Davos, Jan. 20 -- Pointing to how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used across the world, beyond advanced countries, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella recalled an Indian farmer who adopted AI to address problems.

Speaking of AI diffusion across the world, particularly the Global South, Naddella said that as early as early 2023, the rural Indian farmer used a simple AI-powered bot to navigate government farm subsidies in his local language.

"It was at the beginning of 2023, a rural Indian farmer was able to use a bot built, I think very early GPT 3 or 2.5 even, essentially to reason over some farm subsidies that he had heard about in a local language," he recalled.

The farmer not only sought information b...