Reality is not negotiable.

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