The Microsoft CEO asked ChatGPT to come up with the most popular south Indian tiffin items in the future and it came up with the usual suspects - Idli, Dosa and vada. But among the options was biriyani and that seems to have left a bad taste in Nadella's mouth.

Microsoft Executive Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday (January 4) had a disagreement with ChatGPT, a popular AI-enabled software and a chat-robot, and the software apologised. All this over Biriyani.

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The Microsoft CEO asked ChatGPT to come up with the most popular south Indian tiffin items in the future and it came up with the usual suspects - Idli, Dosa and vada. But among the options was biriyani and that seems to have left a bad taste in Nadella's mouth.

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He told ChatGPT that as a Hyderabadi, the software cannot insult his intelligence by calling Biriyani a South Indian 'tiffin.'

After this, according to Nadella, the software said, "I am sorry! " and to keep the dialogue going after this, Nadella asked ChatGPT to create a play between Idli and Dosa over who was better.

To add literature to the batter, Nadella asked the software to make the dialogue, a part of a Shakespearean play.

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On Wednesday, Nadella was speaking at the Future Ready Technology Summit in Bengaluru and decided to introduce the crowd to a light-hearted ChatGPT (popular AI-enabled software) conversation before getting into his presentation about the cutting-edge AI and Cloud innovation taking place in India.

(With inputs from PTI)