
How Bill Gates Saw the Future

ISAACSON: What would you be doing now if you were a young person when it comes to something like AI?
GATES: There are certainly a lot of innovative things that the world needs, whether it’s in diseases or clean climate technologies. But the most profound technology is AI, because it’s going to have such an impact on all the scientific work we do and... See more
GATES: There are certainly a lot of innovative things that the world needs, whether it’s in diseases or clean climate technologies. But the most profound technology is AI, because it’s going to have such an impact on all the scientific work we do and... See more
Walter Isaacson • How Bill Gates Saw the Future
ISAACSON: In writing this memoir, you said the more you dug in, the more you remembered. How is human memory fundamentally different from computer memory?
GATES: It’s unbelievable how good humans are at discarding unimportant information and retaining what’s important. We evolved to find food and not get lost, things like that. So I can remember all... See more
GATES: It’s unbelievable how good humans are at discarding unimportant information and retaining what’s important. We evolved to find food and not get lost, things like that. So I can remember all... See more