Chapter 1096: Chapter 572: Industrial Cthulhu, Mechanical Augmentee_3
[Computing Power Center]:
"A central intelligence without self, possessing only ’Divinity’, is thus born, destined to be the best assistant in industrialization.
The peak computing speed can reach 1.25 billion billion operations per second, with sustained performance at 0.93 billion billion operations per second, and a power performance ratio of 6.05 billion operations per watt.
It can provide computing power support for various scientific research and administrative projects like low-level artificial intelligence, through the Golden Law network, allocating computing power in a multithreaded mode.
Any Transcendent who can touch the first layer of the Golden Law Network has the qualification to apply, but needs the permission of the managers of the Mechanical Computer."
[Root Server]:
"These two machines will become the root servers for all subsequent steam computers in this world, possessing the core authority to manage the computing power network.
Every time a Difference Engine and Analytical Machine is created, besides its own computing power, the root server will additionally increase the computing power limit equivalent to 10% of the new machine.
If a Supercomputing Center composed of Steam Engines, Difference Engines, and Analytical Machines is built elsewhere, the central intelligence can allocate sub-intelligences for auxiliary computations, greatly enhancing efficiency and convenience."
Mandate of Heaven: "It will to some extent replace human jobs in painting, singing, literary creation... and even continuously self-evolve as computing power enhances.
Humans, please hurry to improve yourselves; if your progress lags much behind, unfavorable situations may occur."
Byron couldn’t help but complain:
"Isn’t the ultimate purpose of machines supposed to be bricklaying? When it paints and writes, does that mean we should lay bricks? Ridiculous!"
But that’s a concern for the future; no need to consider it now.
At this moment, the divine light on the machines pulsed rhythmically, emitting a mechanical voice:
"Central Intelligence activated, please name the owner."
Babbage, only interested in techniques and mathematics, is a technology maniac. He himself lacks the ability to maintain such a colossal machine, and from the beginning agreed to donate the machine to the Empire after Violet sponsored his dreams.
As long as he can use it for subsequent research, he hopes to leverage this treasure to research even more powerful mechanical computers.
Byron confidently took the naming rights and said to it:
"Then I shall call you: Alpha.
Let’s have a small test, command: perform mathematical modeling for all factories in Torrent Fortress and establish a database."
"As you command."
Whirrr...
Instantly, countless golden numbers roared along the Law Network, through Alpha’s computation, transforming Torrent Fortress into a digital model.
The number of machines, personnel, raw material stock, finished goods inventory, account surplus, resource allocation efficiency, team performance ranking... everything became clear at a glance.
Especially Catherine, the [Finance Queen], who also holds [Commerce] and [Mathematics] Authority, possesses an insightful grasp of these data.
In an instant, she identified which department was the backbone, which part was slacking, which manager was diligent, and who was tricking and pocketing illegitimate profits.
Even if a massive layoff were to occur, it is unlikely to cut the main artery by mistake.
Violet, more focused on production, saw various optimization plans under the current production mode and realized a slight intervention could raise production efficiency by at least 30%.
Both were thrilled:
"A divine artifact, this is the divine artifact of the industrial era!"
In fact, the impact of the [Whale Oil Powered Mechanical Computer] is far beyond what they observed.
Byron, from the Information Age, has witnessed the Great Power of "Industrial Cthulhu."
Industrial 1.0 is the Steam Engine Era, Industrial 2.0 is the Electric Era, Industrial 3.0 is the Information Age, Industrial 4.0 utilizes information technology to facilitate industry reform, which is the Intelligent Era of the past.
But why is it called Industrial Cthulhu?
Just as a mortal’s imagination cannot reach the boundaries where the Creator’s ’ignorance, impotence’ lies.
Humans, barely stepping out from the agrarian age, cannot imagine what kind of existence the World Factory truly is.
That monster is the nation-level Indescribable!
As long as you’re willing to offer sacrifices to this "Old God", you will surely receive a response.
Some countries faced worldwide embargoes and sanctions, but once they offer oil and natural gas as sacrifices, chanting prayers: "Free Trade", suddenly their supermarket shelves were filled with various light industry goods.
Even more diversified and comprehensive than when trading with ’the world’ in the past.
Some countries self-tortured rigorously, and watched a few Indescribable and unbearable terrifying rituals—"National Soccer," then the soybeans in their fields and iron ore were entirely replaced by various high-end industrial products they couldn’t produce.
Others offered sacrifice of their outstanding sports coaches, and in return, their steel plants suddenly came to life, railways, canals suddenly appeared.
In fact, the gap between country and country is larger than the gap between human and monkey.
A small, inconspicuous factory’s civilian drone production capability might exceed that of an entire country.
The obliteration of all military forces in a region might just be a splash in the ocean, or an arrest warrant from a local police station.
This is the unprecedented Industrial Cthulhu in human history.
North Sea Empire, with Alpha’s assistance, and the fate-bound expanding territory, population, even in the seemingly backward Steam Era, is hopeful to attain supreme rank!
