Chapter 411

With a new topic and the new image technology he is most interested in, James doesn't talk about the script with Chen Feng, but starts with the new technology in Chen Feng's mouth.

Chen Feng didn't brag. He described the performance of the first generation of self domesticated engine according to his memory.

"Diaz, have you seen the quantum computing programming ideas I mentioned in madman conjecture 2.0?"

"Yes."

"The core framework of the so-called self domestication engine is based on quantum programming. Diaz, you are not a practitioner in the field of artificial intelligence, so I can't explain it to you carefully. You just need to know that the core of the program I built is similar to our human DNA. Data is its nutrient. It can automatically capture the required data, copy and split around the core In order to obtain more and more powerful simulation rendering ability, the virtual reality constructed by this engine will be more and more confused with the real. "

James Diaz carefully tasted Chen Feng's words, which was inexplicably creepy.

After all, he is a giant of science fiction films, and his representative works have the theme of artificial intelligence rebellion such as the ultimate. He immediately asked, "won't this give birth to super artificial intelligence with self-consciousness? Will it be... Too dangerous?"

Chen Feng shook his head with a smile, opened his eyes and lied. Half true and half false, he said: "data is data after all, and chip CPU is chip after all. The operation of artificial intelligence is based on the regular computer operation core, and its randomness will never catch up with the quantum collapse of human brain. Artificial intelligence will not produce real free thoughts, so your worry belongs to over worry."

James: "but there will always be some risks?"

Seeing that he could not muddle through, Chen Feng simply said: "Fire may burn people, burn houses and cause forest fires. But if primitive people did not take the initiative to control the fire, could the average life span of mankind exceed 20 years? There is a Chinese saying that we should not hide from the doctor. Risks always exist, but can we give up progress because we are afraid of risks? Another example is the nuclear bomb. Now you think the nuclear bomb has brought downfall to our civilization Retreat or progress? "

James asked this question, "if there is no out of control war, the significance of the existence of nuclear bombs is actually progress."

"That's right," Chen Feng said, "Have you ever had an illusion? Why did our great scientists emerge one after another in the early 20th century? In the 21st century, although science and technology are still improving and a group of people can still win the Nobel prize every year, we can clearly feel that fewer people can bring qualitative changes to the world. Scientists admired by the world seem to have become scarce goods , there are fewer and fewer academic idols like Einstein, Fermi, von Neumann and Qian Xuesen. Is it really just because ordinary people are exposed to too much entertainment culture and their pursuit of scholarship weakened? "

James thought, "there are certain reasons, but the essential problem is that the things created by scientists are too far away from ordinary people's life, and the second is that they can't change the world and human's view of science every time they move forward."

Chen Feng nodded, "yes, do you want to know the reason? Do you know?"

James Diaz took a heavy sip of coffee, "because with the deeper and deeper exploration of the mysteries of the universe, more and more calculations need to be completed each time we move forward, and the progress of our computing ability has delayed our thinking. Therefore, we can no longer easily create qualitative change, but only a little amount of change can accumulate into qualitative change?"

Chen Feng smiled, "yes."

"But this problem has been solved this year. Mr. Chen, you are changing the world."

Chen Feng: "don't care about the details. I can't compare with ordinary scientists."

"Yes, you cannot copy."

"Cough." Chen Feng blushed, "In short, we know that AI can be poison, poison to quench thirst, or bring the end of intelligence war. However, if human beings do not want to wait until the resources in the solar system are exhausted and slowly die in despair under the stars, human beings must personally create AI that can replace us to complete a large number of calculations, regard it as our sub civilization, and cooperate with us Their cooperation. "

"For example, if our spacecraft wants to leap over the open area between the solar system and adjacent galaxies, it needs to cross a distance of four light-years. Assuming that we can build a spacecraft that can reach one tenth of the speed of light in 100 years, it is not enough."

"You should know how powerful it is for a tiny particle of dust in the universe to hit the spacecraft at such a high speed? We can't even cross the Kuiper asteroid belt safely. Therefore, in addition to accurately controlling the engine, adjusting the direction of travel at any time, and making a perfect preview of the forward route, we must also build a strong enough inverse in the front of the ship Magnetic shield to protect our ship. "

"A spaceship that can fly out of the solar system at high speed and safely requires at least 10000 times the computing power of all supercomputers in mankind. What can we rely on without quantum computing and artificial intelligence? Can we use the human brain? It's impossible."

James Diaz gradually understood Chen Feng's intention, "so your self domesticated special effects rendering engine seems to be for the film special effects of the new era, but in fact it is to really set off the future of artificial intelligence and big data algorithms? Do you want to change the world?"

"Yes, but creating a new thing from scratch cannot be born out of thin air. It needs the support of the industrial chain. Because the research and promotion of new technologies require money and investment. The more important and new technologies are, the greater the amount of funds required. Therefore, technology cannot exist divorced from reality. Artificial intelligence exists to serve the computing needs of mankind after all."

"So I choose to cut into the field of film special effects, which is relatively extensive at present and can enable ordinary people to quickly experience the changes it has caused to the times. Diaz, come on, join me in changing the future of film and the future of mankind with new technology. Isn't that what you want to do most?"

Although Chen Feng doesn't like politics and never calls himself a politician, his speech is quite provocative.

James's mood was slowly aroused.

"So, Mr. Chen, what effect can your engine achieve?"

Chen Feng opened a blockbuster famous for special effects in recent two years and said: "If the accuracy, fidelity and expressiveness of the picture have to be measured by data, I can reach at least three times this level. As for the rendering speed, it should reach the current highest level... Um, 10 times. In addition, the difficulty of modification will also be reduced a lot. You can even directly generate a simulation environment based on the original picture, and then fine tune as you want."

James Diaz heard the speech, pondered for a moment, made a fierce and put forward another thing.

Chen Feng knew what he was worried about just now.

It is the post special effect of the film he is making.

James Diaz built a large and professional technical team around his needs many years ago, and maintained in-depth cooperation with many large post special effects teams all over the world.

In the technical level of postmodern film industry, he thinks he is second, and few people dare to claim to be first.

But even so, his desire to do better was never satisfied.

He is always picky and dissatisfied.

This time he was baffled by some details.

Others would be willing to muddle through, but he wouldn't.

If you want to achieve his ideal perfect effect, in addition to an additional investment of more than 50 million US dollars, you need to increase the production cycle of about four months after finishing.

But according to the release plan of the film, it's too late.

After listening to James' demand, Chen Feng decided to take over the job at the price of $20 million and reduce the delivery cycle to one month.

Although Zhan Dao has absolute trust in Chen Feng's ability, Chen Feng still made great concessions on the payment mode out of commercial considerations.

After all, the light and Shadow Studio has just built a framework, and there are few employees.

The order for this first business is as high as $20 million. The whole contract is too harsh and unfair to others.

Chen Feng stated that he would not make a deposit or advance payment until the finished product was taken out and fully recognized by the investor team, production team and director team led by director Zhan.

Of course, he is not afraid that others are clearly satisfied. He deliberately pretends to be dissatisfied and defaults and plays with him.

With Chen Feng's huge influence in hand, he also has a huge industry behind him that is large enough to master the direction of scientific and Technological Development in the next few decades. Unless others take the wrong medicine, they will quarrel with him for 20 million.

They also wrote a letter of intent.

If the new technology described by Chen Feng can perfectly solve James's current dilemma and the content produced by Xingfeng light and Shadow Studio appears in the final film, James Diaz will direct the vertical and horizontal stars and will no longer try to add any personal ideas.

He will completely follow the script, and even the mirror will fully meet Chen Feng's needs.

He will only faithfully act as an executor who transforms the script into a picture - commonly known as a tool man squatting in the director's position.

If it gets out, I don't know how many people's Chins will be surprised.

Zhan fell and gave in to reality.

The business was almost done. When entering the chat time, Chen Feng went to the shooting scene at the invitation of James.

It took nearly ten minutes to arrive at the large-scale studio from the office building. Chen Feng saw many real scenes along the way.

James is very proud to explain one by one.

He dug up the hill. In order to make the vegetation on the hill logical, he even spent a lot of money to buy a large number of plants to plant on it. In order to take care of these plants, he hired many gardeners and so on.

In the actual shooting process, this hill will be the main setting for the actors to promote the plot, and a large green screen will rise behind the hill to facilitate the later production.

Chen Feng expressed his admiration for this.

No wonder other people's A-class blockbusters have such a strong picture texture that they are really willing to spend money.

Arriving at the studio where the set is being built, the scene looks hot.

The huge workshop has been built up to more than ten rooms of various types and colors according to the needs of the plot, representing various functional blocks in the spaceship.

At this time, there are more than 400 staff here.

In some low-cost sci-fi American dramas, similar sets are often rented and then properly transformed, so careful viewers can easily find that the scene of one film is familiar with the picture of another play.

It's not an illusion, it's a fact.

But how can the picky and rich James tolerate other people's scenes in his films.

Of course, he has to design it himself and strictly control it.

In addition to personally finalizing the theme and inviting well-known artists to be the director of visual art to be responsible for the sense of art, he also found nearly 20 doctoral graduates and PhD students from the University of California, Berkeley to serve as scientific consultants.

In order not to delay the study of these students, cunning James also set up a research group with Berkeley on his film, entitled "how to perfectly apply strict science to science fiction films".

In a set room, two young people and an old man with long hair are measuring and calculating an image on the wall with a mapping instrument.

This image seems to be a galaxy simulation of a binary system.

Master Chen glanced at him with a strong brain and habitual calculation.

This chart is too much.

There are many golden section proportions. How serious obsessive-compulsive disorder does the designer have to have?

What's more, these represent the gravitational field, the planetary orbit and the tangent of the Yellow equator, but they are full of artistic sense.

The most as like as two peas in the same system is Chen Feng.

Mimi home star.

According to the description of the fans, the fans' home star is indeed such a binary system.

However, at the level of human science in the 21st century, it is impossible to see the Mimi mother star, which is located in the horizon separation zone behind the silver center and is 100000 light-years away.

James saw that Chen Feng was interested in the painting and said proudly, "this is the double star system of the parent star of the bonut family set in my film. How about it? Is it beautiful?"

"Very beautiful. What kind of race is the bonut?"

"A kind and gentle semi mechanical life family, is a close partner with the earth Terran in my story."

"I remember seeing in the news that this script was originally written by Diaz himself?"

"Yes, but it is also the result of the joint efforts of the screenwriter team and me."

Chen Feng silently compared a thumb, "great work, you did a great job, incredible."

"This is my visual art director Martin, who designed the star map art concept," James said, pointing to the old man with long hair.

"These two... In short, are young scientists from the University of Berkeley. They are responsible for perfecting the scientific arguments of this galaxy map."

James wanted to introduce two other young people, but he couldn't remember their names.

Chen Feng had sharp eyes and saw the work cards of the two men.

The blonde white young man's name is Smith Aslan, and the black haired young man with some Asian features in his face is card Ivanov Liu.

Well, a hybrid of Chinese and Russian, and if you guessed right, his father's surname is Liu.

Wait... The name.

Chen Feng's mind clicked.

He remembered a profile.

Kader Ivanov Liu, born in May 1995 in the San Francisco Bay area, is a Sino Russian hybrid.

In 2025, he received his doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and then worked for NASA in theoretical computing.

It looks ordinary here, but the next sentence immediately changes its flavor.

In 2043, at the age of 38, Liu card resigned from NASA to teach at Berkeley University and wrote science fiction in his spare time.

Liu card's interest in science fiction stems from his work as a scientific consultant on the set directed by James Diaz when he was a doctor.

From 2020 to 2025, he has repeatedly joined James's screenwriting team.

James planted the seeds of science fiction in his heart and told him the significance of using scientific thought to fantasize about the future.

After creating a lot of unsatisfactory works, he began to create the "immortal spark" series in 2065.

In this masterpiece, he applies his personal imagination of space incisively and vividly, and perfectly integrates his profound and comprehensive knowledge obtained from his long-term professional work into the novel.

In his story, it describes the grand story that after mankind became the master of the galaxy, he ran to the outside of the galaxy with all his strength, fought with all kinds of powerful and hostile races that comply with the rules of the universe, and finally defeated many strong enemies to obtain the qualification to stand in the universe.

His story is both logical and exciting.

And most of the theories he fantasized about in his book can find sufficient scientific basis in the 21st century.

Until the 31st century, scientists were amazed to find that at least more than 50% of his description of future technology was accurate.

He is one of the best science fiction writers in the 21st century, and perhaps one of the best science fiction writers after the 21st century.

His "never die" was adapted into a famous film series. The first one was called "starry sky", which was released in 2115.

This profile has not appeared in the seventh and eighth timeline since the sixth timeline.

Why?

Of course, after that, master Chen himself began to copy the series of films of "eternal spark", and every time he made "vertical and horizontal stars" in advance, which will be released in 2025!

Chen Feng thinks so.

Didn't Liu card often work for James before 2023?

Perhaps in the sixth, seventh and eighth timelines, the master was simply mixed with James's team and participated in the scientific consultant work for the shooting of the starry sky early.

No wonder the hand feeling of each shot before was so good, the lens feeling was so great, and the combination of fantasy and reality was so close. Master Chen thought it was all due to his acting as a consultant to control the picture. Now I think Liu Kade is also in his team!

Xiao Liu must particularly admire the script of the starry sky.

But I just don't know. How would he feel if he understood that the original author of the script was himself?

In the later timeline, Liu Kade's name did not appear in the historical data of science fiction works. About after the brother's creativity was removed, he was exhausted and failed to write hard goods, which disappeared in history.

Oh.

Chen Daishi, who was originally a "numb" copying brother, suddenly blushed a little.

He planted melons in the field, but was caught by his master's house.

What's more sad is that Liu Kade was looking at him with a look at immortals.