The Goddess Shines on America

The start of the superintelligent computer project was kept secret. The Exeter Computer Research Center was built in the UK, and it is located on the outskirts of a small southwest city, far away from the news center circle. In fact, because it was established with the background of the British royal family, even local British journalists seldom visit it, let alone other global media.

There are only fifty or sixty members of the research institute. Although the number is small, they are all elite hackers collected by Alice from all over the world.

In fact, this is a very interesting fact. If one just graduated from university step by step, of course one will have superb computer skills, but that's it. The so-called academic and theoretical schools are like this. But any hacker will definitely gain true knowledge through practice, and they must be comprehensive and proficient in multiple skills in order to take on the identity of a hacker.

Therefore, although it cannot be said that those computer masters who graduated from Stanford and MIT are poor, hackers must be very strong, but the dozens of people Alice found are definitely "Stanford Computer Ph.D. turned hackers" Super master.

Such a group of people, even if one or two are elites, just like when Gates was still in school, he became a senior technician in a computer company as a mere student. Alice often deals with Gates, and more often with the employees in her research institute. Practice has proved that, excluding business acumen, everyone here is at least on the same level as Gates.

You know, one of the most famous examples left by Bill Gates in the talk show is that he had just been exposed to computers in middle school for only a few months, and he first hacked into the school's computer room, and then helped the school design the curriculum.

Therefore, since there is such a group of elites gathered, theoretically, the research institute should be able to mass-produce patented technologies. But what puzzles a few interested people is that after three or four years, its most striking technical output is the USB standard and a small-capacity but high-speed solid-state drive.

The former has indeed caused quite a stir in the IT industry in recent months. These days, Microsoft, Cisco, and many colleagues in Silicon Valley, including Intel, Oracle, and even IBM and Hewlett-Packard, are trying to promote this technology as an industry standard.

For this matter, companies in the industry are of course happy to see it. Performance improvement and unified standards are definitely beneficial to the product production of all hardware companies. "Popular Electronics" magazine reported that although the technical content of this patent is general, if it is unified as an industry standard, it will have an indelible effect on promoting the great development of the IT industry.

It's gratifying, but another finished product output of the research institute is a bit embarrassing. Solid state drives are unfamiliar to almost everyone. If industry magazines and newspapers did not rush to popularize knowledge, many self-proclaimed computer enthusiasts would not even know that this concept appeared as early as the 1970s. Of course, this is not their fault. In 1970, StorageTek developed the first solid-state hard disk drive, which is gratifying, but that's it.

The following did not start until the Exeter Research Institute, which really produced practical products. The capacity is very small, at least three times worse than the normal hard disk of the same period, but the price is not lower than the most advanced ordinary video, so as the only and most important advantage, everyone has to admit that its speed is also really fast .

It's a pity that it's not the same. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this technology has no practical value in the short term. The high price and extremely poor capacity make almost everyone have no desire to buy it. Although the speed of this solid-state drive is indeed very fast, but who would spend this money except for those who are taken advantage of by the Ministry of Defense?

Then the question arises, dozens of top elites have worked hard for three or four years, why are there only two or three products?

"What a big guy."

Looking at the string of "big refrigerators" lined up in front of her, Alice sighed with emotion.

The scene almost reproduced the scene of the first computer in history, Ainiac. Twenty-one large black iron refrigerators with a height of nine feet make a rumbling sound of electric fans when they are running, and rows of work indicator lights turn on and off in groups of three or five, just like an intelligent robot describing its own heart with lights.

"Large size, higher performance."

Harry Punes stood beside Alice, and he was extremely proud: "Boss, don't look at 'Annie' taking up less space than the big one in the basement, her performance is completely on the same level as it!"

The otaku's interest in products came out in advance from his title. Alice is also very satisfied, you know, the supercomputer she bought for the research institute back then, with tens of billions of floating-point operations per second, is the latest product that ranks first in the world. That is the old strength of IBM, and there are only fifty or sixty people here, but in just two or three years, they have built a computer with performance not inferior to it by virtue of the ternary system principle, and the progress is not unreasonable.

"The faster the performance, the better, but our real focus is on the software." Today is the day of the inspection, and I didn't come all the way here for bragging rights. Since the boss asked, Harry immediately led her to the main control platform.

The current operating system is born out of Windows.NT. It is much easier to adapt all binary codes to ternary than to use the ternary version of UNIX. The former only needs Alice to make adjustments on the original basis, while the latter has to be developed from scratch. Although UNIX is one of the most suitable platforms for servers, as a temporary substitute, Microsoft's products are of course more than enough.

This is also a product of excellence. Although Alice is a shareholder of Microsoft, she has no hope of using NT as the operating system of her ternary computer. At present, it is used as a substitute, and the actual evaluation of the hardware part of the computer is carried out. As for the software part, it depends on everyone's concerted efforts and cooperation.

A true ternary operating system, not just a slight adaptation of NT.

"Mr. Zola's algorithm is simply born for artificial intelligence!" Harry was very excited when he mentioned the person who had been communicating with him recently: "On the surface, as long as there is enough information, it can provide an almost The probability calculation of the prophecy. This is of course very remarkable, but we have to see through the essence, and make inferences about future development based on existing information, isn’t this just the thinking mode of the human brain?”

Harry was really excited, otherwise he would never have tried to popularize Alice. As for the latter, as soon as she sat in front of the computer, she completely ignored any interference from the outside world, not to mention a few nonsense words from Harry, even if the nuclear bomb exploded outside the window, whether she could look up was a problem.

Before she flew to the UK, she emailed Harry to start a new project, which was the development of a real artificial intelligence system.

Not just the ternary principle, but a computer that can really think like a human.

The technical difference of the development method lies in whether to apply Harry's ternary genetic algorithm and Arnim Zola's "probability algorithm".

A basic common sense, that is, even if a computer has "true" artificial intelligence, there is still a problem of "age". This age does not only refer to the age of the virtual personality, but the "psychological age" of the computer when dealing with various matters. Young people are impulsive, with a 40% chance of taking risks; middle-aged people are steady, with a 60% chance of catching up; old people are conservative, with an 80% chance of daring to make a move. This description It's just the most obvious.

The basic understanding of commands, based on the influence of "mental age", coupled with the guidance of the system's "personality", finally forms a complete command system. This is really very similar to playing chess, and it is also the benchmark for IBM and Google to test the degree of computer artificial intelligence with Go. Can real "artificial intelligence" be born?

"This idea is not a problem..." All the team leaders gathered at the conference table, Director Harry Pness responded to the proposal of the big boss: "However, we have been studying Mr. Zola's algorithm recently, and now we still have to If you haven’t fully learned it, boss, you can’t do it if you’re in a hurry.”

Not that he said, everyone can see Alice's look of high interest. I was also puzzled, how could the boss who had been in no hurry for so long suddenly become so active? If they knew that it was just because Alice didn't want to manually enter massive website information, would it crash?

Hmm, that doesn't seem necessary.

Alice patted her chest and said, "That's simple. It just so happens that my family, Sissy, is about to graduate. I've been staying in the research institute for two months before the holiday. I'm directly in charge of the research and development of the operating system. You can learn from yours. If there is anything you don’t know, just come to me, let’s tackle the problem together.”

So that's how it was settled. Zola's set of algorithms was indeed very difficult. Alice recognized when she saw the outline at the beginning, and his programming was almost the same as hers in terms of technical content. The big difference was the difference in production speed. Letting a group of "ordinary people" quickly learn Zola's algorithm is tantamount to letting them quickly understand Alice's highest-level works, and the difficulty can be imagined.

Therefore, after the situation was determined, Alice sat in the office and swiped a pen, but first made a rather unexpected decision.

"The latest and strongest supercomputer just released this year, the NECSX-3/44R of the NEC Fuchu Factory in Fuchu City, Japan, is a supercomputer with 23 billion floating-point operations per second. Post it!"

It is a fool to have money but not make money, especially now is the last crazy period of the Japanese real estate bubble. Whether it is before or after the burst, I believe that those Japanese will never let go of this big deal.

After all, the United States and Japan are friendly~