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SoftBank CEO and former OpenAI chief scientist share the same exciting but scary dream

SoftBank CEO and former OpenAI chief scientist share the same exciting but scary dream
SoftBank CEO and former OpenAI chief scientist share the same exciting but scary dream
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Humans haven’t yet seen the full potential of Gen AI. But big guns with money and know-how are betting big on creating something far more powerful – hyper intelligent AI.

Artificial super intelligence (ASI) is said to be the next – and final – frontier of AI technology, going even beyond artificial general intelligence or AGI which AI major OpenAI aims to create. But what is ASI, which the likes of Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever (who left the AI pioneer last month) have been talking about, and what would it mean for humanity? ET Prime explains. What is
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