Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shed more light on the artificial intelligence revolution that’s been making a flutter of late OpenAI and his ChatGPT shot to the fore.

What happened: Gates answered a question from the Financial Times. Gideon Rachman whether he is concerned about the idea that the AI ​​could eventually develop a mind of its own, have its own ideas of what to do, and escape human control.

This ability to perceive and feel is called sentience.

In the long run, if the AI ​​becomes good enough and not just writing papers, questions would be asked about the impact on specific jobs, the value of education, etc., Gates said on the Rachman-hosted podcast. “That’s far south in the future,” he added.

The billionaire said he sees some workforce displacement but expects the technology to lead to greater efficiencies. AI will likely help with the “ability to research articles or have things summed up for you so you can write better articles,” and help doctors be more efficient, he said.

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GPT4 Wow: “You know, GPT2 was kind of a trick. GPT3 uhh it started saying if some are interesting [things], GPT4, it’s like, wow!” Gates said, referring to the development of OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. GPT is a language model that is generally trained on a huge amount of text data to generate human-like text, and GPT4 is the next iteration of OpenAI’s large language model to be released shortly.

“You know, I challenged them in June to do some things GPT3 couldn’t do. And then they showed me in early September that they can do these things,” the tech entrepreneur said.

“And that surprised me a lot,” he added.

When asked to name some of the things GPT4 has done, Gates said he passed an advanced biology exam. “This was very impressive, many years before I thought what I thought we needed explicit knowledge, memory and…