Great Power Technology

Two days later, the BCI transmission project of Hua Wu Institute was officially launched. Ye Zhou was invited to participate in the first test, but unfortunately, the results were unsatisfactory.

But this is not a "failure". Instead, Ye Zhou is very satisfied with the project team's decision to eliminate the candidates after confirming that optimization cannot be carried out.

Not everyone can quickly adapt to the BCI transmission system. In such a project that is inherently designed for efficiency, identifying them and eliminating them from the first echelon is actually the most logical choice.

If they really want to access the BCI transmission system, they can slowly adjust it in subsequent expanded experiments.

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Of course, from Chen Li's perspective, his pressure is different.

After a morning of experiments, the proportion of subjects who passed the preliminary screening was less than 40%, which was far lower than the number he had predicted for Ye Zhou.

If this ratio continues, the number of people who can actually adapt to the BCI transmission system may be less than a hundred in the end.

Moreover, most of those who passed the preliminary screening are relatively "low-level" researchers, and almost none of the core personnel actually involved in the controllable nuclear fusion project passed the preliminary screening.

This is an extremely abnormal phenomenon.

According to normal logic, the higher the level of researchers, the stronger their abilities. Whether judged by "IQ" in the traditional sense or "brain activity" in the scientific sense, they must exceed Those low-level researchers.

In theory, it is easier for such people to adapt to the BCI transmission system, which has been verified by experience in previous energy projects.

But, at Huawuyuan, this experience was completely broken.

At the end of the day's work, Chen Li collapsed on his chair tiredly.

As the general person in charge of the project, he should not have to do those routine tasks, but this time the project is of great significance. Not only is the related project a strategic project of the General Technical Office, but also for the BCI transmission technology itself. It is also a new challenge.

Therefore, he chose to perform all actions personally.

"Are you okay? I see you haven't eaten lunch yet. Are you going to have hypoglycemia?"

Chu Ya, who was standing aside, noticed that he looked strange and quickly came over to ask.

"It's okay...I asked Zhu Xuan to get some food. Let's just have a bite later."

"The core group will meet tonight to discuss today's results."

"The pass rate of the initial screening is much lower than we expected... If this trend continues, the role that BCI transmission technology can play will be very limited."

"I am prepared to suspend the subsequent preliminary screening work. If the problem cannot be found, then I would rather ax the project than waste resources anymore."

Hearing his words, Chu Ya secretly sighed.

In fact, after this day's experiment, as the core member of the BCI project team, she was not as calm as she seemed on the surface.

For the BCI project team, which has always had smooth sailing, this setback is a big blow.

It is obvious that the model is infinitely close to perfection, it is obvious that there are no problems in the sample experiments, and it is obvious that the theory has been verified in the early stages.

But why, it just doesn’t work? ——

That’s not to say it won’t work at all, but the probability of “doing it” is too low.

Not only her, not only Chen Li, but even Zhu Xuan began to wonder if there was a bug in his program. He spent the whole afternoon checking the test code module by module, but in the end he found no problem.

"Could it be a human problem?"

After hesitating for a moment, Chu Ya asked.

Chen Li shook his head and replied:

"There are no problems with people, their nerve pathways are established smoothly, including brain activation responses and feedback area stress responses are normal."

"In other words, they clearly have all the conditions required for BCI technology adaptation."

"In this case, it is not objective or scientific for us to question whether there is something wrong with the person."

"The most likely situation now is that our data transmission model is not perfect yet, and the database cannot support the output to special groups of people."

"Thinking about it, the possibility is not low - the people we tested before were either young or engaged in relatively basic jobs. Overall, their brain development level - to be precise, it should be the utilization rate. , much smaller than scientific researchers.”

"I don't know if this will be the key point that affects the progress of the experiment, but in any case, we have to find a way to verify it."

"Tomorrow I plan to take the people who have gone through the preliminary screening to do a joint TMS-TDCS test to see how their brains are different from normal people..."

Hearing this, Chu Ya couldn't help laughing.

"What you said is quite scary... If you can't find out, wouldn't you have to kill one and dissect it to see?"

"That's not a big deal - if I can't find out, I'll go there myself and get a feel for what's going on."

Chen Li also smiled, but there was no joke in what he said.

But Chu Ya had no objection.

In fact, she herself had already had this idea.

The risk of invasive BCI transmission technology is actually not high. If you really want to calculate it, the overall risk may not be as good as a brain MRI.

As the person in charge of the project, and also very similar to the subjects who encountered the problem, it is indeed a good solution to try it myself.

"Then I'll give it a try too."

Chuya said.

"You'd better forget it...you have to shave off a small piece of your hair. Aren't you afraid of affecting your image?"

"It's all on the side anyway, and it's not like there's a bald spot on the top of the head. What's the impact...Zhu Xuan is here."

At the door of the office, Zhu Xuan walked in dejectedly with four lunch boxes in his hand, while Yaoyao behind him was carrying a drink. There was no look of disappointment on her face.

"Today's extra dish, I ordered two abalones for each of you. Once you're full, you'll be ready for work!"

As he spoke, Zhu Xuan opened the lunch box and fiercely stuffed the abalone into his mouth.

After struggling all afternoon and finding no problem, he almost began to doubt himself.

But he couldn't smash the keyboard, so he had to compete with innocent food.

Seeing his appearance, Yaoyao on the side happily advised:

"Brother Zhu, don't be angry. It's definitely not a problem with the procedure. I asked a few uncles who participated in the experiment today, and the situation they told me is quite similar to our previous cases of failed AVS experiments."

"Anyway, visual signals cannot be established. I guess they must have something in common."

Hearing this, Chen Li nodded.

In fact, they have noticed this problem a long time ago, but until now, they have not actually come to a specific conclusion.

Not everyone goes smoothly in the AVS experiment. Most people need long-term training before they can truly "see" the image signal transmitted by the AVS system, while a very small number of people cannot see it anyway.

They once thought about directly locating the physiological traits that cause this difference biologically, but the human brain is too complex and cannot be solved in just one or two years.

"I also guess it has something to do with visual signals, but we really have nothing to do for a while."

"That's not necessarily true..."

Yaoyao put down her chopsticks and continued:

"What if we used auditory signals to induce memories?"

"Uh... it's too inefficient."

Chu Ya from the side interrupted.

"But we don't need high transmission efficiency."

"What we have to do now, isn't it just to 'establish a channel'?"