Let's talk about something unreliable.
When new technologies arrive, many people cannot distinguish between what is 'real' and what is 'science fiction.'
When it comes to AI, many people think of a robot that can cook, massage, have sex, and do everything.
This technology is called humanoid robots.
Tesla is working on humanoid robots, but humanoid robots are not a very important technology. We watched too many science fiction movies when we were kids and mistakenly thought that humanoid robots were the future, but they are not.
The simplest form of autonomous driving is the future.
You sit in a car that can drive itself, so you don't have to worry. You just input your destination, and it takes you there by itself. This is practical technology.
There are also cooking machines; you put in lettuce and pork, and out comes fish-flavored shredded pork. This is also practical technology.
Humanoid robots are not.
You may wonder if humanoid robots are necessarily useless; not necessarily, as they might be needed in certain situations, such as for pets or companionship.
But in most situations, humanoid robots are not needed.
Currently, there are several popular directions in AI, the most important being large language models, such as ChatGPT. Its characteristic, simply put, is that it can have conversations with people. A deeper understanding reveals that it also has reasoning capabilities. These topics can go on for a long time; we could talk for three days and nights without finishing.
A few days ago, I mentioned AI agents, which are currently very popular.
There's also AGI, or general artificial intelligence, which is a more advanced technology. You could say that AI agents are mature and usable technology.
There's also AIGC, which stands for AI-generated content, like images and videos. Many people have seen imitations of Stefanie Sun singing or modified versions of Journey to the West, featuring Sun Wukong and Bai Gu Jing in a romantic relationship. All of these are considered AIGC. This technology is also mature and commercially available.
One day, while I was having barbecue, there were three guys next to me who are suppliers for Tencent. Many of Tencent's games have skins and animations, which they procure from their company, and they use AI to create these skins and animations. So, you see, AIGC is a very mature and commercially viable technology.
I mentioned a few days ago that search engine results are all AI-generated, which is an AI agent, so you see, AI agents are also mature and commercially viable technologies.
To understand these, a lot of knowledge is required.
The state of AGI is very immature, though some optimists believe it will mature within two years. AGI is like Jarvis in Marvel movies (Iron Man). You tell him, 'Hey, Jarvis, I want to make a plane,' and he starts making it for you. That's AGI. It's very smart; it can do everything. That is AGI.
Last night, a guy named Skely proposed an idea to create a launch platform controlled by an AI agent, similar to pump.fun, but controlled by an AI agent and also combined with TEE.
There are new terms again; I guess you're feeling overwhelmed.
This TEE, Trusted Execution Environment, happens to be something I've encountered. It's a technology proposed by Intel.
Intel's ambition with this thing is actually quite big; they want to take over Microsoft's market.
What is TEE all about?
Intel says that if this computer has problems, it's because it ran 'unclean things.' If we let the computer run clean programs from the first second of startup, it will remain clean, with no viruses and no crashes.
How exactly do you do it?
The first step is to start the BIOS code from the CPU, which is clean. These codes are all hashed, and when starting up, it checks whether these codes have been tampered with.
Hashing, or hash, is a type of computation in cryptography, also known as a hash function.
When we use eMule to download files, if you pay attention, it will prompt you with the hash of the file, which is a string of characters. After downloading, you need to recalculate this hash value and compare it with the hash value listed on the website. If they match, it indicates that the file you downloaded is 'complete,' meaning it hasn't been corrupted or maliciously tampered with.
For example, if you download a WeChat program that I modified and has a backdoor, isn't that very dangerous?
So, this hash value is for anti-tampering. In the example of downloading, the hash value is used for data validation.
It's just a mathematical calculation; you can use it wherever you want, depending on how you use it. For example, in Bitcoin, SHA256 is used for competing in mining rights, which is an innovative application. The most common use is, as I just mentioned, for validating data when downloading using eMule.
I went off on a tangent about hash functions, but it was also to discuss TEE; the core component of TEE is the hash function. Use the hash function to ensure the integrity of the BIOS, the operating system, and application programs. Each program that runs is associated with a hash value to verify its integrity, in case the program has been maliciously tampered with.
This is the technology. It's very simple. I haven't followed how this technology has developed later on. Occasionally, I still see people mentioning it.
What does this launch platform that Skely wants to create have to do with TEE? He said he wants the AI agent to run in a TEE environment. As mentioned earlier, TEE is a clean computer where every program is clean.
Having said all that, this launch platform hasn't actually been developed; there's nothing there. He just wrote an article proposing an idea.
What is he actually doing?
He created an AI agent that controlled a wallet, allowing people to deposit SOL into it, resulting in 30,000 SOL being deposited in one night.
Why are they using SOL? Well, it seems unrelated to this project; anyway, the wallet is controlled by a robot, and he said the robot would later choose a meme name and send a meme for everyone to play with.
You can understand it as having issued a meme; the SOL deposited is equivalent to crowdfunding.
It's just a silly way to play.
Still a meme.
There are a lot of concepts being discussed, but the currency being issued is still a meme, called METAV, which has a market value of 38 million dollars.