Bill Gates believes that AI will be as good a teacher as humans. So much so that he can teach children to read. According to the Microsoft co-founder, this will happen faster than we think: in 18 months we could already see chatbots taking over these and other teaching tasks.
“We will be very surprised at how it will help” AI, Gates said at the Summit ASU+GSV, made in California, United States. Until now, teaching reading and writing skills had proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer. But now the possibilities are growing, with chatbots like ChatGPT capable of recognizing and recreating a human-like language.
Microsoft co-founder argues that AI will first serve as a teacher’s aide, but will soon fulfill the role of a direct instructor. This would allow, for example, that students with fewer resources, who live in remote areas or do not have access to educational infrastructure, can have private tutoring.
Although services like ChatGPT come with a subscription plan, Bill Gates believes that this option will still be cheaper than hiring a human instructor. Another advantage of these systems is that they could be adapted to the learning pace of each student, something that does not necessarily occur in traditional education systems.
Bill Gates believes that AI will teach math too
Bill Gates ensures that chatbots will excel in two areas: languages and mathematics. Although AI systems have shown in recent months that it has problems with basic calculations, big tech companies like Microsoft and Google are working to empower their models with a greater reasoning capacity that allows them to solve complex mathematical problems. Is optimistic: assumes that this issue will be resolved in two years.
But there is still a lot to attend to. For example, ensuring that these tools provide accurate and reliable information. ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Bard they easily produce fake content to support known conspiracy theories. It has also been shown that these models have several biases when generating content.
Gates, who is now a philanthropy, said in late March that we are already living in “the age of AI.” He assured that this technology will change “the way people work, learn, travel, get health care and communicate with each other.”
The businessman is one of those who believes that AI will not replace jobs. However, he already warned that the workplace, as well as education and health, they will live a great revolution within the next five or ten years. Gates’s projections have been famous since in 2015 he predicted the arrival of a pandemic similar to the one that occurred with the coronavirus.