Voyage of the Stars

People prefer to move forward rather than dwell on the glory of the past.

In the fifth year after the completion of the integration of Chiyan civilization technology, humans established the United Science Research Institute. This research institute is prefixed with 'Union'. As the name suggests, it is not only a single research institute of the human race, but several intelligences under the human race. Institute of Common Ethnicity.

Its main position is located on a newly built large spacecraft, a sea-class research spacecraft. The spacecraft is equipped with five external interfaces. When not sailing, the five interfaces are connected to the other five sea-class spacecraft. form a giant chimera.

In the design, the internal structures of these five spaceships are arranged according to the living habits of humans, Nair people, Quintai people, kobolds, and red flame people. The same is true for the living environment. Obviously, these five ships are docking points for scientists of their respective races, and they can also be residences.

The spaceship in the center is set up according to the layout of the research institute, and has everything that a research institute should have. If it is necessary to have face-to-face discussions or do some collaborative experiments in the institute's laboratories, various races will put on their own mechas and come here to conduct them.

Naturally, humans wear tactical armor. As for the other four races, humans also very considerately built a mobile mecha according to their shapes for each of their scientists and engineers named in the institute.

The top scientists and engineers in mankind have their names in this institute. However, at this stage, if we want to say that the number of scientists with the largest number of names in this institute is that of the Red Flame Civilization.

The number of individuals in the Red Flame Civilization is much larger than that of humans, so it makes sense that there are more scientists in comparison. As for the remaining three races, although the Nair people have been following humans for a long time, they were originally a scientific research team, and their number was not large. Fortunately, they were all highly intelligent scientific researchers, and only a dozen of them could be selected. .

Kobolds are even more miserable. Although they have been cultivated by humans for many years, their foundation is just a primitive civilization. From the perspective of biological evolution, they have been encouraged by humans to reach the interstellar age. Even if humans open up their knowledge base and let them learn, currently There is only one person who can reach the ranks of top scientists.

Kuntai people are better, there are six that meet the standard, but they are all in Tai form.

What is certain is that among the four races, those who can reach the point of being selected into the Joint Scientific Research Institute will become superior beings in the society of their own race. Human beings will meet their various needs to a limited extent, and at the same time, they will also contribute to their respective races. They do publicity.

It can be said that as long as he can become a scientist at the Joint Institute of Science, he will inevitably become a being respected by thousands of people in his race, and at the same time, he will also be respected equally in the human family.

Of course, since humans have implemented a policy of "not imprinting ideas on scientists" towards vassal races, it is not known whether these scientists are really loyal to humans. However, the new human government does not care. Anyway, the entire group's force is controlled by In the hands of humans, even if these scientists from other races have any intentions, it will not cause any harm.

Even if there are many scientists who are unwilling to serve mankind, they cannot stop the idea of ​​​​other individual lives. Moreover, there is strong artificial intelligence watching, and the management has also been imprinted with human thoughts. It is impossible to rebel.

The establishment of the joint research institute shows that mankind has begun to try to use the wisdom of these alien races to serve itself.

The results were unexpectedly good. In the fifth year since its establishment, this institute has achieved a remarkable scientific research result.

They made a breakthrough in algorithm research on strong artificial intelligence nanostructures.

This is undoubtedly great news, because its breakthrough means that mankind is one step closer to creating a nanorobot consciousness like the 'Silver Mist'.

Judging from the situation of 'Silver Mist' back then, it was obviously a strong artificial intelligence, but it did not need a super-large supercomputer as a carrier to carry its self-consciousness like human beings' strong artificial intelligence today. So, the answer There is only one, and that is its consciousness hidden in the group of 'silver mist'.

This technological breakthrough allows mankind to create a structure composed of countless nanorobots in the form of a supercomputer carrier.

The transformation of forms inevitably requires the support of different algorithms. Therefore, this technological breakthrough and the successful realization of algorithm transformation make it possible for humans to theoretically say that "nanobot swarms carry strong artificial intelligence self-awareness".

Of course, just breaking through this technology and implementing this algorithm will not give humans the ability to create ‘silver mist’, because this is only one of the many technical barriers to creating ‘silver mist’.

In addition, technical barriers that need to be broken include the precise operation of femtometer-level structures, the manufacturing process of picometer-level functional structures, the issue of information exchange between each 'fog droplet', that is, individual nanorobots, and the issue of each 'fog droplet' individual The power issues of nanorobots, and how to realize the functions of their combinations, etc.

For this reason, as the next step, the Joint Scientific Research Institute plans to apply to manufacture 10 billion nanorobots with the most basic unit structure at the picometer level for verification tests.

At the same time, the problem of information exchange between each individual nanorobot is studied.

When the application came to the production management department, it was approved directly.

The manufacturing process of picometer-level parts is a production process that the Chiyan civilization originally mastered. Such superb production technology has naturally been accepted by humans. However, the technical assessment document for the manufacturing of 'Silver Haze'-like products shows that the picometer-level parts manufacturing process is not sufficient to manufacture 'Silver Haze'-like nanorobots.

If you want to produce nanorobots like 'Silver Mist', you must continue to make breakthroughs in the field of microscopic technology. Not to mention whether it needs to reach the femtometer level, it must at least exceed the current picometer level.

After many discussions, the Joint Scientific Research Institute believes that the manufacturing process of the 'Silver Mist'-like nanorobot swarm should reach the peak level of creation of a third-level civilization. No matter how small it is, it is impossible to achieve.

Because no matter how small it is, it has reached the realm of wave-particle duality and the principle of uncertainty, and it is completely impossible for a third-level civilization to break through.

In fact, if humans hadn't seen the 'Silver Mist', they wouldn't have had such an experience.

Human scientists still remember the performance of the Red Flame Civilization scientists when they first proposed to create a group of 'Silver Mist'-like nanorobots. When they saw the technical indicators proposed by humans, they said with absolute certainty and determination that it was impossible to achieve without even thinking about it. .

Because in their consciousness, the Red Flame Civilization has reached its end in the nanometer field and has become the pinnacle of the third-level civilization. They feel that unless they are promoted to the fourth-level civilization, there is absolutely no possibility of further breakthroughs.