Artificial intelligence will overtake human IQ in 30 yrs: SoftBank Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son

SoftBank Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son today outlined his vision for artificial intelligence and said computers running AI programs will exceed human intelligence within three decades. Delivering a keynote address at the Mobile World Congress here, Son said he expects one computer chip to have the equivalent of 10,000 IQ within this period. "In the past 2,000 years, the hardware in our brains has not improved… In the next 30 years, AI will overtake human intelligence," he said. Son added that with the strong growth seen for Internet of Things (IoT), the number of embedded chips that are recording and transforming data into something useful will top "one trillion". Son, who sported a black turtleneck sweater and black pants, joked that even a pair of sneakers will have more computing power that a person.