It's no secret that Bill Gates is optimistic about artificial intelligence, but now he predicts that the technology will be transformative for everyone in the next five years.
The rise of AI has fueled fears that the technology will eliminate millions of jobs worldwide. The International Monetary Fund reported this week that around 40% of jobs worldwide could be affected by the rise of AI.
Gates doesn't necessarily disagree with that notion, but he believes history shows that with every new technology comes fear and then new opportunity.
“As we had [with] agricultural productivity in 1900, people were saying 'Hey, what are people going to do?' In fact, a lot of new things were created, a lot of new job categories were created, and we're a lot better off than when everybody was working on the farm,” Gates said. “That's how it's going to be.”
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Tuesday, Gates predicted that artificial intelligence will make life easier for everyone, specifically aiming to help doctors do their procedures, which is “part of the job that they don't like, we can make it very efficient.”
Because there's no need for “a lot of new hardware,” Gates said access to the AI ​​will be through “your phone or computer that you already have connected through your Internet connection that you already have.”
He also said the improvements with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 were “dramatic” because it can “essentially read and write,” so it's “almost like having a white-collar worker to tutor, to give health advice , for help writing code, for help with tech support calls.” He said that incorporating this technology into the education or medical sectors will be “fantastic”.
Microsoft has a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. Gates remains one of Microsoft's largest shareholders.
“The goal of the Gates Foundation is to make sure that the lag between benefiting people in poor countries and reaching rich countries will be very short,” Gates told Zakaria in Davos for the World Economic Forum. “After all, the shortage of doctors and teachers is much more acute in Africa than in the West.”
The IMF, in its report this week, had a much less optimistic view. The group said AI would deepen inequality without intervention from politicians.
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