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Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com)
Computers running artificial intelligence programs will exceed human intelligence within three decades, Masayoshi Son, founder of the Japanese technology and telecommunications conglomerate SoftBank Group, said on Monday. From a report on Fortune: "I really believe this," Son told a large audience at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry's annual conference in Barcelona. A computer will have the IQ equal to 1,000 times the average human by that point, he said. Even clothing like a pair of sneakers will have more computing power that a person, Son joked. "We will be less than our shoes," he said, to laughter. Asked if the rise of the computer could be dangerous for humankind, Son said that would be up to how people react. "I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner," he said. "If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner."
Especially criminal since the poster was trying to reword the perfectly decent headline from the linked article, "Computers Will Be Smarter Than People In 30 Years". Why not just quote the headline, since you're linking to the article, instead of butchering it?
I'm getting a bit sick and tired of these bullshit stories. Robots are not going to make humans obsolete. Everyone is not going to lose their jobs to robots. Robots are not going to take over. So-called 'AI' as most people THINK they know it is a creation of media hype. Everybody needs to calm the hell down and just go about your business, nothing to see here, ignore the trolls and the bullshit 'news' stories.