With a new topic, and the new imaging technology that he was most interested in, James stopped talking about the script with Chen Feng and started talking about the new technology that Chen Feng mentioned.

Chen Feng didn't brag, and described the performance of the first generation of self-taming engine almost according to his memory.

"Diaz, have you read the quantum computing programming ideas I mentioned in "A Madman's Conjecture Collection 2.0"?

" "Yes."

"The core framework of the so-called self-taming engine is built on the basis of quantum programming. Diaz, you are not a practitioner in the field of artificial intelligence, so I can't explain it to you in detail. You just need to know that the core of the program I built is very similar to the DNA of our human body. Data is its nourishment. It can automatically capture the required data, continuously replicate around the core and direct the calculation and split in order to obtain stronger and stronger simulation rendering capabilities. The virtual reality constructed by this engine will become more and more fake and real."

James Diaz carefully savored Chen Feng's words and felt inexplicably creepy.

After all, he is a giant in science fiction movies, and one of his masterpieces is "The Ultimates", which is about the rebellion of artificial intelligence. He immediately asked, "Wouldn't this give rise to a super artificial intelligence with self-awareness? Wouldn't this be... too dangerous?"

Chen Feng smiled and shook his head, lying with his eyes open, saying half-truthfully, "Data is data after all, and a chip CPU is a chip after all. The calculation of artificial intelligence is based on the computer calculation core, which is always regular, and its randomness will never catch up with the quantum collapse of the human brain. Artificial intelligence will not produce truly free thoughts, so your worries are unnecessary. "

James: "But there will always be some risks?"

Seeing that he couldn't get away with it, Chen Feng simply said: "Flames may burn people to death, may burn down houses, and may cause forest fires, but if primitive people don't take the initiative to control flames, can the average life expectancy of humans exceed 20 years? There is a saying in China that you can't avoid seeing a doctor when you are sick. Risks always exist, but can we give up progress because we are afraid of risks? For example, nuclear bombs, do you think nuclear bombs have brought regression or progress to our civilization?"

James was stumped by this question, "If there is no uncontrolled war, the significance of the existence of nuclear bombs is actually progress."

"That's right." Chen Feng spread his hands, "Have you ever had an illusion? Why did we have so many great scientists in the early 20th century? Now in the 21st century, although technology is still advancing and a group of people still win the Nobel Prize every year, we can clearly feel that there are fewer people who can bring qualitative changes to the world. Scientists who are admired by the world seem to have become scarce, just like the academic idols like Einstein, Fermi, von Neumann, and Qian Xuesen are becoming fewer and fewer. Is it really just because ordinary people are exposed to too much entertainment culture and their pursuit of academics has weakened?"

James thought for a while, "There are certain reasons. But the fundamental problem is that the things created by scientists are too far away from the lives of ordinary people, and secondly, they cannot change the world and the scientific outlook of mankind visibly every time they move forward like they did in the past. "

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, do you want to know the reason? Do you know?"

James Diaz took a big sip of coffee, "It is because as mankind's exploration of the mysteries of the universe becomes deeper and deeper, the amount of calculations required to complete each step forward is getting bigger and bigger, and the progress of our computing ability has hindered our thinking. So we can no longer easily create qualitative changes, and can only use a little bit of quantity to accumulate into qualitative changes?"

Chen Feng smiled, "Yes."

"But this problem has been solved this year. Mr. Chen, you are changing the world."

Chen Feng: "Don't worry about the details. I am not comparable to ordinary scientists."

"Yes, you are not replicable."

"Ahem." Chen Feng blushed, "In short, we know that artificial intelligence may be poison, it may be a temporary solution, or it may bring about the future doomsday of intelligent war. But if humans don't want to wait until the resources in the solar system are exhausted and they are slowly trapped and die in despair under the starry sky, humans must create artificial intelligence that can complete a large amount of calculations on our behalf, regard it as our sub-civilization, and cooperate with it."

"Let me give you an example. If our spaceship wants to fly across the empty space between the solar system and the neighboring galaxy, it needs to travel a distance of four light years. "Assuming we can build a spacecraft that can reach one-tenth the speed of light in a hundred years, it is actually not enough."

"You should know how much force a tiny particle of dust in the universe will have when it hits the spacecraft at such a high speed? We can't even safely cross the Kuiper asteroid belt. Therefore, in addition to precisely controlling the engine, adjusting the direction of travel at any time, and making perfect pre-rehearsal calculations for the forward route, we must also build a sufficiently strong reverse magnetic field shield at the front of the ship to protect our spacecraft."

"The computing power required for a spaceship that can fly out of the solar system at high speed and safely is at least 10,000 times the total computing power of all supercomputers in the world today. If we don't rely on quantum computing and artificial intelligence, what else can we rely on? The human brain? Impossible."

James Diaz gradually understood Chen Feng's intention. "So your self-domesticated special effects rendering engine, on the surface, looks like it is for the new era of movie special effects, but in fact it is for the future of artificial intelligence and big data algorithms? Do you want to change the world?"

"Yes, but creating something new from scratch cannot come out of thin air. It needs the support of the industrial chain. Because researching and promoting new technologies requires investment. The more important and newer the technology, the more money is needed. Therefore, technology cannot exist apart from reality. Artificial intelligence ultimately exists to serve the computing needs of mankind." "So

I chose to start from the field of movie special effects, which is currently relatively widespread and allows ordinary people to quickly realize the changes it has brought to the times. Diaz, come on, join me in using new technology to change the future of movies and the future of mankind. Isn't this what you want to do most?"

Although Chen Feng doesn't like politics and never calls himself a politician, his words are quite inflammatory.

James' emotions were slowly aroused.

"So, Mr. Chen, what kind of effect can your engine achieve?"

Chen Feng clicked on a blockbuster movie that was famous for its special effects in the past two years and said, "If we have to use data to measure the accuracy, realism, and expressiveness of the picture, I can at least reach three times this level. As for the rendering speed, it should reach the current highest level... well, 10 times. In addition, the difficulty of modification will be reduced a lot, and you can even directly generate a simulated environment based on the original painting, and then fine-tune it as you want."

James Diaz heard this, pondered for a moment, and then got angry and proposed another thing.

Chen Feng then realized what he was worried about just now.

It was the post-production special effects of the movie he was shooting.

James Diaz built a large and professional technical team around his needs many years ago, and maintained in-depth cooperation with many large post-production special effects teams around the world.

In terms of the technical level of the postmodern film industry, he considers himself second, and there are probably few people who dare to claim to be first.

But even so, his desire to do better has never been satisfied.

He always remains picky and dissatisfied.

This time, some details stumped him.

Others would definitely be willing to muddle through, but he refused.

If he wants to achieve the perfect effect he wants, in addition to an additional investment of more than 50 million US dollars, it will take about four more months of production cycle after the completion.

But according to the film's distribution plan, time is too late.

After listening to James's needs, Chen Feng personally decided to take on the job at a price of 20 million dollars and compressed the delivery cycle to within one month.

Although Director Zhan had absolute confidence in Chen Feng's ability, Chen Feng still made a huge concession on the payment model for business considerations.

After all, the Light and Shadow Studio had just built a framework and had only a few employees.

The order for this first business was as high as 20 million US dollars, and the contract was too harsh and unfair to others.

Chen Feng stated that he did not want a deposit or advance payment until the finished product was produced and fully approved by Director Zhan's team of investors, production team, and director team led by Director Zhan.

Of course, he is not afraid that others will pretend to be dissatisfied and play tricks on him even though they are satisfied.

With Chen Feng's huge influence in hand, and an even larger industry behind him that can control the direction of technological development in the next few decades, it is only when others are wrong that they will quarrel with him for 20 million.

The two also wrote a letter of intent.

If the new technology described by Chen Feng can really perfectly solve James' current dilemma, and the content produced by Starlight Studio appears in the final film, then James Diaz will direct "Over the Stars" and will no longer try to add any personal ideas.

He will follow the script completely, and even the storyboard will completely correspond to Chen Feng's needs.

He will only faithfully act as an executor who transforms the script into pictures - commonly known as a tool man squatting in the director's seat.

If this matter gets out, I wonder how many people will be shocked.

James fell and succumbed to reality.

The business was almost done and it was time to chat. Chen Feng went to the shooting scene at the invitation of James.

It took nearly ten minutes to get from the office building to the large studio. Chen Feng saw many real-life shooting scenes along the way.

James explained them one by one with great pride.

Which hill was dug out by him? In order to make the vegetation on the hill logical, he even spent a lot of money to buy a large number of plants and planted them on it. In order to take care of these plants, he also hired many gardeners and so on.

During the actual filming process, this small hill will be the main setting for the actors to promote the plot, and a large green screen will be raised behind the hill to facilitate post-production.

Chen Feng expressed his admiration for this.

No wonder the picture quality of other people's A-level blockbusters is so strong, they are really willing to spend a lot of money.

Arriving at the studio where the set is being built, the scene looks very lively.

The huge workshop has been built into more than a dozen rooms of various types and colors according to the needs of the plot, representing the various functional sections in the spaceship.

At this time, there are more than 400 staff members of various types here.

In some low-cost American science fiction dramas, similar sets are often rented and then appropriately modified, so careful viewers can easily find that the scenes in one film are familiar with those in another.

This is not an illusion, but a fact.

But how could James, who is picky and rich, tolerate other people's sets appearing in his own film?

Of course, he had to design it himself and strictly control it.

In addition to personally finalizing the theme and inviting well-known artists to serve as visual art directors to be responsible for artistic sense, he also found nearly two dozen graduates and PhD students from the University of California, Berkeley to serve as outline scientific consultants.

In order not to delay the studies of these students, the cunning James also set up a research project group with Berkeley for his film. The project name is "How to perfectly apply rigorous science to science fiction films."

In a set room, two young people and a long-haired old man are using surveying instruments to measure and calculate an image on the wall.

This image seems to be a galaxy simulation of a binary system.

Master Chen glanced at it and used his super brainpower to calculate habitually.

This star map is too much.

There are so many golden ratios. How serious must the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the person who designed this picture be?

What's even more sick is that these tangents representing the gravitational field, the planetary orbit, and the ecliptic equatorial plane are combined together, but they are full of artistic sense.

The saddest thing is that Chen Feng has actually "seen" a galaxy exactly like this one.

The Mi tribe's mother star.

According to the description of the Mi tribe's descendants, the Mi tribe's mother star is indeed such a binary star system.

However, with the scientific level of human beings in the 21st century, it is impossible to see the Mi tribe's mother star clearly in the event horizon isolation zone behind the center of the Milky Way, which is 100,000 light years away.

Seeing Chen Feng's interest in the painting, James said proudly, "This is the binary star system of the Bonut tribe's home planet in my film. What do you think? Is it beautiful?"

"Very beautiful. What kind of race is the Bonut tribe?"

"A kind and gentle race of semi-mechanical life forms. In my story

, they are close partners of the human race on Earth." "I remember reading in the news that this script was originally created by you, Diaz?"

"Yes, but it is also the result of the joint efforts of the screenwriter team and me."

Chen Feng silently gave a thumbs up, "Great job, you guys did a great job, incredible."

"This is my visual art director Martin, he designed the star map art concept." James pointed at the long-haired old man and introduced him.

"These two... Anyway, they are young scientists from the University of Berkeley, they are responsible for perfecting the scientific evidence of this galaxy map."

James wanted to introduce the other two young people, but he couldn't remember their names.

Chen Feng was sharp-eyed and saw the work badges of these two people.

The blond white young man was named Smith Aslan, and the black-haired young man with some Asian features was named Kade Ivanov Liu.

Well, a Chinese-Russian mixed-race child, and if I guessed correctly, his father's surname is Liu.

Wait... this name.

Chen Feng's mind skipped a beat.

He remembered a character profile.

Kader Ivanov Liu, a Chinese-Russian hybrid born in May 1995 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2025, he received a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and then worked at NASA to engage in theoretical calculations.

This seems unremarkable, but the next sentence immediately changes its meaning.

In 2043, at the age of 38, Liucard resigned from NASA and went to teach at the University of Berkeley, and created science fiction in his spare time.

Liucard's interest in science fiction originated from his work as a scientific consultant on the set of director James Diaz when he was studying for his doctorate.

Between 2020 and 2025, he joined James's screenwriting team many times.

James planted the seeds of science fiction in his heart and told him the significance of using scientific thinking to imagine the future.

After creating many unsatisfactory works, he began to create the "Sparks Never Die" series in 2065.

In this epic work, he used his personal imagination of the universe to the fullest, and perfectly integrated the profound and comprehensive knowledge he gained from his long-term professional work into it. In

his story, it describes how humans, after becoming the master of the Milky Way, tried their best to run outside the Milky Way, fought wits and courage with various powerful hostile races that existed in accordance with the rules of the universe, and finally defeated many powerful enemies, obtained the qualifications to stand in the universe, and lived forever.

His story is both logical, exciting, and wonderful.

Moreover, most of the theories he imagined in his books can find sufficient scientific basis in the 21st century.

Until the 31st century, scientists were amazed to find that at least 50% of his descriptions of future technology were accurate.

He is one of the best science fiction writers of the 21st century, and perhaps one of the best science fiction writers after the 21st century.

His "Sparks" was adapted into a famous film series, the first of which was called "Across the Stars", which was released in 2115.

Here is a brief introduction of this character. Since the sixth timeline, he has not appeared in the seventh and eighth timelines.

Why?

Of course, since then, Master Chen himself has started to copy the "Spark" series of movies, and every time he shoots "Over the Stars" in advance and releases it in 2025!

Chen Feng thinks.

Didn't Liucard often work for James before 2023?

Maybe in the sixth, seventh and eighth timelines, this main force was mixed in James' team and participated in the scientific advisory work when filming "Over the Stars" early.

No wonder the touch of each shot was so good, the lens was so good, and the combination of fantasy and reality was so close. Master Chen thought it was all because of his role as a consultant and controlling the picture. Now that he thinks about it, Liu Card is also in his team!

Liu must have admired the script of "Across the Stars".

But I don't know what he would think if he knew that the original author of this script was himself?

In the later timeline, Liu Card's name did not appear in the historical materials of science fiction works. It seems that after his creativity was moved away, he ran out of ideas and failed to write solid works. He was forgotten in history.

Alas.

Master Chen, who was originally "indifferent" to being a copycat, suddenly blushed.

He had the illusion that he was caught stealing melons from a field by the owner.

What was even more sad was that at this moment, Liucard was looking at him as if he were a god.