Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

"I want to know why you chose to leave the line of command and go to Germany as a security affairs officer?"

"Colonel, this is..."

"There are only two of us here, and we'll have to see each other often, even several times a day, so it's best to make it public. If you want to know something about me, you can ask."

"This……"

"Well, that's fair, right?"

Raphael lowered his eyes quietly. "Actually, there is no other reason. It's mainly because I have good academic qualifications and practical skills. Security officer is just one of my responsibilities. If you have read the papers published in the past two years, you will see my name appearing among the authors of those papers."

When she said this, her tone was helpless. Nelson was stunned for a moment, and he felt that he needed to re-examine the girl in front of him (?).

Nelson realized that there was no need for the very young-looking woman in front of him to lie.

All he needs to do to verify the authenticity is to make a phone call.

"Why don't you go to work at a school? With the achievements of autonomous dolls and artificial intelligence, it shouldn't be difficult to get a permanent teaching position."

"The autonomous humanoid still needs technical verification, and we also need to explore how grassroots officers and soldiers should be compatible with it."

"So that's it."

Nelson later apologized swiftly, saying he shouldn't have followed certain implicit conventions and apologized profusely for any possible offense.

"So, do you understand why you're here?"

"Harry told me, and General Eric mentioned it, too."

"Is that clear?"

Raphael nodded and said, "In addition to my job duties, I also have to report to General Eric on the research progress of autonomous humanoids and determine which projects need to be given priority. In addition, I should also cooperate with you to explore the training plan for command soldiers."

"Good, you got the point, but do you know how to do it?"

"This……"

Raphael hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to answer "yes" or "no". In terms of identity setting, she is a naval surface ship officer and has participated in special operations. In terms of knowledge and skills, the proportion of ground combat should be very "small".

"The Chief of General Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the general in charge of DARPA jointly recommended you, not because you have experience in special operations, but because you have participated in the development of autonomous humanoids and artificial intelligence, and you are an officer with rich academic achievements. I am a soldier of the old era, and I don't know what the future war will be like, but they must know, and they are very clear."

Raphael nodded, she knew this was one of the reasons why she was sent.

"Unfortunately, your knowledge is still insufficient, and you lack some common sense about the Army. So before you officially start working, you must quickly complete the knowledge that others will take at least seven years to learn."

"What knowledge?"

"I have prepared a list of information on how to fight a ground war. You can go to the library to borrow relevant books and information."

"That's it."

Nelson's figure was reflected in Raphael's light blue eyes. She wanted to explain, but she couldn't say a word and closed her mouth immediately.

I have to maintain my image, I have to maintain my image, she kept repeating to herself.

The mind immediately went into full gear, reading and analyzing various materials about the field battle.

"It's just that studying alone is useless."

"I will arrange."

Nelson nodded with satisfaction. After this period of time, maybe he could get a big treasure back for the army.

"It's not enough to just think about it. We need to practice it and even confront it to know whether it is effective. By the way, the security of the base is jointly managed by the CIA and the military police. These people are a bit neurotic, as if everyone has some problems in their eyes. If it's not necessary, don't provoke them..."

Raphael gladly accepted the advice. That's the nature of the CIA's counterintelligence guys. Once they're on your radar, even if your toilet time exceeds their average statistical time, it could become unfavorable evidence. They're crazy.

She has dealt with CIA personnel many times, and their level of obsession is no less than that of the DOD Counterintelligence Department.

The importance here is no less than that of DOD. It is responsible for intelligence security rather than overseas intelligence work. There must be differences in the personalities of the personnel, otherwise Nelson would not have said so.

"Okay, I've said everything I need to say." Nelson patted his thigh. "Time is tight. We don't have much time to waste."

"Okay, I'll go now."

"You have seven days, after which I will come and verify it."

As he spoke, he took out a folded envelope from the solid wood desk behind him and handed it to Raphael: "Come back the day after tomorrow afternoon, I will explain some work matters to you and introduce some people to you. Then I will also open an online system account for you..."

When Nelson said this, he thought that it was really outrageous that he was going to give the Navy people system access rights.

"If you have any questions, you can ask me or ask the people who work here."

Raphael opened the envelope and glanced at the paper, then his eyes widened.

"There's a lot to see and it covers a lot of ground, so you have to hurry."

"Okay, hurry up."

Raphael didn't delay any longer and immediately stood up and said goodbye.

Nelson was just as she knew him to be, a complete workaholic. The list included hundreds of books and more than 200 kinds of information, including several top-secret documents.

Although he had never read many of them, Raphael knew that these large-capped theoretical books would be at least several meters high if stacked together.

It is absolutely impossible to read and understand it all within 7 days.

No, it seems that no one has surpassed this record yet.

Fortunately, Raphael had read all the theoretical books on computers, mechanical design, and artificial intelligence, and the contents of some other theoretical books were similar.

Speed ​​reading is not difficult for humanoids at all, and the same is true for quick comprehension.

To put it simply, she only read what she should read and didn't read what she shouldn't read. She wasn't here to do scientific research or become a land warfare master, so there was no need to go very deep, she just needed to master some basic knowledge.

In the next few days, Raphael ended his hibernation work and maintained high-intensity operation 7 hours a day without hibernation.

In order to make use of every bit of time, she didn't even go to the cafeteria, but directly used high-calorie energy bars to solve the problem of obtaining bioenergy.

Chapter 123 The Second Generation of Autonomous Dolls: Metis

Amid the whistling and explosions of artillery shells, the autonomous humanoids nimbly climbed out of the trenches and took firm steps in the chosen direction.

Another sound was in the air, the whirr of gas turbine engines and the creak of tank tracks. The Army's M1A2 main battle tank was patrolling not far away.

The tanks fired their guns, creating a sharp metallic sound in the fog, and the shells whizzed through the air and exploded at their targets.

Usually, the shells would hit the target like fiery meteors, and occasionally the shells would ricochet off and fly into the air in several streams of light before falling to the ground again.

"Take cover!" someone shouted.

Then, an unmanned target vehicle converted from an old M60 tank emerged from the fog. The commanding sergeant counted five of them. They were moving slowly, about 700 meters away.

The tanks' turrets rotated, searching for targets, as if they were operated by someone. Their gun muzzles were slightly adjusted, and their target seemed to be the M1A2 tank behind them, or other high-value targets.

Then overhead there was the rumble of combat aircraft, dropping bombs but with thick plumes of smoke rising far in the distance.

Sergeant Lynch Candice used his hands and feet while racking his brains to remember how he should give orders to the mechanical soldiers around him.

They are not as smart as imagined. Although they can accurately recognize who is who and the objects around them, their autonomy is not that good and they look stupid most of the time.

He came up to the humanoid anti-tank team and shouted at them.

A moment later, two autonomous humanoids took out Javelin missiles from the long wooden crates at their feet. When the testing, warm-up, locking and launching process was completed, the M60 Pattons were already about 100 meters away.

Lin Qi shook his head and wanted to curse, but the only thing that came out of his mouth was: "Fire."

The Javelin missile, which has a top-attack capability, was turned on at the distance at which it should have functioned, but when it came time to actually launch, it could only be launched in the "DIR" working mode.

The autonomous doll is good in every way, except that it requires precise commands to work and its movements are very slow.

The "slow" here does not mean that their bodies are not flexible enough, but that there are some problems with their "brains", and they still have many challenges to face in terms of the speed of understanding human language.

According to the current situation, it is impossible to conduct a normal actual combat using rimfire reduced-charge bullets and matching firearms.

Lynch carefully looked at the autonomous figures that had stopped moving, and reluctantly turned on the radio to stop their team's subsequent arrangements.

Regardless of the results of the first field test, it is certain that these robots are incomparable to humanoid robots in the outside world.

Obviously the problem is also obvious.

The main problem is slow response speed, which is mainly concentrated in the performance of artificial intelligence equipment and the typical lack of computing power.

The other thing is to re-optimize the current AI to improve the overall processing efficiency as much as possible.

After all, the various modules of the current AI version are pieced together. Each module performs very well in its own test environment, but problems are inevitable when they are integrated.

However, if the current autonomous humanoids want to reach the level of "Raphael", they still have a long way to go.

Many people have tried this before, including some great scientists and mathematicians.

Unfortunately, these attempts all ended in failure because according to their designs, with the speed of human scientific progress, especially the speed of improvement in computer performance, there is no way to foresee the future.

Everyone knows the benefits of artificial intelligence, but raising the necessary research funding remains a hurdle for pioneers.

If we want to explore artificial intelligence, we must first understand how human consciousness is born and how each functional area of ​​the human brain works.

These require not only computer processing power, but also collaboration across multiple fields including medicine, biology, and engineering.

As Raphael learned, initially, the project that led to her birth was not taken seriously by the military.

DARPA maintains the research group only for safety and forward-looking research.

When the research team responsible for the relics came up with their results, the trend of artificial intelligence emerged, and the current defense minister was fully responsible for military construction and vigorously promoted the exploration of future wars, the project received high attention.

The reason was an analysis paper submitted by the Relics Product Research Group on robots produced in North American ruins.

This defense minister is not a scientist, but a soldier who has fought on the battlefield.

The robot itself is not important, what really matters is what makes the robot move and give it intelligence. He knows how important this is better than anyone.

Although the U.S. military's war theories, techniques and tactics are at the forefront of the world, they are still limited by objective conditions and cannot leave their opponents far behind as they did during the Cold War.

Before revolutionary technology emerged, it was almost impossible to widen the gap in equipment.

If we want to maintain our dominant position, we have to find another way.

The paper submitted by DAPRA gave him hope.

If the U.S. military can make use of the relics as discussed in the paper, then it will at least have an unmatched human and technological advantage over its enemies in future wars.

Given the character of this defense minister, he will definitely not fall behind.

With the full support of DOD and Congress, DARPA finally obtained funding to conduct in-depth research.

At that time, in addition to the funds allocated in the normal fiscal year, there were also unplanned funds provided by special budget bills and funds transferred through the CIA line.

For ongoing scientific research, sufficient funding can solve most problems.

However, scientific barriers often cannot be broken down with just money; what is needed is time.

The plan encountered a problem at the beginning, that is, how to explore the internal design of the core without damaging the relics.

The spending on this project alone is no less than that on the JSF joint attack combat program.

When core research was struggling, Harry did not stop his research work in other fields. What the military valued most was not theoretical results, but practical use.

In international competition, technology is always important.

More than two thousand years ago, the Romans defeated the powerful Carthaginians in the Mediterranean and became the overlord of the Mediterranean. This was related to an invention that now seems to have little technical content - the drawbridge on the Roman warship, which changed the face of traditional naval warfare.

Hundreds of years later, the Eastern Dynasty swept across Central Asia and drove the arrogant Turks to distant Asia Minor, which was also related to a key technology: the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty were the first to master the forging technology of hundred-fold steel.

Later, during the Industrial Revolution, Britain relied on the steam engine to push productivity to a new peak and eventually established a global colonial system to become the overlord.

Science and technology are so important that any major country that wants to surpass others must go all out in cutting-edge and basic technologies.

The United States’ ability to become the unique world hegemon is closely related to its strong scientific and technological capabilities, especially the major achievements it has made in basic and cutting-edge technologies.

It can even be said that the United States fell behind several times after World War II, all of which were related to technology.

The most representative event was the oil crisis in the 70s, when the United States was deeply mired in the Vietnam quagmire and the Middle East war, which caused its global influence to plummet and forced it into a phase of strategic contraction.

But in the subsequent electronic technology revolution, the United States used its strong basic scientific research capabilities to reverse the situation in one fell swoop, returning to the throne of dominance within ten years, and thereby driving an all-out arms race.

And its opponent, the Red Empire entrenched in the East, eventually fell in the technological competition.

To maintain our leading position, we must maintain our original investment and, on this basis, devote all our strength to opening up new areas through leapfrog development.

The efforts made by DARPA at the time were just the beginning.

On this track where there will inevitably be only one contestant left, if you want to persevere to the end, there is still a long way to go and many difficulties to overcome.

But, everything is difficult at the beginning.