This is what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has to say on the ‘big AI winner’ of tomorrow

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that the future top company in artificial intelligence will likely have created a personal digital agent that can perform certain tasks for people. Gates said that the technology race to win is the development of the top artificially intelligent agent, poised to disrupt search-engine, productivity and online shopping sites. He was speaking at I Forward 2023, an event in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc and SV Angel.

He said that over the years, various industry players have worked on building a computer assistant, powered by AI, that consumers can command by speech or text to handle a range of tasks for them. “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s a big thing,” Gates said.

Painting a not-so-happy picture for shopping giant Amazon and search giant Google, Gates said that “You’ll never go to a search site again,” he said. “You’ll never go to Amazon.”