Bill Gates Recommends Must-Read Book on AI and Education

Bill Gates enjoys telling everyone what he reads.

His most recent suggestion is based on artificial intelligence, specifically on how this rapidly developing technology may raise the standard of instruction that kids get globally.

The co-founder of Microsoft recently promoted “Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (And Why That’s a Good Thing)” on social media. The book was released last week. The book’s author is Sal Khan, the CEO, and founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy. This educational organization is creating the experimental AI chatbot instructor known as Khanmigo.

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“This book is a must-read for anyone passionate about education,” Gates stated on the social media site X. “Sal presents a convincing idea for leveraging AI to increase opportunities for everybody.”

In the book, Khan discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as ChatGPT, which runs Khanmigo, can “revolutionize the way we learn and teach” by helping overworked educators and customizing lessons for each student on the planet.

During an episode of his podcast “Unconfuse Me” featuring Khan last year, Gates suggested that AI tutoring may help “close the education gap” by directly assisting low-income students, especially in developing nations.

“I believe AI will function similarly to an excellent high school teacher who grades your essays so well that you realize you need to improve,” stated Gates, who helped partially fund Khan Academy in 2010 with a $1.5 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It is estimated that Khanmigo has been made available to over 65,000 students by Khan Academy. The chatbot continues to make frequent math mistakes, according to critics, and the AI tutoring software is still in its experimental stage.

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Gates is still enthusiastic about AI’s potential to revolutionize worldwide education as technology advances over the coming 10 years and beyond.

“These new tools can both close the gap and raise the overall level of achievement if we think about the next 10 years, [in terms of] both the absolute level of learning and the gap with lower-income, minority students,” Gates stated on the podcast.