Bill Gates – a Microsoft co-founder, has just posted a 7-page letter on GatesNotes.com, titled “The Age of AI Has Begun”, outlining his views on the future of AI (intelligence). artificial intelligence).
‘ letter Bill Gates was published the same day Google released its AI Bard chatbot to compete with Microsoft Bing and a week after OpenAI launched its GPT-4 upgrade. The 67-year-old billionaire has expressed his personal thoughts on how AI can be used as a tool to improve work productivity, especially how AI reduces global inequality, in addition to concerns afraid people will abuse it.
According to Business Insider, Bill Gates’ letter focuses on three big areas where AI can transform: the workforce, healthcare, and education.
Referring to the labor market, the former President of Microsoft Corporation wrote about how to use AI as a “digital personal assistant” to improve employee productivity – an idea that Mr. Gates mentioned earlier. in February 2023.
AI will be increasingly integrated into digital work tools like Microsoft Office, helping to manage and compose email efficiently. Not to mention, the AI-generated “virtual employees” are equipped with vast knowledge and data about the company and industry, thus can serve as a key resource for employees to communicate.
“As computing becomes more and more popular, GPT’s ability to express ideas turns artificial intelligence like an office worker ready to help users perform a variety of tasks,” Bill Gates wrote.
In the healthcare industry, Bill Gates thinks AI could free healthcare workers from certain tasks, such as filing insurance claims, completing paperwork, and drafting exam notes. from doctor.
Bill Gates emphasized that for poor countries, where many people never see a doctor, AI can help medical staff better support patients and easily coordinate treatment for non-resident patients. stay near medical facilities. He also said AI is already being used in healthcare for medical data analysis and drug design, but the next wave of AI will advance relentlessly, possibly helping doctors predict side effects. from the drug and calculate the dose level corresponding to each patient.
For the livestock industry, in the context of climate change increasing pressure on farmers, Bill Gates AI analysis will help select seeds that are suitable for the local climate and can synthesize information for development. vaccine development for cattle in the future.
The profession of a teacher will not disappear but will need to adapt
Bill Gates predicts that AI can change education in the next 5 to 10 years thanks to the way AI measures knowledge acquisition, creates content that suits learners’ learning styles and delves into new topics. factors that promote and hinder students’ passion for learning. AI can also assist teachers by planning instruction and assessing students’ understanding of classroom topics.
“Even as the technology matures, learning will still depend on close relationships between students and teachers,” the letter read, “AI will enhance but never replace the work students do. and teachers work together in the classroom”.
According to Bill Gates, AI also needs to be equally accessible to low-income schools in the US and globally so that students in low-income households are not left behind. Teachers will also have to accommodate students’ use of new technologies in the classroom, such as GPT. For example, he cites an example that a teacher could allow students to use AI to draft a first draft of an essay in class, which the student would then have to revise according to their own thinking.
“To get the most out of this remarkable new technology, we need to both guard against risks and benefit as many people as possible,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote.
