Xueba's computing system

Chapter 239 Algorithm Storm 4
The changes in the world caused by technology sometimes start from a seemingly insignificant small change, like a butterfly gently flapping its wings.

For example, the launch of smartphones in 2010 and the reduction in network costs ushered in the era of mobile Internet.

Today, human life has been completely changed by mobile Internet. As the way people communicate has changed, even the corresponding political system has been adjusted.

Even people in the early 20th century could not have imagined that just a dozen years later, a small mobile phone would bring turmoil to many parts of the world.

Now, the changes brought about by technology are once again showing signs of hope, and this time it is in a place that ordinary people can hardly notice - AI managers.

Lin Yuan introduced the AI manager algorithm in the food delivery industry, not with the intention of making a big move, but simply to eliminate the long-standing problems in the food delivery industry. But many great changes in the world come from unintentional changes.

Lin Yuan himself did not expect that the AI manager algorithm would cause such a big response, which has long exceeded his reform of the food delivery industry itself.

Like countless predecessors in the field of science and technology, he brought the dawn of another technological revolution to the world.

But most people know nothing about it.

To be precise, ordinary people are not completely ignorant, but their focus is completely wrong.

Ordinary people are concerned about this: if things continue like this, AI will one day control humans. Skynet in science fiction movies will become a reality, and humans will become slaves of AI machines.

Ordinary people simply cannot see the value behind this technological revolution; they are just instinctively afraid out of their simple emotions.

Lin Yuan was speechless about this. He never expected that the public would think this way.

Perhaps it is because Lin Yuan understands the nature of AI, he knows very well that before quantum computing is developed, human beings’ current AI capabilities are just that.

And more importantly, AI doesn't lie. AI is just a more advanced program.

The biggest feature of the program is that it won’t lie.

如果你给程序设定的步骤是1、2、3、4、5，那它绝对不会出现5、4、3、2、1。

If the program does not follow these steps, this situation is called: bug!

But ordinary people only look at the surface and not the essence, and they cannot distinguish between bugs and deceptions.

Under the influence of human nature, ordinary people can easily project their distrust of humans onto robots. This is just like comparing human thinking to that of a dog.

The thinking of humans and dogs is completely different. Dogs need owners, but humans don’t.

Most people understand the differences between humans and dogs.

But maybe robots seem to have human characteristics - they are smart, so they are classified as "human".

But the difference between robots and humans is about the same as that between dogs and humans. No, in fact, the difference is greater than that between dogs and humans.

Because dogs and humans are both carbon-based creatures, but AI machines can't be considered living things at all. If you really want to make a distinction, then they can only be considered silicon-based creatures.

Carbon-based and silicon-based are different at the most basic principles.

Taking humans as an example, carbon-based systems are full of uncertainty. The biggest problems in human society revolve around the word "human nature".

But there is no such thing as humanity in silicon-based products.

Silicon-based is more of a tool. If you put two kitchen knives together, which one is humane and which one is inhumane?

However, Lin Yuan finally realized that people's thinking is not the same. This is the conclusion he came to after using the computing system to search for people's opinions on "AI managers" on the Internet. Facing the cold statistics given by the system, Lin Yuan had to admit a fact: 99% of ordinary people actually don't understand AI at all, and they insist on applying human behavior logic to AI.

If Lin Yuan must give an analysis from a professional perspective, the best explanation for this difference in perception is to give an example.

For example: One day in the future, an AI robot dedicated to bathing cats and dogs accidentally strangled a kitten while performing its task.

According to Lin Yuan and others' logic, the first step is to check whether the robot's program has problems when dealing with the scenario of bathing a kitten, such as unreasonable parameter settings.

If the first step does not find the problem, then the second step is to check whether there is a bug.

Generally, by searching logs and reproducing the scene, you can always find the problem in the bug search process, and then fix the bug.

Lin Yuan and others would not think: Is this robot a spirit?

The reason is very simple: as long as there is no code related to "becoming a spirit" in the code of this robot, then this robot cannot become a spirit.

For silicon-based mechanical bodies, it is just that simple and crude. Because its designers can see every line of code, as long as the code related to precision is not written, the robot will not be precise.

This extremely simple logic is common sense in the eyes of qualified technical practitioners, but not in the eyes of many ordinary people.

People will regard robots as seemingly kind humans, and then fantasize that robots will wake up one day and secretly rebel against humans.

But in fact, even if the robot can really wake up, the premise is that the CPU and GPU of the robot must be powerful enough and support OTA.

So in Lin Yuan's opinion, this is simply nonsense.

But this nonsense has a huge market.

Since the people have this emotion, naturally there will be people who will take advantage of it.

Longhua Takeaway, which was formed by the merger of Haotuan and Blue Label Factory, spent a lot of money hiring online trolls to hype up this future scenario - a scenario in which humans are enslaved by robots.

Longhua Takeaway launched an attack on Tesla Takeaway from two angles.

The first is from the perspective of data security and national justice; the second is the threat of AI dominating humans.

So Lin Yuan had to distract himself to deal with such boring problems even when he was already overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Longguo is a great country with a group of great people who have not forgotten their original aspirations.

If this happens on the other side of the Pacific, there will be only one result - this technology will be forced to go forward despite public opposition, and then public sentiment will be used as a tool for certain politicians to divide the pie. Ultimately, this technology will become a tool to suppress the public.

But this is Dragon Country.

After noticing the public's concerns about the popularization of AI technology, the authorities quickly responded. So Lin Yuan was called in for a drink of tea. Of course, this was a literal drink of tea.

Ever since being beaten badly by industrial civilization in the era of agricultural civilization, and ever since realizing the truth that "productive forces determine production relations", Long Country has always attached great importance to advanced technology.

Lin Yuan would naturally come into the authorities' sight.

To his surprise, the person who came to invite Lin Yuan to have tea was his bedmate - Zhang Yan.

(End of this chapter)