Masayoshi Son Quotes

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

The idea [of the Quantum Computer] is to create a machine that is as intelligence as humans, and probably much more so.