What Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and 12 other business leaders think about AI tools like ChatGPT

Bill Gates – American business magnate and cofounder of Microsoft

Bill Gates thinks AI has the power to change the world. 

Gates said that AI is “every bit as important as the PC, as the internet,” Forbes reported. AI will be the“biggest thing in this decade,” Gates said on a podcast, admitting he didn’t expect the tech to evolve so quickly in the last year. 

In fact, Gates said he is “excited” about ChatGPT and finds the chatbot “pretty fantastic” in its potential to teach math and offer medical advice to people with limited access to resources, per Forbes. 

He said he uses ChatGPT primarily “for serious purposes” though he admits to using it for “fun things” like writing poetry. 

Still, Gates said ChatGPT is “truly imperfect” and has seen it answer math questions “completely wrong.” 

In terms of jobs, Gates said AI can “change our world” by making work more efficient, he told German newspaper Handelsblatt.

When asked about his thoughts on the Big Tech race to build the best AI chatbot, Gates said he is “not sure” there will be a clear winner, per the podcast. 

Gates sees AI-integration into search engines as a “personal agent” that studies and understands its users’ behavior, he said on the podcast, eliminating the need for separate tech services.

“A decade from now, we won’t think of those businesses as separate, because the AI will know you so well that when you’re buying gifts or planning trips, it won’t care if Amazon has the best price, if someone else has a better price — you won’t even need to think about it,” Gates said. “So it’s a pretty dramatic potential reshuffling of how tech markets look.”