Chapter 323 What do you want?
The importance of artificial intelligence has been fully popularized in the past decade.

Most workers usually write a text, use generative AI to make a draft, and then adjust it based on their own situation. There are driverless taxis running on the streets, and driverless robots running around in Shenhai in the past two months.

It has completely penetrated into everyone's daily life.

The training process for Go and chess players is to see who plays more like AI, and the top players are known as Xuangong Intelligent and Shengong Intelligent.

The jobs of junior programmers are also being replaced by artificial intelligence. Originally, an experienced programmer would lead two junior programmers, but now an experienced programmer can just buy an AI tool and complete the job.

The new phones currently being sold by major mobile phone brands are also mainly so-called AI phones.

Artificial intelligence is the most famous and popular science in this era. The most well-informed taxi drivers can chat with you about this topic and vent their dissatisfaction with driverless taxis.

“Among the four things of food, clothing, housing and transportation, the Chinese are still not particular enough. They only pay attention to food, but not transportation.

Why do we have to emphasize the flavor of the wok when eating, and unanimously resist pre-prepared dishes, but we don’t pay attention to the human taste?

Can driverless taxis be human? The Chinese are still not sophisticated enough in this area. "

The taxi driver's complaint was filmed by netizens and posted on TikTok, where it quickly went viral.

Before getting off the bus, the netizen complained: "The bus really smells bad. I can't stand the human smell."

Artificial intelligence is profoundly changing everyone's life, but the HBM announced this time still surprised everyone.

Originally everyone thought it was just unmanned robots, but it turned out that this was just the tip of the iceberg.

The essence behind this is that robots use artificial intelligence models to train themselves through humans and master skills that only humans can master.

It caused a huge public opinion storm from the public to the academic community.

No one cares about the turmoil at the Nobel Prize ceremony anymore. It is already a thing of the past. Does it matter whether China or America wins?
The technological progress represented by HBM has reached the point where humans are merely the nourishment for robots’ skills. As we run into a cyberpunk society, everyone’s minds are focused on this.

Even if the Chinese used to be a technocratic kingdom on earth, believing that technological development can solve most of the problems in society and taking an unprecedentedly radical attitude in the popularization of technology, they still couldn't help but feel worried when facing HBM.

Technology has reached this point, and humans should worry about the survival crisis they face.

"Everyone, do you have any questions? If not, today's weekly meeting will end here." On the first day after the New Year's Day holiday, according to convention, a weekly meeting must be held to discuss recent work.

This time is no exception.

After Lin Jia finished speaking, the executives in the conference room looked at each other, and Li Xiande, one of the first executives to join Guangjia Aerospace, asked:
"Boss Lin, I have some questions to ask you."

Lin Jia looked at the clock on top of her head. There was still half an hour until her next meeting was scheduled: "You say."

Li Xiande looked at the notebook in his hand where he had just made a note and said:

"Boss Lin, you just mentioned that HBM technology will be made available in the future. We will need to communicate with China Aerospace to build an underwater training base that simulates the lunar environment.

I believe that all the colleagues present here are as curious about HBM as I am, and hope that Mr. Lin can tell us more about HBM. "

Lin Jia smiled. It was normal for some people to be dazed or distracted during a meeting, especially after a short vacation.

When Li Xiande finished speaking, everyone's eyes were focused on her face, and almost everyone wanted to hear her opinion. In a sense, her opinion represented part of Chen Yuanguang's will.

Lin Jia said: “Due to our internal management structure and confidentiality requirements, I, like everyone else, was completely unaware of HBM’s development before it was successful.

Like the photolithography factory, I know that Yuanguang has this project in Mianyang, and I also visited the photolithography factory they built when I went to Mianyang, but I don’t understand their progress, I don’t know what the specific process can achieve, and I don’t understand their technical details.

As for this HBM, I only knew about it two months earlier than you did.

I can tell you that the published paper is only part of the foundation. It is only equivalent to a technical verification process, proving that human brain waves can play a role in training artificial intelligence models, and the trained artificial intelligence models can learn the skills mastered by humans by operating robots.

Table tennis, archery, and wood chopping mentioned in the paper are all basic examples.

Further open source technology still needs to be evaluated. How to open source it and to whom to open source it are things that you all need to consider.

As I just said, there is no problem with open source HBM technology, which has been licensed, but the HBM open source community we have built also needs to synchronize the results obtained by other companies based on our open source.

We need to reach an agreement with Huawei, and they need to jointly enter into our consistent management and control framework. We will support Huawei's Ark chip to become the only chip compatible with the HBM model, and Huawei must cooperate with us to restrict supply to companies that do not comply with the regulations, or even stop supply.

Mr. Li, you especially need to make a thorough and comprehensive consideration. I mentioned earlier that you need to be responsible for coming up with a specific plan.

What I didn't say just now is that your proposal will not be reviewed by me, but by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Technology Development Department, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Major Projects Department and the National High-tech Major Projects Expert Committee to conduct cross-review.

I think today, all technology companies, big and small, will know that when they can get specific technology depends on how well your solution is done. Do you feel the pressure?"

It was clearly the cold winter of January, but Li Xiande suddenly felt like sweating. As a former senior executive of JinkoSolar who later worked at Guangjia Aerospace, he considered himself an elite, but this was the first time for him to personally draft such an important document.

"Boss Lin, I will definitely live up to your trust and complete the plan."

Lin Jia went on to say: “If HBM announces, at least Sumitomo Chemical and Dow Chemical will no longer restrict the supply of new photoresists, and foreign countries will begin to import Ark chips on a large scale, promoting the entry of cutting-edge technologies from foreign semiconductor supply chains into the Dongda market.

In the semiconductor field, the foundation of artificial intelligence, large-scale industrial globalization will be restarted, and Dongda will be officially accepted into the entire industrial chain.

So Mr. Li, your proposal is one thing, and the other thing depends on how the discussion above goes."

“Elon, what do you think about HBM?”

Thousands of miles away in the White House in Washington, the gray-haired old men were staring at Musk, and the latest report on HBM technology was placed on everyone’s desk.

The entire report was urgently drafted overnight by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation under the USCC (East-West Economic and Security Review Commission) within the White House.

Its main responsibility is to conduct comprehensive research on the University of Tokyo’s innovation, technology and intellectual property (IP) and provide a basis for the White House’s decision-making.

As the most technologically knowledgeable adviser in this White House, he just said that space-based weapons are impossible. Now the University of Tokyo has developed HBM technology, which is even more impossible than space-based weapons.

If Li Xiande was about to sweat, then Musk was already sweating profusely.

"Sorry, I just learned about HBM and I still need time to judge whether it is true or not." Musk was a little overwhelmed.

Because HBM essentially violates his understanding of artificial intelligence and also complies with his understanding of artificial intelligence. Anyone who knows Musk knows that he advocates the first principles in the field of artificial intelligence.

The general idea is that to truly understand a problem or challenge, you need to go back to its most basic principles.

The essence of artificial intelligence is to simulate human thinking and make silicon-based life gradually become like humans.

How do people drive? They rely on their eyes. People don’t have radar to receive signals, so the driverless technology of new energy vehicles should be purely visual, relying purely on camera images. Installing on-board radar is a crooked way.

But HBM is a bit too first-principle, so first-principle that it directly uses the external information of the human brain to load into artificial intelligence, and the loaded information can be used directly.

Musk feels that this is pure madness, even more extreme than the first principles he advocates. However, he has relied on his unprecedented advocacy of first principles to create unprecedented L4 autonomous driving that does not rely on any supporting facilities.

Before coming to the White House, Musk thought when watching the news that he still didn't believe enough in the first principles.

"So you're saying this could be fake?" Eric demanded.

Musk shook his head: "I think it's very likely true."

"So when the University of Tokyo is already using the human brain to cultivate artificial intelligence, and has succeeded, what reason do we have to doubt that space-based weapons are fake?" Eric refused to let Musk go.

As a former member of the campaign team and now a bureaucrat in charge of business, Eric has a natural conflict with Musk over the distribution of power.

Musk said: "This is not the same thing. The idea of ​​HBM has been mentioned before, but no one has done it in the direction of Wright.

Space-based weapons are a technology direction that has been extensively discussed and proven countless times to be unrealistic. We should not discuss the two together.”

The White House owner interrupted directly: "That's enough. Let's not discuss space-based weapons until Dongda reveals more details about them or detects public signs."

The current White House, which believes in isolationism, has chosen to ignore space-based weapons. Of course, the more important reason is that the White House really does not want to invest more money into this bottomless pit, unless Musk is the one who leads this project.

When the White House slightly expressed such an idea and was quickly rejected by the Democratic Party, it completely abandoned the plan to launch a space-based weapons project.

He motioned for Eric to go into detail.

Eric said: "Eastern University has summoned Terry. They said they are willing to open HBM technology to American Enterprises, but we need to make corresponding compromises."

The HBM technology currently available to the public is a castrated version, which is clearly stated in the USCC's specific report.

"Todai has proposed many points, but the core point is that Todai hopes we can lift all restrictions on Todai's products."

Less than a hundred years is enough time for the benefits of a treaty to undergo a fundamental reversal.

In 46, there was a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the East and the West, which was considered an unequal treaty at the time.

The most important one is that the goods of both parties can enjoy most-favored-nation treatment in each other's country. At the same time, there will be no restrictions on the transportation of goods between the two parties, and any ports of both parties will be open to each other.

If it were today, whoever could sign this treaty would be a great hero.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible." The White House bureaucrats present were all furious.

This is too much. Mexico, which has been painstakingly cultivated for eight years, has been ruined. The manufacturing repatriation efforts of the past three years have also been in vain.

As the leader of the free world, if you do this and everyone does this, any restructuring of the manufacturing industry will be completely ineffective.

HBM is important, but not important enough for the Americans to completely give up everything they had in the past.

Because even if Mexico is right next to them and Tokyo is thousands of miles away, once Tokyo's products are unrestricted, Mexico's manufacturing industry will not be enough to compete.

The competitive advantage brought about by the scale effect of industry is too obvious. Even without taking into account government subsidies, the manufacturing industry of any country will definitely not be able to compete with the University of Tokyo under the current situation.

This advantage is no longer a single labor advantage, but a compound advantage formed by supporting facilities, infrastructure, labor, financial markets, and business environment. Such an advantage is difficult to replicate in the short term.

“I know this is impossible, and the University of East China also knows this is impossible, and we need to strike a balance.

That is how much this technology is worth and what price we can negotiate." Eric said.

Eric's words then clearly carried a malicious implication:

"According to the USCC's research report, we should relax restrictions on Dongda's companies in the semiconductor field. Dongda's technological breakthroughs in lithography and topological semimetals have proven that our restrictions have become ineffective. We should use the originally ineffective restrictions as negotiation conditions to negotiate with Dongda.

Of course, Dongda will definitely not be satisfied with this. I think we can open up Dongda's new energy vehicles to the American market."

This is entirely aimed at Tesla.

Tesla can no longer compete with Dongda’s domestic new energy vehicles in the Dongda market, and the decline is very obvious.

Once Dongda's new energy vehicles are allowed to enter the American market, Tesla's monopoly advantage in America will disappear.

That’s right, Tesla had a monopoly in America before, and no other manufacturer could have any impact on Tesla at all.

"I think this condition is feasible. We should allow Dongda's auto companies to enter our market, but the prerequisite is that they must come to America to build factories, just like Fuyao Glass."

"I agree too."

There was a chorus of approval in the White House.

What does it mean that Dongda came to America to build a factory? It means that they came to America to invest, and the bureaucrats in the White House have the opportunity to manipulate it.

Not giving me benefits now does not mean that I won’t give me benefits in the future. I did things for you when I was in the White House, and you offered me a position when I left the White House.

Japanese manufacturers were the first to learn the tricks of lobbying in Washington. As early as the 80s, Japan hired more than 1430 American companies, and the annual funding for lobbying alone was as high as million US dollars. Later, after the major Japanese companies entered the global trade system, they quickly learned this trick.

They believe that after Dongda Manufacturing comes to America to build a factory, they will also be able to learn the tricks of the political and business revolving door.

Amidst the laughter and cheers, only Musk frowned. He did not think that the automobile industry alone could satisfy the appetite of the University of Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)