As a T practitioner, he has been keeping abreast of the latest information, and Xiang Kun naturally knows what the most cutting-edge and top A looks like now. 35xs

In the field of A, it is still the world of deep learning and neural networks, and at home and abroad, big factories such as Brother Dog, Brother Penguin, Du Niang, Ali Niang, etc., all have their own directions for in-depth research, and they have to publish the latest progress from time to time.

After all, it is difficult to build a good car behind closed doors in most of A's research directions. Especially in machine learning, data, computing power, and algorithms are indispensable, and if there is not enough data set, no matter how exquisite the algorithm is, no matter how good the computing power of the machine is, it is difficult to get the desired results and further practical applications.

In some specialized fields, A has the ability to surpass or far flock away human beings.

It's like alphago has defeated the top Go masters one after another, and with further improvement and iteration, it may be difficult for human players to fight against them in the future, and its opponents will become other A's.

But really speaking, what defeated Ke Jie and other human chess players was really just A, just a machine?

I'm afraid I can't say that.

Just like Xiao Ming's combat power is only 5, he wants to meet his lover Xiaohong, but he is blocked by a dragon with a combat power of 100 on the road, and he can't beat it.

So Xiao Ming returned to the village, gathered his dwarf friends, spent several years, and conducted various simulated confrontations against the various weaknesses and fighting methods of the dragon, and then created a flying sword "White Emperor Holy Sword".

The combat power of the "White Emperor Holy Sword" is 200 when fighting dragons!

So Xiao Ming, who shouted "The White Emperor Holy Sword and the Sacred Sword follow me!", easily killed the giant dragon and saw Xiao Hong.

So in the end, was the dragon defeated by the "White Emperor Holy Sword", or Xiao Ming and his dwarven friends?

Without Xiao Ming, maybe the "White Emperor Holy Sword" encountered a cat with a combat power of 3, and it was taken down, because it had not been seen in its training set~!

Last year's ERT model even won the STOA results in 11 NLP tasks in SQUAD11, the top level test for machine reading comprehension, claiming to far surpass humans in reading comprehension. Subsequently, the domestic teams of iFLYTEK, Penguin, and Aliniang also took turns to reach the top in the squad test.

When it comes to squad20, teams such as Giant Hard Asia Academy and Ali Niang are also constantly refreshing their better results, and it seems that in terms of reading comprehension, human beings have also been left far behind.

But is that really the case? A is really capable of reading comprehension better than humans, and is it already able to understand human thoughts and ideas?

At the end of the day, the current A is still just an "advanced tool".

No matter how much it looks human.

When Xiang Kun first started to do the "A Assistant Plan", he had already seen the bottleneck of machine learning and neural networks, so at the beginning, he did not have the idea of doing "Super A", because it was unrealistic, and he had been thinking about doing an integration and optimization under the existing frameworks.

But then he found out that it still took a lot of time and energy, and it was still not something he could easily accomplish on his own. And if it takes so much effort, why not find a way to go further?

To put it bluntly, after a few mutations, he "swelled" again, and with two cents in his pocket, he wanted to eat the best ravioli in the world.

Because he felt that his two cents were very valuable, it was too much of a loss to buy something worth ordinary two cents, or even two or twenty dollars.

But how?

Xiang Kun has had a little "flash of inspiration" countless times, and he has vaguely had an idea, but he has never been able to completely hold it back, and he still can't "appear".

This is also the reason why he promised Zhang Qian to take over that project, and he wanted to help him find "that light" again in the process of doing other projects.

However, it is a pity that the help is not great, the framework of the project has been laid and the core has been completed, but Xiang Kun's "A Assistant Plan" still hasn't even found a good angle for digging a pit.

Looking at the picture he drew to help him think on the display, Xiang Kun pinched his chin with one hand and played with his own carved Alsace with the other.

Xiang Kun now understands:

If you want to make two million things for two cents, you must, you have to have a very groundbreaking creation, it has to be a new thing from the bottom, a "lever" that can pry the earth.

Under the old framework, he definitely couldn't do it, even if his brain was many times stronger than ordinary people or even ordinary geniuses in some fields through mutation, but so many institutions, so many large factories, so many talents and teams gathered together every day to study, so many devices, so many data for them to use, he alone could not be compared no matter what. Since they can't find a breakthrough from the old framework, it will be equally difficult for him to do it alone.

But how low does this bottom have to be?

If you really want to talk about it, innovation at the software level can never be separated from hardware.

For example, when computers were first born, artificial intelligence was divided into "symbolism", "connectionism", and later "behaviorism".

"Connectionism", also known as bionics, advocates imitating human neurons and using the connection mechanism of neural networks to realize artificial intelligence. Machine learning, which is now very popular, pursues "connectionism".

However, in the 70s, due to the development level of hardware and the lack of computing power, "connectionism" once fell into a trough.

Until now, the computing power of computers has advanced by leaps and bounds, because the development of the Internet and mobile networks has brought massive amounts of big data, so that machine learning under "connectionism" has the most suitable growth environment, and has begun to flourish, giving birth to a variety of platforms, algorithms, and models.

Earlier this year, Huawei released the Shengteng 910 A training chip and the Shengteng 310 A inference chip, and not long after, Ali Damo Academy also released the world's strongest Hanguang 800A inference chip.

In the foreseeable future, perhaps 30 or 20 years, a major breakthrough will be made in the field of quantum computing, and quantum computers will begin to be applied on a large scale, which will inevitably lead to changes in the field of A, and a more comprehensive, complex and powerful A model will inevitably be born.

But Xiang Kun can't wait for that time, he doesn't have enough money, no time, no willingness to invest in hardware development and research, and he doesn't want to lay a foundation for the future, he just needs an "A assistant" who can help him now - and really can help.

Therefore, his "innovation" and his "bottom layer" can still only be built on the existing hardware conditions.

It sounds like a daydream, but Xiang Kun really feels that he has caught a little tail, and it seems that there is only a membrane missing, and after breaking through, he will suddenly be able to open up.

Xiang Kun looked at the time, it was not too late, so he picked up his mobile phone and said to Little Apple on WeChat: "Are there any arrangements for this weekend?" Let your dad take you to play, I will make you something to eat, and by the way, take 'Golden Flash' out to play." ”

"Okay, but it won't delay your time Uncle Xiang, right?" asked Apple's voice, which was visibly happy, but also a little worried.

Xiang Kun replied: "There's nothing to delay, I'm a freelancer now, and I arrange my own working hours." ”

After agreeing on a time for them to come over to play, Xiang Kun said as if unintentionally: "By the way, Little Apple, are you interested in computers?"

"I only know a little bit about computers, and when I was in a blind school before, I took some courses, which are the basic structure of computers or something, but I don't know much about it. Little Apple told the truth.

"How about I teach you? You know, now computers, especially A, are very widely used, and in the future, there may be a A for the interpretation of 'bird language', which can help you understand the habits of various animals, and you can also learn and understand it, maybe you will be interested?" Xiang Kun continued to guide.

"But I don't have any foundation, so I'd better teach myself first......

"No, I can teach you from scratch, ask me if you don't understand anything. Xiang Kun said resolutely.

Then he began to use simple and easy-to-understand language to popularize computer knowledge from hardware to Apple, including how PU works, what the principle is, and how to use semiconductors to compose gate circuits.

I have to say that Little Apple is indeed a very studious child, especially after mentioning to Kun the application of computer A in ornithology and zoology in the future, it also aroused her interest to some extent and made her willing to learn.

And the IQ of the little apple is also quite high, although many of Xiang Kun's statements are as easy to understand as possible, but after all, there is no physical object, it is still relatively abstract, but the little apple can understand it very quickly, even if it is unclear, you can understand it immediately if you ask two sentences.

It was almost eleven o'clock, and after feeling a trace of tiredness and sleepiness in Little Apple's voice, Xiang Kun took the initiative to end the "course", and said that if there was any problem, just leave a message on WeChat to him, and continue tomorrow.

After ending the call with Little Apple, Xiang Kun began to pick up the pile of boxwood at home - he went out once last week, and in addition to replenishing the rabbits, he also found an old source to buy a pile of boxwood of different sizes for backup.

At this time, these woods come in handy, and Xiang Kun is going to carve them into some accessories in the computer, and then use the emotional mode of "interest" and "concentration" to "inject emotions".

By the end of the week, he was about to complete a blood drinking period, when the "emotionally injected" items would be ready to take effect.

During this period of time, Xiang Kun basically sensed the "Minion Wood Carving" of Little Apple every two days, guided her to dream, and then "observed" in her dream.

At the beginning, after he got out of Apple's dream, he was able to use Apple's special cognitive model to build a cognitive model, and the only things that appeared in Apple's dream and were touched or heard by Apple's dream.

However, with the two blood drinks and two mutations and evolution, this cognitive mode has faintly become Xiang Kun's ability.

It's as if he only installed the software before, but there was a conflict in the hardware on the machine, so he could only run the software in the server, Apple's dream, and now after the upgrade, his own "hardware" has begun to adapt.

Of course, compared to Little Apple's cognitive model, it is still difficult for him to establish that special cognitive model for any object, and he can only have a very general feeling, which is mixed with his original cognition, which seems a little confusing.

Xiang Kun's previous "flash of inspiration" when he was doing his "A Assistant Project" was not only based on his own mutation process and mutation model, but also those special cognitive patterns obtained in Little Apple's dream.

He had a vague idea of combining the two "things", but he couldn't find a good entry point. After all, whether it is his own mutation or the special cognitive mode from Little Apple, he himself has not fully figured out what is going on, and he belongs to a state of inactivity.

So now he wants to guide Apple to learn about computers, and then use her special cognitive methods to build a cognitive model of the computer's operation mode. Xiang Kun borrowed Little Apple's dream to perceive the model and see if he could get any inspiration.

Compared with continuing to bury his head in death, Xiang Kun thinks that this method may be more worth looking forward to.

What's more, he really likes little Apple, a child, and can teach her some computer knowledge, maybe it will be of some use in the future, isn't it? After all, in the information age.

On the weekend, he enjoyed a big meal carefully prepared by him at Xiang Kun's house, played with "Jin Shanshan" for a while, and was enthusiastically tutored by Xiang Kun for several hours of computer-related knowledge, and sent a bunch of "audio textbooks" recorded by himself, and after getting three very special wood carving works, Xiao Apple and his father Li Yang got on the bus home.

"Uncle Xiang's cooking is even better than last time!" Little Apple said with some regret: "It's a pity that Uncle Xiang and we are not in the same city, otherwise we can eat from time to time, hehe." ”

"Why didn't you see it before, you are so greedy?" Li Yang looked at his daughter and smiled.

"Who doesn't like to eat delicious food!" said Little Apple, carefully touching a wooden box in his hand, and said: "And these wood carvings, it feels very powerful, those 'capacitors' are so small, the circuit is so thin, Xiang Uncle can carve traces, it's really amazing." ”

There are three wood carvings of different sizes in the wooden box that Xiang Kun gave her, which are the same proportional reduction of the motherboard, PU and memory - it's not that Xiang Kun is reluctant to carve a 1:1 size, but he didn't find such a large piece of wood for a while.

When Little Apple was at Xiang Kun's house before, Xiang Kun also deliberately dismantled a host that he had bought to do projects, guided Little Apple, and carefully touched the internal parts of the computer such as the motherboard and PU, and introduced to her in detail where the touched place was and what the function was, compared with what he taught her on WeChat before.

Looking at the wooden box in Xiao Apple's hand, Li Yang also sighed a little: "Xiang Kun is indeed a good person, you can feel that he really wants to teach you computer knowledge." ”