Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, has once again gushed about how artificial intelligence (AI) would improve society. He is certain that in the future, chatbots will be able to teach children to read and even improve their writing abilities. According to CNBC, Gates spoke last week at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.
The ChatGPT AI chatbot has captivated the world, and Bill Gates’ Microsoft is hard at work incorporating the AI model into its current products. Others, like Elon Musk, are not happy with the speed at which AI is being implemented in society, and some have even called for a ban on the introduction of new AI technology.
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Gates praised chatbots’ “fluency” in reading and writing during his keynote talk at the Summit and added that soon, this capability would enable them to assist in the teaching of youngsters and improve their writing and reading.
Gates thinks that these advancements, which no technology has ever delivered before, will initially astound us because the chatbot will act as a reading research helper and even offer writing comments.
Due to its capacity for human-like discussion and responses, ChatGPT has proven to be amazing. Since the AI no longer needs to rely on the code created by its creators, it has learned to recognize and generate human language on its own.
Before becoming a language instructor in around two years, Gates anticipates that AI chatbots will improve their language skills even more over the following 18 months and perhaps even become teacher’s assistants.
Gates said that a sizable portion of pupils who previously couldn’t afford private instruction would now have access to it thanks to AI. Gates believes that even if ChatGPT has a membership fee, AI-driven private tutoring will still be less expensive than hiring a human teacher.
Even though AI now struggles with even simple calculations, Gates anticipates that it will soon improve at arithmetic in addition to language. Microsoft engineers are attempting to give AI additional reasoning capacity so that it can handle these demands.
Similar opinions were expressed earlier this month by Sal Khan, the creator of Khan Academy, according to Interesting Engineering, who is also employing GPT-4 to create virtual instructors to support learning.
