Rise of artificial intelligence product chat like ChatGPT has a lot of people wonder What kind of tasks can AI handle as well as humans.
Now, you can add “Bill Gates interview” to that list. Recently, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder sat down with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the two answered questions generated by an AI chatbot.
IN a video posted on YouTube At Sunak’s office last month, the British leader read out AI-generated questionnaires to Gates, including one asking what advice the billionaire would give his younger self if he “had can turn back time”.
“I was so stressed out,” Gates replied, lamenting his workaholic youth. “I don’t believe in weekends. I don’t believe in holidays.”
While Gates’ early work intensity may have helped him build Microsoft into a multi-billion dollar tech giant — amassing a net worth currently at $105.2 billion, according to Forbes — he says it also makes him socially awkward as a leader.
“I have a very narrow view of working style, talking style,” he says, adding that in hindsight he may have overlooked hiring people who “have could have helped me, [but] just didn’t fit” with the tense atmosphere he had created around him.
In previous interviews, Gates has also said that he would tell his younger self that “read a lot” And “Explore the developing world” as a tourist. The billionaire is also very open about his life introverted when I was young, calling himself “socially incompetent” during the “Ask Me Anything” Reddit session in 2019.
Gates’ work intensity made him famous as a tough boss to work for in Microsoft’s early years. Previously, he admitted that he was a difficult boss, sometimes harshly speaking to employees, and that his manners reflected the high standards he set for everyone, including he himself.
“I never asked [Microsoft employees] work harder, or harder on their mistakes, than on my own,” Gates said podcast “The Armchair Expert” in 2020. “It doesn’t totally condone that, but at least it shows where you’re coming from, that you’re at least showing your values and trying to. make everyone as tough as you are.”
Ultimately, Gates has to learn to be gentler, he told Sunak — especially as Microsoft grows.
“For Microsoft’s small, primitive corporation, that’s okay,” Gates said. “But then as we got older, I had to realize that, OK, when you bring in sales teams, when you invite people with families in, you have to think about this. It’s a very big thing. long-term.”
And if it were possible to go back in time to change anything, the wiser Gates would “help myself try to realize it a little earlier than I did”, he added.
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