Microsoft co -founder Priards Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07 dropped out of Harvard in 1975 and focused on the construction of a new type of software company. Fifty years later, on February 3, he returned to the campus and discussed Artificial Intelligence, the latest innovation of technology.
Gates sits this month with Professor Montgomery, a public leader Arthurblock practicing, to discuss his reminiscence, source code, and release this month. For the gate, computing always pushed the boundaries and democratized access. In the early days of Microsoft, computing is an exclusive area of huge intensive machines that can only be accessed to governments and companies in their personal hands.
The conversation, of course, turned into the next frontier of technology. During the question period (reply to the previous session on the campus), the student seems to have asked for a variant of the same question: I understand, how about AI?
Gates encloses the current shift as a continuation of the current shift, rather than the deviation from the past evolution in computing technology. “What we are doing now (with artificial intelligence),” he explained. Chips and the Internet, and they are all about free intelligence. “
Initial computing was restricted by hardware restrictions and software sophistication, but today’s AI is mainly restricted by data and interpretation. These are barriers that Gates believe, like the past, that Gates will be overcome immediately. However, AI is also very different from personal computing revolutions. Unlike the first PC that simply amplified human abilities, AI could replace them. Gates pointed out an existing change: “Intelligence is completely free.” What does that mean? He explained that computing was once relating to existing tasks more efficiently, but AI was able to fundamentally redefine the tasks that humans delegate to humans and machines. 。
However, the development of this “free intelligence” is not all positive. Gates used to believe that the “digital gap” was mainly related to access: “I will put a computer in a school in the city center.” But today, he is looking different. “(Sometimes) When you gain power to humans, it is not always pushed in the right direction.” The problem not only does access, but there is no abuse of access.
For example, Gates pointed out that one of the “crimes of computing” is the ability to strengthen the wrong story. AI acknowledged that it could worsen or reduce this problem in response to the deployment method. At present, technology affects relationships and knowledge spread and enables incorrect information and extreme ideologies (in November 2024, read the details of “Technology and Society Clash”). 。
About educational and medicine artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence, Gates claimed that it could fundamentally change the classroom dynamics. Imagine not only understanding education, but also AI tutor who suggested “motivation.” These systems do not only provide lessons. They measure the involvement of students, identify the struggle, adjust in real time so that no one is left behind (from March to April 2024, “Application of AI -how, and why” Please read).
In higher education, AI can revolutionize research and management processes, and support students to adjust the curriculum in accordance with complex course work and institutions that evolve institutions. However, AI can ultimately provide scalable and individualized learning, but cannot reproduce the spirit of human connections, mentorship, empathy, and wise teachers. Brooks have repeatedly the theme through discussions. Gates ‘journey to success was the deepest level of Brooks’ estimation, “about relationships,”.
Gates also optimally talked about the potential of AI in medicine. “It’s very deep and a little scary. It’s happening very quickly, so there is no upper limit,” he said. He suggested that one of the most prompt and transformed applications had medical diagnosis. Healthcare is on the brink of conversion from AI. From use case in rare diseases to customization of treatment based on genetically profile (“prediction of virus variant and vaccine treatment”, “AI as cancer oracle” from November 2024 May 2024 ~ June). Unlike human doctors whose diagnostic skills are restricted by experience and bandwidth, AI can synthesize a huge amount of medical literature, patient history, and new research in real time.
GATES assumes an AI -equipped tool that can provide primary care diagnosis, reducing dependence on overloaded medical experts. “In the end, he said that he would not be short of doctors.” And, “And the machine is probably better than humans. Some of these decisions are actually beyond the recognition of individual humans. He claims that this change is not just about efficiency. ” It is about fairness. In developing countries where doctors and patients are extremely low, AI may fill the gap and bring the world -class diagnostic ability most.
