Great Power Technology.

Chapter 432 Selection of Experimental Subjects
Chen Hao did not agree with Ye Zhou's proposal to experiment with AVS technology first, especially after listening to him explain the possible risks of AVS technology.

From his point of view, if AVS technology has the risk of making people insane, then Ye Zhou should not be involved in it. The reason is simple: the country can afford the loss of an ordinary person, or even a senior researcher. , but absolutely cannot afford to lose Ye Zhou.

However, Ye Zhou still firmly insisted on his own ideas. The two couldn't stop arguing over this issue. In the end, a sentence from the superior put an end to their dispute:
"Until the last moment, how can any general go to the front line with a gun in person?"

Ye Zhou reluctantly accepted the superior's decision, but in fact his decision was not a momentary heroism.

With the blessing of the "Resistor" talent, his resistance to mental shock and mental pollution far exceeds that of other ordinary people, and also surpasses almost all professionally trained special personnel. All the knowledge of the technology, allowing yourself to experiment for yourself, is actually the option to maximize your returns.

However, he can also understand the decisions made by his superiors. After all, sometimes, giving up efficiency in order to reduce risks is actually the right choice.

"...If you don't let me do it, don't let me do it, but I must be present for the first experiment, and I need to intuitively understand the technical details."

"AVS technology is not like other technologies we have developed before. This is a technology that is completely human-friendly, and the user experience is also a very important part. If there is a problem with the experimental subject during the process, then I would rather suspend the follow-up development now .”

"Is it so exaggerated?"

Chen Hao asked with some doubts.

"Probably more exaggerated than what I'm saying now."

Ye Zhou recalled the hearing in the replay of the finale. In the scene at that time, ordinary people who received AVS technology treatment obviously suffered mental damage.

This kind of damage cannot be detected by medical means, but it actually affects the individual's way of thinking and behavior.

After that simulation, Ye Zhou thought about the reason for this problem more than once, but he never got a definite conclusion.

Relatively speaking, a more likely explanation is that there is a slight difference between the visual signals conveyed by the AVS device and the signals conveyed by the human eye. This difference has accumulated over the years, causing the individual's perception of the world to be biased.

Just as a difference in tone in a conversation can give a completely different meaning to a passage, a difference in the information density in a visual signal is likely to bias the final constructed result.

Chen Hao on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, and then said:
"Then look at the results of the first experiment. If the problem you mentioned really occurs, then the subsequent application development will be terminated directly."

"AES technology itself is not a shortage technology, we can afford the consequences of the absence of this technology."

Hearing Chen Hao's words, Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:
"No, the AES technology itself is not as simple as you now think."

"Essentially speaking, AES technology is an exploration of brain nerve signals, from our BCI technology at the beginning, to AVS, AES now, and then to the direct transmission of neural network information, and then to the possible emergence of Human brain-assisted computing, to other technologies that I haven't thought of yet, and finally strong artificial intelligence. The boundaries of AES are much wider than what we see now."

"What we can afford is only the consequences of 'temporary absence'. If there is no breakthrough for a long time, our opponents may overtake us on corners in this field-of course, I mean in the relative In a long time span, such as 50 years, 100 years."

"It's a long time span for the two of us, but it's a fleeting moment for a civilization, a country, right?"

"In the final analysis, we are still seeking for future generations."

Chen Hao on the other side of the phone sighed and said:
"One generation has a mission for one generation. Ye Zhou, I have been telling you one thing, but you have never listened to it."

"Don't push yourself too hard."

"Yes, you have indeed brought us great changes. It can even be said that your appearance has fundamentally accelerated the development of China, but you must know that you will not be the only protagonist in this era."

"You have to realize this clearly -- you are the butterfly flapping its wings, but in essence, it is the vast atmosphere and ocean that form the storm."

"Why are you pushing yourself so hard? Tropical storms won't be raised by a level just because you flap your wings a few more times. It's very interesting to flap your wings twice!"

Ye Zhou couldn't help laughing. Although Chen Hao's words sounded a little careless, he did make his problem very clear.

After pausing for a moment, he said:

"I know, I know. Don't talk about these useless things, hurry up and arrange a schedule for me."

"Where is the first experiment? Zhejiang University?"

"Yes, Zhejiang University."

Three days later, Ye Zhou arrived in Yuhang as planned. He didn't waste any time. After getting off the plane, he went straight to the BCI Research Institute of Zhejiang University. There, he met Chen Li, who is now in charge of the AVS project.

The other party didn't know his real identity, but he also knew that he should be the upper-level leader of the AVS project, so there was no concealment in the discussion with him.

".Actually, the experiment we are going to conduct now is the first full-scope experiment, but before that, we have conducted many times of nerve signal input analysis and nerve tolerance testing, and several alternative experiments have been ruled out. In the end, there was only one object left."

"Those eliminated subjects were either insensitive to electrical stimulation signals or overly sensitive, and did not meet the experimental conditions."

"So, in fact, our experiment has no control group at all. If it fails, then we can only wait for the next batch of experimenters to be screened out."

Hearing Chen Li's introduction, Ye Zhou nodded slightly, and then asked:
"What is the background of the eliminated ones?"

"An active soldier, a monk, two ordinary blind masseurs, and a blind composer. The nerve sensitivity of soldiers and monks is low, and the sensitivity conditions of blind masseurs are the best, but the nerve signals are chaotic. We The compiler at this stage can't meet the requirements, and the composer's sensitivity is too high, and it didn't even pass the first test."

"What was the reason for not passing?"

"Hallucinations——extremely strong hallucinations, even so exaggerated that the body functions are affected. He saw himself in the fire in the hallucination, and then his skin showed slight burn symptoms. We observed this The experiment was terminated immediately after the phenomenon, but it took several days for his burn symptoms to recover."

In fact, the phenomenon of physiological reactions due to hallucinations is not particularly bizarre. Some special hypnosis experiments can achieve similar effects, and the very famous "rubber hand experiment" or "phantom limb experiment" in the scientific community ", which also proves from a certain aspect that false visual perception signals will trigger corresponding neural reflexes.

When the intensity of this nerve reflex reaches the threshold, it will cause physiological changes in some aspects.

This discovery shows the impact of AVS technology on the human body more intuitively than what Ye Zhou saw in the simulator, and further hints at the danger of this technology.

Ye Zhou sighed unrecognizably, and then continued to ask:

"What about the last one? What is his identity?"

"It was a 6-year-old toddler. She was also acquired blindness, but she lost her sight when she was 4 years old, and she was only blind for two years."

"We believe that the reason why she can meet the experimental conditions is that her nervous system is still in a relatively early stage, and her acceptance of new system stimuli is relatively strong."

"As for the other people, due to long-term life and work, the working method of the nervous system has formed a set of inherent patterns, and it is not so simple to correct it through electrical signal stimulation."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou's expression became extremely tangled.

The AVS team of Zhejiang University has explored this technology far beyond what he saw in the report. It has even discovered the negative effects of AVS technology and the different influences of the consciousness base on AVS technology. This is a good trend.

But the problem is that they have no way to solve such negative effects now.

Of the 6 candidate experimenters, only one was left in the end. This ratio can almost be said to be far below the promotion standard of a technology.

After thinking for a moment, he asked:
"Where's the experimenter? Is he in the institute? I want to see him."

Chen Li on the opposite side shook his head and replied:
"Not at the moment. We originally wanted to keep her in the research institute, but her family background is complicated. She and her brother are orphans, and her brother goes to school in the northern part of the city, but she can't leave her brother to take care of her, so Only two evenings and weekends a week come."

"Orphan? My brother is still in school? How old is he?"

"My brother is 14 years old and is in junior high school."

"Junior high school?? What do they live on?"

"A part of the official subsidy, plus the help from the neighbors, was supposed to go through the adoption process, but the procedures were not completed."

"Their life is not a big problem. After all, Yuhang has been rich for thousands of years. It is not so easy to starve to death—but it must be difficult."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou frowned.

Obviously, the child in Chen Li's mouth and his elder brother live in an extremely fragile balance. Illness, poverty and the pressure of life together form a seesaw.

They are at one end of the seesaw, and the abyss at the other end.

The AVS technology in Chen Li's hands is a weight. If the weight cannot be placed in the correct position, it will have a negative effect on the balance of the seesaw.

After a moment of silence, he said:
"Give me the address, I'll go and have a look."

"Actually, you shouldn't choose such subjects—their error tolerance rate is too low."

"We must be cautious about such experimental subjects. They can at least live now, if irreversible problems occur after the experiment."

"Then we were the straw that broke them."

(End of this chapter)