Hammer of Technology

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There were many things at the end of the year, and Ji Mingzhi, Meng Runze, Lu Ying, Chen Yuru, Wang Sitang, and Li Jingwen had all started their basic studies before formal enrollment, so it was not good for Ning Wei to stay in the laboratory.

However, the design work of the CPU has not been put down.

After the instruction set is completed, the next step is the design of the chip architecture. In other words, on the basis of the instruction set, a series of complete design arrangements for the components contained in the CPU, such as control units, logic units, and storage units, are realized.

This area is actually March's strength, especially when it comes to completing simulation tests through design drawings. March can replace EDA software to complete tests more efficiently, thus saving a lot of time.

But at the same time, this is also a job that requires sufficient detail and is extremely time-consuming.

If it is a traditional chip design, there are already ready-made templates for the realization of many functions, which can be directly applied. However, the three-dimensional silicon-through-body circuit is completely different from the previous design ideas, and the stacking method is also different.

For example, the modules used to complete a specific task in a chip were concentrated on a small plane and connected by circuits. For the problem of heat dissipation inside the space, often when this kind of task is running, it cannot be carried out in adjacent through-tubes, and there must be at least one silicon-through-tube around it, and the circuit is connected through the upper and lower panels.

There is no ready-made template, and the design process is destined to be more complicated, which also adds a lot of difficulty to the chip design stage.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to completely pursue high efficiency. This kind of work really requires Ningwei to do it alone. Not only is the efficiency low, but it will really drive the whole person crazy.So Ningwei really can't help much, and he can only learn about the design progress shared with him by Ningsi Lab every day, and occasionally give some opinions.

This also allowed Ning Wei to focus more on the judging of this year's March Awards.

According to the previously announced process, the annual March Smart Award winner will be announced in December of that year, and the bonus will be officially awarded and an award ceremony will be held in March of the following year.For Ningwei, this is a job that is no less important than chip design.

In order to participate in the SODA conference, Ning Wei made a great wish when he was queuing up for visas. He hoped that the academic centers would gather in Huaxia in the future, so that everyone would not have to queue up for visas.

If this goal is to be achieved, a scientific award with sufficient influence in the world is one of the foundations.Wait until the March Intelligence Award is widely recognized by the world's academic circles, and wait until the influence of the March series of intelligence journals increases, and a series of the world's top academic conferences will be held.

So the first selection is still very important.

At least to ensure fairness, or...

"What the hell am I the first candidate for the mathematics and computer awards?"

Seeing the comprehensive data judgment given by March at the end, Ning Wei was a little confused.

"Meow, this is the result of comprehensive data judgment. You get the most votes. Mathematical discoveries are closely integrated with application fields. Mathematical achievements have promoted the understanding of partial differential equations and built a number theory foundation for machine intelligence and big data transfer and screening. , especially if it is judged according to the comprehensive value after sorting the recent comprehensive results, of course it is you..."

"But I said that I will not participate in the selection of any awards for the March Awards."

"Meow, this element of determination is not included in the necessary conditions."

"Okay, so now for inclusion."

"Meow...then introduce the second batch of candidates."

This time, Ning Wei finally seemed to be normal.

According to the results given in March, apart from Ning Wei, there are two second-rank candidates for the March Math Award.

Ukrainian female mathematician Marina Wiazovska, the reason for her recommendation is that she almost perfectly solved the eight-dimensional ball loading problem, and cooperated with others to solve the 24-dimensional ball loading problem in a similar way, which has been proved in recent years Contrary to Korevaar and Meyers' conjecture on small designs of arbitrary dimensions, a major breakthrough has been made in the modular form of closest-packed work.

Austrian mathematician Jody Williamson, a geek in the field of number theory, pioneered a new technical method in the study of group theory, which can effectively solve a series of group theory problems.

The reason why there are two people in the second series is mainly based on the model constructed in March. The final scores of the two are very similar, with a difference of three decimal places...

Of course, these are nothing to Ning Wei.

Judging from the comprehensive dimension in March, if there is no problem with this score, the two will win the award together.

Compared with Austria, female mathematicians in Uzbekistan look more pleasing to the eye, so it is good to be in the front.

By the way, Ning Wei also read a few papers published by the two of them. From this point of view, we know that Ning Wei is not closely related to the contemporary world of mathematics. After all, these two are outstanding mathematicians among the young generation. All are considered candidates for the Fields Medal.

Of course, these are not important. Rather, the main research is whether the nominated candidates are enough.

This is the most important.

Fortunately, although the March Award may not be so eye-catching among ordinary people, the academia is still very face-saving. In the candidate pool, there are a total of 39 candidates for the Mathematics Award, of which 31 were recommended by major academic institutions. Qualified senior scientists recommended 8 people.

As for the March Computer Award, if Ning Wei is excluded, Lermontov Gard is currently ranked first among the 67 candidates, and Ning Wei discovered a very embarrassing situation.

For example, GPT-3, which once made the entire Silicon Valley crazy, was originally the first idea proposed by this professor.

Especially after providing a dedicated OpenAI API for GPT-3 as a researcher at that time, many developers also used the open API to design many wonderful functions. The only problem is that the current GRT-3 of GRT-5 at that time, theoretically Generally speaking, it is a one-way natural language model training method, in other words, it is a model that enables machines to understand natural language.

At that time, people even reported that a scientific research monopoly in the AI ​​​​field was forming. After all, 1700 billion parameters made people feel daunting.Even at that time, it led to a self-deprecating sentence in the industry, poor in theory, rich in pre-training.

But the birth in March directly made this technology tasteless.

After all, Ningwei can bluntly tell the world that no machine or software can understand human natural language better than March. When March was born, it was not just as simple as translating papers. The existence of mathematics editors of countless top mathematics journals has been concealed.Its comments on many mathematics papers have still shamed many mathematics professors...

Not only that, his science popularization on Weibo has directly prevented billions of netizens from recognizing that it is actually a machine, and all copywriting is automatically generated.What's even more frightening is that March doesn't need parameter adjustment...

This is probably the embarrassment caused by awarding the award to No.1 after removing No.2.

In fact, everyone knew that there was no suspense for Ning Wei to come to receive this award, because in the past few years, no one has been able to control the entire computer industry, whether it is hardware or software, or in the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence field. Neglecting Ningwei's contribution has even surpassed Ningwei's contribution in the field of mathematics.

This is also the reason why the Turing Award had to be awarded to Ning Wei. Ten years later, it is impossible to find another person who can make more contributions to computers than Ning Wei.But under the circumstances that Ning Wei was determined not to participate in the election, the biggest contribution of the final winner has been eliminated by the award system...

Or it is not appropriate to eliminate, because although it is tasteless, major technical fund contributors and developers including OpenAI, Google, and Facebook have not completely given up. After all, at present, without considering March, GRT -5 is still the most advanced intelligent language system in the world, and it can basically be used to write all kinds of papers that have nothing to say and seem like that.

To be honest, Ning Wei felt awkward looking at this candidate, so he could only skip it, as long as everyone knew what the situation was.

Fortunately, at least for now, the March Physics Award has little to do with Ning Wei. This is obviously the weakest category of the March Award. There are only 18 candidates on the list. The highest ranked are Mika Slampa, John ·Teufel and Shlomy Kotler.

The contributions of the three belong to two different teams, but the contributions are the same, and the specific explanation is very troublesome. Generally speaking, it can be summarized as realizing quantum entanglement at the macro level in different ways. In other words, these studies may break quantum physics. The boundary with classical physics allows the two to be unified to some extent.

Just because the breakthroughs made by the three are similar, the final scores given by March are also similar, directly accurate to five decimal places.

So in theory, the March Physics Award will be awarded directly to these three people. According to the practice of other awards, this year's prize money should be divided equally between these three winners, each with 100 million yuan.

This is also very good, more people come to win the prize, and it is more lively.

For this year's March Smart Award winners, Ning Wei began to think about how to build momentum for this year's March Smart Award ceremony.

Theoretically speaking, this kind of scientific award is different from the Oscar award in the entertainment circle, and it doesn't need too many gimmicks.After all, the scientific world does not need as much public attention as the entertainment circle.

But Ning Wei is a young man with ideas after all. For this newly established award, if there is no gimmick, it is still difficult to attract everyone's attention, thereby raising the value of the award and achieving the purpose of publicity.

Especially those outstanding scientific research talents abroad, such as Lucy Ron.

To attract the attention of the young generation of outstanding talents, let them know that Huaxia has a world-wide award with high credibility, and still needs some celebrities to stand on the platform.

Of course, these celebrities must not be celebrities in the entertainment industry.

It is best to be an internationally recognized figure in various academic circles. He knows many talented people in the field of mathematics and computing, but unfortunately, the relationship is definitely not very good.After thinking about it, he was most sure to invite Professor Smith, who had become acquainted with the NS equation. Unfortunately, this professor has already gone to study philosophy.However, there is still influence, and they can be invited to support the scene.

There is also Professor Shen from Penn West University, who is also a master in the field of mathematics. Although the two of them do not have much contact, they only met at two computer conferences, but Lao Shen and Director Lu are good friends, and the two have always been friends. Keeping in touch with emails should also give him face, and then Lucy Ron's former mentor—Professor John Wilson is also one of the leaders in the computer industry. I believe he will also give his favorite student face, of course The premise is that he has to convince Lucy that woman, and this woman is still angry with him because of the confidentiality code...

In addition, he still has the confidence to invite Michael I Jordan to the platform. The only academic leader who used to be a leader in the field of artificial intelligence has always had a good relationship with him. After blushing, he would often find time to answer some questions from the boss about the design concept of March.

In addition to these people, Ning Wei found that he really didn't have the face to invite more famous foreign experts in the academic world, but mobilizing the big guys like Director Tian and Dean Yao, he should be able to invite more than a dozen big names in the academic world, but For Ningwei's plan, it still failed to meet his expectations, so Ningwei naturally thought of the bigwigs of those technology companies.

After going through it in his brain, Ning Wei immediately felt keenly that it was probably the most cost-effective publicity for the well-known leaders of these technology companies to stand for the March Smart Awards.

These bigwigs not only bring their own traffic, but also the actions of these companies have great weight in the hearts of countless young people who are interested in scientific research. Many bigwigs have a technical background, and many of them are even idols of the younger generation. .

It shouldn't be a big problem to invite those domestic bigwigs, after all, Brother Liu still has a lot of face.He is quite familiar with the bigwigs in the foreign technology industry, at least they still have their phone numbers.

The only problem is probably that some time ago, everyone may have had some misunderstandings, which led him to blacklist the numbers of these big bosses for a while. The good news is that the misunderstanding should have been resolved now. I don’t know if the big guys on the opposite side will give him this Save face.

Ning Wei has always been a practical school. If he doesn't give face, a phone call and an invitation should have results.

After thinking about it for a while, Ning Wei decided to make the first call to Tim Cook. Speaking of which, the Smart Alliance is still in the honeymoon period with Apple, especially because Apple's second-generation cars still rely on the March smart platform to pass big data screening. The integrated database of materials has been developed to follow the construction of advanced battery...

The only regret is probably that Apple will have to face more than a dozen patent lawsuits because of joining the Intelligent Platform Alliance. Of course, I would rather believe that with Tim Cook's ability and Apple's strong legal department, it is the best way to deal with these lawsuits. piece of cake……

But this time, Ning Wei still paid attention to the time difference because he wanted something from others.

I waited until eight o'clock in the evening, that is, eight o'clock in the morning Silicon Valley time, before dialing Tim Cook's phone.

What made him happy was that the bigwig in the technology industry didn't blacklist his phone, so he was very polite after the call was made.

"Mr. Cook, hello."

"Oh, Ning, really, I almost don't know what kind of emotions I should show when I receive your call now, why don't you tell me first after today's call, will I feel happy or surprised or will I have to pay extra?" Apply for an overtime salary of hundreds of millions of dollars."

See, this is probably why Ning Wei thinks Tim Cook is not bad.

A boss with a sense of humor can always make people feel like a spring breeze with a single sentence, which makes Ning Wei feel that he should learn this way of communication...

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359 A Polite Invitation

Ning Wei was very moved by the elegance shown by Tim Cook. This is probably a friend, so Ning Wei also behaved very directly.

"Haha, Tim, this time is a good thing. Tomorrow we will announce the list of winners for the March Smart Awards. In the middle of March next year, well, the initial schedule is March 3, and the award ceremony will be broadcast live to the world. Thinking of our Therefore, we invite you to participate in this awards ceremony."

"March next year? Wait a minute, let me check the schedule first. Is there any important event planned at that time... Well, it seems that there is not yet, but there will be an important meeting in Europe on March [-]th next year , It has been determined that I must attend, I hope this meeting will not last too long, if the problem can be solved in two days, I should be able to free up time."

"Oh? March [-]th? It's really a bit unsafe. Why don't you tell me why the meeting time is so coincidental? I'll try to see if I can change the time for this meeting. To tell you the truth, although I am in The reputation in the United States may not be very good, but my reputation in Europe is still good, and I have many friends, and some friends can still talk."

"Well... it was a meeting about the latest revision of the General Data Protection Regulation, and I was invited to give some speeches. Ning, it's a coincidence that this revision of GDPR can be said to be the result of the officials' belief that the emergence of strong artificial intelligence has brought Some technical changes need to be changed. Huawei will also participate in this meeting. At this meeting, it is necessary to determine whether strong artificial intelligence devices can obtain users’ private data at the legal level, or whether we should hand over the data to a thinker The machine to manage. The final discussion results will be directly related to our future product planning, and related to the future development behavior norms of those developers.”

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Ning Wei really didn't expect to invite Tim Cook to participate in the awards ceremony in March next year, and he could still hear such news. It's quite interesting, because he didn't think about it himself.

"Then what do you mean?"

"If machines can serve humans better, why not? It was a discussion of choking, so I decided to be invited to speak at the conference. The focus of this topic should be how to ensure that people's private data is in Under the strong intelligence management mechanism, how to pass legislation to ensure that these data are not leaked procedurally, rather than whether machine consciousness should serve human beings. The former is a legal topic that truly adapts to the times, and the latter is a necessary step for technological development. "

"Haha, Tim, I think we can become very good friends, because I think so too. But in fact, they all know this, but there are too many people who dare not face up to the development of the times, or they They are unwilling to fully invest in intellectual property rights that do not belong to the platform. If the March Smart Platform is in their hands, the topic of the meeting must be how to effectively protect private data from being leaked through machine awareness.”

"Maybe, then..."

"Don't worry, Tim, if you really want to come to our awards ceremony, I believe you will have time then. After all, you can't keep speaking at the meeting. Don't you think that when you finish expressing your opinions, if you continue Is it a waste of time to stay there? Of course, it’s a little hard work to rush from Europe to China.”

"Okay, Ning, I'll ask the secretary to help me arrange the time."

"Thank you very much, Tim Cook. This time, I will treat you to a barbecue in the capital. Believe me, the place I invite you to, the taste... definitely cannot be tasted in the United States."

"I'll keep looking forward!"

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Hanging up the phone, Ning Wei thought about it carefully.

Although he did not consider the issue of privacy, in fact, Huawei should have considered this issue.

In order to ensure that smart applications can bring changes to people's lives, they need to obtain some extremely private content, such as voice service content, such as machine chat assistant software on new smartphones. First, they need to obtain the read permission of private content , to be able to provide services.

It's like Ning Wei asked March to manage his own Weibo, first of all he had to give it permission to read the content of the comment area, and to let March manage WeChat, he also needed to give March the permission to read WeChat content.

Technically speaking, artificial intelligence uses an extremely strict programming language to limit that it will not spread any user privacy content.Even if the machine is given the power to chat autonomously, these programs will completely avoid privacy disclosure during the chat process.

To be honest, when it comes to keeping secrets, artificial intelligence is definitely much more reliable than humans.If legislation is really passed to protect privacy, all privacy is only stored in the database of artificial intelligence, and it is basically impossible to leak it unless the person responsible for managing the artificial intelligence data platform is dealt with.

After having a definite understanding, Ning Wei didn't intend to ask about it again.

If the final discussion on this topic is to limit the privacy of machines, it is obviously not a technical matter.Whether it is Huawei or Apple, it is definitely more motivated to solve this problem, and he does not need to worry too much.

He even hopes that after the final revision of the regulations, Apple will be pushed harder.

In this way, it is impossible to say that his previous imagination will come true.

The in-depth cooperation between Apple and Huawei, especially Apple's removal of the barriers of the Apple Mall for Huawei products, everyone united, with the strongest intelligent management platform, is enough to jointly carve up more than 90.00% of the world's high-end product market and 80.00% of the middle and low-end market.

This data is not a conclusion drawn by Ning Wei. Once the ability of artificial intelligence is fully activated, the user experience will be improved exponentially.Who doesn't want their necessary communication equipment to be able to do all the preparations before doing a certain thing?

So after going through the agenda of the meeting in his mind, Ning Wei put the matter aside.Again, he doesn't intend to get involved in business matters.

Opening the cell phone address book, he decided to call the big boss of Facebook-Mark Zuckerberg for the second call.This boss has never been to Huaxia, and Ning Wei thinks he can try to invite him.

The main reason is that Ning Wei feels that the private content of many users on Facebook has not been flooded on the Internet, and Mark Zuckerberg needs to thank him for this.He could have made money with a major architectural flaw in Facebook's program, but he gave up.

Especially after Facebook changed its name to meta and showed its ambitions for the metaverse, there is a basis for cooperation between the two sides.

Adhering to the principle of putting the easy ones first and then the difficult ones, I have a better chance of inviting this otaku living in the United States to the awards ceremony.

What makes Ning Wei happy is that he still hasn't been blocked.

"Mr. Zuckerberg, I am Ning Wei."

"Actually, I know..."

"This call is to inform you of good news, Mr. Zuckerberg, you have been selected as a special guest for the first global awards ceremony of the March Smart Awards, which will be held on March [-] next year with China is holding it, so can you spare time to attend this awards ceremony?"

"Uh……"

"You can follow your heart, Mr. Zuckerberg, we have relatively few contacts, it should be said that we have never met, you may not know me well, but in fact I appreciate the kind of people who dare to say no to life. For example Not everyone has the courage to resolutely drop out of school after being admitted to Harvard and achieve success through entrepreneurship to change their lives. You can do what Bill Gates did, but you are still facing a more complicated situation than Bill’s time. In comparison, you are even greater than Bill. So I really hope you can come to this ceremony and we can have a good chat."

"After all, although Facebook's name change to meta does not represent the future era of the metaverse, Facebook is still the overlord of social networking on the Internet. Perhaps in the virtual space opened up by technology in the future, people will be more accustomed to using another metaverse that can be used. Alternative social software for logging in with a general account and sharing virtual network life, such as nose book? Or eye book? This is very possible, Mr. Zuckerberg, what do you think?"

Mark Zuckerberg probably didn't expect to hear such a content when he picked up the phone. He obviously hesitated for a long time before the voice came from the other side.