In an article titled “The Age of Artificial Intelligence Has Begun” on the “Bill Gates Blog,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates talked about an upcoming paradigm shift in technology. Having been instrumental in the development of personal computers decades ago, the billionaire seems to know a thing or two about technological innovation. He believes that OpenAI AI tools will be at the forefront of the next technological revolution.
Gates wrote: “I saw two demonstrations of the technology that struck me as revolutionary.”
“The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to the graphical user interface — the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows,” he said.
Gates said the other big surprise came last year with the impressive progress of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“The development of artificial intelligence is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet and the mobile phone,” he said. “It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get healthcare and interact with each other.”
Gates said he has been in contact with OpenAI since 2016 and last year challenged the team to train a chatbot to take a biology exam. A few months later, he said the bot could pass a college-level biology course.
After seeing the results, Gates started thinking about the future and how artificial intelligence will be intertwined with people on a daily basis, just like computers and smartphones.
“This inspired me to think about what AI can achieve in the next five to ten years.”
Gates has emerged as a significant player in the artificial intelligence “arms race” since Microsoft, the company he founded, has pledged more than $10 billion in funding to OpenAI.
However, like any new technology, there are always concerns. Gates answered some of these questions:
“Any new technology that’s this disruptive is bound to make people uncomfortable, and that’s certainly true with artificial intelligence. I understand why – it raises tough questions about the workforce, the legal system, privacy, bias and more.”
On the issue of bias, there have been numerous complaints about AI trainers instrumentalizing ChatGPT to answer questions and having leftist views. This was such a significant problem that Elon Musk allegedly tackled — in a new project to develop an alternative chatbot.
Even ChatGPT’s co-creator warned that the world may not be “so far from a potentially terrifying” artificial intelligence. It is paradoxical that someone who develops something later warns of the danger of what he has created.
What is disturbing is that artificial intelligence is programmed to enforce the truths established by the likes of Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, and the federal government.
While Gates expresses his well-known enthusiasm ‘about the potential of artificial intelligence to change people’s lives for the better and to make their lives easier in various ways’, there is also that other dark side that is avoided in the mainstream media. The technology could become a tool for extreme censorship, making Twitter’s censorship program look trivial by comparison.
Source: ZeroHedge
