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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Bill Gates predicts AI will be a bigger than the advent of PCs

Bill Gates believes AI will advance faster than the march of personal computing. (Credit: Ludovic Marin—AFP/Getty Images)

Bill Gates, long the world’s richest person, earned his fortune by predicting the advent of personal computing in the 1980s. Now the Microsoft co-founder believes A.I. will be a bigger and above all faster force for technological change.

The near 40-year march of progress since his Windows operating system enabled everyday people to easily navigate a PC will pale in comparison to the speed at which artificial intelligence transforms society, he wrote on Tuesday.

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