Tech Hammer

For Ning Wei, all discussions on the Internet are nothing.

The experience of developing minimalist EDA has given him a firm grasp of the areas in which he is good and bad. He will not put too much energy into anything that is not his phased main line research task.

His most important task now remains the same, which is to study artificial intelligence and build and create a set of mathematical theories and application methods suitable for future artificial intelligence in three months. Advance the development of artificial intelligence by studying more relevant mathematical tools.

All the results obtained during the conduct of this research can be said to be additional unexpected gains.

So he studied the NS equation and proposed that after Ningwei Space developed the turbulence algorithm, he gave up continuing to study this direction and continued to solve those detailed problems, and finally proved that the NS equation was smooth and had a unique solution.

After making the minimalist EDA have practical value, we let it go and let the laboratory cooperate with Huawei to continue to explore the value of this EDA software.

The same is true now in the semiconductor field. Now that he has found a new material that can replace the previous silicon-based chips, designed a new structure, and proved that this new material and new structure are indeed feasible, his mission has been completed.

Whether he continues to use this technology to make radio frequency chips, or whether it is used to design CPUs and GPUs, that is none of his business. The complete manufacturing process has been recorded on the laboratory's main computer and in March's backend. How to deal with it specifically and how to authorize the technology to external parties is a matter for Chen Mingcai or the people behind Chen Mingcai.

At most, he will put forward some reference opinions. For example, if it is pleasant to cooperate with Huawei, then if Huawei hopes to obtain authorization for this architecture, it can give priority or even give a lower authorization price.

If Intel wants to license, the R\u0026D center also feels that it can be negotiated. They can raise some prices or add some conditions on the grounds that someone walks into his office with the left foot first. As for subsequent research, upgrades, or building new chips on the CNMD architecture, Ning Wei believes that it should be left to the market.

It is enough for these manufacturers to see hope. The radio frequency chip is okay, after all, the structure and principle are very simple, it is nothing more than a collection of amplifiers, receivers and other components. But if it involves CPUs and GPUs, it would be very troublesome, especially today's multi-core CPUs. Without tens of thousands of researchers working desperately to solve small problems, study instruction sets, and ensure the profits of upstream and downstream manufacturers, let They are willing to adapt to new structure chips, and it is impossible to replace the existing Intel plus Microsoft model.

Ning Wei asked himself, he was actually not good at any of the above. The only thing he is good at in the business field is to send various business development mathematical models that he built in March to senior executives of his partners, such as Yan Ming and Chen Mingcai, to provide some reference for their decision-making.

His most important task is to build the field of artificial intelligence. As for winning the Wolf Prize, the title of being the father of three-dimensional chips sounds quite impressive, but forget it. It doesn't even matter whether he is an academician now or not. Anyway, his achievements are there. When it is time to become an academician, he should naturally become an academician.

If his thoughts were really known to some people, they would probably be so angry that their scalps would explode.

After all, it is unacceptable that something that I have studied for a lifetime is so uninterested in Ning Wei, and even just done casually. It's like, everyone can admit that it is better to do something, but it is difficult to admit that they have spent countless efforts, but it is not as good as what others did casually, and they still succeeded, and they have not even thought about continuing to be a leader in this area.

This is really embarrassing. Of course, if Tian Yan really knew what Ning Wei was thinking, he would probably be very happy. In his eyes, the child who has never recognized his identity as a mathematician actually still wants to do mathematics research, but it is not so obvious. This is of course a good thing.

But no matter how much discussion surrounds him, Ning Wei feels that his original intention after arriving at Yanbei University has never changed—to blaze a trail in the field of artificial intelligence that no one has ever taken before. Ningwei always feels that there is still much to be done in this area.

Although March's performance is already very magical in the eyes of the world, Ning Wei feels that this is just the beginning.

The true complete body of artificial intelligence has unlimited evolution possibilities, rather than the current March, which can only do some resource integration work. You should also be able to adapt to more scenarios when communicating directly with people.

In fact, the deeper the theoretical research goes, the more Ning Wei becomes dissatisfied with March's current intelligence level. This can of course be understood as the persistence of an academic, or as every old father hopes that his children will be smarter, preferably the smartest children in the world.

Therefore, it is easy to lose track of time when you really invest in academic research.

When classmate Jiang called and asked him whether he would go home for dinner or deliver food to him in the evening, Ning Wei realized that his day had passed so easily.

"Of course I'm going back to eat. I'll pack my things and be home in ten minutes!" Ning Wei replied with certainty.

After packing his things and walking out of the office, he saw Liu Wei already waiting for him at the steps. You have to admire Liu Wei for this. He always grasps the time just right and chats while walking.

"Why don't you go to my house for dinner today? Chen Shuang said that my mother made her best braised salmon, which is worth trying." Ning Wei extended an invitation to Liu Wei.

Liu Wei hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's not good to bother you at home all the time."

"What are you thinking about? We are now dependent on each other for life and death. You actually think that going to my house to have a meal is a disturbance? Let me tell you, let alone a meal, it is not very auspicious, otherwise my mother will want to Come on, don't mention that my dad is here. I look forward to someone to have a drink with him every day. You know, I don't like drinking." Ning Wei curled his lips and showed disdain for Liu Wei's politeness. Gu.

Well, this is a doctor of science... Liu Wei could only comfort herself in this way. Otherwise, there is really no way for him to adapt to Ning Wei's conversational style. For example, describing the relationship between the two as dependent on life and death, although it doesn't sound wrong, it feels like something is wrong.

And...what does it mean to make an offering?

"Okay, to be honest with you, my mother actually asked you to go today for something important. Isn't it the Wolf Award Ceremony that has already been completed? My mother has said before that when they come to the capital this time, in addition to Look at Mr. Jiang, besides spending the New Year with us, another important thing is to take me to Mr. Jiang’s mother to settle things between me and Mr. Jiang. So I’m going to ask you how to arrange the schedule better. ." Ning Wei spread his hands and said.

After hearing this, Liu Wei felt dumbfounded and immediately began to explain: "Dr. Ning..."

"In this case, I'll call you Brother Liu, and from now on you can just call me Xiao Ning. Don't call me Doctor. It'll make you look too cool." Ning Wei interrupted Liu Wei, waved his hand and said angrily.

Liu Wei calmed down and did enough mental construction before saying with a wry smile: "Well, Xiao...Ning, your mother may have misunderstood. In fact, you don't need to discuss your schedule with me. You can make your own decision, as long as you talk to those old people The professor has discussed it and if the time can be arranged, I will help you arrange everything else."

After hearing this, Ning Wei felt a little proud. Sure enough, you still have to compare your heart with your heart. He regards Liu Wei as one of his own, and his service has been upgraded. In the past, he only protected him, but now he can arrange everything directly. Ning Wei probably didn't expect it. This may also be because his position is becoming more and more important, and Liu Wei's authority is also getting larger and larger, and more and more people can be mobilized and things arranged...

It sounds a little more realistic, but whether it is artificial intelligence or designing it by hand, scientists who can create a new architecture chip in a laboratory are still treated slightly differently from mathematicians who only studied artificial intelligence in the past. Yes, to put it simply, it is an upgrade. Not to mention that this scientist could upgrade chip manufacturing technology to an astonishing level in just one month.

"Have you discussed it with the old professor? I can just ask for leave from Lao Tian later. I plan to go back on a weekend in the near future. Actually, I don't care. The key is to consider the time of morning frost. My mother said that her class cannot be delayed. Too many." Ning Wei said naggingly.

"Oh! But I heard that some professors hope that you can go to various research institutes to teach doctoral students there in the near future, mainly about artificial intelligence theory and chip technology." Liu Wei said truthfully.

"Don't go!" Ning Wei said decisively: "Why are you going? There is no use in giving lectures for one or two days. The key is that they won't understand even if you go to lectures. Really, I have experience in this regard and attended two lectures. At this world computer conference, every time I give a report on the podium, the discussions on social platforms are so infuriating that few people really understand."

Liu Wei was silent. It was not easy for him to comment on this aspect because he couldn't understand it either.

Ning Wei continued: "When it comes to giving lectures, it must also be systematic learning. Really, I don't think doctoral students are suitable for learning all over again. The things they have accepted before are too complicated, and many things have already formed a fixed mindset. . It will take more time and energy to teach others, so it is better to teach some outstanding undergraduate graduates in the future, with a blank slate, younger people and easier to accept new knowledge systems."

Liu Wei felt that Ning Wei was probably boasting, but he had no evidence. Because he could even recite Ning Wei's resume verbatim, he remembered very clearly that it had only been more than a year since Ning Wei graduated from college.

Fortunately, he has long been used to it. Anyway, this courtyard is full of people who have Versailles carved into their butts. He has good ears and can hear various Versailles words from time to time.

For example: "This question of yours is indeed difficult. No wonder you have been stuck on it for a week. It will take me about five minutes to solve it."

Another example: "Hey, really, I was actually a literary young man before I entered high school and didn't like mathematics at all. But the mathematics teacher said that I had good grades in mathematics and must enroll me in the Mathematical Olympiad class. In fact, I did well in every subject. , why did you take a fancy to me in mathematics? Who would have thought that when I signed up for the Mathematical Olympiad class, I would actually win the grand prize, and then I would be admitted to Yanbei in such a confused way. So it is a tragedy that I come here..."

The more advanced one is: "Hey, congratulations, my junior brother has published another paper on Springer. I see that the document you cited includes the paper I published on New Advances in Mathematics. Why don't you cite it with me? How about saying hello?"

Of course, Ning Wei is definitely the best among them. Even the people who help him introduce people in the yard can make him do anything.

For example, the Dr. Zhou whom he met this morning, Liu Wei still remembered how Ning Wei introduced him to him at that time: "This is Senior Brother Zhou, who studies the calculation of the Grnbner basis of Einstein's equations on flag manifolds. It sounds very complicated." Right? In fact, it’s not difficult at all for Senior Brother Zhou. When Senior Brother Zhou said it wasn’t difficult at all, I thought he was pretending. Later, I learned about this aspect, and it turned out not to be difficult..."

At that time, Ning Wei hadn't finished speaking, and the person on the other side had already turned away in embarrassment.

Another example is the daily chat style between Ning Wei and Lu Dongyi.

"Senior brother, are you reading the literature again?"

"Well, your previous paper."

"Really, which one should I read? Oh, this one! Hey, I really envy you, senior brother."

"Why do you envy me?"

"No matter what research you do, you can always refer to other people's literature. Look at me, it's really sad to think about it. When I wrote the paper you are reading, there was not a single reference."

At that time, Liu Wei could still fully see the question mark expression on Lu Dongyi's face, which was really exciting. It was the feeling of bewilderment that was suddenly displayed on his face that was vividly expressed.

So in order not to continue to be shown off, Liu Wei decided to change the topic.

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Wei said: "By the way, I forgot to congratulate you for winning the Wolf Prize. I checked this award specifically today. It's amazing."

"Hi……"

Ning Wei shook his head sadly and said: "Brother Liu, why are you so polite? What's the point of congratulations? If you really think about it, I only won one more Wolff than someone like you who has never studied mathematics. It’s just an award. There’s really nothing to be proud of. And I don’t understand why so many people say that they are proud of winning the Wolf Award. I think, I am willing to receive this award because it is from the Wolf Foundation. Glory is the right thing."

"And don't be fooled by those people. I actually just made something very simple. It's not difficult. To put it bluntly, it's just about doing some correspondence between mathematical rules and the real world, so that computers can read text, pictures, and understand the rules. . I won the prize purely because other mathematicians didn’t think of this.”

Liu Wei was silent and said after a moment: "You just invited me to your house for dinner, right?"

"yes!"

"Well, I'll go, okay?"

"You should agree earlier. It will cost me a long time to talk. This may be a huge waste of resources. You just said that many old professors want me to give lectures in the research institute..."

Liu Wei: "..."

Yes, Liu Wei didn't really want to talk at this time and could only roll his eyes to the sky.

Just walking, walking, Liu Wei couldn't help it anymore: "Actually, I want to ask you a question, why do you have two completely different attitudes towards the president of Apple and the president of Intel?"

"You have to look at how to answer this question. If you analyze it from a business perspective... forget it, I'm actually not very good at the business perspective. Let's analyze it from a mood perspective. Look, Tim Ku Ke came the day before yesterday. What day was the day before yesterday? It was the day before my roommate reunited after a year's absence. Can you understand the feeling of looking forward to getting together? "

"When did that Brother Ji come? Today! My classmates are leaving. This is the day of farewell. It's fun, but separation is painful, you know? Not to mention that Tim at least has a cooperative attitude. Brother Ji What's there? Brother Ji is here to show off his power. Isn't that looking for a fight? You have to find the right target to show off. Is it difficult to fix the CPU thing? Maybe! But for my family in March, it is nothing more than a few The matter of hundreds of terabytes of data!”

"So I'm re-educating Brother Ji that he should know how to behave and don't let anyone spoil him. I was so angry that I dared to directly license the 3D silicon silicon tube technology and CNMD architecture to AMD for free. I asked Is he afraid of his little brother? I still say the same thing, who doesn’t want to make money? But you have to learn to soften your knees first, times have changed! Gone are the days when you can still make money by looking at people by their noses! "

"So, Brother Liu, you really have to protect me, if you want to see those big guys taking turns kneeling down and begging us for a bowl of rice. By the way, it's too imaginary not to talk about these things. Now, let’s get serious. Do you think that in the future, artificial intelligence should develop to the level of the metaverse first, or should it develop to aerospace, such as conquering Mars?”

Ning Wei asked sincerely.

Hearing this question, Liu Wei was in a trance for a moment, because this question gave him a feeling of participating in history. The sense of accomplishment could overwhelm people, and even made him feel that all the pretentious words were not so unbearable. . He could even tolerate Ning Wei calling the president of Intel simply Brother Ji.

This is probably the ultimate reward of being able to stay with a great scientist. Maybe his opinion can change the development direction of an era?

But after thinking about it, Liu Wei felt a little ridiculous again.

Because the two directions proposed by Ning Wei were both ones he had dissed on Weibo.

Regarding the topic of the metaverse, the U.S. stock market once played a Black Friday. As for the issue of immigrating to Mars, I spent half a month in March posting hundreds of Weibo refutations, which left a strong mark in the history of science. , after all, it is the largest Turing test in history.

This inevitably made Liu Wei a little confused, so he asked: "Didn't you refute these two items as being impossible to achieve?"

"They are them and I am me. If they can't do it, it doesn't mean that I can't do it in the future. Otherwise, why would I want such a big laboratory?" Ning Wei replied casually.

"Oh!" Liu Wei nodded and said after careful consideration: "Actually, I have never understood the concept of the metaverse after reading about it. If the future network can really develop to that point, will people become more addicted to the Internet? If we can’t extricate ourselves, what should we do with actual production activities?”

Ning Wei nodded, and then said: "Brother Liu, many people may have the same question, but have you ever thought deeply about this question? What does strong artificial intelligence represent? What impact will it bring to the future of mankind? What's coming?"

Liu Wei nodded, then shook his head.

He thought about it, but he didn't seem to think about it deeply. Although he was by Ning Wei's side every day and was very free most of the time, he didn't understand some things, so even if he thought about it, he could only get a glimpse of the outline. Possibly deeper?

"Everyone has too many misunderstandings about the era of strong artificial intelligence. Now March actually strengthens some of the most basic functions of human beings. For example, the ability to distinguish, a 3-year-old child can distinguish apples, bananas and pears after simple training. But for machines, their thinking patterns are different from humans. It is easy to distinguish the difference between apples and bananas because the feature overlap is extremely low, but it is more difficult to distinguish between apples and pears because the feature overlap is extremely high. Distinguish.”

"In other words, strong artificial intelligence makes machines look more like humans. But its thinking mode still hasn't changed much, but it will be different in the next stage. When we match the mathematical mapping with reality one by one, and use a certain A mathematical method can change the thinking mode of the machine, and it can be closer to the real human thinking logic. At that time, the changes brought by artificial intelligence to the entire human society will be disruptive."

"Really, by that time you will find that countless human jobs will be replaced by machines. There is already a vague trend of this, but limited by the current artificial intelligence technology, the process of machines replacing people does not seem to be obvious yet. . But you should also know that unmanned supermarkets, unmanned restaurants, and even unmanned hotels already exist, but they have not yet become popular. Those Internet companies have even begun to consider how to let machines replace people and complete the last mile of delivery. question."

"Not to mention other labor-intensive industries. Today's assembly lines have not been completely replaced by manual labor. The technology of unmanned machine workshops in many industries is still relatively expensive and immature. From a cost perspective, it may not be more cost-effective than manual labor. But when After strong artificial intelligence really matures, these will no longer be a problem. At that time, the problem arises, when the cost of using machines is far lower than the cost of hiring human beings, what will people do?"

"Not only low-end labor industries, but even high-end industries that now seem to be very high-end may also be replaced by machines. For example, surgery, after computer vision reaches a certain level, let the robot arm perform surgery, its control of details and the stability of the operation It will definitely surpass the most experienced surgeons in the world. Because before the operation, the machine can pass various inspections and conduct tens or even hundreds of thousands of rehearsals for problems that may arise during the operation."

"Do you think that when that era comes, the cost of using machines is far lower than the cost of labor, and they begin to intervene in human society in an all-round way, and half of the existing human jobs are replaced by machines, and the current operating mode of society remains unchanged, what should ordinary people do? What to do? Or how to survive?"

Liu Weiwei was even stunned by the thought-provoking question. His eyes fell on the Weiming Lake not far away, and he looked at the students who were walking by the lake or sitting and reading on the grass by the lake with a book in their hands. , lost in thought.

The rapid development of science and technology, the continuous outbreak of industrial revolution, and the rapid development of productivity are what everyone yearns for. But when serious problems were posed before him, Liu Wei suddenly discovered that the future high-tech society did not seem as beautiful as he imagined. It’s a pity that people can’t live by photosynthesis. More than a billion people need to eat, but their jobs will all be taken away by robots?

This question even made Liu Wei's perception of Ning Wei different again.

"What should we do?" Liu Wei asked humbly.

Ning Wei nodded and said: "Look, this is the benefit I hope Apple can join. It doesn't matter how hard they work in the West. Anyway, they are used to a large number of people doing nothing. But our country is different, we have common prosperity. Well, we cannot return to poverty just because machines have replaced all people's jobs. Therefore, we must give the vast majority of people a guarantee that can support their families and even lead them to prosperity. This reflects the benefits of the metaverse."

"The real virtual world can provide so much imagination. Many creative jobs can be moved from offline to online. Just like people in the last century could not imagine the lifestyle in the mobile Internet era, it is difficult for you to imagine the future now. It’s the same way of life on the virtual Internet. It’s like people in the past would never have imagined that with a mobile phone, you could support your family by doing live broadcasts.”

"But this is just a starting point, because only doing this cannot reflect the true value of human beings. We create artificial intelligence so that machines can replace humans in tedious work. The ultimate goal is not to keep everyone in captivity. Live your life without any desires, right? So what is the meaning of civilization? So if you want to make people valuable and make human civilization more meaningful, you have to look further. The most direct way is to start interstellar immigration era."

Liu Wei was a little dizzy and repeated: "Interstellar immigration?"

"Yes, interstellar immigrants."

Ning Wei nodded and continued: "This is a process of spreading human civilization. With the technology of expedition and environmental transformation, the role of human beings will be infinitely magnified. Think about it, there are more than seven billion people on the earth now. , if we have the technology for interstellar voyages and planetary environment transformation, and the era of planetary exploration has officially arrived, and we have the ability to spread the seeds of civilization to the solar system, the Milky Way, and even the entire universe, people themselves will become the most scarce resource."

"Machines cannot replace people, because no matter how close the machine's thinking mode is to the human thinking mode, its creativity is still limited. This is determined by the most basic philosophical principle, that is, matter determines consciousness, and transistors will always It cannot be compared with brain cells. Think about it, at that time, people from the same earth, nurtured in different environments on different planets, will be able to hatch countless buds. Although they all belong to the earth's civilization, their development directions will be different. The entire The civilization of the earth is beginning to spread, and the preciousness of human beings is beginning to be highlighted.”

"This is the true meaning of Mars immigration. The true meaning of this goal is to transform the planet, accumulate experience in interstellar voyages and planet environment transformation, and then slowly broaden our horizons to transform more planets through artificial rather than natural methods, and build Human settlements in the universe. This is the most correct direction for civilization within the rules of this universe. In this process, we need the high degree of cooperation of artificial intelligence to help us solve various problems that we may encounter in this process. This This is the meaning of strong artificial intelligence."

After expressing his sigh, Ning Wei sighed softly: "Hey, so if my goal is just to make a small fuss on the earth, what is the difference between it and companies like Intel, Apple, and Tesla?"

Although Liu Wei strongly suspected that all of Ning Wei's previous exclamations were in service of this last sentence, for the first time he felt that there was nothing wrong with this way of chatting. Because Ning Wei's words seemed to really open a door to a new world in his mind, making him fascinated. Can the future of human civilization really be so brilliant?

"What a pity! We may not be able to see your vision." After a long time, Liu Wei sighed.

"Haha, at least in our lifetime, we might be able to see our Mars base built? Then I will make you the honorary mayor of the Chinese Mars city, and I will reluctantly be the captain of the Mars ball. Let's drink Mars together on Mars. Get rid of the water. Make Musk mad!" Ning Wei laughed and patted Liu Wei on the shoulder.

"Oh, I will protect you carefully before you make me the honorary mayor. Besides, you were not asking for my opinion just now, you were just telling me what you want to do next, right? Liu Wei said seriously.

"How can you say that? Brother Liu, you have to have confidence in yourself! Your opinion is very important, at least more important than that guy from Intel. So it makes sense to say that chatting time goes by faster when walking. Already come?"

Yes, while chatting, the two of them walked into Yanyuan.

…

When you walk into the small villa in Yanyuan, you can smell the rich aroma of vegetables.

This made Ningwei finally dispel all his unhappy emotions today.

Although Ning's mother's trust in the cafeteria of Yanbei University will make her less worried about Ning Wei after returning to Yancheng, she will always get tired of eating in the cafeteria. It's like eating my mom's cooking at home all the time and occasionally getting tired of it.

As soon as he entered the door, Ning Wei shouted: "Mom, I invited Brother Liu here."

"Oh! Let your dad watch TV with you Brother Liu first. The food will be ready soon." Ning's mother's voice came from the kitchen, and Ning's father also walked downstairs calmly. He was also wearing training clothes specially designed for learning Tai Chi. Needless to say, he had just finished practicing Tai Chi on the roof.

"Where's Chenshuang?"

"Please keep your voice down. Xiao Jiang is tutoring Chen Lu upstairs?"

Ning's father glared at Ning Wei, then looked at Liu Wei enthusiastically and said, "Xiao Liu is here, okay, okay, you must have two drinks with me tonight. Ning Wei, this kid, uses the excuse of studying knowledge day by day. , even refused to have a drink with me. Hey, this son has grown up in vain, and he will be so embarrassed after winning a bad prize! Hey..."

After hearing Ning's father's words, Liu Wei suddenly felt that he could understand Ning Wei.

Ah……

This is a real father and son...