In order to make himself able to speak in front of a large audience, Qi Min really spent a week making two descriptive videos. One section talks about how the raw data used to build a real neuronal model is collected, and the other section talks about how the brain-like body is built.

By the time it was time for her to make an academic report on Thursday, Qi Min had already memorized the draft to ensure that nothing went wrong. brought her PPT and video to the stage, and the process of speaking was unusually smooth because she had practiced it several times in private.

However, when it came to the question session, Qi Min was a little uncontrollable - who would have thought that these doctoral students with strange brain circuits could ask any weird questions? And some of the questions knew that the questioner didn't listen to what she was saying at all, but she had to answer patiently and positively as the keynote speaker in public.

All in all, Qi Min's answer in the question session was not very good in terms of content or status.

However, just when she thought that she was going to GG for this report, the microphone suddenly passed into the hands of an old professor in the front row.

Judging from the name tag in front of him, this old gentleman's name is Zhang Jiushu, and Qi Min doesn't know what direction he is heading, but he praises when he opens his mouth: "I think your topic is quite interesting." We used to think that to imitate the human brain, there was an idea to completely imitate the structure of the real brain from the top to the bottom, and the other was to directly design artificial intelligence without following the characteristics of the physiological brain. At present, the design of this brain-like body is neither completely imitated, nor not imitated at all, but imitates the real brain on the underlying neurons, and the structure of the top layer does not follow the brain. This brain-like body is not a brain, but it has the characteristics of a brain, and to be honest, I can't imagine what kind of thing I can get in the end. I think it's really worth a try, and the PIPLINE is very cleverly designed, both in the early fluorescence acquisition data and in the computer simulation later. ”

As soon as he summarized it in a few words, he explained the parts that Qi Min did not explain clearly to many doctoral students and audiences who were not at the same level.

Then the old gentleman turned to the other audience and said, "I think some of our students in the audience are not very polite. I've heard that there are credits for attending academic lectures, but I guess the original purpose of the credits was not to let people waste time, but to hope that you could learn something. In particular, don't talk about AI playing Go as soon as you hear about the simulated brain, if you continue to do this after graduation, others will think that you are not good at teaching in school. ”

Then he turned to Qi Min and said, "There is still a question to be taught, because you are relatively young, I will say it directly." The design of the presentation itself is problematic, especially in these two videos. The main body of the report is in Chinese, but the video is in English, and there are no subtitles, obviously not considering that most of the audience on the scene are doctoral students, and they do not know so much about the background knowledge in this area, but they may not understand English when listening to it. It's fine to talk about it for a general academic lecture, but if it is said in a class in the future, it is likely that there will be a problem with this evaluation. ”

Qi Min hurriedly nodded yes. She knew all the problems, and she would definitely not be able to teach in this state.

This old gentleman named Zhang Jiushu talked about this, and no one dared to ask any stupid questions later. Qi Min's academic report ended, but after the meeting ended, she was called over by the old Mr. Zhang.

Mr. Zhang said to her: "Xiao Qi, you are the PI who just came to the Department of Biology of China University of Technology this year, right?" Are you taking classes this semester? ”

"Uh...... Not ...... yet," Qi Min replied honestly.

"That's no wonder." The old gentleman smiled and said, "You still have to practice your speech skills." ”

"Yes...... I'm not good at this in the first place," Qi Min explained with some embarrassment, "so I didn't start the class." ”

"It doesn't matter if the class doesn't start, I heard that there are hundreds of credits of courses in the Department of Biology of China University of Technology, and there is no shortage of fewer people to start classes." The old gentleman said, "But I think that this is not the Beijing Systems Biology Forum to be held soon, your project is very interesting, and it is also related to systems biology, so you can make a report." ”

"Huh? Be...... Really? Qi Min reflexively wanted to excuse himself, but then thought that this was an opportunity, and it was rude to push it away, "I'm ...... Will it work? How do you change those two videos? ”

Mr. Zhang Jiushu looked at her and smiled kindly: "I'm not a teacher in your school, nor is I your mentor, so let your own people worry about this kind of thing." ”

After he finished speaking, he nodded to Qi Min, then turned around and left with a smile.

After he left the lecture hall, Wang Xin and Chen Linyou came to Qi Min and whispered mysteriously: "That Professor Zhang Jiushu just now is an expert in bioinformatics managed by the Foundation, I didn't expect him to speak for this project, it's really lucky!" ”

When Qi Min heard the news, his eyes couldn't help but widen: "The Foundation Committee? Isn't that the ...... in charge of project review?"

"So it's a bit of luck. Who would have thought that there would be a weekly academic lecture, and Professor Zhang would come to listen to it this week? Wang Xin pulled Qi Min's sleeve and said, "Senior sister, go back and write an application for a key bioinformatics project, and maybe it will be approved while the iron is hot." ”

Qi Min felt that this matter would not be so lucky, the brain-like project was reported, and the experts of the NSFC were favored when they caught up. However, it is not difficult to apply for a key project, and even if you don't apply, there are no consequences. She still went back and changed the previous project plan, filled in the application form of the key project, and then submitted it to the NSFC.

It took a lot of time to wait for the review, and during this time, Qi Min unexpectedly received a notice that the biology department of the school would let her give a report at the Systems Biology Forum.

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The time from the time I learned that I was going to make a report was only two weeks to the time I actually made a report. It is conceivable that Qi Min's performance in the real report is not much better than her in the school's academic forum. It's just that the people who participated in the forum were at least scholars with a certain foundation in the industry, so there was no problem of not being able to understand.

In the end, Qi Min imitated the way Mr. Zhang Jiushu made a summary, and although he stumbled, he still won a lot of applause from the audience. Maybe there is also an element of encouragement for young scientific researchers, but Qi Min is still very happy to see his research recognized by so many people.

The Q&A session after that went relatively smoothly, even because of the surprisingly large number of people asking questions, everyone's questions were very short, and they were not too tricky.

In response to a question, Qi Min briefly talked about the follow-up work in her plan, and one of the questioners said: "I think if you just input a digital signal and then look at its output, that may not be enough." If you expect it to have some brain features, then try attaching it to an animal's brain. ”

This idea sounded natural, but it made Qi Min remember it very deeply. She had always regarded the brain-like body as something similar to AI, but she had never thought about the results of it if it was used for brain-computer integration.

Of course, she didn't know what a full-size brain-like thing would be, but it might be more telling from the perspective of brain-computer integration.