{"id":31602,"date":"2016-11-02T00:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:05:51","slug":"softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Is Investing in a Microchip to Make the Singularity a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As part of a strategy to prepare for the Singularity, Japanese telecom multinational SoftBank spent $31 billion to acquire microprocessing company ARM. <\/li>\n<li>This hypothetical day in the future when machine intelligence surpasses that of humanity may not be the doomsday it is portrayed as in much of pop culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/softbank-is-investing-in-a-microchip-to-...a-reality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: As part of a strategy to prepare for the Singularity, Japanese telecom multinational SoftBank spent $31 billion to acquire microprocessing company ARM. This hypothetical day in the future when machine intelligence surpasses that of humanity may not be the doomsday it is portrayed as in much of pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65866,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31602\/revisions\/65866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}