Eating with Grandpa and Grandson Hinton was not as bad as expected. They seemed to be normal people most of the time, but they just had some weird views on some things.
As long as you don't talk about related things, you feel like a normal person.
Because we are in the internal restaurant where academic conferences are held, the topic always turns to scientific research and the research and development fields that we are good at.
Wang Hao talked about Jeffrey Hinton’s Turing Award and his deep thinking research on neural networks and artificial intelligence.
Jeffrey Hinton pursed his lips slightly and recalled seriously, "Actually, I first did research in this area because I saw a talking robot in a movie."
"At that time, I was thinking about whether I could develop a machine that could instill my thoughts and memories into it, so that I could achieve immortality to a certain extent."
"Unfortunately, I later discovered that it is unlikely that this technology will be developed until at least the end of my life."
He said with a regretful sigh.
Wang Hao thought about it and said, "Have you ever thought about a question? If you just instill thinking and memory into the machine, it is not you, it is just a programmed copy of you."
"Of course, I know very well."
Jeffrey Hinton nodded in approval, and then said, "However, my family can talk to me who has the same memory and the same thinking, and it continues from generation to generation. At that time, I may not be able to do scientific research, but I It can guide the learning of every junior and make them all better.”
"It seems that you attach great importance to family ties." Wang Hao said, "But have you ever thought about another question? I mean, maybe your descendants will hate you? They probably won't want to call a pretender 'grandpa' Fixed code machine program.”
"Maybe." Jeffrey Hinton thought seriously.
He remembered that his son didn't have a good relationship with him. Fortunately, he still had a smart Helen, but he didn't like taking care of children.
Helen swallowed what was in her mouth and suddenly expressed her opinion, "I can accept it if I am asked to speak to a machine, provided that it is my assistant and at least has an equal status, instead of saying something when introducing it to others. It’s my grandpa.”
"It would be embarrassing and I would definitely hate it. Jeffrey's idea was ridiculous and luckily he was seventy years old and it was not destined to come to fruition."
There is really nothing to say about an unachievable scientific research topic.
On the contrary, Wang Hao became interested in Helen. He felt that this little girl had a strange way of thinking and asked curiously, "Helen, aren't you interested in eternal life?"
Helen took a sip of the drink, put the cup back in its place, and then said calmly, "I'm only 15 years old, so of course I won't be interested in those things. Even if I gain infinite life, I may still be able to live forever in the future." A day is taken away by some kind of accident, such as a traffic accident, a natural disaster, a robbery, a shooting, or even a murder due to a personal grudge. Many similar accidents happen every day."
For a teenage girl to have this kind of awareness is enough for others to look up to her.
Helen continued, "I thought about it carefully. Although I don't care about eternal life, I would be very happy if I could stay young and beautiful for a long time."
"Are you concerned about appearance?"
Helen said matter-of-factly, "You have already said that a better appearance can increase the scope of choosing a mate. Only by being with a better mate can you give birth to better offspring."
"I never said..."
Wang Hao was no longer able to complain, so he still asked curiously, "Then you should attach great importance to wisdom when choosing a mate... right?"
Helen nodded affirmatively, "Excellent genes and excellent genetic combined talents..."
Wang Hao quickly interrupted and asked, "If there is a person with superior intelligence, whose intelligence exceeds Einstein, Boole, Newton, etc., known history and all human beings today are just ugly, what I said It’s very ugly and has reached the limit of what you can imagine.”
"This person comes to you and wants to spend his life with you. Will you agree?"
Jeffrey Hinton, who had been silent for a long time, his eyes lit up and he gave Wang Hao a thumbs up. Then he looked at Helen with expectation, wondering how Helen would answer.
Helen was silent.
She was obviously thinking seriously at first, then she grabbed her hair and pulled it for a long time, falling into a state of intense tangle.
consider?
Very ugly, unimaginably ugly, dirty, smelly, scary looking, like a monster... How can such people live together for a long time?
Not consider?
Isn't that just like Jeffrey, driven by physiological hormones?
…
Wang Hao put down the cutlery belt and left with a smile.
He was in a very good mood.
The gloominess of being with Grandpa Hinton disappeared completely. Thinking of Helen's final struggle, he felt a surge of relief from his blood.
Although the other person is just a teenage girl, her views on certain things are really weird.
This good mood lasted until the next day. He even walked into the venue with a smile and shook hands with everyone who came to say hello with a sincere smile.
When they came to the first row, Hinton and his grandson looked over.
Jeffrey Hinton smiled and said hello to him, while Helen glared at him angrily, as if she had seen some great villain of the century.
This change of attitude made Wang Hao feel a little baffled, and he could only attribute the problem to the fact that the little girl's thoughts were difficult to understand.
This is the second day of the academic conference.
Wang Hao entered Hall No. 1 because his report was in Hall No. 1.
The number of scholars in Hall 1 has increased significantly, and the entire lecture hall has been completely packed.
Many people came for Wang Hao's report. Some people came later and did not have fixed seats, so they simply found a seat in the back row or in the aisle. Obviously, there were not enough seats in Hall 1.
The organizers also anticipated this situation. They added three rows of seats in the open space at the back, but there was no other good solution.
The morning report started at nine o'clock, and only two specially invited reviewers were scheduled to give work reports.
The work report can be controlled in time, so it is unlikely that delays will affect Wang Hao's report. The two specially invited reviewers on stage are both professors from top universities in the country. They know that everyone is not interested in their work and are waiting for it. Wang Hao’s report, but he still gave the report very calmly.
The two reports didn't take long, each took about twenty minutes. With the pause in the middle, the time had already reached ten o'clock.
Wang Hao stood on the reporting table.
When he actually stood on the report stage, he couldn't help but sigh at the mental quality of the two professors just now. Not to mention the review teams on both sides, there were three Turing Award winners in the first and second rows, and one Fields Among the winners, there are two academicians of the Academy of Sciences who can be recognized. Some others are not clear, but they must be top figures in the field if they can sit in the front row.
Facing so many big names in mathematics and computer fields, it is already remarkable to be able to write down a work report calmly without any tension in the process.
Wang Hao felt a little nervous. He turned his head and looked to the other side. There were several reporters filming with cameras, including reporters from Central News.
"Maybe it will be on the news? Of course, the premise is that the report goes smoothly..."
he thought.
The lineup of on-site judges and audience was really luxurious to the top.
Wang Hao took a deep breath and waved to the staff. The prepared content was reflected on the projection screen. He also said, "Everyone should know that the Rubik's Cube Cracker is a software that can quickly calculate the steps to restore the Rubik's Cube. .”
"It contains the latest algorithm I have studied. I call it the valid and irrelevant carry screening algorithm. As you can tell from the name, the core of this algorithm is to achieve carry by eliminating invalidity and confusion."
"But it is not a method with a definite composition. It can be understood as a structure, a logic, or a direction of thinking."
"Then let's start our argument from the structure of the entire system..."
Wang Hao gave a brief introduction, and then started to demonstrate the relationship between events within the system, and then quickly moved to the mathematical operations of event relationships.
Step by step, from shallow to deep.
At the beginning of the demonstration, many people in the venue were able to keep up with the ideas. Later, as the difficulty gradually increased, some people began to feel complicated, but they still listened carefully and hoped to catch up.
One is because this algorithm has been applied to software, and its future application prospects are definitely very broad.
The second chapter is also very novel at the beginning. It focuses on the study of algorithms and demonstrates from the relationship between events. It seems to have cut into the content of complexity theory, and then transformed it in a mathematical way, making everyone feel very interesting.
This is a very unique approach. Just by looking at the beginning, you can tell that the entire algorithm must be very clever.
Everyone listened attentively, including the expert judges in the front row and others at the back. Only the voices on the reporting stage could be heard in the venue.
This was probably the quietest report since the meeting.
As the contents of the report unfolded, some people gradually began to lose track of the ideas.
The effective and irrelevant carry algorithm is still very difficult in terms of difficulty. The main reason is that the content involved covers several fields. Some of the arguments are very brain-burning and it feels like it goes around and around. It is not easy to understand them all.
Even if you have enough knowledge reserves and your brain is a little slower, it will be difficult to continue to keep up with your ideas.
This is because Wang Hao explains it very carefully, and will explain it repeatedly when encountering difficulties, even with a 40% understanding bonus. Otherwise, most people will not be able to follow the idea, and only some people can really understand it. A few dozen would be good.
The way Wang Hao makes reports is very similar to giving lectures to students.
This made many people in the audience very grateful. For example, when other scholars gave presentations, many of them would not consider whether the people in the audience could keep up. As long as someone could keep up, it would be fine. The reviewers could understand and understand other top scholars. If you can listen and understand, that's enough.
Even though Wang Hao's explanation was very detailed, more than half of the people still couldn't keep up, and gradually more and more people couldn't keep up.
Some people skip the content they don't understand and understand it as definite formulas and theorems, so that they can barely keep up later.
Among these people was Ma Wenjun, who was sitting in the middle. He came more than an hour in advance for Wang Hao's report and found a seat in the middle.
The reason why Ma Wenjun came so early and listened to the report so actively was of course not because he was interested in the report itself. He just hoped to find out the problems in the report.
Although the hope was very slim, he still had to work hard because he didn't want to see Wang Hao become famous. Since the conflict between the two parties was irreconcilable, he naturally wanted the other party to disappear into the public.
It would be best if the problem can be found in the report.
This is a report that attracted international attention. More than a thousand scholars came to report, but what they heard was a wrong report?
This would make the meeting a joke.
Wang Hao's report will also become a joke in academic circles and will definitely be talked about for a long time.
Of course.
Ma Wenjun also knew that the report was unlikely to have major errors, because the algorithm demonstrated had been applied to the software, as evidenced by the ability to quickly calculate the steps to restore the Rubik's Cube.
If there was a big mistake, there was no need for him to question it. The review team and other top scholars would definitely be able to point out the problem on the spot.
However, Ma Wenjun was still unwilling to give in. He devoted himself very seriously to the report, which seemed to be more serious than others. Since the report started, he had not even said a word, he just listened and understood carefully.
When explaining the problem of 'bounded systems', Ma Wenjun's eyes suddenly lit up as he thought about it. He connected with complex system analysis, and his eyes couldn't help but shine.
…
Wang Hao's report lasted for one and a half hours.
In fact, the main content of the algorithm is not much, but it is very difficult to understand. He repeatedly explained the difficult points, which wasted a lot of time.
After completing the last step of the argument, Wang Hao stopped talking, took a sip of water, then stood on the reporting table and concluded, "The above is my report."
"thank you all!"
The audience immediately burst into warm applause.
But the report did not end here. Then it came to the question and answer time. The host of the meeting had just started, and while everyone else was still discussing, Ma Wenjun was the first to raise his hand.
The host of the meeting noticed Ma Wenjun and immediately asked him to ask questions.
Ma Wenjun stood up politely and said with a smile, "Dr. Wang Hao, I have a question."
Everyone in the audience looked over.
Wang Hao felt slightly surprised. What surprised him was not that Ma Wenjun would ask questions. They could all be called enemies. It was very normal for Ma Wenjun to 'find trouble' in his report.
He was surprised that Ma Wenjun could understand the report, and he couldn't help but take a look at the other party's level.
Obviously.
As long as you stand up and ask questions, you must have understood the report, otherwise the questions you ask will be ridiculous.
Ma Wenjun seemed to be an ordinary scholar. He said politely, "When you demonstrate a bounded system, you use a comparative analysis method. This method is very clever. But using this method to demonstrate cannot prove Valid for all systems, all systems.”
"For example, when the system is complex enough and has enough branches, so many that it is difficult to imagine, it will be impossible to prove that the algorithm is effective."
This is a question about boundedness and unboundedness, as well as a question about scope of application.
Wang Hao's argument is for bounded systems, that is, under certain system conditions, the valid and irrelevant carry algorithm is valid, but his proof does not cover 'unbounded systems', that is, some 'unimagined' or 'infinitely extended' systems. ' system, for this type of system, the algorithm may be invalid.
In other words, the argument for valid versus irrelevant carry algorithms is imperfect.
If placed in ordinary life, similar questions can be understood as "looking for trouble". If you can't touch it or imagine it on a daily basis, what's the point of arguing?
But in academia, in the fields of mathematics and theoretical computing, it is very meaningful.
Some mathematical problems involve the concept of 'infinity', and some theorems must be proved to be equally applicable to 'infinitely large or infinitely small'.
Ma Wenjun's questions were of a very high standard, and it could even be said that he got to the point directly.
People in the venue couldn't help but look at the podium, wanting to hear Wang Hao's specific explanation.
If he is unable to give an answer, or there is no relevant argument, it will not affect the application of the effective and irrelevant carry algorithm, but in terms of academic results and the report itself, it will definitely drop a level.
…
Wang Hao stood on the reporting table, froze in thought.
Others thought he was being questioned.
In fact, he was not stunned because of the question, but after Ma Wenjun asked, a large amount of knowledge, ideas, and inspiration suddenly poured into his mind, and then he received a system prompt.
[Task three, inspiration value +4. 】
[Inspiration value: 101. 】
[Tip: You can use it to consume one hundred inspiration points to assist in obtaining inspiration and knowledge related to research and development. 】
"use!"
At the moment of giving the order, the knowledge and inspiration in my mind were sorted out clearly, and a complete thread suddenly appeared, and all the puzzling points of the previous research were suddenly clear.
Wang Hao's expression changed from a daze to a chuckle, and the smile slowly took over his entire face.
He seemed to have had an epiphany from his thinking, his eyes were shining brightly, and everyone could see for a moment that he must have thought of something.
Under everyone's gaze, Wang Hao looked at Ma Wenjun and said with a smile on his face, "Professor Ma Wenjun, thank you. The question you just asked was very good."
"Your question put me in touch with another study, and I was very inspired!"
"I originally planned to combine set theory and induction to prove the unbounded problem, but now, I think another way is better."
After saying that, he turned around and waved the staff to move a new whiteboard.
Then he wrote on it.
