Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft joins Bloomberg’s Brad Stone for a conversation at Bloomberg House at Davos.
Nadella talked about using AI to break the Google Search Monopoly and replace Apple iPhone and the entire app store.
AI can be the Universal App. Currently, individual use dozens or even over a hundred apps.
IF AI is mainly delivered via Enterprises then Microsoft would have the advantage in an Enterprise dominant AI world.
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All apps are “at risk” so far as AI goes.
At some point, regardless of who does it, or how it is paid for, there will be a voice you speak with that will, to all intents and purposes, be nearly indistinguishable from having a human personal assistant on the other end of the line (that will also be able to control computer screens and perhaps even a domestic robot or a vehicle). Except that they will seem eager to do whatever you want done and will be instantly available 24/7. It’s a prospect very few of us will be able to resist, regardless of how much we may decry it now.
An app that waters your plants, pays your bills, does your taxes, and whatever else, become old news when you can just tell your personal assistant, in English (or even Swahili), what you want, and they deliver, even asking for clarifications where needed (but not so often as you might think because they already know you better than you know yourself).
It will not be like having Wodehouse’s Jeeves, the valet’s valet, at your service; it will be like having a super-speed, multithreaded Jeeves with almost instant access to all the information and knowledge on the worldwide web. A Jeeves that cannot (perish the thought, even) ever be overworked — and far too many of us will happily become Bertie Wooster, and this won’t matter because so very many people would be better off that way, indeed society itself would be better off for it.