"Qianyan, like a girl's name, how tall is R3AI, what is the abbreviation?"

Xia Ming tried to press back the memories evoked by this name, and continued to explore the secrets of R3AI.

"R3AI is the meaning of the third phase of AI experiments......"

Lin Cheng's answer made Xia Ming even more puzzled, and the R3AI in his mind still responded with "the host can't understand the relevant concepts", which made Xia Ming start to doubt his previous inference.

However, he couldn't continue to ponder, so Professor Xu took the rest of the core group into the laboratory and began the day's work.

"Everyone knows Xiao Xia, and from today on, as Lin Cheng's assistant, he will officially join the core group."

Professor Xu explained first, and then introduced the rest of the group to Xia Ming.

In addition to Professor Xu, Tang Xiaotang, and Lin Cheng, the core research team also has two men and one woman and three assistants, all of whom are in their thirties. The men are He Xinghui and Hu Jun, and the women are called Hou Yunting. They are all from Yan University, and they all have PhDs in theoretical physics or computer science.

In front of his senior brothers and sisters, Xia Ming behaved very humblely. He Xinghui and Hu Jun's attitude towards Xia Ming is not bad, but they can obviously feel alienated and cold. This is also quite normal, a liberal arts monk from a third-rate university is actually on an equal footing with a scientist like them. If it was Xia Ming himself, there must have been dissatisfaction and disdain, but the female assistant Hou Yunting was more enthusiastic.

After getting to know each other, the start of work is a meeting, the test is not all around the instrument all day long, most of the time has to be spent on communication, the team members have to communicate the progress of each branch of each link, check the data, review the ideas.

No wonder Professor Xu would say that artificial intelligence to help scientists do research is the singularity of the big bang of science and technology, according to the project's compressed schedule, 50% of the time spent on research is spent on communication, 30% is spent on the preparation and testing stage of each link, 10% is spent on research results, and no more than 1% of the time is actually spent on experiments.

Of course, this is also related to the huge cost of the test, every time "Qianyan" operates, only the special reagents and materials consumed, the cost is millions.

"There is still a problem with real-time depiction, even if it is replaced by the 4X2048 ARM architecture, it barely reaches the scale on the thread, but the computing power of ARM is too poor, the depiction speed is too slow, and I am worried that the time particles are too large to grasp the neural quantum effect of Qianyan."

Lin Cheng talked about his current problem, through last night's study, Xia Ming could already roughly understand Lin Cheng's words.

In addition to "Qianyan", there is also a layer of "quantum computing shell" built with the principle of quadruple analog quantum computer, relying on this shell to communicate with Qianyan's neural quantum computing effect, and the project to be carried out now is to let Qianyan simulate the function of the brain to process visual information.

On the basis of the latest achievements in brain science, the quantum computing shell can already translate photoelectric signals to Qianyan and simulate the visual function. What Lin Cheng has to do now is to depict the reaction of the neural quantum computing effect to the quantum computing shell in real time after Qianyan receives the signal. If you can get regular, close to the image information transmitted by the photoelectric signal, it proves that Qianyan has the ability to process visual information.

Once successful, this project will be of great significance, not only to prove the correlation between neural quantum effects and intelligence, but also to greatly promote the study of visual neuroscience in brain science and the deep realization of virtual reality.

Lin Cheng's problem is that the time of Qianyan's neural quantum effects is extremely short, and although the quantum computing shell can sense them, if they can't translate these inductions in real time, that is, depict them as images, then they can't interpret the results of the experiment. You know, "depiction" is not as simple as flat painting, but three-dimensional, which involves the 3D technology of the computer.

Prof. Xu asked, "What is the stable depiction velocity in a detectable period?" ”

Lin Cheng said: "The fastest can only reach 10 microseconds. ”

Professor Xu shook his head: "If you don't raise it to the nanosecond level, there is no point in letting Qianyan operate." ”

Lin Cheng scratched his head embarrassedly: "I'll continue to research, but I'm not very familiar with Cg and GPU things, and I can't find a more suitable way yet, if I change servers, ......"

Tang Xiaotang also shook his head: "You only have a month at most in this link, even if you change the server, it will take more than half a month from installation and debugging to launch, and it is too late at all, not to mention the cost found this time, which is only enough for the redundant operation of 'Qianyan'." ”

Lin Cheng's expression became very heavy, and the next three assistants talked about other issues, but in summary, Lin Cheng's progress was the most critical.

After the exchange, it was to review the results obtained after the last operation of 'Qianyan', and Xia Ming didn't understand it at all. However, he felt that the research was still a long way from success, because everyone was talking about finding clues from the data that did not lead to a definite conclusion at all.

Scientific research, especially cutting-edge scientific research, is sometimes a test of human will.

If it weren't for the R3AI in his brain, Xia Ming felt that this research was completely looking for Boltzmann's brain, and the despair was suffocating.

What is Boltzmann's brain? It is a conjecture and metaphor related to cosmology, related to the current concept of dark energy and vacuum zero-point energy. This means that from the fact that the universe is expanding at an accelerated pace, there may be inherent energy in the void space, and these energies are active and fluctuate all the time. If it fluctuates to a certain extent, there is a probability of materialization. For example, an extra photon, an atom in a corner of the universe, or an extra self-aware brain in your goldfish bowl......

Xia Ming didn't think that the R3AI in his brain was a Boltzmann brain, but if the research couldn't go on, he could only throw himself into the arms of Scientology.

After the meeting, he returned to the computer room on the first floor, Xia Ming asked Lin Cheng if there was anything to help, and Lin Cheng asked, "Can you find a more effective direction than building 3D with surfaces now?" ”

Xia Ming said I'll try, Lin Cheng patted him on the shoulder: "Work hard!" ”

Try to forget about this, Xia Ming saw this from Lin Cheng's face.

The problem faced by Lin Cheng seems to be very closely related to games, that is, games have made great progress in 3D technology and virtual reality, and Lin Cheng, who is indifferent to games, is really powerless in this regard.

Xia Ming can only recognize this step, how to do it, what information to find, what keywords to search, he has no idea.

I was thinking about whether to catch a catch on the Internet first, only to find out that I was blown up by Aite on Q, which was the group of the advisory group, and the name was "Card Bar Sanxian Friends Group".

[What kind of black technology is this!? @蝉思动......】

[Prometheus is so cool! Don't worry about being QJ by those hooligans anymore! @蝉思动, I'll fan you! 】

[Mom asked me why I was kneeling and playing with my phone......]

[APP is very good, what the hell is the name Prometheus? @蝉思动, strongly request a name change! 】

A group of 500 people, Aite Xia Ming 800 times in the morning......

Li Diluo also sent a message, sneaky, and seemed extremely empty-hearted.

[I sent Prometheus to the advisory group for trial, and then everyone blew up, I can't stand it, @v@, I'll leave it to you! ] 】

Xia Ming was speechless, this guy is not reliable.

Originally, he didn't want to pay attention to it, but he saw that some people were analyzing the principles of Prometheus, and felt that there were a lot of professionals in this group, and maybe they could have some clues.

[What is the direction of 3D besides the surface now?] 】

Xia Ming threw Lin Cheng's problem out, to be honest, he couldn't think of any other direction besides the surface to play 3D.

Whether it's a game or a scientific research, it's all about building a 3D environment. Build a polyhedral model from the faces, and then map it. After so many years of development, technological progress is nothing more than the use of more faces, as well as the improvement of the efficiency and effect of textures, and more effort is spent on light and shadow rendering.

The group was silent for a while, and then exploded, and countless boxes for adding friends and private chats popped up, Xia Ming had to open and turn off them one by one, but when he saw a private chat called "Wudao Shrimp", he stopped.

[Matthew Lawrence proposed the Merkrit technology ten years ago, using points instead of lines and surfaces to do 3D, but to implement it from the bottom up, it has to subvert everything, and lines and surfaces are developing very quickly, so no one cares about them, and they are quickly forgotten.] 】

Make 3D with dots!

Xia Ming took a cool breath, what a bullish idea! It's all about replicating the real world into the virtual world!

If a computer simulates countless points like molecules and even atoms, and uses these points to "assemble" objects, it is a real simulation of the real world, rather than a visual simulation of linear technology.

For example, in Minecraft, the most basic element of the game world is the blocks, and if the blocks are reduced to the molecular level, the realism of the world will be quite terrifying. And according to what Wudao Shrimp said, that Lawrence did not shrink the square, but used a round sphere.

But this is a bit of a painful brain hole, because the software and hardware foundation of computer graphics and image technology are built on the "point, line and surface", which is determined by the hardware principle of the display device, and the sphere still has to be simulated through the line surface, isn't this a superfluous move? And to get the support of the underlying hardware, that is, to get rid of the life of the entire industry, not only can not find a way to achieve it, but also can't see the benefits, of course, no one cares.

But what if it's a quantum computing method that uses quaternary simulation? Even if it's not "native" hardware support, but just a simulation of the existing architecture, maybe there will be some progress.

Are you familiar with this thing? 】

Xia Ming felt that this direction was worth pondering.

[Ten years ago, Lawrence was ambitious to promote this technology everywhere, and he also opened a company in China, and I stayed in that company, and time has changed......]

The answer of "five shrimps" smelled of vicissitudes, giving people a feeling that the current situation was not very good.

Xia Ming looked at Lin Cheng, who had been grabbing his hair next to him, and sent a message.

[Are you in Yandu, are you busy? I'd like to talk to you right now, if you can. 】

Looking at the name "Wudao Shrimp", you can know that most of the other party is in Yandu, and even not far from Yanda, because the place at the main entrance of Ziguang University is called "Wudaokou", and Ziguang University is next to Yanda.

The other party didn't respond, as if hesitating, Xia Ming sent another message: "I'm from the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Yan University."

Wudao shrimp immediately sent the address, which made Xia Ming feel a little embarrassed again, and now he used this signboard, which was completely justified.

"Senior brother, let's go out for a walk!"

Xia Ming greeted Lin Cheng, who looked dazed.