As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 210: Acting dumb and confused
“I think we need to optimize artificial intelligence technology from the bottom up, not just the algorithm level.”

“This requires not only innovation in algorithms and data, but also innovation in hardware.”

"We need China's biological storage technology, which can significantly reduce the calculation time of the algorithm."

"In addition, bio-storage technology contains more than just storage. It won't be long before bio-storage realizes biological computers."

"I have a hunch that the future of strong artificial intelligence lies in innovation at the hardware level, and the emergence of strong artificial intelligence is likely to require biological computers."

The team led by Wiles has made a big step forward at the algorithm level, but due to hardware limitations, the optimized algorithm is not even as good as the existing algorithm in terms of data performance.

This is not a problem with the algorithm, but with the hardware.

Multi-layer neural networks appeared as early as 1969, but it was not until the past decade that they were widely used with the popularization of computing power and cloud computing.

Human attitudes toward artificial intelligence have undergone an interesting transformation.

Ever since artificial intelligence was defined, the people of Blue Star have placed high hopes on it.

When the concept of artificial intelligence was proposed, science fiction writers and the public were wary and skeptical about it.

In science fiction works, no matter how carefully artificial intelligence is designed, it will always get out of control and threaten the survival of mankind.

People are also worried that the popularization of artificial intelligence will cause most people to lose their jobs.

The formation of this impression is not only due to the exaggeration of film and television works and the media, but also related to the gap between people's cognition and the actual situation.

In recent years, after AlphaGo defeated all human chess players, the discussion about artificial intelligence has become closer to reality than the artificial intelligence that remains in fantasy works.

During this stage, people's attitude towards artificial intelligence changes from negative to positive, and artificial intelligence becomes an indispensable part of future society.

All countries are investing policy support in this regard.

The first artificial intelligence technology to be widely applied was in big data. Internet giants used big data algorithms to form one information cocoon after another.

The harm caused by the traffic algorithms designed by giants based on big data is far greater than the fan culture and the rampant feminist boxing.

The latter two will be addressed over time by the adaptive capabilities of the system.

For example, traffic stars can no longer occupy movie screens and can only live in data where the fictional component is greater than the real component.

The same goes for women's boxing. Neon and Goryeo, both part of the East Asian cultural circle, have spontaneously solved this problem.

These problems can be solved by the "immune system" of the social-ecological system.

However, the content push mechanism built by Internet giants through big data analysis not only cannot solve the problem spontaneously, but will become more serious over time.

People who are increasingly dependent on mobile devices for entertainment are being dragged down by Internet giants and can only live in their own stratosphere.

The media have remained silent on this issue. Not only has there been no clear-cut opposition, but even critical discussions have been nowhere to be seen.

The applications of artificial intelligence that have appeared before humans have already shown many negative effects, but people's attitude towards it is the opposite of what it would be if artificial intelligence had not actually appeared before the public.

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence can change our lives, or it is already changing our lives. Artificial intelligence that can take over manufacturing jobs is already on the way.

Wiles' assistant smiled bitterly and said, "The biological storage technology is in the hands of China and Russia. It is almost impossible for us to get it."

"We have been trying to penetrate Deep Blue Storage since the emergence of biological storage technology, but have gained nothing so far."

"The Chinese protected it too closely, and Russia also didn't find an opportunity."

"We also know the importance of biological storage technology. The Europa League will send a team to China to discuss this matter soon."

“We plan to pay a certain price, such as 2 to 3 magic coins.”

In the eyes of the top leaders of the Europa Union, China and Russia jointly exchanged biological storage technology, spending ten magic coins.

It's already good enough that the Europa League is willing to buy it from them for 2 to 3 magic coins.

If England had not returned to the Europa League and had not had two magic coins in their hands, they would not have made up their minds.

Moreover, the Europa League plans to bet on both China and Russia in the hope of bringing down the price.

After listening to this, Wiles nodded and said, "Okay, I have a new idea at the algorithm level, and I have a feeling that this idea will lead to a breakthrough."

"Hello, Mr. Zheng, welcome to our R&D base. This is Academician Zhao."

Zheng Liming agreed to cooperate with China and tried to reproduce magic in the virtual world.

Zheng Li was very pessimistic about this. He bluntly stated that this research project needed to be prepared to not produce any results for ten years.

Chinese officials said yes, and they are ready for the long term.

In just half a year, the global sales of Futureverse by Kechuang Biotechnology have exceeded 15 million.

The exclusive VR games in it can also be watched live on other VR platforms.

The number of cloud players is far more than 15 million.

What it brings with it is a new consumer electronics industry chain, which is exclusive to China.

In the view of senior management, even if the virtual world cannot achieve magic, we must strongly support the development of scientific and technological innovation in virtual reality technology.

This will be an industrial chain with a value of trillions of yuan in the future, and the entire industry chain will be in China.

Moreover, there are voices within China saying that in the future, opportunities for Magic Brain should be given to young people.

Instead of letting older scientists who are no longer at the forefront of scientific research use the Magic Brain, it is better to let scientists who are in their prime use the Magic Brain.

The magic brain effect should be superimposed when the human brain is most active.

This statement has been widely recognized internally, but the selection mechanism has not yet been finalized.

If this mechanism is adopted, Zheng Li will undoubtedly be the first choice on the list.

The Chinese side intends to reveal some of its research results on magic to Zheng Li.

But what they knew was what Zheng Li also knew, that the research results they had mastered were only a very small part of the knowledge that Zheng Li possessed.

Even so, Zheng Li is still very much looking forward to it. He hopes that the people of Blue Star can expand the boundaries of his knowledge of magic.

He has used the Blue Star astronomical observation equipment to find a galaxy countless light years away that is particularly similar to the location of the Mage Alliance.

With the current Blue Star technology, Zheng Li can't go back at all.

Zheng Li didn't care much about going back or not. He would be alone if he returned to the Mage Alliance, and his only friend died in a magic experiment.

He was not sure that his good friend was so lucky to keep his soul intact in the black hole.

But Zheng Li needs to connect to the Mage Alliance's network, and he needs to connect to his own Mage Tower.

If I had to rely on myself, I don’t know how long it would take. My own mage tower would have been taken over by the Alliance long ago.

After connecting to the Mage Tower, he can also obtain the massive amount of information in his own Mage Tower, instead of relying solely on his own memory to fight alone on Blue Star.

Zheng Li was amazed by Blue Star's research results in network communications. Zheng Li planned to use Blue Star's power to connect to his own wizard tower.

But the time for a showdown has not come yet, and he has not yet mastered the ability to fully protect himself.

Zheng Li could sense a familiar aura from Academician Zhao in front of him. This was the channel of the No. 7 Magic Brain he had distributed. At the same time, when he returned to China, Academician Zhao's aura also appeared at the scene after he got off the ship in Gusu.

Zheng Li showed no expression:

"Hello, Academician Zhao. Nice to meet you."

Academician Zhao is an expert in the field of biology, so he was sent to work with Zheng Li.

After a round of greetings, Academician Zhao said directly:
"Zheng Li, in order to give you a preliminary understanding of magic, I will demonstrate it to you first."

"This is a cup of ultrapure water that exceeds international standards, with a resistivity of 18MΩ*cm and almost no other impurities except water molecules."

I saw the water in the dark sealed narrow-necked bottle gradually disappear until there was no water left in the container.

Zheng Li pretended to be surprised and asked, "Is this the effect of magic?"

Academician Zhao nodded and said, "A magician can interfere with the material world at a microscopic level by relying only on himself, without any tools."

"If you think the magic brain is also an external object, then we are still using tools."

"At present, we can only interfere at the atomic level. I have just decomposed the ultrapure water in the narrow-necked bottle into hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms."

"When there is no magic to maintain it, hydrogen atoms will spontaneously combine into hydrogen gas, and oxygen atoms will also spontaneously react and combine into oxygen gas."

"Then the two slowly combine and return to the state of water."

"Magic is like building a bridge between the mind and reality."

"If we follow the conventional operation, we need to first decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis or other methods, and then split the hydrogen molecules into hydrogen atoms."

"This is a long and tedious experimental process. With the help of magic, this reaction was completed in just two minutes."

"We don't know how this complex reaction can be simplified to the point where the brain issues instructions and the material world completes the reaction."

"We hope to record the changes in brain nerve signals of different magics and find out if there are any internal rules."

"However, the neural signals of the brains of people who have been injected with the magic brain are different from those of ordinary people."

"People like us who have been injected with the magic brain can't use the brain-computer interface produced by your company to connect to mobile phones."

"But the brain nerve signals during casting still have their value."

"Collect the brain nerve signals of different mages when they cast spells, and then perform image denoising to obtain the brain nerve signals corresponding to each spell."

"Maybe it will help."

"In fact, we have already recorded the brain nerve signal images and data of different wizards and different spells, but we haven't found a good way to process them."

"Zheng Li, you are the best in the world in this field. I hope you can make some discoveries."

Zheng Li was surprised at the other party's idea. This idea was valuable. If they exchanged the magic models and casting paths of two basic magics - Light Magic and Hand of Spell - in the magic forum.

Based on these two, they can deduce the nature of magic.

You should know that the price of two basic magic spells is 10 magic coins, while the price of magic essence analysis is 20 magic coins.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a huge profit.

After entering the base, Zheng Li searched the intrusion records in the biological cloud and found that this address did not appear.

Zheng Li knew that the Internet was obviously physically isolated here.

After listening to this, Zheng Li had even higher expectations for the potential of the people of Blue Star.

He replied: "Can we consider that in this spell, hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms are two values?"

"Then the decomposition is another value. The brain nerve signals of these three values ​​together make up this spell."

"Also, if you can decompose water into hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, have you ever conducted human experiments?"

"It will directly decompose all the water in a person's body, and he will die immediately. This spell will become an offensive spell again."

Academician Zhao was also surprised by Zheng Li's reaction.

He shook his head and said, "No, I don't know why the difficulty of casting a spell would increase significantly if the water is not pure water."

"At the same time, the volume of pure water we can decompose is limited, and the volume of water with impurities that can be decomposed is even smaller."

"At least we can't."

"Maybe Merlin can. We don't know if this depends on the difference in individual mental strength, the proficiency in spellcasting, or the strength of the magic brain."

"For the same magic, the effects of the spells cast by different wizards within our company are different."

"But none of the three conjectures I outlined above showed a strong positive correlation."

"And the changes that the magic brain brings to people are not just the ability to interfere with the material world, there are other benefits as well."

"You will know the details once you have the magic brain. It is difficult for me to describe it in words now."

"Also, we have guesses about the three values ​​of hydrogen atoms, oxygen atoms, and decomposition that together make up magic."

"First of all, the brain waves corresponding to these thoughts do not overlap with the brain waves of the complete spell."

"Secondly, if you only think about these three, you won't be able to cast the spell to decompose water."

“There are other points in between.”

Zheng Li asked: "I'm also curious, why don't you use spells?"

"I used to think that spells were needed to make up magic. Magic without spells always felt incomplete."

"Merlin cast the spell without saying a spell. I think he is a great wizard and a master in the field of magic."

"Why don't you need spells either?"

"Or did you need the spell at the beginning, but don't need it now?"

In ancient times, natural wizards needed spells to cast spells.

Only a very small number of geniuses can influence the real world with their will alone without the need for spells.

After the Middle Ages, after the mages invented the magic brain, the magic brain technology developed rapidly.

In modern times, after injecting the magic brain, no one needs to chant spells to cast spells.

With advancements in technology came advancements in the way spells are cast.

As for the magic wand, no one has ever used the small wooden stick as a magic wand from the beginning. Not only is it of no help in casting spells, but its physical attack power is also extremely low.

Academician Zhao replied: “I would also like to know the answer to this question.”

I drank too much last night and have a hangover, so this chapter is to make up for yesterday. There will be another chapter later.

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