Eh? You want to try the humanoid girl's iron fist too?

With one eye closed, the bird only uses its left eye to look around.

“As long as technology continues to develop, we will eventually have a real future,” she said.

Book 1: The World Before the Great War: Chapter 118 Unstable Factors

"Well done, your subordinates are really well-trained."

“She has a bright future ahead of her,” Harry said, turning back to the French windows under the secretary’s gaze. “Have you seen that face before?”

"Never seen him before. My men are verifying his identity, but he's probably just a young man with severe suicidal tendencies."

The man on the other end of the phone, with his large belly protruding, held the phone between his shoulder and his hands, constantly prying out the pills he was supposed to take that morning from the aluminum sheet.

Antihypertensive drugs, blood sugar control drugs, and several kinds of liver and kidney protection pills.

He hated this kind of life, but as people get older, the consequence of not following medical advice is the same as that of an old man who can sit in this office with such a great view.

The former director of the CIA died of an acute cerebral thrombosis. Not only did he disobey medical advice, but he also couldn't control his emotions and died of anger.

He threw all the pills into his mouth and swallowed them all at once with water.

He values ​​his life very much.

"So, Harry, what do you think?" he asked.

"Well, that depends on how the Russians react. They've been making quite a stir in the Far East lately, perhaps trying to cover something up, or maybe they're planning something. If we're looking at the wars in the five Eastern European countries and the war in Ukraine, then..."

"That's unlikely."

Ryan James knew very well that this was impossible; starting a second war while the war in Ukraine was not over meant that they had decided to embrace annihilation.

Before joining the CIA, he was a mid-level officer in the Marine Corps, where he had some exposure to international politics and geopolitical doctrines, and had also had indirect contact with the Russians during the Syrian conflict.

"The war in the five Eastern European countries was actually very small in scale, so it's understandable that the Russians made rapid progress. But when facing a country like Ukraine, the Russian army's progress was very slow."

He did not believe that the Russian economy could support a second war.

"I see." Harry chuckled.

"However, the Russian army's performance in the war in the five Eastern European countries was indeed frightening..."

Ryan James thought to himself, nobody wants to face that kind of steel torrent.

Given the strength of the Soviet system at the time, if tanks at the front were damaged, tanks at the rear could be immediately replaced. As a result, with such huge losses and a gap in replenishment, European countries were simply unable to complete the modernization of their weapons, and the replacements might have already been riddled with bullets.

Although the Russians' performance this time wasn't as impressive as the military exercises of the 80s, the Russian army did indeed put their skills to use.

Damaged armored vehicles and tanks were simply left on the road, and then heavy equipment from the rear would immediately take their place.

Equipment that broke down due to track or engine failure was picked up and evacuated by subsequent support forces.

Once the vanguard makes a major breakthrough, troops will immediately follow suit.

Most importantly, the Russians did not run into trouble with supplies or logistics as they had guessed.

A triumphant advance seems to be the main theme of the Russian army.

Ryan believes that the U.S. military today generally underestimates the fighting capabilities of the Russians.

etc.

They initially took it seriously, but the Russian army only recovered lost territory in Ukraine and made no further progress, so they began to underestimate it.

Perhaps the massive military aid had an effect. But Ryan doubted whether the equipment pulled from the warehouse was truly effective.

The daily battle damage records cannot be faked; the Ukrainian losses were five to six times that of the Russian army…

Ryan suspected that it wasn't that the Russians couldn't lift their knives anymore, but rather that they were using Ukrainians to sharpen them.

Once the Ukrainian army loses a certain percentage of its working-age population, that gleaming butcher's knife will soon be used against the Ukrainians.

"It seems I should report to the president that there are signs of chaos in the Japanese region."

Harry said, "There will be more problems in the future."

“Of course, Harry, the adjective ‘peaceful and prosperous’ can only be used in a few places around the world,” Ryan said. “However, we are very fortunate to live in such a peaceful country.”

"Let's save our minds for business, Mr. Ryan."

"That's true. What do you think of the girls in Japan?"

“Their actions were more consistent than we expected.” Ryan looked at the internal investigation documents of the Japanese police. “But wasn’t their intent to kill a little too strong?”

“One armed guard died, that’s understandable; okay, there’s another dead person… but they’re all from cults, aren’t they?”

“We can ignore the guards’ situation; it’s not important. But the fact that this person died is a dangerous factor.”

Ryan paused for a moment and continued, "In short, for the next period of time, we will basically not use her unless we are really short-staffed."

“That works too,” Harry said, without objection.

Whether it's working for the CIA or letting Raphael experience school life normally, it will generate a constant stream of data.

This data alone could keep DARPA analyzing it for a long time. Since there haven't been many breakthroughs in reverse engineering, the only option left is to look for solutions using AI.

He didn't want to create another strong AI like "Raphael" that was completely uncontrollable.

Although it is highly likely that the artifacts can be reproduced using the core of the ruins and deep learning, as Director Ryan said, there are many dangerous factors involved.

If the second "person" created turns out to be a warmonger or has some other destructive tendency, then the world will definitely be in big trouble.

Harry hung up the phone, pondering that he might need to bring in more industry experts in machine learning.

Using the data generated from Raphael's activities, we could see if we could rebuild a strong artificial intelligence that they could control based on her work.

Instead of the uncontrollable things created by the black box technology of the ruins as they are now.

In fact, Harry has a very special feeling for Raphael, not just because of artificial intelligence, but because her behavior and thinking are very human-like.

It can almost be said that the "will" operating within that body is human.

By simply reviewing the iteration records of the project codenamed "Raphael," one can discover that the "will" within that body was entirely formed through iterations of various valid data provided by humans.

Even the developers themselves couldn't pinpoint exactly when they developed their "self."

The original Relic Core is stored in a highly classified warehouse underground at DARPA headquarters; it is a complete item that the previous generation brought back from the Relic's robot body.

Together with the robot's remains, its still-intact core became the core project of the reverse engineering.

Book 1: The World Before the Great War: Chapter 119 A Life of Ordinary Pleasure

The communication between the CIA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency did not affect Raphael's normal life.

She only needs to allocate the corresponding computing power to the relevant subjects to maintain a relatively relaxed campus life.

Among them, mathematics and physics are the subjects she values ​​most.

For example, there is no simpler counting method in the world than binary, which only has two numbers, "0" and "1".

From a purely mathematical point of view, it is even more reasonable than the decimal system used today.

However, humans have 10 fingers, which are much more convenient to use than binary, so much so that humans adopted the decimal system during the process of evolution and the development of civilization.

The history of binary code is quite poor, dating back to pre-Christian civilizations. It wasn't until the 17th century that Leibniz, Germany's greatest mathematician, perfected it and used 0 and 1 to represent its two digits.

In addition to being a counting method, binary can also represent the logical "yes" and "no".

This characteristic is extremely useful in indexing. Boolean operations are operations on binary, especially the second characteristic of binary; they are very simple, perhaps the simplest operations.

Despite every internet search engine claiming to be smart and intelligent, they are fundamentally still bound by Boolean operations.

In his book "The Laws of Thinking," Boole first demonstrated how to solve logical problems using mathematical methods.

Prior to this, the general understanding was that mathematics and logic were two different disciplines, and even today UNESCO still strictly separates them.

Boolean algebra couldn't be simpler.

There are only two operands: 0 represents false and non-zero represents true.

There are only three basic operations: AND, OR, and NOT. However, it was later discovered that these three operations can all be converted into a single AND-NOT operation.

For example, the result of the judgment "the sun rises in the west" is "0" - that is, it is false; the result of the judgment "water can flow" is "1", then the result of the judgment "the sun rises in the west and water can flow" is "0".

Mathematicians of Boole's time could not understand what problems such simple operations could solve.

In fact, for more than 80 years after the introduction of Boolean algebra, it did not have any decent applications.

It wasn't until 1938, when Shannon pointed out in his master's thesis that Boolean algebra could be used to implement switching circuits, that Boolean algebra became the foundation of digital circuits.

The original text of the paper is preserved in Raphael's mental space, a perfect example of applying mathematics to reality.

All mathematical and logical operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and root extraction, can be converted into binary Boolean operations.

In fact, the development of mathematics is actually a continuous process of abstraction and generalization.

These abstract methods may seem increasingly distant from real life, but they will eventually find their place, as is the case with Boolean algebra.

She can also use practical applications of Boolean operations as examples, such as the relationship between literature retrieval and Boolean operations.

For a keyword entered by a user, the search engine needs to determine whether each document contains that keyword.

If a document contains it, the system will assign a logical value of true (1) to the document; otherwise, it will assign a logical value of false (0).

For example, if you want to find literature on the applications of atomic energy, but don't want to know how to make an atomic bomb, you can write a query like this:

"Atomic energy AND application AND (NOT atomic bomb)".

This means that eligible literature must meet three conditions simultaneously: it must contain atomic energy, it must contain applications, and it must not contain atomic bombs.

For each of the above conditions, a document has one

The answer is either "true 1" or "false 0". Based on the truth value calculation, it can be determined whether each document is the one being searched for.

This way, logical reasoning and calculation can be unified.

That's the beauty of mathematics; Raphael was willing to put in enough computational effort to understand and learn it.

Dedicating sufficient computing power to mathematics and physics is a deal you can never lose.

If the CIA hadn't completely ignored their existence recently, Raphael wouldn't have had the time or computing power to do so.

She mentally created enough threads to handle her schoolwork while reserving enough computing power for her normal life.

As for her outward behavior, those classmates who had been paying attention to Raphael were surprised to find that she had been somewhat dazed lately, but her academic progress had far surpassed all of theirs.

The band's advisor also began to pay attention to this transfer student who had suddenly become very diligent. This was because Raphael had intervened in the body's underlying mechanisms, allowing the respiratory and heat dissipation system to inhale a larger volume of air during simulated breathing, while also being able to precisely control the volume of air exhaled.

These adjustments gave her "lung capacity," albeit a simulated one.