Microsoft Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella advised an viewers of enterprise and expertise executives concerning the firm’s interactive chatbot product, throughout his India go to, in Mumbai on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. File
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Microsoft Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella kicked off his India go to with a simple Artificial Intelligence (AI) pitch to Indian companies: begin deploying AI programs shortly, or fall behind. “The first [imperative] is to just adopt some of these products like Copilot fast,” Mr. Nadella advised an viewers of enterprise and expertise executives right here on Wednesday, referring to the corporate’s interactive chatbot product.
Mr. Nadella in contrast the AI wave to Great Britain’s huge investments in rail transportation, arguing that investments in the expertise might increase India’s GDP. “In India’s case … this is one of the highest growth markets, you see the buoyancy of it, the government and all of you have high ambitions for what’s going to happen even by 2025,” Mr. Nadella mentioned.
Mr. Nadella’s go to comes as companies akin to Microsoft and Google, Inc. see India as a promising market each as sources for AI expertise, in addition to in phrases of massive company companies that may purchase AI merchandise for their very own companies.
AI skilling
Mr. Nadella additionally introduced that the agency would offer AI skilling alternatives to twenty lakh Indians by 2025. “Making sure that [the Indian workforce has] the skills in order to be able to thrive in this new age is the most important thing that any of us can be doing,” he mentioned.
Puneet Chandok, who not too long ago joined because the India president at Microsoft, expressed optimism that AI expertise from India would make a major contribution to the sector. “Every sixth AI researcher and technologist in the world is coming from India,” he mentioned, including {that a} quarter of the brand new workforce in coming years would be from India.
Mr. Nadella referred to ‘Moore’s legislation,’ which primarily quantities to the precept that computing energy continually will increase at decrease price. “Moore’s law is very much alive when it comes to AI,” Mr. Nadella mentioned, in search of to assuage issues on the resource-intensiveness (and excessive price) of AI purposes. “The cost curves of AI are only going to come down,” he mentioned.
Regulating AI
The Union authorities has exhibited openness to letting Big Tech companies akin to Microsoft and Google develop and deploy AI purposes shortly. In response to a question on Tuesday, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar mentioned that “The only consistent agenda we have [when meeting AI developing firms] is that … you can only offer AI that is safe and trusted in India.”
Mr. Chandrasekhar referred to a Google Bard chatbot response from November, which referred to as two right-wing information platforms ‘biased,’ and mentioned that experimental fashions must be supervised. “You can’t ‘trial’ a car on the road and when there is an accident say, ‘whoops, it is just on trial. You need to sandbox [such models].”
(The creator was hosted in Mumbai at Microsoft’s invitation.)
