The CEO of a tech company is amazed by the cross-lingual understanding of chat GPT. He loves the way it captures the depth of poetry beyond the words and translations, referring to it as one of the highest callings of large language models. He prefers this over typical business or political applications and recalls his father struggling with Heidegger and finding an essay about AI's impact on humanity.
But as C.E.O. of the resurgent Microsoft, he is firmly at the center of the A.I. revolution. We speak with him about the perils and blessings of A.I., Google vs. Bing, the Microsoft succession plan — and why his favorite use of ChatGPT is translating poetry.