The Azure outage was indeed a Microsoft problem There were two issues: parts of Azure down, then Crowdstrike took a shitload of servers and clients down. Re-read the first sentence in the posting.
Ok, even so, this whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me. AI does not need to be in a public cloud, why would they risk that? Only reason I can think is they can't find someone to run some GPUs privately, which seems not correct.
I don't say that the theory above makes sense or not, but Microsoft with Azure is hard into AI. I've been on the Microsoft Business Summit in Frankfurt, Germany in 2019, and me and my co-worker expected to learn about M365, implementation strategies, cloud readyness shit, identity management, and we got that. But there was a huge focus on Microsoft's AI capabilities and the impact of cloud computing -they called it shared intelligence- to the business world.
Funny enough this was a few months before Covid, Microsoft Teams got pushed hard in the last quarter of 2019, and then the whole world got locked down and we as businesses were still able to communicate over distance. Until then Teams was a better Skype, but it improved quickly, and became -next to Zoom- the tool to keep businesses alive. They didn't want to kill the economy, but now they got a grab on a large ammount of data processed in Teams calls and Sharepoint, this data can only be analyzed by AI, aka self learning supercomputers.
Don't think for a second Microsoft hasn't access to this data. They claim it's encryptet, yeah, but the hold the encryption keys. The whole way Microsoft Federation Services works gives them the key to the Kingdom. They -and so we- have literally everything. It works both ways.
What AI applications are hosted on Azure can only be speculated, but it could be a not too far fetched scenario that an AI model acting as the sitting President of the US could run on Microsoft servers. We don't know, what this company is capable of. We were tought to hate Microsoft because of their stupid vulnerabilities, because of their monopoly, because of Bill Gates, but in reality, MS rules the world of business data due to M365.
Their newest coup is an AI called Copilot, something that nests deep into M365 tenants to index all of your data for the greater good of improving your daily business. Yeah, for sure.
Long rant with no clear point taken, but we are dealing with stuff we don't want to understand. It's bad, or WHs took over and use all the data for good. We'll find out.
What if the theory is true that the main cloud AIs are digital ouija boards, i.e. demons or nephilim offspring are what is behind the curtain? Difference between computer answers and really intelligent-looking answers?
It wasn't a Microsoft problem aside from it affected their products. Like bad gas in a new car...
The Azure outage was indeed a Microsoft problem There were two issues: parts of Azure down, then Crowdstrike took a shitload of servers and clients down. Re-read the first sentence in the posting.
Ok, even so, this whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me. AI does not need to be in a public cloud, why would they risk that? Only reason I can think is they can't find someone to run some GPUs privately, which seems not correct.
I don't say that the theory above makes sense or not, but Microsoft with Azure is hard into AI. I've been on the Microsoft Business Summit in Frankfurt, Germany in 2019, and me and my co-worker expected to learn about M365, implementation strategies, cloud readyness shit, identity management, and we got that. But there was a huge focus on Microsoft's AI capabilities and the impact of cloud computing -they called it shared intelligence- to the business world.
Funny enough this was a few months before Covid, Microsoft Teams got pushed hard in the last quarter of 2019, and then the whole world got locked down and we as businesses were still able to communicate over distance. Until then Teams was a better Skype, but it improved quickly, and became -next to Zoom- the tool to keep businesses alive. They didn't want to kill the economy, but now they got a grab on a large ammount of data processed in Teams calls and Sharepoint, this data can only be analyzed by AI, aka self learning supercomputers.
Don't think for a second Microsoft hasn't access to this data. They claim it's encryptet, yeah, but the hold the encryption keys. The whole way Microsoft Federation Services works gives them the key to the Kingdom. They -and so we- have literally everything. It works both ways.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/ai/
What AI applications are hosted on Azure can only be speculated, but it could be a not too far fetched scenario that an AI model acting as the sitting President of the US could run on Microsoft servers. We don't know, what this company is capable of. We were tought to hate Microsoft because of their stupid vulnerabilities, because of their monopoly, because of Bill Gates, but in reality, MS rules the world of business data due to M365.
Their newest coup is an AI called Copilot, something that nests deep into M365 tenants to index all of your data for the greater good of improving your daily business. Yeah, for sure.
Long rant with no clear point taken, but we are dealing with stuff we don't want to understand. It's bad, or WHs took over and use all the data for good. We'll find out.
I do AI and ML services for a major integrator. Msft infra in azure for AI is nothing special.
They are big into it, but so is everyone.
Fellow IT pede here, always good to know the whitehats:)
AI needs ALOT of computing power, something only large infrastructures, like Azure, can provide. And Azure wouldn't be considered public either
That's not true. It requires a lot of compute to TRAIN a model. And even then many companies use local compute for this stage.
Remember they're arrogant and not the brightest. Pepe Farms remembers the jackass inquiring how to erase data for a "vip" on Reddit
fair point...seems this is a bigger scandal if true to be honest. it's wild to think they'd be that stupid. but fair point.
What if the theory is true that the main cloud AIs are digital ouija boards, i.e. demons or nephilim offspring are what is behind the curtain? Difference between computer answers and really intelligent-looking answers?
might as well be, AI is almost as much smoke and mirrors. It needs to be renamed, it's not intelligent.
Like bad gas in a new car... ---- without a fuel-water separator
Like cornflake without the milk
Corn Pop.
Cornholio 🍿🍿🍿
Yea, but that new car is a Ford Pinto.