Rolf Bulander, Chairman for Bosch Mobility, says societies must decide how artificial intelligence will be implemented in their cultures, especially because in 20 years time, 41 megacities will be home to 6 billion people.

Nearly 3,000 engineers from Bosch in both Stuttgart and Bengaluru have one thing in common: they are putting their brains figuratively speaking into a super brain. This brain can crunch 30 trillion data points per second and will process data three times faster than a human brain can. This brain powered by artificial intelligence has no reason to feel guilty about anything about daily life because it is designed tonot make mistakes. It is what Yuval Noah Harari predicted would be the next phase of evolution of homo sapiens being connected to all things around us. While the engineers are not going as far as putting little microchips in our brain yet, the AI-powered brain will start off in our cars and help protect our environment, along with offering us safety and stress-free driving.

The engineers from Bosch, together with Daimler, formed an alliance to put self-driving cars on the roads this year.

From automotive cloud suite to e-scooters, software connects people from home to work and helps them discover experiences around you, says Rolf Bulander, Chairman of the Mobility Services at Robert Bosch GmbH. He adds that the car will be the third living experience and will have gesture and voice control: The objective is to save lives because 90 percent of accidents are caused by human error and artificial intelligence (AI) will reduce this in automated and driverless cars.

Leaders at Bosch add that although they are likely to work with startups, there arent many who have made significant advances in R&D in AI. We are making our own investments in AI because of the capabilities we have built over time. I also see the startup market heating up but we have not seen many advances in AI from startups; there are very few of them out there, says Dirk Hoheisel, member of the board of management at Robert Bosch GmbH. The world, he believes, is becoming more collaborative thanks to AI.

There are fundamental questions to answer about the co-existence of human intelligence and artificial intelligence. With India, the story of AI one of opportunity and chaos. Can we mix the human quotient with AI and create a sustainable livelihood? AI makes living better, but many societies are not ready for that change. The fundamental question to ask is how society or different cultures will use AI. And they must decide for themselves the future of AI in their (respective) regions, explains Rolf.

The question about how different cultures will use AI is one of the most important questions for mankind, and Rolf points to Germany as an example: the German government has appointed a judge of the constitutional court to head an ethics committee on AI in cars. The aim is to find the answer to a fundamental question: how does the car decide whose life it has to save? Based on the age of the of the passengers, does it protect the younger person over the older one? The one who has a better chance of survival after an accident or the one who needs critical medical attention?

The future, though, cannot be about stopping technology. Companies like Bosch and others will push boundaries to make humans to reinvent themselves in relation to what technology can do.

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