GeekWire March 25, 2025
Ask not what Microsoft can do for AI, but what AI can do for global productivity.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking at Madrona‘s 2025 annual meeting in Seattle, explained how he gauges Microsoft’s AI progress, shifting the focus from technical benchmarks to broader economic impact as the true sign of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
“My formula for when can we say AGI has arrived? When, say, the developed world is growing at 10%, which may have been the peak of the Industrial Revolution,” Nadella said. “That’s a good benchmark for me.”
Nadella has referenced the link between AI and global productivity in recent podcasts and interviews, but he was more detailed and specific in his conversation with S. “Soma” Somasegar,...
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