The Age of AI has begun | Bill Gates
www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun
What Jamie wrote
Bill Gates commenting on his experiences with OpenAI, and some of the opportunities that he sees for AI to have a huge impact on the world. A number of really cool ideas. This one made me smile when I read it because it would be incredible to have such an omnipresent "resource" available in a company!
Company-wide agents will empower employees in new ways. An agent that understands a particular company will be available for its employees to consult directly and should be part of every meeting so it can answer questions. It can be told to be passive or encouraged to speak up if it has some insight. It will need access to the sales, support, finance, product schedules, and text related to the company. It should read news related to the industry the company is in. I believe that the result will be that employees will become more productive.
So much potential, even without us getting to some level of Artificial General Intelligence. Just the tech that we have right now could power so much innovation.
The use case I’m looking at first is anything that requires the assimilation of some reasonable corpus of information, reading a dozen PDFs for example, and then summarizing the information. This is a straightforward use case. I've used DEVONthink for years for projects like this. Think of an M&A project with hundreds of PDFs and other resources. It is one thing to be able to load that into a tool like DEVON to search, but a different ballgame entirely to have an AI "read" it all and summarize and answer questions.
PS: It is wild to me that even in hindsight Gates doesn't list the web as something that was revolutionary. 🤷♂️