Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks on AI: 5 BIG power points from interview

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Microsoft, led by Satya Nadella, was one of the first to jump onto the artificial intelligence bandwagon and as a result, it finds itself with the early bird advantage in this emerging space. It was quick to invest upwards of $10 billion in OpenAI and it swiftly released its ‘Copilots' across the majority of its products and services to enable developers, businesses as well as individuals in leveraging AI capabilities. In a recent interview with Wired, Nadella opened up about the vision around AI, what made him pull the trigger, and the way forward in this nascent segment. Let us take a look at the top 5 big moments from the interview.

At the start of the interview with Wired, he was asked when did he know for sure that artificial intelligence could be a transformative technology. Answering the question, Nadella pointed out the period when GPT 2.5 was upgraded to GPT 3.0. According to him, that is when the emergent capabilities began showing for the first time. “We didn't train it on just coding, but it got really good at coding. That's when I became a believer,” he told Wired.

Narrating his first time with GPT-4 in the summer of 2022, the Microsoft CEO explained that while machine translation had been around for a while, it always did a surface-level job and never brought forth the subtleties of the text it was translating. He also said how he always wished to read the poetry of Rumi, which was originally written in Persian. It was first translated into Urdu and then into English. “GPT-4 did it, in one shot. It was not just a machine translation, but something that preserved the sovereignty of poetry across two language boundaries. And that's pretty cool,” he said.

Nadella does not go into a larger vision of what AI can do