547. Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

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But as C.E.O. of the resurgent Microsoft, he is firmly at the center of the A.I. revolution. We speak with him about the perils and blessings of A.I., Google vs. Bing, the Microsoft succession plan — and why his favorite use of ChatGPT is translating poetry.

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0:00.0	Are you having fun in your job?
0:04.9	I'm loving every day of it, Steven.
0:08.7	Most CEOs of big technology firms are not loving every day right now.
0:13.2	They've been facing all sorts of headwinds and backlash.
0:16.9	But you can see why Satya Nadella might be the exception.
0:19.9	He has worked at Microsoft for more than 30 years, nearly 10 as CEO.
0:24.7	At the start of the personal computer era, Bill Gates' Microsoft was a
0:29.4	behemoth eager to win every competition and crush every rival.
0:34.4	But the internet era put the company on its heels.
0:37.5	Newer firms like Google, Facebook and Amazon were more nimble, more innovative,
0:42.7	and maybe hungrier.
0:44.1	Jeff Bezos of Amazon would reportedly refer to Microsoft as a country club.
0:49.3	But under Nadella, Microsoft has come roaring back.
0:52.9	He invested heavily in what turned out to be big growth areas like cloud computing.
0:58.0	Microsoft has always been in the business of acquiring other companies,
1:01.5	more than 250 over its history.
1:03.2	But some of the biggest acquisitions have been Nadella's.
1:06.8	LinkedIn, nuance, communications, and if regulators allow the gaming firm Activision Blizzard.
1:13.6	And there have been many more key acquisitions like GitHub,
1:16.8	where computer programmers store and share their code.
1:20.2	Once again, Microsoft is a behemoth.
1:23.2	The second most valuable company in the world, trailing only Apple.
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