Chapter 276 Powerful Information Perception Function
After Bincheng Shipyard connected to Quantum Leap's cloud network, the changes to the Bincheng Shipyard aircraft carrier project team were obvious.
This can help the project team complete modeling, calculation and other work faster, and the efficiency of research work has been greatly improved compared to before.
It's just that because there are too many research projects at Bincheng Shipyard, it is still difficult to achieve too many technological breakthroughs in a short period of time.
However, Ning Chen's research speed was even faster. In less than a month, the new steel material was successfully produced.
Although it is only the first batch of trial production, the steel materials produced already have very good properties.
After preliminary testing, this batch of steel materials performed very well in many tests such as compressive strength, tensile strength, corrosion resistance, and low-temperature toughness.
Compared with the steel materials used in the previous generation of aircraft carriers, this batch of steel materials has been improved to varying degrees in all aspects.
Ning Chen reported this result to the project team of Bincheng Shipyard, and the experimental results also excited the entire project team.
This means that the next generation aircraft carrier is likely to be equipped with better steel materials. From the perspective of materials alone, a qualitative improvement can be achieved.
Ning Chen was not satisfied with such a breakthrough, because this was only the first stage of experimental results, and there was still a lot of room for improvement in the future.
On the other hand, Ning Chen must also reduce the processing cost of this steel material as much as possible.
After all, on an aircraft carrier, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons of steel materials need to be used. If the cost of steel processing is too high, the investment in steel production alone will be an astronomical sum.
Ning Chen didn't want the cost of steel processing to affect the construction of the aircraft carrier.
After carefully summarizing the experimental results of the first stage, Ning Chen and others immediately started the next stage of experimental research.
Just when Ning Chen and others were focusing their attention on the research of new steel materials, artificial intelligence Xiaozhi was quietly approaching the threshold of upgrade.
On this day, while Ning Chen was doing experiments, he suddenly felt changes in the system interface.
With doubts, Ning Chen turned his attention to his mind and checked the system interface in his mind.
Immediately, Ning Chen noticed the change in the system interface.
[Artificial Intelligence: Xiaozhi]
[Grade: C level (100000/1000000)]
[Ability: Voice chat, intelligent search, question answering (Level D), model processing (Level D), information perception (Level F)]
Seeing the change in Xiaozhi's level, Ning Chen couldn't help but stop the experiment at hand and exclaimed in his heart:
"Xiao Zhi...has actually been promoted to C level?"
Even though such an outcome had been roughly predicted before, Ning Chen still felt a little unbelievable when it actually happened.
After all, the experience points required for Xiaozhi's upgrade this time are as high as 100,000 points. This was a terrifying number that was very difficult to reach before.
In the beginning, it took Ning Chen almost two years just to let Xiaozhi accumulate 1,000 experience points.
But after Xiaozhi entered the quantum leap, Xiaozhi's experience point accumulation speed showed a direct trend of taking off, allowing Xiaozhi to accumulate up to 100,000 experience points in a very short period of time.
Trying to calm down, Ning Chen checked Xiaozhi's specific changes.
Soon, Ning Chen noticed that in addition to level improvement, Xiaozhi also gained a new skill: information perception.
"Information perception... it seems like it should be an ability to obtain all kinds of information."
Based on Ning Chen's understanding of information, information includes but is not limited to light information, sound information, temperature information, force information, etc.
Thinking about it this way, as long as Xiaozhi's network can cover the area, wouldn't it mean that the function of using instruments to measure information is omitted, and Xiaozhi can directly use it to measure various data?
"But...if it's just an F-level skill, it shouldn't be this powerful, right?"
With such doubts, Ning Chen said silently in his heart:
"Xiao Zhi Xiaozhi, turn on the information sensing function!"
[Okay, Master, Xiaozhi has turned on the information sensing function]
Immediately, Ning Chen keenly noticed that a new set of data was received in the artificial intelligence column of the system interface.
The types of information in this set of data are relatively complex, including nearby electromagnetic wave information, sound information, temperature information, etc. Even when Ning Chen closes his eyes, he can perceive everything happening around him through this information.
"Sure enough... after activating Xiaozhi's skill, I can clearly perceive all the information happening around me through Xiaozhi!"
After preliminary testing, Ning Chen quickly verified his conjecture.
But after all, Xiaozhi's information perception ability has just been obtained, and it is only F level. Ning Chen still found that there are many immature aspects in it.
For example, the detection range is very small. For the time being, it can only detect information within a radius of 5 meters at most, and it cannot penetrate thick walls. It can only detect information within a small room.
Moreover, this must be in a location covered by Xiaozhi's quantum cloud network. If there is no Xiaozhi's quantum cloud network around, then this ability cannot be turned on.
"Anyway, it's just an F-level skill. It's pretty good to be able to reach the current level. When the level continues to increase, these problems may be solved."
In addition, Ning Chen felt that if Xiaozhi was detached from the quantum leap and reattached to his brain, he should be able to detect the surrounding information at any time.
Thinking of this, Ning Chen approached his laptop and said in his heart:
"Xiao Zhi, come out of the quantum leap first and return to my brain."
[Okay, Master, Xiaozhi has returned to the host's brain from quantum leap]
Just as Ning Chen expected, after Xiaozhi returned to his own brain, he no longer needed any network. Ning Chen could inform the surrounding information anytime and anywhere.
This is equivalent to Xiaozhi using Ning Chen's brain as a host device. Even without a computer, he can still use various functions freely.
After testing for a while, Ning Chen let Xiaozhi return to the quantum cloud network of Quantum Leap.
After all, Xiaozhi's experience accumulation speed is a bit slow when he is in his own brain. If there is no special need, Ning Chen still hopes that Xiaozhi can stay in the quantum leap.
Xu Zhou on the side noticed Ning Chen's series of weird behaviors and couldn't help but ask:
"Teacher Ning, do you have any new ideas? Or do you think there is something wrong with our current experiment?"
Only then did Ning Chen realize that in order to test Xiaozhi's new ability, he had indeed behaved a little abnormally.
However, this is also the impression Ning Chen has always had on Xu Zhou. Thinking of this, Ning Chen pretended to be calm and said:
"Yes, Teacher Xu, I did think of some possibilities just now, but I haven't formed a mature idea yet. If I have any new plans, I will share them with you as soon as possible."
"Okay, Teacher Ning, then we are waiting for your good news."
Ning Chen did come up with some new ideas, but they still needed further verification.
As the day's experiment ended, Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others left the laboratory one after another.
But Ning Chen did not go back. After everyone left, he closed the door of the laboratory and started the experiment by himself.
Different from the previous experiment, Ning Chen's experiment this time was carried out very quickly, and the entire experiment process was perfect without any pause.
The reason is naturally because this time Ning Chen was using Xiaozhi's information sensing function to conduct experiments throughout the whole process.
"I seem to have... found the correct way to unlock this ability." Ning Chen said to himself.
After comparison, Ning Chen found that Xiaozhi's measurement of data was very accurate, even more accurate than the most sensitive instrument in the laboratory.
The F-level ability rating will not affect the accuracy of Xiaozhi's measurement data. As long as it is within the space covered by Xiaozhi, Xiaozhi can measure the data very accurately.
This allowed Ning Chen to save the time of measuring data during the experiment, because as the experiment progresses, Xiaozhi can obtain all the data of the experiment, and Ning Chen will also obtain these data simultaneously.
Since many data measurement processes take a lot of time, and even some experiments are mainly for measuring data, the ability of information perception can save Ning Chen a lot of time in experiments.
In this way, the efficiency of Ning Chen's experimental team will be greatly improved in the future.
"If we can really achieve such experimental efficiency...then we should be able to create better steel materials soon."
Ning Chen made a rough calculation and found that as long as a lot of measurement work can be eliminated in the experiment, the efficiency of the experiment can even be doubled.
But in this case, my own experimental process would seem too bizarre.
However, Ning Chen felt that this was not unacceptable to him now.
After all, I have given too many shocks to others over the years, and I will never be worse than this again.
Thinking of this, Ning Chen restarted the experimental plan to use Xiaozhi's information perception skills.
The next day, after Ning Chen came to the laboratory, he told other people in the laboratory about his latest plan.
Listening to Ning Chen's story, Xu Zhou quickly noticed the problem with Ning Chen's plan.
"Teacher Ning, did you ignore the steps of experimental measurement? According to the plan you made, we don't have time to measure various data at all?"
It's not that Xu Zhou distrusts Ning Chen, nor does he doubt Ning Chen's ability. It's just that this time, Xu Zhou really can't understand Ning Chen's thinking.
In fact, Commander Yuan and Sui Feng had the same doubts just now, but they felt that Ning Chen must have his own considerations for doing this experimental plan.
Hearing Xu Zhou's doubts, Ning Chen smiled and said:
"This time, I want to try a new experimental idea. During the experiment, I don't rush to do various measurements. Instead, I directly carry out the experiment based on my feelings. When the experiment is finished, I can then measure it. That’s it.”
"Teacher Ning...are you kidding?"
This experimental idea of not performing any measurement work during the experiment was unprecedented before.
"Mr. Xu, of course I'm not kidding. How can I explain... Well, it's like some chefs can accurately grasp the taste of food without tasting it at all when cooking. Well. I also want to try this experimental method, I wonder if you are willing to support my idea? "
After listening to Ning Chen's explanation, Xu Zhou, Yuan Shuai, Sui Feng and others still found it difficult to understand Ning Chen's true thoughts.
In terms of accuracy, the requirements for scientific research experiments are definitely much higher than those for cooking. Even a scientist like Ning Chen, who has very rich scientific research capabilities and experience, would find it difficult to accurately measure without making any measurements. Control the experimental situation.
However, looking at Ning Chen's expression and tone of voice, everyone knew that Ning Chen didn't seem to be joking.
After being silent for a while, Xu Zhou said:
"I think we should conduct experiments according to Teacher Ning's ideas. In fact, many experimental data can be measured in real time. Only a small part of the experimental data takes a long time to measure. Even if these measurements are not performed, The impact on experiments is also relatively limited."
Xu Zhou didn't really think that Ning Chen could accurately obtain various experimental data without relying on measurements, but Xu Zhou chose to support Ning Chen because he felt that Ning Chen had other ideas in mind.
Based on his understanding of Ning Chen, Xu Zhou knew that if Ning Chen was not completely sure, he would never make such a decision easily.
Seeing that Xu Zhou had expressed his position, Commander Yuan and Sui Feng naturally had no objections and both expressed their full support for Ning Chen's experiment.
Under Ning Chen's leadership, the experimental team started a new phase of the experiment that day.
The experimental process this time was very special, because it omitted a lot of measurement processes, making everyone unsure of the progress of the experiment.
But based on those limited instantaneous measurements, Xu Zhou, who was familiar with the experimental process, knew that the experiment was proceeding very smoothly.
Different from other people's state, Ning Chen quickly fell in love with this new experimental state.
With the help of Xiaozhi's information perception function, Ning Chen was not only able to perceive all the data during the experiment more accurately, but the process of the experiment was also accelerated a lot.
In less than half the time of the first stage, the experimental group completed the second stage of the experiment.