Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights impact of AI at WEF in Davos

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has highlighted the importance of Artificial Intelligence AI in science Nadella said science is probably the place where they will start witnessing real accelerationSpeaking in conversation with World Economic Forum Chairperson Klaus Schwab Nadella said What AI will do to science is probably the most interesting thing to me because in fact just last week we announced something I sort of felt this can be done I did not understand how this could be done So we took one of our models called Matogen which is sort of a generative model to generate new molecules and materialAnd we put it through an entire round trip where we came up with new molecules for a new material Went to work in collaboration with one of the national labs in the United States the Pacific Northwest National Lab and figured out how to produce a new battery that got 70 per cent less lithium Thats just phenomenal to sort of when we think about the climate the energy transition Its about taking 250 years of chemistry and somehow bringing it down to 25 years right So this is a proof point of that he addedEmphasising the impact of AI in Biology he said The same thing is happening in Biology If I think about what were doing even with Page and what we can do with cancer detection or what were doing with again in biology and to be able to use AI to simulate the molecular behaviour So I think that science is probably the place where we will start seeing real accelerationNadella noted that the digitization revolution has brought new tools to science However he added that it has not fundamentally accelerated science He further said But if you can fundamentally accelerate science cures to diseases the energy transition fundamental new material science All of these I think are going to be pretty profoundSatya Nadella stated that a global regulatory approach to AI is desirable as these are global challenges and require global standards He noted however that there seems to be a broad consensus though that is emergingI think a global regulatory approach to AI is very desirable because I think at this point where these are global challenges and require global norms and global standards Otherwise its going to be very tough to contain tough to enforce and tough to quite frankly move the needle even on some of the core research that is needed Satya Nadella said He stressed that there should be real rigorous evaluations and safety and guardrails before the launch of anythingBut that said I must say that there seems to be a broad consensus that is emerging If I have to sort of summarise the state of play the way I think we all are talking about it is that it is clear that when it comes to large foundation models we should have real rigorous evaluations and red teaming safety and guardrails before we launch anything now and then when it comes to applications we should have a riskbased assessment of how to deploy this technology he saidIf you are deploying it in healthcare you should apply healthcare If you are deploying it in financial services you should deploy it again the financial risk a consideration So I think if we take something as simple as that as a basis to build some consensus and norms I think we can come together he addedHe also said that the last thing the world needs is technology creating a divide and added that they need to be mindful of itNadella said The last thing the world needs is technologies that create more of the divide right I mean if anything my hope for sure is centred on realizing what we just talked about Think about it You have now a technology like something like GPT4 that essentially can be used to create a personal tutor for every student in the world right Its absolutely economically feasible even with just the government spending thats happening even in the Global South right So its not just in the UAE but it can happen everywhereStressing that the tech industry must consider the unintended consequences of new digital technologies along with its benefits Nadella said that the biggest lesson learned perhaps for us is that we have to take the unintended consequences of any new technology along with all the benefits and think about them simultaneously as opposed to waiting for the unintended consequences to show up and then address themHe further said I think that the fundamental change in last 10 years I feel like our license to operate as an industry depends on that because I dont think the world will put up any more with any of us coming up with something that has not thought through safety trust equity These are big issues for everyone in the worldThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever