Headline, November 06 2024/ HONOURS : ''' SATYA * NADELLA'S SATURN '''

HONOURS :

''' SATYA * NADELLA'S SATURN '''

MANY WHO HAVE MET SATYA NADELLA LIKE HIM. For those who haven't a skim through his autobiography endorses the view that the boss of Microsoft is an intelligent, decent sort of person.

He is unassuming, with a passion for cricket. He is a listener, who encourages employees to share their personal as well as professional dreams. He writes about Buddhism, but not in a new-agey way.

His son was born with cerebral palsy, so Mr. Nadella seeks to understand suffering. At times, there is something gleefully Tigger-like about him, when he can barely contain his excitement about Microsoft's new technologies.

He describes one such '' eureka moment '' the first time he put on one of the firm's Hololens mixed-reality headsets and thanks to a live feed from NASA's Mars rover, visualised himself walking on the red planet.

It was, he wrote, a glimpse into the future. '' The experience was so inspiring, so moving, that one member of my leadership team cried. ''

!WOW! is watching very closely his missionary zeal. He led Bing, Microsoft's search engine, when Google was on a tear. He led its cloud provider, now called Azure, when it was an also-ran to Amazon Web Services, owned by the e-commerce giant.

He has long nurtured a passion to leapfrog his west-coast rivals. That makes him impatient with AI research for its own sake.

He wants it embedded in products that !WOW! customers. Bing with a mere 7% of search queries in America, will shortly incorporate ChatGPT to wrestle share away from Google.

GitHub, Microsoft's coding tool, is using OpenAI technology in its Co-pilot product, aimed at accelerating the work rate of software developers.

Microsoft is likely to overhaul products like Office and Windows with GPT technology, so that chatbots can take the drudge out of creating Powerpoints and Excel spreadsheets.

As for the Cloud, Microsoft benefits because OpenAI has built and trained its GPT models on Azure, and it can offer state-of-the-art chatbot services to Azure's customers. The more they are used, the better they get.

Both Google and Microsoft fully understand how well equipped they are to handle the potential implications of introducing technology that will do work previously done by humans, but with neither the ability nor the moral compass to check the reliability of its work.

The risks of propagating errors or worse, misinformation, are serious. So is the danger of societal backlash if knowledge workers feel their jobs are threatened - though if the technology succeeds, over the long term it is likely to be a boon to job creation.

Microsoft's initial approach to the potential pitfalls is shrewd-investing in OpenAI puts ChatGPT at arm's length, if something goes wrong. But eventually with GPT infused in all of its products, it will bear a big responsibility for the outcome.

In that case, the attention will focus on Microsoft's own moral compass - and Mr. Nadella's human decency will be put to the test.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Tech Leadership, Microsoft and the World, continues.The World Students Society thanks Schumpeter / The Economist.

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