According to Bill Gates, AI “magically” won’t solve issues that humans can’t already handle
On the Armchair Expert podcast, Bill Gates recently discussed artificial intelligence (AI) with Dax Shepard. Gates, a well-known supporter of AI research, admits to the enormous promise as well as the present constraints of this technology, according to a Business Insider article.
Gates believes AI will revolutionise industries including agriculture and medicine, which his foundation actively supports.
But he’s not totally pleased with all of its achievements, especially the way AI struggles with difficult puzzles like Sudoku because of recursive thinking limits.
Gates underlines how crucial high-quality data is to the advancement of AI. “Data that embodies expertise” is necessary for “good AI,” he claims. This indicates that although AI performs well on tasks involving well-defined statistics, it has difficulty with subjective or qualitative domains like relationships or human satisfaction. “Present techniques don’t create some novel approach if the problem is one that humans are not good at solving,” said Gates.
Gates emphasises the need for cautious adoption even as he sees possibilities for AI in supporting mental health. Gates said, “I actually think AIs will play a role in mental counselling, but boy, we’re going to have to be very careful about that.” He cautions, “That’s going to require a lot of work that hasn’t been done yet.”
Gates also draws attention to startling flaws in intricate math when AI is unable to own up to its errors. He provides an example of AI misinterpreting a bad Sudoku solution as a “mistype” rather than a mistake, saying, “It doesn’t know to check its answers.”
Gates is still upbeat in spite of these obstacles. He believes that the advantages might be too great to impede development. He accepts that viewpoints on AI development vary, but he doesn’t think there will be a worldwide consensus to slow it down. “Maybe we’ll have a world where some parts embrace AI fully, while others are more cautious,” he says.
