Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivering keynote address at the company’s ‘Tech For Good, Ideas for India’ event in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday said that the company was trying to teach computers more of human language to make computing faster and interacting with them more natural and easier than ever using artificial intelligence assistants like Cortana.
Cortana, a virtual assistant and comparable to Apple’s Siri and Google Now, is an intelligence programme that runs on most Windows devices and mostly helps in getting tasks done by speech recognition.
In his drive to speak about the development of a robust conversation platform that works via speech recognition and augmented or virtual reality, the CEO quoted one of the finest poems of the 19th century ‘shayar’ Mirza Ghalib to drive home the power of dreams to youngsters of the country. “Hazaaron khwaishein aisi, ke har khwaish pe dum nikle. Bohot nikle mere armaan, fir bhi kam nikle” (I have a thousand desires, all desires worth dying for, though many of my desires were fulfilled, a majority remained unfulfilled).
In between, he also spoke about his and the company’s dreams – about future apps to help drive innovation and empower the people of India.
