Several companies in the sector have been working on creating an artificial intelligence-based computer assistant that consumers can command, either by voice or text, to perform a series of tasks on their behalf.
The impact of the artificial intelligence in people’s daily lives it becomes more and more evident and significant. For a long time, Bill Gates has warned about its unstoppable advance.
On this occasion, the co-founder of Microsoft predicted that in the near future, an artificial intelligence application (AI) will completely change user behavior and remove currently very popular tools such as search engines and online shopping portals.
According to the billionaire, this AI Assistant, which has not yet been developed, it will be able to understand people’s needs and habits, putting an end to the use of websites as we know them.
Bill Gates and AI
In the competition to create the best tool powered by generative artificial intelligence, tech giants like Googlewith Bardand Microsoftwith Bingare at the forefront, along with startups like OpenAI, with ChatGPT.
“No longer will you have to visit an Internet search site, or a productivity site, or even Amazon,” Gates said at a Goldman Sachs and SV Angel in San Francisco on the subject of AI.
Therefore, he added, “the most important thing is who will win in the personal assistant arena.”
As for which company will manage to create this assistant, Gates said he would be disappointed if Microsoft had no role in it, and that he is “impressed” with a couple of start-ups, including Inflection.AI, co-founded by the former executive of DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman.
Several companies in the sector have been working on the creation of a computer assistant based on artificial intelligence that consumers can give orders, either by voice or text, to perform a series of tasks on your behalf.
In a talk at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, Gates said that AI capability is so important that in the future it could match a human teacher.
The businessman indicated that “artificial intelligence will achieve the capacity to be a tutor as competent as any human being.”
His argument is based on the fact that chatbots, such as Google’s ChatGPT and Bard, have “incredible fluency to read and write”, which will allow their use in teaching processes to help students improve their reading skills in a way without precedents.
“Over the next 18 months, AIs will become teacher assistants and provide feedback on writing. Then they will expand what we can do in math. Our challenge in math is more about how do we fit into the mainstream education system and how do we get students to teachers embrace this technology,” Gates said.
In addition, he added: “At first, we will be surprised at how it will aid the reading, acting as a reading research assistant and providing feedback on the writing.”
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