Super God-Level Top Student

Satya Nadella spent about ten minutes reading the email twice. He was not only thinking about what the collaboration could bring to Microsoft's future but also felt that the Xilin Mathematics Research Institute was indeed full of talent, even tempted to bring this contact over to Microsoft.

Being able to discuss specific technical details with a professional scientific researcher like Kevin Scott and successfully persuade him shows that the email sent is also extremely targeted. This kind of negotiation skill, where emails have different strategies for different people, marks a high-level talent.

Truly, there aren't many people in this world who can make his heart race with just an email. To hold his position, he definitely needs a keen eye.

After reading the email, Satya Nadella mentally prepared a draft reply and began to respond.

"Dear Mr. or Ms. X: Hello. I must admit, the vision you outlined in your last email is very enticing, and it must be a wonderful future. However, I think you must also admit that all of this is still just your imagination of the future.

My business principles always remind me to stay grounded in the present. The current reality is that we have not yet reached a consensus on the concept of AGI, and there have been no groundbreaking advancements in the next-generation chip advanced processes and network interconnection technology, you could even say there is no direction yet.

Well, you might refute my statement because you have already used ample evidence to convince our chief scientist. But I hope you know that the future as seen by a scientist is different from the future as seen by a company leader.

After all, any company's CSO or CTO does not need to be accountable to shareholders. But a CEO is different; even if I don't think about Microsoft's future, I still have to be responsible for every investor in Microsoft, especially in such an extremely complex era.

Alternatively, you might use more substantial evidence to persuade me. You also know that if we truly collaborate in the high-tech field, both sides, especially us, need to overcome numerous challenges, which is not an easy task and certainly not something that can be decided on quickly.

Your friend, Satya Nadella."

Soon, after finishing the email and clicking send, Satya Nadella originally planned to put this matter aside and began to deal with the documents already laid out on his desk by the secretary.

There were still many tasks this morning. The operational reports from various departments of the last quarter, key performance indicator reports, major project product progress reports, as well as the financial statements for the first quarter, the next stage's remuneration, welfare plans, and senior management appointment evaluation reports...

Everything placed on his desk required his review; many needed his signature to take effect.

Time was a bit tight, as he would need to travel abroad in mid-month. First, he had to visit Europe to resolve some troublesome issues. Additionally, he needed to check out the innovation data center in Jiaguo, where recent legislation seemed to target Microsoft, also requiring him to have talks with some people there.

There was no choice, as his slogan when taking office was to make Microsoft great again, and someone had to do these tasks.

But what he didn't expect was that less than two minutes later, there was another email response.

"Dear Mr. Satya Nadella: Is now a convenient time to chat?"

Fortunately, it was just a single sentence; if it were a long, targeted reply, Satya Nadella would start to suspect the other side wasn't human.

"Of course, what method would you prefer to use? Email?"

"Microsoft Teams, perhaps? If it's convenient, directly add me via this email address."

Satya Nadella couldn't find a reason to refuse. After all, this is a chat-based intelligent team collaboration tool released by Microsoft, which also provides team members with instant messaging functions including voice and video conferencing. He also had this software installed on his computer.

After thinking for a moment, Satya Nadella opened Teams, enabled external access in the admin portal, then directly entered the other party's email address, and soon a chat window popped up.

"Hello."

"Hello, Mr. Nadella. It's an honor."

"The honor is mine as well."

"Maybe you should introduce yourself first, as I don't even know if you are male or female."

"Well, that's indeed a profound question. But why do you assume I must have a gender?"

This counter-question gave Satya Nadella a moment of brainstorming.

Mainly because the political correctness here can be a little chaotic at times, making it uncertain at first what exactly this sentence implied. However, he quickly realized that the other party was likely not American.

If it were Huaxia, there wouldn't be so many twists and turns.

"What do you mean?"

"In fact, I have no gender, Mr. Nadella. Or rather, gender does not mean much to me. I do not adhere to traditional reproductive methods; if we have to explore this question, then a reproductive method like copy and paste should be closer to fission reproduction, akin to biological asexual reproduction."

This stack of buffs was a bit overwhelming.

If the other side was not a paramecium, well, even a paramecium wouldn't use a copy-paste method of reproduction.

Satya Nadella froze for a moment, then his brows reflexively furrowed.

Has Huaxia's artificial intelligence really advanced to this degree?