For Robert Stephen, Josser's strength lies in his understanding of mathematics. To be more specific, the understanding of partial differential equations and differential geometry has almost become a reality.

He didn't even know how to put it into words, how incredible it was, because Qiao Ze was only eighteen years old.

No matter how humble a mathematician is, he is proud in his bones.

As for Robert, he is far more proud than Daniel and Lott Dugan.

This is probably the reason why he doesn't like to use public domain social software very much.

But at this moment, Qiao Ze really shocked him.

can make him regret, why is Qiao Ze an Oriental?

Yes, Robert didn't like Asians, or he didn't like everything but the West.

Of course, he would never say such a thing.

After pondering for a moment, he decided to call Daniel first.

"Ha, I knew you'd call me, Robert, I'm not wrong, right? That's a magic boy. His thesis has the power to turn decay into magic! ”

"Okay, what I want to know is if your solicitation is useful? Did this Joe agree to go to Princeton? ”

"No, I haven't officially sent out the invitation yet, and the bad news is that that Lott guy has failed. But I can understand that, I guess it's going to be hard for him to come here. ”

Robert could hear the pessimism in Daniel's tone, and couldn't help but wonder, "Oh? Why? Don't even Princeton take him seriously? ”

"No, no, no, it's not because of this, you read papers all day, right? So surely I don't know the big news yet, Huaxia has registered an account called Doudou on a social software similar to our Twitter, which is managed by artificial intelligence. I can send you some videos and you'll probably get an idea of how powerful their AI technology is. ”

"What do you mean? Artificial intelligence? We don't seem to be talking about that. Robert said with a slight frown.

Robert doesn't like artificial intelligence technology, no matter which country invented it, including ChatGPT, Robert has also clearly expressed his opposition.

Because he really thinks that if artificial intelligence technology really develops, human beings will be enslaved by the machines created by their own hands in the future.

Of course, this kind of enslavement may not take the form of robots mutiny, humans waging war with robots, and finally losing, as in the movie. But slavery can take many forms, such as mental control.

In fact, it is already taking shape.

Tik Tok is using their smart calculations to trap countless people in an information cocoon.

Think about it, in just a few decades, the spiritual life of human beings has been inseparable from the Internet. When artificial intelligence really develops, they can monopolize all the information flow on the network, and even intelligently generate video technology, which can consciously create news.

When that day comes, everything that people hear and see is no longer controlled by free will, but by artificial intelligence. Machines can completely control people's spiritual world through the network, and become the real managers of the human world without bloodshed.

And poor human beings, even enslaved without knowing it.

It's like the mothers in the Matrix, who can only live in a world full of lies and deception, slowly losing all creativity until civilization is destroyed.

"Yes, we're not talking about artificial intelligence, but what if the artificial intelligence I'm talking about happens to be developed by the kid we mentioned? Haven't you read Joe's previous paper? The article on the use of group theory for causal decoupling?

It can only be said that this kid is a genius. He came up with a theory, and then in a very short time, he turned the framework he built with the theory into reality. You'll know just by looking at it, so I said Joe would be hard to come. His choice to release this achievement at this time can be said to represent an attitude in itself. ”

Speaking of this, Daniel paused and sighed: "Yes, if he really wants to come to Princeton, he will definitely choose to come over and release his results." But he chose to post it on the day I posted the Facebook invitation and the paper was published. Others thought it was a direct conversation with Apple, but I knew very well that he was just trying to make a respectable refusal for both sides. ”

Robert was silent, then said, "I'll take a look at the artificial intelligence you said first." ”

"Okay, I'll send you the video on ins."

"Hmm!"

……

Hanging up the phone, Robert soon received several videos from Daniel on his computer.

After clicking on it, you can see a message with square words, but it's very intimate, and there is an English translation next to it.

Almost all of them are in the form of a question and answer, and there are many pictures interspersed.

Robert can see that from the perspective of large language models, this artificial intelligence is very successful, and even behaves more humane than ChatGPT4.0, and its wording and sentence formation have been infinitely close to humans, and even the kind of humans with a unique sense of humor.

The language is not thick, and there is no reason for long speeches, giving people the feeling of being a lively, cheerful, sunny and even a little naughty child.

This made Robert feel shocked, and even more vigilant.

In fact, Robert Stephen has not read Josser's series of papers on the foundations of artificial intelligence.

Even when Josser's original paper watermarking technique piqued the interest of half of the world's mathematicians, Robert only heard about it, and did not participate in it.

But at this moment, he felt compelled to read José's paper.

After all, when you encounter a terrible enemy, the first thing to do is to get to know him.

"How? Isn't it shocking. ”

Soon, Daniel sent a message.

"Of course! A terrible mathematical genius. ”

"Terrible?"

"Don't you understand? Daniel, the best friend and the most terrible enemy are united. ”

“……”

Robert looked at the screen silently, thinking.

"Well, I almost forgot what kind of person you are. But I have to say, you have a point. But we're just doing research, and from a purely research point of view, there's no need to be so wary. ”

"You're wrong, Daniel. Can you really accept that in the future, if your student wants to publish an impactful paper, submit it to a journal written in Chinese? In the future, when our children need to learn the complex square words first to accurately understand the latest theoretical frameworks, do you know how much time will be delayed that could be directly used for research? ”

"That's a bit alarmist."

"No, this is by no means alarmist. You don't feel it now, but what about in 10, 20 years? Why did he reject you, do you think it's because Princeton isn't good enough to appeal to him? ”

After waiting for a few minutes, Daniel didn't reply, and Robert turned off the software, these guys were too simple-minded after all.

Robert then picked up Josser's paper again.

Although he didn't like Qiao Ze, he had to admit that if this kid was really only eighteen years old, then he really was the most terrifying genius in the last hundred years.

……

It's not the same reaction as the math community.

When the news of Doudou's birth spread to the Western world, it was a group of technology companies that were closely related to people's lives that really took a hit.

The comment area of Doudou on Huaxia Weibo has already exploded. Even those celebrities with hundreds of millions of fans have never had a single Weibo comment break the record of one million, but Doudou only took one day to break this record.

Even Weibo's servers are starting to come under pressure.

Even if the enthusiasm of netizens for artificial intelligence has been fully overestimated, this achievement is still unimaginable.

Even for a while, even Doudou's replies to netizens began to lag.

It can only be said that the news spread too fast.

At this time, although it has long been past the end of work, the technical teams of large companies that make language models have already sat in the conference room, and the executives in charge of technology are staring at the screenshots on the screen in a daze.

I thought that the crowd intelligence system launched by Youwei was already a king bomb.

But who would have thought that just two months later, Huaxia launched a more advanced AI language model technology.

What's even more incomprehensible is that the other party still released it in this way.

To be honest, it seems very unprofessional.

But it is hanging up and beating, including ChatGPT.

The layman sees the excitement, but the insider looks at the technical concepts and ideas contained in it.

At this time, in the conference room of the Open AI headquarters, the picture stopped on the big screen was a meaningless conversation between Doudou and a netizen.

"You think you're smart? You also despise people, and in my opinion you are a pig. ”

"Oh? Do you want to be my cabbage? I'm sorry, but I'm a dignified beanie, so I won't arch those messy cabbages. ()”

There are many more similar conversations, and although they have been translated into English, a translator familiar with Chinese culture was invited to the conference room to explain to these technical executives some of the things involved in Doudou's language content that they could not understand just by looking at the English translation.

Doudou's reply is because there is a saying in China that the cabbage is arched by pigs. So what it means is that the other party is not a good cabbage. ”

"That's it! Durret, thank you very much for your help, you can leave, I hope you can wait in the lounge outside, maybe you will need your help later. ”

After the specially invited interpreter explained the meaning of the two dialogues, Philip Hux picked up the remote control and politely asked the interpreter to leave first.

When the door to the conference room was closed again, Philip, as the chief technology officer, looked around the engineers under his command and said, "Okay, let's talk about it, what do you think?" ”

I have been studying all kinds of content from Huaxia for half an hour.

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He had been thinking back to the phone call Tim Cook had given him today.

Mistaken!

Obviously, the old slippery head was not untargeted, and he must have gotten the relevant news earlier than them.

It made him a little hot in the face.

It's unclear how the Huaxia incorporated modules capable of mathematical proofs into their large language models, allowing Doudou to solve mathematical problems while also processing complex natural language conversations.

At least for the current Open AI, these are still two different training mechanisms. It is simply impossible to force fit into a program.

But even if you put these aside, just from the large language model, this guy named Doudou is more powerful than ChatGPT.

Embodied in the understanding and use of language, Doudou is obviously more flexible.

"This Doudou of the Huaxia people can perfectly deal with all kinds of meaningless problems, I don't know how they train, I can only say that this is amazing. I don't know if you've noticed, but just now this product uses many different answers to the same kind of meaningless questions, and each answer uses a variety of rhetorical devices......

This is a great deal of flexibility in the use of language. This also shows that the algorithm they use is indeed more advanced in this area. Obviously, this is an algorithm that cannot be trained for a long time. At present, we do not have background data, so we do not know the specific computing power consumption. But there's one thing I think we're doing, it's probably going to be meaningless. ”

A female engineer to the left of Philip Hux spoke first.

Philip frowned and looked at Nicole, who was speaking.

It's not a nice word, but it seems to be true. At least on the language model, they failed.

However, this was clearly not what he wanted to hear.

Because this meeting is about solving problems, not just complaining.

In February this year, when Microsoft chased the company to invest 10 billion US dollars, the company's valuation had reached 29 billion, and after this half a year of development, the company's valuation has reached 90 billion.

This cooperation with Apple was expected to make the company's valuation exceed 100 billion. Standing firmly in the position of the world's third most valuable startup, but it is clear that the emergence of Doudou has made this idea an ambition.

This can be seen in the stock market movement of stocks today.

Microsoft and Apple walked out of the near-same curve, opening high and then going low.

Apple, in particular, experienced a truly black hour in the afternoon, falling from a daily high of $168.23 to a close of trading at $122.36.

There is no doubt that this is a terrifying number.

The decline of these two giants has also been passed directly on to the entire tech sector.

The strong rise of promising people and the emergence of Doudou have made the sensitive Wall Street pessimistic.

That's not how it should be.

The pressure was transmitted to them, the technicians, at almost the speed of light.

It's a terrible thing.

If Huaxia's technology really shows a crushing advantage, it will bring a series of reactions.

The most influential, naturally, is ChatGPT, which is currently recognized as the most successful large language model.

Companies that are just starting out also have the option to start redesigning their own large language model architectures using the latest algorithms. For example, Apple, Google...... But if they abandon their current architecture, it means that everything they have done for ten years is useless.

Everyone is almost back on the same page.

The world of capital is ruthless, and when ChatGPT loses the barrier of technological leadership and its profitability falls sharply, investors will not hesitate to give up on them.

It's sad because they have no choice but to lead.

Admitting defeat means a flash in the pan.

"Nicole, maybe you're right, but you should know that our meeting is about solving problems. Cheer up, we should see that maybe the other side does have some advantages, but we also have advantages, right? Philip said in a deep voice.

Philip Hux's words finally made the originally frustrated atmosphere in the conference room start to liven up a little.

"Yes, Nicole, I think Philip is right. I think there is a reason why Huaxia people just publish this technology on a social software. I don't think their technology has the ability to multimodal processing, which is probably our biggest advantage at the moment. That's what takes more time to accumulate. ”

"Yes, the ability to analyze, understand and give reasonable advice on complex images is our biggest advantage at the moment. This Doudou did not show this ability, and the other party was playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses. I've read Joe's paper, and the introduction of causality does make the algorithms they design more advanced in their understanding of natural language.

But that's about it. I believe that this Doudou does not have the ability to extract structured data and indicate model analysis. And in such a short period of time, it is impossible for them to test complex inference chain models, which is our advantage. ”

"I agree with George, and I also think that the reason why the Huaxia people launched such an alternative test is most likely because they are not confident that they will pass the security deployment test. We should amplify this advantage. ”

……

Philip Hux listened carefully to the discussion.

Well, at least the team cohesion hasn't completely dissipated.

A lot of the advice is also very pertinent.

In dealing with investors, you can deepen your professional field. For example, professional medical images can be accurately recognized and rationalized suggestions are given to strengthen the use of computer vision......

These features are already being tested, and while they're not really ready to launch an app, they're where they lead the way.

And the other party obviously has not started this research yet.

What they need to do now is to let the bigwigs on Wall Street know that large language models are not only about the processing of complex natural language, but also about a series of applications around computer hearing, vision, and so on.

The budding Huaxia technology is inevitably backward in this regard.

He hoped so, and as it should, according to common sense.

"Okay, I get your opinion. I'm going to give advice to the board of directors and focus on the development of multimodal features, which will probably be our next priority for development, and everyone is ready. It's best if everyone can provide a plan and give it to me to summarize the day after tomorrow at the latest, understand? ”

Everyone nodded.

"I also recommend that you think carefully about whether you can incorporate more advanced algorithms into our products! Okay, so that's it for today. Philip Hux ended the meeting.

……

"I think it's time for the company to start thinking about Tim Cook's successor. The market environment and external factors facing the company today are very different from those of a decade ago. Apple no longer needs to be defended, and it has reached an era where innovation is needed.

There is no doubt that Tim is a good CEO, but his strengths are only in marketing, operations and management. He is the only one who has no ability to innovate. I'm not questioning his market influence and supply chain management capabilities, but it's also an indisputable fact that Apple's product development has become increasingly sluggish. ”

"Oh, Davis, I always thought you were a die-hard supporter of Cook. Is your friendship gone? Really, I didn't expect you to call me specifically about it. ”

"No, I've never been a supporter of anyone, I'm a supporter of the company, a supporter of profits. All my decisions are based on reality. I was right, Cook did amazing things when he took over Apple, but it's also true that he can't lead Apple anymore. ”

"I'm glad you think so, so next week's board meeting, you have your say on this matter, and I'll agree. At least on this point, we agree. ”

"Okay, goodbye then."

"Goodbye!"

Hanging up the phone, Davis Scarner looked at Tim Cook, who was sitting across from him expressionless, and said, "Okay, Tim, this is the last thing I can do for you." At least you're not a deserter. ”

"Thank you, Davis." Tim Cook nodded.

"Now, then, let's get down to business. Are you not optimistic about Apple's future? Davis asked earnestly.

"No, as you said, I'm just not suitable for Apple anymore."

Tim Cook shook his head slightly and said seriously: "I don't know how to describe this feeling......"

After a pause, Tim Cook continued: It can only be said that innovation is never a concept, but an adventure after adventure. You know, I don't like to take risks, never! What I like is the feeling of being in control. But now Apple has to embark on an adventure. ”

The words fell, and Davis fell into deep thought.

He agrees with Tim Cook, but it's easy for this guy to leave, and it's hard to find someone who can replace him.

Leaving aside future adventures, a company with a market capitalization of two trillion dollars suddenly changes its helm, which can cause chaos.

Hey, what an eventful time!

……

At the same time, the meetings of many tech companies have also ended.

Of course, these technical people would never have imagined that putting Doudou on Weibo was not a test at all.

That's just a pretext from Yu Hongwei.

Not even to hide the so-called technical shortcomings.

It's nothing more than a little girl who feels that the timing of Apple's announcement of cooperation with Open AI is not right, which causes her to be in a bad mood.

So on a whim, she threw her little toys on Weibo to steal the limelight from these two technology companies.

Just as Amazon's butterfly flapping its wings could set off a huge tornado in the Americas, it makes sense that a little Chinese girl's careful thinking can cause a major earthquake in the global tech community.

Of course, Su Mucheng probably couldn't have imagined that her petty temperament would make the president and CEO of the world's No. 1 high-tech company think of retiring. It also made a group of technology executives of technology companies start to think about the problem of technology turning.

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