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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reacts during a visit with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Imperial College University on February 15, 2023 in London, Britain. (Reuters file photo)
Gates said he would be disappointed if Microsoft was not in the running, although there was a 50% chance a startup would emerge as the top player.
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates said on Monday that to win the technology race is the development of top artificial intelligence agents poised to disrupt search-engines, productivity and online shopping sites.
“You’ll never go to a search site again,” he said. “You’ll never go to Amazon again.”
Speaking at AI Forward 2023, an event in San Francisco organized by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and SV Angel, Gates said it would disappoint him if Microsoft was not in the running, although there was a 50% chance that the top player would be one. .
Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Gates said that Inflection AI, co-founded by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, influenced him.
Various industry players have worked on building a computer assistant powered by AI that consumers can command by speech or text to handle a variety of tasks for them.
“Which private agent wins is a big deal,” Gates said.
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