Zhu Jingyuan continued to move and recuperate, and after three months, he experienced a hibernation again.

This time, the time was extended to a month, and the body's metabolic rate was reduced to 56 percent.

The effect is a little better than the first time, but there is still no essential difference.

After Zhu Jingyuan woke up, in the process of being examined and adjusting his body, he learned about the situation in the world through newspapers and his son's report.

The year 2080 of the emperor's Gregorian calendar, that is, the end of the fifth year of Changning.

Judy Lanthanum has officially decided to extend the duration of free education until the end of secondary school.

Zhu believes that in the future, intelligent machines will be widely used to work, which will require ordinary workers to have a higher level of knowledge.

At the same time, factories that are gradually applying smart machines have seen a significant increase in production efficiency and a significant decrease in the number of workers needed.

Therefore, it is necessary to build more factories at the same time to accept the workers who cannot be used up on the original old production line.

At the same time, the working hours of workers are reduced, reducing the working hours to six hours per day, increasing the number and efficiency of workers who are actually needed.

Factories that need to work all day have gone from three shifts to four shifts, while the number of vacation days remains the same.

At the same time, the wages of workers are raised.

Ten years ago, according to the eight-hour work system, the basic wage of workers in government factories reached 100 silver bills, and this year it has reached 150 silver bills.

Next, according to the six-hour work system, the monthly count of 150 silver bills was maintained, and the gradual increase was gradually increased to 200 silver bills.

At the same time, the market selling price of the product is reduced to maintain the balance between productivity and purchasing power.

In addition to this, the Air Force completed the final assembly of the space laboratory and at the same time completed the deployment of low-altitude internet satellites.

The operation time of the controlled nuclear fusion experimental device has been extended again, and new breakthroughs have been made in quantum computer research.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that Zhu Dilan's approach was very reasonable, and his son was still very safe, so he did not express any opinions.

At the beginning of 2081, Zhu Jingyuan tried to sleep for three months at a time, and his body's metabolic rate decreased to 52 percent.

After that, Zhu Jingyuan kept dormant for three months and awake for a month.

A month of soberness adjusts and examines the body, and at the same time understands the changing pattern of the situation in the world.

If Judy Lanthanum has any questions, answer them as you understand them.

But now it is more appropriate to discuss it than an answer.

Zhu Dilan's brain is actually smarter than Zhu Jingyuan, but her experience and experience are far less abundant than Zhu Jingyuan.

After Zhu Di Lanthanum has more experience, Zhu Jingyuan will slowly become a consultant.

It's not that Zhu Jingyuan doesn't want to continue to extend the dormancy time, but the current technical level is still limited.

For the time being, this length can only be guaranteed to be safe and controllable, and unforeseen risks may arise after a longer period of time.

However, research institutes are also working hard to tackle key problems, conducting experiments on other organisms and volunteers.

Develop more drugs that work better, and design better, safer life-sustaining devices.

Three years later, in 2083 of the Emperor's Gregorian calendar, Zhu Jingyuan's dormant time was extended to six months each time.

The construction of the complex machine intelligence experimental field in Yingzhou has been basically completed.

The first phase of the experiment officially began.

Using 10,000 intelligent components as brains and a large number of semi-independent mechanical components as bodies, a four-legged mechanical animal was constructed.

Its form is a reference to a tiger, but its body size resembles that of an adult elephant, and it was named Yingzhou No. 1.

From an engineering point of view, Yingzhou-1 does not have any practical value now.

The brains of 10,000 semi-independent micro-machines are like a large heap of electronic waste.

The tens of thousands of nerve lines that connect from the brain to the whole body are like a lump of ramen noodles that have just been fished out of a pot.

It has an unusually abundant and even excessive number of sensors, and all structures throughout the body that make no sense.

There are also overly complex mechanical bodies that simply do not conform to typical design principles.

If the craftsman does not write any drivers, Yingzhou No. 1 is just a pile of pure dead things, and will not have any direct reaction to the outside world in itself.

After writing the drive that controls the body, it also needs the craftsman to give instructions, and it will follow the instructions and make the simplest movements.

Because this body is so complicated, the driver is also complicated, which makes the craftsmen bald.

It is extremely difficult to move any part of the body.

It can't even walk.

In the 2085 year of the emperor's Gregorian calendar and the tenth year of Changning, Zhu Jingyuan's dormancy time was extended to ten months.

Judy Lanthanum divided each decade into two halves, and the last day of the first half was designated as a rest day.

In this way, there are three days of rest for ten days of each month, for a total of nine days of rest for the thirty days of each month.

Yingzhou's complex mechanical intelligence experiment has entered the second stage, and the complex machine Yingzhou No. 2, composed of 100,000 originals, has been completed.

Yingzhou 1 is still kept for experimentation, constantly optimizing and upgrading the driver and body structure.

The body of Yingzhou 2 is larger, already like a dinosaur in ancient history.

There is no essential difference between the performance of Yingzhou 2 and 1.

It's just that the craftsmen's technology has improved, the scale of components has become smaller, and the drivers have become more perfect.

Yingzhou No. 2 can stand up and walk.

Judy Lanthanum has set goals, and the next phase of the experiment is divided into two directions.

One is to shrink the brain of Yingzhou 2 and at the same time design the body of a fish to experiment in a specially dug pool.

Even rats have tens of millions of brain cells, and a brain made up of 100,000 components may not be enough to control the body of a quadruped land animal.

The other direction is to continue to do more component composition brains to determine whether a larger number of originals will have an additional effect.

Emperor Gregorian calendar 2090, Changning 15th year March 10.

Zhu Jingyuan was woken up outside of the scheduled time.

His biological mother Liang Yunying died.

Zhu Jingyuan, who is 80 years old, only has a faint sadness in his heart about the death of his biological mother.

While adjusting his body step by step, Zhu Jingyuan first read the latest reports of the past two years.

The Air Force has completed the construction of its first lunar base, which can be used for long-term duty and experiments on the lunar surface.

Yingzhou 3 has been built for two years, a shark-shaped intelligent machine with a brain and nervous system composed of 100,000 originals.

Two years after it was built, a lot of experiments were conducted, and the simpler body structure allowed it to be significantly more flexible.

However, the most direct experimental goal, that is, the discovery of mechanical autonomous consciousness, has not made any substantial progress.

Yingzhou-4 is a mechanical animal with a high-level brain and nervous system composed of one million originals.

The brain and body have become more complex and massive, and it also has no engineering utility.

There has also been no substantial progress in the final experimental goals.

Overall, driven by the widespread use of smart machines, social productivity is soaring rapidly.

The silicon semiconductor industry seems to have reached its physical limit, but it seems that it has not reached it.

It seems that there is no way to shrink the individual transistors themselves, but they can go from lying flat to lying on their sides.

Then from lying on your side to sitting, from sitting to standing, and finally layer by layer.

With the continuous optimization of process and design, the equivalent process has been pressed to 0.1 nanometers.

Due to the special nature of quantum computers, general-purpose quantum computers are difficult to implement.

But now there are mixed-mode computers that use traditional silicon computers as controllers and quantum computers as calculators.

The computing efficiency has been improved by several orders compared to traditional computers in the past.

On the other hand, various types of intelligent machinery have been basically popularized in the four official factories of Daming.

Small-scale private capital has accelerated in this era, and now there are basically only self-employed people on the streets.

The basic salary of the workers in the government factory was raised to 300 silver bills per month, which can probably be converted into 30,000 yuan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

However, the regular prices in the major cities of the Ming Dynasty are still only at the level of the small counties in their previous lives.

The price of a normal car has dropped to a hundred silver bills with the spread of smart machines.

Three hundred silver bills are already high-end cars.

The price of a typical fully functional smartphone drops to a few silver bills.

What's more, the real role of money is declining at an accelerated pace as private manufacturers are dying out.

More and more people don't know what they can do with their money.

But people can't go to work at all, and all the basic social services are in the four major industrial groups.

As long as you join the four major industrial groups, you have to do a little work according to the plan.

But it's usually not a hard job.

If it is a worker in a production factory, shop or other service firm.

Work six hours a day, two days off and one day off, with an additional day of free choice for each decade.

In the era of complete informatization and a high degree of intelligence, there is less and less opportunity for managers at all stages to get their hands on it.

It is already possible to give the most grassroots workers more freedom to choose yes or no.

There's no need to worry too much about voluntary becoming compulsory.

All workers work in shifts, ensuring that the factory and the store itself are never closed.

As for the business of program development, the system of three repairs and two repairs is implemented, and the first three days of work are carried out in the middle of each half, and the last two days are rested.

All of them have a total of four days off per decade and a total of twelve days off per month.

In the imperial court and at all levels of the yamen, there were more and more volunteers among the grassroots officials, that is, people who did not aim to make money and be promoted.

The competition for promotion of officials has become more intense.

Any little fault, a little thing that is not done well, may be found out by competitors.

It will be deducted during the next system rotation assessment.

More and more traditional bureaucrats are being phased out, and the remaining bureaucrats are increasingly moving towards social service positions.

Zhu Jingyuan completed the physical adjustment step by step and went to attend his mother's funeral.

After living in isolation for a long time, Zhu Jingyuan no longer has the ability to preside over his mother's funeral in person.

This kind of thing can only be handed over to his half-brother Zhu Jingqi.

My younger brother is just sixty-two years old this year, and he is not a particularly old person in this era.

Although he did not have the opportunity to touch the throne, under the protection of his father and his own brother, he was a carefree rich idler all his life.

Enjoying the best medical care, there are basically no wrinkles on his face, and his hair is still completely black.

At first glance, it looks no different from someone in his forties.

He has the knowledge and experience and the energy he has now to deal with any kind of business.

After Zhu Jingyuan participated in the funeral ceremony, he did not immediately return to his residence to rest and adjust, but met with Emperor Zhu Dilan.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Di Lanping retired everyone and said a little idea to Zhu Jingyuan:

"Father, according to the current experiment, simply piling up the number of intelligent originals seems to have no practical effect at all.

"We have more units than a typical autonomous animal, but we don't have any autonomy.

"The human craftsman does not design direct instructions, the other party is a simple machine.

"After continuous experimentation, consideration and analysis, the craftsmen have recently proposed a new research direction.

"They believe that advanced animals and humans, when they are first born, usually do nothing.

"When animals are young, they have weak control over their bodies, they walk staggeringly, and when they mature, they also need to learn to hunt with their mothers.

"Humans can't speak, stand or move when they're young, and they learn it slowly as they grow.

Some scholars believe that compared with the operating logic of intelligent machines, this is a process of self-adjustment and installation of drivers.

"And the machines we built before, according to the principle of absolute reliability and controllability, did not give the machines any autonomy.

"Their drivers are all manually programmed by us and written directly on the memory chip.

On the other hand, the machine intelligence learning and creation system running on a single computer already has the ability to write programs on its own.

"So there are craftsmen who suggest adding similar functionality to complex smart machines.

"Allow complex intelligent machines to start machine learning and let them write their own drivers and applications.

"But there's obviously a risk here.

"The programs written by machines themselves are not necessarily absolutely controllable for us humans.

"It may lead to procedures and judgments that are not good for humans.

"So I'd like to ask my father to give me an idea......"

After listening to this, Zhu Jingyuan fell into deep thought.

Because of Zhu Jingyuan's original suggestion, Zhu Di Lanan and the craftsmen were extremely wary of complex intelligent machines.

All data entering the control system is scrutinized, and the amount of data entering the system is always minimized as much as possible.

The key is that machine learning capabilities have never been built on complex intelligent machines.

The craftsmen now judge that this path is likely to be impossible, and believe that such intelligent machines should not give birth to a self-consciousness field.

So now craftsmen want to try to introduce machine learning systems.

Machine learning means more possibilities, but among these possibilities there are also risky directions.

So much so that Zhu Dilan, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was a little undecided.

Zhu Jingyuan was also undecidable now, and his consciousness swayed back and forth on the two options.

With the current technology and scale of the Ming Dynasty, even if there is no truly complex intelligent machine, it can continue to prosper for a long time.

There is even a chance to enter the real world of Datong.

But there is also the risk of energy depletion and not being able to get out of the planet.

Sophisticated, intelligent machines with self-awareness may be the key to the next technological explosion.

Difficulties in cutting-edge technologies such as general-purpose quantum computers, controlled nuclear fusion energy, dark matter fuels and weapons, and sub-light spacecraft.

It may take the help of complex and intelligent machines to solve the problem really quickly.

The creation of intelligent machine servants to live in the extremely harsh space environment for a long time may be the premise for human beings to truly set foot in space.

Because the existing human body is too fragile and small compared to the entire universe.

Humans have only a chance to figure out what their own consciousness is going on when they give rise to self-consciousness in complex machines.

Only then will it be possible to achieve the advancement of the life nature of replacing the physical body with a machine.

But after the birth of intelligent machines that are not completely controllable, will humans be regarded as enemies and slave owners?

Will it become the natural enemy and terminator of human civilization?

The higher the level of civilization and technology, the more dangerous all decisions will become.

Because the energy levels they can operate are getting higher and higher, the scale and depth of the transactions they can influence are also increasing.

It is easier to destroy yourself.

Of course, it is also possible that all of your guesses are wrong, and intelligent machines are incapable of self-awareness.

(End of chapter)