Comment by sowbug
5 hours ago
An older Stratechery article discusses the black-box point: https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/
Apple and Microsoft want to be your robot exoskeleton, helping you do whatever you were going to do, but better. Google and Facebook want to do things for you and hand you the results.
Cool article! I never saw that one, even though I do read that blog.
I'd argue that it was from 2018, and it's a different world today. Since then, Microsoft has made a pretty extreme pivot towards the "do things for you" camp and they seem to have become absolutely convinced that "AI" was vaguely the thing they wanted to do for you.