Voyage of the Stars

Hundreds of years of ups and downs and vicissitudes of life.

During the construction of the space multi-point particle collider, mankind is also climbing towards higher scientific peaks.

Engineers are working hard to build a space multi-point particle collider, and scientists in various fields are not idle either. In their respective fields, they lead their own teams to launch one round after another towards higher scientific peaks.

Because humans have long known that the hallmark technology of Level 3 civilization is true nanotechnology, the purpose of the scientific team's research is very clear. It is either to directly explore micro-nanotechnology from a frontal perspective, or to study nanotechnology-related or some pre-technologies.

Of course, research in other areas will not stop, but the resource tilt will be slightly different.

Under such circumstances, many new generations of outstanding scientists have emerged in human society. There have also been many breakthroughs in science and technology, and many new theories have been proposed.

The first to make progress was quantum computer technology.

Human beings have encountered real nano-consciousness bodies, so it is clear that it is impossible to create such advanced artificial intelligence with humankind's existing computer technology. Therefore, humans have always been trying to improve their computer technology.

Humanity has long since realized a universal quantum computer, but there is still room for optimization in computer structural design, various logic settings, etc. Therefore, over the years, humans have been working tirelessly to perfect a universal quantum computer.

After so many years of hard work, we have finally taken a big step forward again.

However, computer scientists have discovered that even a perfect universal quantum computer cannot truly become a self-aware artificial intelligence.

It is true that humans hope that the AI ​​they create will become smarter and smarter, but they do not want the AI ​​they create to have self-awareness, because that would mean an omnic crisis.

Human beings have understood this since experiencing the "Silver Mist Consciousness Body" incident, so when it comes to promoting the progress of universal quantum computers and creating smarter AI, humans have always been a little timid.

But now, human scientists have discovered that their general-purpose computers seem to have reached a certain bottleneck.

After countless years of optimization, they all feel that the current central computer of mankind, which is the largest universal quantum computer, has been perfected to the point of perfection. In short, they cannot find anything that humans can improve.

Not only they are doing computer optimization, but also the AI ​​scientists who wrote the AI ​​based on universal quantum computers can't find any improvements in the new AI they created.

The new AI can learn by itself, update and iterate by itself. After being authorized, it can input massive data or simple rules by itself, then learn by itself, perform model adjustment and analysis, and then obtain new orderly information output, and continuously Optimization and adjustment form a cyclic process.

Since the new AI was created, scientists have been iterating it for decades. With the powerful computing power of human general-purpose quantum computers, this AI has already updated itself for unknown generations.

Its ability has completely overwhelmed the previous AI. It can be said that if you don't know it is an AI in advance, you will not even find out that it is an AI even if you talk to it for several years. Whether it is in terms of knowledge accumulation or work efficiency, it is far beyond the level of human beings.

But that's all. Intellectually, it has completely surpassed humans, but in terms of processing and judging unknown things and events, as well as its perceptual cognition of things, it is not as good as humans.

Human scientists naturally understand this, but this new AI seems to be like a universal quantum computer, unable to go any further. Scientists have also tried to let it continue to iterate, but the iterative experiments have been carried out for who knows how many years, and the AI ​​is still the same AI.

It was as if the road ahead was blocked.

Scientists have also wondered whether the universal quantum computer itself, which is the basis of AI, has room for optimization, but they have not been able to find any room for optimization.

Human beings don’t want to create an AI with self-awareness, but they want to understand why they can’t create such an AI. After all, only by knowing why can we effectively prevent omnic crises.

In order to understand the reason, scientists also specially built an AI that simulated the human brain, but the result was useless. This AI was even dumber than the previous AI.

Not only computer technology, but also human research in the microscopic field has reached a bottleneck.

Scientists tried to create smaller robots by making smaller chips, but in the process, they found that no matter how optimized or what materials were used, the quantum tunneling effect at the 1nn level could not be avoided.

This is far from the picometer and femtometer level circuit technology that humans suspected when they encountered the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body'. Of course, scientists have also tried light quanta, but like electrons, all microscopic particles have quantum tunneling effects.

This is a physical law of the universe that humans cannot solve at all.

Humanity's impact on Level 3 civilization has been blocked by an invisible wall, making it beyond reach.

Several decades have passed. In order to solve these problems, mankind has brainstormed and held countless scientific and technological seminars and academic research conferences. It can be said that they have tried various methods, but they have no clue.

"Year after year, are we really stuck at the second level of civilization?" After another seminar ended, Yue Yuan sighed and slowly stood up from the auditorium.

Over the years, mankind's countless top scientists seem to have changed when faced with the difficulties of level three civilization. Their vigor is still there, but they seem to have become mediocre.

Over the past decade or so, Yue Yuan has attended science and technology seminars almost every year. Although he did not participate in the discussions, he could still hear that after so many years, humans still had nothing to do about it.

At the annual science and technology seminar, other science and technology are fine, but nanotechnology is a commonplace talk almost every year, such as universal quantum computer optimization, microscopic quantum tunneling, AI iteration problems, nanocore technology research, etc. All stuck.

In fact, after so many years of development, mankind has become extremely proficient in the secondary civilization symbol technology, and its derivative technologies have been realized one by one and used to serve mankind.

It can be said that human beings have reached the pinnacle of second-level civilization a hundred years ago, but at this time, they have begun to stand still.

If things go on like this, Yue Yuan is really worried that human beings will continue to be decadent.

During the decades of technological stagnation, Yue Yuan has sensed some clues. It is not that some scientists are slacking off, but that there are some technological stagnations in the private network, and human beings are trapped and dead in the second-level civilization. remarks.