Hammer of Technology

This kind of enthusiasm brought to the school by public discussion is likely to improve the quality of students in the next one to several years.From the school's point of view, this is more valuable than a few papers with the school's name on them.

The reason for the depression is that the school probably won't be able to keep such a student who can be used as a signboard.

Ning Wei has been flirting with Yanbei University for a couple of days, let alone hiding it.And all of this happened after he talked with Ning Weishen once, and he had already promised the best conditions.

How can you not be bored?

So Du Shaodong picked up the phone.

"Old Kong, Ning Wei hasn't made a statement yet? Shouldn't you be more active?"

"Principal Du, I have done all the work that should be done here, but it's not good to force Ning Wei to give up the opportunity to study at Yanbei University, right? Do you think the professors in our School of Mathematics don't want to keep him? How can this matter happen?" No wonder we are on the top of the school! If it wasn’t for the research and admissions office who blocked the application for exemption from the school, wouldn’t he have been retained by us long ago?”

This makes sense, and Principal Du can't refute it.

Hanging up the phone with a "bang", Du Shaodong called the graduate school, and after asking about the situation in a calm tone, he asked, "There used to be a teacher Xue from the Research and Admissions Office who is still in school?"

"Yes, but he has been transferred from his original position and is now responsible for the maintenance of the media laboratory."

"Oh, that's it. Recently, I have heard some people say that the administrative posts in some academies' laboratories have seriously exceeded the standard. Is this the case?"

"The administrative post in the laboratory exceeds the standard? Oh, yes, I have heard of this problem. I will communicate with the logistics department and ask them to check themselves first?"

"Well! As soon as possible! If you have any results, report to me directly!"

"Okay, Principal Du!"

After hanging up the phone, I felt relieved, but seemed more bored.

……

Ning Wei, who was still in the United States, didn't know that his speech at the soda conference was like a roc flapping its wings dozens of times, blowing the wind thousands of miles away.

After dragging Yu Xingwei back to the room, he turned on the laptop.

Professor Shen is right!

It is indeed easy to spark ideas when communicating with colleagues. For example, the communication with Lucy Ron made his thinking much clearer.

He wants to write a program, a program that relies on precise floating-point calculations but can randomly choose the direction of evolution, and finally hatches.

This is definitely much more interesting than Schrödinger's cat. It is more like opening a blind box. Before the blind box chooses and hatches a state, even the person who created this program does not know what will pop out of that box. .

So although the code of the program has not yet started typing, Ning Wei has already thought of the name of this small program, and it is called Ning Wei's Black Box.

Sure enough, when he was immersed in this program, he found the comfort of crazy output again.

This time is also different from tinkering with the turbulence algorithm and wanting to get the eda project, because he can complete all the work of typing the code without help.

Because according to the idea in the brain, this program code itself is not very complicated, what is complicated or even subtle is the mathematical ideas and structure contained in it.

"President Xiao Ning, what are you going to do?"

Seeing Ning Wei rushing into the room, opening his notebook and getting busy, Yu Xingwei refused to see this scene from the bottom of his heart.

He hoped that Ning Wei could behave more normally, such as watching American blockbusters with him, discussing the aesthetics of violence under the old American lens, and finally came out, why can't he relax and have a spiritual spa?

If it doesn't work, they can go to the dinner party to hang out and communicate with the boss!

What is the difference between holding a computer and typing codes in a hotel in a tourist city in the United States, and being busy in a laboratory?

Well, the essence of this matter is that when seeing a person who is already better than him, working harder than him, it is very easy for people to feel a negative emotion called despair!

However, Ning Wei's answer made Yu Xingwei realize that his inner worries were the truth.

"The inspiration came. After discussing it with Lucy, I felt that I might be able to write a program that can be called the originator of artificial intelligence."

Hearing this answer...

Yu Xingwei was really on the verge of depression.

However, Ningwei's performance made him even more depressed, because this guy was really immersed in the world of programming, and he ignored his depression at all.

Ah……

This is what is called genius!

……

Just as Feng Shaojie predicted, from the second day of the meeting, people left one after another.

There are even fewer exhibitors in the poster hall.

Especially for many people who come to the conference at their own expense, every extra day of board and lodging is not a small burden. Of course, more people choose to leave simply because they have heard what they want to hear, and there is no need to waste time on it. In the meeting, the extra time is not as good as going around and having fun.

But Yu Xingwei could only stay in the room for most of the two consecutive days, playing with his mobile phone with Ning Wei who was competing with a so-called originator of artificial intelligence program.

During the period, Professor Shen came to visit once, and Feng Shaojie also came to chat with him a few times, but Ning Wei just said hello and was busy with his own business there.

Lucy Ron came twice, and the two had an extremely in-depth exchange, no, it should be said that it was from discussion to quarrel...

It's a real academic quarrel.

This also refreshed Yu Xingwei's understanding of Ning Wei once again. Ning Wei, who has always been very gentle, actually defended his point of view for a complicated random number sampling problem...

Even Yu Xingwei unceremoniously said a sentence that made Yu Xingwei feel extremely awesome when he thought of it: "Ms. Maintain your so-called charm for the opposite sex, let your understanding of some advanced mathematical ideas be as naive as a newborn baby! Wasted attention even eats up your thoughts! Burn all your piles of evening dresses, and they will be exchanged for Your praise will only make you go further and further down the stupid road!"

Hearing this, Yu Xingwei was still thankful that the two of them communicated in English, otherwise he suspected that Ning Wei would have simply replaced the word "stupid" with "big breasts and no brains"!

But the result was no different.

This Harvard female Ph.D. turned around and left the room angrily. The sound of closing the door before leaving probably caused the whole floor to tremble!

However, Ning Wei continued to sit in front of his computer and continue programming as if nothing happened the next moment...

A 23-year-old female Ph.D. from Harvard, the official darling of an Ivy League university...

After seeing this scene, Yu Xingwei even secretly rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, this meeting was not in Cambridge, the seat of Harvard University. Otherwise, he doubted whether Ning Wei and him could walk out of Harvard's campus upright...

This also made Yu Xingwei more interested in Ning Wei's tossing procedure.

What is it?Can a gentle child become so violent?

Fortunately, it didn't make him curious for too long. On the third night of the conference, he was holding a mobile phone and sending some pictures obtained through various methods in the group every day to describe the decaying capital with his hard-working colleagues in the laboratory. Ning Wei finally took the initiative to stand up from the computer when he was not in need of food or physiological excretion.

"It's done? So fast?" Yu Xingwei asked in surprise.

Although he knew very well that Ning Wei was definitely a fast shooter in the coding world, and he knew better how efficient he was, but he still felt that he was too fast to be worthy of the term "artificial intelligence originator program".

"It's not too fast, is it? There are only more than 3000 lines of programs in total. After packaging a program with a size of more than ten megabytes, I have modified it several times in the past two days." Ning Wei stretched fiercely and replied.

"Can I take a look?"

"Of course! This is it..."

Ning Wei opened the program casually, and what Yu Xingwei saw was a square three-dimensional black box, so simple that there was no interactive interface.

"That's it?" Yu Xingwei was dumbfounded.

"Do you dare to underestimate it?" Ning Wei asked back.

"No, it's not a question of whether I underestimate it or not. You tell me that this thing is a program that exists like the originator of artificial intelligence in the future?" Yu Xingwei really felt that his IQ was insulted this time.

"Look at the CPU utilization first."

"Huh? It's almost full capacity, no, such a program consumes so many resources, is it considered an advantage?" Yu Xingwei was still confused.

After all, this means that after running this program, it will feel strange to run other programs, and may even directly cause the system to blue screen and crash.

Didn't you hear that the fan of the notebook is turning "whining"?

Ning Wei thought for a while and explained: "Don't underestimate it. Really, I bought 3tb of cloud space for it. But this is not the point. The process of data crawling, selection and conversion will consume a lot of traffic, thanks This hotel has wifi, and the speed is not bad, otherwise the money given by the school may not be enough to buy data. In addition, my computer configuration is a little bit worse, so now I don’t know if it can achieve the expected effect.”

"But what you need to know is that at this time, it is completing the self-incubation process of intelligent life through this computer at a speed of about 20 billion calculations per second. Let's put it this way, you know Apple's Siri and Google's Le Assistant, right?"

Yu Xingwei nodded.

"Maybe when it completes its self-evolution, its dialogue ability can be more intelligent than them without the help of a huge server in the background. Of course, this is only a possibility. There may be other possibilities. The public database on the World Wide Web is It is the carrier for obtaining nutrients. This is what excites me the most about this software, because I don’t know what kind of surprises it will bring me after countless times of autonomously grabbing data, choosing paths, and updating iteratively. .”

To be honest, although Yu Xingwei is a Ph.D. in computer science, through this very abstract description, he actually doesn't quite understand what kind of program this is.But it sounds really awesome.

It's just that now it seems that the waiting time has to be extended again.

"Wait until this time tomorrow. The limited time is 24 hours. For the current computing power of this laptop, 24 hours is enough. Then we will know what it will look like. But it may fail, after all, this is the first One try. The only trouble is that this software is too computationally intensive, and it is not very valuable for promotion and application without special hardware matching."

Ning Wei said regretfully, and then looked at Yu Xingwei: "Brother Yu, for example, would you buy a computer and rent about ten terabytes of space every year just to support this software? A server, keep it?"

Yu Xingwei shook his head honestly, and then added: "Unless I have too much money to burn, no, even if I have too much money to burn, there is nothing I can do. If I want to buy a special computer, it will run a broken computer." software."

"So." Ning Wei shrugged.

"However, if tomorrow's results amaze me, and I have so much money that I can't afford it, maybe I will buy it. After all, it is quite expensive to ask someone to chat with me, and the language ability that it may evolve when you are older than Siri and le assistant are still powerful. Of course, besides me, Apple and Google will also do the same, their servers are more expensive! But the first condition is, can you guarantee this?" Yu Xingwei asked rhetorically.

Ning Wei thought for a while, then shook his head, and said, "I really don't dare, because maybe the cloud space is full of data after opening, and maybe the evolved thing doesn't have any language ability, but Being able to see the world through a camera and have the ability to grasp the key points like a human brain, in short, there are many possibilities, and I don’t know the final result.”

"So, let's wait until tomorrow. Besides, tomorrow is the last day of the meeting. Can we go out for a stroll?"

Staying in the hotel room for two consecutive days really suffocated Yu Xingwei.

At least in the laboratory, he can go out to stroll around the campus, but in the hotel he has to watch Ning Wei, he really dare not go out!

"Don't you have to stay for another day the day after tomorrow? Aren't you excited about what can be hatched in the end with this program? Believe me, it's really worth looking forward to." Ning Wei shook his head and said excitedly.

Is it worth looking forward to? !

Maybe……

Fortunately, 24 hours is actually not long, and during the day, Ning Wei was dragged out of the room by Yu Xingwei, and went to two small venues with [-] people to listen to the report. In this way, he spent the whole day and finally stayed up until [-] in the evening At this point, Yu Xingwei stood beside Ning Wei, staring at the three-dimensional black box on the screen...

"How did this thing change?"

"Just click the mouse!"

"Then hurry up!" But Yu Xingwei was in a hurry. He had been waiting for a whole day to see what kind of thing could be hatched from the program that Ning Wei had blown to such a degree...

"Okay!" After finishing speaking, Ning Wei moved the mouse with a holy face, and clicked on the black box...

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118 Do you call it the originator of intelligence?

The moment of anticipation is always so long.

When Ningwei clicked the mouse on the black box, the already wild CPU fan sounded a little louder, and then there was a freeze that lasted for about a minute, and finally Yu Xingwei almost couldn't help but want to smash Ningwei. When the card reached the extreme broken notebook, there was finally movement on the screen.

The black box began to explode one after another, then shrank and fell to the side, and a three-dimensional display of a cat cub appeared in the sight of the two of them...

That's right, it's a little milk cat. It looks like a young Chinese garden cat. It's small, delicate and weak, with yellow and white fur, especially the white hair around its eyes. The brain is curled up in the screen, looking up, as if using it to focus on the world outside the screen.

Yu Xingwei glanced at Ning Wei, and found that Ning Wei was dumbstruck.

"So, the originator of artificial intelligence in the future is a cat?" Yu Xingwei said with emotion.

Ning Wei ignored Yu Xingwei, but waved at the position of the laptop camera, and then said hello: "Hi, hello!"

However, the kitten on the screen didn't seem to respond. No, it still reacted. The kitten opened its mouth and let out a baby-like cry: "Meow... Ka Ka Ka..."

The kitten's voice was not loud, but Yu Xingwei knew that Ning Wei must have turned the volume of the laptop to the maximum, because the sound of the system freezing afterwards was many times louder than the initial meowing...

"This is……"

"This program can obtain all the permissions of this computer, which means that it can automatically use the camera and microphone, so maybe its cry just now is a response to my actions." Ning Wei explained.

Yu Xingwei was a little confused!

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that Ning Wei's judgment was a bit unreliable.

Not only that, this kitten obviously consumes too much CPU, but just meowing, it can make this notebook start to freeze in an instant. If not, this program may still be used as an electronic pet, after all, the screen fidelity It is really tall, and even the fluff on the face can be seen clearly, which basically reaches the upper limit of the screen display. In addition, the image of this little milk cat is really cute, and people can't help but want to rub it when they look at it small head.

But no matter how you look at it, it is a very failed program.

But the next moment, he didn't think so.

Because he was surprised to find that when Ning Wei moved his body, although the picture lagged a bit, the eyes of this little milk cat were indeed shaking with the pace of Ning Wei's left and right movements.

When Ning Wei walked out of the range that the computer camera could observe, the little milk cat actually stood up and took two staggering steps in the direction where Ning Wei disappeared.

And when Ning Wei returned to the observation range of the camera, the kitten lay down on the screen again, and then called again: "Aim..."

Yu Xingwei's mind instantly became confused.

So is this simple computer vision tracking feedback, or is this on-screen cat really intelligent?

Although he is a Ph.D. in computer science, he found that everything at this time really touched the blind spot of his knowledge.

The point is that there is no way to test it.