Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 630 Investment is risky

As the business heir of the Brooks family, Jeb had heard his father, Old Brooks, describe the North American Advanced Research Projects Agency's analysis of the three-system AI three years ago, as well as his speculations on the future development of the three-system AI.

What impressed me most at the time was that "one day, Yu Sanyuan will enable players to remotely control drones to fight through the game."

This is almost exactly the same as Zhang Lei's description of 'allowing players to mine remotely'.

This idea, though it may sound a bit far-fetched, is actually entirely feasible.

And the cost incurred is far lower than that of AI.

Yes, human labor is cheaper than AI.

Because today's AI is developed based on a three-tier graphics card matrix.

Its essence is to handle simple, large-volume, repetitive tasks that can be processed synchronously and in parallel by multiple threads.

Just like the analogy used by the scientific community back then.

The three-system AI is like a group of elementary school students trying to solve 100 billion arithmetic problems. They can't solve them, so the system needs to select the correct answer from 100 trillion answers stored in a database. The speed depends on the number of students, so the three-system graphics card matrix needs to be continuously stacked with three-system graphics cards to enhance performance.

The AI ​​previously developed in North America was designed to handle complex, limited, and single-threaded problems. It was like a professor analyzing cosmic issues, with the speed determined by the professor's brain. This involved chip design, manufacturing processes, and the number of transistors. Therefore, North American AI needs better chips.

If we compare the two.

Influenced by the simple underlying logic of Western technology, namely binary 0101, OR, AND, and NOT, the three-system AI can crack firewalls at an unparalleled speed and can also reverse encrypt/lock.

If we use North American AI to decrypt/unlock, it would be like making the old professor do 100 billion addition and subtraction problems. Although he knows them all, even if he worked himself to death or did it for a lifetime, he still wouldn't be able to finish.

Therefore, the three-series graphics card matrix is ​​hailed as the nuclear weapon of the new era.

the most important.

North American AI needs better chips, better chips need better lithography machines, better lithography machines need more advanced technological support... all of these require time to move forward step by step.

In contrast, the three-series graphics cards only need to accumulate more graphics cards to continuously increase performance by leveraging databases and large models. For capital, building a three-series AI industry has almost no barriers.

Since the West is a capitalist society, and capitalists pursue profits one another, when the three-system AI becomes mainstream, the old professor of North American AI becomes useless.

Ultimately, North American AI, like the Ice Bear ternary computer, was eliminated by the market, and the three-series graphics card matrix became a tool for big capital to dominate the world.

Therefore, North America suffered a complete defeat in the AI ​​revolution.

Later, the AI-Mountain God defected and the AI ​​became deified, marking the peak of the three AI systems.

However, no matter how much capital hypes up the three-system AI, it still cannot change the fact that it can only handle simple, high-volume, and repetitive problems.

Even if it can evolve, predict, and simulate events, that is an effect brought about by statistics and probability.

For example, bringing AI into production.

When you need to produce 1000 million products, the first batch of 1000 has a yield rate of 80%, the second batch of 1000 has a yield rate of 90%, and the third batch has a yield rate of 88%. With the intervention of AI, it will replicate the production process of the second batch, always maintaining a yield rate of 90%, and then find a production process that exceeds 90% yield rate, thereby improving the yield rate to an even higher level.

When you plant 100 acres of soybeans, the three-line AI intervenes. It observes the growth process of soybeans in every square meter, and then selects areas from the database that grow fast, have high yields, and are resistant to diseases based on the harvest. When you plant the following year, it will guide you to plant based on the selected data, or direct the automated system to plant, in order to improve the overall yield.

This is both the 'optimization' logic of the three-system AI and its greatest application.

During the optimization process, the larger the number of objectives to be executed, the better the final optimization effect; the more people use it, the more data is provided, and the lower the cost per person.

Therefore, the cost of using AI in the production field is very low, and some are even completely free because of the embedded advertising.

But if you ask a three-dimensional AI to handle something that's not in the database, it will struggle. It will search global resources, it will autonomously program and conduct research, it will recollect data, and it will repeat the above operations repeatedly…

The power consumption, video memory usage, and resource allocation will all double, and the overall cost will increase exponentially.

For example, the AI ​​on the Japanese island of Yamata no Orochi, in order to explore northwestern Canada, consumed a staggering 37% of the island's annual electricity generation. It also required three systems of central processing units worth tens of billions of dollars to process data, three systems of large-scale models worth tens of billions of dollars to organize and classify the data, and tens of billions of dollars monthly payments to these three systems for GPU optimization…
Therefore, for activities like lunar mining, which AI has never encountered before, and even humans have never encountered before and have no relevant experience with, the cost of using human labor is far lower than that of using AI.

Unless 'human operation' is carried out for a period of time to generate massive amounts of data, and the three systems use that time to train a large-scale model, it will be possible to deploy AI to mine on the moon, thereby gradually replacing human labor and achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Therefore, 'allowing players to mine on the moon using remote control through the game' is an essential training process for deploying the three AI systems to the moon.

Based on.

Jeb was very interested in the project that Zhang Lei was promoting.

After all, the moon is so big that it would take at least 30 to 50 years to fully develop it or train a lunar miner AI.

This is equivalent to related industries such as 'players remotely mining through games' and 'players remotely producing through games,' which have a lifespan of at least 30 to 50 years.

This is equivalent to giving rise to a completely new industry, which contains unlimited business opportunities.

However, 200 billion US dollars is no small sum, and the third manned lunar landing has just taken place.

No one can guarantee whether the minerals on the moon are actually valuable.

Jeb began:

"Manager Zhang, the value of minerals on the moon is based on the fact that helium-3 can be extracted, three-system nuclear fusion can be put into commercial use, and helium-3 can also be used as a raw material for nuclear fusion."

"Otherwise, if I invest 200 billion US dollars in a mining game, how long will it take to break even just from player spending?"

Zhang Lei took out a document from the third department. "This is internal information. It roughly means that in just 20 hours since the moon landing, the lunar shipyard has increased its processing speed of lunar soil to 500 tons per hour."

"So fast?" Jeb exclaimed in shock.

“In the previous three-system lunar orbiting project, we conducted a comprehensive exploration of a part of the lunar surface, and then selected a high-value area as the lunar landing site before mining began.”

"The area currently under construction contains far more helium-3 per ton of lunar soil than outsiders have guessed, roughly equivalent to obtaining 10 kilograms per hour."

"Once Unit 2, Unit 4, Unit 5, and so on are put into operation, and the lunar surface equipment is connected to the mining game to allow players to participate, obtaining 1 ton of Helium-3 every day will not be a problem."

"Our research in the field of nuclear fusion has now achieved a stable operation of the relevant reactors for about 3 days, and it is expected that by the end of this year, we can break through to 30 days."

"At that time, we will use our existing nuclear fission power plants to assist in the startup of the nuclear fusion reactor... In other words, we will have as many nuclear fusion power plants as we have at that time."

"In general, the higher the production of helium-3, the larger the scale of nuclear fusion power plants, and the more helium-3 will be needed. This cycle continues, and the more gamers we need. Assuming that one player can provide us with $10 in revenue per day by mining helium-3 through the game, 100 million players can provide us with $1 billion per day, $10 billion in 10 days, $100 billion in 100 days, and $365 billion in a year."

Jeb was not blinded by the extremely tempting huge profits, and fell into deep thought upon hearing this.

In recent years, especially in the last two years, the development of nuclear energy has been rapid. In 99, the East had a nuclear power generation of only 1 million kilowatt-hours, which was not even ranked in the world. Now, the East has a nuclear power generation of 710 billion kilowatt-hours, almost catching up with North America, which has the largest nuclear power generation, and leaving Japan, the second place, far behind.

Given the high temperatures of triaxial fission reactors, starting triaxial fusion reactors could indeed enable the rapid expansion of the triaxial fusion industry. Furthermore, the triaxial industry began developing its electric vehicle sector many years ago.

include:

Three-series high-speed trains and three-series bullet trains;

Electric vehicles for the elderly, electric bicycles, and electric tricycles;
Electric buses, electric shuttle buses, and electric cars for family use within the factory;
Civilian drones, civilian unmanned surface vessels, military drones, military electric missiles...

It can be said that the three-series electric vehicle industry is already mature; otherwise, so many nuclear power plants, charging stations, and ternary lithium battery sharing stations would not have been built.

So here comes the question.

With all three systems being so powerful and having plenty of money, why would they want to discuss cooperation with him, the business heir of the Lao Bu family, who is competing with the three systems?
Jeb is far smarter than Brad Pitt, which is why he was chosen to inherit the old Pitt family business.

In other words, the North American general manager is a disposable commodity, serving a maximum of eight years in his lifetime, while a business heir can serve for a lifetime, and may even become a major financier of the Southern Republican faction, or even the helmsman of the military-industrial complex.

What do you want? And what do I want?

Zhang Lei would never say, "These are all just concepts. My nuclear fusion technology isn't as advanced as outsiders speculate, and I don't have the technology to allow players to mine cryptocurrency while playing games."

They certainly wouldn't say, "We're bringing you in so we can leverage Silicon Hill's technology to enable the concept of player-driven cryptocurrency mining."

He straightened his back slightly and leaned closer to Jeb, saying, "This project is unknown to Boss Yu, and I am in complete control of it. I want to be the mastermind of the Americas."

The leader of the three factions does not necessarily rule the local area.

Strictly speaking, he is a key person in charge at the regional level, overseeing all three business lines in the region.

But they wield immense power.

They possess a certain proportion of the three systems' available funds, just like Xiangjiang-Liao Pengfei, who directly controls the Hong Kong dollar; and Far East-Guo Xin, who directly controls the trillions of dollars in Far East Trading Company's revenue.

It can also control three systems of weaponry, the West Tower satellite, three systems of intelligence, and three systems of strategy.

In short, the leaders of the three factions are no different from overseas governors during the colonial era.

Jeb took a deep breath and looked at the young man in front of him who was only 25 years old and had become the head of the three departments. He felt that the other party's ambition was even more surprising than his own, a capitalist who was over 60 years old.

However, having ambition is a good thing.

Only those with ambition can leverage cooperation to win over others.

Then it was transformed into a steel nail embedded within the three systems of the Old Bu family.

Jeb smiled slightly upon thinking of this, "It's a pleasure to cooperate with you."

Zhang Lei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, marveling that 'by using himself as bait, he finally managed to hook Jeb,' and smiled as he shook hands with the other party, saying, 'It's been a pleasure doing business with you!'

As for what the collaboration entails...

It must be 'player mining'.

It includes:

Establish a game company to develop mining games, game terminals, and remote control systems.

Establish a labor dispatch company, lease lunar surface mining machines, and build lunar surface servers.

Establish a space resource development company to undertake the mining of lunar resources in the third lunar system.

As for when the game will be released and when mining will begin...

Sorry, this is just a concept project and needs further research.

Perhaps in three to five years, perhaps in more than ten years, or perhaps it will fail.

This is called investing, which involves risk and numerous uncertainties.

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May 5st, Labor Day.

The three regions will have a one-week holiday, with no make-up days.

That morning.

Puyang Electronic Industrial Park, Nuclear Power Plant No. 212 of the Third Series.

Yu Yang walked along the tree-lined path of the power plant.

The accompanying secretary gave a brief report on Zhang Lei's actions.

"Boss, Zhang Lei plans to take advantage of the 'successful manned lunar landing of the three systems, with the world looking forward to the three systems driving technological development' to promote the 'concept' product to Europe and the United States and build a 'concept industry system'. He hopes that you can approve and support this plan."

"concept···"

Yu Yang suddenly thought of the previous 'carbon neutrality' concept, "I never thought that our family would also have a little expert in reaping global wealth."

"So, do you support it or not?"

"Even our family can't achieve nuclear fusion anytime soon. The lunar soil and helium-3 we're currently mining are just for research and storage and have no commercial value. So, even if 'mining for players' is realized, it won't generate any profit and can only be considered an entertainment game."

"But the relevant research findings can help us realize the goal of 'players controlling drones to fight through games'."

"Why go through all that trouble? Aren't the tens of millions of students who regularly participate in military training much more effective than undisciplined gamers? Besides, we've already developed a group control system through simulation games. As long as it's ported to the Hundred Schools Alliance, high schools, and junior high schools, we can achieve 'students remotely controlling and commanding drones in battle'... Students fight for the East, for the collective, for honor, and for their personal future, while gamers fight just to play the game. It's obvious who cherishes the drones more and who cares more about winning or losing the battle."

"I see... But Zhang Lei can use this project to amass wealth overseas and then conduct reverse research."

“I understand. A has nothing. A is bluffing and claiming that he has something. Once he has enough funds, he will immediately start research to make it seem like he really has it. If he succeeds, everyone will be happy. If he fails, that’s called investment risk. Back when our family developed the graphics card matrix, we did this to fool North America into providing the foundation for a large model, which is synchronous parallel processing technology.”

"Yes, perhaps Zhang Lei can come up with some other technologies by then."

Yu Yang pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly, "Then we'll replicate the engine, group control system, and other technologies from the simulation game for Zhang Lei to help him realize 'player mining' as soon as possible. The rest is up to Zhang Lei to develop."

"Ok."

"Furthermore, since we're developing a 'concept industry,' we must create a corresponding currency, or 'concept coin.' Let Zhang Lei figure out a way to create a high-value coin, which could be called 'Helium 3 Coin,' 'Bitcoin,' or 'Dogecoin.'"

"Ok."

(End of this chapter)