In a recent interview the Microsoft C.E.O., Satya Nadella, talked about how he use the popular A.I. language model chatbot, ChatGPT, into his daily work routine.
It’s “a new layer of intelligence” that has made him productive, focused and creative, he said about the tool.
“We are seeing AI creeping into the real decision makers offices,” Nadella’s observation indicates among some of the nation’s top brass, AI is already determining action in real decision making when it comes to the nation’s leading figures.
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Artificial intelligence is transforming work in an array of industries, and Microsoft is one of the companies leading the charge.
Where others imagine AI as something from the future, for Satya Nadella it’s a tool that speeds up work and makes it easier.
Nadella’s bet is that tools like ChatGPT are not job stealer for humans but rather job augmenters for humans, by taking care of rote work, making complex information more digestible, acting as a muse or as conversational muse or as inspiration.
He points daily to ChatGPT as proof that AI can help focus and enable leaders to make more-informed decisions, without AI also becoming a distraction.
5 ChatGPT Prompts Satya Nadella Asks
- Summarizing Long Documents
His most common ChatGPT use, Nadella said, is to distill long or complex reports, documents, meeting notes you name it.
But rather than having to plow through potentially hundreds of pages, he asks ChatGPT to just give him a more digestible summary of the taboos.
He said, after he has received a comprehensive research report on an industry, he just cues up ChatGPT to help him succinctly deliver the top line takeaways.
This allows him to rapidly get up to speed on the most important trends, threats and opportunities without skipping a beat.
- Drafting Professional Emails
To a great extent the CEO’s daily work is about communication management.
For that, Nadella consults ChatGPT, which composes them in concise and professional missives.
The result isn’t just a timesaver, but ensures every messages sounds just right, and absolutely clear.
When answering investor questions or drafting internal updates, he has ChatGPT regurgitate well written drafts.
He reads over it before sending, and this has also fostered a higher level of efficiency but still effective communication.
- Generating New Business Ideas
Innovation drives Microsoft’s growth and in such conversations Nadella repeatedly challenges ChatGPT with finding new innovative new business ideas around the latest industry trends, market movements or technology innovations.
Enter the kind of data you want to analyze, and he’ll have more fresh, usable ideas that help Microsoft remain ahead.
This makes brainstorming much faster, and saves the overhead of re-inventing the wheel every time a new project is started.
- Analyzing Data for Insights
Instead of perusing data reports manually, Nadella asks ChatGPT to review data sets and extract insights.
This allows him to identify trends and instant learnings quicker, making faster, more educated decisions.
For example, ChatGPT can interpret customer feedback scores to raise a flag where service needs to be bolstered, giving Nadella a sense of priorities.
- Simplifying Complex Concepts
The ability to navigate technical topics is a large part of Nadella’s job as Microsoft’s chief executive.
Others would rather avoid such subjects, burying their heads in the sand like ostriches, believes Hiscox, who himself turns to ChatGPT to break down difficult ideas into more accessible explanations on some occasions.
This helps him put things in words for board members, team members, or non-technical stakeholders.
Rather than getting into the weeds of cloud-based security frameworks, for example, he relies on ChatGPT to distill the information into language that everyone can understand.
- A New Layer of Intelligence
The working process at Microsoft is defined by its own smart word generator, Satya Nadella refers to GPT as “a new layer of intelligence” that adds value.
His employment of these basic but powerful cues provides an example of how AI can put focus on strategic thought for executives and employees rather than on process.
It’s one more example of how AI tools, as they become mundane in business used to drive up productivity, support and automate management decisions, and fuel creative activities.
Microsoft is already embedding AI into widely used services like Word, Outlook and Teams, enabling people without expertise in machine learning to make use of AI.
The manner in which he is building it into his philosophy suggests that AI is not just for tech winners, it’s for professionals of all kinds who want to work smarter and faster.
So as more companies adopt such tools, and as AI-powered prompts like the ones that Nadella relies on become common a fixture, potentially, in just about everyone’s daily work life they can also help keep companies competitive and efficient in a world that increasingly runs on digital.
