Chapter 6: Cortana the Artificial Intelligence
"What's that?" Gou Ke looked confused. Cortana? Isn't that a chatbot of the Warm Shake S system?
“Cortana20.0-SEV。 On-board artificial intelligence for scientific research, you can call me Cortana. The electronic voice responded, soft enough to be an ASMR.
Why do printers have such amazing things? Why is this thing only here now? Why can the hardware still bring its own software to win? Why should people in the future have to hand over a labor to themselves? Why...... Gou Ke instantly had a lot of strange questions and thoughts in his head, but he was speechless for a while, frowning and trying to sort out these things before he could say it. But Cortana is quite human: "You seem to have a bunch of questions to ask, and I have a document here that should answer your questions." ”
A read-only document with the name "readme.txt" will then appear on your computer. Stripped of some awe-inspiring but meaningless clichés, this article roughly illustrates Gou's current situation.
It turns out that actions that interfere with the world line of human civilization are not officially sanctioned by the Joint Conference of Intelligent Civilizations of the Galaxy (hereinafter referred to as the Joint Conference). It's just that human civilization is only a marginal civilization in the galaxy, and the bureaucratization of the joint conference has been very serious for hundreds of billions of years, so several members of human civilization within the Space-Time Administration were able to evade the supervision of the joint meeting and the Space-Time Administration, and the high-level of the future human civilization secretly carried out this operation in the name of scientific investigation.
According to the Space-Time Management Regulations, the use and delivery of items carried by time-travelers are strictly restricted. The printer and subspace storage were not allowed to remain at the crossing destination, but the Intervention Team used many means to conceal the loss of the item.
The document also mentions that several large civilizations in the joint conference have monopolized AI technology, and only when scientific research needs it, artificial intelligence can temporarily appear in the hands of marginal civilizations. Cortana was taken out in the name of a scientific expedition, programmed into a custom program, and secretly swept into a 3D printer. In order to avoid the scrutiny of the joint meeting, Cortana's original has now been returned after formatting. And the reason why the Cortana in front of Gou Ke appeared in the drawing library of the 3D printer after a few months was also to hide people's eyes.
In the future, 3D printers will become quite popular, and even lead to the disappearance of manufacturing. People can buy printing materials directly and pay to obtain drawings and printing licenses from invention companies, and they can produce whatever they want. However, these drawings and printing licenses are without exception limited to the number of times they can be used and the area and time they can be used, and once the limit is exceeded, the printer will be locked immediately. Therefore, although there are many drawings in the future, none of them can be used now, which is also the reason why the 3D printer only has one drawing.
However, in the future, the protection of intellectual property rights will only get better and better, and the circulation supervision of scientific and technological products will become more and more perfect, which is an inevitable trend of history. Like Doraemon, a robot cat from the future can freely acquire and use future products without restrictions, and this can only exist in children's animation.
Cortana's existence is to circumvent this restriction, and the printer in Gou Cao's hand was artificially dismantled by the Interference Action Team across time and space, so that copyright review that requires networking will become unusable. Then, the cracked drawings of the future product are stored in the modified Cortana's storage module, and other information contained in the Cortana drawings is covered up through the complexity of the Cortana drawings, and then the printed Cortana sends back the drawings with the erased copyright marks to the printer, so as to achieve the purpose of concealing the world.
Quite meticulous planning. The Intervention Task Force had taken such painstaking efforts and could not disappoint their hopes. At the same time, the expectation of the danger of the end times has also been raised by a notch - the better the equipment, the more difficult it is to fight. Even artificial intelligence has been brought out, which shows that this apocalyptic crisis cannot be underestimated.
It took half a month to test the printer's function, and another three and a half months to renovate the garage and Cortana's printing. The end times are now less than five and a half months away. Now that the gold finger has arrived, Gou Cao must hurry up to implement the next step.
Grain and seeds can be purchased by people. In order not to expose the renovation activities inside the garage, Gou Cao rented a small warehouse nearby, and the purchased materials were transported here during the day and then secretly transported to the garage by pickup truck at night. So far, there is only one last thing left in the harsh post-apocalyptic preparation plan: assemble a post-apocalyptic chariot of your own.
In the strict concept, although the auto repair shop can be safe for a certain period of time, the resources stored in the auto repair shop will always be exhausted one day, and the long-term information blockage will inevitably lead to accidents. In this way, it is necessary to go out to scavenger and explore. And in the zombie-infested apocalypse, it's better to have a car than not to have it at all during a long journey, and if you travel too far to return to the garage in a day. The post-apocalyptic chariot with enough material carrying capacity can also be used as a temporary base.
The so-called sleepiness sent a pillow seems to foresee the demanding needs, and the first drawings sent back by Cortana are on-board high-energy batteries, all-electric drive systems for road vehicles, nano-armor and on-board control cores.
The energy storage density of the vehicle-mounted high-energy battery is not much higher than that of modern batteries, and a set of batteries is enough to support 72 hours of full-power printing of 3D printers when fully charged. The appearance is a 15cmX15cmX50cm size cuboid, which occupies a small area and can be charged and discharged repeatedly. With this, you don't have to worry about energy consumption for long-distance travel.
The all-electric drive system for road vehicles can be modularly mounted on any small vehicle. The size can be adjusted, but the maximum power will also be reduced when the engine module is smaller. In order to ensure that the power is not too wasted, the engine size was finally determined to be 20cmX40cmX50cm. With high-energy battery, the battery life is super strong.
Nano armor is a military technology. Compared with ordinary armor, there is an additional layer of sandwich, which stores tens of millions of nanobots, these nanobots come with their own miniature 3D printing modules, as long as there is sufficient power and repair materials, they can automatically repair the damaged parts after the armor is damaged. Equipping non-armored areas with nanotubes alone also allows nanobots to maintain that part automatically. In the last days, the risk of damage to the vehicle should not be small, and with this you can save a lot of time in repairing and maintaining the vehicle.
Finally, there is the most critical on-board control core. This is a bit complicated, after observing the drawings for a long time, Gou judged that this thing should be the same as artificial intelligence, which will not be available in human civilization in the future.