Chapter 7 For the sake of dreams, there will always be people who sacrifice

Count" The answer said by this classmate is not wrong. Video games are a branch of consumer electronics, and they are a very important one. As early as the late 70s and early 80s, Atari, a well-known video game company, completed a legendary entrepreneurial story from five hundred dollars to five million dollars a year.

Video games are very interesting, and I know a lot of young kids who have started programming because of video games.

However, I do not agree that the 21st century is the century of electronic technology, and it is entirely based on video games.

Video games are important, but the impact of digital technology on people should be even greater.

In the first industrial revolution, human beings developed from manual production to industrial production.

In the second industrial revolution, human beings have access to more convenient and cleaner electricity.

I believe that in this third information revolution dominated by electronic technology, human beings will be able to do all the work of computers without production.

Look at this chip in my hand. This is a chip that Intel has produced for more than a decade. What do you think this chip can do?

Can we play the game?

It's more than that.

This chip can be placed in all corners of the factory production line, and the data processed through it is far more accurate and convenient than that of people.

Now we have lathes that can be programmed with computer programs, machines that can do a series of jobs at the push of a button, which was unthinkable before.

My main research direction is artificial intelligence, and I think that one day, artificial intelligence will help humans solve all problems.

What humans need to do is create artificial intelligence.

We are on our way, but there is still a long way to go.

I hope that you can gain something in your studies in the next few years and let civilization move forward, which is the common responsibility of you and me. ”

Hearing Professor Helen's speech, one of the students raised his hand.

"Please. ”

"Professor Helen, please. If the future is really as you describe. All the work can be done by the chip. So what else do you need people to do? Are the workers who used to look at the instruments unemployed? Are the workers who control the machine tools also unemployed?

What can they do if they lose their jobs?

And, as you described. Artificial intelligence will really be able to make it happen one day. Does that mean that the world doesn't need people anymore?

I'm done. ”

Helen barely thought about it, and the moment the student finished asking, he replied, "At the time of the first industrial revolution." Textile workers in Britain would smash machines. At the time of the second electric revolution, some people said that electricity was a god-only power.

However, we still use machines, we still use electricity.

There will always be people who sacrifice for the sake of dreams, no matter who they are.

Those who were sacrificed, although it looks pitiful. But without sacrificing them, we can't move forward, and in the end more people will suffer.

If there is no machine, there is no electricity.

Can we now swim in the ocean of knowledge in such a spacious classroom?

No!

You ask me, is it that the day when artificial intelligence is realized, there will be no need for humans?

My answer is no, 'no'!

It's humans!

Machines are at the service of humans. It was so before, and it still is.

Although it is possible that they appear as new things, it will harm some of the interests.

But I would like to say that if one day AI can replace my job, I am also willing.

I still say that for the sake of dreams, someone must sacrifice, no matter who it is.

Do you know what I mean?"

The classmate who asked the question lowered his head in shame.

Under Professor Helen's impassioned speech, he suddenly understood how ridiculous and boring the questions he was asking were.

Even without the emergence of electronic technology, there will still be people who will be eliminated, and there will still be people who will become the tears of the times.

He suddenly felt that learning electronic technology was a very sacred and glorious cause.

Although Professor Helen's speech was incendiary, Takahashi did not react much. As the former ruler of ten thousand households, he often met many people who were capable of speaking.

He had met a few times as someone who was as incendiary as Helen. He admits that such people are more likely to get investment from thousands of households, but he himself is not very fond of such ostentatious people.

However, Rich, who was next to Takahashi, stopped playing the game after Professor Helen's two performances, and looked at Professor Helen with almost starry eyes.

Takahashi figured that if Professor Helen offered to dedicate his life to video games, he would not hesitate to take the oath.

"Alright, that's all for today. In the afternoon, please familiarize yourself with the campus, this is where you will live in the next few years. ”

After Professor Helen finished speaking, he put on his notebook and walked away vigorously.

"Alas...... How did Professor Helen go so fast, I want to ask for an autograph......" Richie sighed.

He glanced at Takahashi beside him and asked, "What are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"I live outside. Takahashi replied.

"It's nice to live outside...... I want to ......live outside, too," Richie looked at Takahashi, as if he didn't see the disgusted expression on Takahashi's face, and said to himself, "The house you live in is big, can you still put a tenant?"

"No!" replied Takahashi firmly.

"Don't get me wrong......," said Richie, "I want to go out and live with the young ladies than with you." By the way, where are you going in a moment?"

Richie, who had unconsciously walked to the door, looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the building, and asked on the grass.

Takahashi climbed the stairs, sat on a bench, looked up at the sky, and said, "I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to wait here for someone." ”

"Who's waiting? You can't wait. Richie sat down on the other side of the bench, pulled out his handheld and continued to play.

The breeze blows, and the campus is quiet and peaceful, and there is no loud sound.

Takahashi gradually relaxed, and experienced the feeling of peace that he had not felt for a long time.

In the past few years of life, although it is not bad, it is always in a mood of anxiety and anxiety.

Although the business is getting bigger and bigger, and making more and more money, the pure heart that belongs to a player is getting weaker and weaker.

Just as Takahashi wanted to soak in the atmosphere for longer, Richie's noisy voice came to his ears, "Hey, John!Smith!John-Smith?"

"What's wrong?" Takahashi, who wasn't quite used to his new name, turned his head.

"John, you're not an American, are you?"