Chapter 44: The Choice of History

"I'm Luo Dayong, the captain of the Imperial Capital Network Supervision Brigade. Professor Liang Xingbin is a researcher at the Software Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ”

"Captain Luo, Professor Liang, hello." Hou Shida calmly stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two of them, without the slightest hint of the flinching of ordinary students in the face of police and professors.

"Hello Mr. Hou, I'm very sorry for the uninvited and troublesome to you." Liang Xingbin said a little impatiently: "I heard that you wrote a paper on 'artificial intelligence', I want to ask, where did you learn this term?" ”

"The word?" Hou Shida keenly noticed that Liang Xingbin was not puzzled by artificial intelligence, but regarded these two words as one word, which means that he has a basic understanding of artificial intelligence. This is somewhat inconsistent with his understanding of artificial intelligence in the world these days, isn't artificial intelligence not unavailable? But why is this term not included on the Internet at all?

"Oh, yes, that's the word." Liang Xingbin nodded solemnly.

Hou Shida thought for a while and said affirmatively: "This is a word that I have summarized by myself, and I have never heard of it from anyone else. ”

"It can't be!" Liang Xingbin flashed his eyes and said gloomily: "Artificial intelligence is an extremely confidential project that the United States has only launched in the 21st century, how can ordinary people know this?" ”

"I said, it's my own idea for software program research. Combining the human way of thinking with a software program, and allowing computers to do the thinking and labor instead of humans, there is no problem with this technology being named artificial intelligence, right? As for the question of the similarity between the two, I think it may just be a translation coincidence. ”

"You mean that you can do what only the top research team in the United States can do?" Liang Xingbin looked disgusted and asked with a sneer.

Hou Shida was unhurried, and said helplessly: "If you don't want to believe me, I can't help it, but that's the case." There are a lot of brilliant cases of software technology, and there are also many brilliant geniuses, maybe I am? ”

"Captain Luo, what do you see?" Liang Xingbin turned his head and asked Luo Dayong.

"What is the relationship between Qiandu cTo Wang Menglong and you?" Luo Dayong did not directly answer Liang Xingbin's question, but continued to ask Hou Shida questions.

"Wang Menglong? I don't know him. ”

"Haven't you even heard of Wang Menglong's name!" Luo Dayong really deserves to eat the bowl of rice of the police, and he immediately went straight to the fierce single knife.

Hou Shida knew that Wang Menglong was actually injured, it should be that he was putting pressure on Luo Dayong to investigate himself.

Since he had known it for a long time, how could he not be prepared? Hou Shida shook his head ignorantly and said, "I know that the CEO of Qiandu is Mu Changuang, and I really haven't paid attention to who the cTo is." ”

Hou Shida's performance was not flawed, Luo Dayong stared at his expression carefully for a long time, and had no choice but to give up.

Fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence are clearly written in textbooks, which is the inevitable stage of development of computer science. In that case, how could the world not have this discipline instead?

It turns out that as long as he mentions the concept of vague logic a little, Wang Menglong will swim over like a shark that smells blood. This shows that the IQ of people in this world is not low, since they are not stupid, why have they not developed artificial intelligence technology?

The two took turns to fight, but they couldn't help Hou Shida, of course, it was his turn to fight back.

Hou Shida asked rhetorically: "Professor Liang, I also don't understand why someone has proposed the concept of artificial intelligence in the 21st century?" ”

"What's wrong with this?" Liang Xingbin is a little unclear.

"Of course, there is a problem, the need for artificial intelligence has always existed, its mathematical foundation has long been completed, and the research in psychology and brain science has not stopped. But why is the development of artificial intelligence so far behind when these technologies are developing normally? ”

"This, in fact, cannot be said that the proposal of artificial intelligence lags behind them a lot......"

Liang Xingbin looked a little hesitant, gritted his teeth and continued to speak: "Do you know Turing? Alan. Matheson. Turing, the famous father of computer science. In fact, he once came up with a similar concept, but research on this has been very slow in the last century. Especially Turing, who was imprisoned for being gay......"

"Wait, Turing went to jail for homosexuality?"

"Ah, yes, can't you think of it? Haha, homosexuality used to be a criminal offense in a corrupt country. ”

"But he didn't get an estrogen injection, which is—"

"Chemical castration?" Liang Xingbin said what he didn't say for Hou Shida, shook his head and sighed: "For the sake of his research, Turing did intend to accept this method instead of punishment. But at that time, an activist from a gay organization approached him and persuaded him to change this inhumane way and bravely fight for his power! ”

……

Hou Shida no longer knows what to say, it turns out that history is a joke here, just a difference in thought, so a scientific field has changed so much.

"But even if there weren't Turing, someone else would notice this, right?"

Yes, in fact, the Dartmouth Institute in 1956, after his death, also came up with this concept. But Turing's homosexuality has brought some shame to the field, but that's not the most important thing. The point is that at this time the Americans noticed this field, and they believed that if artificial intelligence could be realized, their own scientific and technological advantages would be lost, so they completely blocked all information about artificial intelligence and only studied it in secret national laboratories. ”

"It wasn't until this century that there were some breakthroughs in American research. At the same time, due to a leak, countries around the world now know the concept of artificial intelligence and are conducting secret scientific research competitions. ”

Hou Shida was speechless, he really didn't expect that this was the way things were behind it.

It is not surprising that the great development of artificial intelligence has experienced several ** and low tides in the original history, but it has always been an open field of scientific research. All people around the world who are interested in this can freely learn and research these artificial intelligence knowledge, open discussions in universities, and continuous application in the industry, which has created the great development of artificial intelligence.

And in this reborn history, the Americans have been withholding information and conducting research and development on a small scale. To be honest, it took half a century to research some results, which made Hou Shida a little admired. You must know that the social resources and wisdom wealth that these two can mobilize are fundamentally incompatible!

Since the birth of computer technology, it has been different from the development model of traditional scientific research technology. The more secretive the research, the more it will eventually be abandoned by the whole world.

Openness, inclusiveness, and shared technology can achieve rapid development, which is the soil for the emergence of the spirit of the Internet.

It's no surprise that artificial intelligence, which is the opposite, has been slow to develop.

As if pressed by Hou Shida's righteous momentum, Liang Xingbin no longer dwelled on his source of knowledge, but said: "Regarding the technology of artificial intelligence, the country still hopes that it will not spread for the time being. No matter how you have mastered these techniques, the core principle of them is that you will not spread them again. ”

"What about the software I wrote using artificial intelligence?" Hou Shida frowned and asked.

Liang Xingbin thought for a while, nodded and said: "The source code cannot be circulated, and the program itself is not a big problem." ”

After all, it seems that Hou Shida's technical level is quite good, and no matter how strong the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the army are, it is impossible to affect business behavior. If you put on a confidential hat and let people stop making money with their own wisdom, then I really don't know how many people will blow up. What's more, there are some selfish motives on the side of the software lab.

"There is also a reluctant request, I would like to ask Hou to provide support."

Hou Shida nodded and asked, "Professor Liang said, is there anything I can do?" ”

Liang Xingbin is also a professor in a national first-class key laboratory, and there may be an academician standing behind him. What is the concept of academician? To be a scientist and achieve the level of an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is no longer just a scientist, but has considerable political influence. It is convenient for you to be with others, and when will you have such a big tree if you don't rely on it?

"Actually, it's nothing, I just want to ask you to show us the paper you have written. And if you make a breakthrough in the principle of artificial intelligence in the future, can you share your ideas with us? ”

"That's not quite right, is it?"

Hou Shida frowned, Liang Xingbin This is already quite excessive. The principles and ideas of software, if these things are known, what technical advantages does your software have?

With the small arms and legs of Six Ears Software Company, he will become a "revolutionary martyr" in minutes.

"No, you're mistaken." Liang Xingbin waved his hand and said nervously: "This is not a hard request, but a request." Leave it to us when you see fit, and we'll be here to help. ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood." Hou Shida suddenly realized, to put it bluntly, it was a transaction. He voluntarily took out his technology and traded with the software institute or an academician behind Liang Xingbin in exchange for the other party's political or social resources. Reasonable and fair dealing.

"That's no problem, in this way, my artificial intelligence paper will be used as a meeting gift, and I will ask Professor Liang to correct it."

Hou Shida and Liang Xingbin agreed on a way to contact each other, and the guests and hosts were immediately happy.

It's just that until the end of this meeting, Luo Dayong didn't show a smile. In his mind, he was still thinking about a question, what kind of place was this Luohan Hall Inner Hall?