SVB aftermath; remote work 'affliction'; and Microsoft puts AI to work

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast ...

We catch up on the latest on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and consider the long-term implications of the meltdown on the startup ecosystem and the U.S. financial system.

Then, a point-counterpoint on the issue of the return to office, as Downtown Seattle Association President Jon Scholes laments the "affliction" of remote work, and Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton says the ways we work (and the places we work) have changed forever.

And finally, we catch up on the latest in the world of generative artificial intelligence, listening to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's pitch for the company's new Microsoft 365 Copilot. We consider the potential of AI to change the way we work, the competition between Microsoft and Google, and touch briefly on antitrust issues.

With GeekWire co-founders John Cook and Todd Bishop.

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0:00.0	Just as we can't imagine computing today without a keyboard, mouse, or multi-touch,
0:06.0	going forward, we won't be able to imagine computing without co-pilots and natural language
0:11.2	proms that intuitively help us with continuation,
0:14.9	summarization, chain of thought reasoning, reviewing, modifying, and acting.
0:19.4	John, just watching you, listen to that, I wish I had been taking video oh you were
0:24.3	clearly impacted by such his message and perhaps not in the way that he
0:27.9	intended it's so perfect it was like that was put into an AI was that AI was that AI was that AI sopf?
0:33.0	Was that AI sop?
0:35.0	Hi and welcome to
0:40.0	Hi and welcome to GeekWire.
0:41.0	I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook.
0:45.2	We're coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening
0:48.8	around us in technology, business and innovation. What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we talk about some of the most interesting stories in the news.
0:58.0	Coming up later on, I'm going to try and convince you, John, that AI is the future. Well it is the future because this is not your real
1:06.3	voice it's an AI generated voice correct? Oh don't reveal the secret come on now
1:12.4	not yet we're not there yet. And then also it's really a
1:16.0	watershed moment in the debate over remote work versus work in the office. We'll talk
1:21.8	about that coming up as well. But first, John, one
1:25.0	week ago, it felt like the world was crumbling down. A majority of startups in the
1:31.1	Seattle region, at least those backed by venture capital firms, didn't have of startups
1:33.7	in the Seattle region, at least those backed by venture capital firms,
1:34.1	didn't have access to their cash,
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