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Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the bold-predictions dept.

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."

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  1. Maybe they will be smart enough by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe they will be smart enough to be able to tell the difference between "outnumber" and "outsmart", thus outsmarting the poster

  2. CEOs are smarter than anyone by TiggertheMad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, since a CEO thinks that this will be true, it must be. I love how CEOs like this guy and Elon (idiot) Musk are predicting the future of AI development. As opposed to say, leading AI researchers that are attending conferences and writing papers on the state of the art.

    My response: STFU register biscuit, and work on growing your companies valuation rather than talking about shit that people way smarter than you cannot predict. This headline might as well be, "Random unqualified person speculates on the unknown future".

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  3. Isn't all of this just BS? by Eloking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm I missing something or all of this (news about AI taking over) is just BS?

    Almost as bad as a "Terminator" type of rebellion : https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/

    Yeah we see a lot of breakthrough in "AI" technologies (AI beat GO champion last year, AI got better to identify skin cancer this year), but as far as I understand AI, it's basically plugging the program to a (insanely huge) database about the subject and help him interpolate the input and it's own data. That's computer program getting better, not getting "intelligent".

    Or is my definition of "AI" that off the mark? I mean, for me intelligence implies some sort of "conscience" that can make decision "outside the box". No matter how fancy the GO of dermatologist AI get, they will never do more than their field because they are not programmed to do so.

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