SoftBank CEO promises "super artificial intelligences" with IQ of 10,000 in 30 years

There are few people who we can genuinely say are keen on bringing about the so-called technological singularity --i.e., that moment when intelligent machines become smarter than human beings. There's famed "future teller" and Google top engineer Ray Kurzweil, who's said the singularity isn't something to be feared. But, perhaps, no one is as dedicated to making the singularity happen as much as Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank. Son recently spoke at the Future Investment Initiative held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he mentioned that the singularity might just happen in about 30 years, when artificial intelligence develops an IQ of 10,000 --and SoftBank's invested $100 billion to build chips capable of such IQ levels. That's well beyond what's considered average by human standards, which is at 100, and even greater than a human genius with a 200 IQ.