Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Bing’s quest to beat Google and the future of AI art

Do you think AI will dis­cour­age peo­ple from mak­ing art, or will it be a tool used to cre­ate new forms of art?

Love edge. bing. Bing chat. Bing image creator.

To keep the AI bots/trainers out of steal­ing human cre­ativ­i­ty they should­n’t go beyond fair use pol­i­cy. OTOH, they would­n’t be that use­ful with­out com­plete­ly con­sum­ing some­thing on the web and libraries. What would fix that? Div­i­dends to cre­ators from Google, Microsoft et. al.. UBI. 

An invest­ment by gov­ern­ments on behalf of their cit­i­zens to get shares of the AICOS (AI com­pa­nies). And col­lect div­i­dends based on their shares. I.e., Over the the last few hun­dred bil­lion man years invest­ed into devel­op­ing art and sci­ence. Should just the AICOS prof­it from our work or should all of us prof­it? Or “full use” implies we the peo­ple should get our *fair share*. 

If this was turned into a tax the USA govt. would­n’t share it. It would go into a gen­er­al fund and then to the mil­i­tary. (look what hap­pened with the lot­tery with each state. The mon­ey when into the states gen­er­al fund. And it could have been put into a spe­cial fund — like SS.)

Fair share prof­its could be divid­ed where maybe 10% of net prof­its go to the AICOS the rest to human­i­ty. Human­i­ty has done the work, the AICOS are the min­ers and it will be human­i­ty who builds with it. I.e., human­i­ty is the VAR. And the con­tri­bu­tions of each of us has been indirect.

I like how Verge has tak­en time to add some intro clips to set the con­text before show­ing the con­fer­ence clips, it makes the tran­si­tion much more smooth!

They will do every­thing except fix­ing the UI on mobiles of how sites & results r displayed.

Microsoft’s point of view on AI is cor­rect. It should not be at the expense of human cre­ativ­i­ty that’s why it’s called ‘co-pilot’. It’s a co-cre­ator, a sup­port­ing tool — it’s not ‘take over’ type thing. They under­stand the nuance between this new tech­nol­o­gy and human abil­i­ty and not tak­ing away agency or the sanc­ti­ty of our ability.

So much of this “AI” stuff is cre­at­ing bar­ri­ers more than any­thing. I can search for some­thing man­u­al­ly on Bing in a frac­tion of the time, and I don’t need to rehash the data to ensure it’s being prop­er­ly com­piled and com­ing from reli­able sources. 

This also rep­re­sents a mas­sive dumb­ing down of users. We already have seri­ous issues with mis­in­for­ma­tion and peo­ple not know­ing how to spot unre­li­able sources. This com­pounds those issues.

So many oth­er issues with how this is being pushed, but those ought to be enough to cause pause.

I thought the ’ sil­hou­ette ’ in the mid­dle is real­ly a art work, until ’ it ’ moves.…..
Great work Nilay, as usu­al.… 👍😎✌️

Mar­ket places to be fair? You mean how Win­dows 11 fights tooth and nail to trick and force you into using Edge/Bing at every cor­ner? How Win­dows makes it extreme­ly hard to change the default brows­er and makes it lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble to set non-Edge for cer­tain user jour­neys? How Microsoft lit­er­al­ly INJECTS a ban­ner into the Chrome down­load page and also has a pop up block­ing the down­load but­ton? Are these “fair” strategies?

Great inter­view. Glad I checked back on the videos. You did great and the whole con­ver­sa­tion was awesome.