{"id":1674,"date":"2015-03-20T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2016-01-29T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:50:46","slug":"three-ways-google-will-kill-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/three-ways-google-will-kill-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Three ways Google will kill us all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is going to kill us all one day!<\/p>\n<p>While, there&#8217;s\u00a0no doubting the tech boom we&#8217;ve seen since the turn of the millennium has made our lives easier and more enjoyable &#8211; where would we be without superfast broadband and smartphones? &#8211;\u00a0that&#8217;s only half the story, as there are some crazy inventors out there (at Google, mostly) coming up with some quite terrifying tech.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve never seen Terminator or even heard any apocalyptic sci-fi stories.<\/p>\n<p>Be afraid, be very afraid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Giant robot dogs<\/h2>\n<p>Google\u00a0is looking more and more like a prototype <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skynet_%28Terminator%29\" target=\"_blank\">Skynet<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; not content with owning the internet, it&#8217;s branched out into all sorts of tech, from driverless cars (more on that\u00a0later), artificial intelligence (more on that later too) and, arguably the most terrifying of all, massive robot dogs.<\/p>\n<p>These things can run at speed, quickly\u00a0right itself when knocked off balance, handle all sorts of terrain and can even get up stairs &#8211; they&#8217;ve not even given us that get-out-of-jail-free card! &#8211;\u00a0and a set of machine guns really wouldn&#8217;t look out of place .<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and when they couldn&#8217;t get any more nightmarish, some bright spark decided they need a big robot arm that can throw breeze blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The things are probably fire-proof and all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8YjvHYbZ9w\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/h2>\n<p>So the robot dog technology is terrifying, but thankfully it can&#8217;t think for itself and, like any good dog, is at its master&#8217;s command &#8211; until it gets hooked up with some AI and quickly learns how to out-think its human inventors.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what company is making massive strides in the world of AI &#8211; that&#8217;s right, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/first-robots-now-ai-whats-going-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Driverless cars<\/h2>\n<p>If Google&#8217;s AI robot dogs don&#8217;t get you, one of its AI driverless cars probably will.<\/p>\n<p>Although all the data says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/uk-gives-driverless-cars-green-light\/\" target=\"_blank\">driverless cars <\/a>are safer than human-controlled vehicles &#8211; Google&#8217;s fleet has racked up hundreds of thousands of accident-free miles &#8211; but it&#8217;s only a matter of time before the super-intelligent robot dogs tap into the AI minds of the driverless cars and command them to drive their screaming, strapped-in humans of a cliff or something.<\/p>\n<p>And you can&#8217;t even hear the electric cars coming!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zOFNTkxMvQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just Google geeks that are creating the downfall of the human race&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Android insects<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess why someone would\u00a0want to strap a little backpack on to a bug to turn it into a remote-controlled android anthropod &#8211; but that&#8217;s exactly what some boffins in California have done.<\/p>\n<p>The built-in flying technology of insects is so\u00a0tough to replicate that scientists have instead decided to strap power packs on them to make them some sort of freaky cyborg bug.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ll be great for search and rescue, presumably to find hapless humans who have been buried under a pile of breezeblocks by those robot dogs!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iljHXpE4LG8\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>3-D printers<\/h2>\n<p>Oh, so it seems the boffins have seen the Terminator movies and they just don&#8217;t care as someone has come up with a 3-D printer\u00a0inspired by the film Terminator 2, in which the T-1000 robot rises from a pool of metallic liquid.<\/p>\n<p>These Carbon3D printers\u00a0harnesses light and oxygen in\u00a0&#8220;game-changing&#8221; process could make objects such as car parts, medical devices or shoes.<\/p>\n<p>And T-1000 robots one day.<\/p>\n<h2><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTJq9Z5g4Jk\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h3>What terrifying tech have you heard about? 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