I, the only superpower on earth

From the day he came to San Francisco, Navalli lived in the villa specially provided to him by Cloes AI.

Including cleaners, personal doctors, cooks, and drivers.

In addition, there is a long-term contract that includes all of the above and comes with an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars.

Of course, all this comes at a price.

The non-compete agreement and invisible clauses attached to the long-term contract ensure that if Navalli wants to quit the company, he will incur at least billions of dollars in compensation.

Moreover, although Navalli was informed that the FBI's search warrant for him was lifted under the mediation of the company's top management.

However, Close AI's CEO Salman and CTO Sanders "inadvertently" "reminded" a few words to let Navali understand that if he cannot continue to work for the company, the FBI's search for him will come back. Moreover, as a person closely related to Masip, he will face constant scrutiny, supervision... and even the challenge of "removing threats" at the top of the national system just like Masip and Julia at the time. instruction.

But these are just very vague reminders.

Whether it is Salman or Sanders, just want him to understand that there is a price to this.

As long as Navali can concentrate on the research of laboratory work, he can ignore these reminders.

"America is a class world built by wealth and power. As the most powerful country in the world, America is the most powerful symbol of wealth and power in the world."

Salman said this to Navalli at a private dinner with a smile in his eyes.

"—However, both of these are based on the technological strength of the United States beyond other countries. Advanced technology can not only bring wealth, but also guarantee that the United States will always stand at the top of the world... So, excellent, high applicability Yes, the science and technology that can lead the future will be watched by the national will, and it will be an important part of the national competitive strategy - it will also become a personal amulet. People who can participate in it are like those who joined the 'Manhattan Project' A group of scientists with usurped privileges—so don’t worry, Navalli, as long as you’re among us, the FBI’s hand won’t reach here.”

Navalli looked at him and nodded silently.

...

From the next day, Navalli officially entered the Close AI laboratory to work.

Close AI, since its launch of the first generation of natural language AI model, has become the leader in the field of AI in the world.

The first generation of "NLMR" (Natural Language Multimodal Robot) can use various languages ​​to communicate with humans, and can partially understand human semantics, and has a contextual memory function within thousands of words. Look, it is actually too rough, but at the place where it was born, it shocked the whole AI academic circle;

The second generation of "NLMR2" has made considerable progress on the basis of the first generation. NLMR2 has passed the Turing test, passed the accountant qualification exam and the bar exam, and obtained SAT scores of more than 1400 points. It can retrieve and combine Existing code on the web to provide users with what they need;

Compared with nlmr2, the third generation of "NLMR3" has not made leaps and bounds in terms of semantic understanding and intelligence, but its operating efficiency has been greatly improved under the work of Close AI, and it has a higher memory capacity. And in addition, it has also begun to be combined with all aspects of Internet technology - including AI painting, image synthesis, medical diagnosis, face recognition, and it is precisely by relying on NLMR3 that Close AI began to transform it from a simple The fee-based "tool" of the membership system has become a kind of "infrastructure" deeply involved in other fields, and it has also raised the market value of Close AI to hundreds of billions of dollars, becoming a newly emerging hegemonic technology company.

——These are all facts that Navalli has long known.

But now, his work content has basically nothing to do with the product history of the above Close AI iterations—although the program he provided before helped Sanders improve the efficiency of their latest product NLMR3 by a few percent, successfully bringing billion-dollar-plus proceeds.

But he was not asked to maintain or improve those past products.

There is only one thing he has to do——

...

Navalli sat on the walker between the corridors, and the car followed the pace of Sanders in front, moving slowly in the snow-white corridor.

He turned his gaze upwards, looked left and right, and could hardly see the line between the ceiling and the wall. The two seemed to be one. He didn't know what material they were made of, but he could see that with their Go forward, and holograms light up on the walls and ceiling from time to time, like a scene from some futuristic sci-fi movie.

And at the end of the passage, when Sanders stepped there, a door with no gap with the wall next to it slowly slid into the gap, and the huge laboratory came into Navari's eyes.

——Huge chassis, buzzing roar, and dozens of people busy in front of the computer. And right in the center of the field is a huge screen, on which the codes flicker like running water. When Navali saw that screen, he couldn't help but hold his breath. It deeply touched the sensitive position in the deepest part of Navari's nerves, causing his brain to stir.

He silently stared at the screen, his eyes stuck to it as if frozen.

Sanders, who had been watching him sideways, smiled with satisfaction when he saw this scene.

"Navali, can you see what that is?"

Navalli was still staring at the screen, his eyes fixed, and his breathing became heavy:

"Looks...appears to be a new type of AI-related program - but its core algorithm is very different from the current general system."

"That's right."

Sanders nodded, looking at him.

"Want to know what that is?"

His smile was a little weird, but it was full of pride.

Navali nodded silently.

Sanders smiled, and did not answer immediately, but changed the subject instead.

"In the field of artificial intelligence, there are many ways to classify the intelligence level of artificial intelligence, but generally speaking, it can be divided into weak AI, strong AI and super AI.

"Although our company's previous products, from NLMR1 to NLMR3, have been considered by many people to have reached the level of real 'strong AI'-but anyone who knows a little bit knows that even NLMR3 is far from the real 'strong AI'. ’ still makes a world of difference.”

Sanders' tone was a bit long, but Navalli understood what he wanted to say in an instant, so his body tensed up involuntarily.

"From weak AI to strong AI, what is the most important boundary? It doesn't lie in the strength of computing power, or whether it can carry out natural language dialogue on the surface - those can be constructed through training models like alchemy The core lies in one point—whether it can produce self-awareness, self-compilation, self-development, and produce human-like or unique perception and life experience.”

Sanders' eyes were tightly projected on the screen, and then quickly moved to Navali. The heat in his eyes made Navali's whole body tense. I don't know if it was because of the content of his words or the expression in his eyes. the scorching heat.

"So - Navalli, this is where you will work in the future. And that program will be the core content of your future work.

"——that is the next-generation core product of our Close AI, and it is also an epoch-making product that we want to launch. From the moment of its birth, it is enough to sweep all past AI products into the corner of history.

"...truly, a strong artificial intelligence that can adapt to any domain that was previously considered to be unique to humans, capable of self-explanation and self-compilation-NLMR4!"