Bill Gates - Computers Don't Know How to Represent Knowledge (2017)
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A 2017 comment from Bill Gates on Reddit's IAmA discussion highlights the challenge of representing knowledge in computers, sparking a low-engagement discussion on the topic.
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The answer is what LLMs can do for us today: "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. "