While dealing with computers for the last 70 years, the dream, according to Satya Nadella, has always been — making computers that we can understand versus making computers that can understand us. He was addressing a crowd of developers in Bangalore on Thursday, February 8, 2024. The theme at this event was democratization of artificial intelligence (AI). AI thus becomes accessible and transformative power for the society.

Developers are inclined to digitize people, places and things. AI changes this. There are data models. We can query them. They act as neural reasoning engines. These can find patterns and that gives us predictive power.

There is a platform shift. That is the key to drive the economic growth. It can contribute 10 per cent to India’s GDP. That empowers people at large.

India is only second to the US in terms of total number of developers on GitHub, and by 2027, India may cross this to emerge as the hub of greatest number of developers. India puts generative AI projects on GitHub next to the US. India has achieved creditable momentum here.

There are AI transformation opportunities in India. AI can facilitate employee experience, customer engagement, business processes, and can bend the curve on innovation.

Microsoft has 60 Azure regions, 800 data centers. There can be breakthroughs through AI in science. Microsoft has global AI footprint. It believes in equitable AI.