Actions speak louder than words.
We should assume that everyone is on their worst behavior going forward. Zoom, Slack, MS, Apple, etc.
What happens is that, meanwhile, business is happening. People are making (small) decisions that adds up to big things, and leadership tends to trust those below to make the right calls and implement technology correctly. Which, time and time again, doesn't happen.
Yes, maybe it need to be more of a priority, but, it also isn't a conscious decision.
GenAI is hotter than anything else right now. As Satya publicly stated, "we made them dance" -- which shows how high-priority it is to maximize "AI innovation" at MS.
If you disagree, think about how badly "Tay" blew up in MS's face and yet they still went ahead and bundled OpenAI LLM tech into all of Office365, just so they could have bragging rights about beating Google to it.
At this point, it's a race (to where? who knows) and no Big Tech Corp wants to be seen as "not at the forefront".
That's my $0.02, anyway :)
Google kept on launching faked demos and hurriedly released an openly race biased image generator all in a bid to catch up with OpenAI.
Meanwhile Apple has been sort of lethargic. Recently annouced a deal with OpenAI to add GPT to their devices. They seem happy to continue playing catch up in this regard.
I think Meta is probably the only big tech giant that has kind of got their execution right straight from the jump. Can't point to any slip ups from their "AI announcements".
Much easier to avoid messing up, given this.
Catch up with what? Does anyone else have an AI product actually worth having?
Is it somehow bad that Apple hasn't also released an AI that doesn't do what it's supposed do half of the time?
If by lethargic you mean OCR of every single image on my computer so I can copy and paste text from anything, all running locally on the NPU on my M1 chip, then lethargic is A-OK.
That's what Apple does: they ship useful features. We'll see tomorrow if they fall in the trap and run in this race to nowhere.
This functionality is baked into Windows since 10. But for some reason you need a third party program to expose it.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?...
If you think the bias was due to timing constraints and not intentional then you are extremely naive.
> And then someone goes and invents Recall
Maybe you should read about the history of Microsoft, especially about its security.
But people forget easily.
And then someone goes and invents Recall. This is not the work of a lone engineer and a principal PM fishing for Impact or whatever they call success at Microsoft. This had to have gone through multiple levels of review. Microsoft PMs, CVPs, their corpo legal people, marketing approval. And yet no one stopped to say, "wait, this could blow up in our faces"?