Bill Gates says OpenAI's GPT is the most important advance in technology since 1980

Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates says that OpenAI's GPT AI exemplary is the astir revolutionary beforehand successful exertion since helium archetypal saw a modern graphical desktop situation (GUI) successful 1980.

Before that, radical utilized their computers done a bid line. Gates took the "GUI" exertion and based Windows astir it, creating a modern-day bundle juggernaut.

Now Gates sees parallels with OpenAI's GPT models, which tin constitute substance that resembles quality output and make nearly-usable machine code.

He wrote successful a blog post connected Tuesday that helium challenged the OpenAI squad past twelvemonth to make an AI exemplary that could walk the Advanced Placement Biology exam. GPT-4, released to the nationalist past week, scored the maximum score, according to OpenAI.

"The full acquisition was stunning," Gates wrote. "I knew I had conscionable seen the astir important beforehand successful exertion since the graphical idiosyncratic interface."

"The improvement of AI is arsenic cardinal arsenic the instauration of the microprocessor, the idiosyncratic computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It volition alteration the mode radical work, learn, travel, get wellness care, and pass with each other. Entire industries volition reorient astir it. Businesses volition separate themselves by however good they usage it," helium continued.

Gates is the latest big-name technologist to instrumentality a presumption connected caller advancements successful AI arsenic a large displacement successful the exertion industry. He joins former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and erstwhile Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who person predicted that data-based instrumentality learning could alteration full industries.

Current CEOs besides spot large concern opportunities successful AI applications and tools. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said connected Tuesday that the tract is experiencing an "iPhone moment," referring to the clip erstwhile a caller exertion becomes wide adopted and entrepreneurs spot opportunities for caller businesses and products.

Gates and Microsoft person adjacent ties to OpenAI, which developed the GPT model. Microsoft invested $10 cardinal successful the startup and sells immoderate of its AI bundle done Azure unreality services.

Gates suggests that radical talking astir AI should "balance fears" of biased, wrong, oregon unfriendly tools with its imaginable to amended lives. He besides believes that governments and philanthropies should backmost AI tools being utilized for acquisition oregon wellness successful the processing world, due to the fact that companies won't needfully marque those themselves.

The full station from Gates is worthy a work implicit astatine his blog.