Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft, where he leads the company’s AI and technology strategy at global scale and played a pivotal role in Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Prior to Microsoft, Kevin spent six years at Linkedin as SVP of Engineering. Kevin has also enjoyed advisory positions with Pinterest, Box, Code.org and more.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
04:10 Where is Enduring Value in a World of AI
10:53 Why Scaling Laws are BS
12:26 What is the Bottleneck Today: Data, Compute or Algorithms
15:38: In 10 Years Time: What % of Data Usage will be Synthetic
20:04 How Will AI Agents Evolve Over the Next Five Years
23:34: Deepseek Evalution: Do We Underestimate China
28:34 The Future of Software Development
31:53 The Thing That Most Excites Me in AI is Tech Debt
35:01 Leadership Lessons from Satya Nadella
41:13 Quickfire Round
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Kevin Scott is the CTO of Microsoft, where he leads the company’s AI and technology strategy at global scale and played a pivotal role in Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Prior to Microsoft, Kevin spent six years at Linkedin as SVP of Engineering. Kevin has also enjoyed advisory positions with Pinterest, Box, Code.org and more.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
04:10 Where is Enduring Value in a World of AI
10:53 Why Scaling Laws are BS
12:26 What is the Bottleneck Today: Data, Compute or Algorithms
15:38: In 10 Years Time: What % of Data Usage will be Synthetic
20:04 How Will AI Agents Evolve Over the Next Five Years
23:34: Deepseek Evalution: Do We Underestimate China
28:34 The Future of Software Development
31:53 The Thing That Most Excites Me in AI is Tech Debt
35:01 Leadership Lessons from Satya Nadella
41:13 Quickfire Round
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