{"id":254902,"date":"2023-03-26T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=254902"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:46:06","slug":"bill-gates-says-gpt-is-the-biggest-revolution-since-the-graphical-user-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/03\/26\/bill-gates-says-gpt-is-the-biggest-revolution-since-the-graphical-user-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates says GPT is the biggest revolution since the graphical user interface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun\">Bill Gates writes<\/a>: &#8220;In my lifetime, I\u2019ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface\u2014the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named Charles Simonyi, and we immediately started brainstorming about all the things we could do with such a user-friendly approach to computing. Charles eventually joined Microsoft, Windows became the backbone of Microsoft, and the thinking we did after that demo helped set the company\u2019s agenda for the next 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second big surprise came just last year. I\u2019d been meeting with the team from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>since 2016 and was impressed by their steady progress. In mid-2022, I was so excited about their work that I gave them a challenge: train an artificial intelligence to pass an Advanced Placement biology exam. Make it capable of answering questions that it hasn\u2019t been specifically trained for. (I picked AP Bio because the test is more than a simple regurgitation of scientific facts\u2014it asks you to think critically about biology.) If you can do that, I said, then you\u2019ll have made a true breakthrough. I thought the challenge would keep them busy for two or three years. They finished it in just a few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates writes: &#8220;In my lifetime, I\u2019ve seen two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary. The first time was in 1980, when I was introduced to a graphical user interface\u2014the forerunner of every modern operating system, including Windows. I sat with the person who had shown me the demo, a brilliant programmer named &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/03\/26\/bill-gates-says-gpt-is-the-biggest-revolution-since-the-graphical-user-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Gates says GPT is the biggest revolution since the graphical user interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}