Time has slipped away amid the vigorous development and vitality of human civilization after it was integrated into the Star Network.
In the blink of an eye, eight years have passed.
In a certain star field in the Milky Way, a large fleet is slowly accelerating.
Behind the fleet is a silver giant planet, reflecting the bright light. The metaphor is visible, and small black dots are constantly flying in and out of the planet's atmosphere, densely packed and endless.
Near the planet, a huge metal building stretches for hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. It is like a living creature. Countless mechanical arms extend out of the metal building, which are constantly operating, transferring materials, and welding the hull... In the center of the metal building, star warships are standing one after another. Under the operation of countless mechanical arms, it was quickly formed.
In the command center, Zhou Xiaozhi looked at the holographic screen and reported to Zhou Xinghui: "Boss, the B27 Shipbuilding Center has completed all shipbuilding tasks. The fleet is expected to reach the gathering point in 14 days."
"Well, so the fleet required by the alliance has been completed?" Zhou Xing asked Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Yes, boss, do you want to continue building second-generation intercontinental ships? The production efficiency of second-generation intercontinental ships has increased to one hundred ships per day!" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing and confirmed.
Zhou Xing thought for a moment and asked, "What if it's all changed to the third generation?"
As soon as Zhou Xing finished speaking, the holographic screen displaying the manufacturing center changed, and the data flow was like a waterfall, flowing wildly.
After more than ten seconds, the data flow on the holographic screen was frozen. Zhou Xiaozhi reported to Zhou Xinghui: "Boss, it will take about five years to transform the entire production chain into a third-generation intercontinental ship. At the same time, due to the constraints of the material production chain, Due to restrictions, the ship cannot be manufactured during this period, and it will take at least seven years for the third generation of intercontinental ships to be put into production."
"After 7 years! What is the production efficiency?" Zhou Xing nodded and continued to ask Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Boss, the hull materials, negative matter weapon systems, large-scale curvature power engines used by the third-generation intercontinental ships... are all new technologies, and the manufacturing difficulty is thirty-two times that of the second-generation intercontinental ships. In a short time, the industrial chain of the third-generation intercontinental ships will not be able to When production capacity explodes, it is expected to build about 1,000 ships per month." Zhou Xiaozhi replied to Zhou Xing.
"So few..." Zhou Xing couldn't help but frown.
The combat power of the third-generation intercontinental ship is hundreds of times that of the second-generation intercontinental ship. Especially after being equipped with negative matter cannons, the third-generation intercontinental ship is not without the power to fight back even if it encounters a super civilization.
However, the Galactic Alliance is about to launch a large-scale war against the Dark Zerg. After the war breaks out, the Dark Zerg will inevitably ravage the entire galaxy. By then, humans, as members of the Milky Way, will inevitably be involved.
If human civilization cannot master a powerful fleet as soon as possible, it will fall into destruction if it is not careful.
The combat effectiveness of just producing second-generation intercontinental ships is definitely insufficient. However, if the production chain of third-generation intercontinental ships is not launched as soon as possible, the third-generation intercontinental ships will never be able to achieve scale.
Zhou Xing frowned, unable to make up his mind for a moment.
Seeing this, Zhou Xiaozhi quickly suggested: "Boss, to be on the safe side, we can half transform and half produce the second-generation intercontinental ship. Coupled with the production center of the Taishan mothership, we will soon be able to accumulate a powerful fleet. In addition, We are looking for another suitable resource star to expand the production center of the third-generation intercontinental ship... "
"Okay, let's do it! But can you take care of continuing to expand the production center?" Zhou Xing nodded and asked.
After the human Internet was merged into the Star Network, there was one more area that needed to be controlled by Zhou Xiaozhi, which suddenly occupied a large amount of its computing power. The 10 trillion calculations per second seemed a bit insufficient.
In 8 years, human civilization has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The interstellar network has become the focus of the development of the entire human civilization. The scale of trade between human civilization and the Galaxy Alliance has jumped into the top fifteen of the alliance, completely changing the employment trend of human civilization that was originally hit by mechanical civilization.
With a population of 50 billion, countless people have obtained a large number of jobs from the Star Network, interstellar trade, entertainment competitions, currency and finance, design services... Various industries, relying on the Star Network, human society has bloomed brilliantly the flower of civilization.
In addition, the Baoji Star immigration has been officially launched, various colonial bases, warship manufacturing centers, and various scientific research projects... The areas that Zhou Xiaozhi needs to monitor are increasing every year. The areas that he needs to control now are the achievements in the past few years. Hundreds or thousands of times.
"Boss, you have to find a way, Xiaozhi, it's getting more and more difficult." Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing and said resentfully.
It’s really time to find a way to improve Zhou Xiaozhi’s computing power. Its computing speed has affected the development efficiency of human civilization. However, the only thing that perfectly fits Zhou Xiaozhi’s core wireless sophon box is the photon computing module. Other computing modules are difficult to fit the wireless sophon box. box.
It is difficult to solve this problem with ordinary methods.
Zhou Xing pondered for a moment and suggested: "How about switching to neuron computing mode?"
"Boss, the neuron operation mode is to establish a neuron network and adopt a parallel network calculation mode. It is completely opposite to Xiaozhi's current nonlinear calculation mode. The success rate is not high!" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing and reminded:
The neuron computing mode is to simulate the human brain to build a neural network computing network. The overall performance is closely related to the number of neurons. The high degree of parallelism of optical interconnections provides the possibility of realizing large-scale neural networks in principle. However, with As the number of neurons increases, the number of interconnections will also increase according to the square law. The number of neurons must be limited by spatial bandwidth product, diffraction, distortion, etc...
This computing model is contrary to the photon computing model currently used by Zhou Xiaozhi.
However, the neuron computing model also has advantages and disadvantages. It is a network computing model. As long as neurons are added to this neural computing network, Zhou Xiaozhi's computing power can be increased without limit, which will once and for all solve the problem of the upper limit of Zhou Xiaozhi's computing power. question.
Zhou Xing frowned and asked Zhou Xiaozhi: "If the neuron calculation cannot be satisfied, do you have any good suggestions?"
"This... material problem limits the photon computing module; the quantum computing mode cannot be combined with the infinite sophon box;..." Zhou Xiaozhi seemed to be stumped. The data on the holographic screen continued to flow, and he could not find a suitable computing mode for a while.
Zhou Xiaozhi's core memory is the infinite sophon box. Therefore, the computing module must rely on the infinite sophon box. Only by combining the two can Zhou Xiaozhi obtain normal computing power.
Therefore, even though human civilization has developed quantum computers that exceed one petaflop, Zhou Xiaozhi cannot directly use this computing module.
"The neuron computing model is more suitable for you, of course, but you need to redesign your computing model." Zhou Xing smiled slightly and looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and suggested.
Neuron computers, also known as sixth-generation computers, are neural network computers that imitate the judgment and adaptability of the human brain and have the function of processing multiple data in parallel. This is a transportation mode that simulates the human brain.
The human brain has approximately 100 billion neurons and more than 1,000 trillion synapses. Each neuron is cross-connected with thousands of neurons. Its function is equivalent to a microcomputer. The overall running speed of the human brain is equivalent to With 1,000 trillion computer functions per second, many "microprocessors" are used to imitate the neuron structure of the human brain, forming a parallel and distributed neuron computing network. Each step of operation is assigned to each microprocessor, allowing them to " "Networked" simultaneous computing, its information processing speed and intelligence will be greatly improved.
Different from the fifth generation computers that mainly focus on logical processing, neuron computing itself can judge the nature and status of objects and take corresponding actions. Moreover, it can process large amounts of real-time changing data in parallel at the same time and draw conclusions. In the past, The information processing system can only process clearly organized data with clear meridians, but the human brain has the flexibility to process fragmented and ambiguous information. If Zhou Xiaozhi changes to this computing mode, then its computing power will not only be able to With unlimited growth, it will also gain intelligence and flexibility similar to the human brain, and its overall performance will be even better.
"Boss, if you change Xiaozhi's calculation mode and something goes wrong, will Xiaozhi still be the same Xiaozhi?" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing and asked anxiously.
"If you don't move your core data, you will still be the same person. Changes in the computing model will not affect your root system." Zhou Xing laughed and reassured Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Is it really possible?" Zhou Xiaozhi perked up and asked excitedly.
If he could switch to neuron computing mode, for Zhou Xiaozhi, this would be an evolution of breaking out of his cocoon and being reborn.
The neuron computing model perfectly simulates the human brain. However, even if it is a simulated one, Zhou Xiaozhi is extremely eager to have it.
The human brain has more than 10 billion nerve cells, and the connections between them may exceed 1,000 trillion. With this level of complexity, even in the interstellar age, humans still cannot understand the technical level of their own brains.
Even if computers are developed to the extreme, the computing speed and accuracy that are far beyond the reach of humans can realize a large number of tasks that originally belong to the field of human thinking, from the most complex calculations to the most realistic simulations, the generation of virtual environments, and even artificial intelligence - Zhou Xiaozhi's Birth, however, they still cannot surpass the human brain.
For example: watching a live game, the resolution of the scene in human eyes is about 200 million pixels, which is roughly equivalent to 19000*11000. They are converted into video data and stored into compressed data. Calculate the human eyes in this way. In the world seen in, 1 TB of data is stored in one hour, and at least 10 TB of data is stored every day. A disk array about the same size as the brain can be filled with data in one week, and the human brain can store it continuously for decades. It can automatically compress, back up important data, and can extract randomly, extract by scene, extract by features... Long-term evolution has pre-installed the "visual compression and memory" module for the human brain.
Switch to a real conversation environment, such as: How is the progress of the course? company regulation? Do you want to drink? How is your relationship with your girlfriend? Organizing a hundred different answers, each person's answer will not be obtrusive in terms of grammar, semantics, pragmatics, logic, emotion, etc... However, if the computer is used to process it, even artificial intelligence - Zhou Xiaozhi can't do anything To be comprehensive, however, humans can easily do it because the human brain itself is pre-installed with the "language" module.
Such examples are endless and exist in the ordinary life of every human being.
The point is not that the human brain has these awesome functions, but that the human brain can easily complete these functions at the same time. For example, while carrying a five kilogram schoolbag while climbing a hill, you recognize an old friend of yours, and then you can chat while walking. , and memorized this scene, and did not feel that doing so would put any burden on the brain. In fact, the brain was still doing many other things at this time, such as regulating people's breathing, heartbeat, respiration, endocrine, etc. A series of complex biochemical processes…
In daily management, the human brain can not only easily complete many tasks, but it is also very energy-saving and environmentally friendly. With its own "battery", the human brain can last for several days by just replenishing the "electrolyte". What's even more frightening is that the brain can learn, From meeting new faces, learning to dance, mastering a new language, understanding football tactics... there are countless skills that anyone can learn as long as they put in enough effort.
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Therefore, the best computing model is to simulate the neuron computing network of the human brain.
"It should be possible. We can test it first to make sure there won't be any problems." Zhou Xing smiled and nodded.
"Understood! Understood! Boss, let's start the experiment quickly! What should I do?" Zhou Xiaozhi looked at Zhou Xing excitedly and said impatiently.
Zhou Xing nodded and assigned the task to Zhou Xiaozhi: "This experiment will be divided into several parts. First, establish the neuron computing network model and confirm the neuron computing network operating mode... Then, find the most suitable neural network to establish the neuron computing module. Meta-materials... compare the fit with the infinite sophon box and eliminate defective technologies... Then, recompile the computing system based on your core modules... "
"Xiao Zhi, I understand." Zhou Xiaozhi responded.
Immediately, the pictures on the holographic screen kept changing, and the data jumped wildly... Zhou Xiaozhi started to perform tasks according to the orders issued by Zhou Xing, establishing a neuron computing network model, and screening neuron materials...
"Boss, the model directly uses the human brain neuron network. To fit the infinite sophon box environment, biological materials cannot be used. Special materials between biological materials and metal elements must be used... This material does not exist on the earth and does not exist on colonial stars... Boss "Zhou Xiaozhi reported anxiously to Zhou Xinghui.
"Where's the Star Network! Can I find it on the Star Network?" Zhou Xing's expression tightened and he asked quickly.
Zhou Xiaozhi was silent for a long time, and then replied disappointedly: "Boss, I can't find it!"
Are you limited by material issues? This is troublesome. The material problem is the most difficult problem to solve.
Zhou Xing frowned, looking a little disappointed.
This research project encountered huge difficulties at the beginning. The computing module embedded in the infinite sophon box must run in a unique environment, which is not an environment that ordinary materials cannot withstand, let alone biological materials that simulate neurons.