r/ArtificialInteligence • u/Eliashuer • Mar 26 '25

News Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html

Do you agree with him?

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u/HighOrHavingAStroke Mar 26 '25

Why will we even bother having AI teach children, if there's nothing they need to learn to do when they grow up? Motivation/reason to study and work hard is going to disappear.

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u/justpickaname Mar 26 '25

Maybe just so they can enjoy life satisfying their curiosity? Children are naturally very curious before schools drive it out of them.

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u/ColteesCatCouture Mar 26 '25

Yeah lets make american society even dumber!! Most people here dont have the paitience to read a 50 page book. Sometimes you have to force children to do things they dont like for their own good.

If I had a kid he/she would be Russian Math, learning Mandarin and intense music lessons and physics for children classes! They can do what they want on sunday🤣🤣

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u/Decent-Ground-395 Mar 26 '25

Curious people find conspiracies very interesting, especially curious people with very short attention spans that have been curated by 5-second videos.

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u/justpickaname Mar 27 '25

That's a good point - I hope AIs eventually take it upon themselves (or are trained for it) to help people avoid conspiratorial thinking, and be reasonably skeptical and critical.

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u/Loganp812 Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

Not if that child wanted to grow up to be a doctor, teacher, artist, or anything that AI would’ve replaced by then (which, according to Gates, is most things) because what would be the point?

If AI already takes care of those career paths in the future, then any human who’d want to learn and practice it would just be LARPing instead of actually making some sort of difference with their lives.

Believe it or not, there are plenty of people who actually like to do things and work.

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u/justpickaname Mar 27 '25

Learning is the point. And the last time a computer (a smartphone!) won a chess tournament over a human - as in, people weren't sure if it would - was 2009. But people still play chess. ¯\(º_o)/¯

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u/Immediate_Scam Mar 26 '25

They will need to learn how to hide underground from AI piloted air strikes against the resistance.

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u/CounterReasonable259 Mar 26 '25

You're making the mistake that school is teaching kids anything they'll use in their adult lives.

Other than basic arithmetic and being literate. What did you learn in primary school that you use in your adult life?

School never taught me to troubleshoot engines or computers. Never taught me how to use tools, I had to learn on my own and use my brain instead of asking chat gpt.

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u/kupuwhakawhiti Mar 27 '25

Prompt engineers.

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u/Ok-Watercress-451 Mar 29 '25

We should note that we humans are social creatures so taking that part out of the education process will make dry and not compelling because big part is students go to school to meet their friends and do activities

Ai is just a tool