Count Gates in the camp of people who are impressed. Today's chatbots have "incredible fluency at being able to read and write," which will soon help them teach students to improve their own reading and writing in ways that technology never could before, he said.
Historically, teaching writing skills has proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer, Gates noted. When teachers give feedback on essays, they look for traits like narrative structure and clarity of prose — a "high-cognitive exercise" that's "tough" for developers to replicate in code, he said.
"If you just took the next 18 months, the AIs will come in as a teacher's aide and give feedback on writing," said Gates. "And then they will amp up what we're able to do in math."are often used to develop AI technology., experts note. If a solved math equation already exists within the datasets the chatbot is trained on, it can provide you with the answer. But calculating its own solution is a different story.
It may take some time, but Gates is confident the technology will improve, likely within two years, he said. Then, it couldto a wide swath of students who might otherwise be unable to afford it.