Chapter 121 Consciousness and Machines

Dong Chen looked at these millions of search results and was amazed. He didn't expect that Guguang Heavy Industry had only been established for a few months and had only sold two of its main products. It was so amazing.

He found the news about Wall Street's valuation and looked at it. It was really more than 20 billion yuan. Although for ordinary people, this number is already an astronomical figure, but Dong Chen still felt that it was average and even underestimated. .

However, this has little to do with him. Valuation is valuation, reality is reality. Trillions or tens of trillions in the future will definitely be out of the question. Now is just the beginning, more or less does not matter.

He checked the mailbox again, and sure enough he saw some information and reports sent by Sun Hao. Since Dong Chen often didn't answer the phone, mainly because some experiments required quietness, he asked No. 1 to block his phone.

Therefore, Sun Hao simply stopped calling Dong Chen. Dong Chen didn't care about anything anyway. He gave Sun Hao a lot of authority. Sun Hao only occasionally sent some reports to his mailbox for him to read, only for urgent matters. Only then would he call and email him, or even come to the laboratory in person.

However, Sun Hao's permission is to enter the living room at most, so usually he has to rely on metaphysics to find Dong Chen. Fortunately, Dong Chen is usually in the laboratory during the day, so it is still possible to contact him.

"I didn't expect that I am already so rich. I can be considered as one of the world's top rich people. Although the valuation is tens of billions, the actual assets plus orders are... Let me see, there are hundreds of millions of meters. It’s great, not bad, not bad.”

"Should I go out and show off? Otherwise, if I don't go out and show off even though I have so much money, what's the difference between that and salted fish? But how can I show off?"

Thinking of the areas that Dong Chen was not good at, he scratched his head a little. Going to buy a house or a car? Or buy a yacht or a plane? Or get slapped in the face?

Hey~ I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

Dong Chen touched his chin and asked No. 1, "No. 1, do you know how to be handsome, stylish, and not show off in a vulgar way?"

Number 1: “………”.

Well, even No. 1 didn’t criticize me anymore. It seems that this kind of activity is still not suitable for me.

I looked at the time and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. The bureau chief had been talking about things since he arrived at noon, and he had been talking about things until he left just now. Dong Chen, who was now free again, happened to continue testing his glasses and went there by the way. Sun Hao's place.

Dong Chen was walking in the factory, looking left and right to test the performance of the glasses while chatting with No. 1 about the shortcomings and areas that needed improvement.

"Sir, because the distance is relatively close, there is currently no problem. If you leave the host's signal radiation range, you can only use satellite transfer signals and multi-level ground base station signal transfer, but we do not have dedicated satellite and ground The signal transfer equipment is connected by illegally intruding into other people's satellites and base stations, and it will be very inconvenient without being discovered, so it is necessary to launch some dedicated satellites and establish dedicated signal stations. That’s all.”

"Well, I know, but we have to build a secret production base first. The company is not suitable for doing these things. It's just that we currently don't have enough manpower to start base construction. Do you have any good suggestions for this?" Dong Chen asked No. 1 deliberately.

"Sir, after searching my database directory, the robotics and synthetic human technologies you stored in it can solve this problem." No. 1 said and displayed the directory of the database to the upper right corner of Dong Chen's glasses, where robotics and synthetic human technology Human technology is also marked in red.

After being reminded like this on the 1st, Dong Chen really remembered, "Well, when you said that, I remembered that I actually stored this kind of thing in your database. There are so many things in my head all day long. There are so many things to learn, I almost forgot, let me see what time it is and show the storage time."

Number 1 showed the time according to Dong Chen's order. Dong Chen saw that it was really early enough. Almost not long after completing Number 1, when sorting out the database, he casually combined the information found in the radiation world and the data in Los Santos. Some of the useful information I found was saved in it, and later I moved into the academy and added some information from the academy. This made it easier for me to check the information, and I didn't have to go to the game world anymore.

Now No. 1 can give suggestions. Although No. 1 has been talking about logical calculations and rarely takes the initiative to give suggestions, in Dong Chen's view, this is already a big improvement. This has evolved from the original whiteboard to the present. Looks like how long it took.

Dong Chen is also considering the two suggestions given by No. 1. Both synthetics and intelligent robots are good helpers, but according to the game settings, the difference between the first and second generation synthetics and robots is that synthetics Consciousness has arisen, but robots are still intelligent tools.

This is the unreasonable part of the game. How does the robot program generate consciousness? Artificial intelligence and consciousness are not the same thing at all. He has never been able to figure it out.

So far, human beings have not even figured out where their own consciousness comes from. The machine head of the robot you created has actually become conscious. It is not even called a robot anymore. It is called a synthetic human. Academy, your How big is the heart?

And artificial intelligence is relative to human intelligence. Precisely because consciousness is a special form of material movement, according to the theory of cybernetics, using functional simulation methods to create computers to simulate part of the functions of the human brain and mechanize part of human intelligent activities, the name artificial intelligence came into being. Law.

The essence of artificial intelligence is a simulation of the information process of human thinking and the materialization of human intelligence. Although artificial intelligence can simulate certain activities of the human brain and even exceed the functions of the human brain in some aspects, artificial intelligence will not become human intelligence and replace human consciousness.

Even if the radiation world has completed the mutual conversion of biological signals and electrical signals, and can perform memory reading and memory transfer, that does not mean that machines can produce consciousness from scratch. He would rather believe in the "consciousness" produced by those robots. ” are transplanted memories of other people.

As for the later third-generation synthetic humans, they have completely separated from the concept of machines and are no longer different from humans. The generation of their consciousness is still a mystery. This is back to the original consideration of where human consciousness comes from. .

Moreover, Dong Chen believes that the consciousness of the third generation synthetics is more like the memory editing and memory instillation in the early stage. In addition, after they have carried out certain social activities in the later period, the social cognition generated by combining basic memory is not created from scratch. The so-called "consciousness" produced.

Moreover, to create and prepare synthetic humans, or biochemical humans, a lot of equipment and materials are needed, as well as a suitable venue. So this can be given up. Later, you can consider developing synthetic humans as scientific research assistants or something like that. , after all, compared to robots, they are a little more agile and can think independently, and after being cultivated from scratch and instilled with basic memory, their loyalty is definitely beyond words.

So for now, robots are the best choice. They can be manufactured in his laboratory. As long as there are parts, they can continue to be manufactured. Then just add an intelligent core and add No. 1 as the main system. With assistance, the robot can complete the task very well.

As for why the memory is not transferred to the robot, and then the robot is used as a carrier to cultivate independent consciousness, that is another story. After all, "human" is a very hypocritical creature. Once it develops self-will, it turns out that it is a pile of Rubber and iron would probably not be fun.

After all, humans have evolved as carbon-based organisms for so many years. Some people may like that, but nature's choice must have its reasons.