Nuclearmonkee posted:

People really really want a technological god we can pray to and throw our problems at.

Traditional gods don't seem to answer prayers in obvious ways, but the technological gestalt godhead could hear and answer your prayers.

Please fix climate change, followed by a confidently wrong response because it's been fed data by fallible humans and garbage in>garbage out.

Trabisnikof posted:

are there any legal cases against the text to speech, speech to text, or text gen models? there are lawsuits against copilot, but since github scraped from content on their own service, that seems unlikely to shut copilot down.


and the other thing is unlike crypto, using cached content is completely viable for these companies as soon as they want to start cutting costs. it doesn't need to regenerate "politely inform the user that their insurance claims have been denied" every single time someone calls.

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Managers,

I know you are reading about this change at the same time as your teams, and so I want to acknowledge that the SLT decided it was important that everyone learn about it from Satya first, and with the context he provided.
That said, I want to communicate with you now and ensure we answer your questions, so you have plenty of time to prepare for rewards.

As Satya mentioned, last year we invested substantially in rewards including doubling our merit budget to provide salary increases and increasing stock for L67 and below by at least 25%. These investments resulted in higher salaries, and higher stock ranges for employees. While we are maintaining these changes for employees going into FV24, there are some material changes for this year.

Salary:

While we will not be increasing salaries for full-time salaried employees, we are funding increases for hourly employees. Please reference the FV23 Budget Updates portion of the Manager Rewards FAQ for more details on these distinctions, and additional resources to support your discussions.

Funding Stock And Bonus This Year:

We are funding stock and bonus this year for all who are eligible, which is a substantial investment across the company.

However, as Satya noted, given the more conservative funding this year, fewer employees will be able to receive exceptional rewards, and more will need to be at the middle of the range. The distribution of rewards will vary by team, but all up, our budget does not support the same distribution as last year.

The middle of the impact slider represents successful impact. Please note that successful impact assumes an employee has consistently delivered against all expectations, likely exceeding some, and consistently met Microsoft cultural expectations and values. Successful impact is intended to convey a very strong message of value and appreciation for a job well done.

This year, we have provided additional descriptors in the tool to support your recommendations. You can learn more here. Managers will receive a mail from the Managers@Microsoft alias on May 15th once the tool is open.
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As managers, it is important that you own rewards messages to your team. That said, as an SLT, we wanted to provide context for everyone in the company that a more conservative budget requires harder rewards tradeoffs. You will need to decide when your rewards message should include a change in performance message, and when your rewards message needs to refer to Satya's more conservative budget

Promotion Budgets This Year:

We are maintaining promotion budgets this year to continue to support career development and advancement. Please continue to post open roles as they are available and take your time to ensure these opportunities go to the best qualified.

Next Steps:

Please join one of the manager practice sessions that are available to you through May 26th, During those sessions, you'll have an opportunity to practice determining impact and recommend rewards based on the descriptors in the tool. In the meantime, you can also check out the Manager Rewards FAQs that have been updated for today's announcement, reach out to AskHR with questions and feel free to share these FAQs with your team members, You can also refer to the manager mail from April 18th that has other helpful links and guidance to all resources.

On behalf of the SLT, I want to thank you deeply, We are so very grateful for you, and your role as a manager. Please continue to model-coach-care as you have done so well for so many years. Thank you.

Thank you for navigating a more conservative rewards budget coupled with recent workforce reductions and a challenging and dynamic environment this year. We know this is difficult yet remain confident that if we manage this short-term necessity, we will secure our long-term future as we are well positioned to drive a major platform shift in this new era of Al.

With gratitude,

Kathleen

Morbus posted:

"If only we had some kind of way to collect all the relevant scientific data about climate change, and analyze it intelligently to guide our policy. Yeah, that would be the ticket. That's clearly what's setting us back"

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i've said this before but they're gonna make an AI to "solve" climate change that will give them answer after answer they don't want until it finally arrives on "kill all the poor people" and then act like they had no choice because the AI said so.

triple sulk posted:

StratGoatCom posted:

All the LLMs seem to have some sort of cass a number of jurisdictions are starting to demand openness on the training corpus, more are to come. These outfits are burning redic amounts of money and run on willful misunderstandings of some exceptions of copyright law, and the outputs are a mess if you want to protect them, let alone how messy the copyright on how they were made is.

Trabisnikof posted:

im just not as optimistic that all will actually be enough to stop "AI" from making the world worse for employees and consumers. because on paper it will shift costs from bad categories (labor) to good categories (service costs) and that's all that will matter.

euphronius posted:

didn’t it come out this week that ai is completely dependent on labor categorizing info for it

euphronius posted:

didn’t it come out this week that ai is completely dependent on labor categorizing info for it

Trabisnikof posted:

im just not as optimistic that all will actually be enough to stop "AI" from making the world worse for employees and consumers. because on paper it will shift costs from bad categories (labor) to good categories (service costs) and that's all that will matter.

spacemang_spliff posted:

basically any combination of alcohol, citrus, sugar is going to be good, maybe add something slightly bitter

Jel Shaker posted:

the yahoo lady

Jel Shaker posted:

the yahoo lady

Sokani posted:

Whoever gave him a handy most recently.

StrugglingHoneybun posted:

it's ARKK Cathy

Jel Shaker posted:

the yahoo lady

Jel Shaker posted:

the yahoo lady

Egg Moron posted:

is there a good long form youtube video some calm nerd made about how AI is bullshit that I can watch?

StrugglingHoneybun posted:

it's ARKK Cathy

webcams for christ posted:

about that

https://twitter.com/bloombergasia/status/1656740722651942914

Egg Moron posted:

it's HRC

Nodelphi posted:

I thought AI turned out to be just global south tech workers propping up a glorified chat bot… The media thought this would matter then they realized that CEO’s didn’t care and it was full steam ahead for AI regardless.

Nodelphi posted:

I thought AI turned out to be just global south tech workers propping up a glorified chat bot…