The co-founder of Microsoft has been thinking a lot about how AI chatbots will be transforming… pretty much everything:

In the next five years…You won’t have to use different apps for different tasks. You’ll simply tell your device, in everyday language, what you want to do. And depending on how much information you choose to share with it, the software will be able to respond personally because it will have a rich understanding of your life. In the near future, anyone who’s online will be able to have a personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence that’s far beyond today’s technology.

Gates offers a lot of predictions – well worth a read.