Microsoft CEO Nadella talks about artificial intelligence. According to him, it must be used for something meaningful, otherwise the public will be dissatisfied.
AI is playing an increasingly important role and is becoming indispensable in some areas. However, AI also consumes immense amounts of energy to provide the necessary computing power.
Satya Nadella, current CEO of Microsoft, recently spoke in an interview at the World Economic Forum about artificial intelligence. You can watch the entire interview on YouTube.
Society does not accept when energy is wasted through AI unnecessarily
In the interview, Nadella said that the public expects something useful to be done with AI. Since AI would consume large amounts of energy, this must ultimately be justified in some way. He said:
We will quickly lose societal acceptance for using a scarce resource like energy to generate these tokens if these tokens do not improve healthcare, education, public sector efficiency, and the competitiveness of the private sector in all areas, big or small, right?
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People need to say: “Oh, I acquired this AI capability and am now a better provider of a certain product or service in the real economy.”
Nadella also mentioned a specific example of what he would consider useful: If a doctor has more time for his patients thanks to AI, that would be an important advancement:
If a doctor can spend more time with the patient because AI takes care of transcription and enters the data into the EMR system as well as the correct billing code, so that the healthcare industry ultimately works better for the payer, the provider, and the patient – then this is an outcome that I believe we can all benefit from.
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