The 229th brain-computer fusion

Ji Susu replied: "The second way is to build a high wall and accumulate grain. Looking around the world's Internet companies, if you look at the heroes by market capitalization, Google ranks first, Amazon ranks second, Spring and Autumn ranks third, and Tencent ranks fourth. This round of Internet wave has nothing to do with Japan, nor does it have anything to do with Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other EU countries. In addition to its personal success, the fundamental reason why China was able to compete with the United States was its huge market and rapid economic development. ”

"If you were born in Laos, which has a population of more than 6 million people in the country, no matter how smart and peerless you are, it is difficult to establish enterprises like Chunqiu, Zhiyu, Zhixing, and Zhuwei. Laos does not have enough market, let alone sufficient talent reserves. Even if there are outstanding geniuses in Laos, they can only go to Silicon Valley to immigrate to start their own businesses, and stay in the United States like Brin (Sergey_Brin) and Thiel (Peter_Thiel). And Jobs, if his father hadn't immigrated to the United States that year, how could Jobs have had a chance to start Apple? Perhaps in another alternate time, Steve Jobs is wrapped in a white turban in Syria, worrying about the successive droughts since 2004 and whether the conflict between Israel and Lebanon will trigger a new Middle East crisis. ”

"Brin is rooted in Russia, and Google will never be what it is today; Thiel is rooted in Ukraine, and PayPal will never become a trend; Jobs' return to his ancestral land in Syria is sure to be a dream for Apple. The market, infrastructure, environment, and ecology are the foundation of Silicon Valley's strength. The United States is strong, Silicon Valley is the only way to suck the world's elites, and Russians, Ukrainians, and Syrians all serve the United States. ”

"The basis of military strength is industrial strength, and with sufficient industrial strength, the United States can dominate the world."

"And there are only two criteria for industrial strength, whether it is advanced and strong: quality and quantity. After the quality catches up to the qualified line, quantity is more important than quality. The basis of quantity is production efficiency, and artificial intelligence is the core key to improving production efficiency. Think about it, if Spring and Autumn take the lead in making a major breakthrough in the direction of artificial intelligence, what can only be done by 1,000 employees in other companies, two or three employees here in Spring and Autumn can do it, how can they compete with us? Just like the war between Spring and Autumn Search and Baidu Search, strong capital and ultra-high work efficiency can completely wipe out a certain time advantage. ”

Wei Dongsheng understood what Ji Susu meant.

Ji Susu compares enterprises to countries.

Just as the United States doesn't care about the emergence of talented elites in Ukraine and Laos, if Chunqiu, Zhiyu, Zhixing, and Zhuwei are strong to a certain extent, they can also absorb the elites from all over the world who hold the key to the future into their own system for our own use.

Ji Susu put production efficiency first and judged that artificial intelligence is the key to improving production efficiency. Wei Dongsheng does not fully agree with Ji Susu's judgment: there are right and unrealistic aspects of her ideas.

But in any case, this is Ji Susu's own consideration.

In just four years of undergraduate, Ji Susu also ushered in her transformation. Four years ago, Ji Susu was at a loss to understand the basic knowledge of computers, and her understanding of the Internet was limited to QQ, online games, web pages and other products that could be seen with the naked eye; Four years later, whether it is right or wrong, Ji Susu has begun to study the essence of the problem through appearances, and has dared to face Wei Dongsheng's confident judgment that "the glory of the search engine will eventually come to an end".

People will grow.

Wei Dongsheng also has a certain psychological preparation for Ji Susu's changes.

Actually, Wei Dongsheng wanted Ji Susu to do another job.

It was precisely because of the fact that Ji Susu may already have her own ideas and ideals that Wei Dongsheng communicated with her with an inquiring attitude.

Wei Dongsheng was noncommittal to Ji Susu's judgment, and continued to communicate in her tone: "The definition of artificial intelligence by the Spring and Autumn Search Artificial Intelligence Department is to enable machines to be competent for complex tasks that require human intelligence to complete. However, complexity is a relative concept, and different times and even different people have different understandings of 'complex work'. Specific to the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Spring and Autumn actually has two completely different or even completely opposite research directions. ”

"The first direction is anthropomorphism, that is, to give machines a certain intelligence and personality, so that they feel more like humans. The future artificial intelligence imagined by the public, and the artificial intelligence threat rendered by film and television, probably fall into this category. At the forefront of this research direction, there is deep learning derived from artificial neural networks, and natural language processing...... Wait. ”

"The second direction is to read as 'artificial intelligence' automation, that is, not to pursue vague concepts such as personality and emotion, and focus on how to solve 'complex work' with the least amount of manpower."

"In short, the first direction pursues that machines have intelligent emotions and are more like humans; The second direction focuses on the 'complex work' itself, focusing on efficient problem solving. ”

Without waiting for Wei Dongsheng to finish speaking, Ji Susu had already given the answer: "I choose the second direction." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Tell me the reason? ”

Ji Susu: "Like you said, complex work is a relative concept. ”

"Hundreds of years ago, harvesting rice and wheat was a complicated job for farmers, because the tool at that time, the sickle, did not have 'intelligence' and would not harvest automatically. Looking at today's agriculture, a very small number of people can manage hundreds of acres of fertile land, and the seeder automatically sows the seeds, and the harvesters automatically harvest. Modern people take seeders and harvesters for granted, and feel that this is not wisdom, intelligence, or complex work; However, looking back at the ancient texts, tools such as seeders and harvesters were truly 'artifacts' of wisdom in the hearts of the people at that time. ”

"My understanding is that all wisdom is a relative concept, and all intelligence is also a relative concept."

"What was considered 'complicated work' in the eyes of the ancients is not considered 'complicated work' now, and 'complicated work' in the eyes of people today will not be considered 'complicated work' in the future."

"Wisdom is relative, human wisdom is relative, and the concept we have sacralized is definitely not the end of truth. Instead of struggling with whether human-like or non-human-like strong artificial intelligence (Bottom-Up_AI) can be born, it is better to take the lead in researching and manufacturing weak artificial intelligence (Top-Don_AI) to solve practical problems. In fact, I think natural language processing, deep learning, etc., all belong to the category of weak artificial intelligence, which is the second research direction you just mentioned. ”

Similar to how the Spring and Autumn Search faced the crisis, Wei Dongsheng did not fully agree with Ji Susu's judgment.

But it is certain that Ji Susu and Wei Dongsheng have similar ideas. Although he has a powerful weapon for computer intelligence, Wei Dongsheng is reluctant to spend money to promote research on intelligent machines that can truly reason and think, or closely resemble humans. Thirty years of memory told Wei Dongsheng that intelligent machines with the ability to truly reason and think were neither easy to use nor reliable. If there is still an event of the advent of the Shadow Empire in this world, Wei Dongsheng will not start relevant research before 2018; If there was no Shadow Empire advent event in this world, Wei Dongsheng would not have started relevant research before dominating all countries in the world.

After thinking about it, Wei Dongsheng gave up the rhetoric in preparation.

Wei Dongsheng raised his left hand and looked at the time: "Time is not enough, let's talk about it another day." ”

Ji Susu: "Okay. ”

Ji Susu asked Wei Dongsheng's opinion: "I'll go to the Artificial Intelligence Department to report first?" ”

Wei Dongsheng stood up and walked outside the door, motioning for Ji Susu to follow: "You have already reported." ”

Ji Susu didn't understand: "Huh? ”

Wei Dongsheng patted Ji Susu on the shoulder: "Work with me for a while." ”

Ji Susu was surprised: "With you?" ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled and said: "Don't forget, in addition to being an entrepreneur, I am also a researcher. To put it mildly, if it weren't for the constraints of the national system, my achievements would be enough to serve as an academician of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering. Zhixing and Zhu Wei are just that, and there are many research projects led by me under the umbrella of Chunqiu and Zhiyu. ”

Ji Susu's right hand pointed diagonally at his cheek: "Let me enter your research group?" ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Don't you want to? ”

Ji Susu hurriedly denied: "Yes, of course I do." ”

When Ji Susu spoke, the corners of her eyes were filled with a sweet smile. Ji Su has always been searching in the Spring and Autumn Period, on the one hand, because the Spring and Autumn Search is the leader of the three giants of CAT, and it is originally an excellent job search object; On the other hand, because of her unilateral affection for Wei Dongsheng, she hopes to get closer to Wei Dongsheng. How do you think that Cangtian really lives up to his wishes, Ji Susu just came to the Spring and Autumn Period to search for the Artificial Intelligence Department, and was picked by Wei Dongsheng to his side. For Ji Susu, this is a beautiful thing that I couldn't think of before.

However, Wei Dongsheng selected Ji Susu into the project team not just because Ji Susu was his old classmate.

Wei Dongsheng's project team needs Ji Susu's talent.

Wei Dongsheng led the way and spoke: "Guess which project I want you to follow up?" ”

Ji Susu: "I can't guess." ”

Wei Dongsheng asked again: "Which project do you want to go to the most?" ”

Ji Susu: "I just graduated, I don't understand." ”

Ji Susu had another answer in her heart, she wanted to tell Wei Dongsheng that whichever project was closest to him, she would go there.

However, Ji Susu couldn't say such words.

In fact, the reason why Ji Susu is interested in artificial intelligence, and the reason why he chose the direction of artificial intelligence early in the third and fourth years of college, is because during a conversation, Wei Dongsheng said that he values and is optimistic about artificial intelligence.

However, Ji Susu has his own pursuits and his own restraints. Ji Susu didn't want to be a trouble, nor did she want to bring trouble to Wei Dongsheng, and she was afraid that the friendship between her classmates would also collapse. There are some words that should be kept in your heart silently; Some people just look at it silently up close, Ji Susu told herself.

Wei Dongsheng didn't pay attention to Ji Susu's little emotions and continued to talk eloquently. Wei Dongsheng briefly introduced his project: "Our research direction in this project is brain electromagnetic signal reading and brain electromagnetic signal analysis. Due to the low level of the device, I had to do everything I could to reduce the source of interference and shave all my hair. ”

Wei Dongsheng pointed to his bald head and said helplessly: "My bald head is how it came about." ”

Ji Susu was stunned: "The electromagnetic signals of the brain belong to living things." ”

Wei Dongsheng: "Brain electromagnetic signals belong to biology, and what about the brain-Computer_Interface computer interface (BCI) technology that connects the brain and the machine? The official name of our project is 'brain-computer fusion'. ”