What’s strange is that among these more than 10,000 terabytes of data, a group of consciousness actually appeared.
This group of consciousness is completely consistent with the person who uploaded the data.
Completely possess thoughts, memories, and self-awareness.
After seeing this report.
Chen Xiao's heart skipped a beat.
Sure enough, it was exactly as I expected.
This report has two very important technologies that deserve attention.
One is the current server storage mechanism of Changtian Technology.
Changtian Technology’s server storage mechanism adopts two methods.
One is the carbon crystal storage mechanism, and the other is the DNA storage mechanism.
The former has mature technology and has been used for many years.
But the storage capacity is limited and it consumes a lot of power.
Although the energy usage of carbon crystal storage is far lower than that of traditional semiconductor storage.
However, it is also very power-consuming for mankind’s current energy sources.
A very simple example.
If the server uses traditional semiconductors.
A very basic set of commercial servers with a power of 750W
If this energy consumption continues to develop, we can calculate the amount of data currently generated by humans every day.
110 years later, the semiconductor servers built to store the data generated by humans will consume more energy every day than the total energy produced by humans on that day.
And if humans want to enter the artificial intelligence society.
A large amount of data must be stored and used, and supercomputing must be continuously implemented.
Let’s not talk about whether the level of computers can meet human requirements.
From the perspective of energy consumption alone, it is absolutely impossible to realize an artificial intelligence society.
More advanced than traditional semiconductor chips and storage mechanisms is the carbon crystal storage mechanism.
The carbon crystal storage mechanism developed by Changtian Technology consumes about 1/10~1/20 of the power consumed by traditional servers.
It may seem like energy is being saved, but if humans enter the era of artificial intelligence, the number of X-Trails and the amount of data stored will be tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of times that of today.
Servers equipped with carbon crystal chips and carbon crystal storage also rely heavily on energy consumption.
So Changtian Technology Hardware Company and the Biological Laboratory jointly developed DNA memory.
DNA can store all the information of life, which shows that its storage mechanism can store a very large amount of information and consume very little energy.
Last year, Changtian Technology's biological laboratory made significant achievements.
DNA memory was successfully developed and began to be used in commercial servers of Changtian Technology.
A DNA fragment has countless bases, and the combination and pairing of bases is the simplest principle of information storage.
One gram of DNA may not be as big as a dewdrop on the tip of a needle, but it can store up to 700 terabytes of data.
If traditional semiconductor technology is used, if humans want to produce a 700Tb hard drive, its weight will be more than 150 kilograms, which is 300 pounds.
This only counts the weight of the core storage components, and does not include the weight of the casing, cooling and power packs that protect these core components.
Therefore, the DNA storage mechanism with low energy consumption and small size but large storage is definitely an important measure for storing information internally.
The DNA storage mechanism server currently built by Changtian Technology can store up to 100 million terabytes of data in a group of servers.
The weight of its core components is only 143 kilograms.
But the DNA memory must exist in the biological gelatinous environment created by Changtian Technology.
Together with other hardware and some protection equipment, a set of servers capable of storing 100 million TB of data weighs less than 300 kilograms.
This has unique advantages over traditional servers.
It is precisely because of the application of ultra-large storage capacity that this experimenter from Changtian Technology passively uploaded 10,000 terabytes of data from his brain to the server.
The second technology worthy of attention is that in the virtual world, based on DNA storage to be precise, the design is very exquisite, extremely realistic, and even completely consistent with the real world (including the operation of the world, physical rules, mathematical rules,
Chemical rules, etc., are all modeled according to the real world) in this world.
The same thinking and consciousness group as people in real life appeared.
The emergence of this consciousness group is not just a problem of artificial intelligence.
But a complete personality.
What is personality?
That is, he has all the past memories of the uploader, has the complete personality of the uploader, including the way and behavior of thinking about problems, has the same reaction and adaptability as the uploader, etc.
This cannot be compared to human cloning, because the personality of the cloned person is very likely to be completely different from the cloned object.
As for the thinking group, it can be said that it is exactly the same as the uploader.
This will open up a completely new world.
Subverting human ethics, history, ways of thinking about problems, and the future.
It will even subvert something that humans will never be able to break through - lifespan!
Think of this.
Chen Xiao felt as excited and uneasy as Gao Miao.
He said to Gao Miao: "Let's go and take a look."
Gao Miao was a little confused, and then came back to his senses.
"How to see it?"
Gaomiao means how to see.
It is the actual communication between the outside world and the inside through the big screen.
Or should we put on a wearable device, go inside, and communicate face-to-face with the employees there?
In fact, after seeing Gao Miao's report, Chen Xiao felt a little panicked about the virtual world.
Most of human panic comes from the fear of the unknown and the uncontrollable.
Therefore, Chen Xiao would definitely not choose to bring a wearable device into this newly created new world before confirming the true situation of the matter.
"Through the monitor in your laboratory."
Gao Miao chuckled and said, "I knew what you meant. Things are ready."
On the way to the server console.
Chen Xiao asked Gao Miao two questions: "You haven't told anyone else about this yet, have you?"
Gao Miao nodded and said: "Not yet. The issues involved are serious. We will come to you as soon as we find out."
"What's going on with this employee?"
"The employee's name is Lu Xiaomei. She is a C5 employee in our biology laboratory. She is 26 years old. She is in good health and very beautiful."
Being able to become a C5 level employee at the age of 26 is already considered very good.
After Changtian Technology carried out job reforms, it was divided into C-level employees and T-level employees.
C-level employees are technical positions, C1-level are basic technical positions, and C10 are scientific research experts.
T-level employees are in management positions.
The T1 level is the supervisor, that is, the head of the department with subsidiaries.
Level T5 is senior director.
Employees at level C6 and above can be interchanged with employees at level T1.
In other words, if nothing happens, this little sister named Lu Xiaomei will be able to become a middle-level cadre of a subsidiary company after working for another one or two years.
But Chen Xiao still touched his nose.
Why did Gao Miao deliberately emphasize that Lu Xiaomei is very beautiful?
Gao Miao couldn't help laughing when he saw Chen Xiao looking so embarrassed.
The originally tense atmosphere suddenly became a little more relaxed.
Came to the server control room.
The monitoring equipment is not turned off, and the implementation of the world creation is displayed 24 hours a day.
Gao Miao said to Chen Xiao: "This world was entrusted by Yuedong Internet to build through the new server."
"The current area of this world is 300 square kilometers. It is a coastal city called Luoying Town."
"Because this world is a supplement to the existing world, it is planned to be turned into a scenic and entertainment town. In some areas, young people shopping in the mall will come to take pictures and listen to the sound of the sea."
"The world hasn't even been put on the shelves yet, and this happened."
Chen Xiao nodded and looked at the big screen.
Although there is no wearable device used, one enters the virtual world directly.
But Chen Xiao can feel the reality of this world from the screen on the monitor.
It can be determined that this world does not seem to be a computer model, nor is it virtual.
But it is real.
The leaves of the street trees on the roadside swayed with the breeze.
A few birds were wandering in the sky, and when they were tired, they landed on the branches.
Under the sunlight, you can still see the tiny dust.
Changtian Technology's computer and chip revolution has made the virtual world extremely realistic.
How realistic is it?
After all, according to Chen Xiao's requirements, this world has almost achieved the conservation of matter and energy.
It is so realistic that if you cut off the branches of this tree and use it as firewood, the specially produced carbon dioxide can enter the atmosphere of this world and re-enter the circulation system.
The energy and matter in this world are conserved.
On the beach by the coast.
On the beach by the coast, you can see a woman wearing a red floral skirt.
The girl is tall and has dark hair hanging down her back.
Her footprints slowly landed on the beach, and the ebb and flow of the tide slowly healed the wounds on the beach.
"Lu Xiaomei!" Gao Miao adjusted his tone and shouted softly.
This was the first time Chen Xiao heard this sound.
After all, Gao Miao didn't pay much attention to his image when speaking to him in the past.
It might even make Chen Xiao forget that Gao Miao is a girl.
Lu Xiaomei, who was walking on the beach, looked up at the sky.
Although looking at the sky from Lu Xiaomei's perspective, there is nothing.
But Lu Xiaomei could hear everyone talking.
She knew that Gao Miao was watching her through surveillance.
Chen Xiao was a little distracted when he saw this scene.
Is this melancholy girl really a consciousness group?
If others don't say it.
Chen Xiao thought he was a woman who entered the virtual world with a wearable device to relax.
Gao Miaojia turned off the microphone and explained to Chen Xiao at the fastest speaking speed: "According to the request of Lu Xiaomei in the inner world, we built a model of Lu Xiaomei for her."
Chen Xiao asked: "What about Lu Xiaomei in the real world?"
Gao Miao sighed and said: "Lu Xiaomei in the real world knows that her consciousness has been uploaded to the virtual world, and the consciousness inside is exactly the same as her own, including memories, feelings, etc. She is a little autistic."
"I was afraid that this girl would do something stupid, so I gave her a few days off and asked her to go back and have a good rest."
"The two Lu Xiaomei only met once."
Chen Xiao nodded and said, "I can't accept this happening to me. It's considered an experimental accident."
Gao Miao said with some self-blame: "It is indeed an experimental accident."
Chen Xiao definitely can't accept it.
If you are trapped in a virtual world.
To be precise, there is a self in the virtual world that is exactly the same as myself.
So how should the self in the virtual world accept the current situation?
His memories, his lover, and everything about him are in the outside world.
In the outside world, there is someone just like him.
The more Chen Xiao thought about it, the more confused he became.
This is not just a matter of experimental accidents.
Rather, a series of issues such as law, ethics, morality, etc. have become a mess.
Gao Miao continued to turn on the microphone and said to Lu Xiaomei inside: "Xiaomei, Mr. Chen and I are here to see you."
I heard Gao Miao say this.
Lu Xiaomei showed a pale smile.
This smile passed through the screen, and Chen Xiao looked a little oozing.
He couldn't help but shudder.
Lu Xiaomei said in a soft and weak voice: "Mr. Chen, hello, I am Lu Xiaomei, a C5 employee."
Chen Xiao nodded and said, "Hello, Lu Xiaomei."
Chen Xiaoyou opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Because what he is facing now is not a virtual NPC, nor is it a real-life person who has entered the virtual world wearing a wearable device.
But a person who is just like a real person.
It's just that the place she lives in is a virtual world.
Although I can't see Chen Xiao.
But Lu Xiaomei clearly felt Chen Xiao's sigh.
Lu Xiaomei continued: "Mr. Chen, do you know what the meaning of life is?"
what is the meaning of life?
Countless philosophers have been discussing this issue for thousands of years.
But in the end there is no answer that satisfies everyone.
Lu Xiaomei did not answer this question, but walked slowly on the beach and said: "You know, when I realized that I was trapped in it, but I knew that there were two me, my heart was
Collapsed.”
"I have tried to commit suicide. As long as I commit suicide, the me in the next world should not have any worries."
"But I am me after all..."
Lu Xiaomei murmured to herself, talking nonsense words.
But Chen Xiao didn't understand her feelings.
Lu Xiaomei said with some sadness: "What is life? Life is not a walking corpse like an animal, but because of memories, experiences, thinking, personality, and feelings..."
"I own all of these."
"For Lu Xiaomei outside, she had an experimental accident and she went back to have a good rest after being put on leave."
"As for me, Lu Xiaomei, I had an experimental accident, and then I was trapped in the virtual world."
"Are you right in my description? Mr. Chen?"
After hearing this, Chen Xiao's heart was shaken hard, and he felt a little creepy, and suddenly he figured out a physics problem.
He whispered to Gao Miao: "We seem to have...unintentionally...created a parallel universe."
"Every time you choose, a different you will appear, a you in a parallel space."