Bill Gates' next prophecy: Artificial intelligence will change everyone's life in five years.

So begins an article written in his hand by Bill Gates, who tries to imagine the near future: a future, five years from now, which according to American tycoons will be radically changed thanks to artificial intelligence.

“in the next five years”, says Gates, “you don't need to use different applications for different tasks”.

You just show your device, in everyday language, what you want to do. And depending on the amount of information you choose to share with it, the software will be able to respond personally because it will have a rich meaning in your life. In the near future, everyone on the Internet will be able to have a personal assistant enabled by artificial intelligence going beyond modern technology”.

It's not such a different prediction than others that, with the current enthusiasm for AI, they're doing a lot of experts; and Gates wants to launch Copilot, the assistant that Microsoft is bringing into the world of Window.

But Gates sees his vision from a distance.

Even since the 1990s when, in 1995, Microsoft's founder theorized the idea of agents -- software that can perform many different tasks based on user knowledge and provide a personal and proactive experience.

If in the 1990s there was an idea that was far from being implemented in practice, with the current and very rapid development of great linguistic models after chatbots like ChatGpt, Gates' vision could really become reality.

And if it really happened, it would only be the last prophecy that would come true for what someone in the past called Nostradamus of technology. But before we review the visions of the American billionaire, who, over the years, have found concrete, let us try to better understand how artificial intelligence can change everyone's life. /Cerriere della Sera