183. Ahead of the times
According to the ghost, there are many good things that have been unearthed together with this intelligent mastermind, "MAX5300-1", which has aroused Zhuge Yun's interest.
And those machines that have been mass-manufactured have also made great progress in the recovery of human civilization here......
At night, three figures appeared in a huge building on the outskirts of Mine City.
These buildings are still brightly lit after nightfall.
The ghost drove a small SUV with two people in cloaks and their heads tightly wrapped around to the gate with many buildings.
Before entering these buildings, Zhuge Yun saw many different models of brand-new heavy vehicles parked on the side of the road, much like trucks carrying equipment.
There are barricades every few tens of meters on the road, and guards are guarded by sentry posts on the side of the road.
The sentry at the gate stopped them, but during the ghost's negotiation, the guards of the sentry got out of the way and opened one of the side doors of the building.
It is a manufacturing plant owned by several major aristocratic powers in Mine City.
The room they came to was a factory owned by the Domino family. Many of the armed machinery and construction machinery that have been actually used are produced from here.
The Dominoes family, who own the largest stake in this sprawling weapons factory, are also the largest and oldest technology providers in the area.
Over the years, several families have had their own laboratories, such as the most famous "Elemental Laboratory", which was jointly funded by the Dominoes and the Turner family.
Because most of the equipment and devices unearthed from those relics have a lot of puzzling places, it is difficult to completely digest or even use them with the power of a single family.
It is customary for major families to jointly fund and research projects that can be effective in the short term and have considerable profits, and expect them to be put on the market and earn more returns.
However, like some of the most cutting-edge technologies, in the research stage, only a few companies have the strength to control them - to put it bluntly, it is a technology monopoly.
It was developed by several well-known laboratories under the name of each family. After it is fully marketized, these families will also take it out and share it according to demand.
Of course, it is necessary to distribute benefits in the form of shares, and it will not be provided free of charge.
After all, in the early stage, some families have spent a huge amount of resources to study it, such as: those related to human survival, agricultural machinery and production technology.
As a result, some products are difficult to control at the source.
Some families will take out some non-exclusive products and secretly flow into other regions to do black market transactions, in order to get more profits.
After smoothly entering the factory, Zhuge Yun finally saw the huge strength of the Domino family.
In the hoisting workshop, the bipedal machinery that has been assembled is piled up in rows inside and outside the factory.
Other quadruped machinery, although larger, but due to the higher technical content, so the output is very small, and the number only accounts for about one-fifth of those bipedal machinery.
At a cursory glance, there are probably hundreds of small bipedal machines.
Nearly 2 meters high, these machines are divided into several systems. Some are used for production, some are used for combat, and some are used as working machines for special industries: such as electric welding, construction, maintenance, construction machinery, etc.
"Master, this is the Domino family, one of the largest machine-building factories, as well as several small arms factories and supporting workshops, on the other side of the factory complex."
The ghost looked at Zhuge Yun's face and said cautiously.
"Well, I recognize these machines, although their appearance has changed, but their abilities have not improved, but they are not as good as before." Zhuge Yun nodded and said.
These machines were indeed a very common kind of robots in pre-civilization times.
At the beginning, its core control device was a small AI control system developed by the "Planetary Council" military company. After more than 100 years of technological evolution, it has been divided into dozens of categories and thousands of varieties.
From the fields, to offshore platform construction sites, to space cities. They can be seen busy everywhere.
The intelligent operating systems of these machines can also be divided into many levels: some have a high degree of intelligence and can even replace the primary management work of some humans; And some have a very low level of intelligence, and can only do some heavy physical work, freeing human hands.
The bipedal or crawler machinery used in general engineering is called type I. Armed bipedal machines equipped with the central control unit of the brain are called Type II. Larger quadruped machines are equivalent to armed combat vehicles, known as Type III, and their brains also have higher computing power.
There is also an uncracked γ type being studied, but its mode of action and power system have not yet been clarified.
In addition to the different uses, there are also some classifications, which all depend on the advanced level of the AI chips used in their cores.
For the Dominoes family, these walking machines excavated from the ruins of previous civilizations did not cost them much research energy, and the only thing they needed to worry about in subsequent production was the source of raw materials.
It's also important that it's not difficult to get them moving, and what really bothers people is how to use them consistently.
At the same time, it is also necessary to solve the related intelligent chips, power sources, staying power and reliability, and so on.
After all, no buyer wants to get something that can only be used for 1 hour and needs to be charged.
If these key issues are not solved, they are no different from a pile of scrap metal. It is also a research project that is being tackled by various family laboratories.
Instead of building steel mills, supporting foundry factories, parts molds and other factories to produce these walking armor parts, it is more economically cost-effective to buy scrapped raw materials from all over the world and reprocess them.
There will always be people from all over the Central Continent transporting what to others looks like scrap metal. In recent decades, because the research results are relatively mature, the profit and practicability have also been greatly improved, and there has been a trend of popularization.
Other families with a stake in the stake have started to do the same, and they are paying a lot of money. In addition, the production of excavated machinery has been decreasing, so it is more difficult to obtain these pre-civilization mechanical devices, and their production is becoming less and less.
The two bipedal machines that Chen Liuwang bought from the black market were from the factory here.
It is said that many of these things have also been unearthed in the "Ancient Iron City", and they have made great progress in their research on power.
In the context of recruiting talents, it is even comparable to the technology of Mining City.
However, judging from the information provided for a long time, the "Ancient Iron City" seems to have some different ideas for the development of these pre-civilization machinery.
The researchers there did not delve into the perspective of AI chips, but found another way, and the direction of research is - how to replace those artificial intelligence systems with humans, and how to better link with the human body, just like they are armor worn on human bodies.
There are pros and cons to this move: before AI can recover to that height, using humans to control seems to be a more reasonable and quicker option;
The disadvantage is obvious, that is, the cost of acquiring people's loyalty, and training those people, is no less than the cost of researching intelligent systems.
And once smart chips replace humans and can command these machines with complete proficiency, then the advantage of humans will no longer exist.
However, in this day and age, the ruler of the "Ancient Iron City" obviously does not care about this at all.
"I can't look down on these gadgets, and the most important thing is that you have to mass-produce those new AI chips for me."
Zhuge Yun instructed the ghost Dao.
"Yes, understood! With your supreme power to make prototypes - I believe that as long as you can solve the problem of the cultivation speed of those bacteria, you can make more AI chips without any effort. ”
The ghost knew very well in his heart that once the kind of smart chip made by the master was transformed, it would not only far surpass this era, but even the pre-civilization era, which could not reach that height!
Because it can't be technology on earth at all......