Begin quote from Chapter 2 of "Race Against the Machine":
note: I am quoting from my Kindle and I made the print larger so it is easier to read so I don't have paperback page numbers to quote specifically from where I'm quoting: end note
Begin quote from Chapter 2:
The Google technologists succeeded not by taking any shortcuts around the challenges listed by Levy and Murmane, but instead by meeting them head-on. They used the staggering amounts of data collected for Google Maps and Google street View to provide as much information as possible about the roads their cars were traveling. Their vehicles also collected huge volumes of real-time data using video, radar, and LIDAR (light detection and ranging) gear mounted on the car: these data were fed into software that takes into account the rules of the road, that presence trajectory, and likely identity of all objects of the vicinity, driving conditions, and so on. This software controls the car and probably provides better awareness, vigilance, and reaction times than any human drive could. The Google vehicles' only accident came when the driverless car was rear ended by a car driving by a human driver as it stopped at a traffic light.
None of this is easy. But in a world of plentiful accurate data, powerful sensors, and massive storage capacity and processing power, it is possible. This is the world we live in now. It's one where computers improve so quickly that their capabilities pass from the realm of science fiction into the everyday world not over the course of a human lifetime, or even with the span of a professionals career, but instead in just a few years.
end partial quote from Chapter 2 of "Race Against the Machine"
This is also a part of what is creating the Singularity in ever more complex and quantum types of sequences where at one moment things are changing geometrically and the next research goes quantum when all sorts of researches combine into completely unexpected results which continues to create the singularity faster and faster every single day on a 24 hour a day cycle worldwide.
It is the constant interaction at all levels between technology and humans that creates the Singularity come quicker each moment in completely unpredictable ways by any human. So, the moment the actual singularity occurs could have already happened or to be just going to happen. It is not like a nuclear bomb going off any more than it was when Edison invented the Electric Incandescent lamp and forever turned night into day for the humans of Earth. Because of this one invention if you can't sleep at night you just flip a switch and night in your home is turned into day. Now multiply this by thousands and millions of inventions invented from flipped light switches being on in people's rooms and in their heads every since.
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