Crossover: 2014

Chapter 150 MIT CS Freshmen (Part [-])
After finishing the demo of the workflow software.

The next job for Lin Hui is nothing more than to continue to add some details.

The job was boring, but not difficult.

But at this time the time was close to zero.

Lin Hui didn't plan to fight fiercely all night.

Lin Hui's reluctance to drive the night train was not due to mental fatigue.

On the contrary, Lin Hui is full of energy.

The reason why Lin Hui didn't work overtime was because it involved some technical support issues.

The workflow software is somewhat different from several software/games that Lin Hui has launched previously.

That is, the workflow software requires a server.

Although users basically do not perceive the server when using most software.

But without a server, most software is actually unplayable.

The server usually uses the network as the medium, and can provide services both internally through the intranet and externally through the Internet.

The biggest feature of a server is its powerful computing power or a computer with a large amount of disk storage space.

It enables it to complete a large amount of work and load a large amount of file data storage in a short period of time, and provide services for a large number of users.

It is generally understood that the server is equivalent to the nanny of the software.

Although the workflow that Lin Hui has made now is not a complete form compared to the workflow of later generations.

But even in this form, if you want to bring out all the functions of such software, you still need a server.

If there is no server, the work efficiency of workflow will be greatly reduced.

Later generations of shortcut commands can basically run offline when they are not used together with Siri.

But things are a little trickier now.

It's a bit troublesome to say, the main reason is that the iOS7 function is not powerful enough.

Although this iOS interface is the first application of the flat design style.

But apart from the stylistic changes, there are a lot of low-level things that are a bit stretched.

In short, if the workflow software wants to exert its corresponding strength, it still needs a server.

Wait until the iOS8 version, the workflow software is less dependent on the server.

Nevertheless, it is better to have a server for maximum work efficiency.

Involving work efficiency is only one aspect of the reason.

Another reason is to prevent piracy.

To tell the truth, all kinds of intrigues with pirated software are really tiring.

But it doesn't work if you don't take precautions. The world is as black as crows, and piracy is everywhere.

Workflow is worth nearly 2 million yuan to Lin Hui.

You can't be too careful.

The most important thing is that when it comes to the workflow software, Lin Hui can't make a fuss about patents.

Therefore, we can only play some tricks on the mechanism.

Speaking of which, Lin Hui felt that it was time for him to find a capable subordinate.

If you have subordinates, you can just explain things like getting a server and you're done.

It's a bit tiring to do everything personally.

But now things are more or less troublesome.

The most important thing is that Lin Hui doesn't know where he will go in the future.

Are you going to MIT?
Or just read a Mizuki casually in China?
If you go to the United States in the future, it will not be of much use to find a follower in China for a short time.

Huang Jing is a good candidate.

However, it was only half a day before Huang Jing showed his affection.

It may take a long time for Huang Jing to really join Lin Hui's subordinates.

Getting a job in a big company is not easy, and leaving is also a hassle.

It's annoying when it comes to job transitions.

Even if Huang Jing really wanted to come and join Lin Hui.

It would be nice to be able to handle the handover procedures within a month.

What's more, Huang Jing and Lin Hui haven't had any personal contact yet.

Huang Jing probably hasn't really made a decision yet.

……

Speaking of the future, Lin Hui just hasn't made a clear choice academically.

When it comes to future career development, Lin Hui knows where he will go.

The future of Lin Hui is by no means to develop one software after another.

Although it seems that Lin Hui is only dealing with various software now.

But you can't just look at the appearance of the problem.

At this time, Lin Hui's eyes had already been set on something else—artificial intelligence!
Artificial intelligence, also known as AI.

Research on artificial intelligence has a long history.

John McCarthy defined it in 1955 as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".

Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define artificial intelligence as "a system that correctly interprets external data, learns from this data, and uses this knowledge to achieve specific Ability to achieve goals and tasks".

It is different from the current emphasis on methods based on cybernetics and neural networks.

At that time, people have been working to symbolize artificial intelligence.

Later, artificial intelligence really became a symbol.

A symbol in the sense of a bad street.

Artificial intelligence will basically be a bad word in the next few years.

But in 2014, artificial intelligence represents a possibility of the future.

Artificial intelligence is actually a very broad topic!
It is precisely because of the breadth of artificial intelligence that Lin Hui regards this direction as the first choice for entering the game.

Taking artificial intelligence as the starting point, it can be easily extended to other directions in the future.

Lin Hui believes in the potential of artificial intelligence in the next 10-15 years.

Of course, it is only a 10-15 year potential.

As for the long-term matter, Lin Hui is not very optimistic.

In fact, judging from the situation of artificial intelligence in 2021 in the previous life.

Already giving people a feeling of fading away.

Artificial intelligence has become a very vulgar knowledge.

It is far from the moment when the concept of artificial intelligence first became popular, giving people a feeling of turning stones into gold.

Lin Hui is not optimistic about the potential of artificial intelligence 15 years from now, not entirely because of psychological reasons.

It is largely due to artificial intelligence itself.

In terms of the development status of artificial intelligence in previous lives.

After about 2010 in the previous life, the popularity of artificial intelligence has been constantly fermenting.

In 2016, the enthusiasm for artificial intelligence was completely detonated.

In the next few years, basically all major scientific research institutions flocked into the field of artificial intelligence.

During this time, there seemed to be a frenzy of technological achievements.

But Lin Hui felt that the crazy emergence of these scientific and technological achievements was just the accumulation of quantitative changes.

There was no qualitative change.

Why do you say this way?
The research progress of artificial intelligence in the previous life seems to have achieved many results.

But most of these research results belong to weak artificial intelligence.

The most typical is weak artificial intelligence is Siri.

Your dialogue with it is actually a set of corresponding processes designed by the programmer behind the scenes.

Then a set of responses was added on the basis of speech recognition, so that everyone thought it could understand what you were saying.

In fact, Siri just walked through the process.

If there is weak artificial intelligence, there will naturally be strong artificial intelligence!

The term "Strong Artificial Intelligence" was originally coined by John Rogers Searle for computers and other information processing machines, and is defined as:
"The view of strong artificial intelligence holds that computers are not only a tool for studying human thinking; on the contrary, as long as they run appropriate programs, computers themselves have thinking."

The biggest difference between strong artificial intelligence and weak artificial intelligence is whether it can have the ability to think independently of humans.

More than that, there are also some conceptual differences involved.

For example, the view of weak artificial intelligence believes that it is impossible to create intelligent machines that can "truly" reason and solve problems.

Judging from the development of artificial intelligence in previous lives, the weak artificial intelligence faction seems to have won.

The strong artificial intelligence school failed completely.

In the previous life, in the eyes of many people, the progress of artificial intelligence has already advanced by leaps and bounds, but it is not the case.

Such as image recognition, image recognition, language analysis, board games, etc.

These seemingly high-end artificial intelligences are actually in a very primitive stage of weak artificial intelligence.

These machines only "look" like intelligent, but they are not really intelligent, nor will they have autonomous consciousness.

The reason why these things are primitive is that every move of these artificial intelligences is what the programmers predict will happen.

Some people may say, isn't it correct that every move of artificial intelligence is in the situation predicted by the programmer?
If artificial intelligence produces something that the designer cannot predict, wouldn't it mean that artificial intelligence is out of control?

It does make sense to say so.

But think about it from another angle, what is the original intention of people designing artificial intelligence?

Do people want artificial intelligence to do better games such as language analysis and board games?

No matter how good artificial intelligence is in these aspects, it can only show that these artificial intelligences are more adaptable to the rules.

What humans expect is that artificial intelligence can break the rules.

Only artificial intelligence that breaks the rules is likely to help in basic science.

Sounds like a joke.

But the fact is that the research of strong artificial intelligence has always been interested in this.

For example, in 2009, the Eureqa computer program developed by Cornell University professor Hod Lipson and his doctoral student Michael Schmidt, as long as some data is given, the computer program can deduce the Newtonian mechanics that Newton spent years of research in just a few tens of hours. formula.

This is equivalent to rediscovering the Newtonian mechanics formula by yourself in only a few tens of hours.

But this kind of research only goes to Newton's formula.

Researchers are understandably committed to this.

Basic science is what determines the true upper limit of human technology.

If artificial intelligence does not help basic scientific research.

Now it is more or less a waste of resources.

Presumably similar to skin-changing cyberpunk?
Even if the concept is hyped up, it is essentially just false prosperity.

When all fields are spread by weak artificial intelligence.

Then artificial intelligence is estimated to come to an end.

Sometimes, Lin Hui even feels that the involvement of artificial intelligence is like the result of a crooked technology tree.

The advent of deep learning opened the door to artificial intelligence.

But after opening this door, the immediate consequences are:
Machines are getting smarter and the role of humans is declining.

Some algorithm engineers are even directly reduced to the machine's nanny.

It's hard to say.

This is not to say that artificial intelligence has no prospects for development.

However, Lin Hui estimates that it can only be used for 10 to 15 years.

The potential of weak artificial intelligence has been exhausted, and it is estimated that the dividend of artificial intelligence will come to an end.

As for Lin Hui deliberately guiding the development of strong artificial intelligence?

Lin Hui was not so brave.

The development of artificial intelligence is not only technically difficult!
There are also many obstacles in the society:

Many media predict that weak artificial intelligence will replace many industries such as supermarket clerks, general clerks, taxi drivers, toll booth operators and cashiers, marketing personnel, and customer service personnel.

Therefore, it caused panic among these people.

Every step forward in artificial intelligence will face huge social controversy.

In the previous life, the development of weak artificial intelligence faced layers of obstacles.

Not to mention what obstacles strong artificial intelligence will face.

After all, strong artificial intelligence is subversive in a sense.

It is one aspect that Lin Hui is not that brave.

Lin Hui, on the other hand, is less noble.

Only weak artificial intelligence is enough for Lin Hui to eat.

The scale of the core industry exceeds 1 trillion yuan, and the collateral benefits exceed 10 trillion yuan.

What is the concept of ten trillion yuan in collateral benefits?
Not to mention it was enough for Lin Hui to eat alone.

It is not a big problem if you want to bring up a huge business empire.

And that's just domestic.

In short, everything is promising.

But these are things for the future.

As for what will happen ten or twenty years from now, Lin Hui can't say for sure.

If only Lin Hui could receive news from that time and space in his previous life in real time.

Maybe it's another story.

……

Lin Hui stopped thinking wildly.

Start a routine of answering emails before bed.

In the mailbox, Lin Hui saw another email from Eve Carly.

In the email, Eve Carly stated that she has arrived in the imperial capital.

It will probably arrive in the North Territory tomorrow.

This surprised Lin Hui somewhat.

Lin Hui originally thought that Eve Carly would stay in the imperial capital for a while.

It turned out that Eve Carly would arrive tomorrow at all.

fair enough.

Lin Hui was also looking forward to this meeting.

Perhaps this will be a meeting recorded in the history of science and technology development.

In addition to announcing the itinerary to Lin Hui.

Eve Carly continued to invite Lin Hui to join MIT in the email.

Although Eve Carly's language in the email is basically declarative sentences.

Nothing inflammatory.

But Lin Hui was moved.

Because Lin Hui keenly captured a message.

Eve Carly introduced in the email that MIT has a full credit system for both undergraduate and master's programs.

Full credit system?
The so-called full credit system is different from the academic year credit system and the academic year system.

Basically, students can graduate directly as long as they earn enough credits.

This is actually such a good thing?

Lin Hui didn't want to waste too much time in undergraduate studies.

In Lin Hui's view, school is a springboard.

The condition of complete credit system is undoubtedly a great temptation for Lin Hui.

Doesn't this mean that you can graduate with full credits?
Lin Hui remembered that MIT didn't seem to be in this system in his previous life.

Is it a system unique to this time and space?

Or is it a special case for him alone?
But no matter what the reasons are.

If it is really a full credit system.

Lin Hui seemed to have nothing to worry about.

Decisively choose MIT and you're done.

Mizuki stayed aside.

The reason why Lin Hui favors the full credit system.

Not only because of the implementation of the full credit system, students can quickly complete the credits.

Full credit also means that students are able to personalize their study plans fully based on their interests.

This is undoubtedly very good for learning.

After all, interest is the best teacher.

　Things like explaining the bottleneck of artificial intelligence development may be really useless now.

　　But it is impossible for me not to write about this kind of thing, and it is impossible for me to not explain anything earlier.

　　It is irresponsible to suddenly mention that artificial intelligence has encountered a bottleneck.

　　What kind of technology has limitations, it is impossible to be brainless Hey, I can't do it.

　　And it is impossible for a book to go up section by section like a bamboo pole.

　　For a very long book the shape should be pyramidal.

　　The base of the tower is big enough and stable enough to be built high enough.

　　Moreover, only articles with a pyramid structure conform to the normal logic of writing.

　　I read it from the beginning every day when I write a new chapter.

　　Perhaps there are some problems in a single chapter.

　　But after reading it coherently, I don't think there is any problem in the logic of technological development.

　　You may not find it useful in some of the previous chapters, but they will be used later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)