SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son recently made a bold prediction at the annual shareholder meeting. He believes that "super artificial intelligence" with intelligence that exceeds 10,000 times that of humans will appear in three to five years and completely change the social landscape within ten years. This prediction has attracted widespread attention and also highlights the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology and its profound impact on future society. Masayoshi Son also said that SoftBank will actively embrace the AI era and use its advantages, such as Arm's leading position in chip design and cloud computing, to profit from the AI wave.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told investors last week that he believed it would take just three years to achieve "super artificial intelligence" with an intelligence level 10,000 times that of humans.
He told the company's annual shareholder meeting that superintelligence may arrive in three to five years, but he predicted that within a decade superintelligence will completely transform society - with one obvious change being robots replacing logistics.
The CEO assured investors that artificial intelligence will not disrupt SoftBank and that SoftBank will adapt to using artificial intelligence and develop the technology to power it.
He told them that chip design company Arm, of which SoftBank is a majority shareholder, will monetize artificial intelligence and continue to make progress in cloud computing after already securing most major hyperscalers as customers.
Although Masayoshi Son’s prediction is bold, it also reflects the reality of the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology. In the future, how artificial intelligence technology will profoundly affect our lives deserves our continued attention and in-depth thinking.