I built an armada.

Su Dingping was somewhat helpless upon hearing this.

Although Longxia is no longer afraid of the Eagle Tribe militarily, this does not mean that Longxia has taken the lead in all aspects. In many industries, Longxia is even lagging behind.

For some people, if they can find any aspect of Longxia that is inferior to foreign countries, Longxia becomes synonymous with backwardness.

However, many people seem to have forgotten that in their minds, there are only two countries in the world: Longxia and foreign countries.

Even the Eagle Tribe cannot guarantee that it will lead other countries in all industries. If you are willing to look, you can always find areas where it is ahead.

However, in a sense, what these anti-China people said wasn't entirely wrong.

When Longxia was weak, under the leadership of the Eagle Tribe, most countries were indeed its rivals.

However, as Long Xia gradually grew stronger, his former ferocious opponents now became handsome and refined.

"For now, we can only rely on imports for this, and our research and development and production capacity also need to catch up."

"If the export of related hardware is restricted, we must at least ensure that we can produce the related hardware ourselves."

"Even if the technology can't keep up and the performance degrades, we must at least ensure that we can use it ourselves."

"That's true, but will they really restrict exports?"

The old leader frowned slightly.

Research and development is definitely necessary; we cannot allow such a crucial lifeline to fall into the hands of others.

The problem is that these things don't show results in a short time.

After developing the research results, we still need to put them into production and see the market response... It takes too long!
What is the greatest advantage of industrialization? It's not precision, it's not high-end technology, it's low cost!
When the factory's production line starts running non-stop, the cost of the final product will be compressed to almost the cost of the materials!
The prerequisite is that you need a large enough market to absorb so many products.

If it's just about developing hardware that you can use, then there's no difficulty at all, but what about the cost?
If manufacturing hardware yourself is much more expensive than buying it directly, then what's the point of manufacturing it?
As for not being able to buy it... large-scale imports by tribe may be restricted, but in today's globalized world, what can't you buy if you want it?
It's simply that you haven't found the right channels or haven't spent enough money.

Therefore, if you really want to use the hardware you produce yourself, it will take a lot of time.

We might have already started laying the groundwork for AI industry development, but the hardware sector might not have achieved any results yet.

The artificial intelligence industry is different from other industries, such as some lesser-known industries that can quietly make a fortune and develop on their own.

But artificial intelligence is different. Thanks to decades of consistent promotion in science fiction, once it appears, it will definitely attract the attention of the whole world!
More importantly, artificial intelligence requires the large-scale collection of various data, making it impossible for it to remain low-key.

Once Longxia announces its artificial intelligence, other tribes will surely follow suit!

Even though Longxia has the advantage of starting first, without sufficient hardware as a backup, the outcome of this battle is still uncertain.

There is no perfect solution in the world.

Su Dingping shook his head.

"We can't wait until our hardware surpasses that of the Eagle Tribe before we start researching artificial intelligence, can we?"

"and……"

Su Dingping smiled slightly.

"Actually, I don't think it's a bad thing."

The old leader raised an eyebrow.

"How to say?"

"It's simple. How can we tell the world that a new king has ascended the throne without first crushing the Eagle Tribe?"

The Eagle Tribe's global dominance is not solely based on its powerful military strength.

Anyone can boast about the numbers on paper, but you only know how powerful they really are when you actually put them to the test.
The Eagle Tribe's army is not invincible; it is often bogged down and even defeated in various counterinsurgency campaigns.

Even the most invincible fleet, despite its impressive record, hasn't actually fought in a long time.

What solidified the Eagle Tribe's position was his victory in the Cold War with the White Bear Tribe!

Strength is relative. Even the terrifying White Bear tribe couldn't defeat the Eagle tribe, so how could anyone else dare to provoke the Eagle tribe?

It is quite difficult to make everyone realize that the Eagle Tribe is on the decline and that the Eagle Tribe is not as powerful as it used to be.

Or rather, it will take a considerable amount of time.

A reputation cannot be built in a short time, and its collapse also requires a long process.

However, if the Eagle Tribe is completely defeated in direct competition during this process, the process can be accelerated.

“You have to understand that doing this is very risky. In this competition, if they impose sanctions, we may not be able to win.”

The old leader looked serious.

"So what if we fail? We'll catch up eventually anyway."

Su Dingping said calmly.

"Moreover, I believe we will absolutely not fail in this competition. We will definitely succeed, and even if we do, it will only be a temporary setback."

Su Dingping was full of confidence.

This is not blind arrogance, but a reasonable deduction based on reality.

The reason is simple: the current system of the Eagle Tribe means that they are simply unable to concentrate their resources to accomplish major tasks!

If we look back half a century, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was still alive, the Eagle Tribe could be considered the undisputed number one in the world.

From another perspective, it was thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt's leadership that the Eagle Tribe was able to stand tall among the nations of the world.

It is no exaggeration to call him the restorer of the dynasty.

Decades ago, the Eagle Tribe was able to use the entire nation's resources to land on the moon, but that was because of the White Bear Tribe as a comparison.

As a certain master once said:

“After we leave, they will build schools and hospitals for you and raise your wages. This is not because they have a change of heart or because they have become good people, but because we were here.”

Now, the fallen bear's corpse has fed the eagle tribe, and it has no rivals left, so it can rest easy and suck blood from the whole world.

After the fall of the bear, the Eagle Tribe quickly became corrupt, its social hierarchy solidified, and its major merchants became complacent and self-serving.

This results in many key technologies being held by a particular company, which will absolutely not hand them over to outsiders.

Due to barriers in various industries, Western artificial intelligence technology will quickly reach a bottleneck after developing to a certain stage. Perhaps a shrewd businessman could push this process forward through a trade-off, but even then, it would slow down Western AI development.

The seemingly advanced artificial intelligence technology of the West in later generations was merely due to its first-mover advantage.

They started their research earlier and had better hardware, so naturally they were far ahead.

What gives Su Dingping such confidence is not those trivial details mentioned above.

Ultimately, while these factors may have some impact on the research and development of artificial intelligence, they can all be overcome.

The fundamental gap between Chinese and English cannot be bridged by human effort!
Because Chinese characters are ideographic, their information density is much higher than that of phonetic characters.

With just 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters, you can cover more than 99% of daily Chinese usage!

The total number of English words exceeds one million and continues to grow over time.

Every industry has its own specialized vocabulary. It's like being in a completely different field. Even a top professor would find it difficult to understand cross-disciplinary literature without the help of a dictionary.

Why did so many people in later generations support a certain blond chieftain raising tariffs? Because the vast majority of them had no idea what tariffs were!
Because in English, tariffs and taxes are two completely unrelated words!
In the understanding of most people in the Eagle Tribe, the Golden-haired Chieftain simply used a super weapon called "Tariff" to bring rich rewards to his country.

So much so that the country even has the money to give money to every citizen!

As for the price increases and living difficulties caused by tariffs... they will never know the root cause of these problems.

Unlike Chinese, even with only high school level knowledge, one can read most professional papers.

This is the fundamental difference between the two!

This means that when AI models process Chinese, they require fewer parameters and less computation, making the training and inference processes more efficient!
This is not something Su Dingping is making up; there are specific real-world examples to refer to.

Later Chinese models only required one percent of the funding from the West to achieve a high level of output.

Even taking into account exchange rate differences and labor costs, this figure is still quite staggering.

This change is due to the fact that when combining Chinese characters to create new words, there is no need to create entirely new vocabulary. Instead, the model can reduce its learning burden by flexibly deriving from a limited number of radicals.

In addition, Chinese characters are symbols that integrate form, sound, and meaning. Each character can be regarded as a knowledge node, which naturally supports the construction of semantic networks.

In the last century, a scientist proposed the famous theory of information entropy, which, simply put, is the amount of information that a basic byte can carry.

The amount of information that the most basic Chinese characters can carry is more than twice that of other phonetic writing systems!
In addition, the root-based features of Chinese make it easier for models to recognize patterns and generate text.

The simplest example is Monday and Tuesday. Once you know that these are words that refer to dates, it is easy to understand what the following words mean and even deduce how to describe them. However, in English, each weekday has a completely different word, which brings great difficulty to AI training.

As for the claim that the English description is more accurate, that's laughable. The so-called "more accurate" description is simply using entirely new words to name every new thing.

The problem is that there are only so many letters, but there are more and more new things, which ultimately leads to increasingly complex dictionaries and higher learning difficulty.

In the past, many rare characters were used in Chinese to specifically describe different things.

For example, "骊" means a pure black horse, but this method of description has long been eliminated in the annals of history.

Finally, the high information density of Chinese can support the construction of AI systems with a human brain-like architecture.

For example, by using Chinese character knowledge graphs, one calculation can be performed and reused multiple times.

This reduces unnecessary calculations and saves computing power.

This characteristic gives Chinese AI an advantage in miniaturized devices.

In the field of military applications, this kind of small device can be considered a necessity in a certain sense.

With its first-mover advantage and so many other advantages, how could Longxia possibly lose?

"Okay, since you've said so, I'm relieved."

The old leader laughed heartily.

"I still trust your judgment, kid!"

……

Meanwhile, a storm was slowly brewing in Western countries.

No matter how well the Great Chief promotes the truth, there will always be someone who can find the hidden truth through media propaganda.

Johnson is a true redneck, as the people of the Eagle Tribe say.

As a traditional farmer, he had complete faith in everything the Eagle Tribe government described.

But unlike traditional rednecks, Johnson was also a highly educated intellectual.

However, he ultimately did not stay in the big city, but instead returned to his hometown.

In addition, he is also a self-media blogger with over a million followers on a certain platform.

Don't underestimate this number of followers; in this era, he has undoubtedly joined the ranks of top internet celebrities.

Logically, since the chief announced that the Eagle Tribe had won as always, he should have cheered like the other rednecks.

But he still noticed that something seemed amiss.

Winning big and withdrawing from the first island chain should be two completely different, even mutually exclusive, events.

But why did the Eagle Tribe withdraw from the First Island Chain even after winning?
In the internet age, it's not difficult to figure out what happened.

He quickly found the announcements from the Eastern Wilderness Tribe and the Dragon Summer Tribe.

Comparing the three, after the initial anger subsided, Johnson's biggest feeling was confusion.

In his mind, Longxia should be a backward and ignorant tribe, but how could such a backward and ignorant tribe seem to be the biggest beneficiary of this incident?

So he started from the beginning to try to figure out what happened.

But this did not alleviate his doubts; on the contrary, it made Johnson even more confused.

It seems like... Long Xia is the victim? This is completely different from what the media is reporting!
Most importantly, Longxia doesn't seem to be as backward and ignorant as legend has it.

Otherwise, you can't explain how such a backward and ignorant country could possibly produce such outstanding diplomats and build an aircraft carrier comparable to the Eagle Tribe.

Although they currently have a small number of aircraft carriers, given enough time, they will soon catch up with and even surpass the Eagle Tribe! (End of Chapter)