Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's AGI plan, the quantum breakthrough with Majorana 1, how Muse will change gaming, AI's legal barriers, AI safety, and more
Also that's not what “quantum” means. Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : So this is a really weird interview on many different levels. — But one thing I'd really start worrying about is that the CEO of Microsoft is saying that there “will be overbuild” of compute for AI. Good stuff! [embedded post] Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Satya doesn't think hitting some arbitrary AGI benchmark is interesting but instead can AI grow the world economy by 10%/year by actually delivering real value to justify the billions in spend? — It's the sort of practical thinking I've come to expect from Satya and it's clear there's some demand from businesses for AI. … X: Dwarkesh Patel / @dwarkesh_sp : Kids, don't underestimate the power of a cold email. (From @Microsoft's YouTube channel - link below) [video] @signulll : satya is in a league of his own. he actually says coherent, bold, strategically sharp things while sundar by stark contrast mostly meanders in corporate safe platitudes. satya takes real bets (openai, activision, cloud push) & owns the narrative, while sundar always feels like he's nervously managing downside... Prakash / @8teapi : Satya is Out TLDR: MSFT doesn't believe in AGI, wary of overinvestment, OpenAI partnership is over A. AI and AGI are overhyped - “Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me. The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10%.” B. Very [video] @producthunt : Apple: here's a new smaller iPhone Microsoft: Whoopsie, we just invented a totally new state of matter 😌 @modestproposal1 : Nadella: “there will be overbuild... I'm so excited to be a leaser. I build a lot, I lease a lot. I'm thrilled to be leasing lots of capacity in '27, '28. I look at the builds saying “This is fantastic”. Only thing that's going to happen with all the builds is prices come down” [image] @modestproposal1 : there were four gasp out loud comments in this obviously excellent interview Carl Franzen / @carlfranzen : If @satyanadella doesn't believe in AGI, how's @sama and @OpenAI ever supposed to satisfy their agreement?? 🤔 Tamara Winter / @_tamarawinter : Dwarkesh is just on an absurd run right now—a characteristically excellent convo @aisafetymemes : @dwarkesh_sp @satyanadella Dwarkesh: hey so what's the plan to control the machine god Satya: we will simply place the god in a sandbox Dwarkesh: uh bro it's already out of the box it has internet access Satya Nadella / @satyanadella : @dwarkesh_sp Thanks, @dwarkesh_sp. It was a fun conversation chatting about everything from AI to gaming and quantum! @modestproposal1 : Nadella: “At the end of the day, speed of light is speed of light, so you can't have one data center in Texas and say, “I'm going to serve the world from there.” [image] Dwarkesh Patel / @dwarkesh_sp : .@satyanadella shows me the first (and currently only) Majorana 1 quantum computing chip [video] Dwarkesh Patel / @dwarkesh_sp : .@satyanadella on: - why he doesn't believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth - Microsoft's new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models - whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the other way around Links below. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00:00 - Intro [video]