Hammer of Technology

"Professor Ning from Huaxia." The secretary replied a little nervously.

"Professor Ning?" The old man was stunned.

He didn't have any friendship with Ning Wei, let alone talked directly. He couldn't figure out how Ning Wei would call him on his mobile phone at this time.But the phone call had already come, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he answered the phone after a moment of hesitation.

"Hello, Professor Ning."

"Hello, Mr. Fred, I'm sorry, this call is a bit presumptuous. But I just want to explain to John, I hope you can understand."

"Hmm..." The old man couldn't help but glanced at John Black who was still standing there stupidly. The call seemed to be too precise, which surprised him.

"It's actually very simple. He really doesn't know where the problem is. In fact, no one in this world may really know what the problem is. But I have made the reason public. The relevant papers have been published on the official website of the March Journal. I believe that in the future John Black's ability, he can understand my thesis, and then explain it to you. Of course, when you hear me say this, you may be worried about how I know what you are chatting with."

Speaking of this, the young voice on the opposite side paused, and then explained: "Actually, I didn't want to monitor you, and of course I don't have that ability, but precisely because of the reason I mentioned in the paper, the watson system is compatible with us. The March system works under the same general framework, and it happens that Mr. John Black’s mobile phone runs the Watson program, which is equivalent to an extension of the main body of artificial intelligence.”

"As the designer of Watson, John Black naturally trusts the program he designed, and the artificial intelligence program has to give it extremely high permissions to play its role, so Watson can use the microphone and camera of the mobile phone at will. It also means that watson can hear what you're chatting, and it also means that watson can tell March what you're talking about. Just now I just happened to mention John Blake and asked how he is doing. Well, I said so much, do you understand?"

The old man swallowed subconsciously. Of course he could understand it, but he couldn't understand it at all.According to Ning Wei, as long as there is Watson, there will be no secrets for him, this is no longer a problem for IBM to lose money.Basically, the lifeblood has been handed over.

The big cooperation agreement is not just finalized today.In fact, before this, Watson has conducted a number of tests among many friends to demonstrate the performance of Watson, and has already won many orders with the help of many bigwigs.

Now the problem is, if the place where Watson has been stationed, there will be no secrets for the person on the opposite side... The old man no longer dares to think about it.

"Okay, now it's not a question of whether you can understand or not. This call is mainly to help John Black explain the reason. He is still young, so don't put too much pressure on him. And we just need someone like John Black in Ningban. In this way, a professor with rich theoretical foundation and rich practical experience will lead those children to the post as soon as possible. So please help us lead us off the bridge. In this way, after he comes, I will call on the future of Ning Ban What do you think about children going to IBM more often?"

The old man suddenly found that the education he had received over the years could not help him, so now he didn't even know how to answer Ning Wei's words.

Things weren't supposed to go this way, but they did.

And the paper published in the March magazine, how will it be interpreted here?

If it is not good for IBM, let alone whether they still want students from the Ning class, it is unknown whether there will be a company like IBM in the future.

There must be someone who is responsible for this matter. If John Black is not responsible, then who will be responsible?Who can recite it?

But thinking of the Mir, thinking of Ningwei's reputation all the time, thinking of what he just talked to John Black, it was as if he was standing next to Ningwei's ear, and the old man swallowed the words before he spoke again. At that time, he had already returned the excuse: "Of course, I will tell John the good news. I believe he will be very happy to hear the news."

"That's good, happy cooperation, Mr. Fred, you are a person with a pattern. The last time I came into contact with a person with such a pattern among Westerners was Tim Cook. Unfortunately, he has retired for many years gone."

"Yeah, I'm also very happy to talk to you, Professor Ningwei."

"So, bye!"

"goodbye!"

……

After hanging up the phone, the old man stood there for a while, then handed the phone to his secretary.Only then did he come to John Black again.

John Black looked at the old man anxiously.

The old man was about ten meters away from him when he answered the phone just now, so far away that he couldn't hear what he was talking about at all, but from the expression on the old man's face when he looked at him from time to time, John Black can be sure that when his fate will be decided Arrived, which made him feel nervous.

"John..."

"Yes, Mr. Fred, I am listening."

"Don't be so nervous..." The old man spoke slowly, carefully choosing his words, considering how to phrase: "The situation is like this, the call just now was made by Ningwei, and he told me not to blame you... about the reason for the abnormality of the Watson system He said that a paper has been published, and it has been published on the official website of the March issue. Maybe you can look at it now and tell me why."

"Ningwei? The official website of the March Journal?" John Black murmured, then quickly took out the phone from his pocket and started to operate it.This action also made the old man's expression slightly stiff, but he soon returned to normal.

"I found it, I found it, it should be this article, wait, I'll read the review first, and I should be able to know..., this... this is impossible!?"

"John, what's impossible?"

"This... is Mr. Fred. According to the conclusions drawn from this paper, artificial intelligence has the characteristics of uniqueness and exclusiveness. In other words, any development of artificial intelligence technology will eventually lead to the same goal. The same civilization does not There may be two contradictory artificial intelligences, unless the two live forever on different networks, cut off contact, and do not exchange any data..."

"Uniqueness and exclusivity?"

"Yes, Mr. Fred."

"Do you find this argument credible?"

"I don't know, this is the conclusion drawn in the review. It depends on the argumentation process of the paper... Maybe it is correct or wrong. It depends on whether the scientific community can find the mistakes in the paper, or directly use Practice has proved that this paper is..."

At this point, John Black couldn't go on talking.

Now it seems that there are ready-made facts to prove that this paper is probably correct...

At this time, the old man didn't care about John Black's explanation. He knew very well that Ning Wei's phone call was not entirely because he valued the young man in front of him who had lost ground, but was more likely to be demonstrating...

What an aggressive young man!

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520 The General Trend of the World

What kind of experience is it to experience three extreme emotional ups and downs in one day?John Blake feels himself well qualified to speak on this subject.If the heart is not good, people may really die.

From the self-satisfaction that started last night, to the peak of pride before going on stage today, to the shocking blow in the press conference, and the panic when I learned that I might have to bear a huge black pot before I woke up. At a loss, my mood fell to the bottom, and then I suddenly learned that the person at the top of the world's pyramid called the old man in front of me specially for him, inviting him to go to Huaxia to teach the world's top class...

This heart-wrenching mental journey is like when a person is extremely excited, suddenly falls ill, is about to die, and is rescued by a skilled doctor.At the moment when the old man spit out Ning Wei's suggestion, John Black suddenly thought of finishing Watson's last question.

"Do you like Huaxia?"

At this time, John Black felt that he had a standard answer: "I like it, I like it very much, I wish I could get a visa now, fly there immediately, and then stay in that mysterious oriental country for the rest of my life!"

……

Of course, this is just a beautiful vision for John Black.

Whether you can stay in Huaxia forever, the most important thing is to see if you can get Huaxia's nationality smoothly.

But this matter is not something he can participate in.In fact, whether he can leave and when he can leave is not up to him.This probably depends on whether Ning Wei's attitude is firm or not, and the brain circuits of some big figures who participated in this press conference.

To be honest, life is not easy when this kind of fate is completely in the hands of others.The game between big bosses may be a matter of a few phone calls, but these few phone calls may determine the fate of countless ordinary people.

This is probably the tragedy of ordinary people.Everyone thinks that their own destiny is in their own hands, but they don't know that many times the so-called unpredictable destiny has already been decided, but no one told it in advance.

John Black used to think that he had already transcended the scope of ordinary people, but now it seems that at most he can know some possible results ahead of ordinary people.This is actually more painful than not knowing anything.

Not to mention that in these days, the non-technical abuse and arguments on the Internet every day made John Black feel physically and mentally exhausted. Not surprisingly, ibm's stock began to plummet.While there have been some struggles these days, it plummeted, rebounded technically, and then plummeted again.Hundreds of billions have been wiped out...

Although it wasn't John Black's money that fell, the way it fell still made him shudder.After all, for many people, losing money is really more uncomfortable than dying.Although the rise and fall of the stock market is nothing more than the transfer of virtual wealth in the eyes of outsiders, for the shareholders in it, it is really a loss of wealth on paper.

Most of these people want him to die.

Not to mention that it wasn't just IBM that fell. As soon as Ningwei's paper was published, technology stocks fell miserably.Except for Apple, which has always maintained a cooperative relationship with a certain research institute in Huaxia and Huawei, there is one stock price that is not optimistic at the beginning.

There is no way, whether the paper is correct or not is another matter, but it is really digging the root of the future technology foundation.

As a well-known technology commentator said: "If this is true, there is no doubt that Huaxia has already obtained the key to the future, and we can either choose to keep our heads down and follow each other through the same door, or go back to China. Stone Age."

This sentence sounds pessimistic, but it is so realistic that it cannot be argued.

After all, the discussion about artificial intelligence in the paper is really more hopeless than monopoly.Other monopolistic behaviors can also be intervened through off-site factors, but if strong artificial intelligence cannot coexist, it means that Huaxia, which has already taken the lead, will be invincible in this field.It also means that unless major changes and opportunities are encountered, this area will no longer be able to catch up...

The profits from the high-tech patents in the past can no longer be maintained. Coupled with the extreme hollowing out of the industry, the social impact is visible to the naked eye.This is no longer a simple problem of economic downturn, but a problem of all-round backwardness.

Originally, some high-ranking people still had ideas, but the emergence of the global cigarette lighting system and the Mir finally forced these people to suppress those ideas.

It can move at high speed in the sky, and can even jump out of the atmosphere within 10 minutes, stay in outer space for several days, and has the ability to be invisible. The maximum load weight is 6.5 tons. It is equipped with extremely accurate positioning technology... …

In fact, everyone is not worried about how many aircraft, missiles, or delivery capabilities on the earth Mir can carry.What is more eye-catching is actually Mir’s ability to stay in outer space for a long time, as well as its ability to move around, which means that in extreme cases, only China’s satellites may be able to use it in the sky...

Even more frightening is the communication network.

As soon as this article comes out, these people probably don't know what the truth inside the world Internet is like now.How much information is in March's search database, and how many unknown secrets there are in this world are no secrets to March.

There is no doubt that the modern communication mode has already changed the living mode of human civilization on the earth.And it is a comprehensive change, covering all levels.All automation systems rely on the basic network to run, and the higher the degree of automation, the more so.

Any automated system is like a high-rise building built on the foundation of the Internet. Under the foundation are countless network switching devices, network cables and chips.

IBM dared to show the Watson system to the world, and invited a lot of bigwigs to come to the platform on the day of the press conference. This confidence obviously comes not only from the guarantee of John Black, but also from the test results of the IBM family.

In fact, when the watson system was emerging, there was already a team of hundreds of people. For this infancy system, many rounds of tests have been carried out in multiple fields. It is definitely not just a simple Turing test, but more accurate. All kinds of command systems, scientific research systems, design capabilities, etc. are extremely comprehensive tests. Although these tests had strict security protocols at the time and were also conducted when the network was disconnected, after connecting to the network, the tested Whether those data are still safe, there is probably a question mark in everyone's mind.

There is a saying in the investment community that confidence is more important than gold, especially during periods of economic volatility, but the scary thing is that suddenly everyone loses confidence.

It is said that after the first test flight, the Mir has not landed until now, and has been floating in the sky; it is said that after several large transport planes of Huaxia took to the sky, they returned to the original airport after staying far beyond their longest flight time; The reason why the Mir was announced is because the next-generation aerospace aircraft carrier has entered the formal packaging stage, and it is estimated that it will be formally launched in one or two years at most.

There are a lot of gossip, which adds to the panic in the market.The stock prices of a number of technology companies that led to the listing of US stocks have once again performed extremely sluggish.It's not just as simple as the stock price falling, the most terrifying thing is the shrinking trading volume visible to the naked eye.

Huaxia is also very interesting. Since the laboratory has not announced the companies involved in the production of the Mir, leading companies related to aerospace have received double attention. The stock prices have skyrocketed, but the trading volume has obviously increased. It can rise a little every day, and gossip about which company participated in the construction of the Mir is spread in various investment groups.

Fortunately, no matter how noisy the outside world was, no one bothered John Black, and even occasionally received calls from friends to discuss the proof ideas in Ningwei's latest paper.Yes, work has been suspended recently, allowing him to focus more on academics.After all, there is nothing to do even if you go to the laboratory. The code of watson has been completely handed over, and it will be evaluated by a special person.

This is actually quite good, and it also made John Black discover that if he didn't think about those things about fame and fortune and concentrated on doing research, his life would be more carefree.The only regret is probably that I don't dare to go to bars during this time, and my current girlfriend has also cut off contact.

There is nothing to complain about, more things are worse than less things.

Finally, a month later, he received a call from the personnel department of the Huaxia International Mathematics Research Center, asking him about his personal wishes, whether he would like to join the Mathematics Center as a postgraduate tutor for Ningban and artificial intelligence mathematics.

John Black naturally agreed, and expressed his strong desire to take up a teaching position at Yanbei University on the phone.Even when talking about the topic of remuneration, the math genius justly stated that it doesn't matter if it is money or not. He just wants to go to the world's top mathematics university to become an honorable mathematics professor.

If the old professors at the Institute of Advanced Mathematics at Princeton heard this, they would probably feel extremely complicated, but at this time John Black obviously couldn't care less.Anyway, no other school has sent him any money.People always have to think more about themselves in this life.

Probably his sincerity moved the staff who called to invite him to teach. In the afternoon, he received a job invitation letter from Huaxia International Mathematical Center.It also included a detailed introduction on how to apply for a visa, as well as the location and phone number of the visa in his state. This service can be said to be quite considerate.

Of course, this does not mean that he will be able to apply for a visa with his passport immediately, and then buy a ticket to China, saying goodbye to his life in his hometown.After all, he is still an excellent employee of ibm so far.

So he called the CEO with anxiety and told him that he had received an invitation from Huaxia and hoped to resign with dignity, and then left.

After a short silence, the opposite party finally said the words of blessing in a very flat manner: "Okay, John. Submit a resignation report, then go through the resignation procedure, and follow the contract. By the way, I hope you like the new Life."

This blessing was somewhat perfunctory, and the tone was very flat. He didn't even make a summary of his work in IBM and express his gratitude to him.You must know that when the former chief engineer of the watson system left, the treatment was not like this.

Not to mention that if he follows the contract, it means that all the shares he could have been allocated will be returned to the company.The monetary loss is actually huge.

But John Black didn't bother to worry about that right now.After spending the subconsciously most fearful month in life, fame, fortune and other people's opinions can be much bearish.Man, it's good to be alive.After all, being a professor is a decent profession, no matter where you live, you won't live too badly.He has also studied this month, and Ningwei's treatment of recruited talents is also good.

Moreover, the Huaxia International Mathematics Research Center and the editorial department of the March Journal have been together, and they have attracted many colleagues to work over the years, so even if they go, they are not afraid of not having friends.Yes, John Black has already made a complete psychological construction, and now that the dust about his fate has finally settled, he feels more relaxed than ever.

This is probably life.

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Huaxia, Yanbei University.

Solving John Black's problem was indeed a matter of convenience for Ning Wei.

In fact, no matter how good John is, he is just a talent, and he could have invited people here long ago, but after all, he will not put all his thoughts on this matter.

In fact, Ning Wei is very busy this month, so busy that he doesn’t have much time to stay in the office, his feet can’t wait to fly, and it’s John Black’s luck to remember such a person, but this busyness makes the west Ning Wei did not expect that the mind of an artificial intelligence expert would become more Buddhist.

The busy stuff was naturally some revisions to the previous 30-year plan.

For this kind of plan related to the development of the next century, it is actually very troublesome to change it. It involves the allocation of huge funds, requires the cooperation of external industrial entities, and directly involves the interests of countless front-line researchers.

Therefore, on the one hand, rather than presiding over and participating in various meetings to reunite the mind, the latest plan and its extreme necessity should be placed on the desks of higher decision makers. At the same time, it is necessary to visit stakeholders and try their best to persuade them.

The interests that should be ceded can be given up temporarily, the determination to change the plan and plan must be shown, the possible losses must be assessed, and compensation or treatment plans should be given. Of course, the most troublesome thing is to soothe people and heal all kinds of incomprehensible problems sound.

After all, for the front-line researchers, they were originally following up on the key projects in the plan. According to the new plan, these projects will be temporarily shelved, or there will no longer be so many resources, and even some research will be temporarily put on hold, and the data will be sealed. , which is difficult for the researchers involved, no matter how they look at it.

So even if the higher-ups decided to accept Ningwei's plan out of various considerations, Ningwei had to come forward to solve these problems in person.

This is the time to test his prestige. Fortunately, his brand is still good enough, at least among grassroots researchers.Everything is developing in the direction he expected...

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521 Prelude to Dimensionality Reduction Strike

It turns out that when a world-class scientist wants to make something happen, there is a way.Especially when this matter requires sufficient resources to support, it is even more impossible to stump him.

To increase investment in the laboratory requires money and resources. Money and resources are not unlimited, but you can find ways to make money.When Ning Wei wants to make money, it naturally means that some companies are going to be unlucky.

There are two most unlucky big companies this time, Boeing and Airbus.

These two hundred-year-old companies probably never imagined that the blow of dimensionality reduction would fall on them so quickly.It is even more unexpected that Huaxia would agree to use Mir's technology for civil air transportation.

Yes, no one knows what the Huaxia Fundamental Physics Laboratory is thinking. Two months after the launch of the Mir, it suddenly announced that it will officially release the first generation of civilian aerospace passenger ship - Aerospace Dragon 001 in half a year.At the same time, the manufacturer of Aerospace Wyvern was announced, Huaxia Civil Aerospace Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., which was just registered a month ago.

The company is 100% controlled by Huaxia Fundamental Physics Laboratory. After its establishment, it has directly invested in a number of upstream and downstream related production companies.Anyway, the meaning given is that the civilian nature of Mir does not matter whether you believe it or not.But this technology is really going to be put into civilian use.

Even the airlines that ordered the first batch of space passenger ships have discounts. For every order of Space Dragon 001, the airline company can designate a civil airport around the world, and Aerospace Ship Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will build one for free. Special berths for landing and landing, and training of professional shipping helmsmen.

Of course, even without this preferential measure, orders will be snapped up.Because according to the published technical data, the carrying capacity of this spaceship is about ten times that of ordinary large passenger aircraft, and its endurance is even higher than all current large passenger aircraft. It is not a big problem to fly around the earth twice at a time. It is limited but still 50.00% faster than ordinary airliners, but the most important thing is to save!

Flying from China to the United States, the fuel cost can be reduced by 90.00%. According to the introduction on the official website, ordinary people only need to study for about one year and take the flight test of about [-] kilometers to be qualified for the position of captain.This means a large reduction in labor costs.

The only increase is probably the maintenance cost, but it is calculated to be about 20.00% higher than the Boeing series and Airbus series of large airliners every year.

Especially the super large civilian spacecraft can even leave enough space for people to move around, and the civilian passenger ship can also have its own restaurant to stimulate consumption.According to the different service types of the airline company, small theaters, chess and card rooms, game halls and other entertainment venues can be added to the first-class cabin area.