It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead.
  • Rimu@piefed.social
    11·
    7 months ago

    Spoiler: not really envy, just the realization that they were too gormless to ever be competitive if they limited themselves to in-house resources.

  • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    I bet greed had much more impact than envy. Capitalims is, in a nutshell, gluttony applied to everything it can touch, and companies lust to make ever greater amounts of money or face the wrath of their shareholders. Innovation is hard, so copying your proud rivais is the easiest way (sloth, anyone?) to accomplish that…

  • Madis@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Well, if they wouldn’t, then someone else still would. Apple? Amazon? Yahoo?

    • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      We don’t know. Maybe someone else would, maybe not. Before Chatgpt 3.5, ai was just a buzzword. It’s a bigger buzzword now, but at least tech firms have large-language models that they can market.