'Remarkable', Satya Nadella Shares How An Indian Farmer Used AI To Understand Govt Farm Subsidies

The battle of the AI is on. With big tech companies trying to take the lead in this interesting race, Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella recently shared an interesting anecdote at the company’s annual developer conference, Build 2024.?

While talking about the impressive advancements in artificial intelligence, he revealed how an Indian farmer benefited from technology.?

He told the story, laying the groundwork for significant revelations, including advancements in services such as Azure and Copilot, along with breakthroughs from Microsoft-supported entities like OpenAI.

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How An Indian Farmer Used GPT-3.5

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Nadella said, “In January 2023, I met a rural Indian farmer who used GPT-3.5, in his own voice, to understand government farm subsidies he’d heard about on television. It was a powerful moment for me. It illustrated the incredible impact of a cutting-edge model developed on the West Coast of the United States, now being used to directly improve the life of a rural farmer in India.”

He also narrated this incident during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos.?

As per Nadella, the farmer was trying to access some government programme.

“He expressed a complex need in one of the local languages. This got translated and interpreted by a bot and a response came back saying go to a portal and here is how you will access the programme,” the Microsoft CEO revealed.

Initially, the farmer was reluctant to utilize the program and requested the bot to carry out the task on his behalf.

"And, it completed it and the reason why it was able to complete it was that the developer building it had taken GPT [General Purpose Technology] and trained it over all of the government of India documents and then scaffolded it with the speech recognition software," Nadella added.

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Details Of Microsoft’s AI Update GPT-4.o

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At Build 2024, Microsoft unveiled significant advancements in AI technology, including the accessibility of OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4o, to developers. Additionally, they introduced a new Small Language Model (SLM) called Phi-3-vision, capable of image recognition, to be available on Azure AI Studio. Microsoft also introduced powerful virtual machines optimized for AI workloads, becoming the first cloud provider to integrate AMD's MI300X AI accelerator chip into the Azure ND MI300X v5 virtual machine series. These developments aim to empower developers to push the boundaries of AI with enhanced capabilities and efficiency.