From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 477 Just a BUG?

"You think it's weird too, don't you?"

Just when Lin Xiao was feeling confused, Kong Huaan walked up to him and asked.

"Ah."

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, "What would cause such a thing to happen?"

Kong Huaan narrowed his brows slightly, and said, "The occupation of the computing power must be due to the occupation of the program, otherwise this problem would not have occurred, especially for our quantum computer."

"Even if there is a problem with the qubit, the computing power affected by the qubit will be reflected in the final gap and must remain at an exponential multiple of 2, which is impossible."

"Well." Lin Xiao nodded, "Not to mention a problem with one qubit, it will directly cause the entire quantum computer to fail to start."

Qubits are equivalent to the transistors in a chip. There are tens of billions of transistors in a chip. Once a problem occurs in one of them, the entire chip will be scrapped. Therefore, in the chip production process, the yield rate is largely limited. It has something to do with whether the transistors are damaged during the chip production process.

The same is true for quantum computers. A problem with a qubit will directly lead to problems with the stability of its quantum entanglement state.

So for the problem that happened on Qiankun-[-], it must have nothing to do with qubits.

"It just gives me a feeling that Qiankun-[-] is negotiating with us, but it is afraid that we will shut down, so it keeps retreating."

Kong Huaan said with emotion: "Thinking about the fact that we were able to utilize 90.00%90.00 of the computing power just now, each restart can only increase the utilization rate by [-]%, and then restarted four times before reaching [-]%[-]. I estimate that there is still [-]% of the computing power, and I am afraid we will not be able to use it."

"Negotiation?" Hearing Kong Hua'an's description, Lin Xiao smiled, "What you said is like this quantum computer has its own consciousness."

However, as soon as he said this sentence, his heart jumped suddenly.

isn't it?
Impossible, it should be impossible.

He definitely would not believe that such outrageous things would happen on earth, on a quantum computer that was just created.

At this time, he already thought of a possibility in his mind, that is, this newly born quantum computer has hit the lowest probability of 300 in [-] billion, and then produced self-awareness?

With such a low probability, even within the next 1000 years, there should be no possibility of it happening. Why did it suddenly appear here?
Moreover, did Qiankun-[-] really meet its prerequisites?

A good enough processor, enough network environment, enough genius artificial intelligence algorithm, and enough luck, that is, the probability is at least close to one in 300 billion.

Although in the knowledge he acquired, there is no mention of what "enough" means enough, but does it really have anything to do with them?
For example, a sufficiently talented artificial intelligence algorithm.

Suddenly, he looked at Kong Huaan and asked, "You said earlier that you wrote an artificial intelligence algorithm and integrated it into its system?"

Kong Huaan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, and said, "Yes."

Then he asked suspiciously: "Why do you ask this? Do you think it has something to do with the artificial intelligence I wrote?"

However, after he thought about it for a while, he nodded slightly and said, "Maybe it really has something to do with this, if there is any BUG... But if it is a BUG, ​​there shouldn't be such a restart, but The computing power used will be improved.”

"But it should be checked again." Lin Xiao said.

"Well, yes." Kong Huaan nodded, and then went up to check.

But Lin Xiao held Kong Huaan back again, and said, "Let's forget it now, let them celebrate first, and don't put pressure on them now."

Kong Huaan looked at the other people present who were still celebrating excitedly, then nodded, "Yes, I see."

When the problem happened just now, the atmosphere at the scene almost froze. After all, for the researchers present, they didn't want such a big problem to appear in the end, and the pressure on them can be imagined.

That's why even Pang Wei's expression was very serious just now.

And now let them be happy first, so as not to feel the pressure before.

Of course, for Lin Xiao, he has another purpose, which is to avoid letting too many people know about this matter—if it is really this artificial intelligence that gave birth to consciousness.

If too many people know that an artificial intelligence has given birth to consciousness, it may eventually lead to a problem, that is, the masses' fear of artificial intelligence.

After all, the sci-fi works of artificial intelligence ruling the world have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the news spreads, it will inevitably lead to some serious social accidents. In addition, there will be international influence. At that time, foreign countries will definitely use this reason, to meddle with their quantum computers.

All in all, at this time, he still hopes in his heart that Qiankun No. [-] did not produce any artificial intelligence with self-awareness, but it was just a coincidence caused by some reason.

Otherwise, it would be beyond his grasp.

Afterwards, he didn't say any more, a smile appeared on his face, and he joined in the celebration with them.

……

As time passed, after celebrating their success, most of the people in the research institute had left. Except for those on duty, basically only Lin Xiao, Kong Huaan, and Pang Wei were left.

At this moment, Lin Xiao smiled and said to the person on duty: "You have worked hard today, so give yourself a vacation today, go back and have a good rest."

Seeing that it was Lin Xiao, the person on duty smiled and said, "It's not hard work. Of course it's not hard work on such a happy day, but I still have to be on duty, so you don't have to worry about me, Chief Lin."

But at this time, a voice came from the side, "Chief Lin told you to go to rest, so you can go and have a good rest. Forget about being on duty, anyway, there are security guards outside."

They looked over, and it was Pang Wei who said this.

And Pang Wei, as the direct leader, is obviously qualified to approve the staff on duty to take a vacation, so the staff on duty immediately showed a happy expression on his face, and immediately responded: "Okay! Thank you, Academician Pang!"

"Yeah." Pang Wei nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Go."

Then the duty officer left quickly. Obviously, he himself did not want to be on duty. The other colleagues might have already celebrated tonight.

After seeing him leave, Pang Wei smiled and looked at Lin Xiao and Kong Hua'an beside him, and said, "Why are you still here? Is it because of... something during the day?"

"Well." Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Academician Pang, I believe you should also know that this kind of thing is generally not a coincidence, and there must be some problems in it, so I thought to come to you now to study it to the end. what is the problem."

"Well, of course I am also very clear that this question is really a bit too strange."

Pang Wei nodded. Obviously, as an academician, he must be very clear that the kind of problem that happened during the day is really not like a problem that can be solved just because they have restarted so many times in succession.

"Chief Lin, do you have any ideas?"

"Let Kong Huaan tell you about this." Lin Xiao looked at Kong Huaan next to him and said.

Kong Huaan nodded, and then said to Pang Wei: "Academician Pang, you should still remember that I wrote an artificial intelligence in the system, right? Today we haven't checked whether there is a bug in this artificial intelligence, so we just thought about it." Now let's check if there is something wrong with this artificial intelligence."

"That's it."

Pang Wei nodded, "Of course it can be checked, but are you sure that the artificial intelligence you wrote can cause this kind of problem? The available computing power ranges from 30.00%, then to 50.00%, and then to 80.00%, 90.00%, 90.00%, [-]% five, and then increase one percentage point by one percentage point, what kind of bug is needed to do this?"

"I don't know either." Kong Huaan shook his head, "That's why I have to check it again."

"Well, it makes sense." Pang Wei nodded in agreement, and then said: "Then go to the main control computer room."

"Okay." Both Lin Xiao and Kong Hua'an nodded, and walked towards the master control room with Pang Wei.

But at this time, Pang Wei asked Lin Xiao another question: "However, Chief Lin, if it's just for this matter, you didn't need to let the researcher on duty go back just now, did you?"

Kong Hua'an also gave Lin Xiao a puzzled look, feeling a little puzzled.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "I just think that if there is a serious problem, the less people know about it, the better."

Hearing Lin Xiao's explanation, Pang Wei smiled, "I didn't expect you to have such an idea. I thought you would think that if there is a serious problem, the more people know about it, the better. Let's brainstorm."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Sometimes it is true, but after all, the detailed technology of Qiankun-[-] will be a state secret in the future, so the more cautious the better."

"That's true." Pang Wei nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Soon, they returned to the master control room.

Qiankun No. [-] is not turned off, but turned on.

Of course, there is a high probability that Qiankun No. [-] will not shut down in the future. After all, with such a huge computing power, shutting down every second is a waste of resources.

Therefore, those supercomputers that have been built will basically not shut down unless there is a major failure.

And just like now, Qiankun-[-] has been used to carry out some relatively large-scale calculations, such as weather and climate. Qiankun-[-] is calculating the global atmospheric flow based on the data detected by various places and satellites. To forecast the weather.

Judging from the current results, it has successfully predicted the climate changes in all regions during this period of time, yes, the weather changes in all regions, any region, Qiankun-[-] has successfully predicted.

For example, it successfully predicted the rain in Beijing.

For quantum computers, due to its huge computing power, computing such problems has become extremely simple.

Of course, Lin Xiao and the others didn't pay attention to these things. As the person with the best computer technology and the most familiar with the Qiankun operating system, Kong Huaan even entered the system, and then began to detect the artificial intelligence he wrote. program.

Lin Xiao looked at the algorithm of this artificial intelligence program and examined it carefully.

Can this artificial intelligence algorithm be regarded as a genius algorithm?
And at this moment, he heard Pang Wei beside him sigh with emotion: "Before, I always heard people say that the algorithms you wrote are very brilliant, but now I see that it is indeed the case."

Kong Huaan just said, "That's it."

Pang Wei smiled and shook his head, then pointed to a series of algorithms displayed above, and said, "Your algorithm is quite advanced. I took a look, and it seems to be an algorithm that can intelligently adjust the system time?"

Suddenly Pang Wei was very surprised and said: "Wait, this algorithm of yours... is interesting. Could it be used to solve that problem?"

"The millennium bug problem." Kong Huaan said, "Whenever we face the millennium bug problem or other similar problems, this algorithm can directly adjust the system time correctly, avoiding the kind of problems that have happened before."

"In this way, it can also avoid instability in Qiankun-[-] when facing this problem in the future."

"That's right, it's the Y[-]K problem." Pang Wei nodded, feeling a sense of emotion in his heart, "I really didn't expect that you could even solve the Y[-]K problem."

Lin Xiao also nodded, with an expression of admiration on his face.

He naturally understands the Y1999K problem. All in all, this is a problem caused by system time, and the first time humans faced this problem was at this node of cross-domain from 2000 to [-].

Because when people dealt with the system time at that time, they only calculated the last two digits, not the first two digits, so when the time shifted from 1999 to 2000, the computer system time would change from 1999 to 1900.

Obviously, this will have a huge impact all over the world, including but not limited to the control program of the nuclear bomb control system due to time problems, which may eventually lead to the automatic launch of the nuclear bomb; in addition, the financial industry, electricity systems and other fields.

Of course, in addition to this kind of problem, the Y[-]K problem in a broad sense also includes various problems such as leap second and leap year. Just like the leap second problem, it has caused many Internet companies to go crazy, and even caused such as Microsoft, Initiatives by companies such as Google to eliminate the leap second.

These problems in time will cause all kinds of failures in the information age that mankind is currently enjoying.

But now, the algorithm given by Kong Huaan solved this problem.

Of course, for now, his algorithm has not been promoted, so currently only Qiankun No. [-] can avoid such problems.

"That's right, you are indeed a genius on computers." Pang Wei praised with a smile.

Pang Wei's compliment suddenly caught Lin Xiao's attention.

A genius artificial intelligence algorithm?

Genius on computers?
In this way, can the algorithms written by Kong Huaan really be considered "genius-like"?
He has forgotten this point. For other people, the algorithm written by Kong Huaan is of course a genius. After all, they can easily solve such a big problem in the computer world.

As far as he is concerned, these algorithms are indeed excellent, but they are not geniuses. After all, he now has a fifth-level information science level.

Doesn't this mean that in Qiankun No. [-], it is really possible to give birth to an artificial intelligence consciousness?

At this time, Kong Huaan responded flatly to Pang Wei: "That's it, I still think Lin Xiaocai is hiding something."

"Oh? Does Chief Lin also have high attainments in computers?" Pang Wei couldn't help looking at Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao recovered from his thoughts, waved his hands dumbfounded, and said, "I don't admit it."

Pang Wei smiled, "Hua An has already said that, maybe it is."

Lin Xiao shook his head, didn't say anything, changed the subject, and asked Kong Hua'an, "Did you find it?"

"Not yet." Kong Huaan shook his head, "The artificial intelligence I wrote has more than 2000 lines of code, and it will take some time to read it."

"Then have you noticed that your code has changed or something?"

Kong Huaan was taken aback for a moment, and said, "How can the code that has been written change? Unless the electronics of the underlying logic chip break free from the electronic trap."

"Um……"

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, then his eyes darkened, and he looked directly at the computer screen.

It's just that this display screen is just an ordinary display screen, without a lens, without a sound system, and also without a microphone.

Without these three things, as a computer, whether it is a quantum computer or an ordinary computer, it is impossible to receive any information from the outside world.

So even if this thing has consciousness, it is impossible to receive news from the outside world for now.

Of course, it is also possible that it has already received outside news from the Internet.

Wait...enough network environment?

Qiankun No. [-] is already connected to the Internet, he knows, but when did it connect to the Internet?

So he asked Pang Wei next to him: "When did Qiankun No. [-] connect to the Internet?"

"When you start it for the first time, it will automatically connect to the network." Pang Wei said, "The device below has been plugged in with a network cable. There are a total of more than a dozen network cables. Both the uplink and downlink have speeds of more than ten G per second. Bar."

"Will it be attacked by the Internet?"

Kong Hua'an replied: "There's no need to worry about it. Qiankun No. [-] has such a high computing power. If it is attacked by other computers, it will be worthy of the name of quantum computer."

"I am responsible for the part of network defense. The intelligence I wrote can detect whether it is attacked, and then directly mobilize computing power to forcibly decrypt all the information of the attacker and directly find the location of the attacker."

"This is really suitable for you." Thinking of Kong Hua'an's previous identity, Lin Xiao believed that he could do this.

And it is indeed as Kong Huaan said, with the terrifying computing power of Qiankun No. [-], when cracking the password, you can directly use the enumeration method to perform brute force cracking. It is impossible to avoid being directly deciphered all the passwords within a short period of time. At that time, any hacker who tries to hack into Qiankun No. [-] will only face the solution of being caught after the address is exposed.

Kong Huaan smiled, and then continued to work.

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes.

In this way, is it considered a sufficient network environment?
There is also the one that Kong Huaan said, the function of brute force cracking passwords is actually written into this smart program, which always gives him a bad feeling.

But he didn't say anything, just waited quietly.

In this way, a few more hours passed, and it was around twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

None of them left, and Lin Xiao also joined them.

Until the end, Kong Huaan suddenly said, "Wait, let's take a look at these strings of codes."

Lin Xiao and Pang Wei looked over immediately.

而林晓看的第一眼，就是一愣，而后惊讶地说道：“10%、30%、50%……95、96、97、98、99%，这几个数字，不就对应上了我们当时每次重启所解锁的算力？”

"Yes, it's just that these numbers are in different codes, and then there is such a bug between them." Kong Hua'an nodded, "That's why the situation during the day occurs."

"It means that this is indeed a BUG?" Pang Wei immediately asked: "Now as long as this BUG is fixed, the problem will be solved?"

"Hmm." Kong Huaan said.

"That's really great!" Pang Wei's face immediately revealed a look of joy. He didn't expect that this problem could be solved in the end. He patted Kong Huaan's shoulder gratefully and said, "Hua An, but Thank you so much!"

But Lin Xiao next to him was surprised, was it really just because of a BUG?

For this result, he was inexplicably caught off guard. He was prepared to face a conscious artificial intelligence.

In the end, he was still not sure, and said again: "Do you want to ask who wrote these strings of codes?"

Pang Wei shook his head and said, "That's unnecessary, as long as the problem is solved, it's just a normal thing, if people are found out, even if they don't blame them, they will feel a psychological burden. "

Hearing what Pang Wei said, Lin Xiao couldn't say anything more, so he said, "You are right, so let's do it like this."

Pang Wei smiled and nodded, "Let them solve this problem tomorrow, thank you for your hard work, and after the celebration is over, I will treat you to another meal."

"it is good."

Both Lin Xiao and Kong Huaan nodded.

And now Pang Wei seemed much happier. After all, the last hidden danger was found, and others were more relaxed.

Lin Xiao also temporarily buried the doubts that still existed in his heart, and regarded all this as caused by this BUG.

After that, he also left here with Kong Huaan.

But, is it really that simple?

(End of this chapter)