Technology dominance starts with learning machines

Chapter 2: Artificial Intelligence

Perhaps his parents in heaven knew how difficult his and his sister's lives were, so they gave him this wonderful opportunity.

Li Ping'an put down his computer backpack, looked at the dust in the room, and walked straight to the kitchen.

At this moment, he knew in his heart that one should not rush into anything, and he would not tell anyone about the learning machine, not even his sister.

Any secret will not be leaked if it is known only to yourself.

What we need to do now is to clean the house.

Walking into the spacious kitchen, Li Ping'an smelled a pungent and strange smell as soon as he entered the door. The smell was like something rotting, which was disgusting.

He frowned and searched around the kitchen, finally his eyes fell on the rice cooker on the kitchen counter.

When he turned on the rice cooker, the stench hit him in the face, so strong that it almost made him vomit.

Looking at the rice cooker covered with a layer of black hair and the rice underneath the black hair completely changing color, Li Ping'an couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"This girl." He muttered helplessly.

"I didn't even remember that there was leftover rice in the rice cooker."

But as soon as he said this, Li Ping'an felt a lump in his throat.

Ever since my parents passed away, haven’t I often been in a trance and forgotten many things?
My sister is still young and only goes home occasionally. Facing this empty house, she has to solve the problem of eating by herself. It is already very difficult for her to fill her stomach.

Li Ping'an poured the rice in the rice cooker into the faded green trash can outside the house, and then cleaned the rice cooker.

Looking at the corroded rice cooker, he fell into deep thought.

After a moment, he sighed, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and searched for the same model of pot on Pinxixi.

"1.5 yuan for free shipping, and yuan cash back for good reviews?"

Li Pingan saw that there were more than 700 people who had reviewed the product, so he decisively placed an order and successfully placed the group order.

As for the old rice cooker, he threw it into the waste pile in the back kitchen.

The kitchen is a little dim and is filled with all kinds of waste, some of which can be traced back to when my parents were still alive.

It is not easy to clean the two-story villa. Li Ping'an was busy for the whole afternoon and was so tired that his back and waist ached.

Looking at his barely passable home, he supported his old waist, sat down on the sofa, and didn't want to move anymore.

I was so tired, as if all the strength in my body had been drained away.

The days in winter are extremely short, and night begins to fall at just five in the afternoon.

Li Ping'an was sitting on the sofa to rest when the second master came in unsteadily from the front door, leaning on a bamboo stick.

"It's OK. The hygiene is quite good." said the Second Master.

"Second Master." Li Ping'an stood up hurriedly.

The Second Master nodded and said, "I called you in the yard just now, but I guess you didn't hear me. Let's go, the meal is ready, let's go and have a bite."

Li Ping'an didn't hesitate. He dusted himself off, picked up his cell phone, locked the door, and followed Erye.

Even though the second master only has one front tooth left and walks unsteadily with the help of a bamboo stick, his pace is not slow when he actually walks.

When he arrived at the second master's house, Li Ping'an was deeply moved when he saw the table full of food and the enthusiastic aunt.

This is not just a makeshift dinner; it is clearly a very sumptuous dinner.

He knew that in the countryside, families would not eat so well and cook so many dishes. It was not because they did not have the conditions, but because it took too much time.

After a busy day outside, people still have to cook when they get home. Most people just do it casually. After all, for them, lying down in bed comfortably early is worse than having a good meal.

On winter nights, the cold wind is as biting as a knife. The chill seems to penetrate the bone marrow, making people shiver involuntarily.

Li Ping'an, who had just come out from his second uncle's house after warming himself by a fire, shrank back in response to the biting cold wind and hurried home at a trot.

On the second floor of the villa are Li Ping'an and his sister's respective rooms.

Li Ping'an's room is very big, but it is in the Syrian style. There is only a bed and a desk in the whole room.

In the words of my mother back then.

"Your room, you can decorate it when you get married."

Looking at my sister's room, it is so cozy.

All the furniture is the latest style, and there is also the only air conditioner in the house.

Although the house was covered with dust when Li Ping'an came back, his sister's room was relatively clean. There was even an old sheet on the bed to block the dust.

Back in the room, Li Ping'an turned on the electric stove and took out the gaming laptop from his computer bag, which his mother had readily spent 10,000 yuan to buy for him right after the college entrance examination.

Even though three years have passed, the performance of this computer is still able to meet his daily learning and software development needs as a student majoring in computer science and technology, and he can run multiple development software at the same time without any pressure.

After the primary school student learning machine in his mind completed the language update, the code in the artificial intelligence was also converted into the C++ programming language that Li Pingan was familiar with.

Li Pingan didn't find it strange.

Because the most efficient software is usually written in C or C++, which are languages that can be directly converted into machine code during compilation, have almost no runtime overhead and can approach the performance limits of the hardware.

Although C++ and C excel in execution speed, they are not as good as other high-level languages, such as Python or JavaScript, in terms of development efficiency and code readability.

But Li Pingan didn't have to consider these shortcomings of C++ at all. After all, this learning machine guided him to learn step by step. The codes were ready-made and he only had to copy them.

There is no problem with development efficiency.

In order to prevent the leakage of source code, Li Pingan did not connect his computer to the Internet, nor did he use any software development programs on the market. Instead, he chose the TXT text that every software development beginner would use when they first come into contact with software development.

Under the bright light, the heater dispelled the cold and brought warmth to Li Pingan.

Li Pingan was immersed in the joy of typing code, and time slipped away quietly through his fingertips.

When Li Ping'an stretched, he realized it was already very late.

"It's already one in the morning?"

Li Pingan was a little surprised.

Thinking about having to prepare to go to school to visit his sister, and looking at the artificial intelligence data collection and preprocessing modules that had not yet been moved, Li Pingan gave up on continuing to "move bricks".

This night of "moving bricks" experience made Li Pingan realize that the elementary school learning machine in his mind was actually very rigid and did not have any intelligent entity. It was just a simple data system.

This actually made him feel more at ease, as he no longer had to worry about artificial intelligence messing around in his mind.

After simply boiling a pot of hot water and soaking his feet, Li Ping'an lay down on the bed.

Not sure if it was because he was back home or because he was tired from cleaning in the afternoon, Li Ping'an fell asleep quickly after lying down.

(End of this chapter)