In an attempt to allay concerns about its dominance, Microsoft President Brad Smith on Monday unveiled a set of guidelines to promote innovation and competition in artificial intelligence, acknowledging the company’s position as the industry leader in this field.
Promoting Ethical Advancements and Fair Competition in AI
The US IT behemoth decided in response to antitrust authorities and competitors’ concerns over Microsoft’s increasing market dominance. Recently boosted by its partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
Over the past year, Microsoft has integrated chatbots into its essential products, such its Office suite and Bing search engine. Drawing in business clients ready to test out the latest innovation in the IT sector.
“We think this is the best time to articulate principles that will govern how we will operate our AI datacenter infrastructure and other important. AI assets around the world as we enter a new era based on artificial intelligence.” Smith stated in a speech that was scheduled to be given at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
He stated that one of the goals of the AI Access Principles is “to address Microsoft’s growing role. Responsibility as an AI innovator and a market leader.”
“By publishing these principles, we are committing ourselves to providing the broad technology access needed to empower organizations and individuals around the world to develop and use AI in ways that will serve the public good,” Smith stated.
The guiding principles include giving AI developers access and support. Opening up AI models and development tools to software developers worldwide and making public APIs (application programming interfaces) available so developers can use and access AI models on Microsoft Azure.
Additionally, Microsoft will not use proprietary data or information from the creation and implementation of developers. AI models on Microsoft Azure to undermine those models. Additionally, Microsoft Azure users will have the ability to effortlessly export and move their data to another cloud provider.
