International students at Hogwarts

Chapter 27 Solving the Mystery of the Portrait
But before she could answer, Lu Ren heard a puffing sound from the portrait next door.The monks in the nearby portraits made strange noises.

"What nonsense!"

"Why are cats and dogs so loyal, why can't they be dogs?"

"Why ask such a stupid question?"

"You have a cat in your house!"

Lu Ren raised his eyebrows. They are really four messy monks, but they are indeed very smart.

In the face of the Turing test, some programs will choose to pretend to be crazy or ask all kinds of strange questions to interrupt the interlocutor's train of thought. These are clever tricks to make the program appear smart.

Obviously, the authors of these portraits don't understand the Turing test, but they understand the human heart, and they know how to make these portraits more realistic.

But the Tao is one foot tall and the devil is ten feet tall, and Lu Ren also has a big killer move.That's the Winograd test.

This test tests the intelligence of the machine by asking it specially designed multiple-choice questions.These questions all contain a special structure, and the machine needs to recognize the pre-reference relationship in the question, that is, the antecedent that points to a certain pronoun in the question.To answer questions correctly, a machine needs to be able to reason with common sense.

As a small example, the town councilor refused to give marchers a permit because they feared violence would ensue.Who's Worried About Violence?MP or marcher?
This is very typical Winograd test.Many machines are directly down in the face of this problem.

"Mediqi thanked Amon again and again, because he extended a helping hand. Who extended a helping hand?" Lu Ren ignored the noisy monks and asked.

"The blanket is very hot, but the cat is very cold. As for the second question, I think it was Amon who extended a helping hand." The girl replied.

"What are you talking about! Can you speak human language? Didn't your mother teach you grammar?" A monk in the nearby portrait shouted angrily.

"Hey!" Lu Ren made a face at him.

"Hey, what do you mean!" The monk stomped his feet angrily.

"It's too noisy here, let's talk somewhere else?" Lu Ren said to the spindle girl.

"Okay." Then the girl left her portrait, walked across several corridors, and walked into an empty picture frame.There is only a sunset and a table inside the picture frame.

"Sometimes I also think they are noisy, so I hide here to find some leisure." She sat at the table and let out a long breath.

Lu Ren also felt that those monks were too noisy. If they hadn't destroyed the precious cultural relics of Hogwarts, Dumbledore would have reprimanded them. He would definitely send them to heaven with the Explosive Curse.

"Do you still have any memories? When you were just born - not the person described in your portrait, but yourself." Lu Ren asked, hoping to explore the mystery of the portrait.

"I, when I was born, I had an impression of her in my mind. Later, the real her brought me by my side. During that time, I learned a lot..."

After a series of inquiries, Lu Ren finally figured out the mystery of the Hogwarts portrait.

The most basic condition that the portrait can move is given by the artist, but the character design of this most elementary portrait is completely given by the artist.

For example, if a portrait of Dumbledore is drawn by the painters in the wizarding world and the wives on the old Ford at the same time, the Dumbledore drawn by the painters in the wizarding world must be the embodiment of justice, and the Dumbledore drawn by the ladies must be Crying every day to see Grindelwald.

In many cases, in order to avoid disputes, merchants will ask painters to draw the portrait in the form of a moving picture-this is definitely the easiest and labor-saving.This kind of animation cannot interact with the outside world at all.The most common examples are the character cards on the Chocolate Frog and the illustrations on the Daily Prophet - these can basically be done with a camera in the wizarding world.

If the character cards on the chocolate frog can also communicate smoothly, then "Harry Potter" will directly become a Pokémon...

The scene of wizards fighting for a copy of Shining Dumbledore must have been exciting.

And the portraits of the fat monks had given money to the painter.The painters will rack their brains to make the portraits more realistic, and the paintings of master painters are just like real people-they preset a lot of questions and answers in advance, and there are many small routines.

The portraits of girls and Hogwarts principals are similar.It's just that they're more refined.The painters finished the portraits and handed them over to the painters, who then personally taught the portraits, changed the words, deeds, and knowledge and memory of the portraits through getting along day and night, and finally formed these most precious portraits.

Each portrait can be seen as an independent, real person in this environment.And they have the ability to think logically!The owner of the painting has worked hard for decades to let the characters in the portraits learn to think through their existing knowledge, and let them acquire the ability to acquire knowledge from the outside world.

The final product is to encounter a problem, "If it were me, I would do this." Instead of "I encountered this problem, according to the setting, what should I do."

These portraits are works poured out by the painters with their whole life, and they are also truly intelligent.

Lu Ren was silent about this—this kind of artificial intelligence is almost impossible to replicate, he needs a high-level painter and decades of teaching.From this point of view, the intelligent AI development of Muggles has more potential.Once the AI ​​that can learn independently is available, the real artificial intelligence may not be far away.

After Lu Ren got everything he wanted to know, he said goodbye to the girl.The girl quietly watched his figure disappear around the corner of the stairs, showing a faint smile.

Lu Ren's life moves forward slowly like a moving train, every day is peaceful and similar, Lu Ren goes to work with Snape in the morning, and continues to hang out in Hogwarts in the afternoon, and the final destination of the wandering All are portraits of girls.

They talked a lot, and Lu Ren got a glimpse of the prosperity of ancient Greece from the girl.

Time passed quickly, and there was only one week left before leaving school.

Unlike Hogwarts, which was calm and peaceful, the Soviet Union has experienced earth-shaking changes in the past three weeks.Due to limited sources of information, Lu Ren knew nothing about it.

He can only visit Dumbledore's Daily Prophet for free every day, and the Daily Prophet is almost secretive about the changes in the Muggle world, without mentioning a word.

After more than ten days, the first news about Grindelwald that Lu Ren got was that Grindelwald and his saints declared war on the Soviet Union's Ministry of Magic and Internal Affairs!
Grindelwald gathered more than 130 wizards and the Allied Forces of the Ministry of Magic of the Twelve Nations headed by the Russian Ministry of Magic launched a decisive battle in Stalingrad. The Allied Forces of the Twelve Nations were defeated in one fell swoop, and more than 200 employees of the Ministry of Magic were killed and disappeared. There were more than [-] participants, and the magical power of the Soviet Union was emptied.

Countries around the world have urgently sent forces to the Soviet Union for support, but they were expelled jointly by the local wizards. Some changes have taken place in the peaceful magical world.

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