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Masayoshi Son. (Alex Brandon / AP)

Spår superintelligens om 10 år – vill leda racet

Masayoshi Son, grundare och vd till det japanska teknikinvestmentbolaget Softbank, spår att artificiell superintelligens är här om 10 år. Nu snabbar han på både investeringar och förvärv i AI-bolag som ska göra Softbank till centrum för det teknologiska skiftet, rapporterar CNBC.

Redan 2016 förvärvade Softbank chipdesignern Arm, som bland annat är integrerade i Nvidia, i en affär som då var värd 32 miljarder dollar. I dag har Arms värde nästan femfaldigats.

Så sent som i mars meddelade Softbank att man planerade att förvärva ännu en chipdesigner i form av Ampere Computing. Även Open AI:s Chat GPT är något man har investerat miljarder i.

– Sons vision är att sammanlänka och integrera de komponenter han investerar i eller förvärvar, och därigenom establera ett kraftfullt AI-ekosystem designat för att maximera värdet till sina aktieägare, säger Neil Shah, medgrundare av Counterpoint Research, till CNBC.

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A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. "Superintelligence" may also refer to a property of advanced problem-solving systems that excel in specific areas (e.g., superintelligent language translators or engineering assistants). Nevertheless, a general purpose superintelligence remains hypothetical and its creation may or may not be triggered by an intelligence explosion or a technological singularity. University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence as "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest". The program Fritz falls short of this conception of superintelligence—even though it is much better than humans at chess—because Fritz cannot outperform humans in other tasks. Technological researchers disagree about how likely present-day human intelligence is to be surpassed. Some argue that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will probably result in general reasoning systems that lack human cognitive limitations. Others believe that humans will evolve or directly modify their biology to achieve radically greater intelligence. Several future study scenarios combine elements from both of these possibilities, suggesting that humans are likely to interface with computers, or upload their minds to computers, in a way that enables substantial intelligence amplification. Some researchers believe that superintelligence will likely follow shortly after the development of artificial general intelligence. The first generally intelligent machines are likely to immediately hold an enormous advantage in at least some forms of mental capability, including the capacity of perfect recall, a vastly superior knowledge base, and the ability to multitask in ways not possible to biological entities. This may allow them to — either as a single being or as a new species — become much more powerful than humans, and displace them. Several scientists and forecasters have been arguing for prioritizing early research into the possible benefits and risks of human and machine cognitive enhancement, because of the potential social impact of such technologies.
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