The boss of the bank that invested 30 billion euros in ChatGPT said what Nobel prize could win super artificial intelligence / “It won't need to eat us”
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank Group, PHOTO: Ahn Young-joon / AP / Profimedia Images
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday that artificial superintelligence could win the Nobel Prize for literature and outperform humans so much that we would be “little red fish” by comparison, France Presse reports.
In a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, the Japanese, whose bank has invested 30 billion in the American champion of AI OpenAI, described a future in which an advanced artificial intelligence will exceed the capabilities of the human brain by 10,000 times.
“Between the human brain and that (…) of a goldfish in an aquarium, the difference is 10,000 times,” he stated.
“But this will change: we will become like fish, and (these superintelligences) will be like humans. They will be 10,000 times smarter than us,” he continued.
Most of the big players in the field of AI are looking to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), the stage where AI would equal all the intellectual capabilities of humans, but also superintelligence, which would surpass these capabilities.
“He won't need to eat us”
Masayoshi Son compared the relationship between this artificial superintelligence and humans to that which humans have with their pets.
“We try to make them happy, (…) to live in peace with them”. These models “won't need to eat us, don't worry,” he quipped.
Lee Jae Myung replied with a laugh that he was starting to be “a little worried.”
The South Korean president then asked the Softbank chief executive if he thought this artificial superintelligence could one day win the Nobel Prize for literature, awarded last year to South Korean writer Han Kang.
“I don't think it's a desirable situation,” but “I think so,” replied Masayoshi Son.
