I Really Didn’t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 649: Chapter 409: Let’s Change The World Together (5200 words, seeking monthly votes)_1

Having a new topic on the table, one that he is particularly interested in – the latest imaging technology – James stopped discussing the script with Harrison Clark, and instead focused on the new technology Harrison was describing

Without boasting, Harrison almost accurately described the performance of the first-generation self-domestication engine based on his memory.

“Diaz, have you seen the quantum computing programming approach I mentioned in ‘Madman’s Conjecture Collection 2.0’?”

“I have.”

“The core framework of the so-called self-domestication engine is built on the basis of quantum programming. Diaz, you are not an AI practitioner, so I can’t explain it to you in detail. You just need to know that the program core I built is like the DNA in our human body. Data is its nutrients, it can automatically capture the required data, replicate and compute around the core, and gain increasingly powerful simulation rendering capabilities. The virtual reality designed by this engine will become more and more indistinguishable from reality.”

Upon carefully considering Harrison’s words, James Diaz felt somewhat creeped out.

Being a giant in the sci-fi movie world with masterpieces about artificial intelligence mutiny such as “The Ultimate,” he immediately asked: “Won’t that give birth to super artificial intelligence with self-consciousness? Won’t that be… too dangerous?”

Harrison shook his head with a smile and blatantly lied, saying half-truths and half-falsities: “Data is just data, and a chip CPU is just a chip. The calculations of artificial intelligence are based on ever-constant computer operation cores, and its randomness will never catch up to the quantum collapse of the human brain. Artificial intelligence will not have truly free thoughts, so your concerns are excessive.”

James: “But there will always be some risks?”

Seeing through the bluffs, Harrison bluntly said: “Fire might kill people, destroy houses, and cause forest fires. However, if primitive people cannot take control of the flame, can human life expectancy break through the 20-year mark? There’s a saying in the UK, don’t avoid diagnosing and treating an illness. There is always a risk, but can we give up progress because we are afraid of risks? Take nuclear bombs, for example. Do you think they have brought progress or regression to our civilization?”

James was stumped by this question, “If an out-of-control war doesn’t break out, the existence of nuclear bombs is actually progressive.”

“That’s right.” Harrison spread his hands, “Have you ever felt an illusion? Why did we have so many outstanding scientists at the beginning of the 20th century? In the 21st century, though technology is still progressing and we still have a group of people winning Nobel Prizes every year, we can clearly feel that the people who can bring about drastic changes to the world are diminishing in number. Do you think that the dwindling number of academic idols like Einstein, Fermi, Von Neumann, and Thomas Alva Edison, who were once worshipped by the world, is really just because ordinary people are now exposed to too much entertainment culture and their pursuit of academia has weakened?”

After thinking for a while, James replied, “That’s somewhat true, but the core issue lies in the fact that the creations of scientists are either too far from ordinary people’s lives or they fail to visibly change the world and mankind’s scientific views each time they advance.”

Harrison nodded, “Right, do you want to know the reason? You know why?”

James Diaz took a heavy sip of his coffee, “Is it because as humans delve deeper into the mysteries of the universe, we have to perform larger amounts of calculations with each step forward, causing the progress in our computational power to lag behind our thinking? Thus, we can no longer easily create drastic changes, and can only accumulate them bit by bit through small changes?”

Harrison laughed, “That’s right.”

“But the problem has been solved this year. Mr. Clark, you are changing the world.”

Harrison: “Don’t mind the details. I am in no way comparable to ordinary scientists.”

“That’s true, you are irreplaceable.”

“Ahem.” Harrison looked slightly flushed, “In short, we are well aware that artificial intelligence may be poison, it may quench our thirst, or it may trigger an end of days in the form of intelligent warfare. But if humans don’t want to wait until they have exhausted all the resources in the solar system and die slowly under the stars, they must create artificial intelligence that can replace us in accomplishing massive calculations, treat it as our sub-civilization, and collaborate with it.”

“Take this for example: our spaceship wants to traverse the vast gap between the Solar System and Proxima Centauri System, which spans four light-years. Suppose we could manufacture a spaceship that can reach one-tenth of the speed of light in a hundred years, it still wouldn’t be enough.”

“Do you know how powerful the impact of a tiny speck of dust is when it hits a spaceship traveling at such high speed? We can’t even safely navigate through the Kuiper asteroid belt. So, in addition to precisely controlling the engine, adjusting the direction of travel at any time, and perfectly calculating the trajectory, we also have to build a strong reverse magnetic field shield at the front of the ship to protect it.”

“A spaceship that can fly out of the Solar System at high speed and safely requires a computing power at least 10,000 times the combined capacity of all existing supercomputers. If not relying on quantum computing and artificial intelligence, what else can we count on? Human brains? Impossible.”

James Diaz slowly understood Harrison’s intention, “So your self-domestication special effects rendering engine appears to be for the special effects of the new era of movies, but is actually for the true driving force of artificial intelligence and big data algorithms in the future? You want to change the world?”