I don't know what brand that champagne is, it should be very expensive, but it doesn't taste good......

The current Xia Ming is not fearless, and Yang Shengtang's "Penalty Notice" still makes him vaguely worried. However, thinking that he was already a "scientist" of Yan University, it was not so easy for Yang Shengtang to take the white road to rectify himself, and taking the underworld road proved his despicability and incompetence even more, so Xia Ming didn't care much.

Of course, just in case, I really have to start thinking about using R3AI to improve my body.

Back at his residence, Li Diluo handed over a thick stack of documents, including an agreement, a business plan, or something, which was really decent. Even saw the receipt of the technical patent application, Xia Mingxin said that this guy is still doing things steadily, but he is a little ......

How to say it, this power-saving APP is not a big deal, Li Diluo seems to take it too seriously.

Seeing some other documents, Xia Ming frowned: "The company registration and pre-promotion have been completed?" Where does the money come from? ”

Li Diluo said disapprerovingly: "Private money, I can't just run errands for this matter." ”

Xia Ming shook his head: "Where is the share agreement, I should pay for this money, how do you calculate it?" ”

As he spoke, he used his mobile phone to transfer 100,000 yuan, then remembered the rent, and transferred 6,000 again: "Pay three and one, according to 1,005 a month, no problem, right?" ”

Li Diluo held his mobile phone and took a breath: "Naruko, you have sent it!" ”

Xia Ming said with a smile: "I said that Armani was bought by myself, and you don't believe it until you receive the rent." ”

Li Diluo said complainingly: "Naruko, your mouth hurts people more ruthlessly than me, right......"

He said with great interest: "Do you have any opinion on the name of the company and APP?" Cicada technology, sounds mysterious, right? We all know that cicadas don't move, and when they move, it's amazing! The APP is called Prometheus, and I use this name to listen to you explain that the benefits that the hardware should have given us were intercepted by other software, and this APP is to return the benefits to us, isn't it very similar to Prometheus stealing fire......"

The name of the company is a bit low, and the name of the APP is so long, but seeing that Li Diluo's enthusiasm is so high, Xia Ming is not good at pouring cold water on him, and encouraged: "Yes, that's it, how to get it specifically, ask the advisory group more, they are the future swarm, and if you have technical questions, come to me." ”

Li Diluo nodded: "Those buddies in the advisory group are really good, and they have thought of a lot of ideas." ”

The so-called advisory group, in fact, is the Q group that Xia Ming and Li Diluo added when they were mixed in the card bar, they all play DIY and computer games, and they hate the software and games on the market, and they often work with each other's conscience.

Speaking of which, Xia Ming and Li Diluo have a lot of intersections, and they still played games together in their freshman year, but one has a bad mouth, the other is sullen, and they haven't developed a friendship. In his sophomore year, Xia Ming became a new person, and the relationship between the two became even more estranged.

"Then I'll leave it to you", Xia Ming waved his hand and went into the house to retreat.

"Don't underestimate me, Naruko", Li Diluo's eyes flashed, and he whispered to himself, "I'll prove it to you!" ”

Xia Ming didn't know Li Diluo's oath, and he was also facing such a challenge.

He is only a little more open-minded than a qualified farmer now, and he can barely understand what Lin Cheng said, as for what Lin Cheng did, it would be good to be able to understand one-third, at such a level, I am afraid that entering the core group will be held back.

Today's task of his "retreat" is to study what is going on with this "integrated artificial intelligence platform" built by Professor Xu and Tang Xiaotang, and then understand the specific research topics on this basis. Thinking of figuring out this, maybe he could get in touch with the secrets of R3AI, Xia Ming was still a little excited.

As before, first enter the information into the brain, these materials are the papers provided by Professor Xu, Tang Xiaotang and Lin Cheng, according to some keywords, Xia Ming also collected a large number of relevant information on the Internet, with his speed of entering a hundred lines, it only takes a few hours to enter millions of words of information.

Even so, Xia Ming thought that the efficiency was too low, and he had not given up the idea of connecting his brain directly to the Internet, if it could be realized, his learning and research speed would be increased by ten or even a hundred times. During this time, the experience of encrypting the APP for Zhang Zhicheng and helping Lin Cheng get the ARM cluster server gave him some ideas, but now is not the time to start implementing it.

It was already more than twelve o'clock after the entry work was over, and after eating supper, Xia Ming entered the management mode of R3AI, and listened to the R3AI report: "Consciousness activity has been increased to 0." 04。 ”

Sure enough, it has to be used to improve? Xia Ming was happy, and R3AI said: "The data added by operating the brain in management mode begins to affect the natural operation of the original architecture, predicting that system compatibility problems will occur in the future, and the changes are unpredictable. ”

Really...... Isn't it time to prompt for formatting?

Xia Ming thought so, but R3AI didn't move again.

Since R3AI didn't urge itself to format, it shouldn't be too troublesome, Xia Ming thought so and began to sort out the data in the plane of consciousness.

Professor Xu is an academic authority on artificial intelligence and has a deep knowledge of quantum physics, having participated in the design of the D-wave quantum computer. Later, Professor Xu proposed that the quantum effect of the brain could be used as a new direction to study quantum computing and promote artificial intelligence research, but it was regarded as an extreme conjecture such as Boltzmann's brain by the academic circle, and those academic scammers who created the concepts of "quantum life" and "quantum brain" and sold all kinds of fakes.

Xia Ming hasn't touched quantum physics yet, after all, the system of physics is much larger than mathematics, and he doesn't have that time yet, but the knowledge of quantum computing is still at the level of popular science, after all, the stalk of "Schrödinger's cat" has even been used up in online novels.

To put it simply, a data bit in a classical computer only represents 0 or 1, but a data bit qubit (Qb) in a quantum computer represents both 0 and 1. By extension, a traditional computer stores an N-bit number, which is only one of 2^N numbers, but N-bit qubits store all the numbers of 2^N, and 500 qubits can store 2^500 numbers, which is larger than the number of atoms in the whole universe.

Another feature of quantum computing is parallel operations, which allow simultaneous operations on all the numbers represented by qubits. For example, if a "quantum star person" wants to find Xia Ming on the earth, it does not need to screen from more than seven billion people step by step according to the characteristics of gender, age, country, and place of origin, but conjures more than seven billion doppelgangers, each of which corresponds to one person to confirm.

The mainstream direction of quantum computing research is to find how to apply and simplify this "person-to-person" method in practical problems, but whether it is the quantum annealing method of D-wave or the quantum gate circuit that still cannot be touched, Professor Xu believes that this is the direction of traditional computers, that is, von Neumann structures, which can only carry machine intelligence rather than real artificial intelligence.

"Since artificial intelligence is based on humans, why not start with the intelligence of cloning humans?"

Professor Xu's paper published in Science is one such rhetorical question. Of course, the "intelligence of a clone" here is not the same as that of a "clone". Professor Xu hopes to use the idea of biomimicry to create a "simulated brain" that can be used for observation and analysis.

This direction is not a DNA computer as hot as quantum computing, but a quantum effect based on the brain.

The idea that there are quantum effects in the brain is considered a deviant heresy in the academic community, after all, the existing science shows that all the movements of the brain, such as memory and thinking, come from the biochemical reactions of the synapses, and there is no evidence that there is a microscopic movement involving quantum superposition states in the reaction process.

However, the so-called "existing science" is also unreliable, even if it can ignore ethics and morality, press a living person into a particle accelerator and blast a few shots at the brain, it will not prove anything, after all, the brain is a complex whole.

The mainstream denial of the quantum effects of the brain in academia is nothing more than an inference based on common sense. Quantum motion is microscopic and only manifests at the macroscopic level under extreme conditions such as cosmic motion and particle accelerators. The brain has neither a super magnetic field nor its own particle accelerator, and the matter that makes up the brain is also very common, so what does the quantum move in it have to do with the brain's thinking?

Professor Xu and many others who advocate the existence of quantum effects in the brain believe that not being observed does not mean that there is none, and that there are indeed phenomena involving quantum motion in the biochemical reaction process of synapses. For example, Professor Fisher of the University of California has discovered that elements such as phosphorus and calcium involved in synaptic biochemical reactions will produce nuclear spin during the reaction, which produces a quantum effect.

Learning this, Xia Ming also feels that the human brain is really similar to an ideal quantum computer in a sense.

The brain generally has 14 billion brain cells, each brain cell has 1,000 to 10,000 nerve synapses, synapses are also divided into electrical synapses and chemical synapses, electrical synapses are not to mention, each chemical synapse is also divided into hundreds or thousands of synaptic vesicles, and each synaptic vesicle transmits signals in a large range of changes due to the different number of transmitter molecules.

Not only is the structure complex, but the movement of the brain is also a parallel structure, and the human mind is not like a computer, transmitting signals step by step. The idea of billions of brain cells in different regions of the brain moving at the same time is similar in principle to quantum computing.

Of course, Xia Ming's connection between the two is certainly far-fetched, but Professor Xu's research is similar in the general direction.

After understanding this background knowledge, Xia Ming can probably understand the principle of the "integrated artificial intelligence platform" built by Professor Xu and Tang Xiaotang.

This platform uses a certain type of crystallized artificial nerve synapse, attached to a special metal mesh in a superconducting environment, to simulate the principle of electrical synapses, forming a "simulated brain". This is just hardware, and the software is a quaternary-based approach to quantum computing.

The research conducted by Professor Xu on this platform is somewhat difficult to understand, but in short, assuming that Professor Xu's academic claim is correct, that human brain movement is a complex "neural quantum computing", then there should also be a simple neural quantum computing in the "simulated brain" composed of artificial nerve synapses.

Taking this hypothesis as a premise for research, it is not necessary to start with the quantum effect itself and use a particle accelerator to observe changes at the quantum level, but to operate it as a quantum computer. If the results are consistent with the characteristics of quantum computing, the research will be successful.

It's easy to say, but actual research is not a one-time operation, a result can be obtained, and conclusions can be drawn, but there are many steps and stages.

The design of the simulated brain was completed by Professor Xu, and the operation plan was also formulated by Professor Xu, and it was Tang Xiaotang who really created the simulated brain. She holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering and a Ph.D. in materials science, and is credited with crystallizing artificial nerve synapses and special metal meshes that serve as signal inputs, transmissions, and outputs, as well as building a superconducting environment for the entire platform.

"I really have to worship......"

After understanding this platform, Xia Ming sincerely admires Professor Xu and Tang Xiaotang.

Then he was puzzled, if there was no problem with these materials, and Professor Xu and Tang Xiaotang had no reservations about him in principle, how could such a "simulated brain" just simulate the operation of the brain at a very rough level, how could he create the R3AI in his brain?

The more I know, the more I don't understand, and it seems that seeing is believing......

The next day, Xia Ming walked into the basement, and didn't see the installation full of sci-fi atmosphere, the control room was a rack and a desk in the dirt, and the huge green doughnut lying horizontally in the laboratory had nothing to do with high technology.

The doughnut is about five or six meters in diameter and nearly a meter thick, and with the cement pillars that support it, it is almost a man tall.

Xia Ming walked around the doughnut, and Lin Cheng reminded: "Liquid nitrogen will be added when it is running, and don't approach it when the time comes, otherwise it will be the end of tearing off a layer of skin directly." ”

Xia Ming nodded obediently, this doughnut is a formidable existence in every sense, such as the R3AI in his head, which should have slipped out of here.

Rubbing the layer of green lacquered steel shell, Xia Ming asked, "What is it called?" I mean...... There should be a code name for something like this. ”

"R3AI", Lin Cheng said the name that shocked Xia Ming's heart, and the next sentence made him lose his mind instantly.

"But everybody calls it a thousand faces."

"A Thousand Faces ......"

The name, which had been pressed deep in his heart for more than a year, jumped out like this, making Xia Ming's heart tremble.

"Why, that's the name?" Xia Ming asked in a hoarse voice, not daring to turn his face away, for fear that Lin Cheng would see his strange look.

Lin Cheng shrugged: "Xiaotang took it, she said that R3AI is like a person with a thousand faces, and our research is to find its true face." ”

Xia Ming sighed, and his emotions calmed down, what a coincidence.

In the control room, Tang Xiaotang ignored the two and looked at the phone, but on the phone screen was Xia Ming's side face, which should have been taken by the camera in the laboratory. The image is very large, and Xia Ming's expression can be clearly seen, shock, surprise, and sadness, which can be seen in his widening eyes and the corners of his reddened eyes.

"What did you do last summer?"

Tang Xiaotang muttered in a low voice.