Looking at Heidi's hopeful eyes, Lucien smiled and said, "It's indeed a shabby and impractical artificial intelligence …"
Huh? Hearing her teacher's words, Heidi's face immediately collapsed. Chelly, Alfalia, Lowi, Blake, and the other sorcerers who were involved in the creation were also frustrated.
Sprint, however, was more than happy to strike Heidi, who had always been careless. "See? Even my teacher thinks that it's basically a toy, and a toy that is too heavy and enormous for ordinary people to use."
In his eyes, the artificial intelligence was lousy in all other aspects. The only praiseworthy thing was that it did not need any sorcerers to operate and could be started and run on electricity. Therefore, it only needed an ordinary person who could read the operation manual to complete the calculation. However, the problem was that it was too big, heavy, precise, and expensive to be popularized.
"My ancillary computation circles are only at the level of a middle-rank sorcerer. If it were the advanced computation circles in the laboratory or my teacher's legendary ancillary circles, your artificial intelligence would've exploded in shame. Hehe. My teacher's mental arithmetic ability would've defeated it perfectly …" Sprint said unrelentingly.
He was not hostile to Heidi. On the contrary, he felt that Heidi and the rest of them were his few real friends. However, he believed that the more he struck Heidi, the more motivated Heidi would be to improve the artificial intelligence. If it were him, he would've been full of fighting desire and refused to admit defeat!
He had always been like that, but he was much less disobedient now.
Heidi glared at him and swore to herself that she would build a perfect artificial intelligence that would completely defeat Sprint's ancillary computation circles and make his jaw drop to the ground!
Iristine and Nodanielle meant to comfort Heidi, but they could not find the appropriate words because they did not know much about artificial intelligence. Katrina and Layria, on the other hand, raised their thumbs in encouragement, hinting that it was already impressive that Heidi could achieve such a feat for the first time!
Natasha, on the other hand, had a thoughtful smile on her face. According to her understanding of Lucien, a straightforward criticism was often the precursor of a compliment, and the compliment at the beginning was often followed by rebuttal and tactful criticism. In Lucien's own words, it was called "subtlety".
"… Although this artificial intelligence has a lot of shortcomings, its spirit and direction deserve the Arcana Prize." Lucien continued as expected.
Huh?
What?
Heidi subconsciously rubbed her ears, suspecting that she had auditory hallucinations. The shabby and impractical artificial intelligence was worth as much as the Evans Prize in Arcana? Was this a joke?
Lucien chuckled, "It's no doubt that it's crude and impractical. However, in the most ancient era of magic, the spells that our ancestors built from the patterns on the magic creatures were also crude and impractical. In our eyes, they may be so ridiculous and sad that they had to use the spiritual power of the fourth or fifth circle to perform a spell that has been simplified to the apprentice level, but can we deny their contributions because of that?"
"No …" Lazar answered tacitly.
Sprint, Annick and the rest of them also nodded. Without the seemingly ridiculous and impractical efforts of the sorcerers at the beginning, there wouldn't be today's magic civilization!
"Therefore, the achievements of arcana and magic are all developed step by step. Heidi, Chelly, Lowi, Blake and Alfalia started from the blank design concepts of artificial intelligence and walked to the first product step by step. It's not easy. Although it's still crude, enormous and clumsy, the ideas and direction it contains are of great value." Lucien said solemnly.
Heidi finally confirmed that her teacher was praising her. She immediately raised her chin proudly and blushed in embarrassment. "Master, thank you for your guidance on the design concepts."
"My guidance was limited. It was only a proposal of the concept. The specific content was basically completed by you." Lucien looked around at Heidi, Chelly and the rest of them. "If we don't consider the size, weight and energy supply, how many times can you improve the computational speed of this artificial intelligence?"
"… About five times. If there are breakthroughs in crystal studies, perhaps the computational speed will be improved dozens or even hundreds of times without any increase in size and weight." Heidi's eyes were slightly blurred when she talked about her vision on artificial intelligence. "By then, it will be as good as the mental arithmetic and middle-rank ancillary circles of senior-rank sorcerers!"
Sprint was rather surprised. Was there so much room for performance improvement?
Lucien nodded and said to Natasha, Lazar, Katrina and the rest of them who were confused, "According to the concept of artificial intelligence, the bottleneck is only materials and devices, and the development of materials and devices is highly dependent on arcana studies."
"This is an era where different fields rely on each other and promote each other. For example, without good ancillary circles, many experiments in the microscopic domain cannot be completed, and the development will be slowed down."
"Perhaps, we can apply the quantum superposition state to artificial intelligence in the future, so that its computational speed will be higher than any sorcerer's, including Mr. President's and mine." Lucien described the future of artificial intelligence and added in his heart, without the quantum computer, when the integrated circuit matured, the large-scale artificial intelligence would surpass his and Mr. President's computational ability.
However, in the world of magic, some of the steps in the middle could be skipped!
"Computational ability surpassing that of legendary sorcerers …" Heidi said in a daze. She did not know that artificial intelligence could reach such a level!
For them, even without the help of ancillary computation circles, a legendary sorcerer's computational ability was terrifying enough to be 'inhuman'!
Iristine listened quietly and repeated two terms in her heart. "Quantum superposition state … Artificial intelligence …"
Natasha observed the flashing red and green lights curiously. "This artificial intelligence seems to be controllable by ordinary people … Then, how much can its size, weight and cost be reduced? How many years will it take to reach the requirement of popularization? "
After living with Lucien for a long time, she had also been infected by the habit of popularization. After all, she felt proud to see the good changes in her kingdom and her subjects enjoying a simpler and more civilized life.
"After the transistors are developed, it should only be the size of an iron golem. The big noble families will be able to use it. But to reduce the size further, it will depend on the development of alchemical materials." Heidi roughly estimated, "Although the alchemical devices and magic patterns inside this artificial intelligence are simple and can be completed by common sorcerers, a lot of devices and patterns are required. Without mass production and assembly, the cost is about the same as a level-five, high rank magic item."
"It seems that it will take many years. However, I don't think that the common nobles and civilians will need artificial intelligence that focuses on computational ability." Natasha was not disappointed.
Lucien smiled. He was going to give an example of the "possible" applications of computers in civilian life, but so far, there was no corresponding prototype, such as TV, so it was not convenient for him to talk about it directly. He could only say with a bit of imagination, "After the computing ability is improved, a lot of things can be done, and the world will become more colorful!"
Huh? Natasha looked at Lucien curiously. So did Heidi and Chelly, hoping to get inspiration from their teacher for the development of artificial intelligence.
"For example, we can draw three-dimensional magic patterns with artificial intelligence. It will be more accurate and stable than us because it is entirely made of numbers." Lucien intentionally mentioned a topic that would attract the sorcerers' interest. "Then, we can ask artificial intelligence to build a magic model with the patterns!"
"Then? Can artificial intelligence cast spells on its own? "Heidi was indeed interested.
Lucien smiled. "Magic models can only be turned into spells by the infusion of energy. We replace it with spiritual power, but artificial intelligence can use electricity. The problem is that its magic model, like the magic model in our soul, does not have a real body and has to rely on spiritual power to disturb the outside world. However, we haven't grasped the special electromagnetic waves yet, so we can't let artificial intelligence have spiritual power."
"Does not have a real body …" Annick seemed to have thought of something. So far, all the simplified alchemical items had a real body. Therefore, they could be driven by electricity to activate the corresponding spells.
"Yes. So, we can copy the magic models built by artificial intelligence with the corresponding materials or scrolls. If we design the functional modules well, we will be able to copy the alchemical items or magic scrolls accurately and perfectly. Then, we can activate them with spiritual power. " Lucien incorporated the concept of 3D printing into the creation of magic scrolls and alchemical items.
As he spoke, a few bizarre pictures popped up in Lucien's head. Perhaps, the sorcerers in the future would only need to turn on their computers, search for the magic models they wanted and download them, or draw the magic models themselves with ancillary software. Then, they would be able to create magic scrolls through '3D printing' with artificial intelligence. It would not be as troublesome and complicated as it was right now.
Casting spells was not difficult at all … That would probably be the advertising slogan of artificial intelligence in the future. Of course, the prerequisites for 3D printing were not so simple.
Hearing the picture that Lucien described, Heidi, Iristine and the rest of them were all shocked. What kind of future was that? Could the sorcerers stop it? Wait. It seemed that such a thing was not limited to the sorcerers. Any creature that was capable of activating scrolls and items would be able to perform spells through artificial intelligence! It did not seem to be a good thing for the sorcerers.
No matter whether such a development was good or bad for the sorcerers, Heidi, Chelly and the rest of them were even more passionate about artificial intelligence. They were doing a great thing!
Layria, Sprint, Rock and the rest of them had similar thoughts. Had it not been for the tight schedule of their arcana studies and magic studies, they would've joined Heidi's research team.
Natasha looked at Lucien with great interest. Such a world seemed very interesting. Magic was truly interesting!
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