SoftBank CEO Son says artificial general intelligence will come within 10 years

4/10/2023 13:24

        SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI), artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas, will be realised within 10 years.
        
        Speaking at the SoftBank World corporate conference, Son said he believes AGI will be ten times more intelligent than the sum total of all human intelligence. He noted the rapid progress in generative AI that he said has already exceeded human intelligence in certain areas.
        
        Hee said, "It is wrong to say that AI cannot be smarter than humans as it is created by humans. AI is now self learning, self training, and self inferencing, just like human beings."
        
        Son is known for several canny bets that have turned SoftBank into a tech investment giant as well as some bets that have spectacularly flopped.
        
        He also introduced the idea of "Artificial Super Intelligence" at the conference which he claimed would be realised in 20 years and would surpass human intelligence by a factor of 10,000.