Artificial intelligence, which until recently was raising eyebrows, is now talk of the town as AI chatbot ChatGPT has been buzzing around the Internet following its launch.

While Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has openly cheered for ChatGPT and has been an advocate for AI, this is the first time that he has been grilled by the chat bot in an interview where he was joined by none other than the Prime Minister of UK, Rishi Sunak.

The two took the hot seat as they answered questions generated by ChatGPT.

“How to do you think technology will impact economy and job market in the next 10 years?” was Sunak’s first question to Gates. To this, the 67-year-old said, “Well, we clearly need to be more efficient. There’s a labour shortage, you know, in healthcare and education. If you go to the low income countries, they never have enough doctors or teachers. Hopefully technology like the one that generated this question can help us be more efficient.”

Moving on, the ChatGPT then asked the guests that if they could go back in time and speak with their respective younger selves while starting off in their careers, what advice would they have to share, and if they would approach their work differently?

“Well, I was kind of overly intense. I didn’t believe in weekends, I didn’t believe in vacation, you know. There were a lot of people who probably could have helped me that just didn’t fit in because I had this very narrow view of the working style, the talking style, and for a small early Microsoft Group, that was OK,” Gates said, adding that as the company (Microsoft) grew and expanded, he had a different realisation. “As we got bigger, I had to realise, you get sales teams in, as you get people with families in, you have got to think about this, it is a very long-term thing,” the philanthropist added.
Sunak gave a similar response, stating that he comes from an immigrant family and has always worked to get ahead. “You know, I came from an immigrant family mentality which is ‘just keep working, keep moving on to the next thing’, and trying to get ahead and I think, actually, overtime I have come to realise you’ve got to live a little bit more in the moment,” Sunak said.

The next question ChatGPT asked was what one aspect of their jobs they wish AI could do for them. The Microsoft co-founder answered saying, that sometimes when he is writing notes, he uses AI to make them ‘clever’. He also claims to have used AI to write songs, poems, and other works.

The UK Prime Minister said that it would be great if AI could take care of PM’s Question Time – a live debate – for him every week.