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May 23 news, according to reports, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently made a prediction. He believes that in the future, top AI companies will develop a new “personal digital assistant” that can help ordinary people complete many specific tasks, which will bring about disruptive changes.
Gates said that personal digital assistants will have excellent functions and will change the living and working habits of ordinary people. No matter which company wins the competition of AI digital assistants, it will be a major historical event. In the future, people no longer need to visit web search engines such as Google, visit office software sites, or visit Amazon to shop in person.
On Monday, Eastern Time, Goldman Sachs Group and the investment institution “SV Angel” held a conference on AI in San Francisco, California. Gates took the stage to speak and made this prediction.
He said that the AI assistant that will be released in the future can understand the needs and living habits of the general public, such as reading books that the owner usually does not have time to read.
Gates believes that the manufacturer that develops this kind of AI assistant in the future may be a new technology company or a technology giant, and the probability of the two is 50 to 50.
Gates also mentioned the company he founded, Microsoft. He said he would be disappointed if Microsoft didn’t get on board with developing an AI assistant, but some AI startups have also caught his eye, such as Inflection. Suliman co-founded).
Gates said that such a powerful AI assistant is still some distance away from flying into ordinary people’s homes. Before the advent of this assistant, the focus of AI companies is to integrate generative AI technology (typically OpenAI’s dialogue writing tool ChatGPT) into various existing products.
On the same day, Gates also mentioned the medical and health projects of his charitable organization “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”. He believes that AI technology will also accelerate innovation in the field of healthcare and help develop more advanced drugs.
In terms of specific drug development, scientists have not yet fully understood the inner working mechanism of the human brain. Gates said that humans are close to developing key drugs to treat intractable diseases of the brain, including Alzheimer’s disease, but clinical trials of these new drugs will take about a decade.
It is well known that generative AI technology can more intelligently complete some complex tasks that humans are currently engaged in, such as writing manuscripts. Gates said that this technology will bring about disruptive social changes and affect the jobs of white-collar office workers. In the future, for business owners, robots that simulate humans will be cheaper than human workers, and this technology will impact the jobs of blue-collar workers.
Gates also joked that when developing such human-replacing robots, manufacturers need to make sure they don’t suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
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