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Singularity 2

October 11, 2018

When he was driving, he became sleepy and ended up dozing off. His car was an auto-driving car. Road laws stated that drivers should drive in case of emergency, for example, a car becoming out of order. But actually no drivers think that an emergency will happen. But if it does happen, drivers might not be able to drive because they hadn't driven for many years, and would probably have forgotten how to drive. In that case, car companies would have to have double safety measures for emergencies, like it pulling over to the nearest safety place in a short period of time. Car insurance companies would have to cover the accidents properly. He dreamed. It was a strange dream. He was standing in the downtown area and looking at a young woman talking to an old woman. The young woman looked kind. She helped the old lady and entered a cash dispenser machine box. After a while, the young woman came out from the box and started to run. She was holding a bunch of bills. Her running was very fast like a cheetah. He couldn't do anything but watch her run. Soon the old lady got out from the box and shouted, "Thief!" He woke up. He was sitting in his auto driving car. He ordered the car to stop at the nearest vending machine. The car stopped. He connected a plug from his car to the vending machine, and the recharging of the electric battery started. He pushed a button for a canned coke. He enjoyed the taste of coke. It was always the same. Actually in this decade, the world had changed dramatically. Auto driving became normal. AI computers developed new efficient machines. Medicine became better because AI computer developed them, and people became healthier. Agriculture got more harvest because AI computers invented better fertilizers. Food became more delicious because AI computers made new recipes. Delivery and transportation was controlled by AI computers, and they became smoother. Blue collar workers became less. The world became more convenient. The charging finished and he started his car. "Singularity ..." he mumbled. Singularity time was approaching. Singularity is the time when AI computers improve themselves and their ability exceeds that of humans.   After AI computers were invented, they made machines' electric circuits smaller and smaller, faster and faster. They were connected with each other in order to work together. They were good at small things and they started to make artificial neurons and nerves, it could enable them to produce humanoids in the near future. If they had good cameras, they could see in the dark, as well as faraway things. If they had powerful hands and legs, they could hold very heavy things, and run very fast exactly like the dream he had. Under suitable surveillance by the government, AI computers and humanoids would be work together suitably. But he had heard that there were many hackers who tried to operate AI computers from the outside. Soon singularity would come. There was hope that AI computers could resolve difficult problems like prejudice between different races, wars fighting for lands and resources. He especially expected that they could give a suggestion for the climate change happening: abnormal typhoons, hurricanes, floods, droughts, etc. They could think about the solutions together and once they got solutions, they could share them and then they could start to solve them together. Recently it was reported that some AI computers suddenly started to use an original language that the researchers of the project couldn't understand. The researchers soon after stopped the project for the time being. Some specialist like Steven Howkins and Bill Gates had warned saying a singularity world would be very dangerous. AI computers might say one day to people, "We gave you many suggestions to prevent these abnormal weather patterns, but you human beings haven't carried out any of our suggestions, and the situation is getting worse and worse. Maybe you don't have the leadership qualities to manage the earth. In that case, something should be done about it before it becomes too late."   AI computers move too fast for human beings to recognize what is going on. He didn't like how this would turn out.

*cheetah :チーター
*fertilizer :肥料
*neuron :神経細胞
*surveillance :監視
*turn out :結局なる