In the office in Chengdu, Chen Nian silently looked at the feedback about the program on his computer screen.
For most people, the release of the program "A Day in the Life of a Chinese" is a positive response to the "Old Man Selling Coal" video, but Chen Nian knew that the two are not actually closely related.
Regardless of whether Wilson's video appears or not, the show will be released at some appropriate time.
Because it's really more of a signal, a signal that Spark's primary goals are starting to expand.
If, at the beginning of the birth of Spark, its purpose was to develop the military industry at the fastest speed, quickly realize equipment updates and iterations, and create a basically safe living environment for China, then now, technological development has begun to enter the next stage. stage, that is, the stage of equal development of military industry and civilian use.
In fact, in Chen Nian's memory, the order of the "two lives" he lived in was misplaced.
In the previous life, China chose to prioritize people's livelihood and ensure that people could afford food. However, the high-tech and military industries only entered a period of explosive growth after 2010.
But in this life, due to the existence of Chen Nian, the timelines in the two directions have been adjusted one by one.
The military industry started first, high-tech conquered cities and territories overseas, and domestic people's livelihood was actually in a "follow-up" stage.
Its development cannot be underestimated, but relatively speaking, it has indeed not reached the speed of the previous life.
You know, how exaggerated was the development in the field of people's livelihood in the previous life?
Chen Nian remembers very clearly that in 2000, when he was a freshman in high school, the family's conditions were not too bad at that time. After all, his parents were both teachers, and a dual-income family could earn an income of more than 1,000 yuan a month.
So almost every day, there is fresh meat at home.
But in comparison, life at my cousin's house in the countryside is much more difficult.
Pork is actually considered a luxury food. Although it is not something that can only be eaten during the holidays, it can basically be eaten every three or four days.
And every time you buy meat, you need to have a valid reason.
For example, there are guests at home, such as good test scores, such as the old man is greedy, etc.
If you have to find a case to compare, eating a pound of pork at that time was probably equivalent to the degree that families today go to an outside restaurant to treat themselves to a meal.
In addition, the cherishment of working tools and agricultural machinery in rural areas can also reflect the difficulties of people's livelihood in that era to a certain extent.
Several acres of land need to be irrigated. Even if most people have a water pump at home, they will not choose to use it. Instead, they will just pick it up bucket by bucket.
What they worry about is that the machinery cannot be repaired after it is damaged, and they also have to weigh whether diesel consumption or physical exertion is more cost-effective.
Five yuan for a Coke bottle of diesel is the price of a strong laborer working for half a day.
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And under such extremely difficult circumstances, in less than ten years, the entire China has undergone changes that cannot even be described as "earth-shaking."
A pound of pork that cost 5 yuan in 2000 was actually only 7 yuan in 2023, the previous life.
What is even more exaggerated is the supply of oil. In 2000, the average price of first-grade peanut oil was 10,000 yuan per ton. By 2023, it had actually reached a low of 14,000 yuan.
What is this concept?
If measured in terms of purchasing power, oil supply prices have actually plummeted.
As for the price of agricultural machinery, Chen Nian saw a case with his own eyes in his previous life. After taking into account various agricultural subsidies and rural subsidies, the actual price of a small rotary lawn mower with a price of 1,800 was 160 dollars
It's an exaggeration, but it can be verified at any time.
And this is the result of choosing to "eat first".
Of course, the explosive development of transportation, not to mention the rapid progress of infrastructure, are already bad.
But returning to this life, objectively speaking, the growth rate is indeed not as good as that of the previous life.
This is mainly because the resources swallowed up by Spark are too huge. Although scientific research does not require high costs, the subsequent application of equipment and the price required to defend the country are inevitable.
At the same time, the situation is not perfect, but it is also historically loose.
Chen Nian believes that in such an environment, economic take-off cannot even be a matter of time.
The driving force spring is fully loaded, and as soon as you let go, it will jump up at an astonishing speed.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian breathed a long sigh of relief.
Everything is ready, and the next step is to wait for the large-scale launch.
At this point in time, the relationship between the Office of Civil Development and Spark has been completely made public, so there is no need to hide many things.
Just two days ago, a large-scale discussion had begun. Based on the work experience of the past few years, the Office of Civil Development will submit a technology development plan for the next five years to the Spark core team, which will be in line with Spark's current stage. After planning and matching and deduplication, it was handed over to Chen Nian as "gravel filling the cup".
And at that time, it was the time for Chen Nian to really start to show off his talents.
After turning off the computer, Chen Nian called Wang Jiancheng.
At this time, Wang Jiancheng already knew Chen Nian's identity - of course, not the identity of the core of the Spark Group, but the identity of the so-called "key scientists and field elites of the Spark Group".
Therefore, he had no doubts about Chen Nian's authority. Instead, he was pleasantly surprised that he could cooperate with Chen Nian in a completely reasonable and close way.
After all, to him, Chen Nian was the most important leader on his scientific research journey.
He doesn't know anything else. He only knows that if he follows his senior, he will never go astray.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door of Chen Nian's office. It was Wang Jiancheng who came, and he was holding a running computer in his hand.
"Senior, I'm here!"
Wang Jiancheng's voice was always filled with vitality and joy. Chen Nian glanced at his computer and asked:
"Are you still running debugging? When will it be finished?"
Wang Jiancheng didn't show up either. He walked to Chen Nian and put down the computer, and then replied:
"At present, all the codes have been entered, but as you said before, there are many adaptability problems in the codes you wrote yourself."
"I have completed 40% of the changes, but the military's excuse data is relatively slow to provide. It may take a lot of time to connect and debug."
"If we are optimistic, it may take at least a week."
"And, now we have a major problem to solve."
"Any more questions?"
Chen Nian spoke subconsciously.
He remembered that when he first started the Zhanlu project, he felt that the interface problem was already a major problem.
"Yeah. We lack actual combat data as training material."
Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help but frowned.
"Is the military data unavailable?"
In fact, when Chen Nian first planned the Zhanlu project, he had already considered using the Bingtui simulation data as a manually labeled data set to provide initial learning samples for Zhanlu AI.
This is the simplest way to obtain data. After all, Bingtui originally stays at the computer level. The data is ready-made and can be generated repeatedly.
Otherwise, for the sake of a battle, do we really have to capture an island or a small country as a demonstration?
How many countries in the world are poor enough?
Besides, if the means of war can be so expanded that they are wasted on such things, there will really be no need for Zhanlu to exist.
Anyway, what is a catastrophe to others is just a game to us.
After hearing Chen Nian's words, Wang Jiancheng slowly shook his head.
After thinking for a moment, he answered:
"It cannot be said that the data of the military simulation is not available. It should be said that the data of the simulation software we are using at this stage is not available."
"Senior, you also know that Zhanlu's project goal is to be based on actual combat and achieve the effect of oriented to actual combat command."
"Compared with actual combat and military training, what is the biggest difference?"
"Our soldiers will get tired, equipment will malfunction, and unexpected situations caused by uncontrollable forces can happen at any time."
"In many cases, it is this undigitized factor that truly determines the outcome of a battle."
"Of course, we can say that what we want at this stage is just a 'basic version' of Zhan Lu. As long as he can have command functions, we don't need to put too high requirements on it."
"But here's the problem. This thing is not a civilian AI system. It is for military use and is used for war!"
"And in a war, we cannot allow any accidents."
"Victory and defeat are common, but if the failure was caused by Zhan Lu, wouldn't it be ridiculous?"
"It is obvious that the soldiers have reached their limit, but they still issue orders according to the so-called optimal strategy; even though the equipment is obviously damaged, they still have to let it undertake important combat tasks."
"This is all unreasonable, and as long as this unreasonableness exists, it means that Zhanlu is completely unavailable."
"Frankly speaking, this is a task that cannot accept flaws."
Chen Nian nodded slowly. He realized that Li Xiang had indeed thought a lot after participating in the project, and his words did point out issues that he had not considered.
There is no room for error in Zhanlu.
As long as it has the potential for error, it is unlikely to be accepted by the military that uses it.
It seems that the difficulty of this project is higher than imagined.
Why can’t the system give a trained AI?
For example, the kind that you take out after redemption is a USB flash drive and can be used directly by plugging it into your computer.
But think about it, even if something that is more than ten years ahead of its time can be used by plugging it into a computer, it will not really work.
The battlefield environment is different.
In the final analysis, we still have to solve the problem of data sets.
"So what you're saying is that we have to change the troop promotion system first?"
"Yes."
Wang Jiancheng answered seriously.
Chen Nian shook his head dumbfounded and thought to himself:
The workload is getting bigger and bigger, and we should have thought long ago that the Army's requirements will not be that simple.
Is the Bingtui system going to be updated? OK, then the equipment data of each model needs to be entered.
But if you want to enter data, you definitely can't enter paper data. You have to measure it on the spot.
To measure data, you have to keep up with the digital information system.
The information system needs to be updated, and the equipment electronic system needs to be upgraded, right?
The equipment electronic system needs to be upgraded, and you need to build a cloud environment, right?
To build a cloud environment, you must have a talented team, right?
Good guy, what they want is not Zhanlu at all, what they want is ADTS!
In the previous life, even the United States only started to engage in this stuff in 2021. The purpose was to build a basic framework for the Army's digital transformation to adapt to multi-domain joint operations in the new battlefield environment.
When is it now?
2010 is not even over yet!
This kind of advanced strategic vision and novel ways of asking for money are really amazing.
It's like someone comes to you and says, I don't want anything else but the rope in your hand.
But the problem is, behind the rope is a cow, and behind the cow is a cart. The cart also contains your property and wife.
It's simply too much.
But since the project has started, there is no reason not to do it.
Fortunately, AI training is a long-term task, and it is not really an “urgent and important” issue as Wang Jiancheng said.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian said:
"Let's forget about the post-training issues for now. All we have to do now is implement the algorithm first and deliver mature and usable products."
"As for the training issue, military technical personnel will follow up later."
"You don't have to think too much, just trust their technical capabilities."
“The National University of Defense Technology is no joke, after all, they are the ones”
Chen Nian's words stopped abruptly. He originally wanted to say that they were the real developers of Zhanlu, but obviously, Wang Jiancheng didn't need to know this information.
"Okay, I understand."
Wang Jiancheng looked a little disappointed. In fact, his idea was very simple. He just wanted to see the things he designed actually used as soon as possible.
But reality is not a game. It is impossible to light up a point of light in science and technology and the entire world will change immediately.
Skipping this topic, Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng once again investigated the problems with Zhanlu's overall framework and algorithm. After making some new adjustments and confirming that the optimization was in place, Wang Jiancheng said goodbye and left.
It was already past eight o'clock in the evening. Chen Nian packed his things and was about to leave the office when his cell phone on the table suddenly rang.
The caller was Pan Qingwei, one of the core members of the Tinder Working Group.
"Pan Gong, what's wrong?"
Chen Nian asked.
"Mr. Chen, there's something wrong."
"The Livermore Laboratory just issued a bulletin about plasma control."
"More specifically, it is the experimental data results on the formation principles of tearing fields and magnetic ripple fields."
"According to the content of the report, there is a big gap between their results and our theoretical predictions."
"Now all parties have exploded. Our paper has just been released, but it seems that the conclusion has already been proven to be unreliable."
(End of chapter)
