Chapter 168: Who Pays for Our Youth (Second Update)
Nine a.m.
Outside the School of Computer Science of Yenching University, students walked into the teaching building of the Department of Computer Science with notes or books in their arms, talking and laughing, and some of them were girls.
One of them, a girl with round-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose and pink T-shirt and jeans, walked in a hurry, but her face was unconcealably angry.
The female student is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Foreign Languages of Yan University, named Wei Wantong, majoring in English and minoring in journalism.
I just got the certificate of college 8 in the semester of the research class.
The future was bright.
However, just last week, Wei Wantong fell apart overnight.
A company called Xinghai Technology has developed a powerful intelligent translation software, and the accuracy rate of professional paper translation has reached an astonishing 98%, catching up with many IELTS scores of 8 or 9.
The technology is really powerful.
But after so many years of hard work in learning English, she now tells her that she has learned in vain.
I'm sorry, she doesn't accept it!
I heard that the school invited the chairman of the company and the inventor of the translation software to come and give a lecture today, Wei Wantong wanted to ask him face-to-face, why did he launch this kind of software despite the hard work of countless students across the country for many years?
In the large classroom of the computer department, the seats were full, and the black pressure was overwhelming.
In addition to the students, there were at least 30 professors from the School of Information Science and Technology, the School of Engineering, the Institute of Computer Science and Technology, the School of Software and Microelectronics, and the Software Engineering Research Center of Yan University.
Many people think that Yan University is a liberal arts college, but in fact, this concept is wrong, Yan University is not a liberal arts college, in fact, it is a science university, which is even more powerful than Qing University.
Qingda is powerful in engineering.
At this time, Chen Xu stood on the podium and said with a smile: "It is a great honor to come to Yan University and share some of my insights and discoveries on artificial intelligence with teachers and students.
It has been 63 years since McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester, and Shannon proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in 1956;
And Minsky, the last of the 10 scientists who came up with the concept at Dartmouth College, left this world in 2016......"
This is Yan University, and the professors and students sitting in the audience can be said to be the group of people with the highest IQ in China, and most of them have a solid theoretical knowledge of artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
Therefore, Chen Xu didn't talk too much about the basics, and after the opening remarks, he directly led the topic to natural language processing and CX language.
Soon a student asked questions about the location of the underlying code of the language.
That is, the more advanced the language, the more difficult it is to grasp the implementation of the underlying instructions, and when it reaches the level of intelligent language, the execution of instructions can be said to be completely arbitrary, and there are no routines at all.
Maybe you want it to write a song, but it gives you a honey-huh-ahh
And the underlying code positioning of the CX language ......
Programming ape: Don't tell Lao Tzu about the underlying principle, framework kernel, Lao Tzu is a shuttle when he knocks on the code!lea edi, ebx + offset szpwd... Pick up the keyboard is TM dry!
So to put it another way.
That is, if thinking does happen in the brain, how do the two brains distinguish each other?
Your mind certainly won't be exactly the same as mine, and the same will be true for anyone else, but our brains all have the same anatomical divisions, so what's the difference between my brain and your brain?
This is a mystery of the brain localization process, and it is also a mystery of the underlying code execution of the computer intelligent language.
And about this question, Chen Xu actually doesn't understand.
The CX language is from Xiaobai's analysis of electronic rays, and he only knows that he uses the principle of chaos, and he can use part of the characteristics of the principle of chaos, and he is far from understanding.
Including Xiaobai himself, it can only be said that he has a preliminary understanding of the characteristics of computer natural language processing, and his understanding of artificial intelligence is still on the surface.
Although it is actually an intelligent life in its own right.
"In the late 40s, Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Panfield proposed an explanation that memories can be reconstructed from dynamic processes distributed throughout the brain, but can be ......triggered from local points," Chen said.
The scene was silent, and everyone was listening carefully.
After Chen Xu finished speaking, the curiosity of the students in the audience was not satisfied, but more students raised their hands to ask questions.
At this moment, a female voice sounded from the audience, "Hello Mr. Chen, I want to ask you a question." ”
The speakers on the stage have not yet been named, and someone has preemptively asked a question, which is not only an impolite behavior, but also a sign of disrespect.
Everyone turned their heads to look at the source of the sound.
It's a girl standing in the hallway against the wall in the classroom, still holding a microphone in her hand. The girl is naturally Wei Wantong.
On the stage, Chen Xu asked, "Do you have any questions about this classmate?"
Ignoring the stares of countless pairs of eyes in the classroom, Wei Wantong showed a sad and indignant expression on his face, and asked loudly: "I want to ask Mr. Chen, the translation machine developed by your company, while making a lot of money, has you ever thought about the majority of English students like me?"
Who will pay for our youth, our sweat, and our future career losses?
Maybe it seems to you that this is just the throes of technological progress, but in my opinion, you are committing a crime by developing such a technology, against tens of millions of students in the world!"
After Wei Wantong finished speaking, the big classroom was silent for a while, and many people looked at each other.
99% of the people on the scene are computer practitioners, and in their opinion, the advent of Xiaobai Translator is not only not a crime, but also a thing worth mentioning.
However, for people in the foreign language department, it is indeed a bolt from the blue.
Chen Xu on the stage was also a little embarrassed, and then said seriously: "This classmate, if our company's technology has brought you some bad influences, I apologize to you here."
But I have to regret to tell you that once the trend of big data and artificial intelligence is formed, it is not something that can be stopped by manpower.
At a certain time, it will still appear.
Maybe in three years, maybe in five years, but definitely not more than ten years.
According to the calculation of probability, it has an 80% chance that it will appear in Google, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Qualcomm, Intel, the eight major enterprises in the United States.
In that case, why should we wait for someone else to come and kill us instead of developing it first?
Secondly, I have to admit that the intelligent revolution is replacing the proudest part of humanity, which is the brain!
Its impact on society will be all-encompassing, and the so-called intellectually demanding jobs that many social elites rely on will gradually disappear;
Billions of people around the world could lose their jobs in the future.
Moreover, when the intelligent revolution arrives in an all-round way, it will not be as simple as turning the agricultural population into the urban population and the primary and secondary industries into the tertiary industry, as in the past.
As for you asking me if there is a good workaround?
To be honest, no one can do anything about this.
But even if there is no good solution, we have to accept the fact that in the future, more and more things will not be able to be done by machines.
Our future career direction should be positioned according to this premise.
To learn from history, in the previous technological revolutions, there are only two paths that a person, a company, or even a country can choose, either join the wave and become the top 2%, or wait and see and eventually be eliminated.
The choice is up to you. ”
Chen Xu's narration aroused the deep thought of the students and teachers at the scene.
But that girl wasn't so easily persuaded.
As soon as Chen Xu finished speaking, she began to question again, but soon someone from the student union invited her out.
Chen Xu went on to talk about intelligent programs.
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The video of Chen Xu's speech was posted on the Internet, which aroused heated discussions among the majority of netizens......
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