235. Despair

Mei Yiqiu first retold what Xia Xiaoxiao had said about the results of the Internet intelligence research in the No. 19 laboratory, of course, he didn't know Xia Xiaoxiao's true identity, and according to the agreement, he didn't say Situ Yuli's name. Then, he told the story of Liu Huai'an and the twists and turns of getting the chip.

The structure of the chip is very complex, and the national security side does not have enough technical means to crack the secret of the chip, so the chip is sent to the National Defense Research Institute. After research, the scientific research institute believes that the core technology of this chip is the technology of the 90s, which has long been eliminated, but the chip structure is deliberately complicated, and there are many things that have nothing to do with computing, which has no research value. They thought that the only thing worth studying was the materials used, because it was a miracle that the chip was made so small with the technology of the day. As a result, the National Defense Research Institute sent the chip to the Institute of Nanomaterials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuzhong.

When Mei Yiqiu found the chip after several twists and turns, the staff of the Institute of Nanomaterials were about to cut it, and if she went one step too late, she would have to get back a bunch of things that had to be seen with a microscope.

"The circuit structure of this chip does look like the technology of the 90s, and it is a bit similar to the chess chip of IBM Deep Blue Computer, maybe it is its model. Since the nineties, computer performance has doubled every 12 months, and even today's bottlenecks, chip technology is still able to double performance every 30 months. From this point of view, the comrades of the National Defense Research Institute are right, and the backward technology of 20 years ago should have been thrown into the garbage heap a long time ago. ”

"But everyone must understand a truth, over the years, the principle of computers has not changed substantially, and the principle of chips has not changed. Essentially, the chips we use now are the same thing as the chips we used in the nineties, except that the materials you use are better and the craftsmanship is more exquisite. It's as if the Mercedes you drive today is essentially the same as the Mercedes you drove a hundred years ago. ”

Mei Yiqiu took the chip out of the bag and carefully picked it up with her thumb and forefinger to show it to everyone. The chips are yellow-orange-orange, the size of a fingernail.

"How did the chips of the nineties get so small? I'm not into applied materials research, so I'm not interested in what kind of material it's made of. What I care about is the complex circuits and contacts that it adds to the original chip structure. Preliminary research has found that this chip is not a simple electronic chip, but has 62 peculiar contacts connected to 62 circuits made of special materials. These contacts and lines correspond to the 31 pairs of spinal nerves in the human body. Of course, we don't yet know how it is implanted in the body and connected to the nervous system, which seems to be a very complex and delicate operation. Together, these circuits and the electronic circuits of the chip itself form a complex system,"

"When we tried to send analog neural signals to one of the lines in an experimental environment, we found that the circuits composed of these strange materials could not only receive bioelectric signals, but also receive and transmit mechanical waves. We know that a neural signal is much more than just an electrical signal, it is also a mechanical signal. If you only use electricity to understand the transmission of nerve information, you will miss a lot of important information. So, I think, this is an electronic chip that is twenty years behind us, but it is a biochip that is twenty years ahead of us! ”

Mei Yiqiu did not say his full understanding of the chip, such as the signal transmitting and receiving devices on the chip. What he said was enough for today's meeting, and it was necessary for him to keep some secrets, whether out of selfish motives or on guard against the monster of the Internet.

The Internet itself has intelligence, and it can inject a second consciousness into a person through a chip, such a thing is too unbelievable, if ordinary people hear it, they must think that it is just the content of a second-rate science fiction movie. But as a member of the world's top scientific team, as the developer of the Space Box and Dream Guide games, today, after the announcement of Lester's last words, in the face of the invasion of alien consciousness, there is nothing that cannot be accepted, after all, the concept of AI is not a day or two.

Isn't it just a super big AI on the whole network!

What shocked the scientists the most was not the autonomous consciousness of the Internet, but the chip. Twenty years ago, people actually made something that was technologically 20 years ahead of today, and this is what makes people afraid and even desperate.

Many people are saying in their hearts: impossible! This can't be true! Who can make this thing out? What can't be made now, how did it be made in the lab twenty years ago? If there was this kind of technology, how could it not be revealed at that time?

It is important to know that no science and technology is isolated, especially in the information age, where every breakthrough is inevitably accompanied by the progress of related technologies and upstream and downstream industries.

"Either this chip is a scam, or the development of the times in the past twenty years is a hoax!"

Someone came to such a conclusion.

The venue became quiet, no one expressed their opinions anymore, smoking and smoking, in a daze. The air seemed to stiffen, and a terrible feeling of despair crept in.

Aoki had heard the professor talk about chips for a long time, and even knew more than anyone present, but he didn't have any special feelings, let alone understand the feelings of these scientists. Only that sentence shocked him - the development of the times in the past 20 years is a scam!

He suddenly remembered the cave in southern Yunnan, the pig cage, the underground river, and the Japanese, when the real scene and the dream are combined, what is true and what is false? Those who were put in a pig cage and later joined the death squads and died on the battlefield had a dream or experienced a life?

Dewar tells him that Szeto is looking for evidence that World War II was a dream. If World War II can be fake, then how can the development of the world in the past two decades not be fake? Of course, this is even more incredible than an alien invasion and the Internet has consciousness.

Aoki's mind was a little messed up again.

Mei Yiqiu is understandable to the feelings of these people, after all, everyone is a peer, a person who has studied science all his life, and he thinks he is standing on the top, and suddenly finds that what he is striving for is what others played with decades ago, how desperate is that? Just like the Chinese people who wore braids more than a hundred years ago, when they shouted long live in the pride of the whole world, they were suddenly beaten into an inferior nation by strong ships and cannons, how desperate it was!

But his purpose today was not to make everyone despair. He wanted hope after despair.

He put the chip back in the plastic bag and said, "Anyway, Lab 19 no longer exists, and this chip is the only proof that the Internet has intelligence." Originally, I didn't want to publish it today, but the time has not yet come! But I'm afraid you won't believe me, so I have to show it to everyone. Now you should understand why I had to disconnect the power and block the signal before the meeting, right? ”