The moonlight is bright, the night insects are chirping, and Wang Shan is riding leisurely on his bicycle.

The faint scent of flowers in the air became more and more apparent, clearly reminding him that his destination was near.

Soon the sound of croaking frogs sounded in the ears, and you could also see the small bridge and lotus leaves illuminated by the landscape lights, and the shore water was full of huge green leaves, which were mixed with many pink flowers, some of them were waiting for the morning sun, some showed the fragrance of lotus, and some of the petals withered and only left the lotus pod.

Back then, Zhu Ziqing, who was teaching here, wrote the article "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" on the edge of the pond on the west side of the campus, and then it was interpreted into various meanings and became the test center. Now the lotus flowers bloom on time, the grass insects and frogs are constantly singing, and the moonlight in the sky is still beautiful, except for a young teacher who wears a long shirt and combs his hair, and is worried and sleepless.

Later, in order to commemorate the head of the Chinese department, the school specially made a white marble sitting statue for him, but it was placed in the nearby Shuimu Qinghua Garden, and even the small pavilion with the "Lotus Pond Moonlight" plaque was placed there, and I don't know how many tourists have been misled for decades.

Fortunately, the navigation of the mobile APP is perfect enough, but it did not turn Lao Wang over there, although there are also exquisite buildings and pavilions of lotus leaves, but it is not where he is going tonight.

After the press conference, Atletico Madrid's assistant sent him a message, saying that Ma Dong had something to do for the time being, and he would be interviewed by him in Jinchun Garden an hour later. Wang Shan did not return to the express hotel where he was temporarily staying, but simply rented a shared bicycle and rode in to tour the campus at night. It's just that this time of year is not suitable for sightseeing, the school road at night during the summer vacation is empty, only the street lights watch each other, and people will subconsciously speed up and move towards a more lively and bright place. He arrived early.

Find a place to park the bicycle, pick up the mobile phone to scan the code to checkout, Wang Shan approached the lotus pond.

At night, the lotus leaf fields are blown by the wind and swaying. Affected by this, fragments of the text scattered in my mind began to spiral and reorganize, as if they were about to erupt.

However, in the end, what came out of Lao Wang's mouth was "I am like a fish, in your lotus pond, just to wait with you, the white moonlight ......"

Wang Shan said that he really didn't blame him, it was all the pot of the Sunset Red Square Dance Troupe next door, who would have thought that the Phoenix Legend had already captured the base camp of Shuimu Nianhua if he didn't come here?

There is a small island in the middle of the lotus pond, which originally had pavilion buildings, and it was the former residence of Emperor Xianfeng when he was the fourth elder brother. After the Old Summer Palace was burned down by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the buildings on the island were demolished into wood and stone materials, and they were ready to build the Old Summer Palace, but in the end it was not completed, and the garden became a desert island.

In 1979, the deserted garden was rebuilt and turned into the Jinchun Garden Ruins Park, which was used as a place for leisure and entertainment for teachers and students. However, most of the time, this is the territory of the square dance troupe, after all, it is close to the family area of the teaching staff, and the aunts have the advantage of geographical advantages.

In the middle of the moon, the night was cold and dewy, and when the dance music was over, everyone began to pack up their things and go home.

"Lao Wang, why did you come so early?"

Hearing this, Wang Shan turned his head and saw that Atletico Ma was standing on the steps behind him, and the suit on his body had been changed into a short-sleeved PL shirt and light-colored pants.

Seeing him look over, the latter tapped the watch on his left wrist, "Our appointment time hasn't come yet!"

Wang Shan raised his wrist and saw that the agreed time was still five minutes away, so he smiled awkwardly, "Ha, it's okay to stay in the hotel, and it's good to come and see the square dance in the university." ”

The latter nodded, sat down on the steps like him, and asked casually, "How is it?

"It's all the same. I didn't expect the university teacher to also listen to the legend of Phoenix. ”

"What's so strange about this? The teacher is also a human being, so it's not surprising that he likes popular tastes. ”

After chatting for a while about what he had for dinner and whether he was sleepy now, Atletico raised his hand to him and said, "Okay, it's ready over there, let's go over." ”

After speaking, get up, cross the stone bridge to the island and walk into the ancient corridor "Linyi Pavilion", the staff has placed folding tables and chairs in the corridor, there are small stove pottery pots, porcelain plates and dried fruits on the table, and there is a night breeze lotus fragrance outside, just like an old friend chatting about home at night.

The two sat down at a folding table, Wang Shan took out a voice recorder from his bag and put it on the table, and took out his bee notebook to find the interview outline for others to read, and then said, "Then, let's start?"

Atletico nodded.

"Ma Dong, can you tell me why you found 9?" As soon as the words came out, Lao Wang added: "Don't say those clichés at the press conference." ”

"Haha," Atletico smiled, "I don't want to use the standard answer, then I'll have to think about it." ”

"To put it simply, we felt that we didn't have enough people, so we had to look for cooperation. Principals also wanted to see new technologies improve the quality of teaching, so we hit it off. ”

"Don't you still have a million temporary workers? Why are there still shortages?"

"A can't cover everything, especially some unpopular courses, such as paleontology and cultural relics, it is not easy to find information outside, and there are not as many people who study this as there are in universities. ”

"The principals are happy to join the project, do they also have this consideration to increase unpopular employment?"

"Perhaps, the whole course of the R-engineering project may last for a long time, and the number of people required is huge. ”

"What about other universities? Can they get involved?"

"Of course. We will then launch a dedicated website for interested individuals and teams at home and abroad to join. ”

"It's a pity that everything I learned before was returned to the teacher, otherwise I would have gone to mix it up," Lao Wang casually blackened himself, and then changed the subject, "So, can Ma Dong tell me about the gifts you gave to several principals? It seems to be two mobile phones, and neither of them is a commercial model." ”

At the end of the press conference, the two sides took photos and exchanged gifts as usual, Atletico Ma and others received handmade porcelain plates printed with the logo of each school, and they gave away exquisite gift boxes containing two mobile phones.

On the lid of the box, there are pictures of two mobile phones, one black and one white, and Wang Shan noticed that their cameras are placed below, and their appearance is very distinctive, obviously not any listed models, so he temporarily added this question to the interview outline on the way here.

Atletico nodded and quipped: "You are so sharp-eyed, you can see it from so far away." ”

"Of course, after all, I eat this bowl of rice. Besides, I have an impression of all the official models of Bee, and these two are obviously not," Wang Shan said smugly, "Is this time an engineering machine or a new model?"

The number of mass production machines for bees is limited, but the number of engineering machines is much higher. Machines that are not very producible cannot be mass-produced, but because they have excellent performance and appearance, they are often given away, after all, they are limited and out of print.

"Of course, it's the new models, and next week's launch is for them. ”

Hearing the topic he was interested in, Wang Shan's eyes kept staring at Atletico Madrid's face, looking forward to hearing more exciting news.

However, the latter's performance disappointed him very much, and after arousing his curiosity, he turned his attention to the small stove, lifted the clay pot that was whistling, and skillfully helped the two of them each brew a cup of green tea, "It's still a little cold at this time, drink a cup of hot tea to warm up." ”

"Thank you," took the teacup and put it down, Lao Wang fingered the keyboard, and pleaded: "The content is not enough, help me get some more dry goods!"

Atletico nodded, "Then give another hint, the white one is a new model of the Aqua series, which focuses on the selfie function, and the portrait photography has made great progress." ”

Lao Wang nodded clearly, the Aqua transparent series is a typical women's mobile phone, and it is not surprising to improve the selfie function, "It is said that this oval shape was the standard configuration of women's mobile phones back then, but now it is rarely seen." ”

"Yes," Atletico said, "In the past, women's mobile phones were getting smaller and smaller, and they were so small that they could be worn as jewelry around their necks." Now it's getting bigger and bigger, so big that it can't fit into your pocket, so you have to use a lanyard to hang around your neck, but it's the same way. ”

"Trend," Lao Wang asked again, "What about the black one? This is your flagship in the second half of the year? ”

"It's just rare, but it's not nothing. The traditional design gradually entered the dead end and could only compete with the antenna, so we had to find another inspiration and start over. ”

Receiving a hint from Atletico Madrid, Lao Wang quickly typed down a few words, ready to go back to find a similar mobile phone design, and then continued to ask: "What about their processors? Is it 539 or 636?"

The naming convention for bee cores is simple and crude, with the first digit of the number representing the architecture version, the second digit representing the platform, the third digit representing the number of cores with 1 or even numbers, and the 0, 7, and 9 representing performance tuning. Lao Wang, as a bee, naturally knows this, 539 and 636 are all speculated by himself, and there is no official evidence for the time being.

Atletico took a sip of hot tea, "It's still 536." As for the improved version of the processor, for the time being, there are only two low-end models, the 439 and 430. ”

Lao Wang was not very interested in these processors that were going to be sold to third parties, and just asked casually: "28 nanometers?"

Although the 28nm process is outdated, the technology is relatively simple and the cost is lower, and the foundry fabs are all over the country and abroad, which is the inevitable choice for most low-end chips.

Seeing Atletico nodding, he picked up the topic just now, "Is there really no 636? Snapdragon 820/821 has been launched, and Apple A10 is also coming soon, I'm anxious for you." ”

"There's no way to rush, the research and development of independent architecture is supposed to be slower, and even if 636 exists, it's next year. And we are happy with the performance of the 536 and don't think we need to add cores to increase the frequency. ”

"You can't let it last for a year, can you?"

"So we have prepared a helper for it, and both phones are equipped with our self-developed AI chip Brain1, which can bring users a comprehensive experience enhancement. ”

"How old is the equivalent of intelligence?" said Lao Wang curiously.

Atletico shook his head with a wry smile, "It's equivalent to 1 million neurons, which is about the level of a bee brain." ”

"That's it," Wang Shan suddenly deflated, PU uses billions of transistors, the human brain has nearly 100 billion neurons, and millions of analog neurons are not enough to see.

The other party naturally noticed his expression, and didn't explain much, and smiled calmly, "It's not that the more complicated, the better, what mode to use is the most important thing." With the current level of technology, saying how old you are is is just a metaphor, not a matter at all. A 4-year-old can be trained to become a 5-year-old, can AI?"

"After so many years of research, bees can only make chips close to the level of insect brains, which can be used for various applications with the support of cloud platforms, or it would be better to use it as a local accelerator. ”

Artificial intelligence technology has been hot for a while in the last century, and applications such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, and handwriting recognition have appeared at that time, and in 1997, IB Deep Blue Supercomputer defeated chess grandmaster Kasparov, which made people optimistic that the future is not far away. However, when the related products are really launched, users are disappointed to find that the use effect is simply poor, and the relevant companies have given up the research when they see that the limelight is not good, but the university is still insisting.

With the improvement of computer performance, the recognition of biological information such as voice, fingerprint, and iris has finally become available, coupled with the strong demand for biometrics from smart phones, the supercomputing created by its deep learning laboratory defeated the Go champion, and suddenly made the deep neural network NN and convolutional neural network NN become hot words on the Internet, from which it can be seen that the public has a strong interest in AI technology, and can also see the bright future of AI. Even the supposedly unbreakable game of Go has been done, and the rest is not sprinkled with water?

However, in Atletico's view, this round of craze is actually very frothy, because we still don't know how intelligence is generated.

The brain is a black box, and intelligence is also a black box, and we only know what it is, but we don't know why. Because of the failure to properly explain the relevant mechanism, AI research is also groping for a black box. Although there are more research tools for neurobiology and mathematics in hand, and the hardware specifications of the simulator have been increased by several orders of magnitude, it cannot change the essence.

In this case, blind optimism will only lead to greater mistakes, so he prefers to be cautious and conservative.

"I remember!" Lao Wang suddenly exclaimed, so frightened that all the crickets and frogs hid, and the surroundings were suddenly quiet.

"What comes to mind?" asked Atletico leisurely.

"Is your Dr. Bee already in college? Doesn't that represent the level of an 18-year-old high school student?"

"It's still a long way off! Qualified high school students must be able to change the world, or at least have the potential. ”

"You also watch the Internet?"

"See, some of the brain holes are still worth reference. ”

exchanged recommended book lists with each other, and Wang Shan turned the topic back again, "That's also very powerful, at least the college entrance examination robot in Japan hasn't been admitted yet." ”

"On the other hand, Japanese universities are all self-proposing, and their target is the University of Tokyo, which is known for its difficult topics. Even if we can't do it, aren't our best science students still not up to the cut-off score here?"

"That's not bad, the news really scared me at the time. ”