Although more than half a century has passed, the past habits still stubbornly dominate Han Le's biological clock. At 9 o'clock in the morning, when Qiao Yiyu came to knock on the door, Han Le was still asleep, and muttered while opening the door: "Didn't you say it was afternoon?" ”

The formal conversation was in the afternoon, yes, but the other party couldn't stand it anymore, following the drunken hangover, Dr. Wright was tortured by insomnia for another night, and then hurried to the hotel at 8 o'clock in the morning, and after seeing Qiao Yiyu, he was very enthusiastic about giving her the friendship of the landlord.

The land price in downtown Vancouver is very cheap now, and from Qiao Yiyu's understanding last night, there are only the so-called "poor people" living in the center of these big cities in this era, and most of these people are former hibernators, because of the lack of cost to continue hibernation, and the understanding of this era, and they are unwilling to accept the jobs arranged by the government - only these big cities can make them feel some cordial in this world.

It is said to be a big city, but in this era it is almost synonymous with slums, when I came over last night, except for the road is dark all around, so I don't see many details, when I turned back in the morning, Han Le found that between the steel jungle, there have been a lot of green traces - because of the lack of maintenance, the power of nature is awakening here, on the neat artificial lawn of the past, all kinds of flowers and plants do their best, messily crowded every inch of dirt space, outside the glass curtain wall of high-rise buildings, Green vines assert their ownership of these human creations, and the smooth concrete pavement is full of openings, and a few pedestrians can occasionally be seen passing through them, but they look more like primitive people walking through the jungle - inadvertently avoiding the plants.

A big reason why people after the hibernation era are willing to live underground is that underground cities are easy to maintain, especially given the long hibernation periods - no weather changes, no wind to wear, and very little vegetation to grow...... But on the ground, there is little way to do it, because time will change everything beyond recognition.

Compared to the surrounding "green buildings", the building Dr. Ryan and his family are still much better, and the emergency spraying agent yesterday seems to be working, but it still looks like an old building. When Han Le followed into the office, he saw a large computer with employees sitting in front of each other, some of them still chatting with each other, and the computer displayed almost all of them were line after line of code - the scene looked like a typical tense and orderly work scene.

But this set of kung fu fooling Han Le is okay, and it is far worse to deal with Qiao Yiyu, the ability of the intelligent assistance system to distinguish and analyze the visual picture is unimaginable to people in this era......

Qiao Yiyu smiled, turned her head and asked Wright, "What are they doing here?" ”

"Oh, this is a new project we have taken on to make electronic pets more intelligent and analogue to the next level."

"Electronic Pets...... Can intelligence only simulate animals now? Qiao Yiyu knew that this was true, but it was not what he saw in front of him...... But it doesn't matter, she knew before she came that Wright's current research direction is very problematic, and his previous research focused too much on commercial value, such as the intelligence of electronic pets, and applications such as role simulation for online games...... According to history, Wright should have finally changed direction and really made a little achievement when he had no money to pay for hibernation and was old and idle, that is, one hundred and twenty years later, but the glory of the results could not be enjoyed.

But there is still some disappointment, Qiao Yiyu originally thought that this time there would be a bit of a surprise - although historically, Wright only made achievements in old age, but it is difficult to say whether he had similar ideas when he was young, the commercial intelligence of this era can simulate animals, she thought that the laboratory would always be a little more advanced.

But looking back, in an era of high informatization and commercialization, what can be seen on the market is generally the highest level of technology - in this era of information industry, there are not many so-called technical reserves.

While walking around the company, listening to Wright introduce them to the latest achievements, Qiao Yiyu introduced Han Le to the translator again, and after a circle, Han Le's excitement was gone-the so-called intelligence here is just a simulation of advanced points, or a complex program. In the view of Qiao Yiyu's known history, it is very slim to hope that real intelligence will be generated through this road.

However, the conversation between the two gave Wright the illusion, and when he sat in Wright's office, the doctor almost thought that the inconspicuous Han Le was the real boss, or rather, a person who was very influential to Qiao Yiyu.

The assistant poured them a cup of hot cocoa, closed the office door and went out, and then it was time to talk about business, Qiao Yiyu interrupted Wright's beautiful imagination of the future, and said bluntly: "If I have something to say, I'll say it directly, doctor, to be honest, if I want to continue to increase investment in your existing projects, I am not optimistic...... I believe that a similar answer has already been given to you by many investment firms. ”

Wright's head sank - the worst fear seemed to be about to happen, but he still stubbornly said: "I sent you our marketing report before, in the market, our technology is completely original, and the demand for electronic pets in hibernation people will be ...... in the future"

Qiao Yiyu shook his head and spit out: "At most, 20 years, your algorithm patent will expire, in the era of hibernation, do you think 20 years is a long time?" ”

Wright was stunned for a moment, and his full stomach suddenly stopped - this Miss Qiao is obviously not the kind of ancient people he imagined, who knows nothing about technology, yes, patent time, it is this fatal factor that makes the four or five venture capitalists he talked about before refuse to continue to inject capital - hibernation prolongs the life span of people, relatively speaking, all time factors other than people have been greatly shortened, technology, patents ...... It's the same.

And judging from the current situation, in the world, almost no government will pass legislation to extend the duration of patent protection, because the current total population of the society itself is insufficient, if the only productive forces are still limited by the patent factor, then the living people are really completely working for the sleeping people - on the contrary, many countries have also introduced laws one after another, which in disguise weaken the interests of patent owners - the interests of patents are future, according to common sense, the government is doing this to quench thirst, but at another level, people, is the root of everything, if you can't keep the current people, then what future is there?

On the one hand, the government has given them support, and if there can be important success, then increase efforts, on the other hand, commercial capital has begun to abandon this innovation, and Wright's so-called "electronic smart pets" are not relied on on both sides, this kind of thing in the government's view is completely disguised to occupy the field of people's feelings - society itself is closed enough, everyone's computer and mobile phone have taken away all everyone's social time, and then promote electronic pets...... If the government uses taxes to support such a technology, it will be scolded in public opinion.

"Doctor, I don't know if you have considered human-like, or human-transcendent intelligent programs," Qiao Yiyu said tentatively, "The current chip technology has almost begun to touch the ceiling of Moore's Law, in my opinion, the complexity of chips as heavy as the human brain, whether it is information storage and reading ability, has completely surpassed the human brain several levels, but why is AI technology still imitating ...... IMHO, although your program has a high degree of imitation of animal behavior, nature is capable of such imitation by even a mammal. ”

"Superior intelligence ......" Seeing that his last expectation came to naught, Wright's face was full of gloom, but he still reluctantly continued this topic that was not new, "Maybe when I was a college student, I had such technical hubris...... But as I study the field of AI more deeply, the greater the difficulty I see, you are right, the complexity and sophistication of the chip is not at all comparable to the human brain, but this complexity is controlled, even if the entire computing unit of the Internet is all calculated, it is still a controlled aggregate, from the smallest circuit, to the complex program of millions of lines, no matter how vast the content is executed, but the purpose is clear. But intelligence is different, the human brain is billions of years, the result of the creation of life, intelligence itself, is completely a miracle of nature. I dare say that even if God had created the universe, he would never have believed that he could have created intelligence—I was long past the age when I thought I could surpass God. ”

"Do you think it's impossible?" Qiao Yiyu was a little surprised by Wright's pessimism - this is like a person going back to Newton's time and listening to Newton himself say that he thinks gravity is incomprehensible, "But I have read a paper you wrote, and the article is exactly what it says......"

"I know that my paper has won me a lot of awards," Wright laughed dryly, "but now even I think it's just a joke." In that paper, Wright was just offering a series of visions of AI models — nothing more than youthful optimism.

"I don't know if the possibility you said exists," Wright shrugged and drained the coffee in his cup, he almost resigned himself to his fate, "Back to this business, if you care about an investment project that needs to reach the level of human intelligence, I can only say that you are not only in the wrong place, but also in the wrong person." ”

"Maybe," Qiao Yiyu said softly to herself, maybe history will change, maybe the great people of her time will become unknown in this era, but, "What if I stick to this direction?" And I want you to take the lead. ”

Wright's hand holding the coffee trembled slightly because of excitement, and he asked in disbelief, "How much money are you going to invest?" ”