Chapter 218: Metamorphosis
"Of course, this has to take into account the speed and development trend of AI technology.
According to the level of intelligence, artificial intelligence can be divided into weak artificial intelligence, strong artificial intelligence, and superartificial intelligence.
The difference between these three is, in short, that weak artificial intelligence does simple labor, strong artificial intelligence thinks like humans, and super-artificial intelligence far exceeds humans.
The latter two aside,
The people in the chat room believe that in terms of the development trend of weak artificial intelligence alone,
Once weak artificial intelligence and automated machinery technology mature, it will produce qualitative changes as if the threshold has been reached.
First of all, the change will start at the factory.
The cheap, precise, error-free intelligent robotic arm with no labor contract is the most perfect and cost-effective worker,"
The black Trojan horse said: "Capital's pursuit of monetary gains is greedy, cold, and ruthless.
If a human worker can produce industrial supplies that meet the needs of 200 ordinary residents,
Then a mature intelligent robotic arm will be ten or a hundred times more efficient than the former.
Soon, the factory began to be replaced on a large scale.
The robotic arm would ruthlessly drive human labor out of the factory, even if the government mandated factory owners to hire some human labor in order to ensure employment.
Ordinary human workers who don't understand computer science are uncompetitive in the face of automated robotic arms.
The same is true of agriculture, which is dependent on modern industry, where large, automated machinery roam vast farmlands and cultivate crops precisely and perfectly according to predetermined procedures, far more efficiently than American agriculture is today.
At that time, human workers will only be able to shine in the service sector.
The world's industrial population could be reduced to tens of millions – and these people would be the elite who understand computer science and can participate in the optimization of artificial intelligence and the improvement of automated machinery. ”
The black Trojan took a deep breath and continued: "The jobs opened up by the new industry are likely to be unable to accommodate the large-scale unemployed, and the entry threshold for the new industry is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Large-scale unemployment is inevitable, but thanks to the industrious work of the intelligent machinery, the industrial and agricultural supplies produced can still feed the unemployed and prevent the disaster of famine. ”
"Hmm...."
Li Ang's brows furrowed slightly, with his superficial understanding of the field of artificial intelligence,
Modern weak artificial intelligence and automated machinery are likely to realize the deduction of social forms in the mouth of black Trojans.
Only, what about after that?
Limited by the times and technology, no matter how talented a person or think tank is, it is impossible to deduce the social form very carefully and accurately.
It's okay to put forward the general direction, but if it is really accurate to "years" or "ten years", it is a fool's dream.
(Similar to Asimov's elevator effect, that is, science fiction literature's prediction of the future is likely to be skewed due to the absence of a key factor such as a certain technology in the future.)
As if to see Leon's distrust, the black Trojan continued: "The first group of people who established the whale song were just researchers in the field of computers.
They understand the elevator effect, they know that they are not sociologists, psychologists or philosophers, financiers.
Their vision is destined to see only the direction of development in the field of computer science.
But there is one thing they agree on, and that is the degree of evil of capital.
The capitalist is the personification of capital, which comes into the world from head to toe, dripping with blood and filth from every pore. The extraction of surplus value is the instinct that capital has and is the only instinct, and it is the starting point and ultimate destination of all their economic activities, even non-economic activities.
For the sake of profit, personified capital can be conquered, enslaved, plundered, killed. And when their influence reaches a certain level, even the extraction of surplus value cannot satisfy them.
They will instinctively begin to test the bottom line of the law. They did this not to confront public opinion and the violent machine, but to test the determination of the violent machine to uphold the law.
Once they find a weakness, they will swarm like leeches, doing everything they can to transform the surrounding space into an environment suitable for their growth before looking for their next target.
The computer science elites in the chat room agreed that weak artificial intelligence and automated mechanical technology will greatly stimulate the productivity of human society.
This kind of productivity can be used to support human beings, captivity human beings, and human beings.
It can also be used to create a drone corps produced by automated factories.
And this kind of productivity and the violence brought about by the productive forces cannot be controlled by the personification of capital in any way. ”
“... Wait a minute. ”
Leon suddenly reacted, "You mean... The people who built the whale song were..."
"That's right."
The black Trojan horse agreed, "They are all traitors to the Western free world, and they are bound to fight to the end against the personified groups of capital." ”
“...”
Even Li Ang couldn't help but feel a pain in the egg, but he didn't expect that after such a big circle, the Whale Song Organization turned out to be a good comrade overseas (at least a neutral faction).
It's true that our comrades are all over the world, and even penetrate into the interior of certain organizations.
Leon asked, "And then?" ”
The black Trojan replied: "The people in the chat room are vaguely aware that the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century has five directions.
The first is new materials, especially new materials for electronic products.
the second is genetic engineering,
The third is AI, that is, artificial intelligence.
fourth, quantum science,
Fifth, nuclear fusion-related technologies.
There is no hope for a huge breakthrough in these five development directions, and even weak artificial intelligence requires a long development cycle.
So, everyone in the chat room established a small-scale secret organization, under the name of 'Whale Song',
It means that the elite in the field of computer science scattered all over the world, although they cannot gather in the real world,
But like a whale, send out a long and distant whale song in the deep sea, watch and help each other, and always monitor the development and breakthrough of artificial intelligence and automated machinery technology.
And at the critical moment, hinder the personification of capital to get the key to weak artificial intelligence and even strong artificial intelligence. ”
The black Trojan horse smiled bitterly: "The group of people who formed the whale song at that time were still young and vigorous young men in the second stage of secondary school.
The overly idealistic and empty Whale Song organization has never done anything practical, and is basically just a group of computer elites blowing water and gossiping.
It wasn't until seven months ago that the start of the killing game caused the Whale Song organization to undergo a fundamental transformation. ”