Truck driving is a hard job, 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. At the same time, truck drivers have certain bargaining rights, and disagreements often occur.
As early as 2019, there was a shortage of 60,000 Americen truck drivers.
In the face of the pandemic two years later, the shortage of truck drivers was originally expected to reach 100,000 in 2023. As a result, a shortage of 100,000 truck drivers has been brought forward to 2022 due to the pandemic.
By 2024, the shortage of truck drivers alone will be around 120,000.
Some Americen delivery truck companies have even relaxed screening of marijuana use records.
In recent years, the resource explosion problem faced by Europa has continued to heat up.
The energy shortage has not been alleviated because the world situation has calmed down.
As a result, oil prices have risen too fast, and truck drivers in France frequently baggage.
In order to avoid this problem, France not only introduced England’s self-driving technology.
They also introduced a batch of self-driving electric trucks built by Qiandu and FAW.
What France wants to do is to make multilateral bets to see which side's products are better, and then purchase them in large quantities.
There is almost no price difference between Made in China and Made in England in the field of autonomous driving, but China’s advantage lies in electric trucks.
Electric trucks equipped with the latest battery technology of Kechuang Biotech have a longer range than ordinary trucks, and electric vehicles can also avoid the disadvantages of high gas prices.
Therefore, electric trucks produced by FAW are selling well in Western countries, and there are only a few countries that choose electric trucks equipped with Qiandu autonomous driving technology.
Many European and American countries still have doubts about allowing China's autonomous driving technology to enter their countries.
America even exaggerated in the media that China's autonomous driving technology would steal their geographical data.
"This is a serious threat to the security of the Western world, and we should impose restrictions on China's autonomous driving technology."
The problem is that this is not the 19th century. Satellites in the sky have already collected all the geographical data that should be collected and should not be collected.
Wherever electric trucks can go, satellites in the sky will only take pictures more clearly.
America and even some European countries just don't want to see China leading them in the field of artificial intelligence.
Not even just a certain subdivision in the field of artificial intelligence.
Among these countries, France is relatively friendly, so it took the lead in purchasing China's autonomous driving technology.
In order to gain an advantage in the competition with the Chinese, England even took the initiative to lower prices.
"Before we get the science and technology of science and technology, it will be impossible for us to compete with the Chinese in the field of electric vehicles."
"The semi plan should make certain changes instead of sticking to the old rules. We don't have to do everything ourselves."
Since 2020, people have realized that trucks need to operate around the clock, but there is a huge gap in manpower. At the same time, autonomous driving of trucks is far less difficult than driving in cities.
A large number of companies have emerged that are determined to join the field of autonomous truck driving technology.
Among them, Tesla is the new energy giant that seems most likely to be realized.
They announced their own internal self-driving electric truck plan called semi as early as 2021.
"Chinese electric trucks have a range of up to 3,000 kilometers, while our Tesla semi only has a range of 800 kilometers. Compared with Chinese electric trucks, the semi's battery life is too short!"
"We can definitely adopt the same approach as Qiandu and Goose Factory, and cooperate with Chinese car companies to launch Chinese electric trucks equipped with Tesla's autonomous driving technology."
"Appropriate compromises are necessary before we can solve the problem of science and technology."
Musk has basically not interfered in the daily operations of Tesla. In other words, he basically does not interfere in the operation of any company under his name.
All his energy is focused on mining magic coins.
Originally, he only had most of his energy, but he would still take care of SpaceX.
After Apple mined the first magic coin, Musk put all his energy into his own wholly-owned company specializing in magic coin mining—magic unlimited.
Originally, Musk thought that the future was the space age and he wanted to take people to Mars.
It's not easy to do, but it's something he hopes to see happen in his lifetime.
When magic appears in front of the world, Musk believes that the future will be an era of magic.
Especially when he learned from internal channels in Washington that using the magic brain not only gave him the ability to cast spells, but also extended his lifespan to a certain extent and greatly improved the brain's logical thinking ability.
Once Musk loses, 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. In order to gain magic, it is worth losing a certain amount of freedom.
What's more, people have no absolute freedom in the world.
The current CEO of Tesla is Baglino, who was previously the vice president in charge of technology. He 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 markets in early 2024. However, after accepting Chinese official shares, Chinese officials helped Kechuang Biotech block all external pressure.
The shareholding of state-owned enterprises in Kechuang Biotechnology has exceeded 20%.
Even if Tesla builds a super factory in Shenhai, it still cannot obtain China’s most advanced lithium batteries.
For this reason, Tesla official executives went to Shenhai to negotiate several times. The Chinese official statement is that they cannot interfere in commercial activities.
"If autonomous driving technology is not put into use first, this market is a market where other manufacturers will have basically no chance after one company gradually approaches a monopoly."
"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 industry chain."
"There must be many Chinese joint venture car companies that are 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 Tesla's head of operations, and he is also very senior. He has worked at Tesla for fifteen years.
Jerome replied: "Yes, China Shenhai General Motors said it can cooperate with us."
"Although GM and Honda have previously joined forces to launch electric vehicles with prices as low as 30,000 yuan in an attempt to compete with us on a global scale."
"But Shen Hai GM, GM does not have much say, and they are very interested in our proposal."
"And the Shenhai government is also interested in promoting cooperation."
"We can join forces with Shenhai General Motors to build self-driving electric vehicles, and we will be responsible for the self-driving module."
"But if we are determined to cooperate with Shenhai GM, we need to speed up the progress."
"I think it's worth paying a certain price."
"Although the Shenhai government will definitely favor us, both Google and Microsoft want to cooperate with Chinese car companies and use Chinese electric trucks as a platform to carry their own autonomous 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 extensive.
Google opened an artificial intelligence research and development center in China in 2017. The research and development goals are mainly natural language processing and advertising optimization.
At the same time, the Huaguo-owned team is responsible for the development of Google’s open source library tensorflow.
A small part of Google's pixel mobile phone supply chain is located in China. Then Google’s advertising business is in China, specifically targeting Chinese companies that want to enter overseas markets.
Not to mention Microsoft, Microsoft Asia Research Institute has always been located in China.
China's self-driving electric trucks were first rolled out in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions.
Google and Microsoft noticed it right away. At that time, they thought this thing was very interesting and began to conduct preliminary market research and research back to their headquarters.
Later, after the electric trucks were sold to overseas markets, Microsoft and Google started to take action.
Shenhai GM is the most likely to reach cooperation among Chinese car 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 smelled trouble. Neither Google nor Microsoft were easy opponents.
If neither of these two companies wants to enter, Baglino is confident that he can reach a cooperation agreement that is beneficial to them.
Confidence lies in cooperating with Tesla. China'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 Amerikan won't be a problem.
But what Tesla can do, Microsoft and Google can only do better. These two lobbying groups in Washington are much more powerful than Tesla.
"You go prepare the materials, and then I will personally go to China."
At present, America's giants are not the only ones on the market who want to use Chinese car companies as a springboard to install autonomous driving technology on Chinese electric trucks.
Although 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 Chinese car companies with truck experience, such as Jiefang.
But the problem is that someone got there first and established a joint venture subsidiary with Jiefang.
Many entrepreneurial small companies have stronger will and faster execution.
For example, Huaguo's plusai, the capital behind this autonomous driving company is Sequoia Huaguo, Huachuang Capital and Jinshajiang Venture Capital.
The company was testing its self-driving trucks extensively at Amerika as early as 2016.
Tests will be carried out in 2019 on the European continent and China. It has been successfully trial-run for more than 100,000 kilometers on two long-distance routes in China without any accidents.
After successive breakthroughs in new energy technology and autonomous driving technology, plusai and the capital behind it are unwilling to be left alone.
How long have they been planting trees? It's their turn to harvest.
The company jointly established by plusai and Jiefang has begun 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 on a large scale.
The advancement of science and technology has brought changes to the entire society in all aspects.
A technological breakthrough brings not only a breakthrough in this segment, but also a breakthrough in the entire industry chain.
It is precisely because technological breakthroughs can be made from point to point that Amerikan is wary of Huawei's 5G technology.
As for why Amerikan did not interfere with Kechuang Biotech but greatly interfered with Huawei, it is because Huawei has alternative products, but Kechuang Biotech does not.
When others accuse you of being a monopoly, you'd better be a monopoly.
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“We can think of what Merlin calls the Heber test as a more advanced version of the complete Turing test.
Advanced here simply refers to difficulty or higher requirements.
Our current artificial intelligence can already pass the Turing test. "
The Turing Test is a thought experiment proposed by the English computer scientist Alan Turing to test whether machines can display intelligence close to that of humans.
Simply put, a machine is said to be intelligent if it can have a conversation with humans without being identified as a machine.
Under Wiles' leadership, the AI program progressed rapidly.
The artificial intelligence they created is named ameca, and it can already deceive nearly 50% of people in conversations.
In other words, about 50% of people cannot recognize that there is artificial intelligence on the other side of the communication tool.
Normally, this result would have been enough for the English media to hype it up, as yet another evidence that England leads the world in the field of artificial intelligence.
But when it comes to rewards, it would not be good if they were announced and stimulated competitors to speed up their progress.
Therefore, the news is blocked from the outside world.
Even if the person chatting with Ameca through WhatsApp, regardless of whether he knows that the person on the other side of the chat box is a real person, the experimenter will not tell him the truth.
If the opponent finds out that ameca is an artificial intelligence, then he will lose the opportunity to chat with ameca.
If he doesn't see through it, Ameca will keep chatting with him until the other party sees through it.
The person I have been chatting with for the longest time now is more than three months. That person is an otaku who is usually addicted to neon animation.
Even though England and Neon were at odds in the international mainstream media, it did not affect his love for Neon anime at all.
This person chatted for so long that he almost regarded ameca as the perfect chat partner.
So much so that the researcher of the Ameca experimental project suspected that the other party knew that Ameca was not a real person, and the fact that he was not a real person made him want to chat with Ameca even more.
"We're going to pass the Complete Turing Test this year, and then we're going to try the Haber Test again."
Technologies that can pass the Turing test only include natural language processing, knowledge graphs, reasoning and machine learning
In order to further improve the requirements for artificial intelligence, scientists have added requirements for two other technologies: computer vision and robotics to the complete Turing test.
"I don't think you need to add robotics. Merlin won't come to see our artificial intelligence technology live. Just computer vision."
"After submitting the program twice before, it showed failure. Merlin didn't tell us the specific reason why it failed."
"Haiber testing feels like a black box. We submit the code, and Merlin returns a result to us.
At least so far, all we've gotten are failures.
We need to think carefully about whether our direction is inconsistent with Merlin's requirements. "
"Although this is possible, fundamentally speaking, the definition of artificial intelligence is consistent, and even if there is a deviation in the direction, it will not be very far apart."
