SoftBank CEO says general AI to surpass human intelligence in next 10 years
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Ever one for making bold proclamations, SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY) Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son said on Wednesday that he thinks general artificial intelligence, sometimes referred to as artificial general intelligence, will top the collective intelligence of humanity and come within the next 10 years.
"It is wrong to say that AI cannot be smarter than humans as it is created by humans," Son said at the company's World conference, according to Reuters.
"AI is now self learning, self training, and self inferencing, just like human beings," Son added, while also touting advancements made by generative artificial intelligence.
The 66-year-old Son delved deeper and said he is the only person who thinks artificial general intelligence will come in such a short time. Conversely, Arm (ARM) CEO Rene Haas, who also spoke at the conference, said it would come within his lifetime.
SoftBank (OTCPK:SFTBY) spun out a portion of Arm last month in a widely watched initial public offering.
In addition to offering the timeline, Son spoke of something he called "artificial super intelligence," which he said would come in the next 20 years and would surpass humanity by a factor of 10,000, the news outlet added.
General AI, or AGI, has been previously described of as the singularity - an event where technology surpasses humanity and becomes irreversible. 
There are widely thought to be two types of artificial intelligence - weak AI or strong AI. 
Weak AI has the ability to perform simple tasks repeatedly, akin to something like Siri or ChatGPT. 
OpenAI's ChatGPT, which took the world by storm late last year and this year, is in the weak AI box, even as it creates content, known as generative artificial intelligence.
In March, OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft (MSFT), revealed that GPT-4, its newest large language model, had the ability to score higher on the SAT than 90% of the population.
Last month, OpenAI unveiled the latest version of its text-to-image AI tool called DALL-E 3.
The second type of AI is known as strong AI, which is a type of AI that can do anything a human can and ultimately, better. 

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