Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Wants Us to Stop Treating AI Like Humans
The chief executive wants people to remember that artificial intelligence is a tool, not actual human intelligence.
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., during an event at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, US, on Monday, May 20, 2024.
Photographer: Chona Kasinger/BloombergA week after OpenAI unveiled a personal assistant that can laugh, sing and speak with a mix of different voices, the company's closest partner offered a subtly different view for how people should engage with artificial intelligence tools.
“I don't like anthropomorphizing AI,” Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella told Bloomberg Television on Monday, referring to the practice of using verbs and nouns to describe AI that are typically reserved for people. “I sort of believe it's a tool.”