When he speaks, everyone pays attention. Japan’s SoftBank CEO does not write codes, making his promise to create technology systems which are smarter than humans in multiples fascinating: “Masayoshi Son, the billionaire CEO of SoftBank, is aiming for a new technology adventure called Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)…Over the years, Son has made bold investments in startups poised to revolutionize industries, cementing his reputation as a risk-taker with a keen eye for innovation.”
So, you may ask: which one is more important – the skill or the capital? Son thinks with his money he can assemble the human element to get what he wants. That explains that in the ranking of the factors of production, you need to pay attention to capital. Of course, this is not to posit that capital is ahead of humans, since knowledge, a factor of production, is there, besides labour and the entrepreneur. Of course, knowledge comes from humans!
Here is the knowledge from Son: “SoftBank was founded for what purpose [ASI]? For what purpose was Masa Son born? It may sound strange, but I think I was born to realize ASI. I am super serious about it,” Son told shareholders at an annual meeting.
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So, with his unalloyed boldness and confidence, I will rank the factors of production for the ASI future as follows: Knowledge, Entrepreneur, Capital, Labour and (Land). Good People, a man or a woman with Knowledge is a factor in this world. Upon knowledge will the empires of the future be built upon. And dreaming to create knowledge systems 10,000x better than humans assumes that humans will even know that such a thing has happened since it is 10000x ahead of us!
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