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At the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the strong support of many leading figures, the proposal to vigorously develop a general artificial intelligence mathematical framework was successfully passed.

Meanwhile, the development of general artificial intelligence has also been included in the next five-year development plan.

This also means that the Chinese scientific and engineering communities have reached a consensus and have begun to vigorously develop and promote general artificial intelligence.

The large-scale development of the moon is also included in the next five-year development plan.

To be honest, the most controversial general artificial intelligence project for the bigwigs has actually received far less attention from the outside world than the lunar exploration project.

After all, artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty for ordinary people in this day and age.

The widespread adoption of the Taiji series of quantum simulation computers, in particular, has led many to believe that they are already sufficiently intelligent.

The user-friendly interaction methods used in daily life are just the basics. Compatible with various sensor protocols, it can also directly control almost everything in your smart home.

With just a few simple sensors, a computer-based home management system can automatically record a household's daily electricity, water, and gas consumption, and provide rational suggestions for saving resources based on the user's lifestyle.

With the construction and commissioning of the Taiji Cloud Platform of the Quantum Simulation Computing Consortium, the intelligent operation of the entire society is something that people could not have imagined ten years ago.

For example, the food delivery industry...

Previously, food delivery users would place orders using their phones, merchants would accept the orders, produce the food, and then wait for a delivery rider to pick it up and deliver it...

For the user, the entire process can be described as completely blind.

After all, the entire process of production by the merchant and delivery by the rider is completely invisible.

As for the quality of the food and whether the hygiene conditions of the delivery vendors meet the standards, it all depends on the conscience of the vendors and the platform.

But now that the Taiji Cloud platform has been added, the situation is completely different.

Once the merchant accepts the order, the food delivery user can directly open the visual progress.

The entire process from when a merchant receives an order will be shown on camera using holography.

For users, they can not only see whether the kitchen preparation environment is hygienic, but also whether the chef is cooking according to their notes.

Once the food is prepared and delivered to the rider, the camera immediately cuts to the rider's delivery process.

If users have the time, they can virtually watch the entire process of how a takeout order is made and delivered to them.

If an unmanned delivery system is deployed in the area, the entire holographic video process will be more complete.

Moreover, all merchants connected to the Taiji Cloud platform are required to scan codes to trace and register the ingredients and seasonings they use when preparing meals, ensuring that the sources are legitimate and legal.

Moreover, all seasonings that have been traced through QR codes must remain under camera surveillance until they are used up.

If the condiments are removed from the camera's view, the system will assume they are used up or spoiled. If they are used again, an alarm will be triggered, and the merchant will be punished accordingly. In the most serious case, the merchant will be forcibly removed from all food delivery platforms.

This also means that if any problem occurs in any link, the responsibility can be pinpointed to the individual.

Of course, for merchants, the cost of connecting to the Taiji Cloud platform will obviously increase dramatically.

When the platform first started promoting itself, many merchants did resist.

But the market is ultimately a process of survival of the fittest.

When all the resisting businesses either close down due to lack of business or eventually give in and join the platform.

After a while, this became part of people's daily lives. They had long taken it for granted.

Other industries such as building materials, decoration, and supermarkets are also like this.

From the moment a product leaves the factory after quality inspection, it is incorporated into the unified database of the cloud platform.

For consumers, various parameter standards can be directly scanned to obtain detailed annotations.

You can even find the names and phone numbers of the production manager and the quality control manager.

Are counterfeit products using the same codes as genuine ones?

nonexistent!

At least for now, no one has been able to replicate a quantum identifier that can access the cloud platform's database under the supervision of the cloud platform.

Even if someone were to actually create such a quantum identifier for identity verification in the future, they probably wouldn't bother with it.

After all, given the current situation, people who can master this technology can easily earn tens of millions of dollars a year from tech companies, so there's absolutely no need for them to earn money that could land them in jail.

Furthermore, with such a robust tracing system, finding the responsible party is incredibly easy should any problems arise, naturally leading to fewer people taking the risk.

Areas that cannot be fully constrained by morality and law are ultimately addressed through technology.

Of course, the only downside is that it's hard to find extremely cheap things in China now.

For example, the prices of food delivery, even after adjusting for inflation, have generally increased by about 20% compared to before the cloud platform was implemented.

Fortunately, China has been experiencing a period of rapid technological breakthroughs in recent years, and has once again entered a period of rapid economic development.

With people's expected incomes surging, this price increase is still within the acceptable range for the vast majority of people.

As for those who genuinely cannot make money for various reasons, it's not a big problem either.

With a good economy and more money in the local area, everyone can at least have a decent meal.

In particular, the establishment of inclusive canteens in various regions, which are also included in the supervision of the Taiji Cloud Platform, is sufficient to meet the most basic living needs of low-income groups.

In particular, the inclusive canteen project has been fully implemented in both urban and rural areas.

The idea of ​​people starving or freezing to death is simply nonexistent in China. Even a single instance of such a death would become the biggest news story on the internet, bar none.

It can be said that much of this is thanks to artificial intelligence.

Otherwise, inclusive projects like the Puhui Canteen, which are specifically designed for low-income groups, would simply not be able to be implemented.

China has never lacked wealthy people who would rather suffer losses than gain an advantage.

The Taiji Cloud Platform has integrated data from almost all departments.

This system can accurately determine a person's consumption level through multiple dimensions such as tax payment, consumption, cash flow, labor capacity, and willingness to work.

This will determine whether they are qualified to consume at places like the public canteen that rely entirely on subsidies.

As for other things such as intelligent driving and intelligent parking, they are no longer new things, but part of life.

In fact, many self-media personalities have claimed that the operation of the Huaxia Taiji Cloud Platform already represents the maturity of general artificial intelligence technology, which has entered everyone's lives and become a commonplace thing.

So naturally, there wasn't much discussion. It's already like this, what else could it possibly become?
Therefore, the large-scale development of the moon is what attracts the most attention.

After all, there is only one base on the moon right now.

The Chinese people have their own unique understanding of the concept of large-scale development.

They've already shouted the slogan of large-scale development, which means they're going to terraform the moon, right?

At the very least, we need to relocate some people to the moon and turn it into a place where people can work and live before we can call it a major development, right?

In this era of highly developed internet, self-media creators from all walks of life have sprung up at the first sign of trouble.

In the eyes of these people, this is undoubtedly the best opportunity for many ordinary people to achieve upward social mobility.

There will be tons of job opportunities if there's large-scale development, right? And before the technology matures, there will definitely be a lot of subsidies for working on the moon, right?
This is no ordinary business trip; it's a cross-planetary business trip.

Maybe after a few years, I can achieve financial freedom.

As for safety…

A whole bunch of billionaires are scrambling to sign up and even queuing up, just to have a chance to travel to the moon.

This is enough to show that although it sounds dangerous, the landing technology is actually very mature.

As long as you don't do anything reckless, you're likely to be safe.

Moreover, the lunar base has been operating for several years now. From the initial small shed, it has now been built into a formal base covering more than 8,000 square meters, and there has never been any safety incident.

Especially as construction progresses, the base's internal security system is reportedly being continuously upgraded. Various emergency response and safe evacuation measures have reached historical highs.

So when this report was released, the entire Chinese nation began to enthusiastically discuss the large-scale development of the moon.

As for Xida University, which used to always be the center of attention, it is now almost completely ignored on the Chinese internet.

Even when the White House spokesperson officially announced that ten states would be reopened to China for large-scale infrastructure projects, it didn't generate much buzz within China.

For the new generation of Chinese internet leaders, not only have they long since demystified Westerners, but they even look down on them somewhat.

To the growing generation of young Chinese people, Xida University is not an insurmountable mountain.

They find it hard to imagine how a country that can't even manage its own infrastructure and has to ask China for help could have become a global superpower.

It actually has a bunch of lackeys who follow its lead? And many countries are even located next to China...

Just as those born in the 1990s and 2000s find it hard to imagine how humiliated China was in the past, those born in the 2010s and 2020s find it hard to imagine how powerful Xida University was in the past.

When they were old enough to understand, the most talked-about news online was the launch of China's Sky Shield system, which brought the entire upper atmosphere of the Earth under China's situational awareness.

Even the launch of satellites from other countries requires China's permission.

After all, the Sky Shield system is not only for defending against high-altitude flying objects from Earth, but it can also cut through meteorites from space from another angle.

Similarly, from another angle, other satellites could also be directly cut into metal fragments.

In fact, China has already used this method to directly turn its old satellites, which have exceeded their service life, into cosmic dust.

At the press conference, it was also announced that this method provides a new approach for freeing up outer space to launch more advanced satellites in the future.

For many self-media creators in this field, the biggest source of traffic comes from helping people interpret the various statements made by speakers at these press conferences.

This statement was naturally interpreted as meaning that anyone wanting to launch a satellite in the future would have to apply to China first.

Don't send out outdated satellites, so as not to take up space.

As for the criteria for judging whether something is advanced or backward, they are naturally based on the standards set by China.

This is also the reason why it has been widely circulated online that other countries must obtain approval from China before launching rockets.

Think about it, the new generation of young people in China grow up immersed in this kind of rhetoric every day. It's really too difficult to make them yearn for Xida University.

They even thought the west side might be better, which would make them look ignorant at school.

After all, China has the Sky Shield system, a lunar base, and artificial intelligence fully integrated into social management. What does the west have?
Even for simple tasks like building construction and road repair, they have to hire Chinese infrastructure companies to do it. What's there to envy?
It's not just Xida University; it's said that China is also in talks with Europe to build a high-speed rail system that spans the entire Eurasian continent.

Simply put, Europe was responsible for raising funds, while China was responsible for construction.

It's said that the negotiations are almost complete, even the price has been agreed upon. They're just waiting for construction to begin.

Once this high-speed rail line is opened, it will become the world's longest high-speed rail line, and it will also pass through the most complex terrain.

Mountains, grasslands, rivers, deserts... and there might even be a section of an underwater tunnel.

This means that this high-speed rail line will have a large number of bridges, tunnels, and various special tracks.

In the near future, traveling from Beijing to London will no longer be limited to airplanes; you can take a high-speed train directly.

Of course, this high-speed rail line is also extremely expensive, with the investment reportedly exceeding 300 billion euros.

This is still an extremely favorable price. After all, the opening of this high-speed rail line is very important for China.

This means that the transportation of goods from China to Europe will be more convenient, and the economic ties between the two sides will be closer.

It directly altered the economic, social, and cultural landscape of the entire Eurasian continent, and had a profound impact on globalization.

For such a significant matter, Xida University did not even comment. When asked by reporters at the press conference, the spokesperson simply said, "This is a matter concerning the Eurasian continent. China and Europe are important partners of ours. We have no intention of interfering in the cooperation between our partners."

Of course, this is just something to listen to.

If this were twenty years ago, in an era of full-scale competition, Xida University would probably have jumped out and ruined the project as soon as it was proposed.

But what can they do now?
A complete falling out with China?
We didn't have that confidence twenty years ago, and we have even less now.

In particular, the Chinese have no sense of martial ethics. They don't even need proxies; a slight threat is enough to make them jump up and down, showing a willingness to go all out and start a full-scale war, which completely undermines Xida's confidence.

We can't really wage a full-scale war against the Sky Shield system, can we?
Don't say the White House is too afraid to make this decision; even if the people in the White House had the courage to take such a gamble, those financial tycoons would teach them a lesson...

After all, global financial security is still in China's hands.

Let alone a real battle, even violating some key principles could have a devastating impact on the already sluggish financial market.

Most importantly, China seems to have little interest in shifting its financial center to the East…

Isn't this the foundation of a win-win situation?! (End of Chapter)