Bill Gates' next prophecy: Artificial intelligence will change everyone's life within 5 years

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Bill Gates' next prophecy: Artificial intelligence will change
Bill Gates' next prophecy

“I still love software as much as I did when Paul Allen and I founded Microsoft. But even though it's improved a lot in the decades since then, in many ways the software is still pretty dumb."

So begins an article written by his own hand by Bill Gates, who tries to imagine the near future: a future, 5 years from now, which, according to the American tycoon, will change radically thanks to artificial intelligence.

"In the next five years," Gates writes, "you won't need to use different apps for different activities."

“You just tell your device, in everyday language, what you want to do. And depending on how much information you choose to share with it, the software will be able to respond personally because it will have a rich understanding of your life. In the near future, anyone on the Internet will be able to have a personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence that goes beyond today's technology."

It's not that different of a prediction from the others that, with the current enthusiasm for AI, many pundits are making; and Gates wants to launch Copilot, the assistant that Microsoft is bringing to the Windows world.

But Gates sees his vision from afar.

Even since the 90s when, in 1995, the founder of Microsoft theorized the idea of ​​agents, i.e. software that can perform many different tasks based on the user's knowledge and provide a personalized and proactive experience.

If in the 1990s it was an idea that was far from being realized in practice, with the current and very rapid development of large language models behind chatbots like ChatGpt, Gates' vision could indeed become a reality.

And if it really did happen, it would be just the latest prophecy to come true for what someone in the past called the Nostradamus of technology. But before we review the visions of the American billionaire, which, over the years, have found concreteness, let's try to better understand how, according to him, artificial intelligence will change everyone's life./ Corriere della Sera


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