'The entire forecasting business process changed': Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Excel changed the game for enterprises in 1985 - he's confident AI tools will do the same
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Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella asserts that AI has not yet reached the transformative level of Excel in business practices. He compares past forecasting methods, which were inefficient and labor-intensive, to the potential AI has. While acknowledging that the integration of AI into workflows will take time and require a shift in management processes, Nadella believes that a significant breakthrough in AI's impact on knowledge work is on the horizon. He emphasizes the need for evolving metrics to measure AI success beyond just the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Faxes went around, somebody then got those faxes and then did an inter-office memo that then went around and people entered numbers ... ultimately, a forecast came, maybe just in time for the next quarter.
Then somebody said, 'hey, I'm just going to take an Excel spreadsheet, put it an email, send it around, people will go edit it, and I'll have a forecast.'
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