Looks like the idea is not for Microsoft to do the deed, but to stifle those who might want to do some “Opportunistic Micro-training on Edge Devices Using Spare GPU Utilization” with their own initiative.
Can you give us a few examples that are commercially viable and not hobby or research level?
But if anybody tries it now, woe be on to them.
Which is why this has that familiar smell of patents which are focused on dissuading entrepreneurs rather than enabling them.
I pretty much call it as I see it.
As an aside, I pay no attention to the downvote-a-bots.