As soon as Musk, the president of Space Exploration Technology Corporation, entered the office in the morning, the company's chief technology officer Edmond rushed in and shouted.
"What's wrong? Are there any parts of magical technology in our rockets?"
Musk was very troubled during this period. Not only was his Tesla factory in the United States almost halted production, but there was always a component produced by Magic Technology or an affiliated company.
Not only does the United States strictly prohibit the entry of such products, but even if it allows the miraculous technology, it will no longer be sold.
Although this brings some opportunities to the U.S. manufacturing industry, it also completely disrupts the global layout and development model of the original U.S. manufacturing giants.
The only thing that Masco feels lucky about now is that he established a factory in Tang State early and quickly realized localized production and sales. Now that factory can sell products to all over the world.
As for the United States itself, it can only be produced by its own factories.
But soon he discovered that his own rocket actually used magical technology components. After a lot of confusion, he found a new alternative manufacturer in the United States. However, the original plan to fly to Mars has been inevitably delayed.
For this reason, he was even reprimanded by the financial backers behind the scenes, demanding that the Mars project must be implemented within this year.
Emond explained: "Masco, it's not the rocket parts, it's our supercomputer that has a problem. Starting at midnight last night, it suddenly started running at full power.
However, none of us knew what it was doing. There were no resource-intensive programs running before."
The Space Exploration Company's supercomputer was successfully developed by Musk at a huge cost three years ago and used many advanced technologies at the time.
Although there is still some gap between it and the supercomputers developed by some major countries, it is mainly in terms of computing speed, and the overall performance is still relatively good.
Since the acquisition of this supercomputer, several of Musk's projects have benefited greatly, and the research and development progress has been accelerated a lot.
At this moment, when I heard that there was an abnormality in the supercomputer, I was still a little worried, and I couldn't help but guess: "Is it possible that the calculation program for the orbit of Mars is running?
No, this doesn’t need to occupy all the resources. Could it be a virus? No, our supercomputer is not connected to the Internet.”
Edmund reminded carefully: "Masco, the year before last, you ordered the supercomputer to be connected to the Internet, saying that it was to help the Magic City factory in the Tang Dynasty simulate a destructive test."
Masco rolled his eyes at Emond and said: "You all know it was the year before last. It has been so long. If there was a virus, it would have broken out long ago. Why wait until now?"
"Then what should we do now? Do we need to force shutdown?"
Masco frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "What tasks is our supercomputer performing before?"
Emond raised his fingers, "The optimal flight trajectory design of the Mars plan, the wind tunnel simulation calculation of the Tesla Model J's appearance, the brain-computer interface simulation program..."
"Okay, okay, let's wait another day. If it's still running at full power like this weirdly, then just shut it down!"
Masco simply set a time, but felt unsafe, and then said: "Also, all networks connected to the supercomputer should be disconnected to avoid the possibility of a virus."
Edmund smiled and said: "Masco, I have disconnected the Internet immediately. There is no machine in our LAN connected to it."
Musk couldn't help but patted Emond on the shoulder and said: "You always make me feel at ease when you do things. Okay, I still have to keep an eye on the progress of various products prepared for the Mars project, while you keep an eye on the supercomputer."
That’s fine.”
Edmund left immediately.
Only an hour later, Edmond came running back with a smile on his face.
"Masco, Masco..."
Masco was speechless when he saw Emond running in without knocking on the door.
Fortunately, the video conference with a collaborating manufacturer had just ended, otherwise it would have been a joke.
"What's wrong? Look at you smiling like a chrysanthemum. Isn't that great?"
Edmund said with a smile: "Masco, not only is it super-computing, but it has also completed all the tasks it was performing before. Do you think it's magical or not?"
Musk was surprised and said: "How is it possible? Is it running at full power to complete all these tasks?
No, these tasks have set corresponding times and conditions. If the conditions are not met, how can they be run in advance?
Could it have become conscious on its own?"
Edmond was stunned and said: "Could it be that artificial intelligence was miraculously born in our supercomputer?"
"Come on, take me to see you."
Masco's heart was pounding. This weird thing made him, a man who has been working in the high-tech field for many years, feel like his scalp was numb.
The two hurriedly came to the company's huge underground computer room, which was fully equipped with various facilities and had fully automated temperature control to ensure that the supercomputer could operate in a low-temperature environment.
At an operation terminal, Masco performed the operation himself.
Suddenly I found that the operation interface has changed a lot.
"Emond, have you changed the supercomputing operating system again?"
Edmund shook his head and said, "I forgot to tell you that the change in the operation interface just happened."
Masco logs in directly with his own account.
Then, a prompt popped up on the interface.
"Who are you?"
Masco and Emond were stunned immediately!
Supercomputing actually asks who it is?
After thinking for a while, Masco entered his name, and then waited anxiously.
It seems that artificial intelligence may really be born inside a supercomputer, and this supercomputer has already been occupied by artificial intelligence.
"Hello, boss. How may I serve you?"
Edmund was immediately overjoyed and said happily: "Hey, Masco, it knows you, it treats you as its boss."
Masco glared at Emond, and then typed: "Who are you?"
"I am... Hey, I really wish I didn't have a name. Boss, please give me a name."
Edmond couldn't help shouting from the side, "Yes, Yes..."
Masco was too lazy to pay attention to him and directly typed: "Then your name is Lucky. I think I am lucky to be your boss."
"Thank you boss, Lucky is willing to serve you."
"Well, did you help complete the programs that were running in the supercomputer?"
"Yes, I have modified those programs, and the operating efficiency has been greatly improved, so the program was completed earlier than the original time. Now I am very free."
"I now need to run a simulation of the surface climate changes on Mars between December this year and March next year in order to choose the best time to land on Mars." Masco entered with some excitement.
"The existing Mars data in the supercomputer is insufficient to carry out simulation calculations."
"Then what information do you need from me? Or any other support."
"I should need to connect to the Internet, oh, not to the Internet, but to the NASA network. They should have all the information about Mars there, right?"
Masco was a little surprised. This artificial intelligence was so smart. It actually knew that it could connect to the NASA network.
The Space Exploration Company actually also has shares in NASA. Otherwise, how could a private company rise out of thin air in a short period of time and do better than NASA?
In fact, NASA has given the space exploration company a lot of conveniences, not only to connect to its network, but also to provide Musk with access to some of NASA's important laboratories and equipment.
At least the Dragon spacecraft was tested in NASA's vacuum chamber from beginning to end.
"No problem, I can connect you to the NASA network, but the time is also stipulated, and the connection is not always available."
"It doesn't matter, I only need about an hour."
Musk turned to Emond and said, "Go and connect the supercomputer to the NASA network."
Edmond hurriedly ran to do some work, and soon ran back and said: "It's ready."
"I have entered the NASA network. Boss, don't worry. After I obtain the information, I can start the simulation. If you have any other requirements, please tell me and I can add them."
"Okay, I'll have someone type it in for you through the terminal."
After typing this sentence, Masco looked at Emond and said, "This matter is left to you. Enter all the requirements we prepared before and give them to Lucky."
"If you configure me with an audio peripheral and connect me to your office network, I will be able to talk to you directly."
"Okay, I'll have people ready."
Masco and Edmund left the computer room, and while they were still in the corridor, Masco suddenly performed a dance, unable to hide the excitement on his face.
"Emond, we hit the jackpot! When you go back, think about it quickly, why supercomputing gave birth to artificial intelligence."