Tech Hammer

Huaxia, Yanbei University, International Mathematics Research Center.

Ning Wei found that his life suddenly became extremely fulfilling.

The first thing that should be enriched should be his mobile phone. Inexplicably, his phone calls began to increase, and the callers were all big shots, serious big shots. There are names that everyone is familiar with, and some that are unfamiliar to everyone, but their humble self-introductions can still make Ning tremble. For example, the chairman of XX Bank...

Really, this reminded Ning Wei of the words his father often said when he was in elementary school and asked Lao Ning to buy various toys that children liked: "You think I am a banker." ."

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. When he was still a month away from turning 24, he actually got in touch with these big guys who owned a bank in his family, and they even wanted to treat him to dinner very politely.

In fact, Ning Wei really wanted to agree, and then asked the big bosses in the bank seriously at the dinner. If the big boss's children wanted to buy some toys that had nothing to do with learning when they were young, he didn't want to buy them for his own children. How to say……

However, Ning Wei finally chose to decline all invitations. After all, for him, these dinner parties were ineffective socializing. Along with the WeChat application using mobile phone numbers, more and more people have added him in the past two days.

This person would rather not refuse and add them all. Anyway, WeChat can be set to silent mode, so you can choose to read it when you have time. This also made Ningwei's circle of friends start to become more luxurious.

But he was not proud of these changes, and just silently opened the communication whitelist again. Use technical means to block all calls that contact him outside the address book.

Of course, this method cannot completely isolate external contact, because if he wants to realize his idea as soon as possible, there are still a lot of things before him.

Relying on the preparation work of the three major intelligent platforms in March and the preparation work of the March Artificial Intelligence Foundation, "March Artificial Intelligence Development" needs to go through various procedures to publish the magazine, form an editorial room, and formulate the March Artificial Intelligence Foundation. The selection rules and standards for the award must be set, and industry leaders with sufficient weight must be invited to serve as the judging panel.

After all, for a grand prize with global influence, it is not enough to give money. It also needs to use a set of fair standards to establish its credibility. Therefore, there are many trivial things, even if most of them can be left to professionals. People can complete it, but it also needs a capable person to centrally plan it, but it is better to just be a hands-off shopkeeper.

So early the next morning after the exhibition, after sending Jiang to class, Ning Wei rushed directly into Lu Dongyi's office, planning to start blaming him.

"Senior Brother Lu, do you still remember the ideal we talked about that day? Now it is finally coming true, are you excited?"

Lu Dongyi, who had also just walked into the office, stared at the passionate Ning Wei, nodded, and then said: "The way you are beating up your chicken blood is very similar to those big people who gave speeches on the stage at the few business forums I attended. boss."

"Brother Lu, it's wrong for you to say that. Can this be the same? The big boss injects chicken blood into his employees to make money, but we do it to realize our lofty scientific ideals! These are clearly two different things." Ning Wei immediately refuted .

Lu Dongyi thought for a while and then apologized: "I'm sorry, I was wrong. It should be said that the way you draw cakes is exactly the same as those big bosses."

Ning Wei blinked in front of those eyes that seemed to have seen through everything, then sat down, his expression became serious: "Actually, I came here this time to discuss an issue with Senior Brother Lu. Do you feel that these half a century have passed?" Since then, have all major breakthroughs in basic disciplines been slowing down? We are making more and more achievements, but we are becoming more and more confused about the rules of how the world works?"

"Yes." Lu Dongyi nodded and looked at Ning Wei calmly, as if he was enjoying an interesting performance.

"Then what do you think is the reason? Is our science and technology tree climbing higher and higher? It's not that the great people in front have built the ladder higher and higher. If our basic science is compared to a fruit tree, then the fruits at the bottom They have all been picked, so we have to climb up the ladder to the upper level to pick the fruits, but climbing the ladder consumes too much time and energy."

"Engineering science can be solved by subdividing and socializing division of labor, so our basic sciences also began to achieve breakthroughs in this way. The same field in the past began to be divided into small branches, which resulted in barriers to research and mathematical subdivision. The field may even stump scholars who should be in the same research direction. In the past, it might only take ten years for the big guys to learn the basic knowledge of a certain direction and then create new theories. But now for most people It will take more than twenty years to learn the knowledge left by the senior leaders."

"Based on the non-renewable nature of cells after the brain is fully developed, for humans, the peak period of brain intelligence is only concentrated between the ages of 26 and 30, a short period of four or five years. But during this time period, most people We are still learning the basic knowledge left by our predecessors, and when we are thirty years old and can finally stand on our own and start to choose topics for ourselves and conduct groundbreaking research, the peak period of human IQ has passed."

The 32-year-old Lu Dongyi stood up silently, then poured himself a cup of tea, placed it on the table, sat down again, held his hand firmly on the handle of the teacup, and looked at the little man opposite him through the rising steam. Junior brother, it seems that he is measuring how much force is needed to keep as much tea as possible on Ning Wei's body, well, preferably on his face...

However, Ning Wei seemed unaware and continued to talk to himself: "So, Senior Brother Lu, you have to know that at the age of 32, if you still only focus on research, it will be really difficult to produce big results, but now a The opportunity is in front of you. When our artificial intelligence platform is successfully built, the subdivided knowledge areas can be sorted out through the lovely March and then subdivided again, pointing out a clear path for the future of you and me! Only then It’s the most important thing right now!”

"Think about it, if we subdivide a basic breakthrough theory into ten research directions, we will teach ten doctoral students, and the efficiency of basic scientific research will be greatly improved. How much results can we produce? This is what we need to do most at the moment. What do you think?"

Lu Dongyi nodded, and then said calmly: "I think if you don't speak politely and continue to waste time here, I will expel you."

Ning Wei immediately said quickly: "Oh! Okay! My idea is to ask Brother Lu to come out and coordinate all aspects to prepare our intelligent platform, the March Foundation and the March Award, form a review committee, and prepare our journal editorial office ."

Lu Dongyi looked at Ning Wei and asked, "Aren't these your ideals too? Why should you leave them to me?"

Ning Wei immediately replied: "Two reasons. First, Senior Brother Lu, you should know that my popularity is not very good. Take the establishment of the March Award Jury Committee as an example. As a world-wide award, the judges are always not good. Are you a big boss from China? Do you think it’s appropriate for me to go out and invite people?”

"second……"

As soon as Ning Wei opened his mouth, Lu Dongyi directly interrupted his junior brother's words and helped Ning Wei explain: "Secondly, you are younger than me, less than 24 years old, and have not even reached the peak of your intelligence. You must hurry up. Do research. And I am already a 32-year-old man, and I have passed the peak of my intelligence. Dealing with these trivial things is not a waste of intelligence."

Ning Wei quickly shook his head and said sincerely: "No, no, no, Senior Brother Lu, you are wrong! Second, it is because I have more important things. Don't you think I am more suitable to stand in the open and be an obvious person?" A target, attracting all kinds of firepower on our road to rapid development? Anyway, my reputation is now ruined, and I don’t care anymore. Just throw it away. But you are different. Senior Brother Lu, in my opinion, you will always be that He has the image of a great and upright scholar, is low-key, diligent and humble, possesses the beautiful qualities that all scholars should possess, and is a born flag-bearer! This is the difference between us."

These words made the tea water pouring. Just when Lu Dongyi was shocked by Ning Wei's shamelessness, Ning Wei's cell phone rang again.

Ning Wei glanced at it and said, "It's Director Tian, ​​senior brother, please wait a minute." Then he answered the phone.

"Hey, Director Tian."

"Ning Wei, some influential people in the United States just issued a statement almost at the same time. I think you should read it. It is said that there is a lot of discussion on the Internet about this matter now. You should also think about how to deal with it."

"Huh? A statement about what?"

"I sent you a link on WeChat. Just go in and take a look. It's a video officially edited by NBC. After watching it, you should also consider whether you need to respond."

"Okay, thank you, Director Tian."

After hanging up the phone, Ning Weichong said to Lu Dongyi: "Look, senior brother, something has happened. Director Tian is even alarmed."

After saying that, Ning Wei opened WeChat, and sure enough, a link was already quietly lying in the chat history with Director Tian.

"Senior Brother Lu, why are you sitting there? Come and see the praises given to us by those influential foreign figures!" Ning Wei clicked on the link and then waved to Lu Dongyi.

"Is it a compliment?" Lu Dongyi thought, then stood up and walked to Ning Wei. The time was stuck just right. A white man in a straight suit appeared in the video. He was indeed very well-known. Lu Dongyi knew everyone. The spirit of Microsoft Leader, Mr. Bill Gates has been keen on public welfare after retirement.

"...Yes, I heard that the artificial intelligence software has a very strange name, March. There is no doubt that the emergence of March is technically shocking, but I do express concern. Because The person who created March did not want all mankind to pay attention to the growth of March. Yes, this is scary. Because we don’t know in what aspect this epoch-making software will be used. Science is always a double-edged sword, Used well it can make life better for everyone, but it can also be dangerous if used in other God-forbidden areas. If I were to ask my opinion, that's probably it."

…

Soon, the scene turned, and another big shot appeared in front of the camera. He was Sergey Brin, the former president of Alphabet. Many people may not be familiar with Alphabet, but when it comes to Alphabet’s subsidiaries, it must be Everyone knows it, and yes, it’s Google.

Although Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has retired long ago, it can actually be seen from Alphabet's equity structure that he and Google founder Larry Page are still Alphabet's major shareholders. It is said that he resigned from his position at the same time as Larry Page and handed over the position of Alphabet president to Sundar Pichai in order to respond to the antitrust investigation launched by the government department against Google at the time.

"Yes, I have called President Pichai. March is indeed an amazing result. But one thing deserves our attention. The development of artificial intelligence cannot be separated from the constraints of moral principles recognized by all mankind. This is very important. premise, so we all believe that the platform controlled in March should accept supervision from the world to ensure that the development of artificial intelligence technology is on the right track."

“In fact, if this technology appeared in Google’s I am willing to accept supervision from all over the world. But unfortunately, the young scientist from China, the creator of March, clearly rejected this reasonable request. I express great regret and infinite concern about this."

"So I think it is necessary to establish this alliance. If there is no supervision from everyone, then we must use the forces we can control to slow down the development of this technology, including but not limited to setting up an investigation team and strictly reviewing the artificial intelligence of alliance members. Intelligent platform construction provides any technical support and equipment support! This is extremely necessary.”

"Of course, if the other party is willing to open up the platform so that we can see that this technology will not develop in a direction that is detrimental to everyone, then some bans can also be lifted."

Then came the next one, most of whom were retired but whose influence permeated all aspects.

After the interview, there were some screenshots on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Most of them were comments from current bosses, and there were also comments from artificial intelligence experts. The emotion of compassion for humanity came to my face across the screen...

At the end of the video is a drafted alliance list, with two long rows containing many familiar names.

Ning Wei pressed pause and studied the list carefully with Lu Dongyi. Then Ning Wei sighed and said: "Senior Brother Lu, have you seen it? Do you know how notorious I am? They introduced me Where is a young scientist? He is obviously a dictator! So if I don’t stand up and be the target, who can stand up and take on this?"

Lu Dongyi looked at Ning Wei speechlessly, and then said after a while: "Oh, tell me, how are you going to stand up and be a target?"

"Haha, I knew you would ask this, so I was already prepared! Take a look at this list. We must first create discord among these big guys from within, and let them find out that any alliance they establish may have consequences that they cannot accept. , we can directly weaken the strength of this alliance by a few points."

With that said, Ning Wei quickly logged into his Weibo and started to edit the message: "Let me tell you, this time it is me, not March. This is not a Turing test, it is just a simple preview. Wait. I will send you a video next. This video is very interesting. I call it mathematical code magic. I believe everyone who sees it will like it very much, and I very much hope that this magic can surprise everyone!"

After the editing was completed, Ning Wei decisively sent it out.

Lu Dongyi glanced sideways at Ning Wei, and Ning Wei also raised his head and looked at Lu Dongyi.

"How about it? Senior Brother Lu? Can we divide the work and cooperate?"

Lu Dongyi thought for a moment and said, "Let me see if your mathematical magic is really exciting first."

"make a deal!"