2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.
Regardless, Microsoft’s shares are up and the company’s market value is now higher than $3tn, as it works to capitalise on the rise of AI.
As someone with degrees and decades of experience, I urge you not use it for that. It’s a cleverly disguised randomness machine, it will give you incorrect information that will be indistinguishable from truth because “truth” is never the criteria that it can use, but be convincing is. It will seed those untruths into you and unlearning bad practices that you picked up at the beginning might take years and cost you a career. And since you’re just starting, you have no idea how to pick up bullshit from truth as long as the final result seem to work, and that’s the works way to hide the bullshit from you.
The field is already very accessible for everyone who wants to learn it, the amount of guides, examples, teaching courses, very useful youtube videos with thick Indian accent is already enormous, and most of them are at least trying to self-correct, while LLM actively doesn’t, in fact it’s trying to do the opposite.
Best case scenario you’re learning inefficiently, worst case scenario you aren’t learning at all