> as someone who is a sociopath completely devoid of ethics

Ah yes... the hundred thousand researchers and engineers who work at MS are all evil. Many people who've made truly significant contributions to AI have either worked directly (through MS Research) or indirectly (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) at MS. ResNet and concepts like Differential Privacy were invented there.

What about the researchers at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT who receive funding from companies like MS? Are they all evil sociopaths, too? Greg Hinton's early research was funded by Microsoft btw.

I originally joined MS in the early 90s (then retired) and came back to help build Copilot. The tech was fantastic to work with, we had an amazing team, and I am proud of what we accomplished.

You seem slightly confused between the people who invent technology and the assholes who use it for evil. There is nothing evil about the transformer. Humans are the problem.