Bill Gates Shocking New 2024 AI Prediction ( AGI + AI Agents)
"We are at the beginning of this transition right now"
"AI is about to supercharge the innovation pipeline" -- This is what I think we need to be fully alert because the rate of change will increase exponentially. It can speed up the process of research and of development.
"18-24 months away from significant use of AI in the US" -- This is what I have been saying. In six months the Fortune 500 companies can all have a plan on how they will adopt AI and most likely this will include a hiring freeze as they anticipate this dramatic increase in use. Why train a new hire when instead you should be training your AI. I suspect in boardrooms all over the country that is what is going on. Hiring freeze, have a plan to adopt and train AI and in so doing allow the workers you have now to do 5% more. 12 months from now they will probably institute a wage freeze along with incentives for early retirement. 18 months from now rapid increase in the adoption of AI, leaving 20% of your workforce with nothing to do. By 24 months there will be many, many pink slips going out reducing the workforce on many companies by 40%. Compare that with the Great Depression when 25% of Americans were unemployed. It will be worse than what we are seeing in China right now. This is why all the countries are pushing for war, they know their population could be reduced by 50% over the next two years and that would actually eliminate problems.
Over the next few years Siri will be on steroids. Most people will lose the ability to do anything, simply tell Siri what to do and she'll do it. Schedule something, plan an itinerary, map your route, buy tickets, reserve a seat at the restaurant, etc. There will be a new generation that has no idea how to do anything on the computer, they simply tell Siri. Agents will be like a really good butler. ChatGPT is getting 10 million requests per day. This would be like a Butler who got 456 requests per day for sixty years. This is what the training is for ChatGPT, it is like the amount of training 100 butlers got over their entire career every day.
This will have a major impact in healthcare. Think about all the trips you made to the doctor in your life, how often did it involve surgery and how often was it simply talking to the doctor, answering questions, having some tests prescribed? You will probably still need a person to take blood, but instead of waiting for thirty minutes in the waiting room you would sit before the AI, it would take blood pressure, measure your weight, and discuss your health, and prescribe various tests. In fact you could access this before you even go to the doctor and get a print out from the AI that you show them when you check in.