 Welcome back to the AI for good global summit here in Geneva. It's day two now Microsoft has a really big presence at this summit and one of them is Ashish Kapoor who's the principle Research Manager at Microsoft headquarters just outside Seattle. Hello. Hello So Tim why is Microsoft? Playing such a big role here this week. Yeah So, you know one of the core missions of Microsoft is to enable every individual and organization on planet to achieve more And if we believe that AI is the next, you know fire or electricity or the propelling force that will push Individuals and organizations to achieve more then, you know, it's very important for us to not only share our knowledge and technology With the world but also understand and also here and listen to the people who are the front lines of You know Frontlines where they're trying to tackle these hard issues. That's really matters to you know most of the planet At Microsoft we have we have very heavily invested in trying to understand problems that in that affect society and individuals At a much deeper level. So for instance, there are initiatives in India Africa and Latin America that looks at various aspects of health education climate, etc and a venue like this allows us to talk to people and Here, you know, their concerns as well as how we can help them off Except when this first summit occurred three years ago I Could have heard that same phrase from you. So what has advanced in since it on this third three years on? Yeah, so I mean definitely the base of technology, especially in AI. I mean, it's it's increasing exponentially We have achieved, you know, very impressive things in the realm of algorithms in the realm of, you know Say for instance solving traditional gaming You know object detection computer vision speech now it's really the time to see how it affects us in real world and past three years has allowed us to understand those advances and really, you know now now seek Venues and places where we can really make a difference in real world What are the barriers Microsoft's trying to overcome in terms of AI? so, you know AI in general has so many different challenges that need to overcome I mean if AI technologies are to interact with humans, they need to you know Understand the motivations. They need to be aligned with the values of humanity. For instance So those are very difficult problems just to quantify and start building algorithms around them But specifically, you know, when we think about AI for good One of the key challenges is the scarcity of data, you know All the all the news and all the advances that we hear about are in things which are I would say a little bit artificial in the sense that you know, you need millions and millions of examples to show Improvement over human performances, but when we go on the field, we don't have the luxury of of having you know millions or billions of examples so the data scarcity is a huge issue while, you know, a lot of Investment has gone into building compute and GPUs and TPUs and all kinds of fancy hardware But if you don't have enough data, nothing of that is going to be useful So consequently, you know, you know in in the context of AI for good The scarcity of data is a big problem that we are trying to actively address When we talk of AI for good as well, one of the great fears about AI is that and you're at Microsoft So you can answer this is that jobs will go. What's your feelings about that? You know as I said like the mission really is to empower individual and organizations to achieve more You know one is as an AI researcher my personal belief is that We are going to help people achieve more not necessarily to remove people from the equation, right? So so for instance, you know, if you think about You know vehicles, you know, it allows us to go further distance, right? It's not that you know We have completely ruled out the the rule of how humans play into transportation the same thing You know AI as a technology is a vehicle for us to achieve more So while there are genuine concerns in some sectors about You know how it might adversely affect Affect jobs, but the perspective especially from the air from the for good is the whole idea of How do you empower other people to build and do greater things? At the end of this week, what would you would like to have been achieved? So at the end of this week, you know personally as a as an AI researcher I hope to gain a deeper understanding into various problems problem spaces In especially in climate health and education sector because that's where I feel that we can we can have a big impact That will affect positively affect the you know the societies Okay. Well, that's Ashish Kapoor from Microsoft headquarters over in Seattle. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you