I suspect it will falter with or without wider adaptation. I’ve been happy to adopt the free offerings and still engage my brain. I don’t see how they get enough revenue to pay for the massive outlay of all these data centers.

And of course that would burst the bubble. So adopt it or else!

Saying the quiet part out loud. Also isn't it his fault for investing in it the first place? Desperately finding things to put copilot onto in Windows isn't working out so well, it seems.

I have suspected all along that AI will commoditize, as in "free with your phone purchase" and sediment, being valuable only to verticals with highly curated databases.

Microsoft and Google have been in the "all things to all people" business, IMO, and to me, that's no moat around that, and invites enshittification.

As infinitewars implies, another excuse for massive data-gathering, and many of us watched the entanglement of search engines and government evolve (or devolve, depending on your POV) But what happens when you have ALL the data?

Again, I think that this massive funneling is, as we said in fishing, just dynamiting the lake and collecting all the fish.

Businesses with specialized needs won't need Microsoft, since they can/must create their own focused databases and spin up their own apps, witness DeepSeek and friends. I really don' think that a surgeon cares about the latest TikTok trends.

Hype.

Look at the hype.

You've gotta adopt, because look at the hype.

If you don't adopt the hype was for nought.

We need a government support: Think about the poor investors!

This is free market innovation, govt get out of our way!