Microsoft has completely disabled its ethics team in its artificial intelligence (AI) product development division. It has been reported TechCrunch.
The layoffs were part of a massive wave of cuts that affected Microsoft’s 10,000 employees.
At the same time, the purge of the AI ethics team took place against the backdrop of news of Microsoft’s billion-dollar investment in partnership with the Open AI initiative, which is also responsible for the development of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 neural networks. .
As TechCrunch points out, the team’s downgrade casts doubt on Microsoft’s commitment to responsible AI principles in product development, especially as soon as the company makes them available to the mass consumer – for example, the ChatGPT analog has already been implemented. Bing search engine and Edge browser are available to a wide range of users. .
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