Bill Gates has written a new essay on AI impact and sat for an interview with the New York Times to talk about it. The pace of recent advances in the field has far surpassed his expectations. He believes the impact of artificial intelligence is both bigger, and closer, than the public and governments think. He thinks the positive and negative effects of AI are both being understated, that addressing what is about to happen should be the world's top priority, and that the tech industry is…