The world has not yet turns out either AI hype and spending a significant lifting in the actual economy, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Comments were made during a Podcast interview where he puts a stick measurement on the real impact of AI: Success will be measured by global economic growth rather than unjust benchmarks how well AI programs are to complete challenges such of non -obscure puzzles in mathematics. They are interesting in separation but have no practical utility.
The comments seem to be targeted directly in the tech industry, asking the insider to stop spreading the hype about a so-called “artificial general intelligence” that can replace people with most tasks. It is important that Nadella says this will not happen, and either way is an unnecessary interruption when the industry needs to get practical and just try and make money before investors are impatient. Microsoft is the main backer of Openai, whose CEO Sam Altman has long been fearing AI's fear of taking the world. Critics often say that Altman's hype is mainly about putting himself in power centers and maintaining control by regulating.
“If you have this explosion, prosperity, whatever, intelligence goods can be used, the first thing we should observe is GDP growth,” Nadella said. “This is where we get a little ahead of ourselves in all this hype. When we say it's like the Industrial Revolution, let's have a kind of industrial revolution.”
He said that 10% of inflation growth in AI would prove that technology was really significant as an industrial revolution. “This cannot be a side,” means a billion -billions invested in AI companies now do not count as true GDP growth, because it will eventually have to be an actual need on the other side for products built or Otherwise these companies will crash and burn.
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Nadella's comments appear to be intended to lower expectations as the AI industry remains white-hot. However, Microsoft itself continues to plow billions -billions of dollars in competition with the AI race, which has become an early Openai backer and puts more than $ 12 billion in start. Nadella has been justified in massive infrastructure projects such as Stargate by Openai As it takes to bring AI's costs and support GDP's massive growth (Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made similar comments), but Microsoft also allows to take Openai of cash infusions from others and became Do not want to supply all compute resources The wish of the start, which suggests that it is careful. It generates its own lower cost models to increase Openai chatgpt.
Throughout the industries, companies find it difficult to implement AI tools that are built today, perhaps because they are not comfortable using AI for critical operations, or they do not know how to best use it. Early receiving Microsoft's Copilot, an AI agent for businesses, has not been good, along with companies and even Microsoft insistence on it complaining is Deficiency and not worth the cost. Microsoft and Google have begun to include AI chatbots in their usual business subscriptions rather than trying to charge too much, it is important to force them to users following low adoption.
Klarna, the Buy-now-Pay-Later company, gets a lot of attention after its CEO said last year Replace most of its customer support representatives with AI chatbots. The CEO recently walked that claim, as reports found that Klarna was essentially replaced by a major phone tree system with AI, which was not revolutionary and likely resulted in many customers who stop chatting because of frustration. Many banks have tried to replace their L1 customer support with bots in the past with bad results.
We just had an epiphany: In an AI world nothing would be as important as people!
Ok you may laugh at us for realizing this late, but we're going to work to allow Klarna to be the best in offering someone to talk to !!!
So excited about it, it will come more!
– Sebastian SiemiatKowski (@kliliteb) February 14, 2025
The AI industry is constantly looking for the ultimate unlocking that will make it truly “smart” and benefits for a wide range of tasks, such as adding bots that can navigate a computer. But language models can be initiated as a supercharged autocomplete tool, susceptible to recovering incorrect information because they are accustomed Face Good – but chabot doesn't make any actual thinking. Different methods such as Trying Time Is that -deploying to try and improve the accuracy and performance of the chatbots and make it closer to imitate people. But the nature of the chatbots to answer questions with confidence even when they do not know the truth remains a problem resulting in users who spend only a significant time to evaluate results. Or worse, it is only accepting what they will return as reality and making decisions based on it.
In that sense, Nadella tries to strike the executive executives and tell them to cut the hype. AI safety is quite concerned – models can be abused to create deep or mass spams – but it exacerbates how strong these systems are. Eventually, PUSH will come to the shove and the tech industry will have to show that the world is ready to overthrow the real money to use all these tools they are building. So far, cases of use, such as product feeding manufacturers on models to help customers find them faster, are marginal. The Bank of America has released a Report In late 2024 warned that AI remained in its early stages and followed the internet trajectory in the 1990s, indicating that there would be a correction that was the same as what happened to the DOT-Com Boom. Nadella wrote similar concerns of the upcoming washing.
A lot of tech-savvy people in X use chatbots all the time, but X is an echo room, and that use is not visible in the real world. Chatgpt More than 400 million active usersBut it includes consumers in the free tier, with no same needs in the critical mission of businesses. Eventually, the check will come.
