Masayoshi Son predicts there will someday be as many smart robots as humans

by Dramelin 6:00 PM 0 comments

The Singularity is coming, Masayoshi Son says.
The founder of SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate, had the business world chattering on Monday night with his speech at the Appeal of Conscience Foundation.
(DealBook is the first to report on it.
) His main thrusts: • The Singularity, when artificial intelligence finally outstrips that of humans, will replace huge swaths of jobs.
• The number of sentient robots on Earth will rival the number of humans.
From his speech: More from Mr.
Son on artificial intelligence: "I predict 30 years from now, the number of smart robots, the smart robot population on this earth will be 10 billion.
By that time, human population will be around 10 billion.
So here on this earth we will have 10 billion population of mankind and 10 billion population of smart robots.
This is the first time on this earth that we live together with 10 billion robots.
" "Every industry that mankind created will be redefined.
The medical industry, automobile industry, the information industry of course.
Every industry that mankind ever defined and created, even agriculture, will be redefined.
Because the tools that we created were inferior to mankind`s brain in the past.
Now the tools become smarter than mankind ourselves.
The definition of whatever the industry, will be redefined.