Earlier today, Bill Gates took part in a Reddit AMA in which one of the things he talked about was his concern about artificial intelligence. That was just one aspect of it, but during the AMA, Gates also revealed that he is currently working on a mysterious project at Microsoft which has been given the codename “Personal Agent”.Gates was understandable a bit vague in his description of the Personal Agent project he was working on, but according to him, “One project I am working on with Microsoft is the Personal Agent which will remember everything and help you go back and find things and help you pick what things to pay attention to.”
He adds, “The idea that you have to find applications and pick them and they each are trying to tell you what is new is just not the efficient model – the agent will help solve this.” If anything this sounds like a feature that Microsoft’s voice assistant Cortana would be more than capable of handling, although how exactly this would work remains to be seen.
If anything this reiterates Gates’ commitment to Microsoft, which back in 2014 he promised that his time at the company would substantially increase, and we guess one of the fruits of his labor at Microsoft would be Personal Agent. No word on when he would see that feature launched, but it’s something worth looking forward to.
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