From black technology to super engineering

Chapter 181 The Fourth Industrial Revolution

"It's an obvious fact that we are now in the early stages of a new technological explosion."

Following Ye Ming's voice, the six Chinese characters "Fourth Industrial Revolution" appeared on the screen.

In order to take care of a certain foreign employee, the English translation is marked under the Chinese characters.

"The definition and discussion of the fourth industrial revolution started many years ago. In the industry, the fourth industrial revolution is defined as intelligent manufacturing, production informatization, and the Internet of Everything—in essence, if you cut all the We will see that these glamorous definitions are essentially an extension of the existing Internet foundation.”

"But in the academic and scientific circles, the definition is more advanced, and in my opinion, it is more accurate." Ye Ming took a sip from his teacup, and looked at the crowd with a smile: "Break the shackles of energy, create new materials, and create new materials." New theories and creative ways of life and production are the hallmarks of the fourth industrial revolution—that is, the hallmarks of a new round of technological explosion.”

"Of course, some people also talk about the major fields of controllable nuclear fusion, new materials, quantum technology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence."

"We can find that no matter what the definition is, footsteps can already be heard now."

Following Ye Ming's voice, the PPT began to turn pages.

"We start with controlled fusion."

"Controllable nuclear fusion, the first commercial demonstration reactor will be completed within five years."

Everyone was slightly stunned, and then burst into applause.

……

Carter had been listening carefully, and when the applause sounded, he was astonished.

"Ye, why five years?"

"Because there has been a breakthrough in technology." Ye Ming smiled and explained very perfunctorily.

Those present may not know that Carter is the main designer of the fusion reactor project.

The core team of Jizhi Technology is mainly composed of the proud disciples of the two professors Tang and Chen - in other companies, they obviously have no chance to be independent.

But in Jizhi Technology... let's put it this way, what is most needed is their uncompromising execution ability.

Yang Chaoxiong asked with a smile while applauding: "Ye Ming, the project has been taken down? Can you say it?"

Ye Ming coughed: "I can't say much."

"Haha, okay. But if you can still sit here, it means this is not a top secret, right?"

"Well, after all, this is for the benefit of mankind, not for the destruction of mankind." Ye Ming smiled and turned to the next page: "Let's look at the materials."

"In the field of materials, I don't need to introduce more, do you?"

Everyone laughed.

In a sense, Jizhi Technology is the largest "new material enterprise".

"According to... the new equation..."

Yang Chaoxiong corrected Ye Ming: "Yip's equation."

"Cough... well, Ye's equation." Ye Ming smiled coyly—it is true that he has had a hard time saying the equation and limit named after his surname until now.

"According to Ye's equation, many laboratories have designed a variety of new materials, such as the polyurethane-like material GTDBRT, which can be perfectly used to fill gaps and has excellent fire resistance, and the polyacrylonitrile-like material GTCCD, which is As strong as carbon fiber - say, our robots can use it..."

"These are born of programmable materials under hybrid chips, and they either open up new areas, replace old materials, or solve old problems ... In short, the future is very promising."

Ye Ming continued to turn the page.

"Let's skip genetic engineering and come to a new life."

"Actually, I agree with one sentence, that is, artificial intelligence changes the world—if it doesn't change, it's just because artificial intelligence is not smart enough."

This time, there was an inexplicable emotion on everyone's face.

Because they are the closest people in this world to the only "strong artificial intelligence" so far.

They knew all too well what Aita's birth meant.

If it is not that Aita cannot be transplanted, otherwise...

Let's put it this way, according to Aita's level of intelligence, she can directly take over factories, mines, oceans, space, docks, vehicles...

This is artificial intelligence that can truly change the world.

"Our ownership of Aita means that we have the capital to subvert all the Internet and IT industries that rely on algorithms. Of course, this involves cooperation or confrontation with capital..." Ye Ming smiled: "But now I look at it , it seems that the contradiction is a bit irreconcilable?"

Liu Hong is in charge of the AI ​​department. Hearing this, he nodded with emotion and said, "That's right, we have talked many times with some first- and second-tier Internet giants at home and abroad... As a result, we found that our conflicts are structural."

Ye Ming also nodded.

Although he is not in charge of the business model, but for this meeting, he had a long chat with Tang and Chen yesterday, and he had a thorough understanding of the current company's overall situation.

From the date of the release of Aita, whether it is Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or the domestic giants TenX and ALI, Byte these first-line giants, or Zhihu, bilibili, Weibo, etc...

In fact, they all came to the door.

The first-tier giants talk more about acquisitions, shareholdings, and technical cooperation, while the second-tier giants talk more about business cooperation.

But no matter what the cooperation method is...it seems very difficult at present.

First of all, it is impossible to sell Jizhi Technology; secondly, Jizhi Technology is not short of money now, and finally, Aita cannot be shared and copied.

With these three constraints, the road to cooperation will be narrowed.

Even the social media that needs Aita's functions the most, to make Aita appear in their products, they need to move their database to the provincial capital, hand it over to Aita, and then let Aita deeply intervene—at least for now , have not found a better solution.

You said, how can there be such cooperation?

"So, if they don't want to trust us, how can the needs of the people be met?" Ye Ming chuckled and turned the page again.

"The PC era is the first generation of the Internet, and the mobile phone era is the second generation of mobile Internet. Well... I think the third generation of the Internet of Things is a pseudo-concept, and it doesn't really match a generation. The real third-generation Internet should be The holographic era."

On the PPT, the three characters "Metaverse" are displayed.

Seeing these three words, everyone present had strange expressions again.

With the hype of capital, the word metaverse has actually become a bit rotten, and it has even become "stinky".

"Actually, I don't want to use this word." Seeing everyone's expressions, Ye Ming shrugged helplessly: "But who made it easy to understand?"

Yang Chaoxiong smiled humorously: "Okay, I understand what you mean at the beginning, so which way should we go to realize virtual reality technology?"

Ye Ming took a sip of coffee: "Light field display technology."

——This is what he has been wanting to get involved in since last year, but Old Tang said that he can do it later when he has money.

Now that Jizhi Technology has money, the time is ripe.

"Actually, after the third-generation Internet, there will be a fourth-generation Internet-brain-computer interconnection."

"I even think that the technology of brain-computer interconnection will become mature in a very short period of time."

Ye Ming smiled and sighed: "But I'm sorry."

"For stubborn creatures like humans, it is far more difficult to get them to accept chips in their heads than to realize the technology itself."

Then, he can only settle for the next best thing, and let Aita bring mankind into the holographic simulation era first.

(End of this chapter)