Satya Nadella

But after having triaged my email, give me a higher level cognitive labor task of, hey, these are the three drafts I really want you to review.

Like, that's a different abstraction.

May, but as soon as it gets to that second thing, there will be a third thing, right?

So this is where I think why are we sort of thinking somehow that we have dealt with tools that have changed what is cognitive labor in history.

Why are we worried that all cognitive labor goes away?

But in one very narrow dimension, right?

It's only 200 years of history of humans where we have valued some narrow sort of things called cognitive labor as we understand it.

Let's take something like chemistry, right?

If this thing like quantum plus AI really helped us sort of do a lot of novel material science and so on.

Yeah, that's fantastic to have novel material science being done by it.

Does that really somehow take away from sort of all the other things that humans can do?

Right?

So why can't we exist in a world where there are powerful cognitive machines, knowing that our cognitive agency has not been taken away?

It's a great example.

One of the things we added was this facilitator agent in Teams, right?

The goal there, it's in the early stages of it, is he can that facilitator agent with long-term memory, not just on the context of the meeting, but with context of projects that I'm working on and the team and what have you, be a great facilitator.

I would love even in a board meeting where it's easy to get distracted.

After all, board members come once a quarter and they're trying to digest what the heck is happening with a complex company like Microsoft.

I think a facilitator agent that actually helped human beings all stay on topic forever.

focus on the issues that matter, that's fantastic, right?