novelraw Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence
The lamplight cast long shadows, and Lin Yu walked along the snowy night, lost in thought the whole way.
What are some quick ways to make money in this day and age?
The stock market has opened, but he has absolutely no idea what stocks are available to buy.
I don't know what kind of stock's return rate could make him so much money.
Even if you buy Apple shares on the US stock market, you still need the magic of time to work its magic.
Lin Yu wandered around the playground for a long time.
The playground was small, lacking the familiar red synthetic track and green plastic lawn that Lin Yu was familiar with.
He was an orphan in his previous life, and he was an orphan again after transmigrating back. He only awakened his innate wisdom a few months ago when the system was activated.
He was familiar with this era, but also with that era.
He lives in this era, yet he also cherishes everything from that era: his childhood friends, the girl he liked, the ubiquitous internet and entertainment, and China's status as one of the two permanent members of the UN Security Council…
And now? All of that is gone.
I can't scroll through Douyin before bed, and I can't see WeChat when I wake up.
No longer do I need to be wary of my supervisor calling at any moment to ask why I'm not in the research group.
But the price he paid was that he could no longer freely chat with anyone anytime, anywhere.
He wanted to change this era, to merge the two eras before his eyes as much as possible.
Even if he could never see his old friends again, Lin Yu wanted to make this era a better place, so that all his old friends could be happier from birth than in the original timeline.
The snow was falling heavier, and the wind was swirling around the branches and leaves.
Lin Yu, alone in the snowy night, reminisces about the future called 2026, which is actually his past era.
I didn't return to the dormitory until I was so cold that I couldn't stand it anymore.
Back in the dormitory, there were still two roommates in the eight-person room who hadn't gone home for the Chinese New Year.
There were originally three, but that rich kid has been disappearing without a trace lately, and we often can't find him.
The college entrance examination has only been reinstated for a little over ten years, and the students who can get into Beihang University now are truly outstanding. Before Lin Yu returned, Liu Bo and Ding An were still engrossed in discussing engineering theory.
Everyone in this era has a strong sense of drive, as if they will never give up until they have built up society.
Seeing Lin Yu return with his head covered in ice shards, his face red from the cold, and ignoring everyone's calls, Ding An quickly grabbed a towel and went over to him.
"Why aren't you wearing a hat? How long have you been walking outside? Are you freezing? You can't be freezing, the smartest brain in our aerospace institute needs to be wiped clean."
Another roommate, Liu Bo, quickly filled a cup with hot water from the thermos and handed it to Lin Yu.
"In this weather, snow falls on your head, melts, and then freezes again. How many times does it freeze and thaw before it freezes again? Heartbroken?"
Lin Yu took the water glass with a bit of inertia, and the warmth from his palm woke him up. He touched his head and splashed some ice water on his forehead.
Coming to his senses, Lin Yu quickly took the towel Ding An handed him and began wiping his head. He then replied to Liu Bo:
"I don't have a girlfriend, I'm just thinking about how to make money quickly."
Lin Yu gripped the cup in his hand, brought it to his lips, and gently blew on it.
"I want to build rockets, to build a commercial rocket company."
Upon hearing this, Liu Bo gently placed his hand on Lin Yu's head and muttered to himself, "He doesn't have a fever."
Lin Yu gently patted Liu Bo's hand, swallowed a mouthful of water that wasn't too hot, and said in a low voice:
"I'm not kidding, I really want to start a company like that. I want to develop our country's own satellite navigation system."
Seeing Lin Yu's serious expression and his absent-mindedness while holding the water glass, Ding An and Liu Bo also fell silent.
After a long pause, Lin Yu finally spoke:
"I've made up my mind. Do you remember that conference in Beijing a few days ago discussing the reform of state-owned assets?"
"State-owned enterprises will undergo restructuring by focusing on the large and letting go of the smaller ones. Only a few large state-owned enterprises in sectors like steelmaking, coal, and oil will be retained to stabilize the core business."
"The remaining portion will be allowed to be opened to private operation."
"I want to take this opportunity to acquire a steel plant."
"The surplus steel produced will be kept to build rockets and satellites in the future."
At this point, both Ding An and Liu Bo looked at Lin Yu with disbelief.
"Do you know how much that costs? Are you out of your mind??"
"Taking over a steel plant is one thing, but with the patent law implemented two years ago protecting you, you can also make a good profit from your grid wing technology that uses aluminum alloy to replace titanium alloy."
"But do you know how difficult it is to build a rocket? Our country has barely launched one, and now you want to do it all by yourself?"
"Do you know how many people that would require? And how much that would cost?"
Lin Yu nodded and earnestly and thoroughly explained his thoughts, completely ignoring his roommate's doubts:
"Yes, I've calculated it. It's about 50,000 people and 1 billion US dollars."
"This is enough to launch a large launch vehicle; satellite development is a separate matter."
Upon hearing this astronomical figure, the two roommates felt breathless and their heads began to spin.
He asked directly:
"How much did you spend on dinner at the cafeteria tonight?"
Lin Yu thought for a moment:
"A serving of potato and pork slices cost four cents, six ounces of rice cost two cents, and finally a bowl of egg drop soup cost one cent and fifty cents."
"It cost 75 cents in total."
Then he said:
"I know what you're going to ask: the money to build rockets could buy 109 billion meals like this."
"But that's not right."
Lin Yu's eyes were calm, but his tone was firm. He placed the water glass on the desk and said in a clear and forceful voice:
"If this money were converted into food, it would only be enough to feed 1.1 billion people for three and a half days."
"But if we switch to rockets and gain air superiority in space, we can ensure that 1.1 billion people will have food to eat for the next 100, 200, or 300 years!"
"The country has its own mission, and we, the new generation of scientific researchers, also have our own mission."
"The future of the nation's food security and its competition with Europe and America in technology... are in our hands!"
"As for overcoming the limitations of the number of talents and the accumulation of knowledge..."
"I have an idea. Do you know anything about artificial intelligence?"
Lin Yu's words stirred the blood of Ding and Liu, but they still dared not dream of building an aerospace company that could surpass a superpower from scratch.
But upon hearing the term "artificial intelligence," Ding An and Liu Bo exchanged glances and nodded.
The 863 Program, proposed in 1986 for 30 years of development, included three major fields: aerospace, biotechnology, and information technology.
In the field of information technology, there are two crowns: one is supercomputers, and the other is artificial intelligence.
However, the AI industry suffered a major blow, and two years ago Japan officially admitted that their fifth-generation supercomputer was a complete failure.
The entire market has fallen into a deep freeze.
But Chinese researchers are all determined to work harder to develop our own supercomputers and AI.
At this critical juncture of research, universities are swamped with work, almost to the point of hiring them as employees. How could they not know this?
Lin Yu continued:
"Right now, the biggest gap between us and Europe and the United States lies in technological blockade. In many disciplines, we don't even have the right to see the original texts."
"Not to mention that without a teacher, even seeing manuscripts makes it difficult to understand top-level subjects."
"The number of people who can study abroad is limited; this path is too slow!"
"The country is carrying out a large-scale literacy campaign, and I believe our future will be filled with countless highly skilled individuals. The Chinese people simply lack opportunities!"
"But right now, to change all of this..."
"Besides using artificial intelligence that learns and evolves through algorithms, we can also use it to analyze those blocked foreign disciplines, and then teach them to us!"
There is no other possibility.
"Only in this way can we truly have the possibility of overtaking on a curve and breaking free from technological blockade."
"In this way—knowledge will no longer be a problem! Talent will no longer be a problem!"
"I want to work on artificial intelligence!"