Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts

Whereas Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he won’t really be listening to them anymore.

That tidbit comes in direction of the tip of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a deal with Microsoft’s AI technique and its complicated relationship with OpenAI. As an instance how a lot he makes use of the corporate’s Copilot AI assistant in his each day life, Nadella mentioned that as an alternative of listening to podcasts, he now uploads the transcripts to Copilot, then talks to Copilot concerning the content material throughout his drive to the workplace.

As well as, Nadella — who jokingly described his job as “electronic mail typist” — mentioned he depends on no less than 10 customized brokers developed in Copilot Studio to summarize emails and messages, put together for conferences, and carry out different duties across the workplace.

AI already appears to be reworking Microsoft in additional substantial methods, with programers reportedly the hardest hit within the firm’s latest layoffs, shortly after Nadella declared that 30% of the company’s code was written by AI.