ISLAMABAD: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is an important technological advancement in decades.
In a blog post on Tuesday, he called AI as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer (PC), the Internet, and the cell phone.
He said that “It would change the way people work, learn, travel, get healthcare, and communicate with each other,”
He also talked about the technology used by tools such as chatbot ChatGPT.
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot programmed to answer questions online using natural, human-like language.
The team behind it, in 2023, received a multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft – where Gates still serves as an advisor.
But it is not the AI-powered chatbot available, with Google recently introducing rival Bard.
Gates said he had been meeting with OpenAI, the team behind the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers chatbot ChatGPT – since 2016.
Advanced placement biology exam
In his blog, Gates said he challenged the OpenAI team in 2022 to train an artificial intelligence can pass an Advanced Placement Biology exam – roughly equivalent to the A-level exam with the strict rule that artificial intelligence couldn’t be specifically trained to answer Biology questions.
A few months later, they revealed the results a near-perfect score, he said, missing one mark out of 50.
After the exam, Gates said he asked the artificial intelligence to write a response to a father with a sick child.
He said that “It wrote a thoughtful answer that was probably better than most of us in the room would have given,”
“I knew I had just seen the most significant advance in technology since the graphical user interface (GUI).”
A graphical user interface is a visual display that allows a person to interact with images and icons rather than a display that shows text and requires typed commands.
Its development led to the Windows and Mac OS operating systems in the 1980s and remained a key part of computing.
And Gates said he believes AI tech will lead to similar advancements.
