Satya Nadella says generative models like Dall-E, ChatGPT to give rise to a ‘golden age’
- ByStartupStory | January 3, 2023
According to Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corp., reasoning engines or large language model-based artificial intelligence technologies like OpenAI’s Dall-E and ChatGPT will play increasingly crucial roles in the future of labour. Speaking at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai as part of a four-day visit to India, Nadella emphasised six “digital imperatives” that businesses must focus on today, as well as the role that technologies and applications built natively on cloud platforms can play for modern businesses.
While generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and Dall-E created fewer than 1% of the world’s AI data sets in 2021, Nadella believes this figure will rise to 10% by 2025.
Nadella says, “In future, the generative models will generate most of the data. We are right now seeing the emergence of a new reasoning engine. We’ll clearly have to talk about this reasoning engine — what are its responsible uses, what displacements will it cause, and so on. But on the other side, we should also think about how it can augment us in what we are doing today since it can have a huge impact on our future.”
He also added, “Ultimately, these tools will accelerate creativity, ingenuity and productivity across a range of tasks. It is going to be a golden age — the computer revolution created mass consumer behavior change and productivity for knowledge workers. But, what if we could spread that productivity more evenly? To me, that is one of the biggest things to look forward to, and the way to achieve this is by building a robust data infrastructure.”
Nadella further underlined that the technology that will enable the adoption of such “reasoning engines” is the arrival of “cloud-native applications”.
The top executive said, “Cloud-native applications have really not yet begun. By 2025, we’ll have most applications anyone builds at that efficient frontier of cloud-native technologies — it will be 10x, even 100x better in some cases. But it’s not just that, if you move to the cloud, the latter is 70-80% more energy efficient too. You also hedge against demand cycles — by moving to the cloud, you only consume when you need it. This tri-factor is very compelling.”
Along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure suite of services is one of the top three cloud platforms in the world. In his address to the audience in Mumbai, Nadella emphasized that Microsoft is substantially investing in cloud infrastructure, including a new cloud and data centre infrastructure in Hyderabad. With this, Microsoft now has over 60 cloud regions and over 200 data centers worldwide.
The top executive also underlined, “Every business today will need compute power at the location where data is generated. So, demand for distributed computing will remain. We see tremendous momentum today — we see the likes of Adani using Azure for expansion, HDFC Bank using it to consolidate data platforms, Yes Bank built their super app on it, and more.”
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