With a new topic, and it is still the new image technology that he is most interested in, James does not talk about the script with Chen Feng, but starts with the new technology in Chen Feng's mouth.

Chen Feng didn't brag either, and almost described the performance of the first-generation self-domesticating engine truthfully from memory.

"Diaz, have you read the quantum computing programming ideas I mentioned in "Crazy Men Conjecture 2.0"?"

"Yes."

"The core framework of the so-called self-domestication engine is based on quantum programming. Diaz, you're not a practitioner in the field of artificial intelligence, so I can't go into detail with you. All you need to know is that the core of the program I've built is like our human DNA. Data is its nutrient, it can automatically capture the required data, continuously replicate around the core and directional computing splitting, to obtain stronger and stronger simulation rendering capabilities, and the virtual reality built by this engine will become more and more fake. ”

James Diaz carefully tasted Chen Feng's words, and was inexplicably a little creepy.

After all, it is a sci-fi movie giant, and there is an artificial intelligence mutiny theme like "The Ultimate" in his masterpiece, and he immediately asked: "Wouldn't this be the birth of a super artificial intelligence with self-awareness?" Won't this ...... Too dangerous? ”

Chen Feng shook his head with a smile, opened his eyes and said nonsense, half true and half false: "Data is data after all, and chip CPU is chip after all." The computing of artificial intelligence is built on the core of computer computing that is always regular, and its randomness can never catch up with the quantum collapse of the human brain. AI doesn't produce truly free thoughts, so your worries are overwhelmed. ”

James: "But there's always going to be some risk? ”

Seeing that he couldn't get over, Chen Feng simply said: "Flames may burn people, may burn houses, and may lead to forest fires, but if primitive people don't take the initiative to control the flames, can the average life expectancy of human beings exceed 20 years old?" There is a saying in China that you can't hide illness and avoid medical treatment. There will always be risks, but can we give up on progress because we are afraid of them? Another example is the nuclear bomb, now do you think the nuclear bomb has brought regression or progress to our civilization? ”

James stopped the question, "If there is no out-of-control war, the meaning of the existence of nuclear bombs is actually progress." ”

"That's right." Chen Feng spread his hands, "Have you ever had a delusion?" Why in the early twentieth century, our great scientists were emerging. In the 21st century, although science and technology are still advancing, and a group of people can still win the Nobel Prize every year, we can clearly feel that there are fewer people who can bring qualitative changes to the world. The scientists admired by the world seem to have become scarce objects, such as Einstein, Fermi, von Neumann, Qian Xuesen and other academic idols are becoming fewer and fewer, is it really just because ordinary people are exposed to too much entertainment culture, and the pursuit of scholarship has weakened? ”

James thought for a while, "There is a certain reason, but the essential problem is that the things created by scientists are too far away from the lives of ordinary people, and second, they cannot change the world and change the scientific outlook of mankind visibly every time they move forward as they did back then." ”

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, do you want to know the reason?" You know? ”

James Diaz took a heavy sip of coffee, "It's because as human beings dig deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the universe, the amount of calculations that need to be completed every time we move forward is getting bigger and bigger, and the progress of our computing power is dragging down our minds." So we can no longer easily create qualitative changes, and can only accumulate qualitative changes a little bit of dosage change? ”

Chen Feng smiled, "Yes." ”

"But this problem has been solved this year, and you are changing the world, Mr. Chen."

Chen Feng: "Don't care about those details. I am not comparable to an ordinary scientist. ”

"Yes, you can't copy it."

"Ahem." Chen Feng's face blushed slightly, "In short, we know that artificial intelligence may be poison, it may be to quench thirst, and it may also bring about the future end of intelligent warfare." But if humanity doesn't want to wait until the resources in the solar system are exhausted and slowly die in despair under the stars, humanity must create artificial intelligence that can replace us with a large number of calculations, treat it as our sub-civilization, and cooperate with it. ”

"I'll give you an example, if our spacecraft wants to fly through the open space between the solar system and Proxima Centauri, it needs to travel four light-years. Assuming that we can build a spaceship that can reach a tenth of the speed of light in a hundred years is not enough. ”

"You should know how powerful a tiny speck of dust in the universe is to hit a spaceship at such high speeds? We can't even safely cross the Kuiper asteroid belt. So, in addition to being able to control the engines precisely, adjust the direction of travel at any time, and make perfect rehearsal calculations for the forward route, we must also build a strong enough anti-magnetic shield in the front section of the ship to protect our spacecraft. ”

"A spacecraft capable of flying out of the solar system at high speed and safely requires at least 10,000 times the computing power of all supercomputers in all of humanity combined. If we don't rely on quantum computing and artificial intelligence, what else can we rely on? Do you use human brains? Impossible. ”

James Diaz gradually understood Chen Feng's intentions, "So your self-domesticated special effects rendering engine, on the surface, seems to be for the new era of movie special effects, but in fact, it is to really set off the future of artificial intelligence and big data algorithms?" Are you trying to change the world? ”

"Yes, but creating a new thing from scratch cannot be born out of thin air, and requires the support of the industrial chain. Because research and advancement of new technologies requires investment in money. The more important and newer the technology, the greater the amount of capital required. Therefore, technology cannot exist in isolation from reality, and artificial intelligence exists to serve the computing needs of human beings after all. ”

"That's why I chose to start from the field of film special effects, which is currently relatively widespread, and can allow ordinary people to quickly experience the changes it has brought to the times. Diaz, come on, join me in changing the future of cinema with new technology, and the future of humanity. Isn't that what you want to do most? ”

Although Chen Feng doesn't like politics and never calls himself a politician, his speech is quite inflammatory.

James's emotions were slowly mobilized.

"So, Mr. Chen, what kind of effect can you achieve with this engine?"

Chen Feng clicked on a blockbuster film known for its special effects in the past two years, and said: "The accuracy, realism, and expressiveness of the picture, if I have to measure it with data, I can reach at least three times this level." As for the rendering speed, it should be at the highest level at the moment...... Well, 10 times. In addition, the difficulty of modification will also be reduced a lot, and you can even directly generate a simulated environment based on the original painting, and then fine-tune it as you want. ”

When James Diaz heard this, he pondered for a moment, and then he was ruthless, and proposed another thing.

Only then did Chen Feng know what he was worried about just now.

It is the post-production special effects of the film he is making.

James Diaz has built a large and professional technical team around his needs many years ago, and has maintained in-depth cooperation with many large post-production special effects teams around the world.

In terms of the technical level of the postmodern film industry, he considers himself second, and there are probably few people who dare to claim to be first.

But even so, his desire to do better was never satisfied.

He is always picky and dissatisfied.

This time, there were some details that stumped him.

Someone else would definitely be willing to fool around, but he wouldn't.

If he wants to achieve the perfect result, in addition to the additional investment of more than 50 million US dollars, he will need to add about four months to the production cycle after the completion of the production.

But according to the release plan of the movie, it is too late.

After listening to James's demand, Chen Feng personally made a decision and decided to take over the job at a price of 20 million dollars, and compressed the delivery cycle within one month.

Although Director Zhan has absolute trust in Chen Feng's ability, Chen Feng still made huge concessions on the payment model out of commercial considerations.

After all, the light and shadow studio has just built a framework, and there are not even a few employees.

The order for this first business was as high as 20 million US dollars, and the contract was too harsh and unfair to others.

Chen Feng stated that he did not need a deposit or advance payment, and he would not need to pay until the finished product was taken out and fully approved by the investor team, production team and director team led by Director Zhan.

Of course, he is not afraid that others will be obviously satisfied, and deliberately pretend to be dissatisfied with the debts and play with him.

With Chen Feng's huge influence in hand, there is a huge industry behind him that is large enough to grasp the direction of scientific and technological development in the next few decades, unless someone else takes the wrong medicine, he will have a stalemate with him for 20 million.

The two also wrote a letter of intent.

If Chen Feng's new technology is the perfect solution to James' current predicament, and the content produced by Xingfeng Light and Shadow Studios appears in the final film, then James Diaz will direct "Across the Stars" without trying to add any personal ideas.

He will follow the script exactly, and even the storyboard will fully correspond to Chen Feng's needs.

He will only faithfully act as an executor who transforms the script into a picture - commonly known as a tool man who squats on the director's seat.

If this news spreads, I don't know how many people's jaws will be shocked.

The god Zhan has fallen and succumbed to reality.

The business was almost done, and when it came to chatting time, Chen Feng went to the filming site at the invitation of James.

It took nearly ten minutes to arrive at the large studio from the office building, and Chen Feng saw many real-life shooting scenes along the way.

James was very proud to explain them one by one.

Which hill was dug up by him, in order to make the vegetation on the mountain bag logical, he even spent a lot of money to buy a large number of plants to plant on it, and in order to take care of these plants, how many gardeners and the like were hired.

During the actual shooting, the hill will be the main set for the actors to drive the plot, and a large green screen will rise behind the hill bag to facilitate the post-production.

Chen Feng was impressed.

It's no wonder that the picture texture of other people's A-grade blockbusters is so strong, and they are really willing to spend their money.

Arriving at the studio where the set was being built, the scene looked in full swing.

The huge workshop has been built according to the needs of the plot as many as more than ten rooms of various types and colors, representing the various functional sections in the spaceship.

At this time, there are more than 400 staff members here.

In some low-cost sci-fi American dramas, similar sets are often rented and then appropriately transformed, so it is easy for attentive viewers to find that the scenes of one film are familiar with the pictures in another drama when watching the drama.

It's not a delusion, it's a fact.

But how could James, who is fastidious and wealthy, tolerate other people's sets appearing in his films.

Of course, he had to design it himself and strictly control it.

In addition to finalizing the theme and inviting well-known artists to serve as visual art directors to take charge of the artistic sense, he also recruited nearly two dozen Ph.D. and PhD students from the University of California, Berkeley to serve as scientific advisors.

In order not to delay the students' studies, the cunning James also co-founded a research group with Berkeley on his film, which was called "How to Perfectly Apply Rigorous Science to Science Fiction Films".

In a set room, two young men and an old man with long hair are surveying and calculating an image on the wall with a mapping instrument.

This image appears to be a simulated image of a galaxy with a binary star system.

Master Chen glanced at it, super brain habitual calculation.

This star map is excessive.

There are a lot of golden ratios, how serious is the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the person who designed this picture?

What's even more sad is that these tangents, which represent the gravitational field, the orbits of the planets, and the equatorial plane, are combined, but they are full of artistic sense.

The most sad thing is that Chen Feng has really "seen" a galaxy that is exactly the same.

Mystery home planet.

According to the description of the remnants of the Mystery Tribe, the Mystery Mother Star is indeed such a binary star system.

However, with the scientific level of mankind in the 21st century, it is impossible to see the mysterious mother star located in the event horizon isolation zone behind the silver center, which is 100,000 light-years away.

James saw that Chen Feng was interested in this painting, and said proudly: "This is the binary star system of the Bonute family home planet set in this film, how about it?" Is it pretty? ”

"Very beautiful. What kind of race are the Bonuts? ”

"A kind and gentle cyborg life, who is a close partner with the earthlings in my story."

"I remember seeing in the news before that this script is Diaz's original work?"

"Yes, but it's also the result of the joint efforts of the writers' team and me."

Chen Feng silently gave a thumbs up, "Great work, you guys did an amazing job, it's incredible." ”

"This is Martin, my visual art director, and he designed the star map art concept." James pointed to the long-haired old man.

"These two...... In short, the young scientists at Berkeley, who are responsible for refining the scientific arguments for this galaxy map. ”

James wanted to introduce two more young men, but he couldn't remember their names.

Chen Feng was sharp-eyed and saw the work cards of these two people.

The young man with white blonde hair is named Smith Aslan, and the young man with some Asian features in his appearance is named Kad Ivanov Liu.

Well, a Chinese-Russian mixed-race child, and if you guessed correctly, his father's surname is Liu.

Wait a minute...... The name.

Chen Feng chuckled in his head.

He remembered a character profile.

Kader Ivanov Liu was born in May 1995 in the San Francisco Bay Area of a Chinese-Russian biracial child.

He received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2025 and has since worked for NASA in theoretical computing.

It looks unremarkable here, but the next sentence immediately changes its flavor.

In 2043, at the age of 38, Lywkade resigned from NASA to teach at the University of Berkeley and create science fiction in his spare time.

Liecard's interest in science fiction stems from his Ph.D. as a science consultant on the set of James Diaz.

Between 2020 and 2025, he joined James' screenwriting team several times.

James planted the seeds of science fiction in his heart, telling him what it means to use scientific thinking to imagine the future.

After creating a number of unsatisfactory works, he began to work on the "Spark Never Goes Out" series in 2065.

In this monumental work, he applied his personal imagination of the universe to the fullest, and perfectly integrated the profound and comprehensive knowledge he had gained from his long-term professional work.

In his story, it describes the grand story of human beings who became the master of the galaxy, ran beyond the galaxy with all their might, fought against various powerful and hostile races that existed in accordance with the rules of the universe, and finally defeated many powerful enemies to obtain the qualification to stand in the universe and survive forever.

His story is logical, gripping, and brilliant.

And most of the theories he fantasizes about in his book can find sufficient scientific basis in the twenty-first century.

It wasn't until the 31st century that scientists were amazed to find that at least more than 50% of his depictions of future technologies were accurate.

He is one of the finest science fiction writers of the 21st century, and perhaps perhaps one of the best science fiction writers of the 21st century.

His "The Spark Will Not Die" was adapted into a famous film series, the first of which was called "Across the Stars", which was released in 2115.

This character profile has not appeared in the seventh or eighth timeline since the sixth timeline.

Why?

Of course, since then, Master Chen himself has started copying the "Spark Never Extinguished" series of movies, and every time he has filmed "Across the Starry Sky" in advance, and it will be released in 2025!

Chen Feng thinks so.

Didn't Liu Kad work for James a lot before 2023?

Maybe in the sixth, seventh, and eighth timelines, the master was mixed up with James's team at all, and was involved early on in the scientific advisory work during the filming of "Across the Stars".

No wonder the feel of every shot before is so good, the sense of the lens is so good, and the combination of fantasy and reality is so close, Master Chen thought that it was all due to his own role as a consultant to control the picture, but now that I think about it, Liu Kade, the main owner, is also in his own team!

Xiao Liu must have admired the script of "Across the Stars".

But I just don't know, if he understands that the original author of this script is himself, how will he feel?

In the later timeline, Liu Kade's name did not appear in the historical materials of science fiction works at all, and Jiang Lang was exhausted after the creativity of this benevolent brother was moved, and he failed to write hard goods, and he was unknown in history.

Alas.

Chen Daishi, who was originally a "numb" brother copy, suddenly blushed a little.

He planted a lot of melons in the field, but was caught by the master's family with the illusion of being in the situation.

What's even more sad is that at this time, this Liu Kade is looking at him with a kind of immortal eyes.