I think Microsoft does have a point here: hosted services and thin clients are going to make money. (1) Their main focus is selling services, selling you, selling your data, and showing you ads. Children are being raised to think that asking chat to add two numbers is normal; they will enter the workplace in this state. Everything for MS is a service: this is going to work for them. And (2) because those hosted services will also replace some jobs, as the enterprise schmucks want.

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engineer_22 an hour ago | parent [-]

How is that different than using a calculator

	▲	imglorp an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Kids are absolutely using chat for calculator tasks. There was a meme going around last week where a child saw a phone calculator app and remarked "wow there's an AI just for math". Generalizing, they're using chat for everything else, like search. Actually reading a source is not on their radar. This is frightening. A whole generation that will not, and can not, think. At all. "Do it for me."
	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's less likely to be accurate, it's slower, and far less efficient as a bonus.