Chapter 846 Technical "Intimidation"

The conference in the first two days has brought a lot of hints to the world, which makes everyone full of curiosity about the closing display on the third day. What is the final technology?

And the answer to this mystery was revealed by Meng Qian himself.

After Meng Qian stepped onto the stage, he showed several news on the big screen.

The first news is that in March 2016, the quantum project entered the Hangzhou National Laboratory for Information Physics, becoming the second highest-level project in the history of the Hangzhou National Laboratory for Information Physics after the lithography machine. , China University of Science and Technology and other units are jointly responsible.

Adopted almost the same model as the research and development of lithography machines at that time, and brought together top experts in related fields across the country to serve the same goal by combining their strengths in their respective fields.

The second news is that in July 2016, Huaxia refreshed the photon entanglement record and realized ten photon entanglement. On this basis, the quantum project team of the National Laboratory used the self-developed quantum dot single photon source with the best comprehensive performance in the world. Through electronically controlled and programmable optical quantum circuits, a prototype of optical quantum computing for multi-photon Bose sampling tasks was constructed.

The Bose sampling of this prototype is not only at least 24,000 times faster than all previous similar experiments of international counterparts, but also runs 10 times faster than the first electronic tube computer and the first transistor computer in human history by comparing with classical algorithms. -100 times.

This is the first single-photon-based quantum simulator in history that surpassed early classical computers, laying a solid foundation for the ultimate realization of quantum computing beyond classical computing capabilities, which is called quantum supremacy by the international academic community.

The third piece of news is that in October 2016, the quantum project team successfully developed a 10-bit superconducting quantum circuit sample. Through high-precision pulse control and global entanglement operations, it successfully realized the multi-quantity of the world's largest number of superconducting qubits. Bulk pure entanglement, and a ten-bit quantum state is completely characterized by tomographic measurement methods.

The research team further used superconducting quantum circuits to demonstrate the quantum algorithm for solving linear equations, and proved the feasibility of accelerating the solution of linear equations through the parallelism of quantum computing. Based on the research and development results of the project team, Gale Group in December 2016 Officially released the quantum cloud computing platform.

The fourth piece of news is that in February 2017, Micius, the world's first quantum science experiment satellite, successfully realized two-way quantum communication between the satellite and the ground at the thousand-kilometer level for the first time in the world.

The development of China's quantum technology has obviously accelerated under the promotion of Meng Qian, and Meng Qian found that in this era, if you want to focus on promoting the development of a certain technology, as long as the money and policies are in place, it will be much easier than it was ten years ago One of the key reasons is that there is a large talent pool.

Back in 2000, Huaxia's talent pool was indeed a bit pitiful. At that time, it almost threw the company into it just to build a lithography machine.

In June 2017, Huaxia's quantum project team gave Meng Qian the best feedback for his efforts. The quantum project team successfully built a quantum computing prototype with 76 photons, and it only took 200 seconds to solve the mathematical algorithm Gaussian Bose sampling. A hundred trillion times faster than the fastest supercomputers available today!

Also using this quantum computer, Meng Qian announced in a high-profile manner at the conference, "China is the first country in the world to achieve quantum supremacy, and our Dafeng Group has achieved quantum supremacy!"

What Meng Qian didn't know was that if it wasn't for him, Huaxia would have to wait another three years to achieve quantum hegemony. Although at that time Huaxia could still proudly say that it was the second country in the world to achieve quantum hegemony, but the first And the second is different in the eyes of many people.

More R&D investment, more talent investment, and more dedicated project guarantee, all of these are brought by Meng Qian.

And this time, the Dafeng Group has directly led the United States for two years by relying on this huge breakthrough. What can the two-year lead bring?

Meng Qian began to "intimidate" at the conference, "Although we have successfully achieved quantum hegemony, everyone knows that the definition of quantum hegemony is not a technological monopoly, but a statement of achieving a certain computing result.

Quantum computing is actually the same as artificial intelligence, and both are still in the early research stage.

But we need to be clear that quantum computing and artificial intelligence are symbiotic technologies, that is to say, artificial intelligence can accelerate the development of quantum computing, and quantum computing can accelerate the development of artificial intelligence.”

Therefore, although the future of quantum computers has unlimited imaginable space, the key direction of our Gale Group is: quantum technology + artificial intelligence.

I have been emphasizing to everyone before that the current artificial intelligence is still in the stage of weak artificial intelligence, and we have not even started the real strong artificial intelligence.

Because we have been unable to open the door to strong artificial intelligence, we lack a key, and at present, this key is likely to be quantum computing.

This door is what is often referred to as the singularity in the field of artificial intelligence. "

The quantum hegemony of Dafeng Group and the singularity of strong artificial intelligence instantly detonated the entire technology circle. Dafeng Group has always been the world's leading artificial intelligence company, and now it has become the world's leading quantum technology company. Now Meng Qian said this again, It has indeed scared many technology companies. Both of these two trump cards are in the hands of the Dafeng Group. I really don't know what will happen in the future.

And judging from the market reaction, it is not only the enterprises that are frightened.

Many people began to call the Gale Group the murderer who destroyed the world.

Especially not long after, Hawking said in the media, "Artificial intelligence may replace human beings, and may destroy human beings. We must be careful."

Hawking's fans saw Hawking's speech and came to attack Meng Qian. For a while, Dafeng Group was caught between two extreme public opinions.

But Meng Qian doesn't care about these voices now, because he already knew that this would happen, "What's the reaction from Silicon Valley?"

"Almost no response." He Yating replied while looking at the computer, "Why are they so silent this time?"

"If we don't mention quantum supremacy this year, next year Microsoft and other companies will begin to show their quantum advantages and take up the banner of leading quantum technology.

So they can't attack quantum computing. Attacking quantum computing is tantamount to attacking themselves.

At the same time, it is impossible for them to come to congratulate us, so they can only remain silent. "

He Yating curled her lips and suddenly asked in a low voice, "Mr. Meng, do you think that once quantum computing really activates strong artificial intelligence, will artificial intelligence really replace humans? Will it."

"Are you worried too?"

"A little."

Meng Qian put down the phone in his hand, "I still say the same thing, technology itself is never wrong, what is wrong is the application of technology, gunpowder can be used as fireworks or weapons, should we ban gunpowder?

So if you ask me if I am worried, I can tell you clearly that I am very worried, because quantum technology + artificial intelligence will bring about a revolution in weapons just like gunpowder invented at the beginning.

You can learn about the unmanned swarm fighter jets in the United States. This is a swarm of drones the size of bees. These drones can realize face recognition, precise positioning, and precise tracking of blasting and other functions.

And because of its small size, it can very sensitively avoid threats from conventional weapons such as bullets.

Once this drone swarm is dispatched, it can easily destroy at least half of the people in Hangcheng.

And this is just a new type of weapon created in the era of weak artificial intelligence. What will happen once strong artificial intelligence arrives?

It will certainly bring weapons that we simply cannot imagine now.

Although we Huaxia have been bullied all these years, we can at least fight with peace of mind. This has a major premise because we have nuclear weapons.

But with the development of technology, what if one day nuclear weapons are no longer threatening, or technology develops to the point where the enemy's nuclear weapons can be easily controlled?

Just like before gunpowder, everyone was thinking about polishing cold weapons. The emergence of hot weapons made cold weapons almost meaningless, even if it was a magic weapon, it seemed so powerless in front of a bomb.

If quantum weapons or strong smart weapons appear in the future, the nuclear weapons that we now feel can give us a sense of security are likely to become the swords that ancient people believed could protect them, and lose the ability to truly protect us. "

He Yating subconsciously put down her work, "Isn't that very dangerous?"

"Yes, it is very dangerous, so there are only two ways in front of us, or to prevent the development of technology, just like Hawking and others are doing, to resist it.

But the question is, is it useful for us to resist? Even if Hawking speaks, which big country will listen?

So there is only one way left for us, we must not fall behind in this technology, and we must not let the situation where we use swords to resist other people's bullets recur.

We must at least have the ability to protect ourselves. "

"That's why Mr. Meng regards quantum technology as important."

"Our comprehensive national strength is not as good as that of the United States, and our overall scientific research ability is not as good as that of the United States. We can only pay more attention to key areas and fight to the death.

Just like ten years ago, we gave up some equally important industrial equipment and concentrated our energy on chips and systems, because these two things have been the most important in the past ten years. "

"I understand, so even if we will be scolded, we have to stand up and take this opportunity. This is a very dangerous technology, but Pandora's box has been opened, and no one can stop it."

"It can't be said that it is Pandora's box. Quantum technology and artificial intelligence are really used well. It is really possible to help humans make a big breakthrough, and even human evolution is not impossible."