AI Chatbots to teach chidlren read & write in 1.5 yrs: Bill Gates

New Delhi: In 18 months, AI chatbots would reach a level that would enable them to teach children to read and write, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates predicted. At the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, he said that AI will be a good tutor as any human ever could, The Indian Express reported, citing CNBC.

After the revolutionary advent of ChatGPT last November, tech companies are in a race to develop something similar, advanced or plug-ins to their existing techs. The competition has fuelled rapid development in the AI field in just a few months since ChatGPT-like chatbots can parallel with human-level intelligence on some standardised tests.

He said that today’s chatbots have incredible fluency in being able to read and write, which will help students to improve their reading and writing. This would be in ways technology has never worked before.

According to him, the AIs will appear as teacher’s aides and give feedback on writing. It will amp up what the world has been able to do in Math, he said.

He said that computers so far lacked teaching skills. When human teachers look for narrative structure and clarity of prose, developers couldn’t so far replicate the such analysis in code so that computers could perform. He predicted that AI teachers would become cheaper, more accessible and could do one-on-one human tutoring.

TIE quoted him, “This should be a leveller. Because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you’ve done and look across your entire body of work.”

Earlier, Gates had admitted his appreciation to ChatGPT, saying that he is a fan of the tech, adding that he likes to play around with it when friends come over. He later commented that the tech would reduce inequities in the world.