The Japanese tech billionaire behind SoftBank thinks the 'singularity' will occur within 30 years

SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son reacts as SoftBank's human-like robots named "Pepper" performs. Singularity -- the point when machine intelligence surpasses our own and goes on to improve itself at an exponential rate -- will happen by 2047, according to Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tech mogul leading SoftBank. Son was speaking on Monday at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain. He said: "I totally believe this concept. In next 30 years this will become a reality."