Bill Gates says top AI agent will replace search, shopping sites

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“You’ll never go to a search site again,” he said. “You’ll never go to Amazon.”

Speaking at AI Forward 2023, an event in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) and SV Angel, Gates said it would disappoint him if Microsoft were not in the running, though there was a 50% chance the top player to emerge will be a startup.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc’s Google and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Gates said Inflection AI, co-founded by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, impressed him.

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.