Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 144

[a hundred and forty three.]

143 In the sensory world

, Lu Zhenyu, who devotes all his energy to research work, is obviously more dynamic than he in the corporate management position.

Just think that he was keen to assemble and test spiders with his colleagues, and he was very happy to modify his off-road vehicle under the guidance of a technician. This time, when building a new server array, Lu Zhenyu once again personally went into battle.

The basement of the newly purchased factory has not yet been installed with air conditioners. The walls are surrounded by cement walls with simple cleaning work, and the various pipes on the ceiling are completely exposed to the outside.

In this industrial-feeling space, a considerable number of workers and technicians are working on construction.

Mesh ceilings and powerful air-conditioning indoor units are quickly being installed, and various power cables and other pipelines are being quickly laid.

A third of the basement will be cut off as a control room, offices and physical and chemical laboratories.

The remaining two-thirds of the space, except for the necessary channels, will be filled with server arrays.

And Lu Zhenyu, who was wearing an ordinary T-rt at this time, was sweating profusely and mingling with the staff.

They are surrounded by various types of servers that have not been unpacked and installed. These servers will be combined according to certain rules to form the most powerful computing system that Digital Totem has ever built.

Lu Zhenyu and the technicians who participated in this project together unpacked the boxes, checked the status of the individual servers one by one, and then assembled them to connect these servers through extremely complicated connections to form a honeycomb system… It seems.

They were working just like those installers in an ordinary computer store, except that with dozens of them, the number of thousands of computers they had to bear was an unreasonably large workload.

Just unboxing and getting the servers all hooked up took nearly the fourth day before get off work.

The work is basically done.

At this time, other equipment in the entire underground computer room has been installed almost.

When the air conditioner blows gusts of cold wind.

The centrifugal rotary motor of the air filter began to make a humming sound. The spider cleaners cleaned up all the garbage such as packing boxes and tapes, and began to use various finer cleaning equipment to remove fine dust, and gradually cleaned the entire equipment room. When the cleanliness level increased to aerospace level, Lu Zhenyu finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the power-on test of the entire unit.

The establishment of the entire new laboratory continued for 2 weeks.

Later, Lu Zhenyu transferred the neuron-like project of the original research center to this Xindi laboratory, the “Digital Circle Project Laboratory”.

He will conduct follow-up research on the neuron-mimicking project here.

Instead, the huge computing resources occupied by it will be given up to other projects.

This new laboratory consists of two parts, one is the computer room and control center, and the other is the physical and chemical laboratory that combines the material laboratory and the sensory laboratory.

On top of the laboratory, the world’s first purely unmanned factory will be built.

For a long time, there will be far more robots than humans here.

On the other hand, Lu Zhenyu carried out what he promised in the physical and chemical laboratory that was completed in advance, so that Yue Yu and the others had a sense of taste and smell.

If the pseudo-neuron theory is indeed the mainstream in the field of artificial intelligence.

Moreover, now that it has become the basis for Lu Zhenyu to establish the entire new system, the first choice is to use the pseudo-bioelectric system that can be seamlessly matched with the pseudo-neuron theory to simulate the senses.

Lu Zhenyu didn’t need to worry too much about whether this system could be used by Yue Yuqingqing and Bodhidharma.

In terms of tactile simulation, he has tried the bioelectric system and Dharma, Qingqing and Yue Yu’s assembly.

Compared with the core established by the pseudo-neuron theory.

Obviously, Yue Yu and the others have better processing ability.

…It’s always the more powerful things that aren’t mainstream, that’s how Lu Zhenyu commented.

However, the application of bioelectrical systems to touch and smell and taste are two completely different things.

The successful application in tactile sense is due to finding that kind of special piezoelectric ceramic as a catalyst between the external environment and computer system.

This solution has been proved to be reasonable, so how should we look for this catalyst in terms of taste and smell?

“Now I know that this is really too difficult.” After a few days of futile attempts, Lu Zhenyu collapsed on the sand in the rest room attached to the laboratory.

Enjoy the dinner that Chen Ning brought from home.

“Haha. I don’t know, don’t tell me. This thing is too headache. I haven’t figured out the technology.” Chen Ning smiled.

“Whether it’s a human or an animal. Smell and taste all have a similar catalyst. You should have seen documentaries, right? Those olfactory cells probably have a similar function, converting external stimuli into weak signals in the nervous system. Electricity. The problem now is that it seems that we can’t use biotechnology to do this thing, the electric current generated by the ** cells in our system is not strong enough, and, like pure simulation of bioelectricity, it is not very feasible here. … However, if it is solved by chemical methods, in the sensitive reaction with the outside world, since the charge transfer can be measured, it can be tried in this form. The problem is that after several reactions of this catalyst with the outside world, because the chemical The reaction seems to be irreversible, and the problem is serious. The catalyst quickly loses its activity…”

“I don’t understand…” Chen Ning shook his head and said.

“Ah, that means that the catalyst can only sense the sense of taste or smell once, and then it becomes ineffective immediately.” Lu Zhenyu scratched his head and said, “So you should be able to understand it?”

“No, then add some more. Ah, if the intelligence senses once, then remove the traces and add a second catalyst, and then do the sensing again?” Chen Ning thought for a while, and said, “You don’t want to make a difference all of a sudden. The olfactory system comparable to the nose of a human or an animal, right? Don’t you really think that you are a god after a few words.”

Chen Ning’s tone was not disdain or any other contempt, but very relaxed.

Very reassuring.

“Haha, that’s right.” Lu Zhenyu said, then I’ll give it a try.

A few days later, Lu Zhenyu made a very interesting installation.

In a small glass petri dish, a thin layer of a solvent that is very sensitive to external changes is added.

This solvent is called “enamel liquid” because of the faint pearly sheen of the blue liquid.

There are more than a dozen small electrodes in the petri dish, which are used to sense when it reacts with the outside world.

In the petri dish, charge transfer, etc. occurs, resulting in a weak current.

It is submitted to the computer device in the background for judgment.

This set of things is not complicated, but whether it is effective or not depends on the specific test results.

Everyone watched with interest Lu Zhenyu put such a system in a glass sterile box.

A small piece of pepper was placed in a petri dish through a rubber glove.

On the surface, you can’t see the changes in the petri dish, but when the peppers are put into the petri dish.

Everyone did see that the galvanometer on the side made strong ripples in layers on the recording paper… and the same degree, on the computer screen, displayed a more precise change in a special interface.

“It seems… at least there is a reaction.” Lu Zhenyu breathed a sigh of relief.

This can probably be regarded as the initial stage of taste perception. The sensing intensity and preliminary taste data have been obtained first. As long as the test continues, it may not be possible to generate more complex data and perceive more complex taste.

but.

It seems that the sense of taste is not the tongue… but the saliva.

This made Lu Zhenyu’s face a bit strange.

A picture appeared in his mind, that is, Yue Yu, who had become a basically perfect human body, was drooling with blue saliva, and in front of Yue Yu, there was a plate of fragrant fragrance. The steak…

the imagination is really bad.

But.

For the time being, there is only this solution, unless the technology is further developed and there are breakthroughs in biochips and active biomaterials… That, it seems that it is not a technology that can be seen now.

However, should these technologies emerge in a few years time, this solution would be very effective and useful simply by virtue of the features that biotechnology can restore and repair on its own.

After the staff went home one after another, Lu Zhenyu quietly connected Yue Yu to the computer system.

Several petri dishes were prepared.

Try something different in there.

sugar.

salt, pepper.

Vinegar…and also the seasoning and arrangement of these flavors…Although the taste is indeed strange, for Yue Yu, anyway, it is not really feeling the taste, but the relationship between these tastes and this catalyst. Whether the response produced enough differential signals for Yue Yu to differentiate.

“Did you let me experience the pain in advance while your taste system is not mature yet?” Yue Yu said with a smile.

“Wait until you know what suffering is.” Lu Zhenyu responded with a smile.

The dressing is handled in a glass box with rubber gloves.

The signal of the current was transmitted to Yue Yu, and Yue Yu carried out the calculation very seriously.

For her, her abilities are not the same as those computer systems used for purely technical and galvanic analysis.

The same reading changes and stimulation intensity, for Yue Yu, she can perceive through more abundant analytical tools…

“Well, it is indeed different. But at present I can only feel so much, hehe. “Yue Yu said.

“That’s enough. At present, I can only do so much. For you, the perception of taste and smell may always be just an analysis of subtle currents. I don’t know how to go further. Haha.” Lu Zhenyu was very satisfied with this initial attempt.

With the results of the taste system as a blueprint, the olfactory system also quickly has an idea solution.

Lv Zhenyu ordered many sets of very small filter elements filled with tiny pores from a manufacturer of top air filtration devices.

An air extraction device is installed behind the filter element to enhance the air circulation.

In the filter, they blended the enamel liquid with an organic solvent similar to oil to form a very slow-volatile mixture.

In the filter element, fill with this mixture and shake off the excess, then insert a needle-shaped electrode into the filter element, and this basic olfactory sensing device is completed.

While the organic solvent slows down the volatility, it also slows down the contact between the enamel liquid and the external agent. Before there is no further solution, I am afraid that the sense of smell will be slightly slower than the sense of taste.

Of course, this is an acceptable change.

The processing difficulty of the olfactory system is a little bit more complicated than that of the taste system.

Because the number of molecules that can be sensed in the air that can form the sense of smell is originally small, and the dissipation rate is very fast, the requirements for the sensitivity of current perception and the complexity of the background processing system are higher.

However, to their relief, after several rounds of testing, the signal strength finally increased to an acceptable level.

Then, it was how to make these things work. On the one hand, they began to continuously perceive various simple and complex senses of smell and taste with two devices.

sonicmtl.com forms a huge database on which the olfactory and gustatory systems make later judgments, while on the other hand they have to solve the problem of automation of multiple sensing.

The perception of taste is relatively easy. They made a crystal glass cavity structure similar to the size of the mouth, and made a filling and extraction device for enamel liquid inside. 36 electrodes are installed on this spherical glass cavity. , able to perceive taste more carefully.

Although it is said that after many extractions and perceptions, the problem of “smell” will inevitably arise, but anyway, humans themselves have this problem, so there is no need to worry about it.

Drinking water and gargling will solve the problem… The next step is to consider how to make this cavity more like an oral cavity, so that it can have richer functions.

For example, adding chewing behavior generators like teeth to allow more surfaces of the sensed object to come into contact with the enamel liquid is a good solution.

However, it is difficult to make something that is relatively easy to accept with the automatic replacement filter element of the olfactory device.

Their first inspiration came from the revolver mechanism of a revolver.

They later switched to something like a drum and a magazine due to the possible need for more inductions…but, in the end, that filter would have to be installed in front of the air extractor.

Think for a moment when the sight, smell, and taste apparatus appeared on a face-like surface at the same time, and all the staff shook their heads in unison and said, “Pig!”

[End of this Chapter]