Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
Microsoft defines that term to mean "AI systems that are more intelligent and capable than all humans combined."That definition falls short because it leaves "intelligence" undefined. But brute force computation and exploration of knowledge captured in training data don't qualify.Microsoft's current model lineup includes MAI-Transcribe-2, MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.6, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Cyber-1-Flash. Its general-purpose MAI models do not currently rank among the most "intelligent" models at the moment.
- ▪Microsoft defines that term to mean "AI systems that are more intelligent and capable than all humans combined."That definition falls short because it leaves "intelligence" undefined.
- ▪But brute force computation and exploration of knowledge captured in training data don't qualify.Microsoft's current model lineup includes MAI-Transcribe-2, MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.6, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Cyber-1-Fla
- ▪Its general-purpose MAI models do not currently rank among the most "intelligent" models at the moment.
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