Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is pursuing “true self-sufficiency” in AI by building models for enterprise and health care and reducing its reliance on OpenAI
Financial Times Melissa Heikkilä
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@ns123abc
Nik
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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft's AI chief just said they're pursuing “true self-sufficiency” and cutting their dependence on OpenAI $13 billion invested. Now they're abandoning the sinking ship it's so over [image]
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@tanarrowz
@tanarrowz
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“Creating a new model is going to be like creating a podcast or writing a blog,” he said. “It is going to be possible to design an AI that suits your requirements for every institutional organisation and person on the planet.” #MSFT https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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He says law and accounting will be ‘fully automated’ just like software. He says engineers now spend their time debugging and doing strategic work and architecture. That's not fully automated! This sales pitch is so transparently dishonest.
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@ft
@ft
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CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor Roula Khalaf to explain why most of the tasks accountants, lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months https://www.ft.com/... [video]
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@jenzhuscott
Jen Zhu
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Mustafa has not heard of liabilities, accountability, licensing, Bar qualifications in those professions he uttered. “Fully automated” won't happen in this timeline. What it will happen is, similar to coders, elevating, transforming humans role in these functions to produce
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@boringbiz_
@boringbiz_
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The CEO of Microsoft AI is literally telling you that most accountants, lawyers and consultants will be automated within the span of 2 years It's over
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@danielsusskind
Daniel Susskind
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In 2015, this is how @richardsusskind and I opened THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSIONS. I can still remember how hostile people were to our arguments back then. (My Dad did his PhD on AI and the law in the 1980s, and warned me in advance.) In just ten years, so much has changed ... [im…
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@heyshrutimishra
Shruti
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Mustafa Suleyman: “Most professional jobs will be automated in 12-18 months.” Microsoft is building “professional-grade AGI” that can do almost everything a knowledge worker does on a computer. They're betting hundreds of billions on this. If you work on a laptop, your job
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Anand Iyer
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12-18 months for you to work yourself into obsolescence.
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@_simonsmith
Simon Smith
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Microsoft is ubiquitous in businesses, yet Suleyman believes in 1-1.5 years AI will automate most of its customers' knowledge work. What's the pivot for Microsoft if companies don't need as many seat licenses, because they have fewer people, and AI agents don't need office apps,
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@sj_manning
Sam Manning
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Important not to conflate this with a prediction of white collar joblessness in the next 12-18 months. The claim is that AI will reach “human-level performance” on most white collar tasks, as it already has in software engineering, data analysis, and other domains. These are
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@tonynashnerd
Tony Nash
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We've been saying for a few years that many Corporate Finance jobs can be “augmented” with tools like we do at @complete_intel. We've been told it's too hard. We introduced AuditFlow and BudgetFlow. It's not hard. Corporate Finance teams still believe they're immune. 😱