Origin: The Technological Empire
Chapter 9

Beginner Artificial Intelligence

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"The Personal Butler System is also a piece of software that integrates rudimentary artificial intelligence."

Everyone is familiar with artificial intelligence.

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

After the conference, scientists and scholars from various regions began researching related knowledge, and the discipline of "Artificial Intelligence" and its related research sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1969 marked the international recognition of artificial intelligence.

Currently, AI assistants on the market include Siri, Cortana, and others. Personal assistants can help users complete multiple tasks and provide various services, driven by AI technology. Current personal assistants generally possess context-aware conversational abilities, enabling simple human-computer dialogue and answering basic questions. Personal assistant applications include technologies such as speech recognition, image recognition, and deep learning, with their working principle being "speech recognition + cloud computing services."

Limited by the Von Neumann architecture, current artificial intelligence systems are unable to break through bottlenecks in perception and cognition. This is primarily because the traditional Von Neumann architecture uses a stored-program method where programs are preset and cannot change with external alterations, which is also a key limitation to the development of artificial intelligence.

Simply put, we are currently in the era of big data. So-called artificial intelligence is nothing more than collecting big data, not autonomous learning.

Furthermore, thanks to the promotion of modern film and novels.

Everyone fears artificial intelligence surpassing humans and thus destroying humanity. Many movie plots feature advanced artificial intelligence attempting to replace humans, only to be defeated by the protagonist in the end.

Therefore, everyone is cautious about artificial intelligence. If artificial intelligence truly develops to a level comparable to human intelligence, it will trigger a series of problems. On one hand, psychologically, the "Uncanny Valley" theory suggests that when robots approach humans, we develop an inexplicable sense of aversion and fear.

Thus, on Planet Taibo, artificial intelligence has even drafted legislation that has restricted its development for a long time.

The so-called artificial intelligence that is currently prevalent is all rudimentary artificial intelligence; calling it artificial intelligence is an insult to the concept.

However, Xiao Meng, carried by Chu Feng, can help handle various issues and can autonomously learn through the network, which is merely intermediate artificial intelligence.

Advanced artificial intelligence exists on Planet Taibo as assistants to the Grand Commander, helping the Commander rule the entire Taibo star system.

So when Chu Feng mentioned rudimentary artificial intelligence, everyone was a bit confused.

Perhaps create a software for human-computer interaction?

What's the point of that?

The bullet screen was filled with discussions.

As for why Chu Feng initially only developed such a low-level accelerator, it was out of necessity.

Firstly, he had no foundation and no reputation. If he had revealed his full capabilities from the start, the best outcome would have been no outcome at all.

Secondly, developing rudimentary artificial intelligence requires a massive computing system. He couldn't possibly host the source code on other servers. His spaceship is almost found now, and the servers on the spaceship are the truly impressive ones.

A processor unit the size of a cigarette pack alone would blow away current so-called supercomputers.

The chess grandmaster "Deep Blue," Japan's "Water Blue Star Simulator," and China's Sunway TaihuLight are all considered supercomputers.

The Sunway supercomputer is equipped with 40,960 domestically developed "Sunway 26010" many-core processors. This many-core processor uses a 64-bit indigenous Sunway instruction system, with a peak performance of 125 petaflops and a sustained performance of 93 petaflops.

Even such supercomputers have topped the supercomputer rankings three times.

However, the computer carried on Chu Feng's spaceship, which needs to continuously calculate flight trajectories, analyze various spaceship data indicators, and address various issues while providing feedback to the captain, requires computational power beyond imagination. A processor unit the size of a cigarette pack alone surpasses the current strongest supercomputers. Moreover, there are nearly ten thousand such processor units, not to mention even more advanced computational methods.

The processors carried by the spaceship alone can process all the data of the entire Earth.

Furthermore, Xiao Meng also alerted him that the spaceship had responded, and there were no major issues. This is why Chu Feng dared to release this information.

Chu Feng's Douyu private message inbox was already at 999+.

It just couldn't display more. If one were to truly check, it would be an overload.

There were messages asking for relationships, contact information, and interview requests. Everyone wanted to get their hands on this big fish, not wanting to miss even a sliver of opportunity.

He mentally instructed Xiao Meng to help delete all the messages seeking relationships.

"Master, but it feels like you're not that willing to delete those messages?" Xiao Meng asked, confused.

Chu Feng's old face flushed at the question. This AI was too direct.

"That's why you are intermediate artificial intelligence. When you can understand this, you will be advanced artificial intelligence."

Chu Feng replied somewhat irritably.

Humans are indeed too complex.

After deleting the private messages, only interview and collaboration invitations remained.

Seeing invitations from many major websites and even companies, Chu Feng felt a bit proud.

Of course, there were also those who brazenly offered millions, or even hundreds of thousands, to acquire Chu Feng's technology.

Chu Feng just smiled. He stumbled upon this treasure, did they really think everyone else was a fool?

However, most people still weren't very interested.

They all believed Chu Feng was playing a gimmick or a concept, thinking that so-called artificial intelligence was just like those parrot-like conversational software, nothing novel.

Chu Feng didn't explain in detail. Once the Origin Personal Butler System was launched, they would understand its brilliance.

What people were more interested in now was where Chu Feng got so much money.

After all, Chu Feng was too young. Many young people were still struggling to make ends meet, and there was no known rich second-generation named Chu Feng.

"Actually, I have to thank some people who are unknown to many. They are all wanderers abroad, deeply caring about their nation. They are China's overseas Chinese. Some are researchers, some are businessmen. They quietly care about their country, so they established an organization to help the country's development, and I am the spokesperson for this organization!"

Chu Feng's words were another bomb, causing an uproar in the entire livestream.

So that's how it is!

"China is a nation that loves life, a vibrant nation, a nation that is brave, wise, inclusive, and humble. It is a nation that can constantly learn from experience and strive forward. No matter where you are, you will always think of this land. And we overseas Chinese also use our strength to help the country prosper and become strong!"

Chu Feng's heartfelt words deeply moved everyone in the livestream. Only those who have experienced being far from their country and hometown can have such feelings. It's no wonder so many people wish to be buried in their hometown even after death.

That is homesickness.

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