Chapter 148: The Exchange of Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology

There wasn’t much surprising about it.

The first concrete technological exchange between Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization happened in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and its corresponding Computing Power Technology.

On one hand, Stuo Civilization needed technology in this area.

From the moment Stuo Civilization’s ‘Sacred Decider’ came into being, its level of intelligence greatly influenced the overall development of Stuo Civilization.

Naturally, the long-term development path of Stuo Civilization had also been quite clear: to enhance the intelligence of the ‘Sacred Decider’ and the Computing Power it could command.

If the Stuo Civilization’s ‘Sacred Decider’ one day truly evolved from Strong Artificial Intelligence into an Intelligent Lifeform,

this change would push Stuo Civilization as a whole into a new stage of civilization.

Therefore, during past interactions and contacts with other civilizations encountered in the cosmos, collecting different Artificial Intelligence technologies and Computing Power technologies had always been a primary goal for Stuo Civilization.

On the other hand, for Human Civilization, this was also a technological exchange that held considerable promise.

Given that Stuo Civilization’s ‘Sacred Decider’ was itself a Strong Artificial Intelligence, and considering Stuo Civilization had researched this area for many years,

it was almost certain that Stuo Civilization possessed unique aspects in Strong Artificial Intelligence technology.

With both sides having the idea to exchange or trade this technology, and considering this exchange was mutually beneficial for both civilizations,

the technology exchange naturally began to move forward.

However,

unlike the previously ongoing theoretical exchanges,

when it came to concrete technological exchange, both sides proceeded with greater caution.

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The reason for caution was that theoretical exchanges, while expanding both civilizations’ understanding of various fields and even forming new theories, ultimately accelerated and extended a civilization’s progress over the long run. Yet, the journey from theory to practice took time, and in the short term, they wouldn’t drastically impact the technological strength of either civilization.

But direct exchange of concrete, mature technology was different. Either civilization could immediately apply the acquired tech, directly altering their respective technological capacities.

For Stuo Civilization, which had long been migrating through space, it leaned towards conducting these exchanges.

Even if they were more advanced than Human Civilization or other encountered civilizations in the same technological area,

fundamentally, like theoretical exchange, it was a cost-free business. As long as they truly gained something from the exchange, it wasn’t a loss.

By the time a civilization they had traded with grew rapidly strong later, Stuo would have already left that region of space, leaving them unaffected.

The only concern was actually during the period when both civilizations still occupied the same region of space.

Their technological strengths, originally relatively stable, could become unbalanced due to the technology exchange.

This represented a significant risk for both civilizations.

For Human Civilization, the situation was essentially the same.

If after acquiring some Human technology, Stuo Civilization suddenly solved the final hurdle of an epoch-making technology, leading to a rapid technological leap,

and if Stuo Civilization then gained overwhelming superiority over Human Civilization,

it became uncertain whether the Stuo Civilization’s Sacred Decider would still decide to maintain friendly exchanges with Human Civilization.

Therefore, although both civilizations had agreed early on the field for their first technological exchange,

when conducting the actual exchange, both sides were painstakingly cautious, revealing their technology bit by bit, like squeezing toothpaste,

taking extraordinary care with each other.

An advantage, however, was that

before this, both civilizations had engaged in fairly long-term exchanges and even research collaborations at the level of theoretical science across various disciplines.

This provided a certain degree of predictability regarding how the other side might further develop the acquired technologies.

This predictability also formed the basis upon which both civilizations could conduct this technology exchange now.

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Regarding this exchange of Strong Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology,

Qin Yu, as the ‘Father of Artificial Intelligence’ for Human Civilization, naturally paid close attention and participated.

The portion of Strong Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology shared with Stuo Civilization was only handed over after Qin Yu had finalized it.

The corresponding technology shared from Stuo Civilization was also consolidated and delivered directly to Qin Yu in real-time.

In terms of Strong Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Technology,

Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization possessed significant differences.

Their fundamental technological bases were highly distinct.

Human Civilization currently relied on several Computing Power Towers constructed from Carbon-based Chips as the computing basis supporting the operation of the Strong Artificial Intelligence within the Brain Intelligence Project.

Stuo Civilization, however, employed a method previously unsolved by the Negentropy Research Institute of Human Civilization – Biological Computers. More precisely, an electronic and biological joint computing system.

This system harnessed the microscopic complexity of ‘biology’ and the speed of electronic information transmission to create powerful computational units.

Then, vast numbers of these units formed the computational foundation supporting the ongoing operation of Stuo Civilization’s ‘Ultimate Decision-Maker’.

Judging by the performance of their Computing Power Technology, Stuo Civilization was considerably stronger than Human Civilization at that point in time.

However, this was nothing to be disappointed about.

Stuo Civilization had been migrating through space for countless years, and Computing Power Technology was crucial to the fate of their entire civilization, representing their area of strength.

If Stuo Civilization weren’t superior to Human Civilization in this field, that would actually be more disappointing.

For Human Civilization, this situation was actually beneficial.

It meant Human Civilization had the advantage in this particular technology trade.

Human Civilization was poised to experience a significant leap forward in Computing Power Technology.

Of course, Stuo Civilization wasn’t losing out either. Human Civilization, over recent years, had pushed close to the peak potential of Carbon-based Chip technology within the realm of computing power.

Acquiring Human Civilization’s Carbon-based Chip technology could offer substantial assistance to Stuo’s own Computing Power Technology development.

However,

Stuo Civilization’s electronic-biological joint computing unit technology also contained several significant issues.

The largest problem centered on the ‘wetware’ component. There were many ambiguous aspects in the underlying technical theory for this part.

It wasn’t that Stuo Civilization was unwilling to share this knowledge with Human Civilization,

but rather that this knowledge remained a ‘black box’ to Stuo Civilization itself.

Much like Human Civilization’s early atmosphere-bound aircraft,

superficial theories existed explaining why they flew,

but digging deeper into the underlying principles revealed unresolved questions.

One could only say past experience showed that doing things a certain way made them fly.

The situation was broadly similar with Stuo Civilization’s Biological Computers.

They still had many unresolved questions regarding their Biological Computers,

but these uncertainties didn’t prevent them from building functional electronic-biological joint computing units.

These unresolved issues were likely to become targets for collaborative scientific research between the two civilizations in the future.

Additionally,

Beyond exchanging and discussing the computing power technologies currently used by both civilizations,

Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization also shared some computing power technologies still under development.

For example, the Optical Quantum Computer.

In this field, just like Human Civilization, Stuo Civilization held great expectations.

However, both civilizations’ Quantum Computer technology was basically stuck at a stage where it could only be applied in a few specific areas, unable to solve classical problems effectively.

Even though technological research was stalled at similar points,

there were still differences between Stuo Civilization and Human Civilization in their research approaches and ideas.

These differences offered new insights during the exchange, representing valuable gains for both sides.

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Then came the specific technical and algorithmic issues concerning Strong Artificial Intelligence.

This was a sensitive area for both civilizations.

For Stuo Civilization, the ultimate authority was the Strong AI itself, the Ultimate Decision-Maker.

Although Human Civilization kept determining its own development direction,

Strong AI had also taken over almost the entire operation and production of Human society.

Allowing the other civilization to access too much underlying information about one’s own Strong AI was a significant risk.

Therefore, during the exchange on Strong AI technology,

both civilizations silently avoided discussing the specific ‘Ultimate Decision-Maker’ and ‘Brain Intelligence Project’.

They only exchanged and discussed the theoretical aspects of Artificial Intelligence technology itself,

ensuring neither could easily replicate an ‘Ultimate Decision-Maker’ or ‘Mind Core’.

Even with such caution,

both civilizations greatly benefited from this technological exchange.

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62 Human United Era (HUE)

Due to different foundational circumstances,

the technology obtained from Stuo Civilization couldn’t be directly applied.

This year, the Negentropy Research Institute made adaptive modifications to the acquired technology.

Simultaneously, researchers at the Information Denoising Institute drew new insights from the Stuo tech.

Combined with Human Civilization’s existing computing power technology,

Human computing tech took another step forward.

Mid-year,

Huaxin News Agency, authorized by the HCC, announced a society-wide plan:

all existing Computing Power Towers across Human territory would receive hardware upgrades.

Additionally, construction would begin on new Computing Power Towers based on the new computing technology.

This was to meet the operational needs of the Brain Intelligence Project and support Human Civilization’s development.

Given Human Civilization’s current production capacity,

decisions like this were quick to put into practice.

Under public attention, across cities on Earth, the Lunar Surface, Mars, and other colonies,

the external appearance of existing Computing Power Towers remained unchanged.

Internally, however, the core computing base shifted from purely Carbon-based Chips to a hybrid of Carbon-based Chips and Biological Computing.

Not only was Stuo’s Biological Computer technology incorporated, but insights from their tech also led to further optimizations of Human Civilization’s own Carbon-based Chips, boosting their performance.

From this point, Human Civilization’s overall computing power entered a phase of rapid, dramatic growth.

Consequently,

with the overall increase in computing resources,

the Strong AI within the Brain Intelligence Project gained access to and utilization of far greater computing power, enhancing its overall capabilities.

Naturally, the Strong AI’s improvement wasn’t solely due to hardware changes.

Insights gleaned from Stuo Civilization’s Artificial Intelligence technology also played a role.

This spurred Qin Yu, known as the ‘father of Strong AI’, to reengage with AI research, a rare occurrence.

Stuo’s related AI technologies opened up new avenues of thought for him.

Following these new ideas, along with Human Civilization’s increasing total computing power,

he implemented further optimizations to the core architecture of the Strong AI within the Brain Intelligence Project.

These improved the AI’s efficiency in utilizing the available computing power,

further elevating its intelligence.

While still likely far from becoming an ‘Intelligent Lifeform’ – an entirely different concept –

it was undeniably another significant step forward in Strong AI development.

Moreover, diverging from Stuo Civilization’s path,

Human Civilization neither needed nor actively pursued the creation of an Intelligent Lifeform.

On a tangible level,

ordinary people found it hard to perceive the immediate changes brought by this enhancement to the Strong AI.

Firstly, the Brain Intelligence Project’s AI didn’t directly interact with personal devices;

it was solely responsible for coordinating and controlling the overall operation and production activities of Human society.

Secondly, the AI’s original intelligence level was already sufficient to manage all Human Civilization’s operations and production efficiently.

Further improvement naturally wasn’t easily noticeable.

However, the change became evident in the HCC’s statistical data from that year.

The enhancement of the Strong AI and computing power technology had a deep, cascading effect across Human Civilization.

As both improved, Human Civilization’s Smart Industrial Cluster and Intelligent Machinery underwent significant adjustments.

That year, under the oversight of the Strong AI, Human Civilization’s industrial output surged once more.

The pace of Human Civilization’s ongoing development projects within the Solar System, including the construction zones near Jupiter and its orbital range, noticeably accelerated.

Human Civilization as a whole,

was growing stronger.

Correspondingly,

while Human Civilization couldn’t observe much internally within Stuo Civilization,

the sheer excitement of Stuo researchers during exchanges – evident as ‘their Resonance Horns kept trembling’ –

made it clear they too gained immense benefits from the dialogue with Human Civilization.

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63 Human United Era (HUE)

This year marked a period of relative calm for both Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization.

Following the first round of exchanges on AI and computing power,

both sides were quietly assimilating the acquired technology, holding off on initiating another major exchange.

However, theoretical exchanges between the civilizations continued uninterrupted.

It was foreseeable that this sharing of theories and research ideas would continue for the duration of the civilizations’ contact.

Differences in thinking, spanning major disciplines down to niche sub-fields, maintained distinct research paths for each civilization.

These differences were a treasure trove of insights for both.

This kind of wide-ranging theoretical collaboration could endure for a very long time.

This year,

as foundational trust deepened and interactions became more frequent,

Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization jointly decided

to establish a large space-based exchange platform within the cosmic space of Neptune’s Orbit.

This would standardize what was previously a routine of alternating delegations visiting each other:

each civilization would periodically rotate specialized personnel to this platform,

enabling researchers to engage in sustained, face-to-face discussions on specific theoretical problems.

It also symbolized the relationship reaching a new stage of cooperation.

This project required minimal resources from either side

and was implemented swiftly.