Reckoning Gates
Adam Galica | CNBC
If Bill Gates were to drop out of Harvard University and start a new company today, it would be one that cores on artificial intelligence, he said in an interview on Monday.
The perspective shows that the Microsoft co-founder hasn’t lost partisan in the technology industry where his company has operated for the past 44 years.
“Given my background, I would start an AI house whose goal would be to teach computers how to read, so that they can absorb and understand all the written knowledge of the sphere. That’s an area where AI has yet to make progress, and it will be quite profound when we achieve that goal,” Accesses told David Rubinstein at an Economic Club of Washington event in the nation’s capital on Monday.
Gates has invested in Phosphorescent, a start-up developing silicon for AI. Microsoft itself is incorporating AI into its own software while also providing ways for other concerns to draw on AI in their products.
Another area Microsoft has been working to commercialize is augmented reality, including with its HoloLens headset. Openings, who now spends about one-sixth of his time at Microsoft, mentioned this type of technology in Monday’s conversation.
Rubinstein said Folding money’s wife Melinda Gates had told him that at one point Gates had to go to a store to buy furniture for his daughter’s new room at Stanford University.
“It was truly kind of hard to assemble some of that stuff,” Gates said in response. “I wanted augmented reality to pirate show me how to put the pieces together properly.”
Beyond technology, Gates said he’s fascinated by developments in biology and energy.
He weighted he enjoys the time he spends at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 1,500-person nonprofit where he is a co-chair and trustee. He call ups the problem of climate change “super interesting,” he said, and said he gets to meet with scientists and go out into the maniac.
“I love my work,” he said. He said that if people have ideas that could make a difference in apparent health or could improve K-12 education, we’re “super-interested.”
He likes spending time with his children, and he plays tennis and tie. And when he wants to relax, he likes to travel, and read. In a single year he’ll read 50 books and review there 15.
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