We are talking about a person who has had a special influence in the world of technology as we know it now. It has been innovating for decades and continues to play a more important role now in 2024 than we might initially think. We are referring to the co-founder of a company like Microsoft, developer of products like Windows or Office, among many others.
We talk about some of the most used software solutions all over the world for years. But last year 2020, the aforementioned Bill Gates in theory officially left the company. He actually stopped being one of the members of his board of directors. But given what we have seen, it seems that he has never stopped having an enormous influence on the corporation he founded, as well as on others related to the world of technology.
Bill Gates influenced the birth of ChatGPT
At first it was thought that his departure from Microsoft was due to an alleged personal relationship he had with an employee of the firm. This is something that Gates himself flatly denied. He argued this abandonment of Microsoft to want to focus on other philanthropic objectives, as he has demonstrated in recent years.
But some anonymous sources recently indicate that this character continues to have a very important role in certain companies. For example, it is said that Bill Gates was one of the main reasons why there is a partnership between Microsoft and the company OpenAI, the one behind ChatGPT. It’s more. These sources claim that he had been holding meetings with OpenAI since last year 2016.
He also states that in 2022 he challenged OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to create a high-performance language model. All so he could pass an advanced biology exam. Altman got to work and from there the popular GPT-4 AI model. Furthermore, and as a curiosity to say that he actually passed the aforementioned advanced biology exam.
AI is part of Microsoft products
This shows that the philanthropist co-founder of Microsoft has been especially interested in everything related to Artificial Intelligence for years, something that reaches the current times of 2024.
In fact, and after the publication of several articles and an internal report on how to use the Microsoft the GPT-4 model, the integration of AI in different company products, has not stopped growing. And what we still have to see in coming years.
To all this we must add that Gates continues to hold periodic meetings with various Microsoft senior executives. Largely to talk and examine the evolution of different projects that the company is currently embarking on. He also assists in hiring new executives and advises on important business moves.
In short, Bill Gates continues to play a more relevant role in the world of technology than one might expect.
