Chapter 285: Difficult to Move Forward

A hundred years of ups and downs, the world has changed.

During the construction of the space multi-point particle collider, mankind is also climbing to a higher scientific peak.

Engineers are working hard to build the space multi-point particle collider, and scientists in various fields are not idle. They lead their teams in their respective fields and launch rounds of charges to higher scientific peaks.

Because humans have long known that the symbol technology of the third-level civilization is true nanotechnology, the purpose of the scientific team's research is very clear, either directly exploring micro-nanotechnology, or studying nanotechnology-related or some pre-technologies.

Of course, research in other areas will not stop, but the resource tilt is slightly different.

In this case, many new generation of outstanding scientists have emerged in human society, and there have been many breakthroughs in science and technology, and many new theories have been proposed one after another.

The first to make progress is quantum computer technology.

Humans have encountered real nano consciousness, so it is clear that it is impossible to create such advanced artificial intelligence with the existing computer technology of humans. Therefore, humans have been trying to improve their computer technology.

Humans have already realized universal quantum computers, but there is still room for optimization in computer structure design, various logical settings, etc., so over the years, humans have been working tirelessly to improve universal quantum computers.

After so many years of hard work, now, we have finally taken another big step forward.

However, computer scientists have found that even a perfect universal quantum computer cannot truly become an artificial intelligence with self-awareness.

It is true that humans hope that the AI ​​they create will become smarter and smarter, but they do not want the AI ​​they create to have self-awareness, because that means a crisis of intelligent machines.

Since experiencing the "Silver Mist Consciousness" incident, humans have understood this, so when promoting the progress of universal quantum computers and creating smarter AI, humans have been a little hesitant.

But now, human scientists have found that their universal-scale computers seem to have reached a bottleneck.

After countless years of optimization, they all feel that the central computer of mankind, that is, the largest universal quantum computer, has been perfected to the point where it cannot be perfected. In short, they can't find any improvement for humans.

Not only those who do computer optimization, but also AI scientists who write AI based on universal quantum computers can't find any improvement in the new AI they created.

The new AI can learn and update itself. After being authorized, it can input massive amounts of data or simple rules, learn, adjust and analyze the model, and then get new orderly information output, and continuously optimize and adjust, forming a cycle.

Since the creation of the new AI, scientists have made it iterate for decades. With the powerful computing power of the current universal quantum computer, this AI has no idea how many generations it has updated and iterated.

Its ability has completely crushed the previous AI. It can be said that if you don’t know it is an AI in advance, you won’t even find it is an AI after talking to it for several years. Whether in terms of knowledge accumulation or work efficiency, it is far beyond the level of humans.

But that’s all. In terms of reason, it has completely defeated humans, but in terms of handling and judging unknown things and unknown events, and in terms of perceptual cognition of things, it is still inferior to humans.

Human scientists naturally understand this, but this new AI seems to be like a universal quantum computer, unable to go any further. Scientists have also tried to let it continue to iterate, but the iterative experiment has been going on for many years, and AI is still the same AI.

It’s like the road ahead is blocked.

Scientists have also thought about whether the universal quantum computer, which is the basis of AI, has room for optimization, but they can't find any possible room for optimization.

Humans don't want to create an AI with self-awareness, but they want to understand why they can't create such an AI. After all, only by knowing why can we effectively prevent the crisis of intelligent machines.

In order to find out the reason, scientists also deliberately created an AI that simulates the human brain, but the result is useless. This AI is even dumber than the previous AI.

Not only computer technology, but also human research on the microscopic field has fallen into a bottleneck.

Scientists tried to make smaller chips to make smaller robots, but in the process, they found that no matter how to optimize or what materials to use, they could not avoid the quantum tunneling effect at the 1nn level.

This is far from the picometer-level and femtometer-level circuit technology that humans guessed when they encountered the "Silver Mist Consciousness Body". Of course, scientists have also tried photons, but like electrons, all microscopic particles have quantum tunneling effects.

This is the law of cosmic physics, and humans can't solve it at all.

The impact of human beings on the third-level civilization was blocked by an invisible wall, which was out of reach.

Decades passed, and in order to solve these problems, human beings brainstormed and held countless scientific and technological seminars and academic research conferences. They tried every possible way, but still had no clue.

"Year after year, are we really stuck at the level of Level II civilization?" After another seminar, Yue Yuan sighed and slowly stood up from the audience seats.

For many years, countless top scientists of mankind seemed to have changed when facing the difficulties of Level III civilization. Their sharpness was still there, but they seemed to have become mediocre.

In the past ten years, Yue Yuan has attended science and technology seminars almost every year. Although he did not participate in the discussion, he could hear that after so many years, mankind still had no way to deal with it.

At the annual science and technology seminar, other science and technology were fine, but when it came to nanotechnology, it was almost a cliché every year, general quantum computer optimization, microscopic quantum tunneling, AI iteration problems, nano core technology research, etc., all of which were stuck.

In fact, after so many years of development, mankind has been perfect in the technology of Level II civilization, and its derivative technologies have been realized one by one and used to serve mankind.

It can be said that mankind was already at the peak of Level II civilization a hundred years ago, but at this time, it began to stagnate.

If this continues, Yue Yuan is really worried that humanity will continue to decline.

During the decades of technological stagnation, Yue Yuan has sensed some clues. It is not that some scientists are slacking off, but that there are some comments on the Internet among the people that technology is stagnant and humans are trapped in the second-level civilization.