Chapter 29: The Usefulness of "Artificial Intelligence" (Happy New Year)
Looking at Heidi's expectant eyes, Lucien smiled slightly: "It is indeed a very simple and impractical artificial intelligence ......"
Hearing the teacher's words, Heidi's expression immediately fell, and the magicians who participated in the creation, such as Cherly, Ophelia, Lowe, and Blake, also showed a look of frustration.
Sprint was happy to hit Heidi, who was usually grinning, at this time: "Look, the teacher also thinks that this is basically a toy, and it is a bulky and huge toy that cannot be used by ordinary people." ”
In his opinion, this artificial intelligence is poor in other aspects, and the only thing worthy of praise is that it does not need to be operated by a magician, and relies entirely on electrical energy to start and run, so it only needs an ordinary person who can understand the operation manual to complete the calculation, but the problem is that it is too big, too heavy, too precise and too expensive, and it is not suitable for promotion at all.
"My auxiliary calculation circle is only at the level of a mid-level magician, and if you change the advanced algorithm array in the laboratory or the teacher's legendary level auxiliary circle, it can explode your artificial intelligence in shame, hehe, the teacher's mental arithmetic ability can defeat it perfectly......" Sprint said unforgivingly.
He is not hostile to Heidi, on the contrary, he feels that Annick and Heidi and others are his few real friends, but he thinks that the more he hits Heidi at this time, the more motivated Heidi will be to improve artificial intelligence, and if he is himself, he will definitely be aroused full of desire to fight and refuse to admit defeat!
He has always been this character, but the feeling of being unruly has become much less.
Heidi glared at him fiercely, secretly vowing that she would build a perfect artificial intelligence. Defeat Sprint's auxiliary calculation circle once and for all, make his mouth open and can't close, and make his jaw fall to the ground!
Ellestin and Nodaniel want to comfort Heidi, but can't find the right words because they don't know anything about the field of artificial intelligence, and Katrina and Reilia give a thumbs up in encouragement, indicating that Heidi can do this for the first time!
Natasha next to her had a playful smile on her face, and according to what she knew about Lucian, straightforward criticism was often a precursor to praise, while the words of praise at the beginning were often connected with rebuttals and euphemistic accusations, to be described in his own words. This is called "implicit".
“...... Although this artificial intelligence has numerous shortcomings. But the spirit and direction embodied are enough to match the Arcane Award. Lucien continued.
Yes?
What the?
Heidi subconsciously rubbed her ears, suspecting that she was having auditory hallucinations, and that the rudimentary and impractical artificial intelligence contained the equivalent of Evans' Arcane Prize?
Lucien laughed, "There is no doubt that it is rudimentary and impractical, but in the most ancient times of magic. The first spells that our ancestors built from patterns on magical creatures. The same is rudimentary and impractical. In our eyes, they may be so ridiculous and pathetic, and they must use the spiritual power of the four or five rings to cast a spell that has been reduced to the apprentice level at the moment. But can we deny their contributions because of that?"
"Can't ......," Lazar replied tacitly.
Sprint and Annick and the others also nodded slightly, without the efforts of the magicians who seemed ridiculous and impractical at the beginning, there would be no magical civilization today!
"Therefore, the achievements of arcane and magic are developed step by step, Heidi, Cherry, Lowe, Blake, and Ophelia started from the blank design concept of artificial intelligence, and also walked step by step to today's first finished product, which is not easy, although it is still very simple, large and bulky, but the ideas and directions contained are of extremely important value. Lucien said with a solemn expression.
Heidi finally confirmed that the teacher was praising herself, and immediately raised her chin proudly, and then blushed slightly embarrassedly: "Teacher, the design concept is thanks to your guidance." ”
"My guidance is very limited, it is only a concept proposal, and the specific content is basically completed by you. Lucien glanced around at Heidi, Cherie and the others, "If you don't consider the volume, weight, and energy supply, how many times can you increase the computing speed of this artificial intelligence?"
“...... About four or five times, if there is a breakthrough in crystal research, maybe the speed of computing will increase by tens or hundreds of times, and the volume and weight will not increase. When talking about his vision for artificial intelligence, Heidi's gaze was slightly misty, "At that time, it will be comparable to the mental arithmetic of high-level magicians and the middle-level auxiliary magic circle!"
Sprint was a little surprised, there is so much room for performance improvement?
Lucien bowed his head slightly, and said to the puzzled Natasha, Lazar, Katrina and the others: "According to the artificial intelligence concept they designed, the bottleneck is only on materials and devices, and the development of materials and devices is extremely dependent on arcane research. ”
"This is an era in which various fields depend on each other and promote each other, for example, without a good auxiliary magic circle, many experiments in the micro field cannot be completed, and development will become slow. ”
"Perhaps in the future, we will be able to apply quantum superposition states to the field of artificial intelligence, so that it can be calculated faster than any magician, including Your Excellency the Speaker and me. Lucien described the prospect of artificial intelligence, and at the same time silently added in his heart that without quantum computers, when integrated circuits are completely mature, large-scale artificial intelligence can surpass the computing power of himself and His Excellency the Speaker.
However, in the world of magic, there may be some steps that can be skipped!
"More than the computing power of a legendary magician......" Heidi said in a daze, she herself had never imagined that artificial intelligence could reach this level!
In their hearts, even if the legendary magician does not have the help of the auxiliary calculation circle, his mental arithmetic ability is enough to be called terrifying, which belongs to the "inhuman" level!
Ellerstine listened quietly, repeating two terms in her mind: "quantum superposition...... Artificial intelligence ......"
Natasha looked curiously at the flickering red and green light: "This artificial intelligence seems to be able to be manipulated by ordinary people...... How much can its size, weight, and cost be simplified, and how many years will it take to meet the requirements for popularization and popularization?"
She has lived with Lucien for a long time, and she has also been infected with the problem of popularization, after all, she will feel proud and proud to watch her kingdom continue to change for the better, and watch her subjects enjoy a more and more simple and civilized life.
"When the transistor is available, it should only be the size of a steel golem, and the big aristocratic families can use it, but if you want to shrink it, it depends on the development of alchemy materials. Heidi roughly predicted, "Although the alchemy devices and magic patterns in this artificial intelligence are relatively simple and can be completed by ordinary magicians, they require a lot of devices and patterns, and the cost is about equivalent to a fifth-level high-level magic item if it cannot be produced and assembled in large quantities." ”
"It seems that it will take many years, but it is estimated that artificial intelligence, which is mainly based on computing power, is not needed by ordinary nobles and commoners. Natasha wasn't disappointed.
Lucien smiled beside him, and originally wanted to give an example of the "possible" applications of computers in civilian life, but so far there has been no corresponding prototype - such as television, so it is inconvenient to say it directly, so he can only say it with a little imagination: "After the computing power is improved, many things can be done, and the world will become more colorful!"
Eun Natasha looked at Lucien curiously, as did Heidi and Cherly, hoping to get inspiration from the teacher for the development of artificial intelligence.
"For example, we can use artificial intelligence to draw three-dimensional magic patterns, and it will be more accurate and stable than we can because it is entirely composed of numbers. Lucien deliberately said something that would intrigue the magician, "Then, we can have the AI directly build a spell model with these patterns!"
"And then, can the AI cast its own spells?" Heidi was intrigued.
Lucien smiled: "The spell model needs the infusion of energy to become a spell, we ourselves are replaced by the consumption of spiritual power, and artificial intelligence can use electric energy, but the problem is that its spell model is the same as the spell model in our soul, there is no entity, and it must rely on the disturbance of the outside world by spiritual power, and this special electromagnetic wave, we have not yet mastered it, and we cannot make artificial intelligence also have spiritual power." ”
"There are no physical ......" Annick seemed to think of something, all of the current simplified alchemy items have entities, so they can be directly powered by electricity, causing them to activate the corresponding magic.
"Well, so we can rub out the spell model built by the artificial intelligence and rub it out with the corresponding materials or scrolls. If the functional modules in this area are designed, the process will accurately and perfectly rub alchemy items or magic scrolls, and then directly stimulate them with mental power. Lucien has incorporated a little concept of 3D printing into the direction of artificial intelligence manufacturing of magic scrolls and alchemical items.
When he said this, Lucien also had a few bizarre pictures in his mind, maybe the future magicians only need to turn on the computer, search for the desired spell model and download it, or use auxiliary software to draw the required spell model, and then they can create magic scrolls through the "3D printing" of artificial intelligence, without the same troublesome and complicated as now.
It's not difficult to cast spells at all...... This may be the advertising slogan of artificial intelligence in the future, of course, the pre-technology required for 3D printing is not so simple.
Listening to the scene described by Lucian, Heidi, Ellerstine and the others were stunned, what kind of future was that! Can the magician still stop it? Wait, it seems that such a thing can not be limited to magicians, as long as they have the ability to inspire scrolls and items, they can cast magic through artificial intelligence! This doesn't seem to be a good thing for magicians?
Regardless of whether this development is good or bad for magicians, Heidi, Cherie and others are even more enthusiastic about the field of artificial intelligence, and they are doing an amazing thing!
Reyalia, Sprint, Roque and others all have similar ideas, and if it weren't for the tight schedule of arcane research and magic study at hand, they would all want to join Heidi's research group.
Natasha's gaze at Lucien was also full of interest, that kind of world seems to be very fun, magic is so interesting! (To be continued......)