Chapter 402: Academic Anxiety

Strong artificial intelligence has been realized, but because scientists have not found a way to prevent its rebellion, humans have not officially put it into use during this period, and of course it has not been made public to the whole society.

Despite this, some news is still spreading within the society. After all, the new government has not asked some insiders to keep this matter confidential, because according to the current work progress, scientists are still very confident that they can find a way to prevent it, and as time goes by, the construction of a new supercomputer project based on general quantum technology has been halfway completed.

And in this situation, some discussions about strong artificial intelligence have quietly emerged within human society, both among high-level officials and ordinary people.

Just like today's No. 705 residential spacecraft, Hope No. 705, there are occasional discussions about these things.

Xu Yanxia, ​​who is over 1,100 years old, is tall and strong, beautiful and has long legs. She walks on the road to her home with a somewhat sloppy pace. Except for the power engine and other components on the residential spacecraft, it is basically a living area, which has simulated gravity. As Xu Yanxia walks, her eyes occasionally glance at the scenery on both sides of the corridor.

The evening in the countryside is particularly charming. The faint glow of the sunset shines through a thin layer of clouds and shines on the mottled fields. The enthusiasm of the day is restrained, and the earth only reveals a faint green.

"It looks good, but it's just a picture, not real." Xu Yanxia, ​​who has always been known for her rough character, rarely shows an expression of longing for the fields.

There is no other reason, but on her way home from work, she suddenly remembered her sister who had passed away with the earth for many years.

She remembered that her sister Xu Yanshi liked this kind of scenery the most.

Xu Yanxia did not go home directly, but turned a corner and came to the door of a cake shop, and then walked in with ease.

Seeing her come in, a voice came from inside: "Welcome, do you want to pick up now or make a reservation?"

"Make it now, I want all the flavors in your store to be added, and Boss Li must do it himself." Xu Yanxia was not polite and directly put forward her request.

She only comes to this cake shop once a year, but she buys cakes not for her birthday, nor for anyone in her family, but for her sister who has passed away many years ago.

Although she only comes once a year, except for the hibernation time, she has come hundreds of times, and she usually asks her department to take care of the business of this shop, so she has become familiar with the boss.

Speaking of opening a cake shop, it is not uncommon, but it is rare to open a cake shop in the interstellar era, especially on a living spaceship. After all, the spaceship is different from the earth. When it crosses the star system with the entire civilization fleet, it has to perform high-G acceleration and deceleration, so sweets like cake shops must be processed before the spaceship sets sail, otherwise after the spaceship completes acceleration and deceleration, there will only be a pair of paste left.

Obviously, the owner of this cake shop is very experienced, and the cakes in the shop are all made to order, um, pure handmade.

"Okay, no problem!" The voice responded.

"Hey, why is it you, where is your mother?" Xu Yanxia realized that the person talking to her was not the cake shop owner she knew, but her daughter.

The damn gene editor glanced at the girl, and Xu Yanxia complained in her heart.

It was nothing, mainly because the girl looked too much like her mother, and her voice type was similar, so she didn't realize it just now.

"My mother went to the sixth planet with my father last year. She said that they needed people for development there and went to earn contribution points. So now I am the boss of this store." The girl answered crisply.

"Okay, you can do it, anyway, I guess you won't be able to do it for long." Xu Yanxia retracted her eyes from the girl's face, then turned around and sat down steadily on the sofa next to her.

The girl's name is Li Xuan. Xu Yanxia remembered that she should be only 18 years old this year, a full 1,098 years younger than herself.

"Ah?! What do you mean you won't be able to do it for long anyway?" Hearing Xu Yanxia say this, Li Xuan looked over with a confused look on her face, and the movements in her hands stopped.

This Xu Yanxia is her mother's thousand-year-old friend, so she still knows that it is said that she is a remnant of the Earth era, uh, no, a survivor.

In addition to this relationship, she also knew that Xu Yanxia was an engineer in the mechanical department of the engineering department. She had made great contributions to the tactical armor worn by the landing personnel. She was a very powerful person, but she didn't know how powerful she was.

Now such a person actually said that her cake making would not last long. How could she remain calm?

"Not only you, I may be unemployed! I don't think there will be much time left. Remember to tell your mother to prepare. The handmade cake business may be gone." Xu Yanxia raised her eyelids and showed her pearly teeth.

"Ah?" Li Xuan was confused.

"Strong artificial intelligence research has been successful. Before long, it will set off a storm in the whole society. All physical work that originally required human participation will be replaced by robot labor. It is estimated that in the future, except for creativity, innovation, design, scientific research, scientific career, and administrative work, everyone else can retire in advance." Xu Yanxia did not hide it.

"Strong artificial intelligence?" Li Xuan's little face showed an even more puzzled expression.

It was then that Xu Yanxia realized that the little girl was only eighteen years old this year. According to the current human learning curriculum, she was still in the early stages of learning. She would need to study for another forty-two years before she could graduate from school.

At this stage, if you don't deliberately learn about artificial intelligence, you may not have heard of it.

Shaking her head, Xu Yanxia patiently explained to her what artificial intelligence is and what strong artificial intelligence is, and then concluded: "In short, you only need to know that any manual and physical work will be replaced by robot labor."

"Is this so exaggerated?"

Li Xuan felt that life was so difficult. She just wanted to graduate, then come out and inherit her mother's business, make her handmade cakes well, and earn some contribution coins to live a lifetime.

But she didn't expect that before she graduated, someone told her that in the future, there would be no work she wanted to do, and it would be replaced by robot labor.

For a while, she was a little confused.

"What an exaggeration, strong artificial intelligence has self-awareness, and it is essentially a quasi-life. Now that nanotechnology has made a major breakthrough, it is not surprising that robots with flexible limbs like humans will appear in society soon, and the cakes made by robot laborers are also handmade cakes, so little Li Xuan, while you are still young, quickly set another life goal." Xu Yanxia sat in a big horse and golden knife posture.

She was talking about Li Xuan, but she was also talking about herself. The emergence of strong artificial intelligence made her anxious. She was afraid that she would have nothing to do in the future.

It’s not that she was afraid of starving to death. As a top mechanical engineer, she couldn’t starve to death after so many years of accumulation. Human society is rich in materials and there is no starvation.

Xu Yanxia was just worried that she would lose her passion for life after she became idle. Others don’t know, but she knows a lot about strong artificial intelligence.

Once this thing is really put into use, combined with robot labor made with nanotechnology, not only she, but the entire human individual can live a life of clothing and food.

There is no need to do it yourself. As long as the new government is willing, it can be done to equip everyone with a robot labor assistant, and then no one will have to work.

If you want to do something or get something, you just need to tell the robot labor assistant.

Such a life is desirable, but Xu Yanxia can’t be happy at all, because she feels that the knowledge and hands-on ability she has worked hard to master are suddenly useless at this moment.

What I know, strong artificial intelligence knows, what I can do, strong artificial intelligence can do, all aspects, everything.

This feeling makes her very uncomfortable, but for her, all this is helpless, because she clearly knows that strong artificial intelligence will inevitably be put into use.

"Perhaps, the new government will formulate some corresponding measures." Thinking of this, Xu Yanxia couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She, who has always been cheerful, rarely does this.

In fact, it's not just her. After strong artificial intelligence is truly realized, many scientists have similar anxieties. However, due to different perspectives, these scientists are more anxious about human knowledge.

They feel that humans have learned all their lives, and the knowledge in their brains is not as much as that of a strong artificial intelligence. They are afraid that after the real use of strong artificial intelligence, the entire human society will fall into the decadence of enjoyment.