“People think if [AI] has emotions, it's a disaster, it's demonish, it's a bad thing because they're going to fight and kill you—destroy you,” Softbank CEO Son said Monday during a panel discussion with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Tokyo.
“I would say if their source of energy was protein, then it's dangerous.”
Luckily for us, however, “their source of energy is not protein, so they don't have to eat us,” Son noted.
SoftBank was among the companies investing in Project Stargate—a $500 billion initiative announced last month that will fund faster deployment of AI in the US. The project plans to allocate 1,000 engineers to develop AI agents that could function like employees.
The stakes are high, and not everyone is convinced they are serious about risking so much. Elon Musk, for instance, a disgruntled co-founder of OpenAI who left the board and has been beefing with Altman, questioned whether SoftBank had enough money for Stargate
Son fired back at the new head of DOGE: "I will tell you (Elon), we will make it happen. We are not the bank—but we are SoftBank."
Altman and Son discussed the idea of "infinite long-term memory" capabilities—AI systems that could understand a person's entire life or company history. "That'll be a huge step forward," Altman said, predicting this technology would arrive within the next couple of years.
The executives also believe humanoid robots would become commonplace in the future.
"I think in a few years we can have really great humanoid robots and lots of other kinds of robots too, and that will also change the world," Altman said.
Hopefully, they won’t develop a taste for protein either.
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