Technology can help people a lot in education and provide them with a lot of information and different ways of learning, but according to Bill Gates, ChatGPT can teach children to read and write.

This should not be expected in the distant future, but AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbots may have that capability in about a year and a half.Gates spoke about this at last week’s conference in San Diego and highlighted how artificial intelligence will be on par with the best teachers in terms of its educational capabilities. Today’s chatbots already show, as Gates called it, “remarkable skills in understanding and writing,” and it’s clear that they’ll get better at transferring knowledge over time.

In addition to helping children with reading and writing, it will also help students, who can enhance and improve their writing and reading skills thanks to this technology. Many are already using chatbots when drafting essays, emails, job applications and newspaper articles.

“In about 18 months, artificial intelligence will become an assistant to teachers and give them useful feedback. Even after that, they will improve their math skills,” Gates explained. That is, if the answer to a mathematical equation already exists among the data it is trained on, it will be able to give the correct answer without any problem. However, the situation is much more difficult for AI when it has to solve a complex mathematical problem on its own. However, it is not impossible either and we can see it in the example of Photomath.

As Gates concluded at the conference, AI will soon play a major role in education, and in two years artificial intelligence could become a private tutor for many children, Gates believes.