There is no doubt that Bill Gates is one of the brightest minds of our generation. But every once in a while we hear about situations that show us how impressive the intelligence of the co-founder of Microsoft is.
According to a study by The Economist, only two technological innovations really surprised Bill Gates during his lifetime. One dates from the early 1980s and the other is recent, although the American tycoon was already familiar with it, having seen it when its creators were developing it, some eight years ago.
In other words, this is a 40-something-year period where we had a real technological explosion and Bill Gates didn’t squint at any of it.
We’re guessing he saw the first smartphones with touchscreens and dual cameras and said ” Ah that’s good » ; he saw the birth of video calls and his expression must have been ” Well it’s very useful and he may have seen Elon Musk’s rockets land vertically through a sensor and he reacted by saying ” Until they finally do« .
A lot has happened in 40 years for Bill Gates not to be surprised by anything. Yet this is what the people of The Economistand we are going to tell you the two things with which the tycoon let loose a “ Wow« .
The first, although it may seem outlandish, is the graphical user interface currently used in mobile phones for applications. It was in 1980 that the first were seen and implemented on computer screens. It made ” explode the face of good old Bill Gates.
During all this time, nothing else surprised him until 2015, when he witnessed the birth of Chat GPT. At the time, the entrepreneur told the creators that to revolutionize the technology, they had to make it pass an advanced biology exam on its own.
When they got there, Bill Gates said the age of artificial intelligence had arrived.
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