Bill Gates on AI and the rapidly evolving future of computing

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  @TheMilwaukieDan · 3 years ago

  THANK YOU. I’m 76 years old and have never considered myself ‘knowledgeable’ with or about technology. I do a lot of writing and still start my stories on paper and ink. One completed I then use Word etc to ‘refine and perfect’ what I wrote on paper. I know… very Old School’. <br> &nbsp; That said, last summer when I heard about AI and it’s possible uses, “I was hooked”. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; Because of my quest for information, I happened across the interview. My very first time visiting Microsoft Corp. on line. <br> &nbsp;Thank you you two for lighting the flames of learning with in me. I truly believe this will change the world in ways we presently can’t imagine. Thank you again.

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  @carson_tang · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=119">1:59</a> – unveiling of GPT-4.0 outside of OpenAI in August/September 2022<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=215">3:35</a> – Bill recounts a short history of AI<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=343">5:43</a> – Bill’s challenge for OpenAI to get his attention<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=545">9:05</a> – Bill proclaiming GPT-4.0 is a fundamental change despite its shortcomings<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=583">9:43</a> – GPT-4.0’s shortcomings<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=618">10:18</a> – shortcoming 1) sense of context<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=686">11:26</a> – shortcoming 2) math, its greatest weakness<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=800">13:20</a> – Bill’s belief that the shortcomings are not fundamental and will be fixed<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=863">14:23</a> – Kevin and Bill talk about examples where GPT-4.0 excels<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=1108">18:28</a> – Bill’s musings on this generation of AI’s impact on society<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=1423">23:43</a> – Kevin’s musings on the bar being lowered to communicate with computers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=1508">25:08</a> – Bill’s musings on writing computer programs with natural language<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=1647">27:27</a> – AI and the Gates Foundation. AI’s impact on education and health<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=2013">33:33</a> – how Xerox PARC influenced Microsoft in 1979<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=2314">38:34</a> – moving AI compute from servers to self-contained devices<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=2383">39:43</a> – one general AI model or multiple specialized AI models?<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=2443">40:43</a> – scaling up the models to use all known corpuses and synthetic data<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=2735">45:35</a> – what would a young Bill Gates work on in this day and age?<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHb_eG46v2c&amp;t=3045">50:45</a> – how much does Bill Gates actually read?

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  @toddwmac · 3 years ago

  Bill, it’s fun to see you get almost “giddy” over this topic. When I began with Microsoft in 1992, I was in the field trying to convince System/36 customers that one day they would want mice and color monitors for GUI PCs. Back then, OLE was magic and the dream of Clippy was almost science fiction. Except for a few practical visionaries like yourself, few could imagine the impact PCs would have across the planet. In that spirit, it’s great to see current Microsoft leaders ushering in yet another fundamentally transformative technology. Thanks for your past and continued contributions.

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  @athornton1974 · 3 years ago

  Does anyone have a link to a copy of the printout he is referencing from PARC with Charles Simonyi?

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  @samwelemmanuel7976 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Really quite incredible how Bill Gates has managed to stay so relevant in all these major technological breakthroughs. Reading a lot is the lesson I took from all this.

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  @jonkraghshow · 3 years ago

  Bill is right. This one is a massive shift. I can&apos;t believe how many people in tech continue to point out the shortcomings. The capabilities today are enough and this is only the beginning of real language I/O.

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  @myusrngml · 3 years ago

  I would have found it useful to hear both participants thoughts, and those in the comments, on reading to learn vs listening to podcasts and watching videos to learn at this point in time? Especially given the latter can be usefully done with the playback speed bumped up therefore allowing you to get through more content in less time. Similarly now with AI being what it is are you learning faster having a very targeted discussion and set of Q&amp;A with it on the subject you want to learn.

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  @lucasjim5584 · 3 years ago

  I had my first computer when I was 13 years old. Broadband internet at 15. Smartphone at 21. Chatgpt at 33. A whole new generation of kids will grow up with all these advances starting from now. For me, all of the mentioned itens were always magic and object of appreciation and wonder. Also, I had to learn a whole set of habilities to work with them —and many more to work without the use of them. For the young people right now, this is all a thing of the past. Everything is truly changed.<br><br>I feel like a person transitioning from an age without radio and electricity to an world of mass media and light bulbs. Only this time everything is happening massively faster.

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  @jaqeul007 · 2 years ago

  In 1950, Seymour Cray began working in the computing field when he joined Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, he helped to create the ERA 1103. ERA eventually became part of UNIVAC, and began to be phased out. I live in Eagle River, WI

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  @diamond_h0us · 3 years ago

  I’ve been using the new Bing chat for a couple of weeks and I want to give props to Microsoft. &nbsp;You’ve not only taken GPT4 (which is already amazing) and released it but you have majorly enhanced it.

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  @MrMadMatt · 3 years ago

  Now tools like Wolfram addon with chatgpt wonder what is next on Bills list of things to tick off. Like the idea of tools add on for each profession to specialise the output to make chatgpt an auto tool to increase company output, thinking Naval archecture with all the fluid dynamic and hull designs testing.

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  @runer007 · 3 years ago

  Great to see Bill talking about cutting edge technology, where he himself plays a part. After all Bill is a geek, he obviously love too breathe these things.

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