Ten billion is a material amount of money, even for Microsoft. That is an indication of the perceived value of the technology.

To justify that amount of investment Microsoft must hope to stay competitive and recover the investment.

You could say, well the advertisers will pay the bill. It is we the buying public who will actually pay the bill through the additional cost of the products the advertisers sell.

Perhaps things like ChatGPT will be of direct value to us and worth the direct and indirect costs.

For better or worse it will happen anyway. For things, I am more or less forced to pay for anyway, AI looks far more useful than more military guns and bombs. As a disclaimer, I support the military because I don't think there are any logical alternative options currently but our violent nature is costing an insane amount of money.

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