Bill Gates made a bold prediction about the future when it comes to AI. The Microsoft co-founder believes that AI will replace doctors, teachers and other professionals within 10 years time.
“The era that we’re just starting is that intelligence is rare, you know, a great doctor, a great teacher. And with AI, over the next decade, that will become free. Commonplace, you know? Great medical advice, great tutoring,” Gates said on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon in February.
“And it’s kind of profound because it solves all these specific problems, like, we don’t have enough doctors or, you know, mental health professionals,” he continued.
Gates admitted that there are some instances in which AI won’t be appropriate — such as professional sports.
“You know, like baseball. We won’t want to watch computers play baseball,” Gates said. “So there’ll be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things, and growing food, over time, those will be basically solved problems,” he added.
In recent years, the use of AI has been increasing in various areas. For example, Elon Musk started a company called xAI and created a chatbot called “Grok” that is integrated on X.
“Grok is a large language model (LLM) designed for generating, changing, or analyzing text, with advanced generative AI capabilities, including internet search and image creation,” per Google’s AI overview.
On March 28, Musk announced that he sold X (formerly Twitter) to his xAI.
“@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt),” Musk wrote on X.
“xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach,” he added.
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