See, when we're talking about the actions of corporations and billionaires, money isn't money, "money" is resource and labour allocations at societal scale. For some reason, some people think this fact is somehow exculpatory. It is not
Kat A. Beckett
Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI.
This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
Casey Explosion
Just repeating it because some are repeating Microsoft's lies unquestioningly about them having to cut people to save money, etc.
Their gaming division was 26 *billion* USD in the black. They had just posted record revenue. They were swimming in money.
But Microsoft wants to invest *80bn* in AI.
