Satya Nadella was on an AI tour in London, where he gave a Keynote Address. Microsoft published it on YouTube with the following index:
- 0:00 – Satya Nadella introduction
- 6:27 – Copilot and Pages
- 8:44 – Copilot + Agents with Copilot Studio
- 11:09 – Copilot impact at Microsoft and across functions
- 15:36 – Copilot Studio autonomos agents
- 16:29 – Jared Spataro demos agents in Copilot Studio
- 24:05 – Copilot & AI stack
- 35:36 – Copilot+ PCs
- 38:32 – Trustworthy AI
- 40:33 – Closing thoughts
Even more interesting was an interview Nadella apparently had with the Times (UK).
Nadella spoke about the importance of fair use for transformative technologies and innovation, as quoted by the Times [no transcript is available]:
“Whenever there has been a transformative technology, ultimately a framework of law has been established on what fair use looks like, because otherwise there will be no new innovation.”
He also cited Japan law’s copyright exception for text and data mining:
[Nadella] said he was “delighted” by the Japanese approach. Japan has become one of the world’s most AI-friendly countries with broad rights allowing companies to ingest and use copyrighted works for any type of information analysis, including training AI models.
Nadella said: “Having perhaps gotten behind in software, they want to make sure that they lead when it comes to this next phase. And so they have said that the use of content to create a new generation of models falls under fair use.”
Japan’s Copyright Act Article 30-4 states:
(Exploitation without the Purpose of Enjoying the Thoughts or Sentiments Expressed in a Work)
Article 30-4 It is permissible to exploit a work, in any way and to the extent considered necessary, in any of the following cases, or in any other case in which it is not a person’s purpose to personally enjoy or cause another person to enjoy the thoughts or sentiments expressed in that work; provided, however, that this does not apply if the action would unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner in light of the nature or purpose of the work or the circumstances of its exploitation:
(i) if it is done for use in testing to develop or put into practical use technology that is connected with the recording of sounds or visuals of a work or other such exploitation;
(ii) if it is done for use in data analysis (meaning the extraction, comparison,classification, or other statistical analysis of the constituent language, sounds, im-ages, or other elemental data from a large number of works or a large volume of other such data; the same applies in Article 47-5, paragraph (1), item (ii));
(iii) if it is exploited in the course of computer data processing or otherwise exploited in a way that does not involve what is expressed in the work being per-ceived by the human senses (for works of computer programming, such exploita-tion excludes the execution of the work on a computer), beyond as set forth in the preceding two items.