President Lee Jae Myung meets with SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Friday. Joint Press Corps
President Lee Jae Myung met with SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son on Friday to debate increasing cooperation in synthetic intelligence (AI), semiconductors and large-scale infrastructure funding, in accordance with the presidential workplace.
Through the 70-minute assembly that started at 10 a.m., Lee thanked Son for the recommendation he had provided earlier Korean presidents, together with Kim Dae-jung and Moon Jae-in. He requested for continued steerage as Korea strives to turn into one of many world’s prime three AI powers.
“Koreans perceive each the dangers and the advantages of synthetic intelligence,” Lee mentioned. “We’re working to reduce the dangers whereas investing in its potential. I imagine AI can turn into fundamental public infrastructure, like water and sewage methods, accessible to all residents and all nations. Our aim is to construct an ‘AI Fundamental Society’ the place each citizen, each enterprise and each group makes use of AI at the very least at a basic stage.”
Lee additionally underscored the significance of Korea-Japan collaboration in AI, expressing hope that Son might function a bridge between the 2 nations.
President Lee Jae Myung shakes palms with SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Friday. Joint Press Corps
Son warns of coming ‘Synthetic Superintelligence’
In response, Son drew on his previous discussions with Korean presidents, saying he had emphasised the significance of broadband communications beneath President Kim Dae-jung and AI beneath President Moon Jae-in. This time, he mentioned, he wished to spotlight the arrival of Synthetic Superintelligence (ASI).
Son defined that ASI refers to intelligence not merely 10 occasions however about 10,000 occasions extra succesful than the human mind. Whereas debate continues over when basic AI may attain human-level cognition, ASI, he argued, represents a way more dramatic leap.
“Evaluating people with ASI can be like evaluating people with goldfish,” Son famous. “If we evaluate the human mind with that of a goldfish in a fishbowl, we will say the human mind is ten thousand occasions extra superior. A goldfish can’t do math, nor can it perceive English letters like ABC. Irrespective of how a lot you practice or educate it, a goldfish continues to be only a goldfish. … Their mind neurons and synapses are totally different. What issues will not be knowledge coaching or expertise — the {hardware} itself defines the mind. It refers back to the general structure that the mind possesses,” Son mentioned.
President Lee Jae Myung meets with SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Friday. Joint Press Corps
Son warned that humanity might quickly occupy the place of the goldfish on this analogy, explaining that as he defines it, ASI refers to a mind 10,000 occasions extra succesful than the human mind.
“We should shift away from the concept of making an attempt to manage, practice or handle AI,” he mentioned. “As a substitute, we want new methods of fascinated about the best way to dwell harmoniously with it.”
Regardless of this dramatic imaginative and prescient, Son provided reassurance.
“What I’ve shared displays my perspective on AI. I imagine AI can be variety, useful and able to making individuals happier. Simply as we don’t search to hurt our family pets, we will dwell peacefully with AI. There isn’t a must worry that ASI will assault or eat us.”
Son additional emphasised that power, semiconductors, knowledge and schooling are the 4 important pillars for getting into the ASI period. He suggested that Korea, given its present circumstances, should considerably develop its knowledge middle capability and intensify efforts to safe the power required to maintain ASI improvement.
Kim Yong-beom, middle, presidential chief of workers for coverage, speaks throughout a press briefing held on the presidential workplace in Seoul, Friday. Joint Press Corps
Following the assembly between President Lee and Chairman Son, Kim Yong-beom, the presidential chief of workers for coverage, introduced that the Korean authorities and Arm — the world’s largest fabless semiconductor firm — have agreed to ascertain an establishment, tentatively named “Arm Faculty,” to coach 1,400 semiconductor design specialists. Kim added that the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Power and Arm have already signed a memorandum of understanding and can kind a working group to develop detailed implementation plans. SoftBank holds a couple of 90 % stake in Arm.
“Arm Faculty will function as a semiconductor-focused coaching establishment grounded in Arm’s chip design IP experience, producing roughly 1,400 top-tier design professionals,” Kim mentioned in the course of the briefing.
He confused that the initiative would function a “decisive alternative to bolster Korea’s weaknesses in system semiconductors and its fabless ecosystem.” Kim added that in the course of the assembly, President Lee expressed hopes for expanded cooperation and funding between Arm and Korean startup builders going ahead
Ha Jung-woo, senior secretary to the president for AI future planning, additional defined that the institution of the varsity would considerably bolster Korea’s competitiveness within the discipline.
“With the launch of Arm Faculty, we can be coaching extremely expert semiconductor design expertise, supported by certified school, specialised curricula and a variety of program sources and options,” Ha mentioned throughout Friday’s briefing. “This may significantly strengthen the competitiveness of Korea’s system semiconductor business.”
The assembly came about on the presidential workplace, with senior authorities officers in attendance, together with Chief of Workers Kang Hoon-sik; Chief Presidential Secretary of Coverage Kim Yong-beom; Senior Secretary for AI Future Planning Ha Jung-woo; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon; Minister of Commerce, Trade and Power Kim Jung-kwan; and René Haas, CEO of Arm.
