Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better
indianexpress.com
The billionaire philanthropist in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, shared his thoughts on Artificial general intelligence, climate change, and the scope of AI in the future.

Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better::The billionaire philanthropist in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt, shared his thoughts on Artificial general intelligence, climate change, and the scope of AI in the future.

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2122·
    1 year ago

    And the Wright Brothers said heavier than air flight would only ever be an amusement for the rich, and never commercially viable.

    Even taking Gates’ qualifications at face value doesn’t mean he’s actually right.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Source on that quote from the Wright brothers? Because they never said that as far as I’m aware.

      • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        They didn’t, AFAIK. It was a NYT article that quoted someone who made a similar prediction:

        Once the Wright Brothers proved flight was possible, some assumed it was just a pointless rich play thing. Famed astronomer William H. Pickering said, “The expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      You didn’t read the Wright brothers or this article did you? Gates isn’t at all damning AI tech. All he said is that gpt 5 is unlikely to be very different from 4. He’s probably correct. A next best word algorithm can only go so far. Thats only a part of how language and cognition works. Until some sort of adjunct algorithm gets tagged on I don’t think we will see big leaps either.

    • Red0ctober@lemmy.worldEnglish
      817·
      1 year ago

      He just has money, which gives him and too many others the idea that he has expertise.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        233·
        1 year ago

        He has money because he was a damn fine computer programmer, had some great ideas, and got pretty good at selling and monopolizing his product. He doesn’t “just have money”. He was skilled and intelligent. He may or may not be wrong about gpt, but he has a hell of a lot more knowledge about the subject and insight into gpt’s inner workings than probably anyone else on Lemmy.