Who will win the war for AI leadership?

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Artificial intelligence ( AI), once a sleeping giant, has awakened with unusual force and seems destined to permeate each and every aspect of our daily lives. The changes brought about by this technology will be so profound that they will completely alter not only the behavior of ordinary people but also the current digital ecosystem, where some of the most powerful companies in this branch of activity could see their current power severely devalued.

At least that is what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes, who at an event held last Monday in San Francisco by Goldman Sachs and SV Angels predicted a rather gloomy future for titans like Google and Amazon as a result of the furious entry onto the scene of AI.

If an AI tool capable of understanding human thought patterns, needs and feelings does emerge on the horizon, human behavior could change in an absolutely irreversible way , Gates stressed.

With the advent (which is perfectly possible) of a tool of this nature , "you will never have to go to a search engine again, you will never have to use productivity-focused websites again, you will never have to visit Amazon either ," prophesied the co-founder of Microsoft .

Despite fierce competition in the AI ​​arena, the billionaire is optimistic about the potential role Microsoft could play in the space thanks to its $10 billion investment in OpenAI.

“I would undoubtedly be disappointed if Microsoft did not end up taking the leading role that I believe it can play in AI. But I am equally impressed with a handful of startups in this area of ​​activity, including Inflection ,” Gates said, referring to the company Inflection.AI, co-founded by Mustafa Suleyman, the former CEO of DeepMind.


According to Gates, the race for AI leadership could be won with an equal probability (50-50) by both a “Big Tech” and a startup.

It will still be some time before the powerful AI tool envisioned by Gates is available for mainstream use , the billionaire said. Until then, companies will continue to embed generative AI tools like ChatGPT into their own products.

Microsoft is also integrating the increasingly ubiquitous ChatGTP into its products. In February, the Redmond-based bahamas number screening company integrated OpenAI’s famous Chatbot into Bing , boosting the popularity of its search engine, once a pariah in the search world.

Gates also warned that the possibility of robots eventually replacing real-life humans in their jobs is by no means remote and is increasingly close. After all, he said, robots would make industrial work much cheaper and more efficient.

But it is not just manual jobs that are at risk of being swallowed up by increasingly powerful AI. Those who perform more intellectual tasks could also be left out of work by the arrival of AI , which ultimately produces increasingly accurate and higher-quality texts, Gates stressed.

However, AI will not only lead to the extinction of jobs once occupied by humans. The technology will also accelerate innovations in healthcare and pharmacology , Gates predicted.

Although the intricacies of the human brain remain a mystery to scientists, the co-founder of Microsoft believes that humanity is getting closer to developing drugs to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and that the first tests with these new generation drugs could be carried out within a period of just 10 years, he ventured.