Full Keynote | Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2023

Magic of AI

In this section, the speaker talks about how AI can read minds and innovate at an unprecedented scale.

AI's Capabilities

• The speaker describes AI as being able to read minds and perform magic.

• The speaker emphasizes that we are innovating at a scale like never before with the help of AI.

• According to the speaker, AI takes what you prompt it with and just runs with it.

Ease of Use

• The speaker highlights that everything is linked in AI and everything is easy to use.

• The speaker mentions that AI accelerates how fast solutions can be delivered to fans and businesses.

Empowering People through Technology

In this section, the speaker discusses how technology can empower people by amplifying their abilities.

Amplifying Abilities

• The speaker explains that technology allows for patients and doctors to focus on their roles without distractions. It amplifies what every person is able to do.

• According to the speaker, technology opens up opportunities for people who want more out of life, such as farmers or girls in villages who want to go to college.

Build 2023 Developer Conference

In this section, the speaker welcomes attendees to Build 2023 Developer Conference and reflects on past developer conferences.

Welcome Address

• The speaker greets attendees both physically and online.

• According to the speaker, developer conferences are special times when platform shifts are in the air. He reflects on his first PDC in 1991 which changed his life.

The Journey of Computing

• The speaker talks about the journey of computing over the last 70 years, starting with Vannevar Bush's paper "As We May Think" and leading up to the launch of ChatGPT.

• He mentions Licklider's concept of human-computer symbiosis and the Xerox Alto.

• The speaker references Jobs' description of computers as bicycles for the mind.

Upgrades in Technology

• According to the speaker, ChatGPT was an upgrade that shifted us from a bicycle to a steam engine.

• He emphasizes that every layer of the software stack is going to be changed forever.

Changing How We Build Software

• The speaker discusses how we build software is fundamentally changing with Codespaces, Dev Box, Copilot, GitHub Actions, and Azure Deployment Environments.

• He mentions his dream of staying in VS code or command line and doing everything there.

• According to the speaker, what we are going to build as developers is really the story of this developer conference.

Nuance's DAX, Security Copilot and AI Infrastructure

In this section, Satya Nadella talks about the changes in every layer of the stack in industry workflows. He highlights Nuance's DAX and Security Copilot, Bing and Edge features driven by AI, LinkedIn features driven by AI, Azure OpenAI APIs and other related technologies.

Nuance's DAX, Security Copilot and AI Infrastructure

• Nuance has done a great job with DAX or the Security Copilot.

• Bing and Edge have features driven by AI.

• LinkedIn also has features driven by AI.

• Azure OpenAI APIs are available for use.

Five Announcements at Developer Conference

In this section, Satya Nadella announces five new developments at the developer conference. The first announcement is about bringing search grounding in Bing to ChatGPT.

Five Announcements at Developer Conference

• There will be 50+ announcements at the developer conference.

• The first announcement is about bringing search grounding in Bing to ChatGPT.

Search Grounding in Bing to ChatGPT

In this section, Satya Nadella talks about how ChatGPT is growing fast as a consumer app. He announces that they are bringing search grounding in Bing to ChatGPT which will make all information current and grounded by what they have from crawl and index.

Search Grounding in Bing to ChatGPT

• ChatGPT is the most fast-growing consumer app seen so far.

• Search grounding in Bing is being brought to ChatGPT.

• This feature will make all information current and grounded by what they have from crawl and index.

Copilot on Windows

In this section, Satya Nadella announces that the copilot is being brought to Windows which will make every user a power user of Windows.

Copilot on Windows

• The copilot is being brought to Windows.

• This feature will make every user a power user of Windows.

Common Extensibility Across All Surfaces

In this section, Satya Nadella talks about how Microsoft has built all these copilots with one common architectural stack. He announces that they want to make that available so that everyone can build their own copilot for their applications. They will have everything from the AI infrastructure to the foundation models to the AI orchestration all the way up to your copilot and its extensibility.

Common Extensibility Across All Surfaces

• Microsoft has built all these copilots with one common architectural stack.

• They want to make it available so that everyone can build their own copilot for their applications.

• Everything from the AI infrastructure to the foundation models to the AI orchestration will be provided.

• There will be common extensibility across all surfaces.

ChatGPT and Bing Together as Default Search Experience

In this section, Yusuf Mehdi shows how Bing is now integrated into ChatGPT as default search experience. He also demonstrates interoperability between ChatGPT and Bing for plugins.

ChatGPT and Bing Together as Default Search Experience

• Bing is now integrated into ChatGPT as default search experience.

• Interoperability between ChatGPT and Bing for plugins is demonstrated.

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot

In this section, Yusuf Mehdi demonstrates how Microsoft 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot can help users be more productive by using plugins to automate tasks across different apps.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Bing can read the context of a web page, understand its contents, and create a shopping list from it using the Instacart plugin.

• Using Thomson Reuters plugins with Microsoft Word, users can call on legal expertise to edit documents and analyze their enforceability under specific laws.

• Document Intelligence provides a summary of all changes made to a document in an easy-to-read format.

• With Atlassian Jira plugin, users can track website changes directly from Teams chat.

Windows Copilot

• Windows Copilot is invoked by clicking on the taskbar icon and provides suggestions for adjusting system settings to improve productivity.

• Users can take action on these suggestions with one click, such as enabling focus mode or dark mode.

• Plugins like Spotify allow users to quickly access playlists for specific tasks.

• The AI-powered copilots have over 50 plugins available for customers with thousands more coming.

Azure AI Studio

In this section, the speaker introduces Azure AI Studio, a full life cycle tool to build, customize, train, evaluate and deploy next-generation models responsibly. The toolchain includes built-in vector indexing in Azure Search, support for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering with prompt flow and orchestration, and AI safety features.

Features of Azure AI Studio

• Built-in support for AI safety principles that are implemented across the engineering stack.

• Responsible AI dashboard to ensure safe development during testing phase.

• Prompt flow feature to ground models using relevant data from an organization.

• Support for provenance of media such as images and videos with watermarking for neural voice.

• Ability to use the AI Safety Service at deployment time to ensure safe deployment of OSS models.

• Monitoring of model drift after deployment.

Microsoft Fabric

In this section, the speaker introduces Microsoft Fabric, a unified data analytics platform that brings together compute and storage. It unifies all full analytics stack product experiences including governance with analytics. It also unifies the business model across all different types of analytics workloads.

Features of Microsoft Fabric

• Unification of compute and storage as well as governance with analytics.

• Unification of business model across all different types of analytics workloads including SQL and machine learning.

Microsoft Fabric

In this section, the speaker introduces Microsoft Fabric, a unified experience that brings together all the tools data professionals need.

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

• Microsoft Fabric is a unified experience that brings together all the tools data professionals need.

• It includes pipelines for orchestrating data movement, experiments for training machine learning models, semantic models for defining key metrics, and much more.

• Unified governance, security, and compliance are built-in for all your data.

• Copilot for Microsoft Fabric uses AI to help everyone be more productive.

Why Do We Build Technology?

In this section, the speaker discusses why we build technology and how it impacts economic growth and human development.

The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Technology

• The relationship between economic progress and technology has been there for a long time.

• For most of human history, we didn't have much economic growth or technology. Then something happened 250 years ago which was long in building from perhaps the Enlightenment to the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution was close to 400 years.

• Over the last 70 years, information technology has played a role across all seminal moments on the march towards that dream machine.

The Impact of Technology on Human Development

• We don't build just because we want economic growth. We want economic growth so that we can have human development index growth.

• Technology can make a difference to 8 billion people around the planet by diffusing or diffusion that takes days and weeks instead of years and centuries.

• We want equitable growth, trust in technology, and to protect fundamental rights.

Empowering Every Person and Organization

In this section, the speaker discusses how Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Microsoft's Mission

• Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

• Developers are going to have the most profound impact of any technology on 8 billion people all around the planet.

Government Schemes for Farmers

In this section, a farmer talks about government schemes available for farmers but they often don't know about them due to limited access to information.

Government Schemes for Farmers

• Many villages don't have access to newspapers, so their access to information is limited.

• There are many government schemes available for farmers but they often don't know about them.

Jugalbandi: Bridging the Linguistic and Technological Divide

In this section, the speaker discusses the challenge of providing justice to citizens in their own language and introduces Jugalbandi, a chatbot that was built to solve the linguistic and technological divide.

Introduction to Jugalbandi

• Jugalbandi is a chatbot designed to solve two problems: the linguistic divide and the technological divide.

• The chatbot uses state-of-the-art models for machine translation and speech recognition, allowing it to understand, transcribe, translate, and synthesize speech.

• The chatbot can provide information about government schemes and assist users in applying for them.

Development of Jugalbandi

• The Ministry of Electronics and IT has been working on bridging the linguistic divide for five years.

• ChatGPT was launched as a catalyst for bringing together different pieces of technology needed for building Jugalbandi.

• The diversity of India has been categorized to make it easier for Jugalbandi to provide assistance.