No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 24, 2023

Duration

54m

Channel

No Priors

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

In this episode, Sarah and Elad speak with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about his unlikely journey from rural Virginia to becoming the driving force behind Microsoft's AI strategy. Sarah and Elad discuss the partnership that Kevin helped forge between Microsoft and OpenAI and explore the vision both companies have for the future of AI. They also discuss yesterday’s announcement of “copilots” across the Microsoft product suite, Microsoft’s GPU computing budget, the potential impact of open source AI models in the tech industry, the future of AI in relation to jobs, why Kevin is bullish on creative and physical work, and predictions for progress in AI this year. 00:00 - Kevin Scott's Journey to Microsoft CTO 12:44 - Microsoft and Open AI Partnership 21:18 - The Future of Open Source AI 32:12 - AI for Everyone 45:29 - AI and the Future of Jobs 51:44 - The Future of AI and Regulation

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sarah Guo

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• Kevin Scott

  guest

• Elad Gil

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Kevin Scott, No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft explores microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI Platforms, Partnerships, and Purpose Kevin Scott traces his unlikely path from rural Virginia to Microsoft CTO and explains how that background shapes his conviction that AI must broadly benefit society. He details Microsoft’s strategic bet on large-scale AI: consolidating GPU resources, partnering deeply with OpenAI, and co-building supercomputing infrastructure with NVIDIA to enable platform-scale models. Scott argues that AI’s real impact comes from assistive, “copilot” products and a stack that blends large models, orchestration, retrieval, and safety layers, rather than models as standalone products. He also emphasizes balancing optimism about AI’s potential in areas like education and healthcare with serious, proactive work on safety, regulation, and responsible deployment.

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