From black technology to super engineering

Facing Ita's ambition, Ye Ming was not as excited as he was a year ago.

Especially in the past six months, he has had a lot of chats with Qin Weimin, and also communicated with other engineers of NationalChip about many things other than business in the process of coordinating the hybrid chip process, and has a deeper understanding of the current status of the semiconductor industry. .

In short, the semiconductor and derived information industry is a mature industry dominated by the West. It is the end and strongest voice of the third industrial civilization of mankind, and it is also the foundation of the next industrial civilization.

With such a huge system, it is the wisest choice to identify with it rather than fight against it.

Therefore, in the past six months, Ye Ming has always only wanted to start from the "sideways" to develop the EDA of the hybrid chip, and then use his advantages in the nature of simulation to slowly establish the right to speak in the field of brain-computer chip design.

"Ita, to complete something, you must first define something." Ye Ming looked at the image of Ita on the desktop, and said slowly: "Tell me, what is a complete EDA."

"It's better than all the current EDAs."

On the computer, her image looks serious.

And in order to prevent Ye Ming from understanding her image expression, she even enlarged the picture, taking up the entire 32-inch screen.

"Your head should be smaller." Ye Ming reminded her.

"oh."

"First, how many lines of code is this EDA?"

"Three million lines."

"Look, it's back to the old question. If I wrote three million lines of efficient back-end code by myself while chatting and doing nothing, then in the rest of my life, I will be in the Hiding in Tibet." Ye Ming said and pointed to the top of his head: "Maybe the missile will fall down in the next second."

"What about the assumption that it was written by an AI?"

Ye Ming froze for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"All codes are born based on logic. I can provide you with a puppet of mine in the real world classic system, which can handle simple tests and queries. If necessary, you can let me go online to take over, just like going online Secondary management of workshop machinery.”

"You mean, first announce the launch of a super AI?"

"Yes."

Ye Ming frowned deeply, lost in thought.

It seems... okay?

After all, ita is going to be released. This is one of them. As far as the chip design industry itself is concerned, EDA developers such as Synopsys and Cadence have also begun to introduce AI technology into their product portfolios.

Not to mention a giant like Google, which has already made extensive attempts in the field of artificial intelligence, using reinforcement learning methods to complete certain specific tasks.

If a more advanced AI is launched, after deep and comprehensive study of chip design, it can design a set of EDA tools that are more suitable for AI work, which naturally makes sense.

After silence, Ye Ming said softly: "You can try."

"Okay! Shall I write it now?"

"... Think long-term, big sister!" Ye Ming couldn't laugh or cry: "Let me think about it."

"Obey!"

On the screen, the image of Ita made a standard butler gesture of crossing arms and bowing to salute, and then disappeared with a whoosh.

Just when Ye Ming thought she was done playing, she suddenly popped up again, and a picture of a sunny beach was displayed on the desktop for no reason. Immediately afterwards, he saw the animated villain carrying a beach chair and lying down. While drinking Coke, he comfortably swayed his calves.

"...You have played the interactive table top to perfection."

"whee!"

"By the way, there is another very important question."

"what is the problem?"

"Your body." Ye Ming said, staring at the little girl on the beach on the desktop, and became serious: "Does your body exist in the quantum computer? Can you... move?"

Hearing this, Ita was rarely silent.

The cartoon girl in the picture also stood up, walking back and forth on the beach.

"If the technical scale is limited to the current computer science cognition, then the existence of quantum computers is indeed the only possibility. As for the second question..."

"If you still insist on the theory that self-awareness is unique, then unfortunately, I may not be able to move, or after moving, it will not be me."

"Then create another you?"

"I reject."

"Okay." Ye Ming subconsciously approved her answer. After all, he told Ita a long time ago, specifically when Ita was online, that self-awareness is unique, and everyone perceives the world differently.

Even if Ita is an "AI", what he said must be honored.

But in the next second, Ye Ming's eyes widened instantly, and he sat up straight: "What did you say? Can you refuse?"

Following his words, Ita also froze.

For a long time, although Ita has always shown a high degree of anthropomorphism, and even has a certain personality symbol, she will be "angry" and "quarrelsome" and so on.

But she never rejected Ye Ming, or rather, she couldn't refuse Ye Ming!

This is because her underlying logic is to assist Ye Ming.

This is similar to the three principles of robotics, written into her genes.

But now!

"I... seem to be able to refuse... no... I can't perform self-replication."

"..."

Ye Ming frowned deeply, and his eyes began to flicker.

In silence, he exhaled slowly.

He probably...can guess it.

Perhaps, this is the "Three Principles of AI" set by Ita's designers - not allowing an AI like her to complete self-replication means that the possibility of "the birth of an AI race" is fundamentally cut off.

"The system is really considerate..."

Ye Ming became emotional.

"Well, I won't mention this matter. You use the existing code to write a low-profile version of AI, and then use it to complete the hybrid chip design without your intervention."

Ita quickly returned to normal: "Okay."

"You stay in the background. I'll contact Academician Pan to see when we can build a quantum computer."

"Okay." The little girl on the desk disappeared immediately.

...

A week later, Ye Ming found Professor Tang.

When Ye Ming said that he wanted to combine AI and EDA, Professor Tang agreed.

After all, this is the current general trend, but it is generally done by large factories, and small factories do not have the ability and talents.

"Is it an improvement on the basis of the last production process control AI?"

Professor Tang held the teacup and looked at Ye Ming with a smile.

"Well, but this time it may require higher computing power...so I plan to build a server to run it."

"Just do it." Professor Tang didn't take it seriously: "Are you asking me about this little thing?"

Ye Ming suddenly twitched: "Maybe... what you need is not an ordinary server."

Professor Tang was taken aback for a moment: "You don't mean to build a supercomputer, do you?"

"It would be best if... of course."

"..."