Bill Gates Says AI, ChatGPT Progress ‘Excites’ Him

Bill Gates admits that artificial intelligence (AI) progress excites him amid the emergence of the ChatGPT chatbot in a recent interview with Forbes Magazine.

The Microsoft co-founder has consistently expressed his fascination for the prospects of AI through the years. And now that it is starting to make significant progress, he could not help but express his excitement for it.

Bill Gates Says AI, ChatGPT Progress 'Excites' Him

Gates recently sat down in an exclusive interview with Forbes where he spoke about AI and the partnership between OpenAI and the firm that he co-founded, Microsoft.

Interesting Engineering reports that Gates admitted that the current progress in AI excites him. He told Forbes during the interview that "the progress [in AI] has gotten me quite excited."

It is worth noting that Gates' Microsoft is one of the early investors of OpenAI, the firm that brought us the ChatGPT chatbot today.

The business magnate went on to talk about the possibilities that ChatGPT might offer in our day-to-day lives. He offers that the potential of the AI-powered chatbot is "pretty fantastic."

Gates says that the possibilities for the chatbot include being a "math tutor [that is] available to inner city students."

Not only that, he offered that it might also give "medical advice [that is] available to people in Africa who during their life, generally [would not] ever get to see a doctor."

Despite that, Gates admits that ChatGPT "is truly imperfect." He goes on to argue that "nobody suggests it [does not] make mistakes, and [it is] not very intuitive."

But the Microsoft co-founder notes that it looks like the chatbot also knows when it makes mistakes. In one instance, when they were training the AI with Sudoku and it got the wrong answer. The chatbot surprisingly blurted out "oh, I mistyped."

ChatGPT is as Important as PC or the Internet, Bill Gates Says

Meanwhile, Gates recently pointed out how important ChatGPT is these days.

The billionaire says that chatbots emerging nowadays, such as the ChatGPT, are as important as what PC and the internet have become.

As per a report by Business Insider, the philanthropist says that "this is every bit as important as the PC, as the internet." He likens the prospective impact of AI to humankind to them.

The online news outlet further highlighted the unprecedented growth of ChatGPT.

And to put it into perspective, the AI chatbot surpasses trending apps like TikTok with more than 100 million monthly active users in the first month of 2023. It should be noted that its impressive user base comes two months after it debuted in late 2022.