“So I love the way it’ll drive innovation forward, but I think it’s a little bit unknown,” the billionaire said of artificial intelligence
- Bill Gates said that AI will replace doctors, teachers, mental health professionals and more within the next 10 years while appearing on The Tonight Show to promote his debut memoir Source Code
- The Microsoft co-founder also said with the increased role of AI, humans will not be needed for “most things”
- Gates remains optimistic about the future of AI, however, especially with regards to health and climate
Artificial intelligence will likely replace doctors, teachers and more professionals within the decade, according to Bill Gates.
While sharing his vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last month, the Microsoft co-founder — who is one of the world’s most famous businessmen and philanthropists — said that soon, humans won’t be needed “for most things.”
In the Feb. 4 Tonight Show appearance to promote Gates’ debut memoir Source Code, host Jimmy Fallon asked the billionaire, 69, to give his two cents on the hot-button topic of AI, explaining the pros and cons in “layman’s terms” — and he obliged.
“So the era we’ve come to is sort of the vision that computing was expensive and it basically became free,” Gates said. “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.”
“And it’s kind of profound,” the tech billionaire continued, “because it solves all these specific problems, like, we don’t have enough doctors or, you know, mental health professionals.”
But, he explained, this so-called influx of intelligence also “brings with it so much change,” begging questions like, “What will jobs be like?” and “Should we just work like two or three days a week?”
