In the era of Earth, people often encountered a problem when training AI.
The quality of the data was too low, and at the same time, the total amount of data was too small.
For example, if people wanted to train an industrial AI, it obviously needed a large amount of real-world data from the factory floor.
But this data was very difficult to obtain. Why would a factory give you its data?
Even if it gave it to you, how could you confirm that all this data was real?
This was still when the situation was relatively good. Worse still were some AI training sessions that required direct data collection from the internet.
Data on the internet was mixed, and most of it could be considered garbage. How could it be possible to train highly intelligent AI with a pile of garbage?
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The data used to train this industrial AI set were all self-produced, all from the real factory floor. He could ensure 100% authenticity for every piece of data.
Is the total amount of data too small?
What a joke, with tens of thousands of factories and bases in total, almost all industrial categories covered, he could have whatever data he wanted, and as much as he wanted.
He even had more than a dozen chip factories, producing over 500 million chips annually. Is that enough for training?
Not enough? If not enough, he would just build more. Anyway, he needed to increase chip production.
Compared to his human counterparts on Earth—although all evidence now suggested that Human Civilization seemed to have never existed, and it was all just his illusion, Tom still stubbornly believed it must be some conspiracy, and that humanity must have existed—Tom at this moment could completely overwhelm them in terms of both data volume and data quality.
Under the nourishment of sufficient and high-quality food, this industrial AI set grew rapidly.
During the training, Tom also began to synchronize the next task.
Fiber optic transformation.
He replaced all the digital communication cables originally used to connect different bases and different chips with fiber optic cables, which not only greatly improved signal stability but also directly increased communication speed by more than ten times.
After completing the fiber optic transformation, Tom also simultaneously built five more supercomputers and began training industrial AIs for different categories.
In Tom’s plan, he intended to train about 100 AI systems applicable to different industrial scenarios, deploying them in various industrial systems to achieve significant improvements in production efficiency and drastic reductions in demand for human labor.
As the demand for human labor decreases and production efficiency increases, the role a single Clone can play will naturally increase exponentially.
He would then be able to massively increase overall productivity again without increasing the number of Clones.
In addition to these 100 sub-industry industrial AIs, Tom also planned to train a master AI, which would manage and coordinate the 100 subordinate sub-industry AIs.
The reason for this setup was to consider building sub-bases on different planets.
Due to communication delays, Tom could not control Clones on other planets in real-time, meaning industrial production could not proceed.
In that case, how could he develop other planets?
With AI technology, all problems would be solved.
At that time, he would be able to hand over all work with higher real-time requirements and more basic tasks to AI, and the Clones he deployed there would only be responsible for inputting decisions.
For example, the God-Enemy Star, which Tom planned to develop at this moment, would operate under this model according to his plan.
For instance, if there were 100 excavators, he would only need to make the decision "dig a large pit in five hours" and input the relevant instructions into the AI via a Clone.
The AI would then control these excavators to complete the corresponding tasks at the corresponding time.
Since these decisions did not require high real-time performance, communication delays would not matter.
At most, efficiency would decrease a little, but it did not matter; he could make up for it by building more factories then.
This was why Tom attached such importance to AI technology.
At this moment, with the completion of one supercomputer after another, the fiber optic transformation, and the intelligent transformation of every factory, those industrial AIs could finally be put into use.
The first factory to attempt intelligent operation was a Steel Plant.
Under the control of the Steel Industrial AI, Tom assigned all positions with higher real-time requirements to the AI for execution.
Thus, without human involvement, ore was automatically sent to the crushing workshop, then completed screening, separation, and washing operations, and then sent to the smelting furnace...
The Clones’ work transformed from producers to decision-makers, supervisors, and maintainers.
They supervised and maintained the operation of this system, dealt with various unexpected incidents, repaired various damaged parts, and obtained the latest decisions through their consciousness connection with Tom to execute them.
The Steel Industrial AI at this moment was not yet too mature. After all, chip performance was still relatively limited, and industrial algorithms were not good enough.
But it did not matter; all of this could be slowly improved and optimized.
Most importantly, even with the current imperfect AI, this Steel Plant, which previously required 4,000 Clones to operate, now only needed 2,500 people to run!
The immense potential of AI technology was unhinderedly displayed before Tom.
"Very good, very good."
Tom was overjoyed and immediately followed this model, beginning the intelligent transformation of other metallurgical factories.
In addition to this, AIs for other industries were also being trained intensively.
Planting AI, Animal Husbandry AI, Chemical AI, Transportation AI...
And most importantly, the master AI, which Tom envisioned to manage and coordinate all other sub-industry AIs, was also running in a new, larger supercomputer, constantly being fed data and trained.
Tom gave this master AI name to reduce his loneliness.
The name of this master AI would be Hestia
Of course, the Hestia at this moment was still very weak, very imperfect, and did not have many functions. But it did not matter; as long as it was continuously fed data and trained, it would eventually grow.
Having completed the deployment of chip technology and AI technology, Tom turned his attention to another indispensable technology for developing God-Enemy Star.
More efficient interstellar propulsion technology!
In the equally massive propulsion technology research base, tens of thousands of Clones worked tirelessly day and night, simultaneously conducting research from the most basic chemical fuel ratios and material properties to the overall structure of engines, and hull construction and layout.