Spark

"The army's combat effectiveness has soared? Across the 2012 exercise, amazing battle losses have been achieved!"

"A rare high-profile appearance, what signal is released?"

In the office, Chen Nian couldn't help laughing at the slightly exaggerated headlines of the news reports.

"It's been quite floating lately—or is it what you asked for?"

Chen Guo on the opposite side replied lazily:

"Almost, it's what we asked for."

"Everything has been done, you must explain it clearly, otherwise if people don't understand, wouldn't it be for nothing?"

"When dealing with jackals, you can't be too reserved. Once you are reserved, people will think you have given up."

"It's better to put the words on the table, it will be more convincing."

Hearing his words, Chen Nianshen nodded in agreement.

In fact, he always believed that at certain moments in the past, he was indeed too low-key, and even vaguely suspected of "begging for perfection".

After all, the world develops in confrontation and deterrence. As a mature leader, one must not anthropomorphize the concept of a country.

The complex system bears the ultimate rationality, and the basis for rationality is cold interests.

You can't expect that your goodwill and low profile will win the favor of the other party, because the weak position will instead invite further plunder.

In this case, why not speak louder?

Anyway, people don't really listen to you, they only see what you are really doing.

If you speak louder, at least you can gain some benefits in the internal environment.

Thinking of this, he sighed lightly.

The so-called turning of self-confidence really takes time

"So the next target is Africa? I thought we would start with Southeast Asia."

"The place in Africa. After the birth of nuclear fusion technology, the value can be said to have dropped sharply."

"Why are we fighting over there? Do we still have to dig for oil and coal?"

"no."

Chen Guo shook her head and replied:

"This step may be a bit different from what you might imagine. The purpose of going to Africa is not for natural resources, nor for any benefit of a physical nature, but to establish an ideological advantage."

"Compared to Southeast Asia, the social form there is more... backward, and it is more suitable for some, you know, transformation."

"And, under the premise that the technological gap is widened to the limit, the acceptance of us there will also be greatly improved."

"How should I say it? A model village?"

"Demonstration continent."

Chen Nian instantly understood what Chen Guo meant.

He really didn't expect that the superior's plan for the future had reached such a height.

This is not a five-year plan or a ten-year plan. To some extent, it is a century-old plan.

And the purpose of this plan also points to a grand goal that is almost at the end.

"It's really exaggerated. Which countries are you planning to start with?"

"Exclude several economically developed countries including Morocco and Tunisia, and then exclude the black and green countries with relatively conservative religious forms, and there are only a few left."

"The most likely one is Ethiopia."

"After all, we have the deepest foundation there and have established a certain military influence. It is more appropriate as a starting point."

"Understood, it's no wonder that the Navy's recent visit plan has been made so much fanfare."

Chen Nian couldn't help but look forward to it.

Whose Africa will Africa eventually become?

Maybe it's not ours, but it should, and definitely won't be someone else's.

However, the difficulty of this job is probably far from being as simple as what Chen Guo said lightly.

To build a "demonstration zone", it is impossible to rely solely on the infusion of technology and the improvement of productivity, and more importantly, how to achieve a soft shift in ideology.

If you act too hastily, or if there is a fundamental wrong direction, it is very likely to lead to a tragedy similar to that of 1960.

——

No, it should be said that in that part of Africa, the situation may be more serious.

They are the forces that can do things like massacre the village without any external influence.

If you really get to that point, it's not "can't wear glasses", it may evolve into "can't breathe air from a certain direction".

His thoughts drifted away, Chen Nian quickly shook his head and put it back.

He temporarily put these absurd thoughts aside, and started chatting with Chen Guo about the electric motor.

".At present, our technical integration of electric engines has come to an end. Unlike the information I have learned before, Shen Fei has actually started working on electric aircraft projects very early on."

"Only in the first half of this year, they tested a small sports two-seater electric aircraft with a range of more than 100 kilometers-not bad."

"However, the engine and energy storage modules of this aircraft are designed based on technologies before the emergence of metal hydrogen, and they are not considered advanced as a whole."

"Especially in terms of motor design, it may not even reach the maturity of the current new energy vehicle field."

"In contrast, Airbus' E-FAN project is more suitable for this project."

"This project was launched around 2010, covering all technologies including engines, transmissions, complete machine systems, etc., and it is said that the first non-public experimental flight has been completed this year."

"If we can get their technology, it will be a big help for us."

"Of course, it would be even better if we could directly poach people here."

Hearing what Chen Nian said, Chen Guo smiled and said:

"So you're saying, let's figure it out?"

"Yeah, what else?"

Chen Nian nodded and answered as a matter of course.

In fact, if you really want to do this thing by yourself, it doesn’t take much to rely on the system to analyze it, but the problem is that the complexity of the entire technology is still too high, and the technical output alone may take up a couple of dollars. month's time.

Now he is no longer the boy who drew the F-22 freehand. He has more urgent tasks to deal with, so he has to start thinking about "technical cost performance".

Besides, why do it yourself if you can whore for nothing?

Although E-FAN is not an amazing achievement that spans the ages, there is no doubt that it is extremely inspiring.

In the last life, after the appearance of this aircraft, various countries have launched corresponding electric aircraft projects, the most representative of which is the Yak-40LL developed by the Russian Advanced Research Foundation.

This thing is different from all the small planes before. It optimizes the design of the electric drive ducted fan of E-FAN, which greatly increases the overall thrust of the engine. Its performance at the Moscow Air Show is quite amazing.

And more importantly, the electric drive engine of this Yak-40LL uses low-temperature superconducting technology.

——

So in theory, Russia can make the Yak-40LL with the help of the E-FAN project, can't we make it?

Chen Nian still has great confidence in these domestic researchers.

Seeing Chen Nian's expression, Chen Guo sighed helplessly.

"Okay, let's do some research on this - this is not a very core technology, and it shouldn't be too difficult."

"However, during this period of time we were poaching people everywhere, and the pace was a bit too fast."

"The superiors also have concerns about this, and it may not be resolved too quickly. You have to arrange your own plan."

"It doesn't matter."

Chen Nian stretched his waist and replied:

"If it's not easy for Airbus, go to Maozi to recruit people --- Chaprekin Research Institute, and take them all in one pot."

"You really don't refuse anyone."

Chen Guo said slightly jokingly.

"Then what can be done? The level of technological development has risen, but talent education has not kept up."

"In the past few years, our technical talent gap has been too great, and it can even be said that there is a gap."

"What should no one do? We can only grab it."

"Grab it and use it first, and then bring our own people along."

"When our talent gap is filled, we can kick them away."

Chen Guo's expression became a little serious. In fact, although Chen Nian's tone was relaxed, the question he said was not at all easy.

talent gap

Most of the time, the only reason a country has a major talent gap is because industry is growing faster than education.

And the root cause of this reason is often the so-called "technical aggression".

The technological aggression of industrial countries against agricultural countries in history has actually led to similar consequences.

It's just that for China now, the "aggressor" has become Chen Nian

This is an unavoidable pain, but also a problem that must be solved.

And, with the development of nuclear fusion and related industries, this problem has become more and more urgent.

"Do you have any good solutions to the talent gap?"

Chen Guo looked at Chen Nian with full expectation—of course, he didn't expect Chen Nian to give a once-and-for-all solution, but wanted to hear some hopeful answers from him.

However, the first sentence Chen Nian answered was completely different from what he expected.

"There is no good solution in the short term-I would say that to solve the talent gap, we must first solve educational equity."

"Let's first see where there are schools in the country that are not connected to the Internet. After solving the problems of the Internet and multimedia, and aligning the channels for information acquisition, we can talk about other things."

"Indeed. I will discuss this with my superiors."

Chen Guo's expression was a little heavy. The unbalanced allocation of educational resources is indeed the hidden pain of this country at present.

But it's impossible to solve it so quickly.

Education is a long-term plan. If you want to complete the transformation of education and realize the blowout of talents, let alone ten years, twenty years may not be enough.

"However, I still have a method, which can quickly solve the problem in the simplest and most brutal way."

"what way?"

Chen Guo immediately asked.

"Go to AI."

"Go to GAI."

Qatar.

Wang Jiancheng was sitting in the office of the station, facing the computer with a relaxed expression, typing on the keyboard, checking the details of the combat report, and modifying the code of the Zhanlu system.

He can be said to be extremely satisfied with the results of Zhanlu's first show.

The operating efficiency of this set of AI far exceeds his imagination, and even at some nodes, it not only achieves "process command", but also undergoes small-scale "adaptive learning", achieving the effect of "result command" .

Expressed in a language that is easier to understand, Zhanlu no longer simply formulates strategies based on the success rate of strategies for some small-scale decisions, but splits up a variety of different strategies and conducts a comprehensive analysis of them. Decomposition and combination formed a mixed probability basis that Wang Jiancheng himself could not understand for the time being, and finally achieved an astonishing effect.

The emergence of this situation proves that Zhanlu AI has reached a very high level of maturity, and even Wang Jiancheng has a vague feeling that it seems to be developing towards a general-purpose AI.

However, he is also very clear in his heart that to achieve such an effect, in the final analysis, a few lines of source code in the program are at work. If he wants to continue to optimize, he will inevitably need to spend a lot of money.

But at least it's a good direction, isn't it?

He is ready. After returning to China this time, he will report to Xinghuo and apply to upgrade the Zhanlu project to a GAI project.

It's bound to be a long journey, but at the same time, its rewards will be huge.

Would Spark approve such a project?

It seems that all the previous projects are short and fast.

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No, it is not the project that is short and fast, but the people who make the project.

If it weren't for Spark, who would have thought that room temperature superconductivity and nuclear fusion would appear so soon?

Therefore, GAI is not impossible.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Wang Jiancheng's face.

And at this moment, the intercom phone on his desk rang.

The caller was from the headquarters, asking him to report to the command room immediately. Apart from that, there was no other information.

Wang Jiancheng stood up suspiciously. He couldn't think of anything else to ask himself when all the work had been completed.

——

However, such doubts only lasted for a few minutes.

In the command room, he received a call from China.

It was Chen Guo on the other end of the phone.

The other party said to him in a noticeable tone:

"Completed, the work in Qatar is basically over, and the follow-up finishing work is left to other comrades in the project team to do."

"We have arranged the nearest return flight for you. At about ten o'clock tomorrow morning, you will take off from Qatar and fly back home."

"Don't go back to Chengdu yet."

"You have to go to the imperial capital."

"We arranged a seminar on the development direction of GAI there. The participants included Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nantah University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University's Institute of Intelligent Technology, and the organizer was the Institute of Automation."

"You need to give them a lecture on the principles of Zhanlu."

"Desensitization is required."

"The specific arrangements will be reported to you when you arrive in the imperial capital."

After listening to Chen Guo's words, every cell in Wang Jiancheng's body couldn't help cheering.

He knew all too well what such a large-scale discussion meant.

The strongest scientific research forces in the field of intelligence in the country have been gathered together. Do you need to ask if you plan to come up with something?

So he couldn't wait to ask:

"Are we going to engage in GAI??"

Chen Guo on the opposite side paused for a moment, then replied:

"Yes."

"We need to develop GAI, and we must do it as soon as possible."