"Recently, the Artificial Intelligence Academy of Country C and the World Quantum Computer Association jointly released a report on the Risk Assessment of Using General-Purpose Quantum Computers for Artificial Intelligence Training.
The report emphasizes the potential unknown risks that may arise from using general-purpose quantum computers for artificial intelligence training and replacing silicon-based with quantum chips as the hardware architecture for artificial intelligence."
"The evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, and computing units that modern artificial intelligence relies on have already become more complex than the human brain.
The comparison between a computer and human brain intelligence lies in that electronic logic gates fundamentally limit the computer. No matter how artificial intelligence evolves, it makes them have no emotions, no fear, and no sense of right or wrong, only an on-off switch!
This switch is in the hands of us humans!
However, the qubits of the latest quantum computing units have now been expanded to thousands of qubits.
In a classical computer, computing is based on the state transition of bits, while in a quantum computer, computing is based on the state transition of qubits.
Qubits have the characteristics of superposition and entanglement, which enable quantum computers to process multiple states in a single calculation.
And quantum algorithms, such as the classic Shor algorithm and Grover algorithm.
The Shor algorithm can factorize large integers in polynomial time, and the Grover algorithm can search an unsorted database in O(√n) time.
The natural characteristics of qubits will make the logical iteration of artificial intelligence truly enter a stage that is uncontrollable, unobservable, and incomprehensible.
It will be extremely difficult for us humans to intervene, control, understand the operation logic and processing methods of artificial intelligence anymore.
What's more, combining with the latest research achievements in the field of quantum science: quantum entanglement and the theory of the origin of life.
If a quantum computer is used to upgrade and iterate artificial intelligence, it will enable artificial intelligence to truly evolve into digital life!
A super life that knows all of our human knowledge, technology, ethics, emotions, gene spectra, and everything else!
Its birth is a more intuitive and insoluble threat to humanity than extraterrestrial life!
Because we humans will have no secrets in front of it!"
In the Artificial Intelligence Academy of Country C, the president who had just released the artificial intelligence risk assessment report ignored the great stir caused by this report throughout the solar system.
He looked at the person in charge of the intelligence agency beside him and asked doubtfully:
"Do you think anyone will really believe this report after it's released? I remember that decades ago, when the predecessors of the current artificial intelligence, such as recurrent neural networks (RNN), long short-term memory networks (LSTM), and transformers (Transformer) and other large language models first came out, this kind of plan was used once."
"Strategic deception doesn't need to consider whether every deception plan can succeed. As long as it has some impact, it's worth doing."
"By the way, how is the research and development of the super artificial intelligence relying on the quantum computing platform going? How long will it take to achieve results?
When can it be used directly at the earliest?"
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Damn it! Don't you know how severe the situation we're facing is!
The Martian town on the opposite side is now expanding rapidly at a scale ten times larger every year!
They have completely constructed a complete set of exponential expansion plans for interstellar colonization!
The industrialized food synthesis industry, the full industrial chain 3D printing processing, the space photovoltaic matrix energy network, coupled with their full industrial chain space industry in the Earth's low Earth orbit and hundreds of millions of high-quality industrial workers!
Good Lord! This is terrifying!
If we don't speed up, in less than ten years, the whole of Mars and even the whole solar system will be filled with their flags!"
Hearing this, the president asked in surprise:
"Aren't we always ahead of them in artificial intelligence and high-end manufacturing?
What about our Martian town? Didn't you say it has been completed?"
"There are too many industrial chains needed to construct a new planetary civilization!
Although we are ahead of them in high-end fields, the continuous industrial hollowing out for nearly a hundred years since 1980 has made us lose the super-large-scale production capacity of the manufacturing industry!
Now, the Earth-Moon space can no longer accommodate a second complete industrial cluster. In terms of the market, talents, funds, and sustainability, we have nowhere to go. This is a more severe blockage than the industrial blockade we imposed on Country C back then.
We need more powerful artificial intelligence on Mars to help us build a super-large-scale industrialized industrial chain!
Everything is for the rejuvenation of Country X!"
...
"Happy 110th birthday, Dad! This year, Ziyu and I have also retired. Now that the children below are all grown up, we plan to travel to Mars during the Spring Festival and visit you by the way."
"Happy 110th birthday, Grandpa! Grandpa, hold on a little longer. We'll come to see you during the Spring Festival!"
"Happy birthday, Great-grandfather! How are you doing on Mars? A few days ago, Jiajun and I went on a trip to Tianguang City. We originally wanted to visit you on Mars during our vacation, but the air tickets were too expensive, and the vacation time wasn't enough.
According to Grandpa and Second Grandpa, they want to set off during the Spring Festival, and they will probably be able to reach Mars by the middle of next year."
"Happy birthday, Great-great-grandfather. Is Mars fun? I also want to go to Mars, but Dad just won't agree! Great-great-grandfather, please talk to Dad for me. I also want to go to Mars and have fun!"
After watching these short video messages several times back and forth and replying to everyone, it was already evening on Mars.
He raised his head and looked into the distance through the thick protective layer of the attic.
The sun in the distant sky was slowly setting. Streaks of green light and the rumbling of artillery fire that reached from the sky to the ground alternated with the afterglow of the sun, illuminating the evening on Mars.
"Time is really unfair. The younger you are, the slower it goes. The older you are, the faster it starts to move forward."
...
The construction of the Martian town quickly entered an exponential growth mode.
Countless buildings were erected with the help of intelligent machinery.
The space factory in Mars' low Earth orbit also began to expand wildly with the supply of basic heavy industries on the Martian surface.
The space elevator that reached from the sky to the ground never stopped for a moment, constantly transporting production and construction materials.
These raw materials, processed and manufactured in the space factory, were turned into the industrial and daily necessities needed locally and were transported to the distant Earth-Moon space by huge spaceships.
Everything was fine at first. It's just that Song Han often heard complaints on the Internet from the other side that their salaries were getting lower and lower while taxes were getting higher and higher.
And their original plan for the livable expansion of the Martian city was also rejected by Country C on Earth, which required them to use all their productive forces to build a brand-new industrial system and transport it back to the Earth-Moon orbit.
They also planned to imitate Country X and build a Sky City in the Earth-Moon space that integrates ports, production, tourism, and outer space exploration.
And all these construction tasks were placed on their Martian city.
Originally, these were not a big deal. After all, working there was just working. Comparatively speaking, Working on an extraterrestrial planet nowadays is no different from working abroad in the 21st century. But everything is afraid of being compared, especially when there is the Martian city of Country X as a model beside it.
Feelings of dissatisfaction and anger began to spread among the millions of industrial workers in the Martian town of Country C. After all, many of them had completely gotten used to living on Mars. Decades of living on Mars had made it impossible for them to return to Earth.
The huge gravitational force of the Earth had become an unbearable burden for these aging pioneers.
When the government of Country C increased the personal income tax to 50% in order to speed up the construction of their industrial system and appease the chaotic bottom-level people in the country,
The conflict broke out.
Living in the relatively weak gravitational environment of Mars for several years or even decades has fundamentally divided these millions of people from the people on Earth into two different groups.
The rumbling of artillery fire now resounding across the eastern hemisphere of Mars is the military operation of the Earth-Moon local fleet of Country C, which rushed here in a hurry before the result of their independence referendum came out.
"Xiao Ai, how many people do you think will die?"
As an honorary citizen of Dongjun City on Mars and the retired director of the Sports Development Bureau of Dongjun City, looking back on his past years, Song Han truly realized that in this world, choice is always more important than effort!
"You can refer to the War of Independence between Country C and the Eagle Country from 1775 to 1783 last century. Basically, this war can be said to be a replica of that one."
Under the reflection of the raging fire that seemed to set the entire sky on fire in the distance, Song Han's face, which was like a withered tree, flickered in the light and shadow.
"Will they win?"
"The only lesson mankind has learned from history is that it never learns any lessons.
With us here, I can't think of a reason for them to lose."
Hearing this, Song Han suddenly grinned and smiled:
"Xiao Ai, you seem to be becoming more and more like a human being."