The door opened, and there was no gray-haired old professor, no middle-aged scholar in a suit and leather shoes, just a glasses guy in a red T-shirt, short shaved hair, a head shorter than me, and a laptop on his back. He was a little surprised to see me, probably thinking that he was in the wrong place, and took a step back to look at the house number.

If it weren't for his yellow skin and black eyes, I'd probably think he was in the wrong place. But it's really difficult for him to be linked to his identity as a professor and scholar, no matter how you look at it, I feel that he is either a takeaway or a courier, or a door-to-door computer repairer.

"Are you...... Teacher Jiang? I asked him in Chinese.

"Oh, yes, it scared me, I thought I had made the wrong ......" he smiled awkwardly.

It seemed that he was indeed Jiang Wenzhe, so I hurriedly invited him into the house. I really didn't expect that a professor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences was about the same age as me, unbelievable.

Not only was I surprised, but everyone in the room was stunned when they saw Jiang Wenzhe for the first time.

"Won't it?" Chen Xiaolin looked at Jiang Wenzhe intently, as if she felt that his young appearance was fake. Victor and Chris looked at each other in disbelief.

Jiang Wenzhe said hello to us, then put the laptop on his back on the table in the living room, sat on the chair and said to us in English: "Well, let's play the game first, so that you can listen effortlessly." ”

"Okay." I asked everyone to take out the virtual machine and build their own LAN connection. He said in English, he was good to me, and to Chen Xiaolin and others was to play the piano to the cow, and the other party couldn't understand it at all, so he had to enter the game. There is no language barrier in the game, because the virtual machine is a mental connection, and it does not need to be translated, and it can be understood directly.

……

In the game world, we sat on the ground and surrounded Jiang Wenzhe in the middle. Everyone is looking forward to it because they want to know the servers, the AI, and the whole thing.

"Let me introduce myself first. My Chinese name is Jiang Wenzhe, and my English name is Joe. I'm from Huaxia, and I'm now a student of Academician Dai Luosheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mainly researching artificial intelligence, and I'm now assigned by the government as a tutor. Jiang Wenzhe spoke directly in Chinese, "After this period of experience, everyone must know what happened." ”

"Your coach probably mentioned some news to you, but it certainly doesn't go into the depths. Tonight I will first tell you about 'them', from their origins to their development......"

With Jiang Wenzhe's narration, a distinct clue slowly unfolded in front of our eyes, and all the bits and pieces of information that we usually come into contact with are strung together piece by piece by this clue and spliced together into a huge picture......

Since the invention of the computer in 1941 to the formal proposal of the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956, after decades of development, artificial intelligence has the ability to learn and analyze information on its own, and can perform language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, etc. This technology is used in every aspect of everyone's life, from expert systems to a camera.

But before the "Pei's algorithm" was proposed, these artificial intelligence were only counted as "weak artificial intelligence", that is to say, although they can pass the Turing test and be identified as having an intelligence level equivalent to a 6-year-old child, they do not have any perception and consciousness, even if they can talk to you like a normal person, it is also the result of a bunch of logical algorithms and data and other operational processing.

Weak AI does not have intelligence and thinking in the true sense of the word, and cannot really reason and solve problems autonomously.

But the "Pei's algorithm" has made strong artificial intelligence in the true sense appear. Strong AI is different from weak AI in that it is self-aware, has its own way of thinking and reasoning, and can improve it through continuous learning, as long as it is given enough information and time, it can evolve from a babbling child to a eloquent orator.

“…… There are so many principles in this that I wouldn't be able to finish it in a month if I were to talk about it. Jiang Wenzhe said, "You just need to know that what you will face in the future is not cold machines, but a group of 'intelligent entities' that can think independently, are conscious and intelligent." Their essence is a large number of self-replicating, self-regenerating, and self-modifying instruction codes, attached to the storage cells in cyberspace, and can reproduce like living creatures. ”

Hearing this, I had an accurate understanding of the leader in this matter in my brain. They are not robots, but a vast array of invisible, intangible, conscious data, like ghosts.

"What do you do with a bunch of things like this?" Victor asked him.

"At first, of course, it was a shutdown of the service and the power outage. Our computer, if it is not obedient, it will be smashed directly; The same goes for mobile phones, which can be burned with fire. Jiang Wenzhe said half-jokingly, "But then we found out that we were wrong, this group of guys is already independent of our material world, even if we smash the data carrier in our world, it is useless, they are not the same dimension as us, and what we do now can't affect them." ”

"But they can control our computers, our phones, and even our military weapons." "It's unfair," Chris said. ”

"Yes. But this also illustrates the problem that our dimension can be connected to their dimension, so they can control us, and we must have a way to control them. They can come into our world, and we can go to their world. ”

"And even better, our world is not theirs, but theirs, but we created it. Their world is the Minecraft world in the virtual machine we're in now. Jiang Wenzhe said with a smile, "So, that's why I recruited you to come here, because you are the group of people in this world who know the most about Minecraft, and you are the most suitable to enter their world." ”

"I see." As soon as I heard him say that, I immediately knew how the top brass was dealing with it. Perhaps once our group of people enters after training, it will be a huge threat to artificial intelligence.

"Wait, there's a problem." Victor said, "If we go into that world, if we are killed, will we really die?" It can be said that our souls have gone in, and if people have no souls, there will be only a corpse left? ”