Comment by jcattle

Just to put Bill Gates thoughts on AI into perspective, this was his comment on an AMA 9 years ago to the question

"What kind of technological advancement do you wish to see in your lifetime?":

> The big milestone is when computers can read and understand information like humans do. There is a lot of work going on in this field - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, academia,... Right now computers don't know how to represent knowledge so they can't read a text book and pass a test.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5whpqs/im_bill_gates_...