, show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead. That spurred an urgency that led to the Windows maker’s
Scott wrote that he was “very, very worried” about Google’s rapidly growing AI capabilities. He says he initially dismissed the company’s “game-playing stunts,” likely referring to Google’s AlphaGo models. One of themBut Scott says brushing off Google’s game-playing progress “was a mistake.” “When they took all of the infrastructure that they had built to build models that we couldn’t easily replicate, I started to take things more seriously,” Scott wrote.
He also admired and envied Google’s Gmail auto-complete capabilities, saying it was “getting scarily good.” He commented that Microsoft was “multiple years behind the competition in terms of scale.” He commented on the “interesting” growth of OpenAI, DeepMind and Google Brain.