Bill Gates does not participate in the direction of Microsoft Since 2020, the year in which he left the last of his positions in the company – in the Board of Directors – but remains one of the most listened to voices in the technological sector. Although its main activity today is like billionaire philanthropist –He has a company’s shares worth 11.8 billion at the beginning of 2025–, it usually participates in the debates about the future that technology will bring us and in which AI is the protagonist. It is, in fact, one of his usual songs and already in 2023 he wrote in his blog that ‘The AI era has begun’. In this publication, he described one of the few moments throughout his long career – Microsoft went in 1975 – in which He felt a truly ‘revolutionary’ technological advance. And it was when he released a challenge OpenAI than the company resolved long before what he expected.
In the aforementioned post, dates back in the mid -2022. That is, months before the launch of Chatgpt With the language model GPT-3.5 that he put the Sector Sector above in November 2022. Gates recounts that he maintained contact with the OpenNai team since 2016 and that he was impressed by how they were advancing. For this reason, he decided to raise a challenge: ‘Train an artificial intelligence to approve a biology exam of the advanced placement program (AP BIO). Make it capable of answering questions for which it has not been specifically trained ‘explains Gates. The magnate chose AP bio as proof because It requires critically thinking about biologyNot only regurgit scientific facts. ‘If you can do that, I said, then you will have achieved a real advance, “he told Openai.
Gates hoped he would take them 2 or 3 years get it. However, They had already succeeded for September 2022. Gates does not need the exact number of months that took OpenAi, but they had to be 3 or 4.
AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, personal computer, internet and mobile
When Gates met again with Openai, ‘I watched in amazement how they raised GPT, his AI model, 60 Multiple Biology AP exam questions, and was 59. Then, he wrote exceptional answers to six open questions of the exam. We hire to an external expert to qualify the exam, and GPT obtained a 5, the highest possible scoreequivalent to one A or A+ in a university biology course ‘.
With these results in the hand, they asked the AI what a father should do with a sick child. ‘He wrote a reflective answer, probably better than most of those present we would have given. All the experience was impressive, ‘writes Gates.
For the founder of Microsoft, AI is as important as it was in its moment the creation of the microprocessor, the PC, the Internet and the mobile. ‘It will change the way people work, learn, travel, receive medical attention and communicate. Entire industries will reorient them around it. Companies will be distinguished by their good use ‘says Gates.