Chapter 121: Consciousness and Machines
Dong Chen looked at the millions of search results, and was amazed, he didn't expect that Guguang Heavy Industry had only been established for a few months, and the most important products had only sold two, so it was so amazing.
He found the news of Wall Street's valuation and looked at it, it was really more than 20 billion meters, although for ordinary people, this figure was already astronomical, but Dong Chen still felt that it was average, and even underestimated.
However, this has little to do with him, valuation is valuation, reality is reality, trillions and tens of trillions in the future will definitely be no longer a problem, and now is just the beginning, it doesn't matter more or less.
He flipped through the mailbox again, and sure enough, he also saw some information and reports sent by Sun Hao, because Dong Chen often didn't answer the phone, mainly because some experiments were quiet, so he asked No. 1 to block the phone.
Therefore, Sun Hao simply didn't call Dong Chen, anyway, Dong Chen didn't care, he gave Sun Hao a lot of authority, Sun Hao only occasionally sent some reports to his mailbox for him to read, only when there was some urgency, he would call and come to the mailbox together, or even come to the laboratory in person to find it.
However, Sun Hao's authority is at most to enter the living room, so if you want to find Dong Chen, you have to rely on metaphysics, but fortunately, Dong Chen is usually in the laboratory during the day, and it is still possible to get in touch if you want to.
"I didn't expect that I was already so rich, and I can be regarded as entering the standard of the world's top richest people, although the valuation is tens of billions, but the actual assets plus orders are also ...... I see, there are hundreds of millions of meters, not bad. ”
"Should I go out and pretend to be forced, otherwise I won't go out and pretend to be forced when I have so much money, what's the difference between that and salted fish, but how to pretend to be forced?"
Thinking of the field that Dong Chen is not good at, he scratched his head a little, to buy a house, buy a car? Or go buy a yacht and buy a plane? Or go and slap in the face?
Huh~ Why do you get goosebumps when you think about it.
Dong Chen touched his chin and asked No. 1: "No. 1, do you know how to pretend to be handsome, stylish and not vulgar?" ”
One: "............".
Well, even No. 1 doesn't scare me anymore, it seems that this kind of activity is still not for me.
I looked at the time It was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and I had been talking about things since the bureau came at noon, until I left just now, and Dong Chen, who was idle now, happened to continue to test his glasses, and went to Sun Hao by the way.
Dong Chen, who was walking in the factory, was testing the performance of the glasses while looking left and right, and chatting with No. 1 about the shortcomings and areas that needed to be improved.
"Sir, now because the distance is closer, so there is no problem at present, if you leave the signal radiation range of the host, you can only take the satellite relay signal and multi-level ground base station signal transfer, but we do not have a special satellite and ground signal transfer equipment for connection, are through the illegal invasion of other people's satellites and base stations for connection, and in the case of not being discovered, there will be great inconvenience, so it is necessary to launch some special satellites and establish a dedicated signal station."
"Well, I know, it's just that we have to build a secret production base first, and the company is not suitable for these things. It's just that we don't have enough manpower at the moment to start the construction of the base. Do you have any good advice on this? Dong Chen deliberately asked No. 1.
"Sir, after searching my database directory, the robotics and synthetic human techniques you have stored in it can solve this problem." As he spoke, No. 1 also displayed the directory of the database in the upper right corner of Dong Chen's glasses, among which the robot technology and synthetic human technology were also marked in red.
After being reminded by No. 1, Dong Chen really remembered, "Well, as soon as you say that, I remember, I even stored this kind of thing in your database, there are too many things in my head all day long, and there are so many things to learn, I almost forgot it, I'll see when it is, and show the storage time." ”
No. 1 showed the time according to Dong Chen's order, Dong Chen saw that it was really early enough, almost not long after completing No. 1, when he was sorting out the database, he casually stored the information found in the Fallout World and some useful materials found in Los Santo, and later stationed in the academy, and added some of the information of the academy, so that it was convenient for him to consult the information, and he didn't have to go to the game world again.
Now No. 1 can already make suggestions, although No. 1 has been saying that it is a logical calculation, and rarely takes the initiative to make suggestions, but in Dong Chen's opinion, this is already a great progress, this has evolved from the original tabula rasa to the current appearance, how long has it taken.
And Dong Chen is also thinking about the two suggestions given by No. 1, synthesizers and intelligent robots are both good helpers, but according to the game setting, the difference between the first and second generations of synthetics and robots is that synthesizers have already generated consciousness, while robots are still intelligent tools.
This is where the unreasonableness of the game lies, how the robot's program produces consciousness, artificial intelligence and consciousness are not the same thing at all, he has not been able to figure it out.
So far, human beings haven't even figured out where their own consciousness came from, and the machine head of the robot you made has become conscious, and it's not even called a robot anymore, it's called a synthetic human, and how big is your heart.
And artificial intelligence is relative to human intelligence. It is precisely because consciousness is a special form of material movement that according to the theory of cybernetics, the method of functional simulation is used to create a computer to simulate part of the functions of the human brain, and some of the intelligent activities of the human brain are mechanized, which gives rise to the name of artificial intelligence.
The essence of artificial intelligence is a simulation of the information process of human thinking, and it is the materialization of human intelligence. Although AI can simulate some of the activities of the human brain and even surpass the functions of the human brain in some ways, AI will not become human intelligence and replace human consciousness.
Even if the radiation world has completed the conversion of biological signals and electrical signals, and can carry out memory reading and memory transfer, it does not mean that the machine can generate consciousness from nothing, he would rather believe that the "consciousness" generated by those robots is the memory of other people.
As for the later third generation of synthetics, the concept of machines that have been completely detached is no different from humans, so their consciousness generation is still a mystery, which goes back to the original consideration of where human consciousness came from.
Moreover, Dong Chen believes that the consciousness of the third generation of synthetics is more like memory editing and memory indoctrination in the early stage, and the social cognition generated by combining basic memories after they have carried out certain social activities in the later stage is not the so-called "consciousness" produced from scratch.
And to manufacture and modulate synthesizers, or biochemical people, there are a lot of equipment and materials needed, and a suitable venue is also needed, so this can be abandoned, and later you can consider developing synthetics as scientific research assistants or something, after all, they are a little more agile than robots, they can think independently, and after cultivation from scratch and basic memory indoctrination, that loyalty must not be said.
So at present, the robot is the best choice, it can be manufactured in his laboratory, as long as there are parts, it can be manufactured all the time, and then add an intelligent core, plus No. 1 as the main system to assist, the robot can complete the task very well.
As for why not transfer the memory to the robot, and then use the robot as a carrier for independent consciousness cultivation, that's another story, after all, "human" is a very pretentious creature, once you have self-will, you find yourself a pile of rubber and iron, then it is probably not fun.
After all, humans have evolved as carbon-based creatures for so many years, and some people may like that, but nature's choice has a point.