And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.
They all kill children and I boycott them all. You’re the only one running defense by minimizing Microsoft’s role here.
For example, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all launched major cloud computing centres in Israel, offering businesses infrastructure critical to data-driven products and services. Intel is the largest private employer in the country, having commenced operations in 1974.
Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel, and it launched a chip development centre in Haifa. Nvidia, the trillion-dollar chip behemoth powering the AI revolution, has also announced it is expanding its already large R&D operations in Israel. The list goes on
Gates’ advice is reportedly treated as gospel, and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership, and consequently, the success witnessed in the category.
Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved and influential in the business decisions is just straight up untrue, stop whitewashing his contributions to genocide.
In summary, Bill Gates’s relationship with Israel is characterized by his admiration for the country’s technological innovation and his significant investments through Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While he has not publicly engaged in the political aspects of the Israel/Palestine conflict, his actions and statements suggest a supportive stance toward Israel’s role in global technology. This support is evident in his continued investments and public recognition of Israel’s achievements in digital security and biotechnology.
You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.
Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel,
Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?
and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership
AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.
They all “directly partner” AMD, Intel, and Arm are all deep in Israeli military.
Using AI to target strikes/etc
Image recognition was around decades before LLM’s became the new “AI”. Those weapons only function because of the Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs components What hardware is Microsoft cloud running on?
You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?
You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?
I am not the same commenter.
Providing goods on the free market is not the same thing as directly partnering. Please enlighten me, does Intel, AMD, and ARM specifically and directly sell/provide their specialized components through another mechanism than the free market to that state/military?
What hardware or software Microsoft chooses to power their infrastructure is their choice. Could the companies that provide this hardware boycott Microsoft? I don’t know how effective that would be because you can’t choose who buys your products on the free market - you, however, can choose who you directly sell to or contract with.
And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are. The hardware is irrelevant. AI is still determining the targets (and potentially even firing the shots). This technology and the companies who provide this specialized technology are, at minimum, participating in the slaughter. The AI is proprietary and closed-source, these companies are willingly providing access and working with their military to specialize it for war.
And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are.
It’s a spell checker on steroids. Acting like it’s something extraordinary that is directly killing Palestinians is ridiculous.
I don’t see how the Israeli military purchasing Microsoft Office compared to purchasing AMD CPU’s s different. They chose Microsoft for the services on an open market just like they chose Arm CPU’s. And yes Arm engineers do “deep integration” with military contractors just like Microsoft provides services.
Can I get a copy of Microsoft’s AI on the free market? Can I get direct support for killing children and women with a company’s proprietary AI on the free market?
Your arguments have fallen flat, but I’m here to be enlightened. You know so much that you’re defending these companies and diluting their involvement, so clearly I must be misunderstanding something here or my knowledge isn’t sufficient.
Convince me harder that Microsoft’s direct involvement is actually not so bad, and these dastardly companies that indirectly provide hardware are somehow just as responsible for AI killing innocents. If these hardware manufacturers have specific contracts or involvement with that state or its military, I’d like to know.
Microsoft Office also doesn’t especially facilitate the killing of innocents. And they could easily use another software, the functionality isn’t unique or specialized like AI.
Just to be clear, the whole world is indeed responsible for what happens here. The free market doesn’t absolve everyone of their shared responsibility. You could pull your entire head of hair out boycotting or screaming at every individual or group that provides support to one thing or the other, direct or otherwise.
My goal is to just point out the truth and also help people see it clearly. Microsoft et. al are a symptom of a larger dysfunction in society. People are so disconnected and propagandized that they don’t even know truth from fiction, and the people that do understand the truth (to some degree) sit there and downplay modern atrocities as “the best we can do” and point fingers wildly at individuals who the media wants us to pay attention to instead of addressing the root causes.
AI should not be used for military purposes. That’s my point.
And I’d like to apologize in advance if I misunderstood or misrepresented your points.
He didn’t completely leave, he’s literally the technical advisor listed under “key people” for Microsoft
Bill Gates continues to ‘backstage’ manage Microsoft despite official departure, as Satya Nadella relies on his advice for Microsoft’s transformative AI initiative
Saytalla seeking advice doesn’t mean Gates is making the business decisions.
And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.
They all kill children and I boycott them all. You’re the only one running defense by minimizing Microsoft’s role here.
Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved and influential in the business decisions is just straight up untrue, stop whitewashing his contributions to genocide.
You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.
Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?
AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.
Are you an executive at Microsoft? Because if you aren’t YOU DON’T KNOW THAT.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107724-sources-detail-growing-rift-between-sam-altman-satya.html
Directly partnering with and providing services/technology/AI to a state’s military, that is in the act of war, is facilitating that war.
Using AI to target strikes/etc., is absolutely AI making the decision to kill. They just chose to let AI do it for them.
They all “directly partner” AMD, Intel, and Arm are all deep in Israeli military.
Image recognition was around decades before LLM’s became the new “AI”. Those weapons only function because of the Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs components What hardware is Microsoft cloud running on?
You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?
I am not the same commenter.
Providing goods on the free market is not the same thing as directly partnering. Please enlighten me, does Intel, AMD, and ARM specifically and directly sell/provide their specialized components through another mechanism than the free market to that state/military?
What hardware or software Microsoft chooses to power their infrastructure is their choice. Could the companies that provide this hardware boycott Microsoft? I don’t know how effective that would be because you can’t choose who buys your products on the free market - you, however, can choose who you directly sell to or contract with.
And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are. The hardware is irrelevant. AI is still determining the targets (and potentially even firing the shots). This technology and the companies who provide this specialized technology are, at minimum, participating in the slaughter. The AI is proprietary and closed-source, these companies are willingly providing access and working with their military to specialize it for war.
I don’t see how the Israeli military purchasing Microsoft Office compared to purchasing AMD CPU’s s different. They chose Microsoft for the services on an open market just like they chose Arm CPU’s. And yes Arm engineers do “deep integration” with military contractors just like Microsoft provides services.
"The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in recent months " https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
Azure is used for running Microsoft Office or whatever other PC software they use.
Can I get a copy of Microsoft’s AI on the free market? Can I get direct support for killing children and women with a company’s proprietary AI on the free market?
Your arguments have fallen flat, but I’m here to be enlightened. You know so much that you’re defending these companies and diluting their involvement, so clearly I must be misunderstanding something here or my knowledge isn’t sufficient.
Convince me harder that Microsoft’s direct involvement is actually not so bad, and these dastardly companies that indirectly provide hardware are somehow just as responsible for AI killing innocents. If these hardware manufacturers have specific contracts or involvement with that state or its military, I’d like to know.
Microsoft Office also doesn’t especially facilitate the killing of innocents. And they could easily use another software, the functionality isn’t unique or specialized like AI.
Just to be clear, the whole world is indeed responsible for what happens here. The free market doesn’t absolve everyone of their shared responsibility. You could pull your entire head of hair out boycotting or screaming at every individual or group that provides support to one thing or the other, direct or otherwise.
My goal is to just point out the truth and also help people see it clearly. Microsoft et. al are a symptom of a larger dysfunction in society. People are so disconnected and propagandized that they don’t even know truth from fiction, and the people that do understand the truth (to some degree) sit there and downplay modern atrocities as “the best we can do” and point fingers wildly at individuals who the media wants us to pay attention to instead of addressing the root causes.
AI should not be used for military purposes. That’s my point.
And I’d like to apologize in advance if I misunderstood or misrepresented your points.