Microsoft founder
Bill Gates hopes for a three-day week through AI: “It takes over the drudgery”
Bill Gates, Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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The rapid advances in artificial intelligence are worrying many people. However, Microsoft founder Bill Gates also sees it as an opportunity.
With the introduction of ChatGPT at the latest, the wave of the AI revolution that was already rolling has reached the consciousness of the masses. And since then it has caused concern in many people. One of the most common: Your own job could be replaced by artificial intelligence. For Microsoft founders But that doesn’t have to be a bad prospect for Bill Gates. He believes that this will simply mean that people will have to work less.
Gates said this in an interview with Trevor Noah. The comedian and former host of the famous “Daily Show” invites numerous exciting people to talk to him on his podcast “What Now”. Gates was a guest in the episode published on Tuesday. And was asked by Noah about his assessment of the revolutionary potential of AI.
More time for people
It is conceivable that “at some point people will no longer have to work so hard,” Gates explained. “The productivity gains expected in the near future are pretty exciting,” he says. “It takes the drudgery away from us.” If machines “make food and other stuff” for us, people would have more time for other things. “If at some point a society emerges in which you only have to work three days a week, that will be okay,” he smiles.
Above all, he sees this as positive. People would then have more time to take care of other people. “You can help the older ones, have smaller classes at school, the demand for such workers is still there,” he explains. “And then we’ll all have more free time, which we’ll figure out what to do with it.”
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“Age of AI”
Gates had already stated in a blog entry in July that he expected major changes. “But it won’t be as dramatic as the Industrial Revolution,” he explained there. At that time, countless people lost their jobs to machines. “It will be more like the introduction of the PC. Word processing programs have not abolished office work. But they have changed it.”
At the beginning of the year, Gates first proclaimed the beginning of the “Age of AI”. “D“The development of AI is as fundamental a change as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet and the cell phone,” he wrote in March. “It will transform how people work, learn, travel, receive health care and communicate with one another. Entire industries will therefore have to reorient themselves.”
Sources:What Now?, Bill Gates’ blog