Fortune March 22, 2023
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes innovation in the field of AI will eclipse the revolution in computing power that led to the advent of PCs. LUDOVIC MARIN—AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Bill Gates, long the world’s richest person, earned his fortune by predicting the advent of personal computing in the 1980s. Now the Microsoft co-founder believes A.I. will be a bigger and above all faster force for technological change.
The near 40-year march of progress since his Windows operating system enabled everyday people to easily navigate a PC will pale in comparison to the speed at which artificial intelligence transforms society, he wrote on Tuesday.
“Soon the pre-AI period will seem as distant as the days when using a computer meant...
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