This star is going to the moon

Chapter 546 Old Chinese: Huh? Americans are getting into smart manufacturing?
Lu Yun forgot the exact time when ChatGPT version 3.5 was released in his previous life, but it should have been slightly later than in this life.

It's not his fault. After all, people are saying how amazing ChatGPT is, but the Chinese also have their own intelligent systems, and even the DeepSeek intelligent model, which cost $550 million to train.

This can be considered, in a literal sense, the "550W" intelligent system from "The Wandering Earth".

Of course, this cost only refers to the model training cost and does not include R&D and hardware costs.

However, this shows the different paths the two countries have taken in intelligent systems, especially since both countries are pursuing intelligent manufacturing.

While China's smart manufacturing may not be the most impressive, it has at least been developed step by step and has been truly implemented in industrial production.

But the US's smart manufacturing...

Putting aside the question of how intelligent it is, if you want to do "intelligent manufacturing," you first need to have "manufacturing," right?

The US does retain some manufacturing, but it was scattered and disorganized during the previous massive "deindustrialization" movement.

Developing intelligent manufacturing on such a dilapidated industrial foundation can only be described as... commendable courage.

In particular, since Lu Yun truly understands future development, ChatGPT has little effect on the "smart manufacturing" of the United States, but it has been very successful in the financial field, helping large capital firms to harvest a large number of retail investors.

Of course, this only shows how AI systems made money by exploiting the rules of the financial world. Later, its ability to make money in the financial world was surpassed by another, even more powerful entity.

Because ChatGPT only uses the rules, but the existence of that person who entered the white house twice is the rules themselves.

But right now, Americans and their... supporters are cheering.

[Indeed, I knew it! How could the Chinese possibly surpass the Federation? Turns out the Federation is pushing the boundaries of technology!]

[Haha, your country's industrial advantage is cheap labor. In the future, the Federation will just use intelligent robots. Surrendering now is the least costly option!]

If the federal government rolls out smart manufacturing, other countries' industrial products will become almost free, making yours more expensive to produce. How will you sell them? All the factories will go bankrupt! By then, it will be too late!

[Yes, your country can only produce some cheap industrial goods. The other federation doesn't produce them because the pollution is too great. They closed down for the sake of public health and global environmental protection. Once they upgrade to smart manufacturing, it will be both environmentally friendly and cheap. How can you compare?]

[That's right, kneeling down for the sake of people's livelihood isn't shameful. Let's focus on their basic needs. Investing all resources in space exploration will only bring useless fame; the people in the west are still eating grass!]

[Huh? I stared blankly at the kebab in my hand. So sheep that eat grass still grow grass?]

Haha, bro, so you've been a vegetarian all along!

Do these idiots know how difficult it is to be vegetarian in the West? I ate meat every day while traveling there last year, and it gave me so much internal heat!

[I can't believe there are still people like this in 2022. It's amazing.]

Don't worry, there will always be people like that. Even when we have artificial intelligence, they'll say it's something others have already mastered.

I love seeing this kind of humor, give us more...

As the US shifts its focus to AI, the daily cyberwars seem to have intensified.

However, Lu Yun wasn't worried at all, since China's AI technology development is also very rapid.

Furthermore, any achievements are directly applied to industry, without any fancy gimmicks.

Even without Lu Yun's reminder, experts from relevant think tanks had already analyzed the development of the smart industry in both countries.

Developing smart manufacturing in the US is like a eunuch going to a brothel – willing but unable!
Moreover, there are indeed many smart people in China. Apart from those who are pretending to be stupid or have ulterior motives, they all know that the Americans are just talking nonsense and can't actually develop intelligent manufacturing.

Even Germany, known for its "precision manufacturing," couldn't do it, let alone the Americans.

Germany's so-called "Industry 4.0" is actually a kind of "smart manufacturing," but now it seems to be rushing toward "Industry 0.4."

Because the various environmental forces and political parties within Germany are simply in complete chaos.

Moreover, current AI isn't the kind of "science fiction AI" that most people find fascinating but forget about after a few days. In fact, because ChatGPT appeared more than half a month earlier than the previous version, it has more bugs and starts making things up when asked a few questions.

It's fine to just read it for fun, but if you actually believe it or even use this fabricated data in your work, then you're in for a world of trouble.

This year's Zhuhai Airshow was a great success, and the world learned a great deal about Laos and China's future space plans.

The land, sea, and air equipment on display were relatively conventional, as they were all equipment that had been previously revealed.

We'll have to wait a while longer for any major shocks.

During the Sino-Laos Airshow, the US also conducted a significant space experiment: a low Earth orbit flight test using an Atlas V rocket with an inflatable decelerator.

This refers to the "inflatable heat shield" technology already equipped on the Tiangong space station.

The project was progressing very slowly in the US; only a few suborbital tests had been conducted, and the results were not very good.

As a result, because the Chinese side successfully tested it and quickly deployed it to application scenarios, the US side also accelerated its efforts.

Of course, it's also mainly because the US Space Force did a good job of portraying it, directly exaggerating China's "space emergency survival equipment" into "exoatmospheric individual soldier entry equipment".

In the previous life, the Americans were the first to successfully test it, but they only succeeded in the technology; the technology could not be quickly implemented.

The Americans are just waiting to use it in some Mars exploration mission later.

However, Mars missions are not common space missions and require a long wait.

And then... that was the end of it.

With the Chinese setting an example this time, I wonder if the Americans will follow suit and develop so-called "exoatmospheric individual penetration equipment"?
They even want to do it, but I wonder if the Americans still have the capability?
Although the US aerospace field is backed by Elon Musk, the so-called "exoatmospheric individual entry equipment" is not a simple aerospace device; the US will definitely include some military requirements in it.

And the US's military research and manufacturing capabilities...

It can be described as "utterly shattered".

On November 15th, a major event occurred for humanity: the global population reached 8 billion!
Of course, this is not an exact figure.

After all, population management departments in various countries cannot count each individual population, nor can they synchronize information in real time.

Therefore, the current conclusion that "the world population has reached 80 billion" is a deduction made by the United Nations Population Division based on modeling and calculation of population data from various countries.

In fact, not to mention ordinary people, many experts also feel that this number is actually too low, and the real world population should be much larger.

It could be hundreds of millions, or even billions, more than the official statistics!

As some research institutions have estimated, by April of next year, India's population will surpass that of China to become the world's most populous country.

However, many research institutions also say that India's population has long surpassed that of China.

Even many Indians themselves think so.

They care a lot about words like "surpassing the Chinese" and "first".

Whether it's good or bad, as long as you surpass the Chinese, you win!
Even a loss can be presented as a victory.

Of course, there are also games they can't win.

Just a few days later, Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on Earth, began to erupt.

Whenever this happens, those "doomsday enthusiasts" start screaming.

The end of the world is coming!!

(End of this chapter)