Listening to good music for a while is a small habit before reading a book, which helps him get into the groove faster, such as the complete collection of the Mysterious Garden by the Sound of Heaven is one of his favorites.

In the melodies of grace, Xu Xincheng looked up and browsed the 118 books neatly arranged on the shelves. In the past 20 years, he has read more than 4,000 books, and these 118 works are his favorites, and he has read every book, some three or four times.

His eyes fell on the copy of "A Brief History of the Future" he had bought last Sunday, and he couldn't help but think back to the conversation he had with Lucy yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, that discussion about artificial intelligence really made him feel very uneasy about the future.

He remembers being deeply shocked when he read the chapter on the useless stage when he read the e-book version of A Brief History of the Future for the first time.

Previously, in his imagination of the future, he always believed that everything would be beautiful and everything would be bright. However, at that moment, he woke up to the fact that there are many possibilities for the future, and good is only one of them, and there are others, some of which are not so beautiful, and some of which are even very bad......

At that moment, he had a feeling of waking up from a big dream, and that moment was his "time to wake up from a dream".

In the past few years, whenever he thinks about the future, he will have a lot of uneasiness, but this uneasiness is nothing compared to the feeling he felt yesterday afternoon.

Xu Xincheng thought back to every word Lucy said yesterday and the solemn expression when she spoke, especially the resolute tone and uneasy and sad look when she said, "If I tell you, the third school is the correct point of view", he knows that Lucy's thoughts and judgments are serious, and her uneasiness and sorrow are also real.

Yesterday and now he still can't agree with Lucy's pessimistic judgment about the future, or it should be said that he is unwilling to agree from the bottom of his heart, he prefers to believe that the future is hopeful, the future is beautiful, and the future is bright.

He thought about it for a moment and then decided: "Yes, I want to reread the books that talk about the future of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, in addition to "A Brief History of the Future", I want to reread books like "Inevitability" by Kevin Kelly, "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil, and other related books." ”

He now has a very strong need, he needs to know more, he needs to understand more deeply about the cutting-edge views and predictions of artificial intelligence experts and futurists, he needs to find more good information, more reliable evidence, more positive theories, so that he can make more optimistic predictions about the future, so that the next time he and Lucy discuss artificial intelligence, he can bring them up.

In this way, perhaps, he can change her pessimistic judgment and prediction of the future, so that she will not have so many worries and worries about the future.

Xu Xincheng knows that the topic and content he discussed with Lucy yesterday have been hotly discussed and fiercely debated by countless people in this world for decades. Not only experts and scholars, but also ordinary people like him have joined in this debate of the century.

Especially after a new big event happens, such as after Alpha Dog defeated the top Go masters of mankind Lee Sedol and Ke Jie in 2016 and 2017, or, whenever a science fiction movie involving AI is released, such as "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", on Douban, Zhihu, Tianya, Maopu and other major forums, everyone's discussion on the topic of AI awakening is even more intense, and many people express deep worries about the future of our human race.

But no matter how heated the discussion on the forum is, the vast majority of people actually think in their hearts that it is just the world depicted and shown in science fiction movies, and that world is still very different from our real world.

After a heated discussion, most people tend to think that the situation in the movie will not happen, or that even if it does, it will not be as bad as what is depicted and shown in the movie, and take 10,000 steps back and say that the worst will really happen in the future, and that will be a long, long, long time later, so the vast majority of people are not too worried.

In fact, we are more concerned about what is happening in front of us than about the world of the future that will happen in the future, and what is happening more and more, bigger, bigger and bigger, than what will happen in the future. As a result, the vast majority of people will soon focus on the many major issues we are facing now, and one of the most hotly discussed is the big problem that artificial intelligence will replace most of the work of humans.

Xu Xincheng felt that his head began to feel a little numb, and when he thought of the many serious problems that artificial intelligence may bring, it was easy to give people headaches, and this topic was too complex and heavy.

He decided to stop, decided not to ponder it himself, he knew very well that his level was very limited, and no matter how much he pondered, it would be difficult to figure out a reason, so it was better to read the book, the ideas and ideas in the book might give him some useful inspiration.

He clicked on the music player again, replaced the Mystery Garden, and replaced it with a Mozart album that was more suitable for reading books.

The soothing sound of the piano drifted into his ears, and he immediately felt a little more relaxed, and he opened the book and began to look intently......