While many top business leaders continue to express concern about the unchecked development of AI, the CEO of Japanese investment firm SoftBank has made a big prediction about the future of AI.
In a rare public appearance at the bank's shareholders meeting on Friday, Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son spoke of his desire to create a world powered by artificial superintelligence (ASI).
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“SoftBank Group has done a lot of things so far, but it was all a warm-up to realize my big dream: artificial intelligence,” Son told the company's shareholders. Reuters.
He also said that AGI (artificial general intelligence), which refers to artificial intelligence smarter than the human brain, will emerge within the next three to five years, and that ASI technology could reach an intelligence level 10,000 times that of the human brain within the next decade. CNBC.
Son's future comments did not include any actionable plans for the company to enter the ASI field, but he did say SoftBank will work on building robots with AI capabilities. This can be used in a variety of fields and will require “enormous capital” to complete.
Over the past year, dozens of billionaires and business leaders, including Elon Musk and Richard Branson, have signed a letter calling for the regulation of technology despite the positive benefits that technological advances suggest.
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“I'm more excited about AI than I am worried about it,” Branson said recently. entrepreneur“I think it's going to transform people's health care, it's going to transform operations, it's going to transform many aspects of life.”
SoftBank was up about 27% year-over-year as of Friday afternoon.
