As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 209 Autonomous Driving Technology

Being a truck driver is hard work, and there are very few people in Europe and America who are willing to work as truck drivers.

Therefore, the remuneration of this profession is quite considerable, and at the same time, truck drivers have certain bargaining power, and situations where a word does not agree with bagong happen from time to time.

Back in 2019, American had a shortfall of [-] truck drivers.

In the face of the pandemic two years later, the shortage of truck drivers was originally predicted to reach 2023 in 2022.The result was a shortage of [-] truck drivers brought forward to [-] due to the pandemic.

By 2024, the shortage of truck drivers in American alone will be around 12.

Some of American's delivery truck companies have even relaxed record screenings for marijuana use.

In the past few years, the problem of resource inflation facing the continent of Europa has continued to heat up.

It is not because the world situation has calmed down and the energy shortage has been alleviated.

As a result, oil prices have risen too fast, and truck drivers in France are frequently bagging.

In order to avoid this problem, France has not only introduced England's self-driving technology.

They also introduced a batch of self-driving electric trucks built by Qiandu United FAW.

What France thinks is to bet on multiple sides, to see which side has better products, and then purchase in large quantities.

The price difference between Huaguo and England in the field of autonomous driving is almost the same, but Huaguo's advantage lies in electric trucks.

The electric trucks equipped with the latest battery technology of Kechuangbio can last as long as ordinary trucks, and electric vehicles also avoid the disadvantage of high oil prices.

Therefore, electric trucks produced by FAW are selling well in western countries, and only a few countries choose electric trucks equipped with Qiandu's self-driving technology.

Many European and American countries still have doubts about allowing Huaguo's autonomous driving technology to enter their countries.

The American side even made a big splash in the media that Huaguo's self-driving technology will steal their geographic data.

"This is a serious threat to the security of the Western world, and we should impose restrictions on China's self-driving technology."

The problem is that this is not the [-]th century, and the satellites in the sky have already made it clear what geographical data should be collected and what should not be collected.

Where electric trucks can go, satellites in the sky will only take pictures more clearly.

American and even some European countries just don't want to see Hua Guo leading them in the field of artificial intelligence.

Even if it's just a subdivision of the field of artificial intelligence.

Among these countries, France is relatively friendly, so it took the lead in purchasing Huaguo's automatic driving technology.

In order to gain an advantage in the competition with the Chinese, England even took the initiative to lower the price.

"Until we get our hands on Kechuang Biology, it is impossible for us to compete with the Huaguo people in the field of electric vehicles."

"The Semi plan should make some changes, not stick to the rules, we don't have to do everything by ourselves."

Since 2020, people have realized that trucks need to run around the clock, but there is a huge gap in manpower, and the difficulty of autonomous driving of trucks is much smaller than that of urban traffic.

A large number of companies determined to devote themselves to the field of truck autonomous driving technology have emerged as the times require.

Among them, Tesla is the new energy giant that seems most likely to be realized.

They announced plans for their own self-driving electric truck internally called the Semi back in 2021.

"Hua Guoren's electric trucks have a battery life of up to 3000 kilometers, while our Tesla Semi has a battery life of only 800 kilometers. Compared with Hua Guoren's electric trucks, the battery life of the Semi is too short!"

"We can use the same method as Qiandu and Goose Factory to cooperate with Huaguo car companies to launch Huaguo electric trucks equipped with Tesla's self-driving technology."

"Appropriate compromises are necessary before we can settle on scientifically innovative creatures."

Musk has basically not intervened in Tesla's daily operations, in other words he basically does not intervene in the operation of any business under his name.

All his energy is on mining magic coin.

Originally, it was only most of the energy, and he would still ask SpaceX.

When Apple dug up the first magic coin, Muska devoted all his energy to Magic Unlimited, a wholly-owned company under his name that specializes in magic coin mining.

Originally, Musk thought that the future was the space age, and he wanted to take people to Mars.

It won't be easy, but he hopes to see it in his lifetime.

When magic appeared in front of the world, Musk believes that the future is the era of magic.

Especially when he learned from Washington's internal channels that using the magic brain can not only have the ability to cast spells, but also prolong the lifespan and greatly improve the logical thinking ability of the brain.

Musk realizes that in the future magicians will form an even more irreparable gap with ordinary people than the current top and bottom.

Becoming a magician is Musk's only short-term goal.

In order to reduce disputes, he used his own cash to set up his own company.

As for the possibility of being controlled by Merlin, Musk doesn't care.

In his view, gain and loss are equivalent, and in order to gain magic, it is worth losing a certain amount of freedom.

What's more, there is no absolute freedom for people in this world.

The current CEO of Tesla is Baglino, the former vice president in charge of technology, who joined Tesla as early as 2006 and is the oldest executive in Tesla.

Originally, Kechuang Biotech planned to open its lithium battery technology to overseas in early 2024, but after accepting Huaguo's official shareholding, Huaguo officials helped Kechuangbio to block all external pressure.

The proportion of state-owned enterprises in Kechuang Biology has exceeded 20.00%.

Even if Tesla has a super factory in Shenhai, it still cannot obtain the most advanced lithium batteries in Huaguo.

For this reason, Tesla's official executives went to Shenhai to negotiate several times.Huaguo's official statement is that they cannot interfere with commercial activities.

"If the autonomous driving technology is not used first, this market is a market where one company is gradually approaching a monopoly, and other manufacturers basically have no chance."

"What we have to do now is to become one of the players in this field first, and then consider the subsequent construction of the entire industrial chain."

"There must be many Huaguo joint venture car companies willing to cooperate with us."

After Baglino finished speaking, he paused and looked at Jerome who was slightly embarrassed in front of him.

Jerome is the head of operations at Tesla, and his qualifications are also very old. He has worked at Tesla for 15 years.

Jerome replied: "Yes, Huaguo Shenhai General Motors said that it can cooperate with us."

"Although GM and Honda have teamed up to launch electric vehicles with prices as low as 3 yuan, they are trying to compete with us on a global scale."

"But Shenhai General Motors, GM has little say. They are very interested in our proposal."

"And the Shen Hai government also intends to promote cooperation."

"We can work together with Shenhai GM to build self-driving electric vehicles, and we are responsible for the self-driving module."

"But if we are determined to cooperate with Shenhai General Motors, we need to speed up the progress."

"I think it's worth paying a certain price."

"Because although the Shenhai government will definitely favor us, both Google and Microsoft want to cooperate with Huaguo car companies and use Huaguo electric trucks as a platform to carry their own self-driving technology."

Google's inability to enter the Chinese market does not mean that Google has no business in China.

Google's business in China is quite rich.

Google opened an artificial intelligence research and development center in China in 2017. The research and development goals are mainly for natural language processing and advertising optimization.

At the same time, the Huaguo team is responsible for the development of Google's open source library TensorFlow.

A small number of supply chains for Google's Pixel phones are located in Huaguo.Then Google's advertising business in China is specifically targeted at Chinese companies that want to enter overseas markets.

Not to mention Microsoft, Microsoft Asia Research Institute has always been located in Huaguo.

Huaguo's self-driving electric trucks were first rolled out in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions.

Google and Microsoft noticed it at the first time. At that time, they thought this thing was very interesting, and began to do pre-market research and development back to the headquarters.

Later, after electric trucks were sold to overseas markets, Microsoft and Google started to act.

Shenhai GM is the most likely to reach a cooperation among Huaguo auto companies.

It doesn't matter if you haven't built a truck before. Electric trucks are very different from ordinary trucks. Other car companies have no experience before.

Baglino sensed trouble. Neither Google nor Microsoft were easy opponents.

If none of these two companies wants to enter, Baglino is confident that a cooperation agreement that is beneficial to them can be reached.

Confidence lies in the cooperation with Tesla, Huaguo's self-driving electric trucks can be sold to more European and American countries, not just France.

With Tesla lobbying in the middle, at least American is not a problem.

But what Tesla can do, Microsoft and Google can only do better. These two lobbying groups in Washington are much stronger than Tesla.

"Go and prepare the materials, and I will go to Huaguo myself when the time comes."

At present, American giants are far from the only ones on the market who want to use Huaguo car companies as a springboard to equip self-driving technology on Huaguo electric trucks.

Although it is said that car companies have no experience in manufacturing electric trucks, truck experience is equally important.

It's not that the American giants don't want to find auto companies with truck experience in Huaguo, such as Jiefang.

But the problem is that someone got there first and established a joint venture with Jiefang.

Many entrepreneurial small companies have stronger willingness and faster execution.

For example, Huaguo’s PlusAI, the capital behind this autonomous driving company is Sequoia Huaguo, Huachuang Capital and GSR Ventures.

The company extensively tested its self-driving trucks at American back in 2016.

In 2019, experiments will be carried out in Europa and Huaguo.The successful trial operation of two long-distance routes in Huaguo exceeded 10 kilometers without any accidents during the period.

After successive breakthroughs in new energy technology and autonomous driving technology, PlusAI and the capital behind it are unwilling to be lonely.

How long has the tree been planted, and it's their turn to harvest.

The joint venture company established by PlusAI and Jiefang has started mass production of self-driving electric trucks. As long as they accept JD.com’s shareholding, JD.com’s self-operated logistics will introduce their electric trucks.

Advances in technology have brought changes to the entire society in all aspects.

A technological breakthrough brings not only a breakthrough in this segmented field, but also a breakthrough in the entire industrial chain.

It is precisely because technological breakthroughs can be made from point to point, that American is afraid of the expensive 5G technology.

As for why American did not interfere with Kechuangbiology but interfered with Huawei, it is because Huawei has substitute products, but Kechuangbio does not.

When others accuse you of being a monopoly, you better really be a monopoly.

"We can think of what Merlin called the Heyber test as a more advanced version of the complete Turing test.

The advanced here just refers to the difficulty or higher requirements.

Our current artificial intelligence has passed the Turing test. "

The Turing Test is a thought experiment proposed by the English computer scientist Turing to test whether a machine can exhibit a level of intelligence close to that of a human.

Simply put, if a machine can start a dialogue with humans without being identified as a machine, then the machine is said to be intelligent.

Under Wiles' leadership, the artificial intelligence program progressed rapidly.

The artificial intelligence they produced is named Ameca, and it has been able to deceive nearly 50.00% of people in conversations with people.

In other words, about 50.00% of people cannot recognize that it is artificial intelligence on the other side of the communication tool.

As usual, this result is enough to make England's media hype, as another evidence that England is leading the world in the field of artificial intelligence.

But when it comes to rewards, if it is announced, it will stimulate the competitors to speed up their progress, which is not good.

Therefore, the news is blocked from the outside world.

Even if the person chatting with Ameca via whatsapp, the experimenter will not tell him the truth, no matter whether he has seen through whether the person on the other side of the chat box is a real person.

If the opponent finds out that Ameca is artificial intelligence, he will lose the chance to chat with Ameca.

If he doesn't see through, then Ameca will keep chatting with him until the other party sees through.

The longest chatter so far is more than three months. That person is an otaku who is usually addicted to neon animation.

Even if England and Neon are torn apart in the international mainstream media, it will not affect his love for Neon animation.

The person chatted for so long that he almost thought of Ameca as the perfect chat partner.

So much so that the researcher of the Ameca experimental project suspects that the other party knows that Ameca is not a real person, which makes him more eager to chat with Ameca.

"We're going to pass the complete Turing test this year, and then we're going to try the Heber test again."

Technologies that can pass the Turing test include only natural language processing, knowledge graphs, reasoning, and machine learning
In order to further improve the requirements for artificial intelligence, scientists added requirements for two other technologies to the complete Turing test: computer vision and robotics.

“I don’t think Merlin will come to watch our artificial intelligence technology without adding robotics. Just need computer vision.”

"After submitting the program twice before, it failed, and Merlin didn't tell us why it failed."

"Heibo test feels like a black box, we submit the code, and then Merlin returns a result to us.

At least so far, all we've gotten is failure.

We have to think about whether our direction is inconsistent with Merlin's request. "

"Although there is this possibility, fundamentally speaking, the definition of artificial intelligence is consistent, and even if there is a deviation in the direction, it will not be far apart."

(End of this chapter)