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When he submitted the paper to the "Annual Review of Mathematics" under the name of March, Ning Wei never thought that he might encounter such a dilemma in the future. Seeing that Lian Jiang was dubious, Ning Wei could probably guess what the outside world would do after the official announcement.

When he was reviewing the March paper, he hadn't thought about it that much. Lu Dongyi's reaction before reading the paper made him realize that there might be this problem. Now the attitudes of Liu Wei and Jiang classmates made Ning Wei realize the seriousness of this problem.

No one actually believes that March can independently complete a high-quality paper? ! In other words, how to submit this paper in the name of March has become a problem.

This is indeed embarrassing.

"Ning Wei, I believe you, that paper must have been written in March." Seeing Ning Wei's speechless expression, Jiang classmate tugged on his sleeve and said softly.

The thin voice reached Ning Wei's ears, which made the depressed young man feel much better.

Look, effort and reward are equal after all. He is the enemy of the world for her, and she believes in him unconditionally. This is the real life. As for whether others believe it or not, it doesn't seem to be that important. It's enough for Mr. Jiang to believe it.

The good mood lasted for a few minutes, until Lu Dongyi rushed out of the office, holding six pieces of manuscript paper in his hand, ignoring the charming Jiang classmate beside Ning Wei, and even ignoring Liu Wei beside him, he rushed directly to Ning Wei and glared. Then he asked: "What about the back?"

"Don't worry later, go eat first, we have been waiting for you for a long time." Ning Wei said calmly, without compromising at all because of Lu Dongyi's attitude.

"Eat? What else to eat at this time? Give me the back first." Lu Dongyi frowned and said.

"You have to eat first at all times. I'm not the only one waiting for you. Didn't Brother Liu and Classmate Jiang stay hungry with you? If you don't eat, there will be nothing left behind!" Ning Wei said simply.

"No more?" Lu Dongyi glared at Ning Wei.

"Yes, the thesis eunuch...is this weird?" Ning Wei spread his hands and said confidently.

"Don't make trouble, just give me the paper, and then you go to eat. Just bring me two buns when you come back." Lu Dongyi said dullly.

"Impossible, this matter is non-negotiable. Let's eat first, and then I will give you the complete paper after dinner. You must know that I have already read through this paper in March, and it is very rigorous in conception."

"March? Don't make trouble. You wrote this, right?"

"I...forget it, let's go eat first. Senior Brother Lu, if you continue to waste time, I can stay here and chat with you all night."

"Okay, okay, let's go eat first and wait for me."

After saying that, Lu Dongyi rushed into the office again, approved a coat and rushed out again. He actually didn't forget to grab the first six pages of the paper Ning Wei gave him.

"Let's go and eat quickly. Just go to the nearest Yanyuan Canteen."

"Let's go, um...Brother Liu, you'd better watch Senior Brother Lu. It seems like he can't change his habit of reading papers while walking."

…

The four of them sat in a small box in the cafeteria. Ning Wei specially requested it. After all, the topic of today's conversation always felt a bit disrespectful in the bustling Datong room outside. Well, disrespectful to knowledge.

"Senior Brother Lu, I actually asked you to come to dinner because I want to hear your opinion. If after we review it, we all think there is nothing wrong with March's paper, then how should we deal with it appropriately?"

Lu Dongyi raised his head and glanced at Ning Wei, thinking for a while, but did not express an opinion. Probably this senior fellow who focuses on mathematics is still doubting who the author of this paper is, but he just doesn't want to repeat his arguments again and again. After all, he still had to give Ningwei face now.

Then Liu Wei took the initiative and said: "Dr. Ning, let's put aside the issue of who is the real author of this paper. I hope you can think about a question. If we extend our ability to empathize to the entire human society, you Do you think everyone is ready to accept the existence of a non-human life form similar to God? Especially foreigners, are they ready?"

"Huh? Brother Liu, why did you suddenly think of this question?" Ning Wei sat up straight and looked at Brother Liu, the social man, with piercing eyes. After all, he never thought that Liu Wei could ask such a question that was close to a philosophical proposition.

"This is not what I thought of. I made a call when I came to eat. When you went to order, the higher up called you back." Liu Wei answered frankly.

"Oh, that's right." Ning Wei nodded. Indeed, Liu Wei didn't seem like someone who could think so deeply.

Of course, it's not that Liu Wei is not that smart. The main reason is that people's status is different, and the direction of thinking and looking at problems is different. For example, Ning Wei has never considered this problem from beginning to end.

"So what you're saying is that one of the leaders feels that it's not appropriate to expose all of March's current capabilities, right?" Ning Wei said, and then said to himself: "That's right, with super integration capabilities and strong control over the Internet. If you can still be creative, my God, Brother Liu, if you didn’t remind me, I really didn’t notice that March was already so powerful! So the question now is not whether this paper was completed in March. But it’s best not to claim that it was completed in March.”

Ning Wei sighed for his own sake, but in one year, March had grown to the point where many people would really feel in danger if he did not seal himself. This is probably related to the fact that many big names have reminded how dangerous artificial intelligence is. Of course, the most important thing is actually who controls the strong artificial intelligence program.

The choice of beautifying or discrediting is ultimately based on their respective interests and strengths. But in order for the world to better accept March, it is indeed important not to show that it is too powerful.

Liu Wei nodded and replied: "I think that's what it means. But don't get me wrong. In fact, we don't have any negative views on March. We also believe that March is just a pure process that can promote the progress of human science and technology. Super powerful tool. In order to better adapt to the future intelligent society, we have commissioned experts in social sciences to study and analyze social ideologies in the post-artificial intelligence era by observing some changes and behaviors on the Internet in March. issues.”

I would rather remain silent, as there is nothing to discuss at this point.

In fact, the threat theory of artificial intelligence has never disappeared. When it was first exposed in March, foreign bigwigs jumped out to promote it again. This is really not the right time to continue to stimulate the fragile hearts of the big bosses and scientists on the other side.

"Senior Brother Lu, if you don't publish it in the name of March, then in whose name should you publish it? In my name?" Ning Wei asked Lu Dongyi.

Lu Dongyi raised his head, glanced at Ning Wei, and asked, "What else?"

"Isn't this academic misconduct?" Ning Wei asked back.

Lu Dongyi was silent, thought for a while, and said: "Theoretically speaking, even if this paper was indeed written by March, March is the artificial intelligence created by you. As we all know, whether artificial intelligence has the right to authorize is currently unclear in the academic community. There is no conclusion. Based on this theory, there is nothing wrong with this paper being written by you. At least it is not a serious accusation of academic misconduct. If you feel sorry for it, March can be placed as the second author. "

Ning Wei nodded. Lu Dongyi's statement seemed to make sense. After thinking about it, he simply said: "Then let's just do this. Let's not publish this paper outside. We should publish it in a Chinese journal. It just so happens that it's not It’s necessary to change it to the English version.”

Lu Dongyi was stunned and asked: "Then where do you plan to send it?"

Ning Wei thought for a while and said, "Journal of Yanbei University, Natural Science Edition?"

Lu Dongyi twitched his lips and said: "I remember that the impact factor of the journal last year was only 0.841. This impact factor is difficult to support this paper. And this is not a professional mathematics journal."

Ning Wei asked: "Then where should I publish it? When we first published the March Intelligence Journal, we said that it would be a journal specializing in artificial intelligence. Solving NS equations does not seem to be suitable for publication in the March Intelligence Journal. How about publishing it? Mathematics and applications?”

Finally, Lu Dongyi gave advice: "If you decide to publish the Chinese version, then choose one of the three journals: Chinese Journal of Mathematics, Computational Mathematics, and Journal of Applied Mathematics. Relatively speaking, these three journals are domestically influential. It is a core journal with relatively strong influence and high impact factor.”

Ning Wei nodded obediently and said: "Then publish it in the Chinese version of Journal of Mathematics. Adding the words "Chinese version" will make it sound more serious."

Lu Dongyi glanced at Ning Wei speechlessly and said: "That's because they also have an international version, that is, an English version. This is the paper that ends the NS equation. It is to be discussed by mathematicians all over the world. Even if If you are too lazy to translate it into English, or if you don’t allow another English version to be released in March, there will be someone specifically responsible for this work. After all, theory and application are not the same. This area has lagged behind for too long, and we have to catch up little by little. Huaxia Mathematics It is impossible for a journal to be directly upgraded to a top international journal that can tie with the four top mathematics journals just because of one paper."

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded, then pointed at the food and said, "Eat it. After eating, let's go back and see if there are any major flaws in the paper. If you can't find any, just submit it. Anyway, in the end, it's the big boss. We review the manuscript, so we don’t need to review it too carefully.”

Seeing Ning Wei's lack of interest, Lu Dongyi couldn't help but emphasize: "Ning Wei, that is the NS equation, one of the millennium problems. Don't you plan to show it to Director Tian first and then make a decision?"

"That's right! Then I'll say hello to Director Tian tomorrow." Ning Wei nodded, feeling a little numb, probably because Ning Wei really has the qualifications to publish papers in top journals, even in the legendary four top journals. The journal already had one of his papers, so it didn’t arouse much interest.

On the contrary, if this paper could be published in the name of March, he would probably be more excited. It's like the old man sees that his child has a promising future and is recognized by the public as a promising one.

To put it bluntly, Ning Wei now hopes to experience the fun of Lao Ning, rather than the fun of having another paper that can shock the world. After all, his current interest lies in being the originator of a research direction, and he is not very interested in directly closing a propositional direction.

"Let's study the manuscript together tonight."

"Senior Brother Lu, don't make trouble. You are a single man. I am a man with a family. I will send you the full version of the paper when I get back. You can study it yourself. I am a man who wants to go to bed on time." Ning Wei said When he fell down, he felt someone kicked him under the table. He turned his head and saw another circle of red clouds on the girl's face...

Okay, classmate Jiang is sensitive again...

So Ning Wei quickly explained: "Well, what I said about going to bed on time is simply to close your eyes and go to sleep. Don't misunderstand anything."

This explanation made Liu Wei and Lu Dongyi, who were sitting across from each other, look at each other, and then began to eat peacefully in silence, while the face of classmate Jiang next to him became even redder...

To be honest, probably no one here wanted to pay attention to Ning Wei's explanation. Compared with showing off scientific research achievements, guys who show off their love in front of single men are often more disgusting. This point cannot be refuted.

…

After eating, Lu Dongyi dragged Ning Wei back to the research center and watched with his own eyes as Ning Wei sent the paper to his mailbox and then simply returned to his office. Then when he heard that the person next door was really there, he locked the door and ran away.

Thinking of Ning Wei's attitude while eating, Lu Dongyi downloaded the paper and thought about it for a moment. Instead of continuing to study the paper, he sighed, picked up his mobile phone and dialed Tian Yanzhen's number.

The call was quickly connected, and Lu Dongyi said straight to the point: "Director Tian, ​​Ning Wei gave me a paper today."

"Oh? Researching artificial intelligence? He said last time that he will be busy writing papers for the March Intelligence Journal. How about it? The academic level is very high?"

Lu Dongyi explained: "No, no, no, he sent me that paper in the morning, and he sent another one in the afternoon. To be precise, he handed me two papers today. The paper on artificial intelligence is mainly about The level of discussing the relationship between artificial intelligence and the number theory structure of the metaverse is naturally very high. The article handed over to me this afternoon directly proves the general solution of the Navier-Stokes equation under three-dimensional space conditions."

"Oh... hmm? What did you just say? Ning Wei proved the Navier-Stokes equation?"

"It can be said that he said it was proved in March, but he can't provide evidence for the time being. Of course, it doesn't matter who proved it now. I am studying this paper. Do you plan to study it too? How about I put this Send you a paper?"

"Huh...you are in the research center office?"

"um, yes!"

"In this case, you can print out two copies of the paper and go directly to my office. I will go over now and we will study it roughly together."

"Oh well."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Dongyi felt a little more cheerful.

Well, sure enough, most people in this world are normal. He can hear Tian Yanzhen's excitement when he heard the news. That's right!

This is a millennium problem. In order to get the honor of ending this proposition, some people once risked all the honors they had received in their lives. As a result, they were so angry that they were admitted to the hospital twice. They have even been stripped of their honors by Princeton University. Professor's identity.

If the old gentleman knew Ning Wei's attitude towards this paper, he would probably be so angry that he was admitted to the hospital for the third time. Then he would start to reflect and doubt life, and even complain about why God is so unfair.

Well, now is not the time to think about the inner activities of the old gentleman. Lu Dongyi just silently printed out the paper, and then walked out of his office holding two thick stacks of manuscripts...

It had been a long time since I had experienced the feeling of discussing and researching papers with my former mentor. Lu Dongyi was looking forward to tonight. Of course, he knew more about the expectations of Director Tian, ​​um, a mentor to a Fields Medal winner.

Think about it, when people mention Ning Wei a few years later, they will definitely mention that this guy studied under XXX. This is probably the highest level of being a mentor.

…

At this time, Ning Wei was walking by Weiming Lake with classmate Jiang.

This is one of the unbeatable leisure activities every day. According to Liu Wei, to maintain good health, it is best to have a certain amount of activity every day. Ning Wei takes this seriously. After all, there is never enough work to do, and too strenuous exercise is not suitable for him now. Walking is probably the most suitable exercise.

And with someone by your side, you won’t even feel tired during this basic exercise. What's more, taking Student Jiang for a walk is also good. Although he is easily recognized by his classmates, usually no one will bother him when he sees Classmate Jiang.

"Ning Wei, after today's paper is published, does it mean that you can win the Fields Medal?" Jiang asked under the moonlight.

"Well... I actually think that if I win the Fields Medal in the future, it actually has little to do with this paper. Because even if I count this paper in March, it cannot be said to be my biggest mathematical achievement. Achievements. This is not my boast, but my self-evaluation as a rigorous academic person." Ning Wei replied.

Student Jiang nodded and said, "Oh, well, in this case, you have basically won all the world's top mathematics awards. Congratulations in advance."

"What are you talking about? Why are you congratulating me? You should congratulate the Fields review committee. At least they don't have to worry about who will give one of the next winners. In fact, I hope they can use it to defy the world's disapproval, no Give me the award so that we can show the credibility of our own awards. Let me tell you that when I went abroad for the first time to participate in the Computer Algorithm Conference, I thought that one day in the future I would see those academic leaders queuing up at the Chinese Embassy. , in order to come to China to attend top academic conferences and apply for a visa. To really realize this scenario requires not only our efforts, but also the other side's own suicide."

"Well, you can definitely do it! The Wolf Prize award ceremony was held in China just for you." Jiang classmate looked at the man next to him with admiration.

After hearing this, Ning Wei suddenly thought of something and replied: "Speaking of which, preparations for this year's STOC conference are about to start again, right? They should have started to widely invite manuscripts, and I don't know where they will choose to hold it. Looking back. I’m going to go check out the official website.”

"Well, will they invite you?"

"I don't dare to go even if I'm invited... Actually, I really want to meet some old friends. It's a pity, but our own March Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held at the end of this year. I plan to imitate the STOC and SODA conferences. model, those old friends may come by then. But there is a problem now, because it was initially determined to mainly accept Chinese manuscripts, which may cause trouble to some top scholars, and I haven’t thought of a good solution yet. Alas..."

Ning Wei sighed.

Holding the world's top academic conferences has always been one of Ning Wei's wishes. It is also one of Ning Wei's wishes to make Chinese language more influential in the world academic circle as much as possible. However, judging from the current situation, it is indeed very difficult to have the best of both worlds. The difficulty mainly lies in the popularity of Chinese.

The world's academic circles have become accustomed to submitting and reviewing various academic papers in English. As we all know, translating papers into different languages ​​is actually very demanding, especially when it involves some professional and unfamiliar words.

Many literature lovers know that when a well-known foreign work is spread across borders, the level of the translator often directly determines the acceptance of the article in another country. An excellent translator and an ordinary translator can translate two different books. Therefore, outstanding talents in any industry are always hard to come by. Specific to academic papers, even excellent translators can find it very difficult to translate.

In particular, academic papers do not require beautiful writing, but have extremely high requirements for accurate translation. This requires proficiency in both languages ​​and a deep understanding of the research direction of the translated paper. This kind of compound talent is even more difficult. found. Many academic leaders in China need to find someone to polish their papers in English.

On the other hand, writing Chinese papers should be more difficult for those international academic leaders. Leaving aside long-term habits, the key point is that learning Chinese is far more difficult than English.

"Actually, Ning Wei, have you thought too deeply about the problem? I don't know much about March's ability, but I heard you say that March's language ability is the strongest, and you also said that March As well as the ability to review manuscripts and write independent papers, we can actually open up a translation platform to those academic experts, so that everyone can freely convert various academic papers into various texts on this platform."

"In this way, everyone will not worry about language issues when conducting academic exchanges. As for the academic conference held in China, when the selected scholars give reports, it can be recommended that everyone use the language they are most familiar with to report. This downplays the difference between reporting in English or Chinese. I think this is what a truly international conference should be like. It just requires more energy and cost in simultaneous interpretation. I just don’t know Can we take on this kind of simultaneous interpretation work in March? If so, we won’t even need to pay extra costs. On the contrary, we can save a lot of money.”

Ning Wei was stunned by Classmate Jiang's words, and then he was overjoyed.

"Hey... why didn't I mention this to you earlier? You're so right! It's nothing more than opening up a language version of the platform. If everyone gets used to this platform, then everyone will write in their own mother tongue in the future. Articles, who cares about English? Although the influence of Chinese may not be enhanced by these top conferences, everyone has no obstacles to submission, which is equivalent to standing on the same starting line. Jiang, you are so smart! "

This compliment came without any warning...

Of course, what Jiang Chenshuang didn't expect was Ning Wei's words immediately after, "I will reward you well tonight!"

Not far away, Liu Wei began to stare at the night sky...

This shameless person, who rewards whom? !

…

"Is this paper going to be submitted to domestic journals?"

It was already late at night, and after reading the paper for three hours continuously, Tian Yanzhen finally felt that his energy was running low. He looked up at Lu Dongyi, who was still writing hard, and took the initiative to ask.

"Well, Ning Wei insisted that this paper was completed in March. Liu Wei also expressed some opinions on this matter. Probably Jitu thinks that this time is not suitable to continue to hype the capabilities of strong artificial intelligence itself. So regardless of whether this paper was written by March, I still hope that Ning Wei can publish this paper as a first author."

"So Ning Wei felt that there was no need to publish it on the Internet, so he just published it in our journal. He also wanted to publish it directly in the Yanbei campus journal. I didn't think it was appropriate, so I suggested that he publish it in the Journal of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the Chinese version.”

Lu Dongyi raised his head and explained to Tian Yanzhen the discussion during today's meal.

Tian Yanzhen nodded and said: "You little junior brother... I don't even know how to say good things about him. Tell me what he wants to pursue? There is no problem in putting it in the Journal of Mathematics, but the editor is willing to put it in the Chinese version On? Isn’t it a waste not to release the international version to increase our influence?”

"Maybe junior brother just thinks that there is no point in writing papers anymore, right? As you know, his taste has become more complicated now." Lu Dongyi thought for a while and answered.

After working hard with his brain for several hours, he did take a break.

Tian Yanzhen closed the paper and said in a low voice: "Really, why can't Ning Wei be more vulgar? Tell me, can't he be greedy for fame and fortune? Even if he is greedy for money and lust, I will admit it! At such a young age, there is no such thing as It’s a little bloody!”

Although he was used to saying good things to Ning Wei, Lu Dongyi found it intolerable to comment on this, so he said: "Director Tian, ​​are you going against what you said? Don't you realize that my junior brother is actually quite greedy and lustful. I met him in Jiang Dagang. During his time, he studied hard just to publish more papers in top journals so that he could earn bonuses from the school. As for sex, he has only seen classmate Jiang once and how much our research center has been turned into. Have you forgotten?"

"The fact that he is so stoic now is because he is already satisfied with these things. His patents allow him to not worry about money at all. He already has so much money that he doesn't know how to spend it, so why should he be greedy for money? Youjiang My classmates are with me every day, so where else can I go to be so horny!"

After hearing this, Tian Yan was really stunned, then nodded, and then thoughtfully.

"In that case, does your junior brother think that life is complete? So he has no motivation to fight? Should he be put under some pressure? I'll call Lao Ning later to talk. It's not good for him to be like this at such a young age. "

Lu Dongyi said nothing...

I just turned my attention to the paper in front of me. I am not sleepy yet. It is better to think about mathematics than to think about people... The level of this paper is really high!