- Microsoft CEO says AI has not yet has its Excel moment
- The real benefits must be measured in its GDP contribution
- AI will give knowledge workers the opportunity to focus on knowledge work
Satya Nadella has said that AI should be measured on its advantage for GDP, rather than “self-requirements some AGI milestone,” said Microsoft CEO at Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast earlier this month.
“It’s just nonsensical benchmark hacking,” he continued, saying that AI did not yet find the application that would make the years of hype a reality.
“When we say, ‘Oh, this is like the industrial revolution,’ let’s have the industrial revolutionary type of growth. That means to me, 10 percent, seven percent for the developed world. Inflation adjusted, growing by five percent, it’s the real marker, ”Nadella said.
Boosting GDP, Improving “Knowledge Work”
Nadella used Microsoft Excel as a comparison for how AI is not yet finding its right place in the modern workplace, with physical documents and faxes that delivered to be a tough task that would present a forecast “maybe just in time for the next quarter . ”
“Then someone said, ‘Hey, I just want to take an excel -spreadsheet, put it in an e -mail, send it around, people will edit it and I’ll get a forecast.’ The entire forecasting process changed because the work artifact and workflow changed. That’s what’s going to happen to AI being introduced to knowledge work, ”Nadella said.
But Microsoft CEO doesn’t think AI will replace knowledge work, but rather free up more time for knowledge workers to focus on tasks of higher value, where he asks “who said my life’s goal is to tried my e-mail?”
Many workers are already living in fear of being replaced as companies see AI as a tool to reduce costs and increase profits. Fortunately for us, the most important obstacles to preventing AGI – or AI models with cognitive abilities that exceed the human brain – from replacing human workers legal problems.
“Today, you can’t put these intelligences unless and until someone is damaged as a human,” Nadella said.
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