Gates: If I drop out of school again to start a business, I would choose these three fields

Bill Gates is probably the most famous dropout. In 1975, he gave up studying at top university Harvard to found Microsoft and later became the richest man in the world.

Gates once looked back and said he was lucky because he was fascinated by computers when they were just beginning to change the world. But in a speech at Columbia University last Friday, he said that if he dropped out of school now, he probably wouldn't be in the computer industry and wouldn't be developing operating systems, according to Fortune . Another celebrity also appeared in the speech: Warren Buffett.

Gates, 61, does not encourage students to drop out of school, and he has always focused on investing in the field of education. However, in response to a classmate's question, he still talked about three areas that he thought were very promising, and said that if he started to pursue a career again, it would probably be in these areas. According to previous reports by Leifeng.com, Gates has indeed invested a lot in these areas.

Leifeng.com summarizes these three areas as follows:

AI

Gates said that if you enter the field of computer science now, the most promising field should be artificial intelligence . He also mentioned DeepMind's AlphaGo, calling it a remarkable achievement, showing that artificial intelligence has indeed made a lot of progress. He believes that the current research is very profound and will soon make new breakthroughs. "The ability of intelligent agents to read and understand materials will be amazing, and anything related to this can be an exciting lifelong career."

energy

Gates said that the demand for reliable, cheap and clean energy is huge and will continue to grow, and there is no system that can provide enough energy to meet these standards. Therefore, he believes that there are still many opportunities for innovation in the energy field. "Innovation in energy has a great impact, and there are many ways to get us to the goals we need to accomplish."

At the end of last year, Leifeng.com (official account: Leifeng.com) reported that Gates also joined forces with Jack Ma, Amazon founder and CEO Bezos and other top global entrepreneurs to establish the Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund (BEV), which raised over $1 billion in initial funds and will focus on clean energy innovation projects. The energy fund will start investing in projects in 2017 and continue to operate for 20 years.

Buffett would agree with Gates, because his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway owns the largest utility company in the United States and has said it will invest $30 billion in alternative energy. Berkshire also owns some wind farms and will soon become the largest wind energy producer in the United States.

Biological Technology

Gates also believes that this is the golden age of biotechnology, and the field is developing faster than ever before. He believes that there is great potential and demand for smart innovation in the fight against obesity, cancer and depression. The most promising progress he mentioned is DNA vaccines.

Leifeng.com reported that in early 2017, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also invested $140 million in the AIDS treatment project of the medical unicorn company Intarcia Therapeutics. The project will develop a drug pump implanted subcutaneously, which will provide the human body with anti-HIV preventive drugs continuously for six or twelve months. For the implant recipient, there is no need to remember to take injections and medicines every day, only to refill the device twice a year or once a year.