technological heresy

Chapter 91

From the perspective of human social attributes, everyone subconsciously desires to be valued and to be the most dazzling one in the crowd, even including many social phobia patients.

As long as there is a choice, who doesn't want to be the core of a certain circle and enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by stars?
How can there be so many natural social fears in this world?It is nothing more than a person who has suffered blows again and again in the process of growing up, and then learns to compromise and make concessions, and becomes aware of how to endure loneliness.

Therefore, in Ning Qing's view, Xu Hongwei, who is extremely nagging at this time, is obviously beaten too little. This kind of person should not continue to study in the ivory tower, but should now understand the sinister heart of the society and be educated. Later, I realized that too much talk will lead to loss, and silence is the golden truth.

Fortunately, the staff who got stuck interrupted Xu Hongwei's chatter.

"Is the leading teacher of Haizhou Bilingual No. [-] Middle School here?"

"Yes, what's the matter."

"Oh, it's Mr. Zhou, that's how it is. The order of your defense in Bilingual No. [-] Middle School has been changed to the first place. Let the students get ready."

"Ah? Okay! Thank you!"

Hearing this conversation from a distance, Xu Hongwei shut up instantly, and then became obviously nervous.

It was probably this serious high school student who still couldn't figure out why they were notified yesterday that they were the last team to defend today, but they suddenly became the first team to defend after arriving early in the morning.

It was so sudden and completely unprepared.

Ning Qing was not surprised at all.

In fact, when there were unexpectedly many professors watching the ceremony today, he had already anticipated this possibility.Especially when he saw a few familiar faces of professors from the Faculty of Arts of Peking-Han University, Ning Qing had already confirmed that their group would definitely not be ranked last, and it would not be surprising to change to the first place.

Of course, Ning Qing didn't care, anyway, today's defense was just a formality for him.Based on what he did before, even if he can't say a word when he gets on stage, or even admits that the paper is super, a group of professors from the organizing committee will try their best to withstand the pressure and award the gold medal to he.

But Ning Qing would not say these words to Liu Hongwei.

Even when Zhou Jingxue came to inform again, Ning Qing pretended to complain: "Huh? How can the organizing committee suddenly adjust the order like this? It's too exaggerated. I haven't had time to go through it yet." What about the PPT! What should I do if I mess up later?"

One sentence made Zhou Jingxue and Liu Xiaohan, who had been quietly listening to music with headphones, roll their eyes at the same time, but only Xu Hongwei became more nervous in an instant.

After all, for Ning Qing, it is just a question of whether he will win the national award, but for him, whether he can win the opportunity to study in Jinghan University is a big matter, and his Taoist heart is already on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, the experienced Zhou Jingxue noticed that Xu Hongwei's mood was wrong at this time, and patted the overwhelmed young shoulder with his broad palm in time, and comforted him: "Hongwei, don't listen to Ning Qing's nonsense, he is teasing you. You How can he look a little nervous? The day this guy came back was the opportunity for the chief expert of the jury specially invited by the organizer to pick it up in person, do you think he will be unsure?"

Xu Hongwei glanced at Ning Qing, and sure enough, seeing the uncontrollable smile in the eyes of this guy, he couldn't help but subconsciously punched Ning Qing with his fist: "Fuck, is it interesting to tease me like this?"

Ning Qing stared at this guy indifferently, and said: "Who told you to talk so much nonsense? Didn't you just spend a few days in Beijing and Han? As for being so excited? If you know what I did in Rui'en, you must Suffocate?"

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Most people didn't notice this little episode that happened in the corner of the defense hall.

At most, the group that was originally notified to be the first to answer the defense glanced at the direction of the Haizhou Bilingual High School team with complicated eyes. Of course, this can't change anything.

For the respondent contestants, the jury of the organizing committee controls their life and death.If the defense fails, all the hardships in the early stage will be considered in vain, so I will not have any opinions.

So there was no disturbance. At nine o'clock sharp, after Chen Zeliang delivered a short speech as a representative of the jury, the three-person team from Bilingual No. [-] Middle School stood in front of the big screen on the rostrum and began to explain the thesis.

The speaker is naturally Ning Qing.

Originally, Ning Qing wanted Xu Hongwei to show off the limelight, but this paper seemed simple, but because it involved many innovative financial operation models, even though he had communicated with Xu Hongwei before, it was still unclear, so He can only do it himself.

Xu Hongwei has already memorized a few key questions that may be asked, and he will mainly answer them when there will be questions from the judges.

Everything was as Ning Qing expected, except that when he introduced those bold and reckless financial operation models, many professors in front whispered for a while, and the specific defense process went smoothly.

What I have to say is that Xu Hongwei is much better than Zhou Yan in terms of psychological quality and on-the-spot performance ability.

When he was defending at Haizhou University, Ning Qing didn't need Zhou Yan to answer the questions. This guy's legs were shaking when he stood on the stage.But Xu Hongwei was only nervous in the audience. When he actually went up to the stage to start his defense, he still showed his demeanor and answered a few questions perfectly.

At least from the perspective of high school, he is already very good. Although the audience is nervous, he is not at all stage frightened when doing business on stage.

As for Liu Xiaohan, well, in this case, she only needs to be responsible for elegance for the time being...

After the defense was basically over, a professor who was not familiar with Ning Qing in the jury seemed to ask casually: "Student Ning Qing, I heard that you are still working on artificial intelligence models, and your influence on the impact of artificial intelligence on the world What do you think? For example, should we invest heavily in artificial intelligence? Or put aside other factors and only consider economics and finance, do you think it is worthwhile to continue investing in artificial intelligence-related technologies?"

"Professor Xu, hello, I think this problem is obvious. Based on my understanding of economics, any investment that requires high capital investment and the beneficiary is the general public, or the investment in which the rich subsidize the poor, is a It should be strongly supported! The same is certainly true in the field of artificial intelligence.”

Because the professor asked Ning Qing directly, Ning Qing answered it as a matter of course.

"Oh? This point of view is very novel. Why do you think that the investment in artificial intelligence belongs to the rich subsidizing the poor?" Professor Xu who asked the question asked with interest.

Ning Qing glanced at the time, it was already almost 8 minutes, and it was obvious that the timeout was going to be over, so he decided to make the timeout more serious.

"This is easy to explain. We all know that artificial intelligence has a more specific research direction called autonomous driving. Do you have any opinions on this?"

After finishing speaking, Ning Qing calmly looked at the reviewing professors in the audience, and he had to wait for everyone to agree with this before he continued to speak. There was no other reason, and it was easier to delay time...

Until the professors in the front row nodded slightly, Ning Qing continued with a smile on his face: "Now let's assume that there is a top luxury car brand called Rolls-Royce..."

"Haha, in fact, there is no need to assume this. There are many luxury car brands, such as Vinaya, Dorsk..."

"Professor Xu, of course I can't directly talk about the existing luxury car brands..."

Ning Qing said with a serious face, then raised his finger and pointed at the camera standing next to him, and said seriously: "They will make a lot of money by mentioning these brands. After all, many of the people sitting in the audience today are noble people, or these The target audience for the luxury car brand... From an economic point of view, they don’t pay me for advertising.”

In a word, a group of people in the audience laughed out loud, and the professor Xu who asked the question also laughed out loud after a short moment of astonishment.

"I'm sorry, haha, I'm sorry, you're right, it's my fault, please continue, Classmate Ning."

Finally, the laughter stopped on the spot, and Ning Qing continued: "Suppose there is a luxury car brand called Rolls-Royce, and a car costs at least seven or eight million. Wan Fuhao can't afford it at all, the engine is the same as that of a fighter jet, and guess what? This car has had top-level automatic driving functions since its inception.

Yes, everyone heard it right, and it is still the top level of automatic driving function L6, pay attention, it is not a fake driving assistance, but automatic driving.The doors can be opened automatically, the car can be parked automatically, and even if there is an accident on the road, the car can be handled automatically. When the car owner gets in the car, he only needs to sit there and read the newspaper, or even lie down on it and sleep, and he doesn’t need to care about anything else.

And guess what?This automatic driving function only needs to be subscribed and renewed on a monthly basis. The price is not too expensive. Depending on the service level selected by the customer, the price range is probably between several thousand and thirty thousand. Everyone, do you think it is worth it? "

After finishing speaking, Ning Qing closed her mouth and began to look around the audience.

It was still Professor Xu who asked: "As far as I know, there is no such mature autopilot technology, right? Even Dorsk's global limited edition of the Galaxy Series Collector's Edition does not have the autopilot function you mentioned."

Ning Qing smiled: "It really is... After all, do these rich people buy cars and drive themselves? They only need to have a driver, and these rich people can enjoy a service that is far more considerate than artificial intelligence... You can understand it this way, right? ?The subscription fee is of course what these wealthy people pay their drivers every month.”

There was another burst of laughter from the audience, but after many professors in the front row were stunned, their expressions began to become funny.

"So now the problem is very clear. To put it bluntly, the rich can buy all the services that artificial intelligence can provide. They can even do better than humans. Why do they have the motivation to study artificial intelligence? And still They spend a lot of money on research because they believe that the track of artificial intelligence can help them earn more money.

So where does more money come from?Of course, it is the general public, and opening up this track, at least at this stage, can create a lot of jobs... So I support artificial intelligence.As for whether artificial intelligence will steal the jobs of ordinary people after the development of artificial intelligence, and instead make many ordinary people unemployed, this issue is not in the discussion at this stage.

Because this will be something after the rapid and leapfrog development of science and technology.At that time, the social environment, the level of productivity, the cognitive level of ordinary people, and even the economic theory were probably completely different from what they are now.So from an economic point of view, at least at this stage, we should strongly support the development of artificial intelligence.That's my answer. "

Unsurprisingly, bursts of applause rang out from the audience.

Ning Qing even saw Chen Zeliang sitting there nodding frequently... probably admiring his quick wit and on-the-spot coping ability.

Of course, Ning Qing didn't feel proud. For a soul who was used to seeing big scenes, he didn't have such a little ability to perform on the spot, and it was impossible to host such a grand project back then.The only thing he was proud of at this time was that he successfully made the reply time overtime by 3 minutes.

No one should be asking nonsense anymore... and it is.

After the approval of all the judges, the Mathematical Modeling Competition Team of Bilingual No. [-] Middle School successfully completed the defense task.

The national award is stable!

……

"Ning Qing, how did you do it? Just now when Professor Xu suddenly asked that question, I was almost scared to death... No, why did he say you were working on an artificial intelligence model?"

"Kids don't ask random questions!"

"Who are you talking about children?"

"Okay, don't make trouble, Teacher Zhou is waiting there. We have to leave the scene quickly..."

"No, don't we wait until the defense is over and go together?"

"Are you stupid? You're almost 20 years old. Do you want me to teach you the reason why you have to run away after pretending to be aggressive? I'm telling you to run away quickly, or you'll be in big trouble..."

"Ning Qing, when did you become so fond of talking nonsense? This is Jinghan University, what trouble can you have?"

"Fuck..."

……

Soon, Xu Hongwei knew where the "trouble" came from.

But the troubles Ning Qing talked about made him envious and jealous...

This guy was surrounded by a group of professors, firmly occupying the C position, and Xu Hongwei was stunned.

After all, he has been staying in this ivory tower of Jinghan University for a month. It can be said that he does not hear anything outside the window. He just thought that Ning Qing and Liu Xiaohan went for a simple tour. He really didn't know that this short month Time, what achievements did Ning Qing brush up.

Naturally, I don't know that just yesterday, this guy used a so-called artificial intelligence small program to shock a group of literary bigwigs to the point of no return, holding the poems in the manuscript without sleep all night, and even shedding tears.So he didn't understand.

But when Ning Qing's tearing voice reached his ears, Xu Hongwei almost burst into tears, and the little resentment towards Ning Qing disappeared in an instant, and he was even so grateful that he wanted to send a small note to himself immediately...

"Professors, please listen to me... I believe you can understand that I really have too many things, so the things you asked for have actually been handed over to my friend Xu Hongwei who played with me since I was a child. I will stay at Jinghan University for a while, as long as he agrees to those small things, it will be OK!"

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(End of this chapter)