- Bill Gates affirmed that artificial intelligence will achieve the ability to tutor as good as humans at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.
- Generative artificial intelligence-based chatbots will be able to help students with reading and writing in no more than 18 months, he said.
- They could make tutoring more affordable and available to students who couldn’t otherwise afford it.
“Artificial intelligence will achieve such a great capacity to be tutors as good as human beings.” Bill Gates said it this Tuesday, April 25, at a conference in the ASU+GSV Summit from San Diego, United States.
Gates is one of the notable people who has further promoted the advancement of artificial intelligence applied to tasks normally performed by humans. His vision was key to Microsoft deciding to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
Current chatbots have the ability to “fluently read and write text”, but as early as no more than 18 months, they will be able to teach students to improve their own reading and writing in ways that other technologies never could before, said the tycoon.
According to Bill Gates, “in the beginning, it’s going to be amazing how chatbots help with reading and then assist with writing,” a skill that “has always been a very difficult task for a computer.”
According to Gates’ explanation, until now, teachers, when correcting students’ texts, look for errors in the narrative structure and in the clarity of the prose, “highly cognitive exercises” that have always been “very difficult” to replicate in the codes for developers.
Now, That ability is in the new chatbots based on generative artificial intelligence, so they can recreate languages similar to humans and change that dynamic.
An example of this is what Kevin Roose, a New York Times journalist, said last March. In a column in the newspaper he works for, he acknowledged that he used ChatGPT to improve his copy by checking for errors from online style guides.
Bots that teach reading: Bill Gates
Returning to what Gates said, the tycoon spoke that in “the next 18 months”, artificial intelligence capabilities can already be teacher’s helpers and give students feedback on their writing.
For the billionaire, “then they are going to expand that capacity to be able to teach mathematics.”
For Gates, in two years, a chatbot could help make private tutoring available to broad swaths of students who otherwise couldn’t afford it.
This does not mean that it is free. ChatGPT and Bing both have free versions, but OpenAI development has already released a subscription plan that costs $19.99 per month called ChatGPT-Plus.
Similarly, Gates said that at least “it will be more affordable” than one-on-one tutoring with human beings.
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