On the evening of October 20, Song He submitted another report.
The Consciousness Mainframe was progressing smoothly, but we had also encountered some unknown difficulties.
Our main task recently had been improving artificial brain cells. After all, artificial brain cells could be regarded as one of the basic components of the second-generation Brain-Mimicking Supercomputer. Their performance and stability determined the Brain-Mimicking Supercomputer's final results.
At first, I felt that the version made with octopus brain cells wasn't good enough, but figuring out how to improve it was a huge problem. The academic world was almost entirely blank in this area, so we could only start from scratch and slowly feel our way forward. At the same time, this matter couldn't be publicized, because large-scale research into brain cells would very likely be interpreted by outsiders as the development of the Brain Spring 2nd Generation, triggering an arms race among various countries over the Smart Drug.
We needed to analyze the brain cells of different types of organisms and find genes that could be used to edit artificial brain cells. But this was a vast undertaking. The Former University of Science and Technology Youth Class still didn't have nearly enough people, so I decided to mobilize the Genius Institute's research strength and have the children there try to conduct some brain-cell research.
At the same time, I tried assigning some repetitive mechanical work to Teacher Bai, but the quality of Teacher Bai's work wasn't good enough. They only looked intelligent; they weren't truly intelligent. Among a large volume of satisfactory work, unavoidable elementary errors would always appear, rather like AI "hallucinations." We could only screen for those elementary errors afterward and correct them manually.
I felt pessimistic about the experiment's progress. The large amount of guesswork involved in the experiments was