Chapter Seventy-Five: If It Were Us

The interview lasted for nearly an hour, and the theme changed from a game to artificial intelligence, gradually getting colder, and the barrage flooded the screen in waves, and finally Xiao Huan reminded him on the god chat, Xia Ming turned the topic back to the game, announcing that "Phantom Galaxy" will launch a second test immediately after the first test, so that more people can experience the fun of the game.

After the live broadcast, Luo Xiang bit his lip and apologized to Xia Ming, saying that at first he just wanted to make the topic more acute and attract more people's attention.

Xia Ming was not polite, and said seriously: "The current media has lost the function of disseminating information, and attributes such as authority, independence, and mouthpiece, and because everyone on the Internet is the media, only symbolic labels remain." ”

"However, people still trust the media very much about the dynamics of the technology field, because there are too few people who understand it. Only the media can mobilize resources from all walks of life to do a more comprehensive science popularization and interpretation of science and technology. If the media still does social journalism in this regard, this trust will disappear little by little. ”

He smiled at Luo Xiang and said, "This is what I learned in school, senior sister should know better than me, right?" ”

Out of Xia Ming's office, Luo Xiang's face was as red as a ripe Fuji apple. That's right, Xia Ming studied journalism, why didn't she pay attention to this, thinking that she could play tricks in front of him?

Defeated again and again on Xia Ming, what is the problem? Could it be yourself......

In the tide of thoughts triggered by the interview, Luo Xiang's reflection is just a small wave.

In the various bars that were exploded, one by one ended with "See you in March!" "See you in June!" As the theme of the post, the talk bar from chaos to order, and step by step enthusiastic. Everyone is talking about what will become of the PC, and what kind of changes will be made to the world when the neuronal chip comes out.

The bar-blasters gradually retreated, and the pair of big and small kings thrown by Xia Ming meant that a technological revolution was coming, and this general trend could not be resisted by thin emotions. Except for the group of "bean curd" who rely on MC's private servers to make money, most players are attracted by the prospects described by Xia Ming, and look forward to creating their own world in "Phantom Galaxy", facing the main god of artificial intelligence, and experiencing infinite fun.

After switching from the official website of Cicada Movement and Illusion to the upcoming release of various technologies, the hackers are no longer making a fuss, and they themselves are arguing in various hacker groups.

At this time, the media such as Spiderweb, 713 and Duosi stopped talking, and it is said that there are internal criticism meetings, believing that the previous negative marketing route has been counterproductive, and demanding that those who put forward ideas and make decisions are responsible for this.

Xin Lang Technology and other media have become the big winners of the public opinion boom, and Xin Lang has attracted a large number of scientific and technological people by relying on this interview, pushing the concept of artificial intelligence to a new heat.

Experts from many scientific research institutes talked about the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Yan University that they knew, and Professor Xu Ping, who was still in a coma, was considered the real creator of all these technologies. Experts are sighing that if Professor Xu had not had an accident, the results would have been more subversive than now, and the changes in the world would have been more profound.

Foreign media are a step slower in time because they need to translate the interview, but they rely on academicity and influence to continue to warm up this wave of artificial intelligence public opinion. Many media have cited Lawrence's paper at ICCV and analyzed the academic backgrounds of Xu Ping, Tang Xiaotang and Lin Cheng, emphasizing that new technologies are not entirely from the Chinese, but are worldwide, and are the crystallization of the common wisdom of mankind.

As for the Shamrock architecture and the Terminator neuron chip that Xia Ming clarified the release time, the media chased after the door and asked the leading companies in the IT industry, and their reactions were much more complicated.

Intel avoided Xia Ming's prediction that silicon transistor technology would end at 5nm, only emphasizing that Clover and Terminator will greatly stimulate the expansion of applications, which Intel welcomes and said that Intel is still the core force in the future computing world.

IBM said in a moderate tone that IBM has many years of experience in neuronal chips, and has experimental protocols for memristive circuits, graphene and silicon transistors, and the two generations of TrueNorth based on silicon transistors are quite mature. Therefore, we welcome Phantom to join this field and jointly promote the development of the neuronal chip industry.

As for the open source problem mentioned by Xia Ming, IBM believes that it makes little sense to talk about it before the hardware architecture is mature. In short, IBM, as the technology leader of IT, does not see illusions as competitors.

Google, on the other hand, welcomed the two systems of illusions, but said nothing more about substance than glowing praise.

The media believe that Google will be the most active party in the cooperation with the illusion, so it is not said in this matter, and the cooperation related to the illusion should be planned.

Google's partnership with Xia Ming began with the cicada's movement, and the clover architecture gave Google a great opportunity to enter the desktop operating system, but the focus was still on artificial intelligence.

Google's research on artificial intelligence is more focused on the front-end application level, DeepMind's Go series is the thinking application exploration of artificial intelligence, and the driverless car is a perceptual exploration, and the corresponding models and algorithms are relatively mature, the problem is that the hardware can't keep up.

Google also began to make efforts in hardware a few years ago, but after so many years of development, Google has formed a set of exploration and application-oriented system, which cannot be played with hardware. Because each branch plays its own application, it wants to use common hardware to build it to its liking. To make them obey a proprietary hardware architecture is tantamount to restricting them to painting on canvas by restricting them to the rules of painting on the canvas, which is turning them into poster workers.

Therefore, if Mirage can launch a neuronal chip with universal characteristics, and the technology is open source, it will greatly promote the commercialization of Google's artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is the most entangled in this trend, originally the Alfalfa engine relied on the connection with DX into the game field, Microsoft did not set up obstacles and embarrassment Lawrence on it, after all, the foundation is still its own DX, and I didn't make a penny less.

But the emergence of clover has made Microsoft's desktop operating system market face major challenges, and if you don't follow up, Google's wolf will eat most of the meat. As for the follow-up, Google still has to come in, and it is the question of how much meat to eat.

Microsoft has a lot of research on artificial intelligence, and has also explored neuronal chips, but after all, it is not a hardware company, and the habit of operating systems in the IT center for many years also makes it very difficult for Microsoft to play these cutting-edge things.

If this wave of technology shows of illusion becomes a reality, Microsoft will be the party whose interests are damaged. But Microsoft's half-dead XBOX division enthusiastically cheered the clover architecture, believing that this was an opportunity for XBOX to turn over, and strongly demanded that this architecture be used as a new generation of game consoles before Sony's PS. Microsoft's artificial intelligence department also believes that its various artificial intelligence applications, such as Xiaoice and intelligent translation, can also rely on phantom hardware.

So Microsoft simply didn't say anything, it seems to be sluggish or indifferent, and in fact it is fighting internally.

In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, everyone seems to have forgotten the real theme of this interview.

At the headquarters of Legend Interactive Entertainment, Tian Zhong stared blankly at the video on the screen, this is the tenth day of the first test of "Phantom Galaxy".

Now that the video about the game is getting more and more in-depth, Tian rewatched the bridge designer of an engineering design institute using "Phantom Galaxy" as a mechanical verification.

"The concept of Galaxy of Illusions is to move the real into the virtual world, and if the virtual world is real enough, then many things in reality can be realized in the virtual world."

These are Xia Ming's words, and now more and more people, including Tian Chong, have gradually come to their senses.

Not only bridge design, but even some aviation enthusiasts are building virtual wind tunnels, where they set virtual particles as air molecules, and through the high-speed motion of this thin particle set module, thrust is generated with other modules to simulate the wind tunnel principle.

These people complained that the game was not very granular, even in the developer version, which was much larger than a gas molecule, and that the game had to figure out its own physics other than gravity and collisions, which were the most basic physics. To make matters worse, they weren't working together enough to work together on a massive set of mods.

"It's good, it's bad!"

Tian Zhong gritted his teeth and muttered to himself: "What about sociability? It's not that you have to put social networking above the game like Microsoft, Facebook, and legendary games, but how can you have to have a minimum of social **** like the real world? ”

"What about gameplay? What about interactions outside of creation? Why can't players who like to play combat enjoy the fun of fighting and killing in this world? It's a game after all! ”

Hang Xiangbei entered the office, saw his appearance, misunderstood, and comforted: "Mr. Tian, we are not completely out of chance, if we say that the group comes forward, we can still delay it for a while in the domestic game publishing and distribution." As long as we go first, relying on the feelings of pixel art and mature gameplay, we can at least grab a bite to eat......"

Tian Zhong stared straight at Hang Xiangbei, until the hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and then he slowly asked: "Putting aside our position and simply watching "Phantom Galaxy", what do you think?" Let's be honest. ”

Feeling Tian Chong's seriousness, Hang Xiangbei sighed: "If I wasn't in the legend and didn't memorize this project, I would probably be the most fanatical fan." This game is truly epoch-making. I believe that with the refinement of the illusion, it will really change our world completely in the future. ”

Tian Zhong asked again: "If you don't consider the commercial factors, that is, the set of VIP, star rating, enhancement or something that Legend engages in every game, how far is "Phantom Galaxy" from the ideal game?" ”

Hang Xiangbei smiled: "Actually, it's still far away, the illusion gang only wants to improve the editor and promote the interoperability of virtual reality, although there are some ideas in terms of gameplay, such as programming or something." But even this programming can be seen that they don't treat "Galaxy of Illusions" as a game at all, they just use it to verify the technology, and if we do it instead, it will be ......"

He was sad as he spoke, they had put too much effort into game development in the past six months or so, and there were a lot of good ideas for the "W" project, and they were confident that they could go to the next level on the MC foundation.

But the problem is that no matter how high the gameplay is, it can't compare to the real concept of "Phantom Galaxy", the virtual and the real are interconnected, which is a crushing force.

The thought of "if we do it instead" flashed through his mind, chasing after the hard work and sweat that was about to come to naught.

Tian Chong hooked this thought back in one sentence: "It turns out that it's not just me who thinks so, if we do it instead, ......"

Then Tian Zhong whispered something, and Hang Xiangbei's eyes widened, and his face was full of incredible surprise.

"What!?"

When Xia Ming received a call from Li Diluo, he suspected that Li Diluo had taken the wrong medicine or had auditory hallucinations.

A vice president of Legend Interactive Entertainment, a project manager, wants to take a development team to Illusion......

[I'll change it today, and plan the follow-up story line.] 】