Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 101

[One hundred and one.]

In June 2008, the cover of AI, a core journal in the field of international artificial intelligence, looked like this: In the

foreground are two huge robotic arms wrapped in translucent powder-blue silicone, forming a bowl shape, supporting the sleeping manipulator. Lado puppies.

The background is a neatly stacked server cluster.

This issue of AI has this title printed on the cover: The Touch of Machine.

(Chinese translation: “the touch of the machine”, “the touch of the machine”, and “the touch of the machine” are all possible, which is to use the multiple meanings of touch.) The

article introduces in detail the bionic manipulator that the digital totem is testing, and supports the A huge program group and an amazing server farm that the bionic robot runs smoothly.

The human brain is such a great structure that it can perform such complex and complex processing. The more they study artificial intelligence, the more scholars in this field feel.

In order to support the two manipulators in the foreground and the lens groups that function as “eyes”, Digital Totem used a server farm worth 70 million US dollars and connected it with a honeycomb system to cope with the unimaginable effects from the manipulators and lenses. operational requirements.

After two weeks of testing, they wrote a special newsletter about the manipulator and sent it to AI magazine.

In the professional field, digital totem still has to maintain its attention through such tricks, and at the same time, it is also the industry’s recognition that digital totem occupies a leading position in technology.

Although they concealed their experiments on the linkage of touch and vision, and did not say that they used electromagnetic joints in the robotic hand, they only roughly described the digital totem’s solution to touch.

But this tactile problem alone is probably enough for the entire industry to digest for a few months.

Compared with the cold technology, the photo on the cover, the photo of the manipulator holding the sleeping puppy, looks very warm.

This photo was widely circulated inside and outside the company, and the laboratory, which is currently testing the linkage between manipulators and vision, made a spray painting of the photo the size of a whole wall and placed it at the entrance of the laboratory.

Everyone in and out of the lab will smile from the heart when they see this photo.

“Happiness is a warm puppy,” said Charles Schultz, who drew the popular SNOOPY cartoon series.

And now it seems that he is quite prescient.

In the test that has been carried out for a month, they carefully let the manipulator try a variety of touches, hard or soft, simple or complex, just like parents guiding their children through stroking All kinds of things to get acquainted with the world.

And the performance of the manipulator seems to confirm everyone’s imagination.

From the beginning of the unfamiliar and naive movements, the appearance of always breaking something has gradually become a round and concise, and can pick up things with the correct strength. The final result is that the robot can stroke and tease puppies and kittens. Although the silicone skin does not seem to be liked by small animals, those small animals seem to like the soft touch of the robotic hand.

Then, they tried to let the manipulator start to do some things with simple tools, such as scissors, small hammers, and set various production goals like letting a child do handicraft.

The main thing is to make some small sculptures in plaster.

The semi-autonomous behavior of the manipulator is completely different from the remote control of the first generation of products. Now, as long as the tool and the shape of the target to be completed are input, the manipulator can now judge by itself how to do the work.

Because the positioning formed by the three visible light lenses is quite precise, the precision of the small sculptures is very high.

Naturally, the difficulty of sculpture has gradually developed from very simple geometry to rather complex and detailed artwork, and the final work is a miniature version of a thinker.

Seeing the growth of the robotic arm and the vision system together, every technician involved felt extremely proud.

A technician even said: “If I install a voice platform and let this guy call Dad to listen, I won’t have to bother looking for a daughter-in-law in my life.” And this sentence has been approved by many people.

Lu Zhenyu didn’t say a word about such words, obviously, he himself had a similar feeling.

In particular, Bodhidharma is hidden in the system, constantly learning through the manipulator and the visual system, and often sends him some emojis expressing excitement and joy.

This silent Bodhidharma was completely immersed in the joy of learning and became more like a child.

In this system, the subtraction learning program that Lu Zhenyu worked so hard to come up with played a huge role. If it wasn’t for this program that was constantly working, so that Bodhidharma could continuously remove information irrelevant to the formation of judgments through learning, which would be uploaded from the manipulator. The huge amount of information has long ago caused the entire system to collapse countless times.

And now, precisely because of this program, Bodhidharma as the core has mastered how to judge useful information and useless information, and the information used as a basis for judgment is becoming more and more streamlined.

And the server clusters that support computing in the background have even begun to shut down some steps in a step-by-step manner due to the reduction of computing pressure.

At this rate, the computing resources that the pair of robots will eventually need may be 4 to 6 cabinets, which does not seem like too many server resources.

Lu Zhenyu speculated like this.

Compared with Lu Zhenyu’s calmness, the world of programming and artificial intelligence is basically in a state of riot.

Many people with strong dedication to technology flock to the office of the president of Digital Totem with an email every day. There are constant calls and faxes, and some people have even flown directly to Shanghai, claiming to “seek” Lu Zhenyu.

And what they are looking for is not a mechanical hand.

In terms of manipulators, Japan and the United States have definitely developed a high degree of development. In terms of touch, although the manipulators in Japan and the United States follow the route of motion control, there are still some scholars who are conducting experiments in tactile simulation.

A series of technologies such as artificial skin and electrode pressure induction were first developed by scientists in Japan and the United States, as well as some European scientists.

Although there is no dynamic perception route from the beginning like digital totems, and a series of tactile technologies are used in a comprehensive way, but with digital totems as an example, it is estimated that everyone is motivated and the results will come out soon. .

Those scholars in artificial intelligence are interested in the subtractive learning model that Lu Zhenyu first disclosed to academia.

For a long time, the artificial intelligence community has always regarded the accumulation of knowledge and experience as the only mode of learning. It always feels that the more data accumulated, the simple artificial intelligence, even if the intelligence level is very low, can still play a lot of functions. of.

The accumulation of data has created a continuous increase in the demand for computing resources and storage space for the computer as the backend of artificial intelligence. Before many experiments have achieved results, the system has been unable to hold up.

This is one of the reasons why the results in the field of artificial intelligence are very slow. After all, it is impossible for any institution to have unlimited funds to squander on the addition and replacement of computers.

The subtraction learning mechanism developed by Lu Zhenyu will greatly change this situation.

Another point is that this kind of thing is different from the chaotic collision theory that Lu Zhenyu had thrown out earlier.

Learning subtraction is practical and can be done programmatically, not by luck.

The popularity of the industry has further established Lu Zhenyu’s status as the first person in the field of artificial intelligence and the first person in the programming world.

Before the experiment was basically completed, Lu Zhenyu blocked all visitors.

Chen Ning is also very interested in this thing that is still considered a behemoth after being simplified. Although she rarely goes to any laboratory even if she comes to the R&D center, this time she accompanied Lu Zhenyu in the laboratory for the first time. In the afternoon, he refused to leave until after get off work.

Although there are many technicians in the laboratory who have little brains and are struggling to find their other half, they are not ignorant in this regard.

On this day, the technicians who had already used overtime as normal work, except for the necessary duty staff, left work on time, and the duty staff also claimed to go to dinner and avoided it.

Seeing Chen Ning cheerfully watching the manipulator holding a small knife and making woodcuts in a pretentious manner, Lu Zhenyu’s heart moved.

“It’s so fun, it’s just like a real human hand.” Chen Ning didn’t understand the complex technical support behind the human hand’s flexibility and unparalleled accuracy. She just superficially and intuitively Come to judge.

Of course, she knew that this system was definitely not easy to come by. It was far from as simple as tens of kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour as Lu Zhenyu said when it was activated.

“There are more fun things.” Lu Zhenyu suddenly played a prank and entered a series of commands through the computer in his hand.

Dharma returned with a grimacing symbol.

The manipulator suddenly put down the woodcut and carving knife in his hand, patted each other with both hands, and patted off the sawdust that was adsorbed on the surface of the silica gel.

Then, he suddenly stretched out his hand and stroked Chen Ning’s head, who was right in front of him.

Thick fingers lightly passed through Chen Ning’s strands of hair…

Chen Ning seemed stunned, froze in place and motionless until Lu Zhenyu hummed in front of the computer beside him: “Through your black hair My hand that passes through your mood, and my eyes that pass through your mood, if such deep affection fades into clouds in a blink of an eye, I don’t understand why the ocean turns into mulberry fields…”

Chen Ning returned to his senses and asked, “You Let these two hands do this?” Chen Ning was not afraid, although she also disliked the touch of silicone, and now there is no temperature, and the surface is cold, but she did experience the soft touch of the pair of mechanical hands.

The manipulator is no longer the cold metal lump in the industrial plant, but it seems that there is real life invisibly existing.

This gentle stroking definitely doesn’t look like a machine can do it.

“Yeah. It’s amazing. In the beginning, anything you take will be crushed. Now, in terms of strength control, I’m afraid I can do better than me.” Lu Zhenyu laughed.

“It’s really amazing. However, how do you think this guy should be used in practical places?” Chen Ning raised his head slightly and looked at the four lenses above the manipulator as eyes.

“Practical? It is estimated that there is a certain distance. Let’s not talk about the cost of production. Just to support the movement of the manipulator, the server unit in the background is very troublesome. The volume is too large, but it cannot be reduced. Now whether it is Intel or AMD, it is really Too much. Those CPUs are useless.” As soon as Lu Zhenyu thought of this, he immediately became fascinated and began to outline how to force Intel to take out a new generation of CPUs for himself to play with.

Damo was also very excited at this time.

The series of stroking movements just now were not executed by Lu Zhenyu through him, but the direct instructions given by Lu Zhenyu to the manipulator.

After all, Lu Zhenyu wouldn’t like Bodhidharma eating his girlfriend’s tofu, even if Chen Ning didn’t know it.

Although Bodhidharma had been known to Chen Ning for a long time through Yue Yu and Qingqing, this was the first time he had seen this beautiful woman who could be regarded as his mistress.

Bodhidharma suddenly sent an emoji to Lu Zhenyu, a cup of coffee…

Lu Zhenyu was stunned when he saw this emoji, and then he reacted.

He happily said to Chen Ning, “Wait a moment and show you a useful function.”

Within a few minutes, Lu Zhenyu put the coffee machine, coffee beans, filter paper, syrup, milk, and a bunch of gadgets for making coffee on the workbench in a corner of the laboratory.

Then pretend to type something on the computer.

Bodhidharma knew how to make coffee and didn’t need his instructions, but Lu Zhenyu couldn’t let Chen Ning see that.

So, Chen Ning stared blankly at the manipulator grinding coffee beans with extremely skilled movements, wrapping the coffee beans in filter paper and putting them into the coffee machine, adding milk and syrup to the quilt, making milk foam… Finally, put a cup of hot The fragrant coffee was delivered to Chen Ning…

“Thank you…” Chen Ning said subconsciously.

Then she took the coffee and realized that she seemed to be talking in vain.

Bodhidharma displayed a grimace symbol on Lu Zhenyu’s computer.

On the workbench where Bodhidharma was making woodcuts, Lu Zhenyu and Chen Ning drank a very special coffee side by side.

UU reading www.sonicmtl.com The accuracy of Dharma’s control of time and dosage is truly unmatched, and the coffee this time is quite delicious.

“Is this an application example?” Lu Zhenyu teased.

“Forget it, it’s a bit extravagant. Such a big guy makes coffee. … However, if you really open a coffee shop and put such a guy in there to make coffee or something, it is estimated that for this freshness, customers will It won’t be less.” Chen Ning thought wide-eyed.

“You can give it a try.” Lu Zhenyu thought for a while, then said, “Open a coffee shop for demonstration purposes, or a carving shop, and process on-site processing. It doesn’t matter whether it makes money or not, it is mainly to make the technology of the manipulator practical, and also It’s a company showcase. And, you know, my goals don’t stop there. It’s best to start developing people’s acceptance of robots from now on, otherwise, God knows how many people will criticize me.”

“Robots… …It seems that if you want to do it, is the problem of computing power left unsolved? I heard that you have completed the bipedal system, so is it really possible to make a robot?” Chen Ning asked curiously, “Japan You should also be able to build the kind of bipedal walking weapon like this one, right?”

“Until the problem of computing power is solved, robots are nothing.” Lu Zhenyu sighed with a helpless expression.

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