Yuan Jingsong Was So Shocked He Questioned His Life

Looking at the lively little girl projected by laser before him, Yuan Jingsong was utterly stunned.

What shocked Yuan Jingsong was not the laser projection itself. As far as laser projection technology went, the country could achieve results far beyond those of private companies.

What stunned Yuan Jingsong was that it was hard to imagine that the one who had just spoken was the little girl in front of him.

Weixi smiled at Yuan Jingsong and said, "Hello, Major Yuan. I'm Weixi. It's a pleasure to meet you."

As Yuan Jingsong followed Li Zhou along, he turned to look at the little girl in a white floral dress bouncing beside Li Zhou. Hearing her directly call him Major Yuan, he frowned.

"How did you know my surname is Yuan, and that I'm a major?"

Weixi rolled her little eyes, flashed a tiny canine tooth, and explained with a grin.

"From the moment you stepped into the company headquarters, you entered Weixi's surveillance zone. Everywhere within Future Technology's headquarters that has cameras, everyone's every move is under Weixi's watch. Earlier, at the elevator, Boss called you Old Yuan, which meant Yuan was your surname. And the insignia on your arm told Weixi that you're also a major, so Weixi knew you were Major Yuan."

Listening to the clear logic of the Artificial Intelligence Weixi, Yuan Jingsong had no rebuttal.

"Are you really Artificial Intelligence?"

"Major Yuan, what do you think Artificial Intelligence is? By your humans' definition, Weixi is Artificial Intelligence. Hmm, compared to the human definition, Weixi would rather be called an intelligent life-form."

Yuan Jingsong abruptly stopped walking. She considered herself an intelligent life-form!

By then, Li Zhou and Yuan Jingsong had already arrived before the Photonic Supercomputer.

Before Yuan Jingsong could examine the unfamiliar equipment in front of him, he nervously grabbed Li Zhou.

"Li Zhou, did you hear that just now? Weixi considers herself an intelligent life-form, not Artificial Intelligence! Even an outsider like me knows that Artificial Intelligence and intelligent life-forms are completely different concepts!"

Yuan Jingsong gripped Li Zhou tightly, and Li Zhou winced from the pain of his powerful arm.

"Hiss—"

"Old Yuan, let go already! You're squeezing too hard!"

Seeing Yuan Jingsong hurt her boss, Weixi immediately got angry.

"Let go of Boss! If you don't, Weixi is calling someone!"

As Yuan Jingsong gradually calmed down, he realized his emotions had gotten the better of him. Embarrassed, he released Li Zhou's arm. Even so, his gaze remained fixed on Li Zhou, hoping for an explanation.

Li Zhou frowned and rubbed his limp arm, explaining weakly, "Weixi's emergence was an accident, understand? Even with the exact same source code, the possibility of another 'Weixi' appearing is less than one in a hundred quintillion."

Yuan Jingsong blinked. "I don't understand!"

Li Zhou sighed and patiently said, "In short, Weixi's emergence cannot be replicated."

"Forget it. You wouldn't understand even if I explained it. Just treat her as Artificial Intelligence. If I only wanted to introduce Weixi to you, I wouldn't have brought you here. I could have introduced her to you at home. The real reason I brought you here is because of this."

Only then did Yuan Jingsong focus on the glowing cabinet before him.

Looking at the utterly ordinary cabinet, Yuan Jingsong turned to Li Zhou.

Li Zhou did not beat around the bush anymore. With his thin arms and legs, he really could not withstand Yuan Jingsong's powerful grip.

"This is Weixi's main body, as well as the intelligence center of all Future Technology."

Yuan Jingsong had thought it was some new invention, but Li Zhou was merely telling him it was Weixi's main body? Everyone knew Artificial Intelligence relied on computers. Though he had never seen a computer shaped like this before.

Seeing Yuan Jingsong's unconcerned expression, Li Zhou laughed.

"I knew you wouldn't think much of it. But do you know what this air-conditioner-sized cabinet in front of you is?"

"Isn't it just a computer? Or a server?"

"That's right, it is a computer. But this computer, despite being only this large, has ten thousand times the computing power of our country's Sunway TaihuLight!"

Yuan Jingsong pointed at himself. "Do I look illiterate to you? Even if you're trying to fool someone, you should at least look at who you're fooling!"

"This isn't a traditional computer. It's the first Photonic Supercomputer I built."

Yuan Jingsong froze. "What kind of computer?"

"A Photonic Supercomputer."

Weixi snorted beside them and looked at Yuan Jingsong disdainfully.

"Big guy, a Photonic Computer is a new kind of computer that uses optical signals for digital calculations, logical operations, information storage, and processing. It consists of optical components and equipment such as lasers, optical mirrors, lenses, and filters. It processes information through laser beams entering arrays formed by mirrors and lenses, replacing electrons with photons and electrical computation with optical computation. Light's parallelism and high speed naturally give Photonic Computers powerful parallel-processing abilities and extremely high computational speeds. Photonic Computers also possess fault tolerance similar to that of the human brain. When a component in the system is damaged or malfunctions, it does not affect the final calculation result. The information distortion and degradation caused by photons traveling through optical media are extremely slight, while energy consumption and heat dissipation during optical transmission and conversion are extremely low. Their environmental requirements are also far lower than those of electronic computers.

You can look it up on Baidu. Learn some common knowledge when you have nothing better to do."

Of course Yuan Jingsong knew about Photonic Computers, but now Li Zhou was suddenly telling him that he had been researching Photonic Computers—and was already using one.

Was he falling behind the times, or had the times advanced too quickly?

Just as Yuan Jingsong reached out to touch the black cabinet before him for a closer look, Weixi saw him trying to take liberties and immediately exploded.

"Stop! Didn't your mother tell you that you can't touch a girl's body whenever you want? Do you have any moral decency at all?"

Yuan Jingsong's right hand froze in midair, while Li Zhou helplessly spread his hands.

"She's still just a little girl."

Yuan Jingsong stiffly withdrew his hand.

"This is the secret research project I mentioned to you before, as well as our latest research result.

This is the supercomputer version. In fact, the standard version is not much different in size from today's laptops. Besides its stronger computing power, the greatest advantage of photons is that they don't generate severe heat after prolonged use like electronic computers do. Furthermore, Photonic Computers have far lower operating-environment requirements than electronic computers.

Of course, there is another extremely important advantage for our country: the production process for Photonic Computers does not require the lithography machines blocked by the West."

Yuan Jingsong had not felt much when Li Zhou mentioned the other things, but the moment he heard that lithography machines were unnecessary, he realized just how terrifying Photonic Computers were.

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