The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, spoke at the World Economic Forum being held this week in Davos and left some statements about the real usefulness of AI that may surprise more than one due to the staunch defense that Microsoft executives have been making of the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
The distance in the perception of the real usefulness of AI between the most critical who believe that it is of absolutely no use and those who believe that it will be the solution to all the world’s ills, It’s simply astronomical. Surely virtue lies in the middle point. There does seem to be more consensus among ordinary customers and companies who believe that today AI technologies are widely overrated taking into account the maximums promoted by the marketing departments of the AI giants.
There is a lack of time, development, responsibility and control of their problems, which also exist in labor matters, cybersecurity, sustainability and other aspects. That is why it is important that great managers go down to the ground to analyze the situation in a more realistic way.
The CEO of Microsoft and the real usefulness of AI
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, warns that the AI industry could lose public support if it does not offer real benefits to users. This statement contrasts with previous ones where the controversial defense of the use of AI was a constant. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nadella said AI companies could enter dangerous territory if their technology is not useful, while using huge amounts of resources and causing
«As a global community, we must reach a point where let’s use this to do something useful that changes the future of people, communities, countries and industries«he declared in a conversation with Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. «Otherwise, I don’t think it makes much sense. In fact, I would say that we will quickly lose even the social permission to use something like energy, which is a scarce resource, to generate these tokens..
The warning about “social permission” seems to be in line with the recent increased skepticism about AI and in particular towards the multitude of artificial intelligence functions that Microsoft has included in all its software and that have received very strong criticism in the case of a Windows that is going through a critical situation and a portion of users are looking for alternatives.
And it’s also more pragmatic than his last blog post on December 29, where he argued that people should stop criticizing the quality of AI and «go beyond the arguments of shoddy vs. sophistication”. He also called AI a “cognitive amplifier” and encouraged society to accept it as an integral part of modern life.
Nadella now says that companies in all industries, not just technology, need to adopt AI on a larger scale to prevent it from becoming a bubble. The question here is Reevaluate the real usefulness of AI before demanding global adoption across industries.
