AI pioneers say ChatGPT, Bing and Bard will push creativity, take over mundane jobs so that humans can do better
Indian-origin American computer engineer Krishna C. Mukherjee has spent much of his career in the field of artificial intelligence – and he thinks the relationship between humans and AI is a symbiotic one. For Mukherjee, AI is a collaboration between humans and machines to achieve optimal results and that hasn’t changed since the time he started work on the new technology stream in the late 1980s. “Microsoft has been introducing AI into products like Word and Excel, and then into the cloud computing environments such as Azure for a long time. This edition of ChatGPT into [Bing] is just an extension of that,” the technology pioneer tells indianexpress.com in a call.
Born and brought up in India, Mukherjee was recruited by Microsoft in 1988 after he did his master’s in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Mukherjee is known for laying the groundwork for the architecture and design of the Windows operating system and office applications at the Redmond giant. He and his team were also credited with building AI-based features in Microsoft Office like the spelling and grammar checks, AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features, and IntelliSense.
For years, big tech companies like Microsoft, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google have been adding AI into their products, but never managing to demonstrate use cases of artificial intelligence at scale. However, OpenAI became the first startup to show the power of generative AI with the launch of the GPT-3 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3) large language model in 2020. But that was just the beginning.
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