Tech Hammer

The long awaited moments are always long.

When Ning Wei clicked the mouse on the black box, the already loud noise of the CPU fan became louder, and then the screen stuck for about a minute. Finally, Yu Xingwei almost couldn't help but want to smash Ning Wei's box. When the laptop was stuck to the extreme, there was finally movement on the screen.

The black box began to explode one by one, then shrunk and fell to the side. A three-dimensional cat cub appeared in the sight of the two...

That's right, it's a little milk cat. It looks like a young Chinese garden cat. It's small, delicate, and frail. Its fur is yellow and white. The white fur around its eyes is particularly conspicuous. At this time, it is growing its fur. The brain is curled up in the screen, head raised, as if it is paying attention to the world outside the screen with its cute and confused eyes.

Yu Xingwei glanced at Ning Wei and found that Ning Wei was not interested.

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

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

However, the kitten on the screen seemed to have no reaction. No, it still reacted. The kitten opened its mouth and made a milky sound: "Meow... Ka Ka Ka Ka..."

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

"This is……"

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

Yu Xingwei was a little confused!

No matter which way he looked at it, he felt that Ning Wei's judgment was somewhat unreliable.

Not only that, this kitten obviously consumes too much CPU. Just barking can cause the notebook to start to freeze instantly. If not, this program may be used as an electronic pet. After all, the picture is so realistic. It's really high, and you can even see the fluff on the face clearly. This basically reaches the upper limit of the screen display. In addition, the image of this little milk cat is really cute. People can't help but want to rub it when they look at it. Little brain.

But no matter how you look at it, it is an extremely failed program.

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

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

When Ning Wei walked out of the observation range of the computer camera, the little milk cat stood up and staggered two steps in the direction where Ning Wei disappeared.

When Ning Wei returned to the camera's observation range, the kitten lay down on the screen again, and then called out again: "Aim..."

Yu Xingwei's brain was instantly confused.

So is this simple computer vision tracking feedback, or does the cat on the screen actually have some intelligence?

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

The key is that there is no way to test it yet.

Although SIRI is stupid, you can ask her some simple questions and you won’t get stuck; Google Assistant can also help people call and make an appointment with Tony; this thing can only glance twice, do you need to learn it first to do the Turing test? Cat language?

"How do you plan to test this thing? Can it understand human speech?" Yu Xingwei asked, pointing to the cat.

"It's normal. I probably can't understand it, otherwise I wouldn't be screaming."

Ning Wei explained, then took out his mobile phone and connected to the cloud space.

Only one-tenth of the 3TB space is currently used, and there is a bunch of fragmented data in it, some of which are still being added, and some of which have been deleted. Of course, this is normal, but all data must be interpreted by the program.

Putting down the phone, Ning Wei started to operate the computer, ignoring the kitten on the screen, but the system was too stuck. When the mouse moved, the little cat would wave its little paws from time to time to chase the direction of the mouse, and then update Card……

After enduring the system being stuck and exploding, it took Ning Wei ten minutes to enter the program's console, but he couldn't see anything different for the time being.

"It seems I need a better laptop." Ning Wei spread his hands, feeling a little distressed.

"Is it used to amuse the cat? It's really too stuck. The cat is stuck even when it doesn't move, and it gets stuck even more when it moves! But having said that, let's not talk about intelligence or not. This cat is really cute. I feel like it when I look at it. I want to raise one. And if this program can be made less computationally intensive and sell some virtual cat food and clothes, maybe someone will really pay for this software." Yu Xingwei gave a very pertinent evaluation ,

Ning Wei: "..."

Well, it is indeed a blind box program, and it did not evolve a human-like image in the end, which seems a little imperfect.

But think about it from another direction. The collision of countless random data at least did not evolve the appearance of a cockroach. This should be considered a blessing among misfortunes.

"Well, Brother Yu, you haven't touched the three thousand dollars that I gave you before leaving the school, right?" After a long silence, Ning Wei asked Yu Xingwei.

"I really want to make a move, but you have to give me that chance." Yu Xingwei glanced at Ning Wei resentfully, and the resentment overflowed as if it were real.

Yes, staying in a hotel with all meals and lodging included, there really isn’t much you can do with your money.

"Great, our combined money is six thousand US dollars, which is enough for me to buy a similar laptop. I will pay you back when I go back." Ning Wei looked at Yu Xingwei and said.

Ning Wei brought a UnionPay card, but the money in it was not much. He left most of the one million yuan to his family, leaving only more than 10,000 yuan in his card for living expenses.

"Take it and use it. Why don't you pay it back? This money can't be used up, why don't you give it to the school? Anyway, I don't have much use for the money. The notebooks purchased by our school are a bit useless. I will send out the paper later. When the time comes, don’t forget to keep leaving a second or third role position for Brother Yu.” Yu Xingwei said very openly.

Anyway, it was generous to the school, not to mention that his trip to the United States was originally obtained by Ning Wei for help, so he was very open to this aspect.

"Then thank you, Brother Yu."

"Wait a minute, I'll call Feng Shaojie. The boss has told us that if we want to go out for a walk, someone must accompany us."

"OK!"

…

The next day, Feng Shaojie drove the two of them directly to Georgetown, a famous commercial center in Washington.

In fact, it is an indoor shopping mall in a bustling commercial street. In Ning Wei's opinion, it seems to be similar to the shopping malls in Huaxia, and the building looks older.

But in Feng Shaojie’s words, the old represents history in the eyes of foreigners.

Well, as long as everyone is happy.

Fortunately, there are many electronic goods stores here. In the end, Ning Wei chose an Alienware notebook for US$5,237. Although it was a bit thicker, in terms of configuration, it directly surpassed the notebook given to him by Shu Institute of Technology as a reward. .

With a Core I9 10980HK processor, 32GDDR4 memory, GF3080 8GB GDDR6 graphics card, and a 2TB PCIe M.2 solid-state drive, running his kitty shouldn’t be a big problem.

Yes, although the so-called intelligent life hatched by his Ningwei little black box is not ideal, he has no plans to give up yet.

Just leave it in this notebook for now. Anyway, given his current financial strength, it is not a big problem to find a home for the inspiration that emerged from this meeting.

Even if all the money is spent, if the paper is successfully published in the "American Mathematical Journal", you can still get a reward; the turbulence algorithm should be able to conduct large-scale public testing after returning, and you can publish another paper by then. In short, leave Before going to school, it would not be a big problem to get another reward of hundreds of thousands.

In fact, after buying the computer, Ning Wei planned to go back to the hotel, transfer the kitten's program to the new computer, and do some tests. It was almost evening and he went directly to the airport to return home and end his SODA trip.

But Yu Xingwei was clearly in the mood for shopping, so he spent another half day shopping with him in the mall, and finally bought six sets of authentic uniforms from different NBA teams, saying they were gifts for the lab brothers, and then gave up.

After shopping, Feng Shaojie drove the two of them back to the hotel and made an appointment to go to the airport. Yu Xingwei started trying on the newly purchased uniforms in the room, while Ning Wei started the transfer process after completing the basic settings.

After more than 40 hours of iterative self-updating of the mini program, the main program has expanded to more than five gigabytes, not including the part in the cloud space.

Of course, these were to be expected. Starting from giving this small program complete background control rights and being able to freely download restricted public content on the Internet, Ning Wei expected that the contents of the designated folder would continue to be expanded.

However, these data only make the cat on the screen look more real, because even if it is replaced with a new one with powerful configuration, it only makes it less laggy when it meows.

"Can I give you a name?"

"aim……"

"Call you Little Douding?"

"aim,……"

"Little soybean?"

"aim,……"

"Wait, are you a male cat or a female cat?"

As Ning Wei moved the mouse, the little cat on the screen waved its paws in boredom, but still lay there, staring at him cutely.

"Ass, turn your ass around..."

"Aim, aim, aim..."

Ning Wei continued to work hard. After all, he could only name it if he knew the male and female. If it was a male cat, it would be very inconsistent to call it Xiaohua.

After struggling with the cat on the screen for a few minutes, Ning Wei was probably sure that it was a female cat.

There is no concrete evidence, but in Ning Wei's simple opinion, since the first sexual characteristics don't seem so obvious, it must be a female cat.

"Okay, then you will be called March from now on. You were born in March."

"aim……"

"The objection is invalid, that's it."

The kitten on the screen curled up seemingly helpless and began to lick its paws, ignoring Ning Wei's teasing.

"I said, Ning Wei, are you really not going to give up this cat?" Yu Xingwei couldn't help but said while trying on clothes.

In his opinion, Ning Wei's current behavior is indeed a bit childish.

"Would you believe me if I said maybe in a year or two it might pass the Turing test?"

Yu Xingwei thought for a while and said: "Believe it, I already believe it is the originator of artificial intelligence. I don't care if I believe it more, I believe it even if you say this cat can walk out of the screen soon."

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Of course, this is not the footsteps of a real kitten crawling out of the screen. As we all know, cats walk silently.

Ning Wei glanced at Yu Xingwei, who had just taken off his clothes and was only wearing shorts, and asked, "Who is it?"

"Me, Lucy!"

Hearing the crisp female voice coming from outside the door, Yu Guangwei picked up his clothes and rushed directly into the room, closing his door behind him.

Ning Wei glanced at the closed bedroom door, sighed, stood up from the stool, walked to the door of the living room, opened the door, and saw Lucy Ron, who was wearing a standard business attire with her hair tied up. Standing at the door alive.

"I'm leaving," Lucy Rowan said.

"Oh! I'm going back to China tonight too." Ning Wei nodded.

"Then when I collapse into the female state, can I have the honor to exchange a contact information with you so that I can enter the superposition state of male and female at any time in the future?" Lucy Ron asked extremely seriously.

Seeing what he said, Ning Wei felt slightly embarrassed.

Just thinking of March on the screen who was born after brainstorming with this woman, Ning Wei decided to give this woman a chance: "Okay, but please don't worry about it anymore in the future, like why you memorized political questions for three months but failed to take the math test." It’s such a stupid question.”

"Heh... forget it, I don't want to argue with you today. I have your email, but I guess you don't have FaceBook, right?"

Ning Wei nodded, which serious Chinese student would use that thing...

"So I registered a WeChat account, but now I need someone from China to verify it for me, just you." Lucy Ron raised her phone.

"Huh? Can Americans also register for WeChat?"

"why not?"

"Okay, scan your QR code for me."

Soon, Lucy Ron's WeChat was successfully logged in, and then the two of them added each other as friends.

"After I go back this time, I will spend more time learning mathematics. What I want to tell you is, don't think you are right about everything!"

"I still stand by my opinion, until you burn all those evening gowns, it's mathematically difficult to get any further."

"Then let's wait and see!"

"If you have any questions, you can ask me. If I happen to be free, I can give you some advice."

"Ha...goodbye!"

"goodbye!"

After saying a not-so-friendly goodbye, the woman turned and left, and Ning Wei closed the door.

How should I put it, this can probably be regarded as gaining a friendship, right?

Although the two people's horoscopes obviously conflict with each other.

A little sad, but soon Ning Wei thought of his March and shouted at the closed door: "She's gone!" Then he sat down in front of the newly bought computer again.

Xiao Sanyue, who was still lying lazily on the spot, tilted her head and watched him sit in front of her, then stretched out her paws, and a small bowl filled with milky white liquid was grabbed out of the black box next to the screen. Then he put his little head close, stuck out his tongue and started licking...

Ning Wei blinked and asked, "So, can you understand a little bit of human language?"

"aim,……"

"Don't worry, don't you understand? I know you're still young, so just grow up slowly!"

"aim……"