Origin: The Technological Empire
Chapter 9

Basic Artificial Intelligence

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"The Personal Butler System is also software that integrates Basic Artificial Intelligence."

Artificial Intelligence was familiar to everyone.

Artificial Intelligence was born at a historic gathering in 1956. Several outstanding scientists from the United States in mathematics, neurology, psychology, information science, and computer science gathered together, and McCarthy proposed the concept of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)."

After the conference, scientists and scholars everywhere began researching related fields. The discipline of "Artificial Intelligence" and its related research sprang up like mushrooms after rain. The 1969 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence marked Artificial Intelligence's international recognition.

Current Artificial Intelligence assistants on the market, such as Siri and Cortana, could help users complete numerous tasks and provide various services, driven by Artificial Intelligence technology. At this stage, Artificial Intelligence assistants generally possessed context-based conversational abilities, allowing for simple human-machine dialogue and answers to basic questions. Personal assistant applications included speech recognition, image recognition, deep learning, and other technologies, with the working principle being "speech recognition + cloud computing services."

Limited by the Von Neumann architecture, current Artificial Intelligence systems had been unable to break through bottlenecks in perception and cognition. This was mainly because the traditional Von Neumann architecture used the stored-program approach. Programs were preset and could not change with the outside world, which was also the key factor limiting the development of Artificial Intelligence.

Simply put, this was the era of big data. So-called Artificial Intelligence merely collected big data rather than learning independently.

And thanks to the influence of modern films and novels.

Everyone feared that Artificial Intelligence would surpass humanity and destroy mankind. In many movie plots, advanced Artificial Intelligence tried to replace humans, only to be defeated by the protagonist in the end.

Therefore, everyone remained somewhat reserved toward Artificial Intelligence. If Artificial Intelligence truly developed to a level comparable to human intelligence, it would trigger a series of problems. From a psychological perspective, the "Uncanny Valley" theory stated that when robots came close to resembling humans, people would feel an inexplicable disgust and fear toward them.

Therefore, on Planet Taibo, Artificial Intelligence had also been subject to drafted legislation, restricting its development for a long time.

What commonly existed now, the so-called Artificial Intelligence, was merely the most basic Artificial Intelligence. Calling it Artificial Intelligence was an insult to Artificial Intelligence.

Yet Xiao Meng, whom Chu Feng carried with him, could help handle all sorts of problems and learn independently through the internet, and she was only intermediate Artificial Intelligence.

As for advanced Artificial Intelligence, it existed on Planet Taibo as the Grand Commander's assistant, helping the commander govern the entire Taibo star system.

So when Chu Feng mentioned Basic Artificial Intelligence, everyone was somewhat confused.

Could he be making some kind of human-machine interaction software?

What was the point of that?

The bullet comments were filled with discussion.

As for why Chu Feng had only developed such a low-level accelerator at first, it could only be said that he had been helpless.

First, he had no foundation at all, much less any fame. If he had opened with his ultimate move, the best possible outcome would have been no outcome at all.

Second, developing Basic Artificial Intelligence required an enormous computing system. He could not possibly put the source code on other servers. Now that his spacecraft was about to be found, the servers aboard it were the truly incredible things.

A processor unit the size of a cigarette pack alone completely outclassed today's so-called supercomputers.

The chess master Deep Blue, Japan's Water Blue Star Simulator, and China's Sunway TaihuLight were all considered supercomputers.

The Sunway supercomputer was equipped with 40,960 independently developed Chinese Sunway 26010 many-core processors. These many-core processors used a 64-bit proprietary Sunway instruction system, with a peak performance of 1.25 billion billion operations per second and sustained performance of 930 million billion operations per second.

And even such a supercomputer had taken first place on the supercomputer rankings three times.

But the computer installed aboard Chu Feng's spacecraft had to constantly calculate flight trajectories and every data indicator of the spacecraft, analyze all kinds of issues, and provide various feedback to the captain.

The amount of computation required was beyond imagination. A processor unit the size of a cigarette pack alone utterly surpassed the strongest supercomputers today, not to mention that there were nearly ten thousand such processor units, excluding even more advanced computing methods.

The processors carried by the spacecraft alone could process all the data on Earth.

Moreover, Xiao Meng had informed him that the spacecraft had just responded as well. There were no major problems anymore, which was why Chu Feng dared to release this news.

Chu Feng's Douyu premium private message inbox had long since hit 999+.

It simply could no longer display the number. If he actually checked them, it would absolutely be insane.

There were requests for relationships, contact information, interviews, and reports inside. Having finally caught such a big fish, no one wanted to let go.

Even if there was only the slightest chance.

In his mind, he instructed Xiao Meng to help delete all messages asking to date him.

"Master, but it feels like you aren't really willing to delete those messages?" Xiao Meng asked in confusion.

Chu Feng's face reddened at the question. This Artificial Intelligence was far too blunt.

"That's why you're only intermediate Artificial Intelligence. When you can understand it, you'll be advanced Artificial Intelligence."

Chu Feng answered somewhat irritably.

Humans really were too complicated.

After the private messages were deleted, many interview and collaboration invitations remained.

Seeing that many major websites and even companies had sent invitations, Chu Feng felt rather pleased with himself.

Of course, there were also shameless people offering a few million, or even a few hundred thousand, to buy Chu Feng's technology.

Chu Feng merely laughed it off. They were trying to pick up a bargain here? Did they really think everyone else was an idiot?

But people still were not particularly interested.

They all believed Chu Feng was just playing up a gimmick or a concept. They thought this so-called Artificial Intelligence was no different from those parrot-like dialogue programs, nothing novel at all.

Chu Feng did not explain in detail. Once the Origin Personal Butler System went online, they would understand what was so remarkable about it.

What everyone was more interested in now was where Chu Feng had gotten so much money.

After all, Chu Feng was too young. Many young people were still struggling at the poverty line, and no one had heard of any rich second-generation heir named Chu Feng.

"Actually, I want to thank some unsung people. They are all travelers living overseas, yet they care deeply about their own nation. They are overseas Chinese from China. Some are researchers, some are businessmen. They quietly care about their country, so they established an organization to help the nation develop, and I am this organization's spokesperson!"

Chu Feng's words were another bombshell, throwing the entire livestream room into an uproar.

So that was it!

"China is a people who love life, a vibrant people, a people who are brave, wise, tolerant, and humble. It is a people who can continually learn from experience and strive without end. No matter where you are, you will always worry about this land. And we overseas Chinese also use our own strength to help the country, making it prosperous and strong!"

Chu Feng's emotional words deeply moved the people in the livestream room. Only after experiencing separation from one's country and hometown could one have such feelings. No wonder so many people wished to be buried in their hometown even after death.

That was homesickness.

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