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Chapter 206 Reflection and Intelligence

Mark's words are not unreasonable. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The speed of the "Edifier" is really a bit slow, it spends a lot of time modeling, and it also has to calculate the next path through algorithms, which is obviously not an easy task, and it also takes a certain amount of calculation time.

Mark's toy cars, on the other hand, appear to be very flexible, and Lin Hong notices that although these cars seem to be wandering around aimlessly, if you look at them as a whole, you can see that they are pushing towards the goal. At this point, eight cars have advanced to the middle of the field, and they are constantly colliding with obstacles, and then constantly correcting them. In the end, it moved faster than the Rambler.

The advantage of the "Edifier" is that it is accurate, and after its analysis, the next path to take is calculated, which is basically not wrong, but it takes more time.

With about half an hour to go, Mark seemed to be in sight of victory, as his car had advanced to the edge of the field and would probably reach its destination in a little while.

However, an unexpected circumstance arose.

The speed of these cars began to slow down, and the sound of the electric motors began to change from what they used to be.

"Damn it!" Mark's face suddenly turned ugly.

At this time, everyone understood what was going on - the battery in the car was running out.

Orlando breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, his "Rambler" was still moving forward, and there was a large enough battery at the bottom of the "Rambler" that at this speed, even if it advanced for another half an hour, it would not run out of power.

"Click......"

With the last collision, a small car stuck headlong on a tire and suddenly became immobile.

This soon happened to the other cars, and eventually, all eight cars were wiped out.

Eventually, the Rambler made it to another section of the site.

"Mark, you're losing. Today's winner is Orlando! Vina gave the final verdict.

"No, it's not fair!" Mark said unwillingly, "Originally, I was already ahead, but the battery power has run out, this is the problem of the battery, not the problem of my car." ”

"The battery is an important part of the machine, it's the power part of it." Orlando walked up to him and said, "Mark, do you really think your toy car can compare to the 'Rambler'?" It's not a robot, it's a toy. Even if you win, it doesn't mean anything! ”

"Orlando, you're wrong!" Mark's face suddenly became serious, "I know that your lab has been imitating humans and researching artificial intelligence, but no one can prove that you can succeed. I'm not working on artificial intelligence, but on machine intelligence. Do you have to be so smart to get things done? In life, in addition to humans, other animals or creatures can accomplish many things that humans cannot do......"

Orlando was stunned when he heard his words, he didn't expect his brother to be able to say such a thing. This was something he had never thought of before, and it seems that Mark did think very deeply about it. Rightly or wrongly, at least it proves that he is really doing research, not what he thought before, just getting a few toys and trying to win this game by luck.

"The Rambler is powerful, but it has to rely on its own brain to live." Mark pointed to the notebook in the Rambler's hand, "Every step it takes, it has to accept instructions from the computer, but does it really need to go through the brain to simply walk forward, or turn?" ”

"This ......" Orlando was embarrassed.

"Of course not. Not to mention animals, there are a lot of unconditioned reflexes in our bodies that don't need to be thought, and the knee jerk reflex is an obvious example. This phenomenon is even more common among animals, some animals, even if they lose their heads, they can still continue to walk. ”

"There's some truth to your words." Orlando nodded thoughtfully, "It doesn't seem like you need much intelligence to just walk through a room with obstacles. But isn't that smart? It's too random, it's too uncontrollable, and you can only rely on luck to get there. ”

"Why not intelligence? Of course, reflection is also considered intelligence? According to the current theory of biological evolution, didn't higher organisms evolve from the lowest single-celled organisms? Mark retorted.

"Mark, do you think these machines you've made can generate intelligence? Just these toys? Are you kidding? Orlando shook his head, although he admired his brother's ability to make machinery, but he didn't agree at all on this point, even if the machinery he made was complex, to put it bluntly, it was just staying at the level of the last century, the industrial revolution was about to pass, and now it was the computer revolution.

Mark was furious when he heard this: "I know that you guys who stay in the lab as a whole look down on us people from the wilderness, but don't forget, the high-tech robot you spent tens of millions of dollars on taxpayers is not as good as the original machine I built for only a few thousand dollars!" ”

"You can't be a robot at all!" Orlando said with a stiff neck.

"Why doesn't it count?!"

They were arguing about the last time they built a walking robot in their lab, and it took several years and tens of millions of dollars for the MIT Mobile Robotics Lab to make the robot bulky.

But when Orlando bragged about it in front of Mark, it took him only two weeks and a few thousand dollars to build a six-legged machine, using a primitive but effective hydraulic transmission that had been removed from other machines. Although it looks like a monster, Mark allows it to walk on its own without control.

Of course, the principle used is the simple coordination between mechanical gears.

"Okay, okay, you two, really, why are you struggling with the result last time?"

Vena stepped in at this time to play a round.

"We don't care about the process, we only look at the results. Last time it was Mark who won, and this time it was Orlando who won. I'm the referee, and you all have to listen to me! ”

"It's getting late, Mark, shouldn't we go too?"

"Oh, so late?" Mark immediately became anxious when he saw the time, "Quick, let's go to the square under the viaduct of the highway on the east side, the show will start in ten minutes!" ”

So, they immediately got into the car and rushed to the performance venue.

Lin Hong sat in the back compartment, but his mind never calmed down.

Mark's words just now made him feel an inexplicable resonance.

Reflection is also a form of intelligence!

Lin Hong had never thought about this question before, but for some reason, he thought that this sentence was correct from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, before the race began, he had a gut feeling that while Mark's toy car looked unremarkable, it was likely that he would actually win the race.

As it turned out, Mark lost, but only on the battery. If the normal situation continues, those cars will definitely arrive at their destination early.

Seeing those chaotic cars, Lin Hong felt that these cars were like little ants, they had no intelligence, or their minds were very simple, and they only had three instructions in their minds.

The ant looks stupid and likes to walk straight, and if you draw a shallow straight line on its path, it will immediately lose its way. Does this mean that the ant also has only a few simple instructions in its head that if it wants to go back, it must go back the way it came?

An ant has limited strength and does not show any intelligence at all, but a colony of ants can survive smoothly in the harsh nature.

Does this count as a kind of swarm intelligence?

Could it be that there is some kind of connection between reflection and intelligence? Even based on simple reflections, capable of generating intelligence?

Is this how human intelligence develops?

Lin Hong's mind was full of all kinds of thoughts, and in the next moment, he thought of martial arts again.

The reason why "fists never leave the hand" is to practice one's movements into a natural instinctive reaction of the body.

This is also a reflex, which is called conditioning in biology.

Is this a connection between intelligence and reflex?

After a while, Lin Hong's car drove to the bottom of the huge viaduct, above, more than five viaducts lay across the sky, and the constant sound of car honking and the sound of the engine showed that there was a lot of traffic above, which was very lively.

However, the liveliest part of the game was the performance venue they entered, an abandoned parking lot.

Lin Hong was very shocked to see that along the way, the roadside was full of all kinds of transportation, the most common were cars and motorcycles, and of course, there were also trucks and RVs. None of this is the point, the focus is on the people who stand on the side of the road to welcome their arrival, the vast majority of whom are dressed in black leather jackets, with colorful hair on their heads, many with nose rings on their noses, and men with studs......

For their arrival, the people in the car rang the car horn one after another, and those standing outside hissed loudly, accompanied by the heavy metal music from several large speakers in the parking lot, Lin Hong felt as if he had come to another world.

The scene was quite crazy, it was not early now, and there were two huge bright searchlights on a tall tower in the middle of the field, and the searchlights had been covering Mark's car the moment it entered the field.

Vena parked the car to the side and loudly instructed Arthur and Lin Hong not to run around, there were too many people at the scene, which made her a little surprised, she regretted it at the moment, she knew that she shouldn't have come, this kind of scene is not suitable for children. Led by Orlando, they found a better position and watched.

I saw Mark get out of the car, like a star who attracted worldwide attention, raised his right hand, and the whole scene was silent.

At this point, one of his assistants immediately ran over, handed him a wireless microphone, and drove his car away from the center of the field.

"Welcome to the Life Survival Lab show, I'm your old friend Mark Boleyn, welcome everyone!" Mark yelled.

Everyone at the scene immediately shouted in response.

Then, he briefly reviewed the previous performances, and did not forget to stir up the atmosphere of the scene when he spoke, and everyone kept responding to the cheers under his loud questions.

With a long whistle, I suddenly remembered, and the show officially began!

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