Satya Nadella: recommendation

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…And separate from the safety issues, as you think about your own product suite, and you think about, if you do have AIs this powerful, at some point, it's not just like Copilot- an example you mentioned about how you were prepping for this podcast- it's more similar to how you actually delegate work to your colleagues. What does it look like, given your current suite, to add that in? I mean, there's one question about whether LLMs get commodified by other things. I wonder if these databases or canvases or Excel sheets or whatever -- if the LLM is your main gate point into accessing all these things, is it possible that the LLMs commodify Office? It's an interesting one. The way I think about the first phase, at least, would be: Can the LLM help me do my knowledge work using all of these tools or canvases more effectively? One of the best demos that I've seen is a doctor getting ready for a tumor board workflow. She's going into a tumor board meeting, and the first thing she uses Copilot for is to create an agenda for the meeting because the LLM helps reason about all the cases, which are in some SharePoint site. It says, "Hey, these cases -- obviously, a tumor board meeting is a high-stakes meeting where you want to be mindful of the differences in cases so that you can then allocate the right time." Even that reasoning task of creating an agenda that knows how to split time- super. So, I use the LLM to do that. Then I go into the meeting, I'm in a Teams call with all my colleagues. I'm focused on the actual case versus taking notes, because you now have this AI copilot doing a full transcription of all of this. It's not just a transcript, but a database entry of what is in the meeting that is recallable for all time. Then she comes out of the meeting, having discussed the case and not been distracted by note-taking. She's a teaching doctor; she wants to go and prep for her class. And so she goes into Copilot and says, "Take my tumor board meeting and create a PowerPoint slide deck out of it so that I can talk to my students about it." So that’s the type. The UI and the scaffolding that I have are canvases that are now getting populated using LLMs. And the workflow itself is being reshaped; knowledge work is getting done. Here's an interesting thing: If someone came to me in the late '80s and said, "You're going to have a million documents on your desk," I would say, "What the heck is that?" I would have literally thought there was going to be a million physical copies of things on my desk. Except, we do have a million spreadsheets and a million documents. I don’t, you do.…

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