It's no secret that Bill Gates is optimistic about artificial intelligence, but he now predicts that the technology will be revolutionary for everyone within the next five years.
The growth of AI has sparked fears that the technology would eliminate millions of jobs throughout the world. The International Monetary Fund stated this week that the growth of artificial intelligence might damage almost 40% of jobs worldwide.
Gates does not necessarily disagree with that view, but he feels that history has shown that with each new technology comes dread, followed by opportunity.
"As with agricultural output in 1900, people were like, 'Hey, what are people going to do?' In reality, many new activities and employment categories have emerged, and we are substantially better off than when everyone was doing agricultural work," Gates stated. "This will be like that."
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Tuesday, Gates claimed that AI will make everyone's life simpler, notably by assisting physicians with their paperwork, which is "part of the job they don't like, we can make that very efficient."
Because there is no need for "much new hardware," Gates stated that accessing AI will be via "the phone or PC you already have connected over the internet connection you already have."
He also stated that the advancements with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 were "dramatic" since it can "essentially read and write," making it "almost like having a white collar worker to be a tutor, to give health advice, to help write code, to assist with technical support calls." He stated that integrating the technology into the education or medical sectors would be "fantastic."
Microsoft has a multibillion-dollar collaboration with OpenAI. Gates remains one of Microsoft's most significant stockholders. "The goal of the Gates Foundation is to ensure that the delay between benefiting people in poor countries and getting to rich countries is as short as possible," Gates told Zakaria at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"After all, the shortage of doctors and teachers is way more acute in Africa than it is in the West." The IMF's report this week was even less hopeful. According to the organization, if politicians do nothing, AI will exacerbate inequality.
Source: CNN
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