In the following days, Chen Nian's life basically returned to calm.
In addition to providing occasional technical answers to Lu Qingzhou of the Nuclear Power Research Institute about the new generation of small nuclear reactors, he also organizes technical discussions on the hull design of the 096 strategic nuclear submarine project.
In addition, the Julang-3 project is also proceeding in an orderly manner under the auspices of CALT.
The one with the slowest progress is of course the Nantianmen project.
Of course, this project itself is different from other projects, and no one will limit it with overly stringent "speed requirements".
Generally speaking, several large-scale military projects within China are considered to be in the normal process. This once again triggered Chen Nian's conditioned reflex point of "insufficient pressure" and made him involuntarily start to consider adding new civilian projects to the plan. technology goals.
However, Chen Nian doesn't have a clear idea of what to choose.
Xinghuo's suggestion is to solve the problem of food and improved seeds first, but at this point in time, Mr. Yuan can be said to be in his prime. He and his team have almost occupied all the resources in the field of agricultural scientific research in China. Even if Chen Nian can get It is not cost-effective to forcibly change routes when new technologies are introduced.
Therefore, this direction has been temporarily shelved.
Chen Nian felt that it would be better to exert efforts in the medical field and add some buffs to these older generation scientific researchers, and maybe they could achieve unexpected results.
However, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
After entering the field of near-future technology, the pace of research and development of every technology has been forced to slow down.
On the contrary, the emergence of every technology is an earth-shaking and epoch-making product.
This places higher demands on the determination and patience of the entire team. After all, everyone is now a "pioneer."
There is no road ahead, and the footprints we move forward are the paths for future generations.
Of course, compared to other ordinary scientific researchers, Chen Nian, a time traveler who has seen the future, still has a much calmer mentality. Although everyone has the belief that they must win, only Chen Nian knows that "victory" in the field of science and technology. In fact, it is not an expectation, but a result that will inevitably come true.
Looking back from the perspective of the future, everything becomes step-by-step.
This feeling is strange, but also very reasonable
A few days passed quickly, and the date that Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng agreed to meet soon came. Early on Wednesday morning, Chen Nian checked Wang Jiancheng's ticket, asked Chen Guo to arrange the vehicle and itinerary, and waited at the airport early. Before 11 o'clock, I picked up Wang Jiancheng, who flew over on an early flight.
Also coming with him was Qiu Mai - Chen Nian wasn't too surprised by this. Although Wang Jiancheng didn't tell him, the logistics team had already informed Chen Nian.
As soon as they met, Wang Jiancheng rushed forward enthusiastically and held Chen Nian's hand.
"Senior, long time no see!"
Li Xiang on the side looked at this scene dumbfounded and joked:
"Don't act like you're meeting with the boss, okay? Even if you come up and give me a hug, I don't think it's against the rules. Did you two have a good rest on the plane?"
"Very good, very good! Hey, business class, very comfortable!"
Wang Jiancheng rushed to answer.
"Haha? You haven't spent all that money yet? Do you still have money to fly business class?"
"I can't spend it all, I can't spend it all. Now there are funds for any project. I don't know where I spent my money."
Wang Jiancheng had a somewhat proud look on his face, and the three of them smiled in unison without making a fuss.
In fact, no matter how high Chen Nian's requirements are for Qiu Mai and Wang Jiancheng, in a secular sense, they are already unique winners.
While their peers are still scrambling for postgraduate entrance exams and jobs, they already have their own projects and even cooperate with units that are out of reach.
This alone is something that only the top group of people can achieve.
In this case, spending money to fly business class and pursue some material enjoyment is really not a big deal.
——
In fact, Chen Nian would only feel that something was wrong if they were working hard and making mistakes.
After exchanging a few words, Li Xiang took a few people to the car that had been prepared. After going around several sensitive places that had been marked, they finally settled at the residence arranged by Chen Nian.
"Let's just make do with staying here today - how many days do you plan to stay in Chengdu?"
Chen Nian asked.
"I estimate it will take a week, but I have nothing to do, so I came here to see you. Is there something wrong with Sister Qiu Mai?"
"Yes, I'm not sure about the time. I plan to talk to Teacher Zhang Wen from the Mechanical Design Institute in a few days. I've already made an appointment with her about my topic."
"If it's inconvenient later, I'll go out and stay in a hotel by myself."
"Nothing inconvenient."
Chen Nian waved his hand and replied.
He had actually come into contact with Zhang Wen from the Mechanical Design Institute. When she was first working on the lift fan project, Zhang Wen had participated in the two-stage counter-rotating fan project. At that time, she was already a well-known expert in the motor field.
After several years of accumulation, her level has naturally improved steadily - Qiu Mai's research direction is electromechanical and hydraulic integration, and if she wants to get in touch with high-level theories, she cannot avoid Zhang Wen.
However, with Qiu Mai's current performance and level, can he really "make an appointment" with Zhang Wen?
Chen Nian was a little skeptical.
"What did you tell Teacher Zhang? I have dealt with her before. Do you want me to help you?"
"No, no, it's a promise!"
Qiu Mai quickly explained:
"She was quite interested in the agile pressure-sensitive hydraulic transmission technology used in the mechanical exoskeleton we made before. I have chatted with her several times, and we have a good relationship, so we won't miss it."
"That's no problem."
Hearing this, Chen Nian felt relieved.
It seems that although Qiu Mai's research direction cannot be said to be very groundbreaking, it has still been recognized by experts in the industry - in this regard, I actually underestimated her.
After chatting about the approximate time schedule, Li Xiang made a travel plan for Qiu Mai and Wang Jiancheng.
Of course, in fact, there is nothing to plan too much. All people who come to Chengdu, basically no matter where you come from, will enjoy the same activities:
See pandas, go up Qingcheng Mountain, and visit Dujiangyan.
Others, such as Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Xiling Snow Mountain, and Daci Temple, are all subsidiary projects. Whether you go or not depends purely on personal interest.
Qiu Mai is a girl after all, and she is quite interested in traveling. On the other hand, Wang Jiancheng is probably only interested in pandas.
He finally listened patiently to Li Xiang's introduction. When Chen Nian was free, he couldn't wait to take out his computer from his backpack and pulled Chen Nian aside.
"Senior, your surprise!"
Wang Jiancheng said mysteriously.
"Computer? Program? What thing? AI? Question-and-answer type?"
Chen Nian's mind turned several corners in an instant, and when he said the word "question and answer type", he actually already had the answer in his heart.
Wang Jiancheng's expression changed from showing off at the beginning, to surprise, and then to faint disappointment.
——
He really wanted to scare Chen Nian, but it was obvious that Chen Nian had already predicted his prediction.
". It is a question-and-answer type AI, but it is different from the current text-based question and answer AI. My Baize does not rely on a preset database to answer questions. It can."
“Retrieve information from the Internet, perform machine learning steps, filter responses based on real people’s habits, and continue to move closer to natural language?”
Chen Nian interrupted Wang Jiancheng again. The latter was stunned for more than ten seconds before finally answering:
".Yes. Senior, how did you know??"
Good guy.
A helpless smile appeared on Chen Nian's face.
How do I know?
Isn't this thing just a juvenile version of chatgpt?
Chen Nian did not answer immediately, but said to Wang Jiancheng:
"How far can it be done? Let's give it a try?"
Wang Jiancheng finally regained some of his enthusiasm. He turned on the computer, connected to the Internet, and clicked to activate a small icon on the desktop.
White Pond.
As the fan rotates, the simple and crude main interface of this software also pops up.
An input box at the bottom and a display box at the top, that's all.
"Senior, that's it. Just enter the question in the input box and Bai Ze will give the answer."
"Is it okay to ask anything?"
"Anything goes!"
Chen Nian thought for a moment, and then quickly typed a line of words in the input box:
"You can drink water when the water is open, but why can't you drink when the door is open?"
As soon as this question came out, everyone including Qiu Mai and Li Xiang, who came over to watch out of curiosity, were dumbfounded.
".What kind of mental retardation is this!"
Li Xiang said bluntly, without giving Chen Nian any face.
As the author of Baize, Wang Jiancheng was even more dumbfounded. He watched the program he had written by hand running for several minutes, and finally an article about "The water is boiling" popped up that was obviously crawled directly from the search engine. "Why can't you drink it directly?" is the content of the health article.
"No, senior, are you being too bullying? Not even an AI, let alone an AI, can answer this kind of question, right?"
"Then what can't be answered? Isn't this a question of polysemy?"
Chen Nian said in a relaxed tone.
In fact, he really didn't deliberately use this cerebral thrombosis problem to make things difficult for Wang Jiancheng.
He just wanted to know whether the so-called "artificial intelligence" created by Wang Jiancheng had a natural language module, and if so, to what extent.
Obviously, the current results are not very satisfactory.
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 could answer more than 99% of the questions in a serious manner, let alone this kind of question, even for mentally retarded people, and it could answer it well.
——
Of course, the success of chatgpt was finally achieved with the support of huge computing power and after a huge amount of training and feedback.
Using its standards to demand Wang Jiancheng's Baize is too much.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian asked:
"So, how far can you achieve now? What are the core principles?"
"Some simple questions can be answered as if they were real people."
With that said, Wang Jiancheng took the keyboard and entered a question that Chen Nian thought was extremely basic:
"How's the weather today?"
Soon, Bai Ze gave his answer.
"The temperature in Chengdu today is pleasant, with the highest temperature reaching 26 degrees, but the temperature at night is as low as 11 degrees, so you need to keep warm."
As soon as this answer came out, Qiu Mai and Li Xiang couldn't help but marvel.
In their opinion, a "machine" that can achieve this level is already quite good.
Wang Jiancheng smiled sheepishly, and then continued to type:
“Chengdu, recommended attractions.”
After a while, an answer that was barely coherent in terms of sentences jumped out.
After this step, Chen Nian finally figured out the limits of this "Bai Ze".
To be precise, it is not a castrated version of chatgpt, but an enhanced version of Siri that uses more advanced machine learning algorithms.
——
This is not bad, after all, there are still more than two years before the real Siri is born.
"So, in fact, this is a Q&A machine mainly based on search engines? You probably haven't set up a natural language processing algorithm at all, right? All of its seemingly 'natural' answers are extracted directly from the Internet?"
“There is an algorithm, but it’s currently very weak.”
Wang Jiancheng answered without hesitation.
"Its natural language algorithm logic is based on a set of 'repetition' scores that I designed myself. That is to say, it will give priority to answers that already exist on the Internet and perform certain permutations and combinations."
"The calibration process is to continuously compare the database and select answers with higher scores - the scoring standard is the duplication of answers and Internet information."
"Understood, introduce limited supervised training of the reward model."
Chen Nian understood Wang Jiancheng's logic in an instant.
I have to say that this is a very smart solution when computing power is limited. With this solution, an artificial intelligence can perform extremely smartly when dealing with simple problems.
Because in fact, it is like a remote control chat device. What is hidden behind it is not the code of 0 and 1, but a huge database of real people.
Chen Nian still remembers that when the concept of artificial intelligence was just emerging, there were so-called "AIs" with this idea in China, but he always scorned this type of AI because it was in the wrong direction.
The purpose of this kind of thing is simply to defraud funds and subsidies.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian said:
"You have a good idea, but you're on the wrong track."
"I cannot support you to continue to go in this direction, because the further you go, the greater the harm will be to the development of real AI technology."
"Why?"
Wang Jiancheng asked puzzledly.
"Because it's not really AI, it's just a smart search engine."
“Smart search engines get it.”
Wang Jiancheng was not stupid. After hearing Chen Nian's explanation, he immediately understood the key to the problem and realized the meaning of the saying "the farther you go, the greater the damage."
So, he quickly continued to ask:
"What if I change direction? Does the entire logic have to be redesigned?"
"Of course it needs to be redesigned. Moreover, the most useful part of Baize is probably the part you put the least effort into before, that is, its natural language module, especially its reward model."
"If you cannot solve the problem of the reward model, the evolution of AI will always stay within the threshold of manual supervision, and the AI you create can only be fake."
"Understood."
Wang Jiancheng breathed a long sigh of relief. 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 something indescribable joy in what this kid did.
He was thinking deeply about building an aerial platform and a space carrier, but it seemed that, going around and around, what he was best at was artificial intelligence.
I don’t know, in more than ten years, whether he will become the father of Nantianmen or the father of artificial intelligence?
Maybe, both?
Thinking of this, Chen Nian couldn't help but look forward to it
(End of chapter)
