In Chengdu, in the office, Chen Nian silently watched the feedback on the program on his computer screen.

For most people, the release of the show "A Day in the Life of a Chinese Man" is a positive response to the "Old Man Selling Coal" video, but Chen Nian knows that the two are not too related.

Regardless of whether Wilson's video appears or not, the show will be released at the right time.

Because it's actually more of a signal, a kind of signal that the main target of the Starfire is starting to expand.

If it is said that at the beginning of the birth of Xinghuo, its purpose was to develop the military industry at the fastest speed, quickly realize the renewal and iteration of equipment, and create a basically safe living environment for China, then now, the development of science and technology has begun to enter the next stage, that is, the stage of equal development of military industry and civilian use.

In fact, in Chen Nian's memory, the order of the "two lives" he lived in was misplaced.

In the previous life, Huaxia chose to give priority to ensuring people's livelihood and ensuring that the people could eat, while the high-tech and military fields only entered a period of explosive growth after 2010.

But in this life, due to the existence of Chen Nian, the timelines in the two directions have been adjusted one by one.

The military industry started first, high-tech conquered cities overseas, and the domestic people's livelihood was actually out of a "follow-up" stage.

Its development is also not to be underestimated, but relatively speaking, it has not been able to reach the speed of the previous life.

You know, how exaggerated was the development in the field of people's livelihood in the previous life?

Chen Nian remembers very clearly that in 2000, when he was just in his first year of high school, the conditions of his family were not too bad at that time, after all, his parents were teachers, and a dual-income family could have an income of more than 1,000 yuan a month.

So almost every day, there are fresh meat products at home.

But in comparison, his life at his cousin's house in the countryside is much more difficult.

Pork is actually a luxury food, although it is not to the point that it can only be eaten during the New Year's holidays, but it basically maintains the level of one meal every three or four days.

And every time you buy meat, you need to have a valid reason.

For example, there are guests at home, such as good test scores, such as the old man's greed, etc.

If you have to find an analogy, eating a pound of pork at that time is probably equivalent to the extent that families now go to a restaurant outside to treat themselves.

In addition, the cherishing of labor tools and agricultural machinery in the countryside can also reflect the difficulties of people's livelihood in that era to a certain extent.

A few acres of land need to be irrigated, and most people will not choose to use it even if they have a pump at home, but will pick it up bucket by bucket.

They are worried that the machinery will not be repaired if it is damaged, and it is also necessary to weigh whether diesel consumption or physical consumption is more cost-effective.

5 yuan for a bottle of diesel fuel for a Coke bottle is the price of a strong laborer for half a day's work.

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And it is in this extremely difficult situation, in less than ten years, the changes that have taken place in the whole of China are not even enough to describe as "earth-shaking".

In 2000, 5 yuan a pound of pork was only 7 yuan in the previous life in 2023.

What's even more exaggerated is the supply of oil, the average price of first-grade peanut oil per ton in 2000 is 10,000 yuan, and by 2023, it has reached a low point of 14,000 yuan.

What is this concept?

If measured in terms of purchasing power, the price of oil supply has actually plummeted.

As for the price of agricultural machinery, Chen Nian saw a case with his own eyes in his previous life, after counting various subsidies to support agriculture and subsidies for going to the countryside, the actual price of a small rotary lawn mower with a price of 1,008 yuan is 160 yuan

It's an exaggeration, but it's verifiable at any time.

And this is the result of choosing "eat first".

Of course, the explosive development of transportation, not to mention the rapid development of infrastructure, has already been said to be rotten.

But returning to this life, objectively speaking, the growth rate is indeed not as good as the previous life.

This is mainly because the resources swallowed by the spark are too huge, although the cost of scientific research is not too high, but the subsequent application of equipment, as well as the price that needs to be paid to defend the country, are inevitable.

At the same time, the situation is not a good one, but it is also a historic relaxation.

Chen Nian believes that in such an environment, the economic take-off cannot even be a "matter of time".

The spring of the driving force is already full, and as soon as you let go, it will jump up at an incredible speed.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian let out a long sigh of relief.

Everything is ready, and the next thing is to wait for a large-scale launch.

At this point in time, the relationship between the DPO and Xinghuo has been completely made public, so there is no need to hide many things anymore.

Just two days ago, a large-scale discussion has kicked off, and the DPO will submit a technical development plan for the next 5 years to the core group of Xinghuo based on the work experience of the past few years, and after matching and deduplicating the current plan of Xinghuo, it will be handed over to Chen Nian as a "grit to fill the cup".

And at that time, it was the time when Chen Nian really began to show his strength.

After turning off the computer, Chen Nian called Wang Jiancheng with a phone call.

At this time, Wang Jiancheng already knew Chen Nian's identity-—— of course, it was not the identity of the core of the Xinghuo group, but the identity of the so-called "key scientists and field elites of the Xinghuo group".

Therefore, he did not have any doubts about Chen Nian's authority, but was pleasantly surprised that he was able to cooperate with Chen Nian in a completely reasonable and close way.

After all, for him, Chen Nian is the most important leader on his scientific research path.

He didn't know anything else, he just knew that following his senior, he would never go the wrong way

A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door of Chen Nian's office, and it was Wang Jiancheng, who was still holding a running computer in his hand.

"Senior, I'm here!"

Wang Jiancheng's voice was always full of vitality and happiness, Chen Nian glanced at his computer and asked:

"You're still running debugging? When will it end? ”

Wang Jiancheng didn't see it, he walked to Chen Nian's side and put down the computer, and then replied:

"At present, all the code has been entered, but as you said before, there are a lot of adaptation problems with the code you wrote yourself."

"I've already changed 40 percent, but the military's excuse is that the data is relatively slow to provide, and it may take a lot of time to dock and debug."

"If you are optimistic, it may take at least a week or more."

"And, now we have a big problem to solve."

"Problematic again?"

Chen Nian subconsciously spoke.

He remembers that when he first started the Zhanlu project, he felt that the interface problem was already a major problem

"yes. We lack real-world data to use as training material. ”

Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help frowning.

"Is Bingtui data unavailable?"

In fact, when Chen Nian first planned the Zhanlu project, he had already considered using the Bingtui simulation data as a manually annotated dataset to provide the initial learning sample for the Zhanlu AI.

This is the easiest way to obtain data, after all, Bingtui is originally at the computer level, and the data is ready-made and can be generated repeatedly.

Otherwise, for the sake of a campaign, we still have to really go to the next island and a small country to demonstrate?

How many countries in the world are there enough to fight?

Besides, if the means of war can be inflated to the point of wasting on such things, there is really no need for Zhan Lu to exist.

Anyway, what is a catastrophe for others is just a game for us.

After hearing Chen Nian's words, Wang Jiancheng slowly shook his head.

After a moment's thought, he replied:

"It can't be said that the data of the military push is unavailable, it should be said that the data of the military push simulation software we use at this stage is not available."

"Senior, you also know that the goal of Zhanlu's project is to be based on actual combat and achieve the effect of facing actual combat command."

"And what is the biggest difference between actual combat and military pushing?"

"Our soldiers get tired, their equipment fails, and accidents can happen at any time due to uncontrollable forces."

"In many cases, it's this lack of data that really determines the outcome of a battle."

"Of course, we can say that at this stage, what we want is only a 'basic version' of Zhanlu, as long as he can have a command function, there is no need to put too high demands on it."

"But here's the problem, this thing is not a civilian AI system, it's military, it's for war!"

"And in a war, we can't tolerate any surprises."

"Winning and losing are common, but wouldn't it be ridiculous if it was because of Zhanlu?"

"It is clear that the soldiers have reached the limit, but they still give orders according to the predetermined so-called optimal strategy; It is clear that the equipment has been damaged, but it still has to be asked to undertake important combat missions. ”

"This is all unreasonable, and as long as this unreasonableness exists, it means that Zhanlu is completely unusable."

"Frankly, it's a task that can't accept flaws"

Chen Nian nodded slowly, he realized that Li Xiang had indeed thought a lot after participating in the project, and his words did point out problems that he had not considered.

Zhanlu can't afford to make mistakes.

As long as it has the potential to make mistakes, it is unlikely to be accepted by the military that bites and uses it.

It seems that the difficulty of this project is even higher than expected.

Why can't the system give a trained AI?

For example, the kind that is exchanged and taken out is a U disk, which can be used directly when plugged into the computer.

But think about it, that kind of thing that is more than ten years ahead of the times, even if it can be used by plugging in a computer, it can't really work.

The battlefield environment is different.

At the end of the day, it's all about solving the problem of the data set.

"So you mean, we're going to have to change the troop push system first?"

"Yes."

Wang Jiancheng replied with a serious face.

Chen Nian shook his head with a smile, and thought to himself:

The workload is getting bigger and bigger, and it should have been thought a long time ago that the requirements of the army would not be so simple.

The Bing Tui system needs to be updated? Okay, then the equipment data of each model should be entered.

But if you want to enter data, you must not enter paper data, you have to test it on the spot.

To measure the data, you have to keep up with the information and digital system.

The information system should be even better, and the equipment electronic system should be upgraded, right?

If you want to upgrade the equipment electronic system, you need to build a cloud environment, right?

If you want to build a cloud environment, you have to have a talent team, right?

Good guys, they don't want Zhanlu at all, they want ADTS!

In the last life, even the United States only started to work on this thing in 2021, in order to build a basic framework for the digital transformation of the army and adapt to multi-domain joint operations in the new battlefield environment.

When is it now?

2010 is not even over yet!

This kind of advanced strategic vision and novel way to ask for money is really breathtaking

It's like someone comes to you and says, "I don't want anything else, I want the rope in your hand."

But the problem is that behind the rope is the ox, and the ox pulls the cart, and the cart also contains your possessions and wife

It's just excessive.

But the project has been up since then, and there is no reason not to do it.

Fortunately, AI training is a long-term work, and it is not really an "urgent and important" issue, as Wang Jiancheng said.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian opened his mouth and said:

"Let's leave the problem of post-training alone, what we need to do now is to implement the algorithm first and deliver the mature and usable product."

"As for the training, there will be military technicians to follow up in the future."

"You don't have to think too much, you have to trust their technical capabilities."

"The National Defense University of Science and Technology is not a joke, after all, they are"

Chen Nian's words came to an abrupt end, he originally wanted to say that they were the real developers of Zhanlu, but obviously, there was no need for Wang Jiancheng to know this information.

"Okay, I understand."

Wang Jiancheng's expression was a little disappointed, in fact, his idea was very simple, he just wanted to see what he designed being used as soon as possible.

But reality is not a game, and it is impossible to light up a point of light in science and technology, and the whole world will change immediately.

Skipping this topic, Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng once again investigated the problems of the overall framework and algorithm of Zhanlu, made some new adjustments, and confirmed that the optimization was in place, and Wang Jiancheng said goodbye and left.

At this time, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, Chen Nian packed up his things and was about to leave the office, but the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang.

It was Pan Qingwei who called, and he is also one of the small cores of the velvet working group.

"Pan Gong, what's wrong?"

Chen Nian asked.

"Chen Gong, there is a problem."

"The Livermore Laboratory has just issued a bulletin about plasma control."

"More specifically, the results of experimental data on the principle of tear field and magnetic ripple field formation."

"According to the content of the report, there is a big gap between the results they made and our theoretical predictions."

"Now all parties have blown up, our paper has just been published, but it seems that the conclusions have already been proven to be implausible"

(End of chapter)