With the establishment of the North Atlantic Industrial Complex (NAIC) (North_Atlantic_Industrial_Consortium), the world pattern popularly known as the "new Cold War" began to emerge.

The forces of all sides are gradually moving closer to the two poles, forming two major blocs around the United States and China, respectively, to engage in all-round confrontation in economic and diplomatic affairs, and the global military budget has also jumped simultaneously......

The outside world is turbulent due to the moon attack project, and the internal Vientiane Group is not calm, to be precise, the Singularity Research Institute has become a little chaotic.

Just last month, Lin Han personally ordered the suspension of all scientific research projects related to strong artificial intelligence technology, and the institute no longer accepts relevant project applications.

The Singularity Research Institute, which has quantum computers and artificial intelligence as its two pillars, was cut off in an instant, which caused an uproar in the whole academy and even the entire artificial intelligence academic community.

Inside and outside the research institute, there were more and more voices of doubt, but Lin Han never gave a clear response.

This situation continued until Joshua Sido, the vice president of the Singularity Research Institute, who was in charge of artificial intelligence research, personally ran to the Vientiane Building, that is, the Tenth Power Building, to prepare for a heads-up posture, and angrily found Lin Han.

This British-American old man, known as the "father of neural networks", is not afraid of heaven and earth, and naturally he is not afraid of the chairman.

"Bang!"

Joshua Sido, who was in his seventies, slapped the table, his beard and his whole body trembled: "Lin, you have to give me an explanation! Why, why did you terminate these projects?"

Lin Han stroked his forehead, and then pressed his hand to signal: "Calm down, Professor Xiduo, calm down...... Your heart attack isn't healed yet. ”

"Are you threatening me?!" Joshua Sido didn't become calm, but slapped the table again, "If you can't give me an explanation, I'd rather jump from a height of 1024 meters than stay in your research institute!"

As the father of neural networks and one of the most authoritative and perhaps non-authoritative scholars in the field of artificial intelligence, Professor Joshua Hido is undoubtedly a maverick. (Parallel world, don't sit in the opposite number)

Although it has as many as 300,000 citations in Google Academic, ranking first among the "Big Three of Artificial Intelligence", it has countless protégés, high morality, and prosperity.

But Joshua Sido remained obsessed with academic research rather than business, working as a professor of computational science and operations research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and living in poverty.

In order to poach Professor Xiduo, in addition to the most basic living conditions, Lin Han also specially promised to solve the heart problem for him, promising that within three years, he could leave the pacemaker and live a normal life.

In this way, Professor Xiduo hesitated for a long time before he left MIT and became the vice president of the Singularity Research Institute, in charge of artificial intelligence-related work.

Lin Han saw that Professor Xiduo was still emotional, so he had no choice but to use his life authority to manually lower his blood pressure.

Half a minute later, Professor Xiduo sat down, but still did not budge: "Why did you terminate these projects? You are the chairman of Vientiane Technology, the best software engineer, not the short-sighted stupid boss of a small company!"

Lin Han fiddled with the magnetic levitation globe on the table, and said thoughtfully: "Professor Xiduo, you know, long before you came to the institute, I have been learning about neural networks and deep learning......

"I designed an experiment to collect behavioral data from 2,000 chimpanzees using tens of thousands of video and audio recording devices and tens of thousands of microchips implanted in the body. "With the help of this data, I successfully constructed a chimpanzee AI two months ago. ”

"And then?" Professor Hitto asked, eagerly, then shook his head in confusion, "How did I not know about this experiment?"

"That was three years ago, and ...... As the top person in charge of the entire Vientiane Group, I know something that other people don't know, isn't there anything strange?" Lin Han said.

"Okay......" Professor Hitto nodded.

Lin Han continued: "I spent another month designing a natural language system based on sign language for this chimpanzee AI. ”

Professor Xido looked very uncalm, and hurriedly asked, "Have you already created a strong AI?"

"Of course not, but it should be a little close. ”

After a pause, Lin Han continued: "In this chimpanzee AI, I found many interesting phenomena, such as ......"

"Like what?"

"Lying. ”

Professor Hitor stood up and stared wide-eyed, "This can't be! Don't you have the underlying code to stop the lie?"

"In some cases, such as simulated hunger, simulated mating, it sometimes fails, and I still haven't fully figured out the mechanism that causes it to fail, and I can't make the AI fully operational while preventing the lie from happening. Lin Han lay down on the chair.

Professor Xiduo frowned, his face was cloudy, he sat back in his seat, and said for a while, "That's why you decided to terminate the project of strong artificial intelligence?"

Lin Han thought for half a second: "It's just a pause." ”

Professor Hitto asked, "Can you show me this AI?"

"If you are willing to become a Chinese citizen and sign a new confidentiality agreement and labor contract, then of course you can. Lin Han added, "You should know that the current situation is more sensitive, and we have to do this." ”

Professor Xido paused: "Then how long are you going to pause?"

"Well, it's hard to say. ”

"Can't you say?" Professor Hitor looked unacceptable, "So, I'm going to be the janitor of the Singularity Research Institute for an indefinite period of time?"

"Weak artificial intelligence used to have a lot of room for research, and you can also participate in the research of some quantum algorithms......

"What's the point of computer science without strong artificial intelligence!" Professor Xiduo waved his hand, "Lin, tell me now, can the stopped project be resumed this month?"

"If not, I'll resign now!"

"Professor Hitto, in half a year, you can live out of the pacemaker. Maybe in half a year, we'll be able to figure out a lot of problems and restart those projects. Lin Han said.

Professor Xiduo shook his head again and again, exhaled a breath, stood up and shook his right index finger, and said with some emotion: "I came to Yunzhou from Massachusetts to strengthen artificial intelligence, not for the heart of a 76.4-year-old man!"

"Half a year...... Can you guarantee that these projects will be restarted in six months?"

Lin Han was silent when he heard this, his fingers tapped on the tabletop, his eyes stopped on the globe, and he was silent for a long time.

He finally sighed slightly, got up and stretched out his hand:

"So, Professor Hitto...... Let's see you soon. ”