Microsoft's co-founder and former CEO, Bill Gates, may be in the retirement era from his leadership of the company, but he still is a known philosophist and speaks out about significant developments in tech and society. In his recent opinion, AI developments should not take a break or halt amidst its booming growth in the industry.
This statement greatly opposes the famed open letter to AI developers from known tech moguls in the industry including Tesla's Elon Musk, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, with other executives and academics.
Microsoft's Bill Gates Does NOT Want to Pause AI Developments
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In an interview with Reuters, the software man himself claims that AI developments should continue, especially in this age and time, where the challenges of bettering it are at the hands of the creators.
"I don't think asking one particular group to pause solves the challenges," said Gates to Reuters.
In the executive's context, it seems like he wants the tech companies developing it, including his creation, Microsoft, to keep pushing and not back away from this challenge.
"Clearly there's huge benefits to these things... what we need to do is identify the tricky areas," he added.
This goes against what numerous executives and renowned entities in the academe want, with their recent call to AI developers to take a step back from their developments.
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Bill Gates vs. Open Letter to Stop AI Growth after GPT-4
The recent interview shows the Microsoft co-founder's sentiments that go against what the famed open letter is pushing for, to stop AI growth in the present to reassess what it needs and make it more responsible in its releases.
It also goes against the likes of Musk, Woz, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, GettyImages CEO Craig Peters, and more who wants a more responsible development of AI, with the solution to step away from it temporarily.
AI Development in the Present: Good or Bad?
Like many online services or internet-based technologies, it is subject to the many threat actors who try and exploit it, to get user information and other sensitive information for their benefit. The same can be said with OpenAI's ChatGPT, as lately, it has been grappling with data and privacy issues that concerned many users.
Still, this is not the only issue the world has with generative AI developments like ChatGPT, as other companies and services like Midjourney with its previous copyright issues as well.
There was also one significant issue in which an AI chatbot failed as a service as *TRIGGER WARNING* it encouraged a man to take his own life, after seeking help from the tech.
Certainly, AI developments in the present are massive, and the public can see that these technologies have greatly evolved from being voice assistants on smartphones to passing tests in the academe. This is something that Bill Gates wants to pursue, to beat the odds and challenges in the present, amidst tech executives wanting to back off from it for a while.
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