Proactive Investors - Artificial intelligence (AI) could be running entire households in the space of just a few years, SoftBank (TYO:9984) founder Masayoshi Son has predicted.
Whether it’s buying groceries, tutoring children or monitoring health, Son on Thursday forecast artificial general intelligence, capable of such processes, would hit households within two to three years.
Such models have become a long-term goal for developers, with Son hailing OpenAI’s latest 01 ChatGPT model’s ability to mimic human reasoning during a speech to clients.
“The human brain consists of some 100 trillion synaptic connections, and that number won’t change,” he said.
“Generative AI is creating new synapses at a furious pace.”
According to Son, the OpenAI bot gave good responses within 45 seconds when queried on the likes of increasing savings or extending electric car ranges.
Similar complex tasks could stretch to other household uses, such as filling users’ bathtubs at the right time, he noted.
“We can design AI personal agents who understand your emotions and whose greatest reward is your happiness.”
“Artificial superintelligence is something that wants you to be happy.”
His comments came after SoftBank emerged as a backer in OpenAI’s latest US$6.6 billion (£5 billion) funding round.
SoftBank has reportedly drawn up plans to pump US$100 billion into AI chips, with Son noting the new models would require more of these, including those reliant on technology from subsidiary Arm Holdings PLC (NASDAQ:ARM).