Future super intelligent system

Chapter 4 The Fear of Being Dominated by Mathematics
The core content of the development of artificial intelligence is actually algorithms, computing power, and calculation data. If Liu Fan wants to develop artificial intelligence, he must start from these three directions.From an inner point of view, what Liu Fan wants to develop most now is computing power, because chips are directly linked to computing power.

A ZTE incident made countless Chinese people know the importance of chips, and made countless Chinese people look forward to the birth of domestic chips.The feeling of being choked by Western countries but unable to resist made the sons and daughters of China extremely uncomfortable.Of course, it also gave the trolls ample space to play. During that time, the country was trolled, and those who didn’t know thought that trolls could produce chips.

But everyone who knows the business knows that chips are an industry rather than a product.At present, no country in the world is capable of producing 100% fully independent general-purpose chips, and the United States is also impossible.And if calculated from an industrial point of view, Western countries have been involved in the chip manufacturing industry nearly a hundred years earlier than China.Therefore, it is ridiculous to accuse the Chinese people of being incapable of making even a chip.

These people are proving with their actions that ignorance gives fools the courage to show their mental retardation.

Liang Jingru didn't have that ability.

Liu Fan dare not say that he is patriotic, but he still understands the basic principle that a country is a family, and a basic sense of national honor is still there, so if possible, he certainly hopes to produce chips that belong to the Chinese people and give them The country lifts its spirits.

So from an objective point of view, the manufacturing of chips is really too complicated. It involves more than 50 industries and more than 100 countries. Do you need an industrial chain with the system?Asking for things from the system corresponds to some tasks, and Liu Fan doesn't want to be so reckless in doing things.

But even if it is refined, for example, a set of powerful chip architecture design is directly obtained from the system, but the follow-up is just equipment procurement and production costs, and the situation cannot be opened without billions of dollars.What's more, even if a chip is produced, it needs a process of market verification. This process cannot be rushed by anyone. The system can provide technical support for Liu Fan, but it can't speed up the progress of human time. .

Some people may say that you can directly use the chip architecture to find the country or BAT to invest money.

Not to mention that the task corresponding to a chip architecture is unlikely to be simple. Let me first talk about a third-year student who independently developed a chip architecture that can only be developed by hundreds of PhDs from Western countries. It is even more powerful. Anyway, Liu Fan wants to If you don't have any good explanations to explain, go directly to the dissection room.

Therefore, the independent production of chips will inevitably be a long-term battle. Although Liu Fan is anxious, he can only endure for a while, but Liu Fan believes that this patience will not last long, and he already has a basic plan for chip production.As I said before, no country is capable of 100% independent chips, but Liu Fan, who is backed by the system, thinks it may be a challenge.

Think of it as helping the trolls save face.

See, it's easy to produce chips.Well, whatever the trolls say is right.

Since the development of the chip needs to be delayed, Liu Fan's attention naturally falls on algorithms and calculations. Algorithms are the basis of artificial intelligence work. To put it bluntly, how artificial intelligence thinks about problems is completely controlled by algorithms.Now when it comes to algorithms, there may be two words that you hear more, brain simulation and deep learning.In fact, artificial intelligence algorithms have undergone several generations of evolution.At present, the most popular and main principle of artificial intelligence algorithm is to let the computer simulate the human brain, and the detailed method is to simulate the working principle of neurons.

But not all scientists agree with this algorithm. Some scientists think that this is actually a very contradictory thing. These scientists believe that the reason why everyone loves this algorithm is because previous scientists have used various algorithms to discover fundamental Artificial intelligence cannot be realized, so I thought of letting the machine simulate the human brain. From a certain point of view, this itself is a helpless choice.In other words, it is impossible for humans to design artificial intelligence algorithms, so let the computer try.

But can a computer simulate the human brain?Some scientists bluntly said that it is actually impossible, because the behavior of letting a computer simulate the human brain is itself an algorithm, but humans have not yet figured out the real operating principle of the human brain. Your algorithm Can it be reliable?But businessmen never tell the truth to consumers. They want to simulate a great artificial intelligence future for consumers. Wow, artificial intelligence is already so awesome.

But in fact, it’s not because Go has rules, and the processing speed of computers is far better than that of humans. When you play Go, people can think of all the possible movements in the next ten moves. Gives you a simulation of all possibilities for the next thousand steps.

How to play?
For the battle between scientists, Liu Fan is not qualified to comment on the current knowledge reserve, but he personally agrees with one thing, that is, if you use the current algorithm foundation to let artificial intelligence try to do some irregular things, For example, if you arrange a girlfriend for AlphaGo, its chips will blow up and smoke within two days.

At least the current artificial intelligence and our ideal artificial intelligence are really far behind.

Therefore, if he only makes certain optimizations based on the existing algorithms, Liu Fan feels that it is difficult for him to attract the attention of the world and he cannot think of a good breakthrough in commercial applications. However, if he directly evolves the algorithm, he will also face the risk of being dissected.

Therefore, the most suitable breakthrough point for Liu Fan at the moment is to calculate data, which is big data. With big data, artificial intelligence can carry out so-called deep learning only after it cooperates with algorithms.So what are the main problems facing big data now?One is that there are more and more data. With the development of the Internet, chat records alone are a huge amount of data every day, and among these explosive data, there are more and more junk data.

The other is that the analysis and mining capabilities of current data processing tools are generally poor.This made Liu Fan feel that data cleaning, data analysis, and data mining are a huge business opportunity.Liu Fan learned from some business reports that the first step of data cleaning alone is no longer enough to satisfy the existing data volume, and a huge amount of data is waiting in line to be cleaned.

Moreover, many of the current data processing tools have open source codes, so borrowing other people's codes to optimize and create a more advanced data processing tool should be something that a genius can do.

Well, some explanation will do.

Having made his decision, Liu Fan didn't waste any time, turned on the alarm clock, covered himself with a quilt and went to bed quickly.At this time, the dormitory building was closed, and the door to the rooftop on the top floor was also closed. Liu Fan couldn't pray in the dormitory. Who knows what would happen, so he might as well go to bed early.

At 5 o'clock in the morning the next day, Liu Fan woke up naturally before the alarm clock rang. To be precise, he didn't sleep much all night.On the one hand, there is something in my heart, and more importantly, the three roommates below are too excited.

Liu Fan gets up and the three of them go to bed. For them, it is another day of sleeping during the day and playing games at night. The daily life of a junior student
After washing up, Liu Fan didn't bother to eat breakfast, and went directly to the rooftop.In the past, whenever he was in a bad mood, Liu Fan would drink with his roommates on the rooftop. Originally, no one was in charge of the rooftop door. It was because once they got too drunk and four of them fell asleep on the rooftop. It was easy to find a meal, but the aunt who was killed later had to come every night to close the door.

Therefore, the 6205 dormitory has always been the "key protection" object of the aunt.

It was very bright in the early morning of June. After Liu Fan walked around to make sure the balcony was empty, he took out his phone and opened the app.

Click to pray, and there are two options of text and voice.

Liu Fan chose the voice, and Liu Fan absolutely believed in the system's voice recognition ability.After selecting the voice, press and hold a ball to start speaking.

"I pray to the system for knowledge about big data cleaning, big data analysis and big data mining, hoping to help me develop a technology that is stronger than the current highest commercial technology on this planet in terms of data processing speed, accuracy and mining capabilities. Level but not too advanced data processing tools, the performance improvement is probably between 50% and 200%.”

The system did not provide any templates, so Liu Fan could only write as much as possible, and at the same time try to be as detailed as possible.

For example, the range of performance improvement should not be too low, because the development of science and technology is different from the development of traditional industries. It is a function of exponential development. If the performance improvement is too low, it may be surpassed by others in a few months. Needless to say, it should not be too high , Beware of dissecting or falling into a box.Therefore, Liu Fan's ideal state is to increase by about 100%. Don't think it is low. For companies like banks and communication operators that hold massive amounts of data, this is definitely a qualitative leap.

Another example is that Liu Fan mentioned that compared with the highest commercial technology level, there is actually one thing that is no longer a secret, that is, the most powerful technology is usually first used by the military, so some commercial technology levels may be The military uses the rest, as long as Liu Fan can be competitive in the civilian range.

It took about a second after Liu Fan finished praying, and the screen of the mobile phone displayed: Task matching.

Then I was about to wait anxiously, and the task came out, and the efficiency was overwhelming:
Blessing matching task "Mathematics is the father of everything": In the final exam of this semester, the average score of the three subjects of "Probability", "Discrete Mathematics" and "Complex Variable Function" reached 90 points or more.

Task reward: "In-depth application of big data processing" and random scoring rewards
Remarks: There are gains and losses. If the task fails, the system will be frozen for one year.

In just three lines, Liu Fan felt angina.

This kind of pain can only be understood by warriors majoring in information and computing science and applied mathematics.

When he was a freshman, Liu Fan saw that the Internet was full of jokes about the difficulty of high mathematics and failing high mathematics subjects. As a result, he found that he was a mathematics major in the Faculty of Science, but he did not have the course "Advanced Mathematics".

Later, Mr. Zhang, who taught "Mathematical Analysis", told everyone that the country used to think that college students should learn mathematics, so teachers majoring in mathematics were asked to set a mathematics course for them to learn. So the teachers considered that it is not easy for college students, so they selected The simplest "Advanced Mathematics" is used as a general mathematics textbook for universities.

Later, Mr. Li, who taught "Differential Equations", told everyone that the status of "Advanced Mathematics" in the Faculty of Science is basically the same as that of the National Football Team in the sports world, so it is impossible for the Faculty of Science to teach "Advanced Mathematics", and I can't afford to lose that person.

Liu Fan managed to get a third-class national scholarship for two consecutive years, but his average score in each semester was only about 70 points.Zhang Kaixiang, the super academic who has won the first-class scholarship for two consecutive years in the class, has an average score of 95, but the average score of the second in the class is basically 85, which is not bad.

Only students of information and computing science and applied mathematics have truly experienced the fear of being dominated by mathematics.

So the task issued by the system seems simple, but it really seems to be.
What makes Liu Fan even more disheartened is that the final exam is less than a month away
(End of this chapter)