Meir's Monthly Learning Article

This month I want to highlight an article, The Age of AI has begun, by Bill Gates. Bill dives in to the emergence of AI-driven systems, such as ChatGPT, and the problems AIs are solving. He explores how AI can benefit humanity, through productivity enhancement, health, and education, while also acknowledging the current limitations and downsides. This article does a great job going deep into some of our largest societal challenges, and explaining how AI will create outsized, generational improvements in record time.

Special thanks to Jaden Holliday for surfacing this article, I always appreciate a good recommendation.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun

“You’ve probably read about problems with the current AI models. For example, they aren’t necessarily good at understanding the context for a human’s request, which leads to some strange results. When you ask an AI to make up something fictional, it can do that well. But when you ask for advice about a trip you want to take, it may suggest hotels that don’t exist. This is because the AI doesn’t understand the context for your request well enough to know whether it should invent fake hotels or only tell you about real ones that have rooms available…But none of these are fundamental limitations of artificial intelligence. Developers are working on them, and I think we’re going to see them largely fixed in less than two years…”