Chapter 318 The Stormy Waves on the Other Side of the Sea
"How was it? Did you convince them?"

After returning to their home in Yanjing, Chen Yuanguang found that Lin Jia was already sitting on the sofa waiting for him.

When Lin Jia was working at Xiaomi Auto, he bought a house in Yanjing. For them, buying a house is not much more difficult than buying vegetables.

Just from a safety perspective, they need to report their house purchase and then choose a designated community. After the purchase, relevant parties will come to help conduct a comprehensive inspection.

There are also requirements for the decoration style and material selection.

Security and freedom often come into conflict.

Free America is accompanied by frequent shootings, and the balance between the two is very important.

After witnessing the madness of Xi’an University with his own eyes, Lin Jia was no longer so averse to this relatively strict risk prevention measure.

Chen Yuanguang walked over to Lin Jia and touched her head: “I don’t know, maybe we will have to argue for a while.

After all, this is a complete set of methodology, although I think it will be difficult to reduce the cost in the short term.

You use robots to replace Mexicans, blacks, and Indians who are undocumented. This is not economically viable at all.

The Mexican man gives you the money for moving the goods, and you build a robot to do the moving. According to the American interest rate, your loss will be more than two thousand dollars a month.

Not to mention that a large part of the cost of the robot needs to be given to Tokyo University, which can be regarded as an indirect sponsorship of Tokyo University's chip industry.

The research significance of this technology is greater than its practical significance, and the benefits of open source far outweigh the benefits of not open source, but many times, decisions are not just profit-driven.

So I don’t know what I will choose in the end.”

Lin Jia knows HBM very well. Chen Yuanguang has talked to her about HBM many times on the phone. She is familiar with the application scenarios, costs, and stringent hardware requirements of HBM, so she immediately knows what Chen Yuanguang is talking about.

“Big guys always think more.

Although it seems that topological semimetal chips are needed to maximize the performance of HBM, what if the opposing camp also achieves a technological breakthrough?

If they achieve a breakthrough in the field of topological semimetals, they could also make commercially viable topological semimetal sheets, but that would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Or they can optimize HBM so that it can be adapted to existing silicon-based chips.

In short, this is not just a measure of economic benefits, but also a measure of risks and benefits.

In my opinion, even if the technology is eventually opened up, it will definitely not be open source, and some conditions must be negotiated.

But I think that Dongda can take advantage of the opportunity of HBM open source to gradually build its own academic influence on a global scale.” Lin Jia said.

There are only two countries that can truly be called global academic centers: America and Russia.

Of course, if we look at Europe as a whole, it can be counted.

Tokyo University is catching up very quickly in terms of hard power, but in terms of soft power, it has not built up its own voice at all.

It is neither expected nor realistic to have a say in the humanities. Even if you succeed in gaining admission, it will take time.

However, the academic discourse power in the fields of science and engineering can be fought for.

"In the past, Tokyo University wanted to compete for academic discourse power, but it lacked a foothold. This is actually an opportunity for Tokyo University's academic circle to learn to build a discourse power system," Lin Jia continued.

Chen Yuanguang was not too impressed by this, because he knew very well that with the technology of the next four hundred years as his golden finger, with the help of the Light Armor Aerospace platform, he could build a complete space commercialization system, which was an irreversible trend.

To put it simply, this scientific research-commercial-resource trust monster is a hundred times bigger than NASA, and even a hundred times bigger is an underestimate. The natural spillover of influence of such a behemoth is enough to cause an earthquake in the global academic community.

Technologies like HBM will be produced in large numbers during the commercialization of space.

Chen Yuanguang didn't stay in Yanjing for long. After meeting all the bigwigs he needed to meet, he went back.

But the fire he lit with his own hands is still burning.

First, Lin Jia posted a TikTok:
“I see that everyone is paying attention to our driverless robot. People online call it the Terminator. In fact, its earliest code name within our company was H1. Later, it was named Tiedan. Now its name is Tiedan.

Tiedan ran out of battery today, so he went back to the headquarters of Guangjia Aerospace to charge it. After charging, he went back to drive Didi. Come on, Tiedan, say hello to everyone."

After saying that, Lin Jia walked towards Tiedan and pointed the camera at him. He didn't say anything, just waved.

The video ends abruptly.

Not long after the video was posted, it became a hot topic on Tik Tok.

Videos are much more powerful than text.

"The name Tiedan is too ugly. H1 sounds better than Tiedan."

"Mr. Lin, can you pat Tiedan more?"

"The robot can actually find a seat to charge itself. Why do I feel like the difference between robots and humans is getting smaller and smaller?"

"After looking at the driving robot of the University of Tokyo and then the driving robot of Guangjia Aerospace, the gap is even greater than the gap between monkeys and humans."

"Boss Lin, can you please not let robots take our jobs as online ride-hailing drivers?"

"Mr. Lin, can you tell me what types of robots Guangjia Aerospace will develop in the future? I don't want to work in related industries."

A lot of people left messages under Lin Jia.

Didi officially released a series of interesting data.

In the week since Tiedan officially started operating in the Shenhai area, Didi's revenue in the Shenhai area has increased by 20%, and its evening turnover has increased by 47% year-on-year.

Because everyone thinks that no one takes a taxi at night, so when they go to take a taxi at night, they hope to get Tiedan.

Tiedan’s daily income exceeded 200 yuan, of which waiting fees exceeded yuan.

Compared with human drivers, robot drivers do not need to eat or rest, can choose the optimal solution in route planning, and can run at the ideal speed more than 90% of the time.

Previously, people might have thought that Tiedan was just an upgraded version of autonomous driving such as Luobo Kuaipao, and was still far from the true L4. After reading the data report from Didi, netizens stopped discussing whether it was L4 or not, and started discussing whether it had reached the L5 level.

It’s just that Guangjia Aerospace was being modest and said it was only L4.

When asked about safety issues by foreign media, the relevant parties showed a screenshot of Tiedan's electronic driver's license at the press conference. The registration time of the driver's license in the screenshot clearly showed that it was in compliance with regulations. "This is the world's first driver's license for a machine life, and it also represents that the technological development of Dongda has entered a new stage. We are happy to share the good life brought by technological progress with the world."

As soon as the press conference ended, foreign media immediately began to interpret that Tokyo University wanted to open up its technology.

Regardless, this also means exporting products. Because Dongda can completely not open source technology, and can only sell related robots to foreign countries.

Foreign media treated the open source of Chinese technology as if it was a foregone conclusion, as if they had personally participated in the decision-making.

The result was that before the University of Tokyo made a statement, large-scale and fierce protests broke out abroad.

Protesting against robots coming to take their jobs.

The more the European and American media made it sound like the University of Tokyo was going to open source its technology, the more intense the large-scale protests became.

The impact of an unmanned driving car where the steering wheel rotates by itself and an unmanned driving car where a robot sits in the driver's seat and drives the car to pick up passengers is completely different.

In a technological kingdom on earth like the University of Tokyo, people are still concerned about overly advanced artificial intelligence technology in order to keep their jobs.

There are also many voices on the Internet at the University of Tokyo that oppose overly radical artificial intelligence industry strategies.

This is even more true abroad.

And Tiedan is so human-like.

At first everyone thought it was fun, and as various self-media bloggers went to Shenhai to take videos and photos, Tiedan's image spread everywhere on foreign social media such as Twitter and YouTube.

It triggered a strong uncanny valley effect.

"It looks so much like a human. The name Terminator is very descriptive. I think humans will be killed by robots sooner or later."

"We need to stop developing artificial intelligence and robotics, otherwise silicon-based life will sooner or later replace us and become the masters of the Earth."

"Although I agree with your point of view, I would like to say that the Terminator's brain is most likely not made of silicon, but of semi-metal."

“If one day in the future we will be ruled by robots, I must die before that day comes.”

If the opposition in the media was merely a psychological defense mechanism, a natural reaction to human-like objects, then the illegal immigrants who took to the streets to smash, loot and burn truly felt the threat of robots.

This thing will not only take away their jobs, it will also lead to a large-scale wave of deportation of illegal immigrants throughout European and American societies.

Although the vast majority of illegal immigrants have not received higher education and lack rational cognition and logical systems, it does not mean that they have intellectual defects.

They are well aware that they can survive in European and American societies, essentially because these countries need people to do the work that their own citizens do not want to do, such as washing dishes, delivering takeout, moving furniture, building houses, etc.

“Brothers and sisters! My name is Juan Hernandez Hernandez, you can call me Juan, I came to America in 2020, and like most people here, I was an illegal immigrant when I first came to America.

Like most of the Mexicans in the audience, we traveled in an independent caravan starting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and made the difficult trek northward from Mexico to America by walking in groups, taking buses, and hitchhiking.

That's right, we came to America to take advantage of violence and poverty. We couldn't make a living in Mexico, so we came to America. But the white people regarded our arrival as an invasion. They used the word "invasion" to describe our arrival!

In fact, America also needs us. We need us to do the jobs that Americans are unwilling to do.

We were able to come to America through our own efforts, not the charity of the American government! "

There was a roar like a tsunami from below.

The protest quickly spread across the United States, with Juan being a well-known leader among them.

In traditional concepts, Mexicans usually work quietly, while those who cause trouble are usually black people.

The Mexican protest in 18 took place in Mexico because the White House wanted to build a wall at the time, and the Mexicans who had already successfully laid the line in America basically did not speak out.

Therefore, the Mexicans came out in full force this time, which shows how severe the impact of robot drivers is.

"We came to America and did the work that Americans were unwilling to do. We were not lazy at all. Unlike what the parasites in the White House said, we came to America to enjoy ourselves. We did not enjoy the medical benefits of America, if this high dollar medical bill can be considered a benefit.

Even if we get a work visa and a green card, we are still very clear that we have no way to integrate into mainstream society and we can only do these jobs that sell labor.

Because we are Mexicans, we should do this naturally.

The reason why we are willing to work hard is because we hope that our next generation can integrate into mainstream society and no longer have to do the same work as us.

But now the tech giants in Silicon Valley are depriving us of the basis for survival in America. Tell me, can we accept this? "

Everyone in the audience was shouting No!
“We should not forget that American society was created by immigrants and will continue to be created by immigrants.”

The Americans have failed to deal with the Chinese, and the Chinese have been slow to give in, so the Occupy Silicon Valley movement has already begun in Taiwan.

Mexicans and blacks cooperated to cause trouble in Silicon Valley, one of the three major centers of America. Almost all the office buildings of technology companies faced the impact of these protesters.

They rushed into the building and smashed and looted.

All major technology giants have issued announcements calling on everyone to remain calm and allowing employees to work from home.

Compared with the last Occupy Wall Street movement, this time it was filled with anger from the very beginning.

Robots are the trigger, but the more important reason is the past inflation, the bubble in the U.S. stock market, and the increasingly difficult survival for the bottom class. This is the root cause.

Life is hard now, and in the future they will have to face robots taking their jobs. They don’t care about the cost, they only know that robots are so powerful. The workers in the factory have been driven away by robots, and those who work in the service industry will be replaced by robots sooner or later.

As for why the blacks are protesting, when you don’t know what to do, it’s never a bad idea to protest. The more you make a fuss, the more candy you get. The blacks know this very well.

Mexico is even fueling the trend behind the scenes, as Mexico's home country doesn't want to see robots take away their jobs.

The Mexicans were able to come to America because of America's tacit approval. America really needed people to do the dirty and tiring work, but the blacks in their original ecological niche were unwilling to do it, so they could only rely on the Mexicans.

On the other hand, Mexico must also acquiesce. If they do not acquiesce, Mexico will not be able to get through.

The reason they acquiesce is that the U.S. dollar is really attractive. You should know that the U.S. dollars remitted by overseas Mexicans are the second largest source of their foreign exchange income, which is nearly 650 billion U.S. dollars per year.

It is no exaggeration to say that without this income, the Mexican economy would suffer a serious setback.

(End of this chapter)