TOKYO, June 21 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group CEO

Masayoshi Son said on Friday that the group's mission was to

help in humanity's progress by realising artificial super

intelligence, which he said would exceed human capabilities by a

factor of 10,000.

"SoftBank Group has done many things until now that have all

been a warm up for my great dream to realise artificial

intelligence," Son told shareholders at the group's annual

general meeting.

Artificial super intelligence could come within 10 years, he

said.

The technology investor's ambitions for artificial

intelligence (AI) rest on its subsidiary Arm Holdings,

the British chip designer whose designs are used in the data

centre infrastructure that sits behind AI, Son said.