Daming 1805

Chapter 620: The Divergence Point Leading to the Future
Zhu Jingyuan continued to move and recuperate his body, and three months later experienced hibernation again.

This time the time was extended to one month, and the body's metabolic rate dropped to 50.00%.

The effect is a little better than the first time, but there is still no essential difference.

After Zhu Jingyuan woke up, while undergoing examination and adjusting his body, he gained a general understanding of the world's situation through newspapers and his son's reports.

Emperor Gregorian calendar year 1980, [-], which is the end of the fifth year of Changning.

Judy Lan has officially decided to extend free education until middle school graduation.

Judy Lan believes that smart machines will be widely used in the future, which requires ordinary workers to have a higher level of knowledge.

At the same time, as factories gradually apply smart machines, production efficiency has increased significantly and the number of workers required has decreased significantly.

Therefore, more factories must be built simultaneously to accommodate workers who cannot be used up in the original old production lines.

At the same time, workers' working hours are reduced to six hours a day, increasing the number of workers actually needed and their efficiency.

Factories that need to operate around the clock will switch from three shifts to four shifts, while the number of vacation days remains unchanged.

At the same time, workers' wages will be increased.

Ten years ago, according to the eight-hour work system, the basic salary of workers in official factories reached 150 silver notes, and this year it reached [-] silver notes.

Next, first calculate according to the six-hour work system, maintain 150 silver notes per month, and continue to gradually increase to [-] silver notes.

At the same time, the market sales price of products is reduced to maintain the balance between productivity and purchasing power.

In addition, the Air Force has completed the final assembly of the space laboratory and completed the deployment of low-altitude Internet satellites.

The operating time of the controllable nuclear fusion experimental device has been extended again, and quantum computer research has also made new breakthroughs.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that Zhudi Lan's approach was reasonable and that his son was very safe in handling matters, so he did not express any opinions.

In early 50.00, Zhu Jingyuan tried to sleep for three months at a time, and his body's metabolic rate dropped to [-]%.

After that, Zhu Jingyuan maintained a rhythm of sleeping for three months and waking up for one month.

A month of sobriety is used to adjust and check the body, and at the same time understand the changing pattern of the world situation.

If Judy Lan has any questions, please answer them according to your own understanding.

But now it would be more appropriate to discuss it rather than answer it.

Zhu Jingyuan's brain is actually smarter than Zhu Jingyuan's, but his experience and experience are far less rich than Zhu Jingyuan's.

After Zhu Jingyuan gains more experience, Zhu Jingyuan will slowly become a consultant.

It's not that Zhu Jingyuan doesn't want to continue to lengthen the sleep time, but the current technical level is still limited.

For the time being, we can only ensure that this length is safe and controllable. Unforeseen risks may arise after a longer period of time.

However, research institutions are also working hard to tackle the problem and conduct experiments on other organisms and volunteers.

Develop more drugs with better effects, and design life-support equipment with better effects and safety.

Three years later, in the year [-] of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, Zhu Jingyuan's dormancy time was extended to six months at a time.

The construction of Yingzhou's complex machine intelligence experimental field is basically completed.

The first phase of the experiment has officially begun.

Use 1 intelligent components as the brain and a large number of semi-independent mechanical components as the body to build a four-legged mechanical animal.

Its shape refers to a tiger, but its body size is like an adult elephant, and it is named Yingzhou No. [-].

From an engineering perspective, Yingzhou-[-] currently has no practical value.

A brain composed of 1 semi-independent micro-machines is like a large electronic waste dump.

The tens of thousands of nerve circuits connecting the brain to the whole body are like a lump of noodles just fished out of the pot.

It has an unusually rich and even excessive number of sensors, meaninglessly covering all structures in the body.

Also has an overly complex mechanical body that simply doesn't adhere to typical design principles.

If the craftsman does not write any driver, Yingzhou No. [-] is a pile of pure dead objects that will not have any direct reaction to the outside world.

After the driver that controls the body is written, the craftsman also needs to give instructions before it can make the simplest movements according to the instructions.

Because this body is so complicated, the driver is also so complex that it makes the craftsmen bald.

It is extremely difficult to move any part of the body.

It can't even walk.

In the year [-] of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, the tenth year of Changning, Zhu Jingyuan's dormant time was extended to ten months.

Zhu Dilan divided each ten-day period into two halves, with the last day of the first half being designated as a rest day.

In this way, there are three days of rest every ten days, and a total of nine days of rest on the thirtieth day of each month.

Yingzhou's complex mechanical intelligence experiment has entered the second stage, and the complex machine Yingzhou No. [-], which is composed of [-] original parts, has been completed.

Yingzhou-[-] is still being retained for experiments, and the drivers and body structure are constantly being optimized and upgraded.

The body size of Yingzhou-[-] is larger, already like a dinosaur in ancient history.

The performance of Yingzhou-[-] is not essentially different from that of Yingzhou-[-].

It's just that the craftsmen's technology has improved, the components have become smaller, and the drivers have become more complete.

Yingzhou [-] can stand up and walk.

Judy Lan has set a goal, and the next phase of the experiment is divided into two directions.

One is to shrink the brain of Yingzhou No. [-] and design a fish body at the same time, and conduct experiments in a specially dug pool.

Even a mouse has tens of millions of brain cells, and a brain composed of hundreds of thousands of components may not be enough to control the body of a four-legged land animal.

Another direction is to continue to make brains composed of more components and determine whether more original parts will have any additional effects.

Emperor Gregorian calendar year 1990, 15, March [-]th, Changning [-]th year.

Zhu Jingyuan was awakened outside the scheduled time.

His biological mother Liang Yunying passed away.

Zhu Jingyuan, who is 80 years old, feels only a faint sadness in his heart about the death of his biological mother.

While adjusting his body step by step, Zhu Jingyuan first read the latest reports of the past two years.

The Air Force has completed the construction of its first lunar base, enabling long-term operations and experiments on the lunar surface.

Yingzhou [-] has been built for two years. It is a shark-shaped intelligent machine with a brain and nervous system composed of [-] original parts.

A lot of experiments were conducted two years after it was built, and the simpler body structure made it significantly more flexible.

However, the most direct experimental goal, that is, the exploration of mechanical autonomous consciousness, has still not made any substantial progress.

Yingzhou No. 100, as it was just called, is a mechanical animal with an advanced brain and nervous system composed of [-] million original parts.

As the brain and body become more complex and larger, it also does not have any engineering practicality.

No substantial progress has been made in the final experimental goal.

Overall, driven by the widespread popularity of smart machines, social productivity is soaring rapidly.

The silicon semiconductor industry seems to have reached its physical limit, but it doesn't seem to have reached it yet.

It seems that a single transistor itself cannot continue to shrink, but it can change from lying flat to lying on its side.

Then from lying on the side to sitting, from sitting to standing, and finally piled up layer by layer.

With continuous optimization of process and design, the equivalent process has been reduced to 0.1 nanometers.

Due to the special properties of quantum computers, universal quantum computers are difficult to implement.

But now there are hybrid-mode computers that use traditional silicon computers as controllers and quantum computers as calculators.

The computing efficiency has once again improved by several amounts compared to previous traditional computers.

On the other hand, various types of intelligent machinery have been basically popularized in the four major official factories of Ming Dynasty.Small-scale private capital has accelerated its decline in this era, and now basically only the self-employed people on the streets remain.

The basic wages of workers in official factories were raised to 3 silver notes per month, which can be roughly converted into [-] yuan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

However, the conventional prices in the major cities of the Ming Dynasty were still only at the level of the small counties in his previous life.

The price of a normal car has dropped to one hundred silver notes with the popularity of smart machines.

Three hundred silver bills is already considered a high-end car.

A typical fully functional smartphone costs just a few bucks.

More importantly, as private manufacturers are almost extinct, the actual role of money is declining at an accelerated pace.

More and more people don’t know what they can do with the money in their hands.

But people don’t want to go to work at all. All basic social services are provided by the four major industrial groups.

As long as you join the four major industrial groups, you have to do a little work according to the plan.

But the job is usually not hard either.

If they are workers in production factories, shops and other service businesses.

Six hours of work a day, two days of work and one day of rest, and an additional day of free choice of rest every ten days.

In an era that has become fully informatized and highly intelligent, managers at all stages have fewer and fewer opportunities to get involved.

We can really give workers at the lowest level more opportunities to freely choose yes or no.

There is no need to worry too much about voluntary becoming mandatory.

All workers work in shifts, ensuring that the factory and the store itself are always open.

As for the program development firms, a three-work-three-work-two system is implemented, with three days of work in the first half of each month and two days of rest in the next two days.

Everyone has a total of four days of rest every ten days and a total of twelve days of rest every month.

In the imperial court and yamen at all levels, there are more and more volunteers among grassroots officials, that is, people who do not aim at making money and promotion.

Competition for official promotions has become more intense.

Any small problem or failure to do a small thing may be discovered by competitors.

It will become a deduction item during the next system rotation assessment.

More and more bureaucrats in the traditional concept are being gradually eliminated, and the remaining bureaucrats are increasingly moving into social service positions.

Zhu Jingyuan completed his physical adjustment step by step and went to attend his mother's funeral.

After living in near isolation from the world for a long time, Zhu Jingyuan no longer has the ability to host his mother's funeral in person.

This kind of thing can only be left to his half-brother Zhu Jingqi.

My younger brother just turned 62 this year, and he is not considered a particularly old person in this era.

Although he did not have the opportunity to get involved in the throne, under the protection of his father and his own brother, he remained a carefree, wealthy and idle man throughout his life.

He enjoys the best medical care, has few wrinkles on his face, and his hair is still completely black.

At first glance, he looks no different from a person in his 40s.

The knowledge, experience and energy he has now are enough to deal with any kind of affairs.

After Zhu Jingyuan attended the funeral ceremony, he did not immediately return to his residence to rest and adjust. Instead, he met with Emperor Zhudi Lan.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhudi Lanping retreated from everyone and expressed some thoughts to Zhu Jingyuan:
"Father, based on current experiments, simply piling up the number of smart originals seems to have no practical effect at all.

"Our device has more units than a typical autonomous animal, but it doesn't produce any sense of autonomy.

"Human craftsmen do not design direct instructions, and the other party is a simple machine.

“After continuous experimentation, consideration and analysis, craftsmen have recently proposed a new research direction.

“They believe that advanced animals and humans usually can’t do anything when they are just born.

"Animals have very weak body control when they are young, and they walk unsteadily. When they mature, they need to learn to hunt from their mothers.

“Human beings cannot speak, stand or move when they are young, and they learn this slowly as they grow up.

“Some scholars believe that based on the operating logic of intelligent machines, this is a process of autonomous adjustment and driver installation.

“And the machines we built before were based on the principles of absolute reliability and controllability without giving the machine any autonomy.

“Their drivers are all manually programmed by us and written directly on the memory chip.

“On the other hand, the machine intelligence learning and creation system running on a single computer has the ability to write its own programs.

“So some craftsmen suggested adding similar functions to complex intelligent machines.

“Allow complex intelligent machines to start machine learning and let them write their own drivers and applications.

“But there are obviously risks involved.

“The programs written by machines may not be absolutely controllable by us humans.

“There may be procedures and judgments that are not conducive to human beings.

"So I want to ask my father for some advice..."

Zhu Jingyuan fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Due to Zhu Jingyuan's original suggestion, Zhu Zhulan and the craftsmen were extremely wary of complex intelligent machines.

All data entering the control system is subject to strict review, and efforts are always made to reduce the amount of data entered into the system as much as possible.

The key is that machine learning functions have never been built on complex intelligent machines.

Craftsmen now judge that this road is likely to be unworkable, and believe that such intelligent machines should not give birth to a self-awareness field.

So now craftsmen want to try to introduce machine learning systems.

Machine autonomous learning means more possibilities, but of course these possibilities also include risky directions.

So much so that Emperor Zhudi Lan, the Ming Emperor, was a little undecided.

Zhu Jingyuan was also undecided now, his consciousness swinging back and forth between the two options.

With the current Ming Dynasty's technology and scale, it can continue to prosper for a long time even without truly complex intelligent machines.

There is even a chance to enter the real world of Datong.

But there are also risks of energy depletion and being unable to get off the planet.

Complex intelligent machines with self-awareness may be the key to the next technological explosion.

Difficulties in cutting-edge technologies such as universal quantum computers, controllable nuclear fusion energy, dark matter fuels and weapons, and sublight speed spacecraft.

It may all require the help of complex intelligent machines to solve it really quickly.

Creating intelligent machine servants to live in the extremely harsh space environment for a long time may be the prerequisite for humans to truly set foot in space.

Because compared to the entire universe, the current human body is too fragile and small.

Only when humans develop self-awareness on complex machines can they have a chance to figure out what their own consciousness is.

Only then will it be possible to achieve an upgrade in the nature of life with machines replacing the body.

But after the birth of intelligent machines that are not completely controllable, will they regard humans as enemies and slave masters?

Will it become the natural enemy and terminator of human civilization?
The higher the level of civilization and technology, the more dangerous all decisions become.

Because the energy levels they can operate at are getting higher and higher, the scale and depth of the affairs they can affect are also getting larger and larger.

Ability to destroy oneself more easily.

Of course, it is also possible that all of your guesses are wrong, and intelligent machines are inherently unable to produce self-awareness.

(End of this chapter)