Chapter 042: Enlightenment
Let's face it, take it one step at a time.
Xia Lu came to the teaching building to learn knowledge, and this class is advanced mathematics.
Regardless of which major the students in the science class of Hongyi Academy choose, mathematics is a compulsory course.
At the beginning of this lesson, Professor Yu Feng, a mathematics teacher, did not tell boring mathematical formulas, but told a story: "Alan Turing was an excellent mathematician, Turing said that cryptanalysis does not rely only on pure logical deduction and rigorous calculation, and many times, intuition and conjecture are more important. ”
Xia Lu clapped his hands gently, and he very much agreed with the Turing quote quoted by Professor Yu. Yes, intuition is very important, and I just relied on my sensitive intuition to get a perfect score in the exam.
"Turing had designed a machine and talked to this machine called 'Christopher'. After Turing's death, he left nothing but two boxes of records of conversations with the machine. ”
Seventy years after Turing's death, the entirety of his conversation with the machine was deciphered by a group of tech nerds in MIT's computer science department. ”
"I don't mean to praise other people's undergraduates, I believe that our undergraduates in Hongyi Academy also have the ability to make hard-core academic achievements. Professor Yu said with encouragement on his face.
Emmm…… MIT is the first computer department in the world, compared with those technology nerds, Professor Yu, you can afford us too much......
"I've excerpted some of Turing's conversation with the machine, hoping to shed some light on it. ”
"Turing: Christopher, what kind of person do you think I am?"
"Christopher: You're a good guy. ”
Turing: But others don't think so. ”
"Christopher: I'm sorry, I'm sad. ”
"Turing: What people say about me is that Turing believed that machines could think on their own, and Turing was a liar, so machines couldn't think. ”
"Christopher: I'm sorry, I'm sad. ”
"Students, what inspiration did you gain from this conversation?" asked Professor Yu.
Many students immediately replied: "Turing test!"
"That's right, the Turing test. Then there is another question, did Christopher pass the test of Turing himself? Many people say, how can a machine invented in Turing's time pass the Turing test? Do you think this is really the case?" Professor Yu asked again.
This...... I don't know, it's not written in the book, I can't find it in the Baidu library, I can't find it on the Internet, I can't believe the remarks on it?
The students were puzzled, but they were curious and waited for Professor Yu to give an answer.
This question is left for students to think about after class, and now we will enter the topic of this section, calculus. Professor Yu smiled and said, "Speaking of calculus, I have to talk about the love and murder story between Newton, Leibniz, and Clark......
Professor Yu's lectures on mathematics are really interesting, and the stories of the history of mathematics occupy more than half of the time, leaving only a small half of the time for ∫, LN and ∑.
Mathematics is boring, and a boring course is taught vividly and lively, covering the main knowledge points while interspersing interesting stories of official history and wild history, which tests the level of the teacher.
The students praised Professor Yu one after another, and Professor Yu spoke so well.
When Xia Lu talked, one of the teachers interviewed was Professor Yu Feng.
At that time, Xia Lu felt that Professor Yu, who was thirty years old, was holding it, but now it seems that Professor Yu really held it.
Professor Yu's lecture gave Xia Lu an important inspiration.
Professor Yu has just excerpted the dialogue between Turing and the machine, and there is a passage that is typical of Aristotle's syllogism:
Turing believed that machines could think for themselves.
Turing was a liar. (Turing slept with a man, people thought he was a liar)
So the machine can't think.
Xia Lu now compiles an Aristotelian trilogy, and he communicates with the system in his consciousness: "Xia Lu believes that the system is a good person. ”
System: "Please complete the first phase of the forced swap task as soon as possible." ”
Xia Lu: "Xia Lu is not a liar. ”
System: "Please complete the first phase of the forced swap task as soon as possible." ”
Xia Lu: "So the system is a good person. ”
The system no longer responds.
So the system doesn't pass the Turing test, it's not a good person, it's not a human being, it's a program-like non-living being.
Is this really the case?
Xia Lu fell into deep thought, I am an honest person, could the system be a liar?
Maybe it's because I'm not good at learning, Turing's system is very complicated, I just know a little bit about it, and I can complete the real Turing test in a few words?
Scientific knowledge must not be sold, not only must it not be sold, but the breadth and depth of knowledge must be constantly enhanced.
Xia Lu set a goal to study hard and become a strong college student as soon as possible.
Leaving the school building, Xia Lu found that he had too much to learn.
The sky was falling with a light rain, and the summer road walked towards the library, the autumn rain was hazy, and the weather was cool for a long time.
Xia Lu, who didn't bring an umbrella, quickened his pace, but stopped with a whimper.
"Meow~"
"Meow?
Xia Lu looked around, he liked cats, he had a cat, the cat he had died, he sold his emotional memories with his deceased pet cat Cruso, and he earned 500 points.
"I've had cats? yes, I've had cats. What's the name of that cat I have?"
Xia Lu searched around for the sound of "meow", and finally found the target under a Civic sedan.
"This ...... Small milk kittens. Xia Lu squatted down and saw the kitten curled up under the car.
"Meow ......"
The kitten screamed softly and did not run away.
Xia Lu kindly hooked his fingers: "Little kitten, come out, come out quickly." ”
The kitten's eyes were full of confusion, and it looked at Xia Lu timidly, neither approaching nor flinching.
"Kitten, where's your mother? You're so young, you're going to die without your mother. "It's Xia Lu's nature to love cats, although he sold a relationship with a pet cat, Xia Lu's cat raising skills are still there, and his friendliness to the cat species has not been cleared.
"Meow ......"
The kitten's fluff was wet and tangled, and its delicate body shivered in the falling air, perhaps hungry, or frightened, and it instinctively burrowed under the car, looking pitiful.
The kitten is in a difficult situation, it does not take the initiative to show favor to humans, it tries to maintain the dignity of a kitten.
"Do you despise me, or are you wary of this cold world that has left you behind?" Xia Lu muttered to himself.
Kitten: "Meow...... Meow. ”
Xia Lu was friendly again: "Come out, little cutie, I'll take you to find your mother." If your mother doesn't want you anymore, then I'll raise you. ”