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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.
"It is wrong to say that AI cannot be smarter than humans as it
is created by humans," he said. "AI is now self learning, self
training, and self inferencing, just like human beings."
Son has spoken of the potential of AGI - typically using the
term "singularity" - to transform business and society for some
years, but this is the first time he has given a timeline for
its development.
He also introduced the idea of "Artificial Super Intelligence"
at the conference which he claimed would be realized in 20 years
and would surpass human intelligence by a factor of 10,000.
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's also prone to making strident claims about the
transformative impact of new technologies. His predictions about
the mobile internet have been largely borne out while those
about the Internet of Things have not.
Son called upon Japanese companies to "wake up" to the promise
of AI, arguing they had increasingly fallen behind in the
internet age and reiterated his belief in chip designer Arm as
core to the "AI revolution".
Arm CEO Rene Haas, speaking at the conference via video, touted
the energy efficiency of Arm's designs, saying they would become
increasingly sought after to power artificial intelligence.
Son said he thinks he is the only person who believes AGI will
come within a decade. Haas said he thought it would come in his
lifetime.
(Reporting by Anton Bridge; Editing by Tom Hogue and Edwina
Gibbs)
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