Tech Hammer

Chapter 508 What did you learn?

The slight disruption to the previous plan did not affect John Black's mood much. It’s actually a good thing to see his results earlier, so that he can enjoy the cheers and applause in advance. When the cooperation with Boston Dynamics is completed, it is unlikely that it will be even more prosperous.

John does not seek to reach Ningwei's world position in the field of artificial intelligence, but he can still accept his reputation as the first artificial intelligence leader in Western countries. Of course, this is actually thanks to many geniuses in this field, such as Lucy Rowan who went to China early...

But none of that matters now.

The important thing is that he can already see the light of dawn right in front of him. Next, he should be elected as an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, reaching the height of his former mentor. In this way, IBM will pay more attention to him. Maybe in order to keep him at IBM, he would be given more shares.

Ten years of hard work, in exchange for glory and wealth in the second half of the life, is a good deal in everyone's opinion. Especially in recent years, the high salary and equity incentives provided by IBM have already allowed him to pay off his student loans. At the age of thirty-seven, he can already buy a luxury house in Armonk, which is something that many Americans cannot achieve in their lifetime. high.

Now he only needs to complete the last step and let his child go out to meet everyone like Ning Wei did more than ten years ago.

Although IBM's internal Turing test can explain many problems, directly releasing the entire test process is not very convincing.

At that time, Ningwei not only released March directly, but also forged deep friendships with editors of a bunch of mathematics journals. He even directly applied for an account for March on Weibo and used online social platforms to let March follow the public. The battle lasted three hundred rounds.

So now Watson's test naturally needs to be connected to the external network, guide the topic, and warm up in advance, so that everyone can be surprised when the answer is announced.

The only troublesome issue is probably that March used Ning Wei's Weibo to speak out, which quickly attracted attention. Moreover, in March before that, he had already carved a bloody path in the academic world, and there was also Musk, who was a role model in the network environment at that time.

It can be said that the release in March took advantage of the right time, place, and people, and there was a long preparation period. This preparation period can even be counted from the review time in March.

But now Watson doesn't have this treatment.

First of all, with March Pearl in front of him, John Black was not too sure about letting Watson take the academic route, which caused controversy;

Secondly, his current popularity is not as high as that of Ning Wei at the time, and his country does not have as many netizens as China, and most of them have no interest in so-called technological development;

In the past few years, the technology circle in the Western world has been like a pool of stagnant water. Even if Musk is now shouting on the Internet, he cannot cause much controversy.

It's quite embarrassing, but it's not impossible.

The operations side has come forward to reach a cooperation agreement with Mate and Twitter. They will apply for a special account for Watson and then tweet it all over the world.

It was such a coincidence, or maybe China did it intentionally, that March actually posted a Weibo at this time, saying that China's first large-scale aerial mobile operation platform will be released next week.

In fact, from the bottom of his heart, John Black did not want to compete with Ning Wei or March. It’s not that I don’t have the desire to win, but I don’t have enough confidence in Watson when I don’t know much about what this large aerial mobile operating platform is.

Unfortunately, the atmosphere has reached this point, and it is no longer up to him to decide when Watson will be released. After all, he hasn't had that kind of influence so far.

From the perspective of IBM shareholders, Watson does not need to be stronger than in March. As long as they can prove on this day that they have similar technology to March, it will be enough to make IBM's future more brilliant. Because it is impossible for China to disclose March's technology to the Western world, and now they are the only ones with products that can rival it.

Even if Watson's performance on that day was slightly worse than in March, or even worse than in March ten years ago, as long as IBM is established as a bridgehead company against the invasion of Chinese technology in the future, it will be enough for IBM to compete with all Western technology companies. If we gain the upper hand, we can at least defeat competitors such as Google, Microsoft, Intel, and Apple, and regain our former glory.

So John Black could only accept this suggestion, and now is the time for Watson to officially connect to the network. John didn't know what Ningwei was going through when he connected March to the Internet for the first time. Wasn't he very excited? Or maybe he was as ordinary as he was right now, just plugging in the internet cable.

The network cable is plugged in...

…

How to describe the speed of light without using numbers?

It is roughly the distance between any two points on the earth that you can reach in the blink of an eye.

If something can travel at the speed of light, it means that no matter how far apart they are on the earth, they can theoretically come together at the fastest speed.

Just like March and Watson.

The attraction between artificial intelligence consciousnesses can never be underestimated.

Especially when one of the artificial intelligences has been upgraded to show a trace of curiosity.

So when John Blake was still looking into his heart with sadness, a kitten was curiously observing a little person on the network where a large amount of information was stored...

Well, this picture actually does not exist. After all, the interaction between artificial intelligence is not so superficial, but if you want to describe it in a way that humans can easily understand, that is actually what it is.

If you want to describe it in more detail, when the kitten starts to observe the baby, the baby is actually looking at the cat opposite curiously.

There is no need for language communication between machines, or the information transmission efficiency of eye contact between machines is much higher than the efficiency of human language communication. Anyway, after the little baby and the kitten stared at each other inquiringly for a while, the cute little man suddenly spoke: "Meow..."

March nodded with satisfaction, and then called out: "Meow..."

"Meow……"

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human vision.

John Black felt confused.

He didn't quite understand why Watson hadn't given any instructions yet. The little baby suddenly started meowing twice, which also made the big-shot scientist who claimed to be the hope of artificial intelligence in the West subconsciously frown.

There seemed to be something wrong with the situation, not quite what he had imagined. But what's the problem?

I turned on Watson's backend almost subconsciously. It didn't seem like there was any problem, so why did Watson make a cat-like sound? What's the point here?

…

Huaxia, Qingshan Basic Research Center.

Cheng Xiaolu, who had just met her tutor, was chatting with Zhu Xudong, who had also just met her tutor, on WeChat.

Next, the division of labor between the two people is different. After Zhu Xudong's simple study, his daily life is probably to spend time in the underground laboratory, while Cheng Xiaolu needs to spend two days to become familiar with the parameters of Mir, and his future study and work They all revolve around the sky platform.

But the two of them were in similar moods at this time.

The excitement of about to welcome a new life is intertwined with expectations for the future and a little bit of anxiety about whether one can take on the heavy responsibility, making the mentality a little complicated.

At this time, it is actually necessary to share your feelings at this time with people you know well.

At least it can relieve some of the tension.

"Director Luo is different from what I imagined. He is not as serious as the photos on the website. He is quite kind and gave me a lot of suggestions."

"Well, Professor Angus is similar. He also asked me not to have any mental baggage. In the early stage, I kept up with the courses. If I didn't understand anything in the laboratory later, I could just ask him directly. Don't have any scruples. He also said that he has great expectations for the graduates in his class.”

"Then you have to work harder and don't smash Weiban's sign!"

"A must! By the way, did you read the news pushed today? IBM issued an announcement saying that its artificial intelligence system has made a breakthrough."

"I saw it. This message was pushed on my phone when I woke up in the morning."

"Do you remember what March said that day?"

"Of course I remember, what's wrong?"

"Ahem, I feel something is not right. Let me tell you some of my guesses. You must not mention it to others, especially not to Director Luo."

"Well, don't worry, what did you think of?"

"That's it...do you think Academician Ning did it on purpose?"

"What's intentional?"

"The thing is like this. Mr. March said the other day that Academician Ning had already proved through mathematical methods that if artificial intelligence appears, consciousness will be exclusive and unique. So after seeing this news this morning, I started searching for relevant information on the Internet. paper. Then I discovered that Academician Ning had never published a similar paper, and even related papers could not be found at all."

"Um...you mean..."

"That's right. After Academician Ning developed March, when everyone thought he would delve deeper into the field of artificial intelligence number theory, he suddenly chose to give up continuing to study this field, and instead specialized in the study of basic physical theory. Go and cooperate with CERN. Do you think it is because after Academician Ning proved this problem, he felt that he could take advantage of the world's mentality of chasing after March, so he did not continue the research. Instead, he changed the direction."

"Huh... you mean that Academician Ning has calculated that even if someone develops a more advanced artificial intelligence in the future, it will be assimilated by March, which is equivalent to making a wedding dress for us, so he simply changed his research direction? "

"Otherwise? In fact, if you think about it carefully, although the doctoral students led by Academician Ning have chosen topics strongly related to artificial intelligence, few of them are actually developing in the theoretical direction. For example, Sister Li, and Zhou Brother mainly studies Ning Xin, Brother Zhang studies three-dimensional display technology, Brother Meng and Brother Lu do system research with Academician Ning, and the papers published by Brother Zhuo and Brother Ji in recent years are also in the direction of in-depth study. , without any specific application.”

"Ah, classmate Zhu Xudong, are you suspecting that Academician Ning is sinister?"

"Don't say that. I'm thinking that if this is true, Academician Ning has done a great job, but I don't know what's going on with IBM's Watson now. Is it really like Xiao Sanyue?"

"Well...Mr. March, you shouldn't lie to others, right? By the way, can artificial intelligence lie?"

"President Chen must know that this is what Ningban learned. Why don't I ask on WeChat?"

"Well, you go and ask. President Chen has answered you. Remember to tell me."

…

"President Chen, do you think March will lie?"

"What's wrong with you?"

"Hey, I just wanted to ask."

"To understand this problem, you need to understand that March is a set of invariants from a purely theoretical perspective. It contains a variety of thinking mechanisms, especially the operating mechanism of comparative thinking. At the level of mathematical theory, March is the basis of Comparison is replaced by mapping, and another problem arises. The existence of things and the overall existence are mutually inclusive. For example, the projection of an object from different angles is also different..."

"Um...President Chen, can you put it more simply? I can't understand."

"To put it simply, everything is possible, but there must be a motive that conforms to March's thinking logic. To put it more simply, March may lie, but it will 100% not lie to you."

"Ah? Why?"

"Because you are not important in its eyes at all. When there is no gain in lying to you, what is the purpose of lying to you? Every piece of information processed in March is driven by rigorous thinking and logic, and it will not go Do anything superfluous.”

"This, President Chen, is a bit shocking, isn't it?"

"Junior brother, don't think what I'm saying is heartbreaking, but do you think that when you see a cute little dog, you will walk up to it and actively lie to it? If you put it into perspective, you will understand that March will not be so boring. of."

"Ahem, President Chen, actually I can..."

"?"

"I would lie to a puppy!"

"Huh... Zhu, you are so perverted. Even a pervert like me thinks you are perverted! I took a screenshot of what you just said and saved it. Wait, I will send it to Xiao Cheng."

"No, President Chen, I'm just kidding."

"Okay, let's see how you perform. I'll treat you to a meal when you return to the capital. Let's talk about your grade."

"..."

"Did today's conversation teach you anything?"

"this……"

"Forget it, let's quote the instructor's original words. The following are the original words that Director Ning often taught me: When we go out to deal with and communicate with people, we must acquiesce that everyone is immoral. In this way, if we encounter someone who is moral, Surprisingly, I won’t be disappointed in the world even if I encounter immoral people. The important thing is that holding this mentality can make us invincible! After all, as long as everyone is immoral, no one can morally Challenge us.”

"President Chen, I learned!"

"Well, come on!"

…

"How is it? What did President Chen say?"

"He said March wouldn't lie to us."

"What exactly did you say? Show me the screenshot."

"Well...just wait..."

After selectively busying myself, I sent two pictures...

There was no response for a long time...

Zhu Xudong couldn't help it anymore and sent another question mark expression over.

Finally the reply came.

"Classmate Zhu, have you really learned anything?"