Softbank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass humans to the extent that "we become fish" and could even win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Meeting South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, Son, whose SoftBank is a major backer of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, described a future in which an advanced AI surpasses humans by a magnitude of 10,000.

"The difference between the human brain and the... goldfish in the pot -- the difference is 10,000 times," he said.

"But it's going to be different -- we will become fish, they (the AI) become like humans," he said.

"They will be 10,000 times smarter than us," he told President Lee, who had vowed to turn South Korea into an AI powerhouse.

Son compared the relationship between this artific

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