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Chapter 17 I Don't Believe in the Boltzmann Brain

"Qianyan, like a girl's name, how tall and outstanding is R3AI? What is the abbreviation?"

Xia Ming tried hard to suppress the memories evoked by this name and continued to explore the secrets of R3AI.

"R3AI means the third stage of artificial intelligence experiment..."

Lin Cheng's answer made Xia Ming even more confused. The R3AI in his mind still responded with "the host cannot understand the relevant concepts", which made Xia Ming begin to doubt his previous inferences.

However, he had no choice but to continue thinking. Professor Xu brought the others from the core group into the laboratory and started a day's work.

"Everyone knows Xiaoxia. From today on, as Lin Cheng's assistant, he will officially join the core group."

Professor Xu first made an explanation, and then introduced the others in the group to Xia Ming.

In addition to Professor Xu, Tang Xiaotang and Lin Cheng, there are two men and three assistants in the core research group, all of whom are around thirties. The men are He Xinghui and Hu Jun, and the women are Hou Yunting. They are both from Yan University and have doctoral degrees in theoretical physics or computer science.

Xia Ming was very humble in front of his seniors. He Xinghui and Hu Jun’s attitude towards Xia Ming was not bad, but they could clearly feel alienated and cold. This is quite normal. A liberal arts monk from a third-rate university was on par with scientists like them. If it were Xia Ming himself, he would definitely have dissatisfaction and contempt. However, the female assistant Hou Yunting was more enthusiastic.

After getting to know each other, the construction starts. The work is a meeting. The experiment does not revolve around the instrument all day long. Most of the time has to be spent on communication. Team members have to communicate the progress of each link and branch, check the data, and review ideas.

No wonder Professor Xu said that artificial intelligence helps scientists to do research is the singularity of the technological explosion. According to the schedule that the project has compressed, 50% of the research time is spent on communication, 30% is spent on preparation and testing stages of each link, and 10% is spent on research results. The time spent on actual experiments is no more than one percent.

Of course, this is also related to the huge cost of the experiment. Every time "Qianyan" is operated, it only costs millions of special reagents and materials.

"There is still a problem with real-time description. Even if it is replaced with the ARM architecture of 4X2048, it can barely reach the scale on the thread, but the calculation ability of ARM is too poor and the description speed is too slow. I am worried that the time particles are too large and that Qianyan's neural quantum effect cannot be captured."

Lin Cheng talked about his current problems. Through his studies last night, Xia Ming was able to roughly understand Lin Cheng's words.

In addition to "Qianyan", there is also a layer of "quantum computing shell" created using the principle of quad-digit simulated quantum computers. Relying on this shell to communicate with Qianyan's neural quantum computing effect, the project to be carried out is to let Qianyan simulate the function of the brain to process visual information.

Based on the latest achievements in brain science, the quantum computing shell can already translate photoelectric signals to Qianyan and simulate visual functions. What Lin Cheng wants to do now is to describe the reaction of the neural quantum computing effect on the quantum computing shell after Qianyan receives the signal. If the image information transmitted by regular and close to the photoelectric signal can be obtained, it will prove that Qianyan has the ability to process visual information.

Once this project is successful, it is of great significance. It can not only prove the correlation between neural quantum effects and intelligence, but also greatly promote the visual neural research in brain science and the deep realization of virtual reality.

Lin Cheng’s problem is that Qianyan’s neural quantum effect time is extremely short. Although the quantum computing shell can sense it, if these inductions cannot be translated in real time, that is, depicted as images, the results of the experiment cannot be interpreted. You should know that "depicting" is not as simple as painting on a plane, but three-dimensional, which involves computer 3D technology.

Professor Xu asked: "How much can the stable depiction speed be achieved during the detectable period?"

Lin Cheng said: "The fastest is only 10 microseconds."

Professor Xu shook his head: "It would be meaningless to let Qianyan run if it is not upgraded to the nanosecond level."

Lin Cheng scratched his head embarrassedly: "I'll continue to research, but I'm not very familiar with Cg and GPU things, and I can't find a more suitable method. If I change the server..."

Tang Xiaotang also shook his head: "You only have one month at most. Even if you change the server, it will take more than half a month from installation and debugging to online. It is not too late. Moreover, the cost you found this time is only enough for the redundant operation of "Qianyan"."

Lin Cheng's expression became very heavy, and the next three assistants talked about other issues, but in summary, Lin Cheng's progress is the most critical.

After the communication, Xia Ming completely couldn't understand the results obtained after the last operation of "Qianyan". However, he felt that the research was still a long way from success, because everyone discussed it, and found clues that supported them to continue their research from data that could not get any definite conclusions.

Scientific research, especially cutting-edge scientific research, sometimes tests people's will.

If it weren't for the R3AI in the brain, Xia Ming felt that this study was completely looking for Boltzmann's brain, which was so desperate that it was suffocating.

What is Boltzmann's brain? It is a conjecture and metaphor related to cosmology, which is related to the popular concepts of dark energy and vacuum zero-point energy. It means that from the phenomenon that the universe is expanding at an accelerated speed, there may be inherent energy in the void space, and these energy is active and is always in a state of fluctuation. When the fluctuation reaches a certain extent, there is a probability of materialization. For example, there is an additional photon or an atom in a corner of the universe, or an additional self-conscious brain in your goldfish tank...

Xia Ming didn't think that the R3AI in his mind was a Boltzmann brain, but if the research could not continue, he could only throw himself into the embrace of the Scientific Church.

After the meeting, he returned to the first floor computer room. Xia Ming asked Lin Cheng if there was any help. Lin Cheng asked: "Can you find a more effective direction than using surfaces to build 3D now?"

Xia Ming said I'll give it a try, and Lin Cheng patted his shoulder: "Try hard!"

Try to forget about this, what Xia Ming saw on Lin Cheng’s face meant this.

The difficulties faced by Lin Cheng seem to be closely related to games, that is, the game has made great efforts in 3D technology and virtual reality, while Lin Cheng, who is not interested in games, is indeed powerless in this regard.

Xia Ming could only recognize this step, and he had no idea how to do it, what information to find, and what keywords to search for.

Just as I was wondering if I had caught a sea catching online, I found out that I was ticked out on Q. It was the group of the consulting group, named "Kaba Sanxian Gay Friends Group".

[What kind of black technology is this!?@Cica Sidong...]

[Prometheus is so good to use! I will no longer worry about being the rogue QJ! @子子小子, I will fan you!]

【Mom asked me why I was playing with my phone while kneeling...】

[The APP is very awesome. What is the name Prometheus? @子小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小�

A group of five hundred people, and in one morning, Xia Ming was tagged eight hundred times...

Li Diluo also sent a message, sneaky and looked extremely guilty.

[I sent Prometheus to the advisory group for trial, and then everyone exploded. I can't stand it, @v@, I'll leave it to you!]

Xia Ming was speechless, is this guy reliable?

Originally, he didn't want to pay attention to it, but seeing some people analyzing Prometheus's principles, they felt that many of these people were professional, and maybe there were some clues.

【What direction does 3D have in addition to surfaces now?】

Xia Ming threw out Lin Cheng's problem. To be honest, he couldn't think of any direction other than face to play 3D.

Whether it is games or scientific research, the surface is used to build a 3D environment. Use surfaces to build a multi-faceted model and then stick a map. After so many years of development, technological progress is nothing more than using more surfaces and improving the efficiency and effect of the map. More effort has been spent on light and shadow rendering.

The group was silent for a while, and then it exploded. Countless friends and private chat boxes popped up. Xia Ming had to open and close them one by one. But when he saw a private chat called "Five Daoxia", he stopped.

[Matthew Lawrence proposed Merkrit technology ten years ago, using points instead of lines and surfaces to do 3D, but to implement it from the bottom, you have to subvert everything. Lines and surfaces develop very quickly, so no one cares about it and are quickly forgotten.]

Use some 3D!

Xia Ming breathed a sigh of relief, what awesome idea! This is completely trying to copy the real world into the virtual world!

You can understand this direction as soon as you hear it. In reality, objects are composed of "points" such as molecules and atoms. If a computer is allowed to simulate countless molecules and even points such as atoms and use these points to "assemble" objects, it is a real simulation of the real world, rather than a visual simulation like line-surface technology.

For example, it is like "Minecraft", the most basic element in the game world is blocks. If the block is reduced to the molecular level, the realism of the world constructed is quite terrifying. According to what Wudaozhai said, Lawrence did not shrink the blocks, but used a round sphere.

But this is a bit painful brain, because the software and hardware foundation of computer graphics and image technology is based on "points, lines and surfaces", which is determined by the hardware principles of display devices. The sphere still needs to be simulated through lines and surfaces. Isn't this an unnecessary move? To obtain the support of the underlying hardware, it is to eliminate the life of the entire industry. Not only can it not find a way to achieve it, but it also shows no benefits. Of course, no one pays attention.

However, what if it is a quantum computing method that uses quad-digit simulation? Even if it is not supported by the hardware "source" but is just simulation on the existing architecture, there may be some progress.

【Are you familiar with this thing?】

Xia Ming felt that this direction was worth pondering.

[Ten years ago, Lawrence ambitiously promoted this technology everywhere and opened a company in China. I have stayed in that company, and time has changed...]

The answer of "Five Shrimps" was filled with a sense of vicissitudes, giving people a feeling that the current situation was not very good.

Xia Ming looked at Lin Cheng who had been grabbing his hair next to him and sent a message.

[You are in Yandu, are you busy? If you can, I want to talk to you now.]

By looking at the name "Wudaoxia", you will know that most of the other party is in Yandu, and it is even not far from Yandao, because the place at the main entrance of Ziguang University is called "Wudaokou", and Ziguang University is next to Yandao University.

The other party did not respond and seemed to be hesitating. Xia Ming sent another message: "I am from the Yan University Artificial Intelligence Research Institute."

Wudaoxia immediately posted the address, which made Xia Ming feel proud again. Now he is completely confident when using this sign.

"Senior brother, let's go out and relax!"

Xia Ming greeted Lin Cheng, who looked confused. Mobile phone users should visit http://m.piaotian.net
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