Chapter 161: A’dai’s Abilities
Everything that happened in space is currently known only to a small portion of the top leadership in Great Xia worldwide.
Previously, the highest-level alert and disaster prevention order issued by Great Xia was abruptly revoked in a lackluster manner.
However, what followed was something even more inexplicably eerie to all forces.
Xinghai Technology is officially recruiting top scientific research personnel from various industries worldwide with high salaries.
At the same time, Great Xia is gradually using controllable nuclear fusion reactors to replace traditional energy systems, injecting ample vitality into Great Xia’s industrial development.
Internally, Great Xia’s light industry and outdated production capacity are gradually shifting externally to save unnecessary resource consumption.
And it was from that day onward that Great Xia unreservedly increased its massive investment in space industry development.
Half a year later, Mars, Utopia City.
Huang Wei gazed at the yellow sand before him, still feeling as if everything that had happened before was like a dream.
After that spaceship that blotted out the sky descended, it took away everyone in the entire city.
After a brief experience in the hibernation pods, they have now been sent back.
Now, it feels as if nothing had happened, returning to the previous rhythm of life.
The only difference is that Utopia City residents no longer need to reclaim land or plant grain.
Outside Utopia City, with the help of Great Xia workers, massive ore smelting plants and basic metal processing plants are rising from the ground one after another.
Further away, a space elevator stretching endlessly stands like a pillar supporting the heavens not far from Utopia City.
On the newly paved highways, countless heavy transport trucks are shuttling back and forth between the factories and the space elevator, transporting finished metals and various daily necessities needed by the city.
“Mr. Huang Wei, don’t zone out. By the way, when you proposed the artificial intelligence concept back then, did you consider responses to the crises that artificial intelligence might trigger?”
A’dai’s voice sounded in his earphone, but unlike Foreman Cui urging him to continue working, it instead changed the subject and started chatting with him.
During this time, Huang Wei had grown accustomed to this ‘artificial intelligence’ with a different voice tone from before.
The other party often chatted with him about technical knowledge regarding the artificial intelligence concept, and as the first to propose the concept, Huang Wei might not match A’dai’s technical strength in this area, but he had viewpoints from other aspects that could provide A’dai with knowledge to learn.
Huang Wei snapped back to attention, glanced at the mechanical equipment constantly operating not far away, and then withdrew his gaze.
Under A’dai’s influence, the current Utopia City residents have most tasks basically completed by it personally, with humans only intervening physically when needed.
He didn’t care if this artificial intelligence could see his actions, nodded lightly with a sigh, and said: “Of course I considered it, but one thing you need to know is that before Xinghai developed the graphene chip, the silicon-based chips we used before had major flaws; energy consumption, heat generation, and electron throughput all limited the chip’s maximum performance.
Even though 2-nanometer lithography machines are now in widespread use, the performance improvements on silicon-based chips remain very limited.
Back then, human power generation mainly relied on chemical energy, coal, and other methods to produce electricity. Combined with the chip limitations, this determined that artificial intelligence development had very low potential and could not pose a major threat to humanity.
Because without humans, it couldn’t build robots on a large scale by itself to replace humans and complete the internal energy consumption cycle it needed.
Moreover, artificial intelligence always has one unchangeable major flaw.”
Hearing this, A’dai asked with interest: “What flaw?”
Huang Wei didn’t care if he would offend this artificial intelligence and said flatly: “Your logical thinking method cannot associate with unknown things like the human brain can, while humans can.
In scientific research, without humans, artificial intelligence can at most refine existing science and technology; you can’t conduct research that transcends the limits of various science and technologies.”
“That’s indeed the case, so your view is that in the environment back then, even if artificial intelligence development escaped human control, humans would still have the ability to rebel, right? That’s not wrong. A supercomputer built from just silicon-based chips would require a dedicated large power station and matching large cooling system to maintain normal operation just for its energy consumption.
Without humans, it’s indeed very difficult for robots alone to accomplish this.
After all, robots themselves need electrical energy. And their flexibility differs greatly from humans.”
Huang Wei nodded again and sighed: “Unfortunately, after the graphene chip, it’s different.”
At this point, he looked puzzled, his tone somewhat uneasy as he asked: “What about the artificial intelligence before you? Did something happen to it?”
This time, A’dai did not answer him and fell silent.
But often, not answering is as good as acquiescing.
After getting the ‘answer’, Huang Wei thought of the incident from a while ago, and horror appeared on his face.
“Mr. Huang, your abilities are indeed somewhat wasted in Utopia City. I can apply to transfer you to the Xinghai chip technology research institute. What do you think?”
A’dai’s voice came again, and this time, Huang Wei fell silent.
Regarding Xinghai, Huang Wei’s feelings were very complex.
Nvidia’s bankruptcy made him unable to have any fondness for Xinghai Technology, and for a long time, he even wished Xinghai Technology would go bankrupt as well.
But since coming to Mars, this idea had quietly changed.
The various facilities covering nearly 100 square kilometers here were something Spitz Company could not achieve.
Behind all this, it was Xinghai secretly controlling the development direction and material transportation of the entire Utopia City.
Xinghai is a truly great company, dedicated to investing in technology research and development space projects.
Its sole full shareholder Fan Ren has always been at the forefront of research and development, never showing any sign of stopping.
It was just that in the process of advancing and developing, the aftermath it caused sent Nvidia to its grave.
Inferior in skill, that’s all.
“Then let’s go take a look. You arrange it. If possible, I’d like to meet General Manager Fan.”
Huang Wei lowered his head.
At this moment, his expression could not be seen.
Xinghai Quantum Communication Laboratory.
Here, thousands of scientists, including Fan Ren, have finally fully realized A’dai’s power over this half year.
No complex calculations require them to input personally and wait for answers anymore.
Every time, the calculation answer appears directly in the earphone or the next line of the document the second after the question is raised.
Research and development efficiency has improved by an unknown amount compared to before.
“Boss, after calculation, the current communication distance has reached 5 billion kilometers. Impressive.”
A’dai’s voice was not affected by everything happening on Mars; at this moment, anywhere in the solar system with a network, it seemed omnipresent.
