Bill Gates: AI assistants will have a profound impact and Google, Amazon and others will be replaced

According to news on May 23, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes that the top companies in the field of artificial intelligence are likely to make efforts in the direction of AI personal assistants in the future. That is, it can perform certain tasks for people.

Gates believes: "This technology will have far-reaching consequences and may fundamentally change user behavior. Whoever wins the personal agent war, this is a big deal, because you will never again Go to the search website, never go to the productivity website, and never go to Amazon.”

On Monday local time, Gates spoke at an artificial intelligence-based conference jointly held in San Francisco by the US investment bank Goldman Sachs and the venture capital institution SV Angel. According to the theme's event, this untapped AI personal assistant will be able to understand an individual's needs and habits and will help them "read things you don't have time to read."

Gates predicts that the winners in this future field of artificial intelligence will be either startups or technology giants, with a half probability of each. He said: "If Microsoft does not join this, I will be very disappointed."

Gates also mentioned Mustafa Suleyman, a former executive at Google's artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind. ) co-founded Inflection.AI, he added: "But there are several startups that have impressed me, including Inflection.AI."

Gates said this powerful future digital agency It will be a while before it is ready for mainstream use. Until then, the company will continue to embed so-called generative AI technology into its own products, similar to OpenAI's popular ChatGPT.

Gates also discussed his health-focused efforts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, saying artificial intelligence will accelerate innovation in the field and help develop more advanced medicines.

Although scientists still don't fully understand the inner workings of the human brain, the Microsoft co-founder believes that humans are getting closer to creating effective drugs to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's. Human trials could begin within 10 years.

Gates also likened generative artificial intelligence technology that can produce convincing text as a game changer, convinced that it will impact white-collar workers. At the same time, he believes that in the future, companies' use of humanoid robots that are cheaper than human employees will also greatly affect the jobs of blue-collar workers.

Gates joked: "When we invent these robots, we just have to make sure they don't get Alzheimer's."

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