Eric Boyd, an expert from Microsoft, shares his insights on the explosive growth of generative AI over the past year. He discusses the crucial balance between openness and competition in AI tools. Boyd emphasizes the importance of responsible deployment within organizations and highlights challenges regarding transparency and regulatory concerns. The conversation dives into AI's potential to tackle global issues, showcasing its transformative impact on productivity in content creation and necessitating community collaboration for effective utilization.

As a partner with OpenAI — the company that recently wowed the tech world and the general public with its DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot — Microsoft helped to make those generative AI tools possible. But Microsoft has long invested in developing its own artificial intelligence technologies, for internal and external customers alike. And even when AI is not the centerpiece of a specific software program, it’s often driving how that tool — such as the company’s Bing search engine — works.As corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI platform, Eric Boyd oversees product and technology teams that build artificial intelligence and machine solutions for the company’s Azure platform and its AI services portfolio. Eric joins Sam and Shervin on this episode to talk about how Microsoft builds AI tools and embeds the technology in its various products, AI’s potential for helping to expand people’s creativity, and the democratization of AI. Read the episode transcript here.Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger.Stay in touch with us by joining our LinkedIn group, AI for Leaders at mitsmr.com/AIforLeaders or by following Me, Myself, and AI on LinkedIn.Guest bio:Eric Boyd leads the AI platform team within Microsoft’s Cloud + AI division. This global organization includes Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and internal platforms that provide data, experimentation, and graphics processing units cluster management to groups across Microsoft.Boyd joined the company in 2009 to create the Silicon Valley Search Ads team. In 2011, he moved to Bellevue, Washington, to lead the Bing Ads Development team before taking on his current role in 2015.Before joining Microsoft, Boyd was the vice president of engineering at Mochi Media, an ads startup that was acquired by Shanda Games. Previously, he was vice president of platform engineering at Yahoo for 10 years.Boyd has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from MIT.We encourage you to rate and review our show. Your comments may be used in Me, Myself, and AI materials.We want to know how you feel about Me, Myself, and AI. Please take a short, two-question survey.

Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President of AI at Microsoft, shares how organizations can leverage AI for faster development. He discusses the benefits of using natural language to build products and the future of version control. Eric mentions some foundational models in Azure AI and their capabilities.

Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd, and Neha Batra discuss AI at Microsoft Build 2024, AI algorithms' challenges, using red teams to test AI systems, cybersecurity thrillers, data impact on AI training, and One Password benefits. They talk about GPT-4 development, prompt shields, hallucination detection, and choosing AI models. The podcast explores serverless Postgres, connecting with others, personal adventures at GitHub, AI-human content creation, and organizing AI events at Microsoft.

Microsoft AI experts Mark Russinovich and Eric Boyd, alongside AI enthusiast Neha Batra, discuss AI safeguards, red teaming for security, AI jailbreaks, and the role of data in AI models. They explore AI technology challenges, model hallucinations, GitHub Copilot usage, and binding models to tackle security threats. The podcast also covers Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, optimizing productivity with AI tools, speech-to-text benefits, and the impact of AI on industries and workflow processes.