More Tales From Nvidia: Was the Microsoft Outage an AI Failure? (Issue #279!)
This is interesting re the Microsoft outage, which is massive and unprecedented:
At first I thought it might be an AI hack. But maybe not, maybe it is an AI failure. Ergo the fault of garbage code written by AI. If I remember correctly, Amazon AWS had several outages that were likely caused by poorly written AI code as well. That was not the only incident. I believe there have been several, although nothing even close to this in scale.
At any rate, this seems to be more than coincidence. This outage is so bad, and so prolonged, it is most likely a function of what has changed, which is generative AI writing code, which does not work nearly as well as has been portrayed. Something tells me you will soon be able to add Microsoft ($MSFT) to the list of companies that starts hiring back the people they fired due to AI, and using less AI at the same time.Â
Hello Anthropic and Open AI!
Post Script
Side note, this Nvidia ($NVDA) Jensen Huang thing is not primarily about sex, although that was what did him in. He was most likely illegally sending stuff to China in an indirect fashion, and misrepresenting what was going on. The notion that this whole thing is a setup by China is quite misguided. He was the guy that was sending them the parts, when he wasn’t supposed to be doing so. Now China is going to get cut off completely, so this whole thing was most certainly not an operation by China to get him out of there. He was helping those guys out.
It is also amazing how venal people have become. Due to their interest in their stock portfolios, many were willing to look right past this, and offer support to the guy who was likely selling the country out and lying to everyone at the same time, to further his own self interest, whatever that exactly is. IMHO he is far from a national hero, and if anything, he is the exact opposite and should be a complete and total pariah.
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