Microsoft Corp’s co-founder, Bill Gates said the technology race to win is the development of the top artificial intelligence (AI) agent, made to disrupt search, productivity and online shopping sites.
“You’ll never go to a search site again,” he said. “You’ll never go to Amazon.”
It would disappoint if Microsoft were not in the running, though there was a 50% chance the top player to emerge will be a startup, Gates said speaking at AI Forward 2023 event in San Francisco hosted Goldman Sachs Group Inc and SV Angel.
Gates shared that Inflection AI impressed him. Inflection AI is co-founded by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman.
Various industry players have worked on building a computer assistant, powered by AI, that consumers can command by speech or text to handle a range of tasks for them.
“Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s a big thing,” Gates said.
