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Lin Chong saw the familiar chief engineer's office, and the chief engineer, whose hair was always neatly combed.

"Hello teacher. Lin Chong greeted with a smile.

"Have you been at home all the time?" the chief engineer found that Lin Chong's location was a home environment, "I thought that you would have a group of colleagues working together in a foreign laboratory to make such a wonderful chip architecture." ”

"Yes, I'm at home, I've been in Shanghai. Lin Chong did not shy away from his situation, "But my situation is more difficult to explain, so I can't meet with you." ”

"Hard to explain?" the chief engineer thought for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, "I thought you were a good student, but I didn't expect your decisions to always be unexpected." ”

"Teacher, you're laughing at me. Lin Chong was a little embarrassed.

That's right, he is the one who is about to retire at a young age, and after retirement, he is engaged in his old profession and is engaged in chip architecture research.

"Not to mention anything else, about this architecture, I want to know about your design idea, you know, it's different from MIPS and ARM architecture, it's interesting, you ...... Or what kind of application did you design it based on?"

A CPU architecture has been developed from simple to complex in a few decades.

It doesn't mean that you can design a circuit diagram.

Rather, it develops in tandem with the instruction set, hardware, and software.

It's like when you build a pot and use wood to cook it, it should be iron, but in the era of using induction cookers, it must be considered more, and the material and shape must be changed.

The CPU is that pot.

From the days of firewood burning in the fifties and sixties, there was not even a mouse, and the software could only input characters under DOS.

Two thousand years later, with the explosion of the Internet, countless peripherals, software, games, and protocols are running with the support of CPUs.

So now theoretically, it is impossible to design a new CPU architecture from scratch, because without any hardware, software, or protocol support, such an architecture is equivalent to waste.

But Lin Chong did it.

At the same time, after the chief engineer's keen eye, it was found that it had wonderful uses.

"We didn't design it. Lin Chong thought about how to explain it to the chief engineer.

Through this kind of thing, he is not afraid to say it, after all, he has no conflict with the real world at all, and he cannot interfere with each other, but when it comes to explaining, it is inevitable to shift the focus a little, and it is still slowly accepted by the chief engineer.

"It's an attempt at biomimicry, I ...... We're using a circuit diagram to describe the control core of a living being, and at the time we describe it, it's alive. "Lin Chong used as tactful language as possible to tell how he obtained the 'Demon Pill' blueprint.

"Unexpectedly...... That's right!" The chief engineer's face was shocked, he lowered his head and chewed on the information carefully, still in disbelief.

"Lin Chong, it's hard to believe, I don't know the cutting-edge level of biotechnology, but depicting the brain, in my cognition, is not a science and technology that can appear in this era. ”

"No, not the brain. Lin Chong shook his head, "This is another core, it may be located in the brain, replacing the position of the brain, but it may also be located in the internal organs, it should be regarded as an energy core......"

The more Lin Chong said, the more he felt that he was talking about future technology?

Doesn't that sound like the meaning of dismantling the intelligent robots of the future in reverse?

The chief engineer became more and more confused.

"Teacher, let's not discuss this yet. Lin Chong smiled bitterly, "This is a brand-new architecture, is your judgment that it may make a difference in the field of AI? We have no judgment on it, the idea of the drawings I sent you is to imitate them, and the same as the 'Demon Wind' drawings, to imitate them." ”

"In addition, I want to report to you the good news, the 'Demon Wind' has been successfully produced, but the product cannot be shown to you for the time being. ”

The chief engineer couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "So fast, although the first drawing is simple, I haven't figured out its application scenarios...... Well, can't look, but I'm curious. ”

"As for the second drawing, I did a simulation calculation, and I compared the input and output results 10,000 times, and guess what?" said the chief engineer, talking about the technology, showing childlike fun, "The results are all different!"

"Then I did another 100,000 calculations, and the results began to converge on the correct unity!"

Interesting.

Lin Chong's eyes also lit up, and he understood what this meant.

A computer is like a calculator, pressing one plus one always results in two, but if one plus one is sometimes three, sometimes ten, it must be a mistake in the program, if it is wrong at the beginning, and then it gradually gets better.

There's an unbelievable possibility: it's learning.

"I did another million calculations, and the result was an occasional error, with a very small probability of almost zero. The chief engineer said excitedly, "Lin Chong, do you know what this means?"

"What?" Lin Chong couldn't help but ask.

"Means it has a chance to pass the Turing test!" the chief engineer exclaimed.

Yes...... Lin Chong couldn't help but be shocked by the ambition of the chief engineer.

The Turing test means that if a person chats with a machine through a keyboard, and the machine has more than 30% of the answers, making humans feel that they are chatting with a real person, it is considered to be passed.

The key to this test is, 'Can the machine think?'

Only then did I perform calculus simulations on the computer, and I began to want to study real artificial intelligence?

"I've had some research on AI before. The Chief Engineer looked thoughtful.

"Even if the power of the computer becomes infinitely powerful, it is only a collection of numbers and symbols, and real artificial intelligence can never appear in the field of pure mathematics, it must be a collection of mathematics and biology. ”

"Your experiments have confirmed my idea, and then I will make the 'Demon Wind' drawings in the laboratory, which will be a very long process, and it will take a lot of energy and money to invest, Lin Chong ......"

"You can rest assured. Lin Chong knew what the chief engineer was worried about, "You can use this drawing to register a patent, we have no problem." ”

From drawings to laboratory products, and then to commercial use, during this period, it has to go through countless manpower, material resources and capital investment, just making the input and output interface for this chip is a problem that Lin Chong can't imagine.

The Chief Engineer's company could not do all of this, and the Chief Engineer estimated that he would have to use his resources at the National Laboratory.

"I hope it's a joint patent, and it's up to us and you, Lin Chong, if you can come back and join the project...... the chief engineer said expectantly.

It's not that I won't go back, but I can't go back...... Lin Chong smiled bitterly, "Teacher, I can't go back, I'll explain the reason to you later, how long do you think it will take to complete the simulation experiment." ”

"Three months. ”

"Well, I look forward to your results. ”