Xueba's life simulator

Chapter 142 Simulation
"Professor Zhou, since you published your first paper on artificial intelligence last year, the development of artificial intelligence in China has been much faster.

Before the end of the interview, we specially prepared ten questions about artificial intelligence. I wonder if I can ask you? "

At this time, in Zhou Ming's office, there was a female reporter sitting opposite Zhou Ming with a smile on her face and talking to Zhou Ming. The two of them did not look like interviews, but rather like two very good friends chatting. La homely.

If it weren't for someone taking a video, I'm afraid no one would have noticed that they were conducting an interview on a TV station. In fact, it should be called an interview to be more precise.

Today is the 8th. A well-known reporter from the Science and Education Channel came to HKUST to conduct an exclusive interview with Zhou Ming. Of course they came to interview Zhou Ming because Zhou Ming recently solved the twin prime number conjecture, but the content of the interview was different. Not just about mathematics, it can even be said that mathematics is only a small part of this interview.

The content of their interview this time includes not only Zhou Ming's living environment when he was a child, but also Zhou Ming's changes over the past year. This change includes environmental changes, identity changes, and psychological changes.

In addition, some biological and artificial intelligence issues are also involved.

In short, this reporter chatted with Zhou Ming about a lot of content, big and small, including some trivial things in Zhou Ming's life, and big ones including Zhou Ming's future development of Huaguo and the future development of biology and artificial intelligence, as well as Zhou Ming's future on mathematics. plans in this regard.

Now they are going to ask Zhou Ming these ten questions, which they also prepared before the interview. At the end of the interview, they went back and edited it, and took a part they thought was the most exciting to make an interview clip. Put it on TV.

The reason why the last question is about artificial intelligence is also because since Zhou Ming’s first paper on artificial intelligence was released in 2015, the development speed of the domestic artificial intelligence field is like taking a supersonic plane. It was much faster before.

And Zhou Ming was the designer of this supersonic plane, so when they interviewed Zhou Ming, they naturally wanted to ask some questions about artificial intelligence.

"Well, you can ask. Hehe, but I may not be able to answer all your doubts." Zhou Ming laughed and said to the female reporter in front of him. He has a good influence on the female reporter, and he can only say that he deserves it. One of the most well-known interview reporters on national television, he behaves in a way that feels satisfying and doesn't bore or resent you.

"first question.

Consciousness, emotion, wisdom and intelligence, what is their relationship?Containment or association?

It is said that the artificial intelligence company you founded last year is conducting research on artificial intelligence. So, does the new generation of artificial intelligence touch consciousness?

Does intelligence contain consciousness and emotion, or does consciousness contain intelligence?Is there wisdom in wisdom, or wisdom in wisdom?Is it possible for a non-living body to be conscious? "

The female reporter had obviously memorized all the questions, she looked at Zhou Ming and asked calmly.

Facing the so-called first question of the female reporter in front of him, Zhou Ming had a feeling in his heart, "Are you kidding me?" Is this a question?There are almost ten questions in one of your questions, okay?

If the reporter's subsequent questions were the same as the first question, then her so-called ten questions would have nearly a hundred questions.

Although he was speechless at the reporter's first question and wanted to complain about it, Zhou Ming still answered her question with a smile on his face.

"Consciousness, emotion, wisdom, and intelligence, the four of them are both inclusive and related.

Strictly speaking, intelligence includes consciousness, and consciousness is a part of intelligence, while emotion, wisdom, and intelligence are related at the same level.

But as far as current artificial intelligence is concerned, consciousness and intelligence can be separated.

Consciousness is not matter. Consciousness is just a feeling, a kind of spiritual activity parasitic on matter. Consciousness is the perception of one's own existence, including the perception of one's own behavior and the reasons that drive behavior...

As for whether non-life may generate consciousness, at least the latest generation of artificial intelligence is far from touching consciousness.

As for the physiological instincts of higher organisms, such as survival and reproduction, they are not in the scope of current artificial intelligence research.

Those artificial intelligences that seem to be non-living bodies with simple consciousness that you usually see are actually artificially endowed with artificial intelligence, which is the third-person "exposure", which is a pre-set program.

Once your performance is not in its pre-set program, then he will not appear so intelligent.

It is impossible for non-living bodies to have the consciousness we think for at least 100 years. "

After Zhou Ming seriously answered the first question asked by the reporter, the reporter nodded seriously. I don't know if she really understood everything or pretended to understand.

However, she soon asked Zhou Ming a second question.

"So how should we understand general intelligence? Is general intelligence necessarily strong intelligence? The new generation of artificial intelligence requires both general and strong intelligence. What is the relationship between general and strong?"

"General and specific, strong and weak...

In fact, we still have a long way to go on the road of artificial intelligence. In fact, I think our current artificial intelligence is just in its infancy, not even a start, at best it is a weak primary artificial intelligence.

However, I believe that within ten years, we will have a major breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence research..."

In this way, Zhou Ming gave the answers to the ten questions raised by the reporter one by one.

The questions mentioned by this reporter are actually almost all questions that Zhou Ming wants to know the answers to. Most of them are about consciousness, emotion, and memory. In addition, she also asked some questions about future robots. If they can learn independently, what will happen to him? Where does learning motivation come from?What is the difference between memory, computation, and storage?such a problem.

"In short, I think that even if artificial intelligence has human-like emotions, we should not do it, because once we do this, many people will not only see them as robots. Treat them as human beings like themselves.

Since it is a 'human', it must have human rights, and many people will definitely invite robots to give them human rights.

This goes against our original intention of creating artificial intelligence. We created them to liberate human beings from repetitive labor and bring happiness to human beings, instead of creating them as ancestors..." Finally, the female reporter in front of me answered After ten questions, Zhou Ming added some of his own views.

As far as Zhou Ming’s knowledge about the future 100 years from the life simulator is concerned, after 100 years, human beings have not yet created a robot with the same emotions as human beings.

Finally, after Zhou Ming sent the reporter away, he went back to his office and sat down to turn on the computer. Because of the ten questions asked by the female reporter earlier, Zhou Ming wanted to publish a paper on the memory and calculation of artificial intelligence.

[Discussion on Memory Intelligence and Computational Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence]

After Zhou Ming wrote the title of this thesis, he quickly typed on the keyboard, as fast as he didn't need to think, just like a ruthless typing machine
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On the 11th, the school issued a holiday notice, and Zhou Ming also received a notice of submission of the article "Discussion on Memory Intelligence and Computational Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence" today.

It was also from this day that Zhou Ming began to slowly sell his stocks.

In this way, on the 18th, Zhou Ming had sold all the stocks in his hand, and his task progress was finally full.

After completing this task, Zhou Ming can use the life simulator again.

The 18th was Monday, and Zhou Ming was still in school when he finished his task.

Knowing that using the life simulator now is an immersive experience from the third perspective, as long as he lives longer in the simulator, it will take a long time for him to simulate, so Zhou Ming waited until the afternoon to eat in the school cafeteria After dinner, the simulation started this time after returning to the residence.

When Zhou Ming called out the life simulator to start a simulation, a line popped up on the interface of the life simulator 【Do you want to use the life simulator? 】Come.

After choosing yes in his heart with ease, Zhou Ming's simulation began this time.

[At the age of 23, you won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. 】

[This year you decided to accept the invitation of Princeton University to give an academic lecture at Princeton University, and you thought you were well prepared to go. 】

Not long after his 23-year-old text experience in the simulation on the front panel appeared, Zhou Ming, who was sitting in his living room, experienced the feeling of the last simulation again. Then there was a change.

At this time, Zhou Ming is still "looking" at himself in the simulation in a third-person perspective, and he is on the phone.

"The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars project you applied for a few days ago has been approved. I didn't expect this application to be approved so quickly..."

The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar to Zhou Ming, but he couldn't remember who it was that he was calling with his simulated self at this time, but he could hear what the voice said in detail, what he applied for " The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars project was approved, and it took only a few days from application to approval, which can be said to be very fast.

Just after Zhou Ming heard the news that he passed the "National Outstanding Youth Project" in the simulation, the environment around him changed inadvertently.

At this time, the scene has changed to Zhou Ming’s office. In the simulation, Zhou Ming is sitting on an office chair in the office, typing away on the keyboard. He is replying an email to Princeton University. Emails from Princeton University for academic lectures.

After Zhou Ming clicked send in the simulation, Zhou Ming, who was watching from a third perspective, found that the surrounding environment had changed again. Sitting next to it was a mess of people.

This is a lecture hall of Princeton University. Zhou Ming on the podium is writing a series of mathematical formulas on the blackboard on the podium, and at the same time speaking to the students of Princeton University.

At this time, there were not only students in the audience, but also many bigwigs in the mathematics field, and they all focused on Zhou Ming, who was in high spirits on the podium.

Zhou Ming, who watched his experience in the simulation from a third perspective, also saw the formula written by the simulated self on the blackboard and heard the words spoken by the simulated self on the podium.

After hearing this, Zhou Ming realized that he in the simulation was proving Zhou's conjecture.

Zhou's conjecture is a conjecture proposed by Chinese mathematician Zhou Haizhong in 1992 in "The Distribution Law of Mersenne Prime Numbers" with precise expressions. Its basic content is:

当2^(2^n)<p<2^(n+1)时，Mp有2^(n+1)-1个是素数。

另外周海中还据此作出推论：当p<2^(n+1)时，Mp有2^(n+2)-n-2个是素数。

Among them, p is a prime number, n is a natural number, and Mp is a Mersenne number.

Although Zhou Ming in the simulation has lost his life simulator, can no longer acquire future knowledge, and has no proof process of Goldbach's conjecture, he still has mathematical knowledge beyond this world for more than 100 years in his mind in the simulation.

After the mathematics lecture, Zhou Ming, who watched from the third perspective, found that the surrounding environment changed again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Zhou Ming, who was on the sidelines, heard a few bang bang bang before he had time to observe the surrounding environment. Although he had never heard this sound in the real world, he could still tell that it was gunshots.

"Fuck me, what the hell is this? Why are there still gunshots around?"

Zhou Ming, who was on the sidelines, was also shocked. He had gone through so many scenes in the last simulation, but he didn't see himself in a gunfight, but he didn't expect the gunshots to be so close to him this time.

Looking at the place where the gunshots came from, it was not far from here. In the simulation, he is now in a hotel room, and the boxes on the ground should be ready to leave here.

Just when the bystander Zhou Ming was about to observe the surrounding situation carefully, the surrounding environment changed again. This time it changed back to the real room where Zhou Ming stayed in the simulation.

"Damn!" Zhou Ming couldn't help but swear again. He was about to see what was going on, but he cut the scene. Isn't this the same as watching movies, TV series and novels when watching the climax part? , suddenly broke the same?

Originally, he thought that his simulation was over this time, but what Zhou Ming didn't expect was that the life simulator interface in front of him showed his experience when he was 24 years old.

[24 years old, this year you won the Chern Mathematics Prize. 】

"Huh? He didn't die in that shootout? Was it that he didn't target me? Or was I lucky enough to be saved?" Zhou Ming thought to himself when he saw the simulated 24-year-old experience appearing on the panel in front of him.

However, there was no time for Zhou Ming to think about this at this time, as the environment around him changed again.

(End of this chapter)