As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 206 Public
"This is too difficult to do. Current brain-computer connection technology can only recognize very basic brain commands, and it needs to be combined with eye tracking technology."

“I don’t see any hope of machines fully recognizing the main intentions of the brain, which is what you hope to achieve, within ten years.”

“We even need to reproduce the entire logic of the brain into electrical signals. If we can do that, it will be no less than the virtual reality in fantasy works.”

Zheng Li did not refuse or object to China's request. He told higher-level people that they needed to know more about magic before they could make a judgment.

After several days of discussion, the Chinese side decided to open a relatively less secret base for him to visit, and had a corresponding magician to receive Zheng Li.

China's research bases are directly physically isolated, and bio-cloud technology cannot invade these places.

However, Zheng Li's clone had a different story when he arrived at the scene. After copying the entire base's information, Zheng Li discovered that China's progress in magic was much slower than he thought.

In fact, this base does not undertake too many research tasks, and the information here is only a small part of China's research information.

After Zheng Li communicated with the Chinese wizard on the spot, he even knew the cosmic coordinates of which life planet the magic brain used by the wizard in front of him corresponded to.

"Mr. Zheng, I am not an expert in the field of brain science and I don't know much about this field."

"But from my experience using your futureverse, it can perfectly recognize some of my thoughts."

“Isn’t the ten-year forecast a bit pessimistic?”

China expects to have established a base on Mars in ten years.

The mage who was talking to Zheng Li was an expert in mathematics and was very humble.

In fact, even if he is an expert in the biological field, there are too many sub-fields, and he only specializes in his own small research area, and he will not have a deep understanding of brain-computer connection.

There is at least a ten-year technological gap between the research areas of China's top experts in the field of brain-computer connectivity and the latest laboratory results of Ke Chuang Biology.

Zheng Li intends to explain it more simply:
"Humanity's research on the brain remains at a very shallow level, and the history of brain-computer connection can be traced back to fifty years ago."

“Science Biotechnology’s brain-computer connection technology is the culmination of the past fifty years, but we have already realized all the functions that are easy to achieve.”

"Like mathematics, I am a mathematics major, and I have a deep understanding of mathematics. The easy topics in mathematics have been studied by predecessors."

"The rest are very hard-to-pick fruits. The research results of today's top mathematicians are actually no less than those of their predecessors, no less than those of the last century."

"It's just that in today's cutting-edge basic mathematics, if you want to achieve something, there are no easy topics to do."

"The same is true for brain-computer connection. We have done the easy part, and the remaining difficulty is increasing exponentially."

“Ten years is an optimistic estimate.”

Like nuclear weapons and semiconductors, the research and development of semiconductors is more difficult.

Semiconductors are a whole system. Nuclear weapons are equally difficult, but the systems involved are not as complex as semiconductors.

It doesn’t mean that nuclear weapons are simpler because China developed them.

The same principle applies to brain-computer connection. In fact, electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, and headphones are the same system as brain-computer connection VR.

These electronic products embody human-computer interaction, where electronic signals are transformed into human senses.

For things like vision and hearing, which are easy to achieve, Blue Star’s companies have already made great progress in this area.

The elusive senses of touch, taste and smell have yet to be realized.

Ke Chuang Bio's brain-computer connection technology has taken a big step forward in touch, but it is still a long way from the virtual reality world in science fiction works.

"Moreover, we have already registered the technical patents. After the technical barriers were formed, Musk's Neuralink wanted to open up another path, but no good results have appeared until now."

It's rare for Zheng Li to say so much.

The other party nodded: "Just like the semiconductor technology was iterated every two or three years before, and now it has been four years and 3nm technology has not yet been mass-produced."

Zheng Li finally stayed in the country and did not go to Singapore again.

It was not because of China's persuasion, but because the information he received showed that if he returned to Lion City, America might take action later.

He couldn't give up this vest easily now, so Zheng Li took the opportunity to stay in the country.

I spend most of my time in the R&D center in Suzhou.

As for the cooperation with China, Zheng Li agreed. The information he had previously disclosed to the Chinese officials was correct.

If Zheng Li wants to achieve the effect the other party expects by using brain-computer connection technology, it will take at least ten years if he does not use the technology of the magician civilization.

Therefore, Zheng Li simply semi-frozen the clone within China and let the primary artificial intelligence take over the clone.

He planned to advance the work according to the established plan and focus his main attention on Clark Island first.

During the time when Zheng Li returned to China, Apple announced that they had mined the first magic coin.

For this magic coin, Apple even held a press conference at the Steve Jobs Theater at its spaceship headquarters.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is my honor to announce this news to you."

"After learning about the magic coin system and confirming the existence of magic, Apple immediately formed a research team led by Professor Terence Tao and Professor Alexey Filipenko."

Alexey Filipenko is a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, where he has taught for forty years.

He is also the general manager of the Katzman Automated Imaging Telescope project in America.

As a top expert in the field of astronomy, Alexei is one of the few experts outside who has not been summoned by the American authorities.

“Specially responsible for the mining of magic coins.”

“It is well known that there is an extremely sophisticated and perfect system behind Magic Coin.”

"You need to find a planet that may have life, then calculate its cosmic coordinate system, and then the cosmic coordinate system needs to be equal to the Haber constant after calculation using the Haber algorithm."

"This process is very difficult. There are countless planets in the universe, and the only planet we can confirm the existence of life is the blue planet under my feet."

"But everyone knows that Blue Star corresponds to a magic coin, so the magic coin of Blue Star has long been exchanged."

"Apple's official research team spent more than two years calculating the cosmic coordinates of more than two thousand suspected planets."

"Finally, we found a planet that satisfies the Haber algorithm in the Andromeda Galaxy, 254 million light-years away from our planet."

"At the same time, we obtained the naming rights for this planet from the International Astronomical Union."

"This is the best reflection of Apple's technological strength. Apple will continue to provide you with the most advanced technological products and user experience in the future."

"Next, let's watch a video."

The video shows an empty room with only white and lights.

Then, a test tube appeared out of thin air on the table in the white room and was firmly fixed in the center of the table. This video is only 15 seconds long.

After the video was over, Cook appeared again:
"It's amazing, right? The first time I saw it, I thought it was a computer-generated special effects video."

"But this is real, shot by an Apple 16pro camera that has not yet been released, without any editing."

"Although teleportation seems magical and incredible, it really happened."

“I was there and saw this happen with my own eyes.”

"Also, you guessed correctly, the blue liquid in this test tube is the magic brain, the magic brain produced by Merlin."

"Creations that do not belong to this world will be transported to the location we specify by Merlin Space."

"A creation unknown to humans, a means of transmission known to humans but unattainable."

"The magic brain injection can give people magic. You can have magic like Merlin."

"This is a press conference, but it is also an invitation for Apple to recruit talented people from around the world."

"Blue Star sincerely invites scientists from all over the world. If you want to obtain magic, please send your resume to Apple's official email address."

"If you pass the resume screening, you will enter the next stage. The person who is finally selected will get the magic brain and become Apple's chief scientist."

"We'll wait for you here."

Previously, Apple's chief scientist was Larry Tesler. After his death in 2020, Apple has not had a next chief scientist.

There is only one magic brain, it is too difficult to divide it.

Cook is just a professional manager and he doesn't have this power.

American officials who knew the inside story would not allow Cook to use the magic brain.

The American government covets this magic brain very much.

If it wasn't Apple, but another company that was not as big and famous, the American government would have directly levied the tax.

Apple can't do that.

Behind Apple are the Silicon Valley elites on the West Coast and the Wall Street giants on the East Coast. These people will not watch this magic coin being snatched away by the American officials.

In their view, this is necessary for them to balance the forces in Washington.

It can't be just the bigwigs in Washington who control the magic brains and wizards. If the future is really an age of magic, Silicon Valley and Wall Street must also have a voice.

As for the right to use this magic coin, the shareholders behind Apple have already chosen a candidate.

Cook's speech at the press conference was just a cover. Another purpose was that Apple and America, where he is located, needed to attract top scientists from all over the world.

Because scientists who have reached a certain level, no matter what their major is, even if they are scientists in the field of biochemistry and environmental materials in China, their remuneration can meet their material needs.

The best leverage is what others can't offer.

Magic Brain is the best advertisement Apple has ever made for itself, with more than 100 million people watching the live broadcast that day.

After the press conference, the video was uploaded to YouTube, and similar videos have been viewed more than 500 million times in total.

The whole world is discussing this first magic coin.

Less than an hour after the press conference ended, someone on the dark web offered a reward of up to 1 BTC, or 10 billion USD.

The next day, when Nasdaq opened, Apple's stock price soared by more than 16% before the market opened, and its market value officially exceeded trillion US dollars.

The most popular question on Zhihu that day was: "How do you comment on Apple's announcement that it has mined the first magic coin publicly known to the public, and that its market value has exceeded 3 trillion US dollars?"

“Thank you for the invitation. As an employee of a major domestic Internet company, I feel ashamed.

I wonder how many people still remember the stock market crash two years ago. At that time, a picture was circulated in China.

In 2020, Apple's market value is equivalent to the sum of the market values ​​of Chinese Internet companies such as Tencent, Ali, Meituan, JD.com, and Pinduoduo minus 192.7 billion euros.

In 2022, Apple's market value will be trillion yuan more than the combined market value of nearly Chinese Internet companies, including Tencent, Ali, Pinduoduo, Meituan, JD.com, NetEase, Qiandu, Dami, NIO, and Xpeng.

This is 17703.5 billion more than the total market value of the five companies two years ago.

Now two years have passed and this picture has not been updated yet. I estimate that it will be updated soon. If Ke Chuang Bio is not included, the situation is similar to two years ago.

Apple's market value has increased from 1.2 trillion yuan to 1.5 trillion yuan more than the total market value of the top 50 Internet companies in China.

The shortfall in market value of other Internet giants is just made up by Tencent and Dianping.

As for why the market value of Tencent and Dami has seen a relatively large increase, it is due to the brain-computer connection VR developed jointly with Ke Chuang Biotechnology, as well as the good performance of Dami Automobile.

These are all heavily dependent on Ke Chuang Bio's innovations in underlying technologies, brain-computer connection and lithium metal positive electrode technology.

Having said that, it is great to see that Apple, as a company that has been established for nearly 50 years, has experienced ups and downs, but is still able to maintain its aggressiveness in research and development.

I sincerely admire being the first company to mine magic coins and possess magical powers.

Although Apple phones have become less and less popular in recent years, Apple has not had any revolutionary products.

The most surprising product in the electronics field in recent years is Futureverse made in China. Apple Car and Apple VR have been repeatedly delayed.

But this time, Apple mined the magic coin, which gave me a new understanding of Apple’s strength.

In the areas they care about, Apple is still a research and development giant and still demonstrates its strength that impresses the world.

Although Tencent and Dami seem to have done some work in the past two years, they relied on China Science and Technology Innovation Group, and the underlying technology was developed by China Science and Technology Innovation Group.

If Chinese Internet companies continue to focus on evolving and updating their business models, they will not be able to adapt to the development of the times.

Let’s talk about Apple’s press conference yesterday. It was clearly a flex of muscle.

At the same time, we are sending invitations to scientists around the world. If you think you are qualified, you can come to Apple and give it a try.

If Apple can mine the first magic coin, it can also mine the second magic coin.

Apple can take this opportunity to recruit a large number of top scientists from all over the world. Magic Coin has an attraction that cannot be matched by other conditions.

With the participation of a large number of scientists, Apple's future will be unpredictable, and it may even reach its next peak.

In addition, Apple is very courageous to publicly announce the existence of Magic Coin. There must be many people secretly watching Magic Brain.

The right to use the Magic Brain has not been determined yet, and I even suspect that Apple headquarters will be sold for zero dollars. "

(End of this chapter)