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Bill Gates joined Jimmy Fallon on his late-night show to talk up his new memoir. The Microsoft magnate spoke to Fallon about the future of artificial intelligence, with Fallon asking for it in “layman’s terms for someone like me”.
Gates envisions a future where he sees humans eliminated from certain roles and not needed for “most things”. This will be due to AI reaching the same state as computing, in that it’ll become free. As Gates describes it, it’ll become “commonplace”.
Examples the billionaire gives are things along the lines of tutoring and advice, something that’s already been adopted by students and plenty of businesses. He also stated that he believes that it’ll solve problems like not having “enough doctors”, or “mental health professionals.”
However, Gates does say that it’s still an unknown for humans. While AI has its apparent trajectory already envisioned by people like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Musk, there’s still no concrete idea of what happens when people leave those jobs.
“But it brings with it so much change, you know, what will jobs be like? Should we work two or three days a week? So I love the way it’ll drive the innovation forward… it’s a little bit unknown, will we be able to shape it?”
Bill Gates doesn’t want to watch AI play baseball
Bill Gates says AI is getting scary and humans won't be needed for most things
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While other billionaires flushing the AI industry with billions of dollars envision different ways to keep their capital flowing, Gates has a little more hope for that Star Trek future.
“We won’t want to watch computers play baseball”, he gives as another example. It appears Gates believes that menial labor will be eliminated, which he says humans would “reserve for ourselves”.
AI is already helping the fields that Gates brings up as examples. These are usually rebadged machine learning projects, which have been around for decades. Machine learning (as with AI) is trained on up to millions and millions of points of data to train hardware or software to assist or take over precision tasks.
It is generative AI that is seeing active pushback, as it attempts to cheapen content and cut out the creative from the workforce. It has been proven to be actively wrong on a routine basis, as well as cause critical issues within the systems it inhabits.
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