Bill Gates believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help solve the problem of lack of professionals in two fundamental areas: medicine and teaching.
Usually, there is talk of how AI can come to manuals and less qualified. But Bill Gates believes that technology can also be fundamental, and assume much of the work, in more qualified areas of our society, as Medicine and teaching.
This would be good news for countries like Portugal, where there is a shortage of and that it is affecting the quality of these services.
In teaching, many teachers fear the use of Generative AI as a way of deceiving them, but highlights the potential of this technology to help save time for teachersand improve the learning process.
In medicine, startups are also investing millions in technology to improve medical diagnosiswhich may be a precious help for these professionals.
Therefore, the tycoon believes that, in the near future, the I would “replace” teachers and doctors in some tasks, and that may also allow Early reforms or Shorter weeks of workaccording to statements in an episode of the “People by WTF” podcast.
Thus, it can also help deal with the High wearAnd that these professionals suffer, in professions that require a lot of dedication.
Bill Gates also stresses that AI can also assume importance in other areas, being used, for example, in works that require physical abilityas is the case of factory workers, construction workers and hotel cleaning employees.
“The hands need to be extremely skilled to do these things,” he noticed, stressing that AI can gradually come to do such tasks.
Technology giants as they are betting a lot on projected to perform manual tasksincluding picking items from warehouses and rubbing the floor. These robots can come to reduce labor costs and contribute to increase efficiency.
From the perspective of Gates, we are moving towards a future where work can be drastically reduced. “You can retire earlierwork shorter weeks, ”he said, concluding that people will have an“ almost philosophical ”concern “How time should be spent”.
But this process will be “Hard” to assimilatehe also stressed the tycoon, giving his personal example, who spent “almost 70 years in a world of scarcity.”
“I don’t have to work. I choose to work. Why? Because it’s fun, ”Bill Gates still confesses, perhaps without realizing that most people on earth can’t afford to luxury.
