The Goddess Shines on America

Some days passed quickly, and in spite of many delays in the literary and artistic circles, when June finally arrived, Alice had also completed the first machine of the "Thinking Detector".

Completely handmade, without any help from modern industry, it interferes with the composition of matter at the subatomic level with the utmost spiritual power. After such a minute of hard work, a silver-white metal object with a total volume equal to that of a full-tower computer case , is its appearance. Due to the superb craftsmanship of the craftsman, although it is handmade, the standard is definitely comparable to the outer shell of the spaceship in 2099-if it exists.

After all, unless such a machine is set for a close time period like "Blade Runner", even if it is put in 2199, it will definitely belong to the category of black technology. Since it is a special product, even the most basic material composition of the hardware must be of the corresponding grade.

Then, a new question was placed in front of Alice.

"It suddenly occurred to me that I forgot a very important thing."

In the house in Akihabara, next to the hot pot on the tatami coffee table, Alice was extremely embarrassed: "Even if it is 1% of the human brain thinking, it is an unimaginably huge amount of data. Our current storage media Just can't bear much."

This question was raised so suddenly that Sissy and Hannah were a little dumbfounded, and the fish tofu that Sissy put in her mouth even fell into the bowl.

"Did you never think of this question until now!?"

"Uh...Of course I thought about it long ago, but after all...down to earth, we just made the detector, if we had to think about storage media before... right? Hahaha~"

Alice was sweating profusely, but even Hannah couldn't fool her with such a lame excuse. What is being down-to-earth is nothing more than spending most of your time on drawing comics. Although it is indeed a great thing to draw the contents of the next 30 episodes when the first episode is published, you can't squeeze your time like that ?

But in the end, I can’t blame Alice for this matter. Sissy picked up the fish tofu in the bowl and ate it, pondering: “The storage capacity of the largest conventional hard disk at present... Tsk, Alice, please give us an accurate number first. Well, if you want to read out all the thinking of a... say a three-year-old child and copy it into a computer, how big a hard drive will you need?"

Although the brain is the same, the thinking "capacity" of different people is definitely different. The so-called thinking, except for the thinking mode, is mostly memory, and the relationship between memory and thinking mode is also inseparable. Compared with adults, the "data volume" of three-year-old children is definitely very, very small, but even if it is only this, how much capacity of the hard disk do we need?

"TB," there was a moment of silence, and Alice said a unit that made people feel confused: "It's terabytes, one hundred thousand times that of megabytes. Even the amount of thinking data in the brain of a three-year-old child is equivalent to terabytes." In terms of bytes, the amount of data for adults may even double, and dozens of terabytes are possible.”

The two listeners really didn't expect Alice to answer immediately. In fact, everyone understands what artificial intelligence is and what is a mind reader. Although Alice has superpowers, it is really too difficult to artificially create these sci-fi creations, so the three of them put most of them together. Time is spent playing.

But who would have thought that when she asked such a crucial question, she could give a definite answer in a dignified way?

"Actually, we just need to do the math."

Alice ate the food in her mouth in twos and twos, and said, "What is the hardware configuration of Windows 3.1, which is a popular operating system on the market? Recently, the research and development of the 95 system has also been put on the agenda. Its configuration requirements How much is it? Think about Moore’s Law, wait until Microsoft’s operating system has improved for three or four generations, and a system will take up a few GB of hard disk space, isn’t it an exaggeration?”

Moore's Law, when the price remains constant, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double. It has been five years since Windows 1.0 was launched in 1985. Everyone knows the configuration requirements of Windows 3.1. Sissy counted it with her fingers on the spot. The products before and after are really GB-level!

"So... think about it again, if I didn't get involved in artificial intelligence, Microsoft would develop it by itself, and when their products came out at that time... Well, of course it will be many times more advanced than it is now, but it may be as advanced as ...does it even have a sci-fi feel to it?"

The topic inevitably turned to a very macroscopic direction, Hannah nodded seriously: "Understood, just like "2001 Space Universe" filmed in 1968, although the director put the year in 2001, but really wait for 2001 At that time, it is impossible to be like that!"

Hannah, who is living in 1990, definitely has the capital to say so, Sissy also nodded and said: "The most typical one is "Blade Runner" in 1982, cut, how can Los Angeles look like that in 2019, who can you lie to?" Woolen cloth?"

"So, if there is an artificial intelligence like the one in "Terminator", as an operating system, it will take up how many terabytes of capacity, wouldn't it be surprising?"

That's it, and then a new problem was put in front of Alice (Hannah and Sissy didn't care, of course), that is, she really needed to speed up the development of the hard drive. This problem is quite easy to solve. After thinking about it, everyone knows that artificial intelligence horses need to use solid-state drives. Now that the patent is in hand, of course everything is convenient.

Then there is the second thing, the first test of the "Thinking Detector" that has just been released.

"I absolutely can't use you as an experiment!" Alice immediately emphasized: "Who knows if it will become a brainwashing device? If my dear sister and friends become idiots, wouldn't I have to support them for the rest of their lives?" Already!?"

Such a statement drew Hannah's coquettish smiles, while Sissy gave her a hard look, but said nothing.

He couldn't experiment with Ji You and his sister, and of course it was even more impossible for him, so he had to go outside to find experimental products. Based on the principle of humanitarianism, Alice did not rashly attack the girls who were passing by downstairs, and the dead man even went away, so the target was naturally locked on the animals.

"We can do a comparative experiment."

She said: "For example, take small rabbits as experimental materials to observe the differences in the thinking of domestic rabbits and wild rabbits."

Sissy held a completely neutral attitude, while Hannah frowned, unable to bear it: "Do you have to take small animals? What if something happens?"

"Hmm...Dedicate yourself to great science? Okay, okay, don't stare at me, Hannah Sissy, you two go to the pet market to buy a domestic rabbit, and then I will go to the forest to catch a wild rabbit, Do you want to be faster than anyone else?"

Sissy raised her head and looked out the window. The afternoon sun was shining on the streets of the city. She tugged at her collar in displeasure and said, "It's 1:30 in the afternoon in June. Do you want us to go shopping at this time?"

"It's the whole journey by subway. I've broken up the map of Tokyo a long time ago. Just get off at the pet store."

Now that we have talked about this, let's act quickly. Since they were going out, of course they didn't just go to the pet store once and then go home immediately, so Hannah prepared her wallet and shopping bags non-stop, while Sissy took endless photos in the mirror. Alice wasn't that troublesome, she just opened the door and went out. In fact, if she wasn't afraid of being scared by the people on the street outside, she might have jumped out of the window directly!

However, today's Akihabara is really not so lively.

"Yo, isn't that Alice sauce!"

As soon as a certain person went to the street, he was stopped by a business owner next door: "Can you help me move the books? It will take you three minutes, thank you!"

According to the standards after the 1990s, that self-employed person is definitely a standard Nippon private house, and belongs to the object that young girls must stay away from. Maybe he will continue to develop in the current situation. What about the uncle in the private house?

Alice didn't want to talk to her at first, but when she saw the cover of the stack of books, she couldn't move anymore: "Dragon Ball!? Ah no, this should be... Is this the fanzine of Dragon Ball?"

Not all milk is called Deluxe, and not all doujinshi are porn comics. Alice picked up a few and flipped through them. Well-drawn spin-off comics!

Then she noticed that this fat man was moving a lot of doujinshi into the box truck!

"Ah, what day is it today?"

Alice immediately realized that she had done something wrong. The fat house was going to do evil to the young girl. Her question was like asking an astronomer where the moon is, she was extremely idiot.

"Comiket!" Fei Zhai was very excited: "There are only two Comiket conferences a year, you have lived next to me for more than half a month, don't you even know this kind of common sense!?"

"Shrimp!?" Alice is really innocent, it's the Comiket conference! Japan's largest anime doujinshi conference! It is a gathering place for lovers of a large number of harmonious books every year! This is of course common sense, but why should she care about when this summer's session will be held? Hey! ?

"Where is where? Where is the exhibition site?"

Fortunately, it wasn't a complete idiot, Fat House heaved a sigh of relief, and then told her the location in relief.

Well, not the Tokyo Big Sight.

After calming down, Alice realized that after staying in Japan for so long, she seemed to finally have a building to build.

Not Vanda Square, but Tokyo Big Sight, which has contracted all subsequent Comiket conferences since 1996.

Well, this is called market research!

But before that, let's take the little rabbit and go to today's conference for a stroll!