TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son stated on Friday that the group’s mission was to assist in humanity’s progress by realising synthetic tremendous intelligence, which he stated would exceed human capabilities by an element of 10,000.
“SoftBank (TYO:) Group has achieved many issues till now which have all been a heat up for my nice dream to grasp synthetic tremendous intelligence,” Son instructed shareholders on the group’s annual common assembly.
Son typically hails the transformative energy of latest applied sciences and has made his identify and fortune by betting on the proliferation of the web and smartphones.
At Friday’s assembly, he stated the group was now placing all its efforts into pairing robotics with synthetic intelligence for use in every kind of mass manufacturing and logistics, in addition to autonomous driving.
Son’s imaginative and prescient for AI robots would require “immense capital” and pooling funds with companions, he stated, as SoftBank wouldn’t be capable to bankroll it alone.
Son’s status as a visionary investor was dented after lots of the tech startups held by the Imaginative and prescient Fund funding autos have gone bitter since 2021. A few of his different predictions, such because the widespread adoption of “web of issues” know-how haven’t materialised.
However the success of SoftBank subsidiary Arm, the British chip designer, since its public itemizing in September final yr has burnished Son’s status, as traders have piled into companies linked to AI.
