Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind
the meals to the guests and showing them to their rooms. This new idea has
become a business success.
Regular buses with robotic drivers may still be on hold for a while,
but driverless cars are a big deal right now, and who is one of the main
supporters of this technology if not Google? Not only does Google support
it, it also produces them under an umbrella company called Alphabet Inc.
This was announced by Bloomberg.com in December 2015, where it stated
that Google intends to introduce these driverless cars already this year, i.e.
in 2016. 162
Is this realistic? Absolutely! In fact, as of December 2015, these
vehicles had already driven 1.6 million miles on public roads; mainly in the
San Francisco, California, and Austin, Texas, areas. However, before they
are released to the public, these vehicles will be used on campuses and in the
military (there we have the military again). Google executives say that they
have no immediate plans to release these driverless cars on the market, but
there are other companies, such as Uber, spending some of the more than
$10 billion they have raised in private markets, to develop and produce selfdriving
cars. 163 If Google will not go all the way, Uber most likely will, and
there are other companies that want to be in on this as well. Uber has
recruited dozens of autonomous-vehicle researchers from the well-known
Minion-controlled front, the Carnegie Mellon University. The official
purpose for producing self-driving cars, according to Uber, is to reduce the
massive number of accidents currently occurring on the road with human
drivers.
Microchips
M
ost of today’s researchers might think that the
RFID chips everybody was talking about some years ago are now
obsolete and will never be widely used on people. Because new
technology is on the horizon, these chips will largely not be needed.
According to my research, this is true to some extent, but microchips,
these days referred to as NFC chips, 164 will be used in the overlapping years,
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Bloomberg.com, Dec. 16, 2015, “Google to Make Driverless Cars an Alphabet Company in 2016”
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Ibid.
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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity standard (Ecma-340, ISO/IEC 18092)
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