Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has predicted the end of the likes of Google Search and Amazon if artificial intelligence continues to evolve at the current pace. In an AI Forward event in 2023, hosted by Goldman Sachs and SV Angel, the billionaires said if a new AI tool reads human thinking patterns, needs, and feelings, it could change human behaviour. Bill Gates added that following the advancement of artificial intelligence, a person will never visit a search site, ” You will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said.
Gates warned that very soon robots will take over blue-collar jobs and humanoids would make industrial work cheaper and more efficient. Besides, with AI producing accurate, compelling, and quality content, white-collar jobs are at no less risk of being replaced, Gates said.
The 67-year-old is optimistic that Microsoft could lead the creation of yet-to-be-designed AI, indicated by its $10 billion investment in OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The tech mogul said until AI completely disrupts big tech business models, companies will embed ChatGPT-like features into their products to meet customers’ demands.
Gates said Inflection AI, co-founded by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, impressed him.
Various industry players have worked on building a computer assistant, powered by AI, that consumers can command by speech or text to handle a range of tasks for them.
“Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s a big thing,” Gates said.
Microsoft has begun integrating ChatGPT with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Gates in April this year mentioned that calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead.
The technologist-turned-philanthropist said it would be better to focus on how best to use the developments in AI, as it was hard to understand how a pause could work globally.
Microsoft has sought to outpace peers through multi-billion-dollar investments in ChatGPT owner OpenAI.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT-maker Sam Altman is meeting top leaders of European countries to discuss the future of AI, and the progress of ChatGPT.
He called his tour a “very productive week of conversations in Europe about how to best regulate AI!”
AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft, has created new possibilities around AI, and fears around its potential have provoked excitement and alarm – and brought it into conflict with regulators.
OpenAI on Thursday said it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for experiments to determine how AI software should be governed and Altman called those grants “how to democratically decide on the behavior of AI systems”.
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Updated: 30 May 2023, 09:23 AM IST
