Bill Gates

July 29, 2011 - In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates noted that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is advancing at a much faster rate than he expected, especially in the areas of programming and in-depth research. According to Bill Gates, AI will change the white-collar and blue-collar work environment, especially for college graduates, it will become more challenging to find a job. He mentions that AI may replace certain simple jobs, such as telemarketing or customer support, but it will be used more as an aid in the areas where humans are most creative. While this change may...

April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, known for his longtime focus on global health and education issues, recently said AI may "soon" be able to alleviate the world's persistent labor shortages that have been going on for years, according to a report today in TechSpot. Speaking on the podcast People by WTF, Gates said that the shortage of doctors and teachers that has plagued both developed and developing countries for decades is expected to be alleviated with rapid advances in AI technology. Gates noted, "AI will fill the intellectual gap in healthcare, when the shortage of doctors...

April 5, 2013 - With the rapid rise of generative AI, the world is rapidly evolving into a new realm and redefining how we view work. Over the past few months, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared interesting insights on how AI is impacting work. In an interview with The Indian Express in March, Bill Gates shared more insights on the impact of AI on work: We were not born to do work. We weren't born to do work. Work is a product of a time of shortage. Oh, my God, somebody's got to be a farmer. Well, somebody's got to drive those trucks. All of this is based on creating...

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, was a guest on the podcast "The Next Big Idea" and said that the current AI market is more enthusiastic than the Internet bubble. Gates believes that the current entry threshold of the AI field is very low, and the entire market is in a frenzy. AI startups can easily get hundreds of millions of dollars in financing, and someone even raised $6 billion (currently about 43.734 billion yuan) in cash for a company. Gates believes that it is unprecedented for so much capital to rush into a new field...

The podcast Next Big Idea Club released an interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates last weekend, in which Gates talked about topics such as artificial intelligence and superintelligence. Host Rufus Griscom asked Bill Gates about his views on the future development of artificial intelligence. "In 1980, you had a lightbulb moment when you announced that there would be a computer in every home and on every table. How do you think AI will develop? Do you think we will have an 'AI advisor' in each of our ears?" Gates...

According to a report by the Financial Times today in Beijing time, Bill Gates has launched a "defense" against the problem of accelerated energy consumption caused by current AI systems, and he believes that AI technology will eventually "offset" its power consumption. In a speech in London, Bill Gates called on environmentalists and governments not to "worry too much" about the huge amount of electricity required to run the next generation of AI systems, as large technology companies such as Microsoft compete to invest tens of billions of dollars in building large new data centers. He said that data centers will increase global electricity consumption by 2-6%. In May of this year, Microsoft admitted that since 2020…