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Masayoshi Son

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The Visionary

The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.

Masayoshi Son earns The Visionary through sheer scale of conviction. He has staked hundreds of billions of dollars on long-horizon bets, most famously via the SoftBank Vision Fund, on the argument that artificial intelligence will reshape civilisation within decades.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY VISIONARY

“People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.”
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“What is my belief and vision for this investment? I have only one belief, Singularity.”
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“It is wrong to say that AI cannot be smarter than humans as it is created by humans. AI is now self-learning, self-training, and self-inferencing, just like human beings.”
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