Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced today in an interview with CNBC co-anchor “Squawk Box” that Andrew Ross Sorkin discussed the direction of artificial intelligence technology, Microsoft’s role in it, and whether humans are in control of it. elaborated.
Regarding the extent to which technology has permeated people’s lives, Nadella told Sorkin: “AI is already out there at scale. Every news feed, every social media feed, search (as we know it before chat plus search), it’s all AI.”
As to whether the technology is advancing rapidly, he said: “So I think we are moving from the autopilot AI era to the copilot era right now.
Emphasizing that technology innovators are in complete control, Nadella said, “Where humans have more control, things are moving fast. Humans are not in the loop, they are out of the loop.” It is,” he added.
With many experts voicing their opinions on whether to slow the development of AI or stop working on it all together, Nadella said, “It’s more important to take advantage of this technology, its potential and its productivity. I feel it,” he said.
Responding to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that Microsoft now has “direct control” of OpenAI, which was founded as a nonprofit, Nadella said, “That’s not true as a matter of fact. OpenAI is firmly grounded in its mission. and is governed by a non-profit board We have a non-controlling interest in it We have great commercial partnerships to fundamentally leverage this very powerful technology I’m honestly very happy to be partnering with a profit-limited company with a mission to pursue.”
“It would be good for companies,” Nadella said of AI regulation. “We don’t have to wait for regulation.” He added that what is happening is a good thing and regulators know what they are doing.
When Sorkin asked if smaller companies could win today in AI, Nadella said no, “given that only Microsoft and Alphabet will be the game in town.”
