Bill Gates: "AI Agent" will be the next platform to make expensive services civilian.
CTOnews.com, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently wrote an article on his website to introduce his views on AI and believe that AI will revolutionize the way users use computers.
Gates put forward the concept of "agent": this type of software can respond to natural language and can perform many different tasks based on the understanding of the user. Gates says he has been thinking about "agents" for nearly 30 years, mentioning the concept in his 1995 book The Road Ahead.
In the computer industry, people often talk about "platforms"-the technologies on which applications and services are built. Android, iOS, and Windows are all platforms. Gates believes that "agents" will be the next platform. "in short, agents will help in almost any area of activity and life. It will have a profound impact on the software industry and society."
▲ source Bill Gates personal website believes that current users to perform any task on the computer need to tell the device to launch the appropriate applications, they can not help users send emails, share selfies, analyze data or arrange parties, even the "best websites" can not fully understand their work, life, interests and relationships.
But in the next five years, this will "completely change": users only need to "tell" the device what they want to do in concise language, and the software can be based on how much information they share and how much they know about their lives. to make a personalized response. Gates believes that in the near future, anyone surfing the Internet can have a personal assistant driven by AI.
"agents" will not only change the way everyone interacts with computers, but will also upend the software industry, leading the biggest computer revolution since users typed commands and clicked icons.
Gates also talked about Microsoft's Clippy, which was released by Microsoft in the late 1990s, and said that "the common ground between Clippy and an 'agent' is like that between a phone with a dial pad and a mobile device."Clippy is just a bot, not an agent."
Gates believes that the most exciting impact of AI "agents" is that they will popularize services that are too expensive for most people today. They will have a significant impact in four areas: health care, education, productivity and shopping and entertainment.
