Until a few months ago, the position of American magnate Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, was that in the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be necessary “for most things” in the world.

However, he now advocated for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve “healthcare problems” and predicted “fantastic” results for poorer countries.

During interviews last March, Gates insisted that within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers: humans will not be necessary “for most things.”

Six months later, he said that “(AI) is coming, it will solve many problems and it will create new problems,” at an event where he announced a multi-billion dollar investment in global health and called for using the technology in health issues.

“The fact that we are using AI is almost all good news, both on the discovery side, which accelerates the invention of new drugs and vaccines, and on the delivery side, where the vision of the foundation is,” said the entrepreneur, who assured that there is no turning back.

The billionaire released a “roadmap” for global health to save millions of children's lives by 2045, and among them he included greater investment in research and development to seek, a breakthrough section in which he proposes AI to improve the “smarter, faster, and cheaper” delivery of medicines. Gates, who said his foundation will begin pilot studies next year that link technology and health, considered that for “the world's health problems, AI is fantastic in all countries, but particularly countries that have very few doctors,” the poorest ones. He gave a simple example of its use by the population: "A mother in Africa using her cell phone in her local dialect can ask for advice. I'm pregnant, what should I do with my diet? I have these symptoms, what do I do? We are working to achieve that."