Gates said this while speaking to innovators in Lagos at an event on Wednesday. The event was tagged ‘Advancing Africa: Unleashing the Power of Youth in Science and Innovation’.
“As a motivated student myself, I loved to learn things. The Internet has had things like Wikipedia and YouTube and so many amazing resources.
According to him, motivated users can do a lot; including debate the late Isaac Newton and simplify complex things, “like you can say ‘explain quantum to a sixth grader’ and it does a very good job”; because AI has taken education tools to a whole new level.
“We can help teachers crack the homework automatically. We can create personalised sets of questions for students. But when it comes to that motivation, when kids get discouraged or confused, we’ll try and do some of that with the AI,” he said.
“But as of right now, for the non-typical student who isn’t just going to go out and teach themselves, it’s a combination of all this amazing material plus investing in the teachers,” he said.