Tesla CEO Elon Musk agrees with Microsoft's Satya Nadella on AI goals: ‘If there's one lesson…'
Microsoft
CEO
Satya Nadella
recently shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) where he said 'The real benchmark for AI progress is whether it makes a real difference in people's lives — in healthcare, education, and productivity.' Nadella recently appeared at
Y Combinator AI Startup School
where he talked about Microsoft's AI bets, hyperscaling, and
quantum computing
breakthroughs. His X post caught the attention of Tesla CEO
Elon Musk
who responded to Satya Nadella's statement, saying 'True'.
In the post, Nadella also shared a video of him from the event where he said 'If there's one lesson history has taught is that if you're gonna use energy, you better have social permission to use energy. So that means you've got to make sure that the output of the AI is still to use'.
Adding further, he said 'If we really are not creating social surplus (economic surplus) as measured by countries and communities, we just can' consume it. And so that, to me, is the bigger thing. Like, everybody is today, hot and bothered about what do I do about energy production?'
Satya Nadella: 'I think the real question in the next five years is…'
During the conversation, Nadella also touched upon challenges for the tech industry in the coming five years. He said 'I think the real question in the next five years is we've got to produce enough products that are creating great value, which I'm very confident of, in healthcare and education, in productivity. So there's many, many domains. But that's the real challenge for us as a tech industry, is to prove unequivocally that what we have created is showing up in real stats; that is not just an AGI or AI benchmark.'
'Like, in the United States, 18-19% of our cost is healthcare, and everybody talks about the magical drug except all of the cost is in work flow' he said, adding that 'the back end of an EMR system with just an LLM and a prompt…is going to save so much time and money and energy that you sort of paper itself.'
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