With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and its effect on our day-to-day life, it has sparked many debates recently. Many questions have also been raised regarding it-- What are the pros and cons of using AI? Or can AI replace humans in future? Talking about AI and sharing his views on how it can change our lives for the better, Microsoft co-founder and author Bill Gates recently spoke to Jessie Woolley-Wilson, President and CEO -DreamBox Learning, at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this year.
"The breakthrough we have now, which is very recent, has more to do with reading and writing, this incredible fluency to say, “Write a letter like this, write a letter like Einstein or Shakespeare would have written this thing,” and to be at least 80% of the time very stunned by it... The impact on sales jobs, service jobs is phenomenal— and we can say that just based on the version we have now. And yet, the amount of money going into making these things better is absolutely gigantic. It’s not just GPT-4. It’s hundreds and hundreds of companies building competitive things and building on top of it," Gates said on the development of ChatGPT and similar AIs today, read a statement on his website.
Talking of how AI can be used in the ed-tech space, he further shared that it can even function as personal tutors in the future and help children with their studies. "AI is going to help with math— the ability to understand mental misconception, the ability to give you very quick feedback in an even deeper way than today’s systems do— but I wouldn’t say that it immediately helps with the motivational piece. We don’t yet have the personal tutor. The gold standard of learning basically is a personal tutor who’s looking at your fatigue and your interests and constantly adapting. Because when you have one student, that’s a lot easier to do. The AIs will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could. We have enough sample sets of those things being done well that the training can be done on it.
"I’d say that is a very worthwhile milestone— to engage in a dialogue where you’re helping students understand what they’re missing— and we’re not that far," Gates said.
He further said, "Seeing the magic that this software can now perform— particularly for reading and writing things, but within the next 18 months for math as well as we fix some of these limitations that the system has— I am really quite optimistic that the field of education will improve."
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