Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0405 Creepy
Nan Yi did not ask the Third Biopharmaceutical Company to send Galen's report to London, but he flew to Lijiaopo himself.
On the plane, he read articles and reports related to artificial intelligence and robotics.
Although the word "robot" was not coined until 1921 by Karel Capek, humans have been committed to the research and creation of automated machines as early as the fourth century BC.
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, a long dystopian novel.
In "Brave New World", the world in 2532 is a world with highly developed science and technology. At that time, there were no countries in the world, and it was called the World Country.
In this world, human beings no longer reproduce naturally, but through the use of technology to cultivate embryos in test tubes. In order to make the world orderly, there are rulers and the ruled, those who work with their minds and those who work with their hands.
At the same time, in order to facilitate ruling and prevent the ruled from resisting, the number of humans to be born is proportionally distributed during the embryonic cultivation period, and their thoughts and consciousness are set in advance so that they can develop according to the predetermined plan as soon as they are born.
These people were divided into five levels, somewhat like a caste system.
These levels are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon from high to low, and each level has positive and negative values.
In these levels, the highest level Alpha is a natural ruler and intellectual, while those below Gamma are manual laborers, and the lowest level Epsilon does not even need to have human intelligence.
The process of using science and technology to limit the level of human embryos is called "conditioning".
In order to provide a large workforce for the world, when creating the Ganta, Deta, and Epsilon classes, an egg cell is split multiple times to produce more twins with exactly the same personality.
These people were reproduced in large numbers as the primary tool for social stability, a process that was strikingly similar to the cloning technology currently being explored in the 1980s.
As for test tube technology, Nan Yi knew that it was already very advanced. The success of test tube goats was reported just last month.
Nan Yi was not interested in the world described by Aldous Huxley, which was a world of highly developed technology but had actually returned to a slave society. Instead, he was very interested in his speculations about the development of technology.
Many of his conjectures have become reality, and many are also developing along the trajectory of his conjectures, especially in biology.
Nan Yi thought that when he had free time, he would read "Brave New World" several times, and then put the book aside and continue reading the materials.
In ancient Greece, Aristotle was one of the first great thinkers to think of automated tools. At that time, Aristotle began to consider the impact these tools would have on the entire society.
In 400 BC, Archytas designed the first automaton, the Archytas pigeon, in Tarentum [ ancient Rome , now a city in Italy].
It was a steam-powered autonomous aircraft, modeled after the anatomy of a pigeon, made of wood, with a sealed boiler inside its belly for generating steam.
Therefore, we must question the fact that the steam engine was invented by Watt.
In 250 BC, Scipio created a water clock, an ingenious automaton that could operate on its own.
From the 11th century onwards, the study of automata entered the "humanoid" era.
Ghazali created the segmented gear and is widely considered the father of robotics.
Leonardo da Vinci, who was a painter, was not doing his job properly. Instead, he studied helicopters. Fortunately, he just drew a sketch and returned to the right track of humanoid automata.
In 1495, the famous Italian artist and painter designed a knight with autonomous capabilities, including a series of pulleys and gears that could move its arms, jaw and even sit up.
During the period from the 16th to the 18th century, the development direction of humanoid automata was diverted, no longer exploring the direction of "replacing humans as labor", but turned to entertainment.
Although the inventions of this period were originally intended for entertainment, the robots were still quite ingenious in design, and many of the technologies used in them laid the foundation for more complex robot solutions later on.
Entering the 19th century, humanoid automata began to become a mysterious creation of a bizarre nature, fascinated and excited people all over the world.
At that time, a kind of chess-playing automaton was popular, and many such inventions appeared at the same time. The most famous of them was the "Turkish chess puppet" invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen.
In 1854, the humanoid automaton began to travel on display.
But later, the Turkish chess puppet was proved to be just a hoax.
The humanoid automaton was slapped in the face. How could this work? Even if one Wolfgang von Kempelen was knocked down, thousands of Wolfgang von Kempelen would stand up.
In 1912, Leonardo Torres Quevedo created the "Chess Player", a true humanoid chess-playing automaton that could play chess against humans and move chess pieces using circuits and a system of magnets.
At the same time, chess players are also considered by some to be the pioneers of video games.
In 1928, the first robot Eric was launched in the Eagle Country. The term humanoid automaton became outdated and they were all called robots from then on.
Eric's head and arms can move, he can communicate via radio signals, his movements are controlled by a series of gears, ropes and pulleys, and he can shoot sparks from his mouth.
Perhaps because one of Eric’s inventors is a retired veteran, Eric’s creation clearly has military-oriented explorations.
The following year, in 1929, Japan's first robot, Gakutensoku, was unveiled . This robot had a more sophisticated internal control system and could change facial expressions and write Chinese characters.
In the 1940s, the first artificial neural network was officially born.
In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Pitts created a basic neural network built using circuits to better understand how neurons work in the brain.
Their experiments paved the way for autonomous robots capable of complex behaviors, as artificial neural networks emerged.
In the 1950s, another milestone in the history of robotics development occurred.
Alan Turing, remember this man, you must remember this man, because he is also responsible for the sufferings that later generations have suffered from the bombardment of big data.
It was he who proposed the concept of artificial intelligence. If you are enslaved by robots in the future, remember to find the real owner before you whip his corpse.
Also in the 1950s, the first industrial robot, the Unimant, appeared, which was able to use a mechanical arm to transport die-cast parts and weld them into place.
Remember George Devol, he was the one who proposed the patent of Umant. If you can't be a factory dog anymore, criticize him.
In the 1960s, with the emergence of Unimant, robots began to quickly become popular in industrial environments. General Motors soon installed Unimant in its assembly plant in New Jersey. After using it, it was found that this thing was very reliable, so it asked an actuary to do some calculations.
"Haha, although this thing is expensive, it is much more cost-effective than hiring workers. The most important thing is that this thing does not know how to resist. It is very obedient and will do whatever you tell it to do."
Therefore, GM introduced Unimax in all its production plants.
In 1969, Victor Sherman invented the Stanford Arm, which is considered one of the first robots to be controlled by a computer.
Like the magnetic-drum-operated Unimant, the Stanford robotic arm represents a breakthrough.
By the 1970s, things had gotten really crazy. The field of robotics had blossomed. They were no longer satisfied with just working in factories. The world was so big, and they wanted to go see it.
In the early 1970s, the world's first anthropomorphic robot, WABOT-1, was launched.
Wabot-1 is a follow-up to the 1967 Wabot project, created by Ichiro Kato at Waseda University in Tokyo. Wabot-1 has a set of visual and body control systems that can achieve autonomous navigation, free movement, and even measure the distance between objects.
In 1973, the German company KUKA released Famulus, the first industrial robot with six electromechanical drive axes.
The following year, Richard Horn developed the first industrial computer powered by a minicomputer, The Tomorrow Tool, or T3 for short.
In 1978, Professor Yu Makino of Yamanashi University invented Scara, a selective compliance assembly robot.
By the 1980s, robots had begun to be commercialized and various robot products were put on the counter for sale.
Heathkit HERO 1, born in 1982, looks like a vacuum cleaner and is the most promising and popular programmable home robot at the time.
It has a large number of sensors built into its head that can sense light, sound, movement and distance. Users can also purchase robotic arms and voice synthesizers, as well as remote controls to control its actions.
RB Robot RB5X was launched in 1983. The appearance design of this robot completely imitates R2-D2 in "Star Wars". It has built-in advanced sensors, onboard batteries and mechanical arms. It can lift about 0.5 kg and can be programmed.
Androbot Topo was also launched last year. This thing has some alien flavor. Users can connect it to the Aplle II computer wirelessly and control its movement remotely through computer commands.
However, apart from being able to move, this robot has no other functions and is sold at a high price, so the market response is not very good.
Last year, a robot servant called Hubotics Hubot was launched on the market.
In fact, it is more like a kitchen multimedia terminal. Users can use it as a mobile kitchen TV. It also has Atari 2600 game console, AM/FM radio function, and can also purchase printers, articulated arms, smoke detectors, modems, remote controls and other components.
Similarly, this thing is very expensive and is not popular among consumers.
Another robot was launched earlier this year, the Tomy Omnibot 2000. This robot is very cheap, costing just over five hundred but less than six hundred dollars. It looks a bit like Gedmis [the alien in the Dinosaur Express, with the eye arrangement a bit similar].
Through training, it can realize the function of pouring wine, no matter whether it is red wine, whiskey or beer. Users need to manually operate the pouring process through its body buttons and record it on the disk, so that it can be automatically operated the next time it is used.
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The gap from memory transplantation to robots seems a bit big, but Nan Yi knows very well that memory transplantation may not be realized. Even if it can be realized, it is still a distant thing at present.
He couldn't keep pouring money into it without seeing any output. Who knew how deep this bottomless pit was? What if he used up all of Nan's funds and still saw no hope?
Memory transplantation can be studied slowly. If after listening to Galen's report, Nan Yi feels that there is real hope for its realization, then he will invest money in it, even hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars.
But in the process of research, there must be some output. For example, by studying the human brain, we can build a robot brain with certain autonomous thinking, making the robot smarter and able to do more work.
Labor costs will become increasingly high, and it is inevitable that robots will replace most repetitive human jobs.
Before highly intelligent robots are realized, we must first vigorously promote the spirit of dedication and let the "leeks" work 996 and 007 to death, so that their bodies will be destroyed first. In this way, they will run to the hospital, and part of the hard-earned money can be recovered through biopharmaceuticals, thus achieving a virtuous cycle of funds.
The world's population is growing rapidly, and food pressure is further increasing. Countries with large populations will certainly attach importance to the research of high-yield grain and high-output rate poultry and livestock.
The natural living environment of the Earth, which has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, has given birth to various species. It would be strange if there were no hidden dangers if we artificially changed their growth and reproduction methods in a short period of time.
"Biopharmaceuticals..."
Nan Yi tapped the table, his mind racing, wondering whether he should take out the prescriptions he had memorized in his head in advance.
In his original plan, he planned to release it later. After all, the patent period is only 20 years, and he had to maximize the profits. The prescription he remembered was not for saving lives, so he would not feel guilty if he released it later.
"Let's wait a little longer. First, we need to start a production line for patented expired drugs, build a pharmaceutical factory in China, and mess with other pharmaceutical factories. We can use an expired cold medicine recipe to create something new.
Today it's 666, tomorrow it's black and white. If you reduce the drug content and add more corn starch, it will become a special cold medicine for children. It's easy to make money. If pigs and sheep can make money, then naturally your dog can make money too.
R&D, what the hell kind of R&D. Hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars are real money. Invest it in real estate to make money. Wouldn't it be satisfying to keep a few more women and have sex with them?
Only a fool would throw money into the water . Look, in three months, several more patents will expire. These are all good drugs. Hurry up and put them on the production line to copy them. "
When Nanyi's thoughts were going astray, in the distant Yinqian, a middle-aged man who was committed to opening a pharmaceutical factory opened his black notebook and wrote a line on it: "Understand the preferences of each hospital director, cater to their preferences, and inject your own medicine into them..."
