I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.
Interpretation
Artificial intelligence can be beneficial or risky, depending on how we choose to use it.
Masayoshi Son emphasizes the dual nature of artificial intelligence (AI): it has the potential to be a valuable partner in our endeavors if harnessed ethically and appropriately. However, if misused, it poses significant risks that can have adverse consequences. This quote highlights the importance of responsible use in order to maximize the positive impacts of technology in our lives.
In practice
In a discussion about the ethical implications of AI at a tech conference.
In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.
I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.
Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
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