It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 375 The Design Core of New Lion City
“Yuan Guang, I think we need to define what kind of artificial intelligence Alpha is.

From your description, I feel that it has the ability of self-learning, and the planning of the new Lion City is full of awareness of self-expression after fully watching human science fiction works.

If it has exceeded the limits of ordinary artificial intelligence, are you confident that it will not get out of control?" After listening to this, Lin Jia did not feel excited, but rather panicked.

It's like when humans are walking in the wilderness and suddenly a ferocious beast jumps out. Even if the person sitting on the back of the beast is someone you know, the instinctive fear of humans is not so easy to disappear.

After the mystery was solved, Lin Jia's joy at Chen Yuanguang gaining the power of a country was diluted.

For the Chinese, it is easy to gauge the value of the two, as the Lee family has been able to hold power in Singapore for more than fifty years, but there are few wealthy people who have held power for fifty years.

There are some things that can be told to Lin Jia, such as the existence of Alpha and the strategy for Lion City, which Lin Jia himself was involved in at the beginning.

Some things cannot be done, such as his ability to go to the future and what kind of future he sees.

Therefore, Chen Yuanguang had no way to tell Lin Jia that he would make a profit regardless of whether Alpha could become a true artificial intelligence.

If he can uncover the mystery of Alpha's birth in the future timeline, he will be able to reap huge benefits in the future time and space.

"The core control code of Alpha is in my hands, and I am confident that it will not get out of control.

As for some of your concerns, I can only tell you that Alpha already has enough self-awareness, and he has indeed drawn inspiration from a lot of science fiction works, hoping to build the future city from the perspective of artificial intelligence.

For this reason, in the global bidding for the construction of the new Lion City, Lion City only wants a construction team, not a designer.

The design of the new Lion City was done by Alpha himself. He even had many ideas and hoped that I could provide technical support to help him build a truly futuristic city. "

Singapore's Changi Airport is considered a landmark building. The architect responsible for designing Changi Airport, Moshe Safdie, has designed many famous buildings in Singapore.

For example, Marina Bay Sands, Edition Hotel, etc. Even the slogan of Singapore Garden City comes from Safdie’s motto when he was young: "One person, one garden."

The Raffles in Yudu was also designed by him.

In the field of architecture, Safdie is a bit like the national master of Singapore. Therefore, after Singapore announced the New Singapore City plan, Safdie has been waiting for Singapore to contact him and entrust him with the design of the iconic building of the New Singapore City, just like the Marina Bay Sands after land reclamation in the past.

Not only does Safdie want to leave his own design concept in the New Lion City, a large number of internationally renowned architectural firms are waiting to help the New Lion City with urban planning and waiting for the Lion City to conduct global bidding for the design.

However, their construction bidding is about to end, Huaguo Construction is about to enter the site to start preliminary work, but there is still no movement from the design side.

"So what he wants to make is New York in 2259 in The Fifth Element, or Tokyo in 2029 in Ghost in the Shell, or the Martian city in Total Recall?" Lin Jia asked.

They watched these movies together.

Among these, only Ghost in the Shell has a sharp contrast between the dark and decadent atmosphere and the colorful neon lights, giving the audience an intuitive feeling of class division.

Whether it is Total Recall or The Fifth Element, the futuristic cities in them are mainly high-tech and do not actually have much cyberpunk feel.

Chen Yuanguang shook his head: "In terms of architectural style, the new Lion City designed by Alpha currently lacks such imagination. No matter how much we deduce, we can only find a relatively futuristic urban style that conforms to the architectural capabilities of the real world in the existing design styles.

But in the New Lion City, the core design concept is just two words. Can you guess what they are? "

Lin Jia thought for a moment and said, "Intelligence?"

Chen Yuanguang shook his head, "No, it's authority.

Alpha will be everywhere in the new Lion City, and authority will become the essence of the new Lion City.

The application of a large number of new technologies will thoroughly implement authority in Lion City.

Let me give you a simple example. Nowadays, everyone goes home through their own door lock. Today's smart door locks allow everyone to unlock the door through a variety of methods such as keys, faces, passwords, and NFC.

In the New Lion City, there will be no concept of locks. For all doors, you will know whether you have permission to open them when you stand in front of them.

The moment the HDB flat was allocated to me, the corresponding permissions became available to me.

In the past, offline office work meant renting an office, or a floor, or even more exaggeratedly, an entire building.

In the New Lion City, each individual has a corresponding office space, where they work and communicate with colleagues through augmented reality technology.

No matter where you live, as long as your company pays your office fees, you can go to any unoccupied standard workstation in any office building in New Singapore, sit down, and start working.

Your corresponding office documents will be automatically synchronized to the computer at your workstation. At the same time, after the augmented reality function of the workstation is turned on, whether it is a meeting or communication with customers or leaders, it can all be completed through meeting with the virtual image.

Including shopping. In the past, shopping was done in offline shopping malls. In the new Lion City, traditional shopping malls still exist, but there will also be a large number of shopping units in office buildings.

The role of these shopping units is to turn Hornbill's help for individual shopping into augmented reality to simulate a picture of you wearing the corresponding clothes, giving you a stronger sense of shopping participation."

After listening to it, Lin Jia said, “I feel like this is core cyberpunk, but it always feels weird.

I thought it was a cyberpunk architectural style, like low-altitude aircraft flying everywhere, and through airspace classification, flying cars can travel between densely packed skyscrapers.

High-rise buildings and overpasses divide the urban space into several layers in the vertical dimension, and then create gorgeous light and shadow effects through a large number of neon lights.

If it is to conform to the characteristics of cyberpunk, then extremely poor public housing estates must be allocated to the poor, and the poor must live in extremely poor public housing estates and numb themselves through augmented reality.

In order to numb themselves with augmented reality, they even have to run to the gorgeous neon buildings to serve as experimental subjects for pharmaceutical giants.

Then a distorted experimental subject escaped, determined to overthrow New Lion City.

I thought that was the case, but you told me that authority controls everything.

Doesn't this mean that Alpha is helping humans think more and more?
Alpha is increasingly intervening in human life in its own way.

In the past, when I started a business, I had to think about where to locate the office and where to register. Now I don’t need any employees at the beginning. It’s just me, so I just rent a workstation.

For subsequent expansion, I don’t need to think about how many people to add and how many workstations to add. And for the people I recruit, I don’t even need to meet them in real life, we can just work together and get the job done.

Money is issued through banks, contracts are signed online, work is done remotely by neighbors, and clocking in is definitely provided by Alpha Statistics.

I may have grown from a startup to a team of thousands of people, but I have never met these 1,000 people offline. The entire New Lion City is a cyberpunk city made up of information and data, and it feels more like Ghost in the Shell. "

After listening to this, Chen Yuanguang nodded and said, "What you said is somewhat relevant.

If the design concept is authority, then the underlying logic behind it is close to what you said but different. The underlying logic is virtual reality.

In the past, we have been trying to create a body for artificial intelligence, such as robots in various forms, so that they can survive in the real world, read the real world, and understand the real world.

What Alpha is doing is allowing humans to live in virtual reality.

Reduce contact between people as much as possible and make people live in a torrent of data.

It is trying to digitize people. Although individuals exist in reality, they move around in the new Lion City more in the form of virtual light and shadow composed of data.

I may only be working in room 100 on the 11th floor of the office building at 1101 New Lion Avenue, but I am also in hundreds of rooms in New Lion City communicating with people at the same time.

I choose products in the shopping unit. After I place an order, tens of thousands of merchants connected to Hornbill will provide me with the products. My needs do not need to be communicated to me, and the merchants' supplies do not need to be communicated to me either.

Alpha will decide where I live. The residents of the new Lion City have corresponding HDB flats.

Foreign tourists have no concept of hotels, only the concept of levels. You want to stay in a hotel of a certain level. Each building functions as a hotel. When you go there individually, you can check in to rooms of the corresponding level or below.

For example, if you book a five-star hotel, you can check in at any unoccupied room in any hotel in New Lion City.

It builds a virtual reality game in reality, uses authority to manage humans, and replaces human behavior with the flow of data.

This is the New Lion City Project.”

After hearing this, Lin Jia found it a bit interesting.

This is really the equivalent of building a VR game in reality.

Humans use their real bodies to survive in a torrent of data built by artificial intelligence, and use the data generated by their own behavior to provide nourishment for the growth of artificial intelligence.

In fact, this plan has never appeared even in the future time and space.

After watching it, Chen Yuanguang felt that such a future city was a compromise product before the breakthrough of virtual reality technology.

It would be best if every individual could be placed in a nutrient chamber, where they only move around in the virtual world and are provided with nutrient solution by artificial intelligence, similar to The Matrix.

But since technology cannot do this now, we can only compromise through augmented reality technology, which can only reduce human activities in the real world but cannot completely eliminate them.

After thinking about it, Lin Jia couldn't help but say: "Isn't this too radical?

It is dispelling many concepts that humans have constructed since entering modern society. It is not about atomizing individuals, but about digitizing them.”

Chen Yuanguang said: "This is the product of my thinking and cutting out. I cut out all the more radical ideas.

As humans move towards the future world, they really need explorations like the New Lion City.”

Lin Jia asked: "I have another question, that is, there has just been a public crisis of leaks in Singapore, and now the new Singapore has stored a large amount of data in the cloud, and Alpha is responsible for allocating permissions.

You mentioned earlier that individuals can go to any workroom of the corresponding level, and the computer will use facial recognition to retrieve the corresponding cloud data for them, allowing them to start working directly.

Aren’t companies worried that Lion City will obtain their confidential information and cause losses?
The lessons of the past are still before our eyes. Will any companies really be willing to relocate to the New Lion City?"

Chen Yuanguang said: “This involves what the New Lion City can provide to businesses.

One is to make an unconditional guarantee from a legal perspective, promising to protect customer privacy, otherwise all losses will be borne.

Another thing is that New Lion City has Alpha, which will provide individuals with the best artificial intelligence in the world. At the same time, the existence of New Lion City can save companies a lot of costs.

With these two moves, you will always be successful.

Besides, even if there are no enterprises, synthetic sand alone is enough to keep the new Lion City alive and well.

The Life Insurance-Guangjia Healthcare Center is not a social experiment, but the New Lion City is the social experiment.

What I also think is that if the New Lion City model works well, then I will allow Alpha to expand to Malaysia and even the entire Southeast Asia.

A hundred years in the future, the legacy I can leave to our descendants will be the highest authority in Southeast Asia.

If the best estimate is true, he will have full authority over Southeast Asia, and if the worst estimate is true, he will at least have full authority over New Lion City.”

Lin Jia thought Chen Yuanguang was hinting at her: "Do you want a child?"

Chen Yuanguang quickly shook his head: "Of course not, I just have a second-year syndrome. I can't go to Singapore myself, but maybe my next generation will have the opportunity to go.

In this alpha-built virtual reality game, he is a bug-level existence, how interesting it would be.

This is a bit similar to how Lu Mingfei used Black Sheep Wall to analyze the Bronze City map in Dragon Tribe 1.

Someone can go to the New Lion City on my behalf, and then enjoy life to the fullest with the highest privileges that I have not been able to use, to make up for my regret of not being able to witness the New Lion City with my own eyes. "

After all, seeing it from a video or picture is different from going there in person.

Chen Yuanguang is still several years away from turning thirty, so Lin Jia can fully understand his thoughts. She smiled and said, "Okay, I also look forward to what he will see when he goes to the new Lion City you left for him."

Lin Jia then asked: "So will you transform the old Lion City?"

Chen Yuanguang said: “This depends on the effectiveness of the operation of the New Lion City.

As you said, the public's acceptance of it is too radical. Obviously not everyone can accept such a radical city.

I'm not crazy enough to change the lives of millions of people just for the sake of a social experiment."

(End of this chapter)