Chapter 206 Reflection and Intelligence

Mark's words are not unreasonable. The speed of "Walker" is really a little slow. It spends a lot of time modeling, and it has to calculate the path of the next step through the algorithm. This step is obviously not an easy task, and it also takes a certain amount of calculation time.

Mark's toy cars seemed to be very flexible. Lin Hong noticed that although these cars seemed to be wandering around aimlessly, if you look at them as a whole, you will find that they are pushing towards the goal. At this moment, eight cars have been pushed into the middle of the site, and they continue to collide with obstacles, and then continue to correct them. In the end, it moves faster than the Rambler.

The advantage of "Walker" is its accuracy. After its analysis, the next path is calculated, which is basically not wrong, but it takes a lot of time.

After about half an hour, Mark seemed to be in sight of victory, because his car had advanced to the edge of the field, and he might reach his destination in a short time.

However, something unexpected happened to him.

The speed of these cars began to slow down, and the sound of the electric motor began to become different from before.

"Damn it!" Mark's face suddenly became ugly.

At this time, everyone understood what was going on - the battery power in the car was already gone.

When Orlando heard this, he was a little relieved. His "Walker" is still moving forward. There is a large enough battery at the bottom of the "Walker". At this speed, even if he moves forward for another half an hour, he will not run out of power.

"Kh-Kh..."

With the last collision, a car was stuck in a tire and suddenly couldn't move.

This situation soon appeared on other cars. In the end. Eight small cars were completely destroyed.

In the end, the "Walker" successfully arrived at another section of the venue.

"Mark, you lost. Today's winner is Orlando!" Vina gave the final verdict.

"No, it's not fair!" Mark was unwilling to say, "I was already ahead, but the battery power has been used up. This is the problem of the battery, not the problem of my car."

"Battery is an important part of the machine. This is the power part of it. Orlando came forward and said to him, "Mark, do you really think your toy car can be compared to the 'Walker'? This is not a robot, but a toy. Even if you win, it doesn't make any sense!"

"Orlando, you're wrong!" Mark's face suddenly became serious. "I know your laboratory has been imitating human beings and studying artificial intelligence, but no one can prove that you can succeed. I don't study artificial intelligence, but mechanical intelligence. To complete the task. Do people have to be so smart? In life, in addition to human beings, other animals or creatures can do many things that human beings can't do..."

Orlando was stunned when he heard his words. He didn't expect his brother to be able to say such a thing. This is the point. It's something he's never thought of before. It seems that Mark does have a very in-depth thinking in this regard. Whether it's right or wrong, at least it proves that he is really doing research, not what he thought before, just get a few toys to win the game by luck.

"The 'Walker' is really powerful, but it has to rely on its own brain to live." Mark pointed to the notebook in the hand of the rambler. Every step it takes, it has to accept instructions from the computer, but does it really need to go through the brain to simply walk forward or turn?

"This..." Orlando was in a dilemma.

"Of course not. Not to mention animals, there are many non-conditional reflexes in our bodies that we don't need to think about. The knee jump reflex is an obvious example. This phenomenon is more common among animals. Some animals can continue to walk forward even if they lose their heads.

"There is some truth in what you said." Orlando nodded thoughtfully, "If you just want to pass through a room with obstacles, it doesn't seem to need much intelligence. But can't this be considered intelligence? It's too random and uncontrollable. If you want to achieve this, you can only rely on luck.

"Why isn't it smart? Of course, reflection is also intelligent? According to the current theory of biological evolution, didn't higher organisms evolve from the lowest single-celled organisms? Mark retorted.

"Mark, do you think the machines you make can generate intelligence? Just these toys? Are you kidding?" Orlando shook his head. Although he appreciated his brother's ability to make machinery, he did not agree at all at this point. No matter how complicated the machinery he made was, to put it bluntly, it was just at the level of the last century. The life of industry is about to pass, and now it is the life of computer.

Mark was furious when he heard this: "I knew that you guys who stay in the laboratory all looked down on us from wild walks of road, but don't forget that you spent tens of millions of dollars on the high-tech robots developed by taxpayers. In the end, it's not as good as the original machine that I spent thousands of dollars to build The device!"

"Yours can't be regarded as a robot at all!" Orlando stuck his neck.

"Why doesn't it count?!"

What they argued about was the walking robot made in their laboratory last time. It took several years for the MIT mobile robot laboratory to make the robot take a heavy step.

But when Orlando showed off this matter in front of Mark, Mark only spent two weeks to build a six-legged machine for thousands of dollars, using the original but effective hydraulic drive disassembled from other machines. Although it looks like a monster, Mark allows it to walk by itself uncontrollably.

Of course, the principle used is the simple cooperation between mechanical gears.

"Okay, okay, you two, really, why are you struggling with the last result?"

Vina came forward to round up at this time.

"We don't care about the process, we only look at the results. Last time Mark won, and this time Orlando won. I'm the referee, you all have to listen to me!"

"It's getting late now. Mark. Shouldn't we go, too?"

"Oh, it's so late?" Mark looked at the time and suddenly became anxious. "Quick, let's go to the east and tell the [Guang] field under the highway viaduct, and the performance will start in ten minutes!"

So, the group immediately got into the car and went to the performance venue.

Lin Hong sat in the back car, but his mind never calmed down.

Mark's words just made him have an inexplicable resonance.

Reflection is also a kind of intelligence!

Lin Hong has never thought about this problem before. But I don't know why I think this sentence is correct from the bottom of my heart.

In fact, before the start of the game, he had an intuition that although Mark's toy car looked inconspicuous, it was likely to really win the game.

It turned out to be true. Although Mark lost, he only lost on the battery. If it progresses as normal, those cars will definitely arrive at their destination in advance.

Seeing those messy cars, Lin Hong felt that these cars were like little ants at that time, and they were not intelligent. Or the mind is very simple, and there are only three instructions in the mind.

Ants look very stupid and like to walk straight, if they draw a shallow straight line on its road. It will lose its way immediately. Does this mean that there are only a few simple instructions in the ant's mind, that is, if it wants to go back, it must return the same way?

An ant has limited power and can't show any intelligence at all, but a group of ants can successfully survive in bad nature.

Is this a kind of group intelligence?

Is there such a connection between reflection and intelligence? Even based on simple reflections. Can intelligence be generated?

Is this how human intelligence develops?

Lin Hong had all kinds of complicated thoughts in his mind, and the next moment he thought of martial arts again.

The reason why "boxing is inseparable" is to make your movements into a natural instinctive reaction of the body.

This is also a reflex, which is called a conditioned reflex in biology.

Is this a connection between intelligence and reflection?

After a while, Lin Hong's car drove under the huge viaduct, on which more than five viaducts lay across the sky. The continuous sound of cars and the sound of the engine showed that there was a lot of traffic, which was very lively.

However, the most lively thing is the performance venue they entered, which is an abandoned parking lot.

Lin Hong was very shocked to see that along the way, the roadside was full of all kinds of means of transportation. The most common were cars and motorcycles, and of course, there were trucks and motorhomes. These are not the key points. The point is the people who stand by the roadside to welcome their arrival. Most of the people are wearing black leather jackets, colorful hair on their heads, many people have nose rings on their noses, and men also wear earrings...

For their arrival, the people in the car honked the car horn one after another, and those standing outside hissed loudly. With the heavy metal music from several oversized speakers in the parking lot, Lin Hong felt as if he had come to another world.

The scene was quite crazy. Now it's getting late. There are two huge strong light searchlights on a high tower in the venue. When Mark's car entered the site, the searchlights had been covering his car.

Vina parked the car aside and loudly told Arthur and Lin Hong not to run around. There were too many people at the scene, which made her a little surprised. She regretted at this moment. If she had known that she should not have come, this kind of scene was not suitable for children. Under the leadership of Orlando, they found a better place to watch.

Mark came down from the car like a star who attracted worldwide attention. He raised his right hand and the whole scene was quiet.

At this time, one of his assistants immediately ran over, handed him a wireless microphone, and then drove his car away from the center of the field.

"Welcome to come here to watch the performance of Life Survival Laboratory. I'm your old friend Mark Pauling. Welcome everyone!" Mark roared loudly.

Everyone at the scene immediately shouted in response.

Then, he briefly reviewed the previous performances and did not forget to mobilize the atmosphere of the scene when he spoke. Everyone kept responding to the cheers under his loud inquiry.

With the sound of a long whistle, the performance officially began!