TOKYO - SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday that 1 billion humanoid robots equipped with artificial intelligence will be created by 2040 to make a "fundamental" change in the work environment.
"The age of humans being the highest life form will end," Son said at an annual corporate conference, with 100 trillion AI agents, which function autonomously without human instructions, expected to work by that year.
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