Co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, predicts that artificial intelligence will bring a transformation for everyone within the next five years. Gates stated, "Like agricultural productivity in 1900, people would say: What will people do?" In reality, many new things were created, and numerous new job categories emerged, making us much better off. He added, "It was better than when everyone was doing agricultural work. AI will be like that."
In an interview on CNN yesterday, Gates anticipated that AI would make everyone's lives easier, specifically mentioning helping doctors with their paperwork, which is "part of the job they don't like, we can make it extremely efficient." Given that there is no need for "a lot of new devices," Gates noted that access to AI would be through "the phone or PC you've already connected via your internet connection."
He also said that the improvements made to ChatGPT-4 from OpenAI were "exciting" because it can "read and write fundamentally," making it "almost like having a white-collar worker to be a teacher, give health advice, help write code, assist in technical support calls." He remarked that integrating this technology into the education or healthcare sectors would be "fantastic."
The rise of artificial intelligence has raised concerns that the technology will eliminate millions of jobs worldwide. The International Monetary Fund reported this week that about 40 percent of jobs worldwide could be affected by the emergence of AI. Gates told CNN in Davos at the World Economic Forum, "The goal of the Gates Foundation is to ensure that the lag between benefiting people in poor countries and reaching rich countries will be very short. After all, the shortage of doctors and teachers is more acute in Africa than in the West."
