Chapter 7 For Dreams, Someone Will Sacrifice
"The answer this classmate said is not wrong. Electronic games are a branch of consumer electronic products and a very important branch. As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, Atari, the well-known electronic game company, completed a legendary entrepreneurial story from 500 to 5 million US dollars a year.
Electronic games have a lot of fun. Many young children I know have embarked on the road of programming because of electronic games.
However, I don’t agree with saying that the 21st century is the century of electronic technology, and it depends entirely on electronic games.
Electronic games are important, but electronic technology should have a greater impact on people.
During the first industrial revolution, human beings developed from manual production to industrial production.
During the Second Industrial Revolution, mankind used more convenient and cleaner electricity.
And I believe that in this third information revolution dominated by electronic technology, humans will not be able to do production and leave it to computers.
Let’s take a look at the chip in my hand. This is a chip produced by Intel in more than a dozen young people. What do you think this chip can do?
Can we play games?
More than that.
This chip can be arranged in every corner of the factory production line. The data obtained through it is much more accurate and convenient than what people come from.
Now we have a lathe that can be programmed with computer programs. This kind of machine that can complete a series of work by pressing a button. In the past, we didn't even think about it.
My main research direction is artificial intelligence. I think one day, artificial intelligence will help humans end all problems.
What humans need to do is to create artificial intelligence.
We are on the road, but there is still a long way to go.
I hope everyone can gain something in the next few years of learning and let civilization move forward. This is your and my common responsibility."
After hearing Professor Helen's speech, a classmate raised his hand.
"Speaking."
"Professor Helen, if the future is really like you described, all work can be done by chips. What else do people need to do? Did the workers who used to look at instruments become unemployed? Did the workers who operate machine tools also become unemployed?
What can they do if they lose their job?
And, according to your description, artificial intelligence can really be realized one day. Does that mean that this world does not need people?
I've finished asking."
Helen almost didn't think about it. The moment the student finished asking, he replied, "During the first industrial revolution, the textile workers in Britain would smash the machines. During the second electric power revolution, some people said that electricity was a power that God could control.
However, we are still using machines and electricity now.
For the sake of dreams, there will always be someone who sacrifices it, no matter who it is.
Although those who were sacrificed seem pitiful, we cannot move forward without sacrificing them, and in the end we suffer more people.
If there is no machine, no electricity.
Can we now roam in such a spacious classroom in such a vast classroom?
cannot!
You ask me, is it that the day when artificial intelligence is implemented, no humans are needed?
My answer is no, no!
It is necessary for humans!
Machines serve humans. This was the case before, but it still remains.
Although they may appear as new things, they will harm part of their interests.
But I want to say that if one day artificial intelligence can replace my job, I will be willing to do so.
I still say the same thing: for the sake of dreams, there will always be someone who sacrifices it, no matter who it is.
Do you know what I mean?"
The classmate who asked the question lowered his head in shame.
Under Professor Helen's passionate speech, he suddenly realized how ridiculous and boring the questions he raised were.
Even without the emergence of electronic technology, there will still be people who will be eliminated, and there will still be people who will become the tears of the times.
He suddenly felt that learning electronic technology was a very sacred and glorious cause.
Although Professor Helen's speech was very inspiring, Takahashi did not respond much. As the former master of Wanhu, he often met many people who were capable of speaking.
He has seen people who are as incitement as Helen. He admitted that such people are more likely to get investment from tens of thousands of households, but he himself does not like such ostentatious people very much.
However, Richie, next to Takahashi, stopped playing the game after Professor Helen's two performances, and almost looked at Professor Helen with stars.
Takahashi guessed that if Professor Helen proposed to contribute his life to video games, he would have taken the oath without hesitation.
"Okay, let's get to this day. Please be familiar with the campus in the afternoon. This is where you will live in the next few years."
After Professor Helen finished speaking, he put his own notebook in his hand and walked away with decisiveness.
"Oh... Why did Professor Helen go so fast? I still want to ask for an autograph..." Ritchie sighed.
He glanced at Takahashi beside him and asked, "What are you going to do in the afternoon? Have you chosen a dormitory?"
"I'm living outside." Takahashi replied.
"It's great to live outside... I want to live outside too..." Rich looked at Takahashi, as if he didn't see the disgusting expression on Takahashi's face, and said to himself, "Is the house you live in? Can you put down a tenant?"
"No!" Takahashi replied firmly.
"Don't get me wrong..." Ritchie said, "I want to go out and live with the ladies so I won't want to live with you. By the way, where are you going in a while?"
Ricci, who had already reached the door without realizing it, asked at the blue sky, white clouds and green grass outside the building.
Takahashi climbed down the stairs, sat on the bench, looked up at the sky and said, "I won't go anywhere, I'm going to wait for someone here."
"Who are you waiting for? How can God? You can't wait." Ritchie sat on the other side of the bench, took out his handheld machine and continued to play.
The breeze blows, and the campus is quiet and peaceful, without any noisy sounds.
Takahashi gradually relaxed and felt the long-lost tranquility.
Although it was not bad for a few years of living in Japan, I was always in an anxiety and an anxiety-going mood.
Although the business is getting bigger and bigger and more money is making, the pure heart of a player is getting weaker and weaker.
Just when Takahashi wanted to immerse himself in this atmosphere for a longer time, Ritchie's noisy voice came into his ears, "Hey! John Smith! John Smith?"
"What's wrong?" Takahashi, who was not used to his new name, turned his head.
"John, you're not an American, are you?"
Chapter completed!