In the days that followed, Chen Nian's life basically returned to peace.

In addition to providing technical Q&A on the new generation of small nuclear reactors to Lu Qingzhou of the Nuclear Power Research Institute from time to time, it is to organize technical discussions on the hull design of the 096 strategic nuclear submarine project.

In addition, the CHIRON-3 project is also progressing under the auspices of CALT.

If you want to say that the slowest progress, of course, is the Nantianmen project.

Of course, this project itself is different from the others, and no one will limit it with too harsh "speed requirements".

On the whole, several large-scale military projects within Huaxia are in normal progress, which once again triggered Chen Nian's conditioned reflex point of "insufficient pressure", which made him involuntarily begin to consider adding new civilian science and technology goals to the plan.

However, Chen Nian did not have a clear idea of what to choose.

Xinghuo's suggestion was to solve the problem of grain and improved varieties first, but at this point in time, Yuan Lao can be said to be in his heyday, and he and his team have almost occupied the resources in the field of agricultural scientific research in Huaxia, even if Chen Nian can come up with new technology, it is not cost-effective to forcibly change the route.

Therefore, this direction was put on hold for the time being.

Chen Nian thinks that it is better to exert force in the medical field and add some buffs to these older generation of scientific researchers, and maybe they can achieve unexpected results.

However, this is not something that can be done overnight.

After entering the field of near-future technology, the pace of research and development of each technology has been forced to slow down.

On the other hand, the emergence of every technology is an earth-shattering epoch-making product.

This demands a lot more from the determination and patience of the whole team, after all, everyone is now a "pioneer".

There is no road ahead, and the footprints ahead are the road for future generations.

Of course, compared with other ordinary scientific researchers, Chen Nian, a time-traveler who has seen the future, is still much more peaceful in terms of mentality, although everyone has the belief that they will win, but only Chen Nian knows that the "victory" in the field of science and technology is not an expectation, but a result that will inevitably be realized.

Looking back from the perspective of the future, everything becomes in order.

It's a strange feeling, but it's also very reasonable

A few days passed in a flash, Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng agreed to meet soon the day came, early Wednesday morning, Chen Nian checked Wang Jiancheng's ticket, asked Chen Guo to arrange the vehicle and itinerary, and waited at the airport early, less than 11 o'clock, he received Wang Jiancheng who flew over by an early flight.

Also coming was Qiao Mai - Chen Nian was not too surprised by this, although Wang Jiancheng didn't tell him, but the logistics team had already informed Chen Nian.

As soon as they met, Wang Jiancheng pounced enthusiastically and grabbed Chen Nian's hand.

"Senior, long time no see!"

Li Xiang, who was on the side, looked at this scene with tears and laughter, and teased:

"Don't make it look like you're meeting with the leader, okay? Even if you come up with a hug, I don't think it's so disobedient, how about you two rest on the plane? ”

"It's good, it's good! Hey, business class, very comfortable! ”

Wang Jiancheng hurriedly replied.

"Yo? You haven't spent that money yet? Still have the money to fly in business class? ”

"I can't spend it all, I can't spend it at all, and now I have funds for any project, and I don't know where to spend the money."

Wang Jiancheng had a slightly proud look on his face, and the three of them smiled tacitly without making a fuss.

In fact, no matter how high Chen Nian's requirements for Qiao Mai and Wang Jiancheng are, in a secular sense, they are already unique successes.

When their peers are still squeezing their heads for graduate school entrance examinations and work, they already have their own projects, and even cooperate with those unattainable units.

This alone is already something that the top people can do.

In this case, spending money to fly in business class and pursue some material comforts is really not a big deal.

——

In fact, if they were bitter and blue-wisps, Chen Nian would feel that something was wrong.

After a few words of greeting, Li Xiang took a few people to get into the car that had been prepared a long time ago, and after bypassing several sensitive places that had been marked a long time ago, everyone finally settled at the accommodation arranged by Chen Nian.

"Let's make do with it today - how many days do you plan to stay in Chengdu?"

Chen Nian asked.

"I guess it'll take a week, but I'm fine, so I've come all the way to you. Sister Qiao Mai is in trouble, right? ”

"Yes, I'm not sure about the time, I plan to talk to Ms. Zhang Wen Zhang from the Mechanical Design Institute in a few days, and I have already made an appointment with her, which is related to my topic."

"If it's inconvenient in the future, I'll go out and stay in a hotel by myself."

"Nothing inconvenient."

Chen Nian waved his hand and replied.

Zhang Wen of the Mechanical Design Institute has really been in contact with him, when he first did the lift fan project, Zhang Wen had participated in the two-stage counter-rotating fan project, and she was already a well-known expert in the field of motors at that time.

After several years of precipitation, her level has naturally improved steadily - Qiao Mai's research direction is mechatro-hydraulic integration, and if she wants to get in touch with high-level theories, she will definitely not be able to avoid Zhang Wen.

However, with Qiao Mai's current grades and level, can he really "make an appointment" with Zhang Wen?

Chen Nian was a little skeptical.

"What did you say to Mr. Zhang? I've dealt with her before, do you want me to help you mention it? ”

"No, no, it's really an appointment!"

Qiao Mai hurriedly explained:

"She was quite interested in the agile pressure-sensitive hydraulic transmission technology for the mechanical exoskeleton we did before, I talked to her a few times, and the relationship was not bad, so I wouldn't fail to meet."

"That's fine."

Hearing this, Chen Nian relieved himself.

It seems that although Qiao Mai's research direction cannot be said to be much of a breakthrough, it has still been recognized by industry experts - this is something that I underestimate her.

After chatting about the approximate time arrangement, Li Xiang made a plan for Qiao Mai and Wang Jiancheng to play.

Of course, in fact, there is no good plan for this, and all the people who come to Chengdu, basically no matter where you come from, play the same project:

Look at pandas, go to Qingcheng Mountain, and visit Dujiangyan.

Others, such as Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Xiling Snow Mountain, and Daci Temple, are all affiliated projects, and whether you go or not depends purely on personal interests.

Qiao Mai is a girl in the end, and she is still more interested in traveling, but on the other hand, Wang Jiancheng, the only thing she is interested in is probably the panda.

He finally listened patiently to Li Xiang's introduction, and after Chen Nian was empty, he couldn't wait to take out his computer from his backpack and pull Chen Nian to the side.

"Senior, your surprise!"

Wang Jiancheng said mysteriously.

"Computers? Procedure? What's that? AI？ Q&A? ”

Chen Nian's mind turned several times in an instant, and when he said the word "question and answer", he actually had the answer in his heart.

And Wang Jiancheng's expression changed from teasing at the beginning, to surprise, and then to faint loss.

——

He really wanted to scare Chen Nian, but it was obvious that Chen Nian had already predicted his prediction.

It's a question-and-answer type AI.,But it's different from the current text Q&A AI.,My Bai Ze doesn't rely on the preset database to answer questions.,It can."

"Retrieving information from the internet, performing machine learning steps, filtering responses based on human habits, and moving closer to natural language?"

Chen Nian interrupted Wang Jiancheng again, and the latter was stunned for more than ten seconds before finally answering:

Yes. Senior, how do you know? ”

Boy.

A helpless smile appeared on Chen Nian's face.

How do I know?

Isn't this the juvenile version of chatgpt?

Chen Nian did not answer immediately, but said to Wang Jiancheng:

"To what extent? Let's try it? ”

Wang Jiancheng finally recovered a little bit of interest, he turned on the computer, connected to the Internet, and clicked on a small icon on the desktop.

Bai Ze.

As the fan turns, the software's simple and rudimentary main interface jumps out.

There's an input box at the bottom, a display box at the top, and that's all.

"Senior, it's okay, enter the question directly in the input box, and Bai Ze will give an answer."

"Is it okay to ask anything?"

"Anything!"

Chen Nian thought for a moment, and then quickly typed a line of words in the input box:

"The water is open and you can drink it, why can't you drink it when the door is open?"

As soon as this question came out, Qiao Mai and Li Xiang, who were curious and came over to watch, were all dumbfounded.

"What a mentally retarded problem!"

Li Xiang said bluntly, not giving Chen Nian face at all.

As the author of Bai Ze, Wang Jiancheng was even more dumbfounded, he watched the program he wrote by himself running for several minutes, and finally jumped out of a health article about "why can't you drink directly when the water is boiled" that obviously climbed down from the search engine.

"No, senior, you're too much of a bully, aren't you? This kind of question, let alone AI, may not even be able to answer by real people, right? ”

"Is there anything that can't be answered, isn't it just a polysemous question?"

Chen Nian said in a relaxed tone.

In fact, he really didn't deliberately use this kind of cerebral thrombosis problem to make things difficult for Wang Jiancheng.

He just wants to know whether the so-called "artificial intelligence" created by Wang Jiancheng has a natural language module, and if so, to what extent.

Obviously, the results are not very satisfactory now.

If you want to reach the level of ChatGPT in the previous life, it is estimated that there is still a long way to go.

After all, the shocking AI back then, let alone this kind of question, even more than 99% of the questions of the mentally handicapped, it can answer it seriously, and it can answer it well.

——

Of course, the success of ChatGPT was finally achieved with the support of super computing power, after a huge amount of training and feedback.

Using its standards to ask Bai Ze of Wang Jiancheng is also difficult for some strongmen.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian opened his mouth and asked:

"So, how far can you go now? What is the core principle? ”

"A few simple questions that can be answered no different from a real person."

As he spoke, Wang Jiancheng took the keyboard and typed in a question that seemed extremely basic to Chen Nian:

"What's the weather like today?"

Soon, Bai Ze gave its answer.

"The temperature in Chengdu today is pleasant, with a maximum temperature of 26 degrees, but the temperature at night is as low as 11 degrees, so you need to pay attention to keeping warm."

As soon as this answer popped out, Qiao Mai and Li Xiang couldn't help but marvel.

In their opinion, a "machine" can do this to this extent, which is already quite good.

Wang Jiancheng smiled tremblingly, and then continued to type:

"Chengdu, recommended attractions."

A moment later, a barely coherent answer popped up.

After this step, Chen Nian finally roughly figured out the limit of this "Bai Ze".

To be precise, it is not a castrated version of ChatGPT, but an enhanced version of Siri after using more advanced machine learning algorithms.

——

That's not bad, after all, it's still more than two years before the real Siri is born.

"So, it's actually a Q&A machine that's mostly based on search engines? You probably didn't have a natural language processing algorithm at all, right? These seemingly 'natural' answers are excerpted directly from the Internet? ”

"There are algorithms, but they are weak at the moment."

Wang Jiancheng replied without hesitation.

"The logic of its natural language algorithm is based on a set of 'repeatability' scores that I designed myself, that is, it will prioritize answers that already exist on the network and make certain permutations and combinations."

"The calibration process is to continuously compare the database and screen out the answers with higher scores-—— the scoring criterion is the repetition of the answers and the Internet information."

"Got it, introducing limited supervised training of the reward model."

Chen Nian comprehended Wang Jiancheng's logic in an instant.

It has to be said that this is a very clever solution in the case of limited computing power, with the help of which an AI can be extremely smart when dealing with simple problems.

Because in reality, it's like a remote chat device, and it's not the 0 and 1 codes that are hidden behind it, but a huge database of real people.

Chen Nian still remembers that when the concept of artificial intelligence was just emerging, there was a so-called "AI" with such ideas in China, but he always scoffed at this kind of AI because it went in the wrong direction.

The meaning of the existence of this kind of thing is purely to cheat funds and subsidies.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian opened his mouth and said:

"You have a good idea, but you're going the wrong way."

"I can't support you to continue in this direction, because the further you go, the more damage you will do to the development of real AI technology."

"Why?"

Wang Jiancheng asked puzzled.

"Because it's not really AI, it's just a smart search engine."

"Clever search engines get it."

Wang Jiancheng is not stupid, after hearing Chen Nian's explanation, he immediately figured out the key to the problem, and also understood the meaning of the so-called "the farther you go, the greater the damage".

So, he hurriedly continued to ask:

"And what if I change direction? Does the whole logic have to be redesigned? ”

"That's going to be redesigned, of course. Moreover, this Bai Ze, the most useful part of it, is probably the part that you have invested the least amount of effort before, that is, its natural language module, especially its reward model. ”

"If you can't solve the problem of the reward model, the evolution of AI will always stay within the threshold of human supervision, and the only thing that can be created is fake AI."

"Understood."

Wang Jiancheng let out a long sigh of relief, and judging from his expression, it seemed that he had made up his mind to start from scratch.

Chen Nian suddenly felt that there was always some indescribable joy in what this kid was doing.

He thought about building an air platform and an aerospace carrier, but it seemed that what he was best at was artificial intelligence

I don't know, in more than ten years, will he become the father of Nantianmen or the father of artificial intelligence?

Perhaps, both?

Thinking of this, Chen Nian couldn't help but look forward to it

(End of chapter)