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After Its CEO Expressed Hesitation About AI, Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers
Buy-n-Shoot NewsLast week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made an eyebrow-raising appearance on a podcast, in which he dismissed the current hype surrounding claims of having achieved "some [artificial general intelligence] milestone" as "nonsensical benchmark hacking." Nadella also admitted that AI simply hasn't generated much value so far, arguing that economic growth should be the benchmark instead. It was an unusually muted response given the tens of billions of dollars the tech giant poured, and is planning to pour, into the development of AI and the necessary infrastructure to support it. Critics have also pointed out that real-world applications for the tech […]
