Abundant intelligence, skilling to shape AI future: Microsoft India head

Unmetered intelligence, human-supervised ‘digital colleagues’ and continuous skilling as the key safeguard amid big shifts will shape an AI-rewired future, Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India and South Asia has said outlining his top predictions.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during his visit to India earlier this month had announced plans to invest USD 17.5 billion here to help build infrastructure and sovereign capabilities for the country’s AI-first future – the bold commitment marking the tech giant’s largest investment ever in Asia.
Chandok said AI has moved beyond hype, delivering real impact today.
“…the next phase will be defined by how responsibly, inclusively, and thoughtfully we scale it,” Chandok told PTI.
His headline predictions for the rearranging world and frontier AI include intelligence moving from being scarce to abundant, with compute increasingly translating directly into cognition for organisations, in an era of “unmetered intelligence”.
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