AI’s success must be measured in economic impact, not benchmarks: Satya Nadella

The true metric of success of artificial intelligence (AI) must be measured in terms of its economic impact and real growth in global gross domestic product (GDP), said Satya Nadella, chief executive, Microsoft.

“…the ultimate measure for me always is not some AI benchmark, it is the GDP growth in the real world that means it’s the growth in a firm. And that’s, I think, where we’re seeing absolutely real evidence that this is scaling,” he said in a conversation with Ali Ghodsi, founder and chief executive, Databricks, at the company’s annual…