Huayu 2021: Isn’t he in the technology field?

Chapter 111 The God Particle, the Anti-Explosion CP Amidst Doubts
At the media briefing for the start of filming, the atmosphere was momentarily tense.

Despite the many gazes directed at her, Jiang Qing remained completely oblivious, her smile never wavering.

He scanned the media present, taking in their expressions.

Immediately, he tapped the microphone lightly with his finger.

"Since this media professional has asked the question, I'll answer it from my own area of ​​expertise."

Jiang Qing fixed her gaze on the man who asked the question and smiled.

Before the man could answer, he continued his story. The man opened his mouth, but seeing this, he had no choice but to shut up.

"Last year, when we were training our emotion model, we discovered that AI could distinguish between Hamlet's monologue and a supermarket shopping list not through semantic logic."

Jiang Qing slowed down her speech.

"It is a tremor error of one-thousandth in human language."

Zhao Jinmai unconsciously twirled the pen, her eyes fixed on Jiang Qing's profile without blinking.

She recalled how, during the script reading yesterday, Jiang Qing used the laws of thermodynamics to deconstruct the character's arc of light, and the principle of entropy increase was embodied in his words, piercing through all established performance paradigms.

"Just like right now."

Jiang Qing suddenly leaned closer to the media section, glancing at the girl beside her out of the corner of her eye.

"If we let AI analyze the angular velocity of Teacher Zhao spinning his pen..."

His fingertips traced patterns in the air like mathematical symbols.

"Anxiety level of 3.2 cycles per second perfectly matches the heart rate of Fujii Itsuki in 'Love Letter' when she was drawing a portrait on the back of a library card."

The sound of camera shutters suddenly surged, and Zhao Jinmai's pen fell to the ground with a "thud".

In the moment she hurriedly bent over, she heard Jiang Qing's voice trailing off with a hint of laughter.

"However, we are more concerned about this asynchronous phenomenon between body language and micro-expressions, such as a 0.5-second delay in the orbicularis oculi muscle when the knuckles turn white."

"Dr. Jiang, are you saying I'm putting on an act?"

When Zhao Jinmai straightened up, the tips of her ears gleamed with a coral hue, and she caught up with the academic joke perfectly.

Jiang Qing responded by tearing open a mint on the table and handing it to her.

"To be precise, it is a sample of the evolving emotions that is currently being generated."

He turned to the bewildered reporters and gave a wry smile.

"Do you know how AI learns to fall in love? We feed it 100,000 first-meeting scenarios, from the ice cream kiss in Roman Holiday to the statistical reports of a lab data analyst spilling coffee."

Zhao Jinmai suddenly realized that at this moment, it seemed that Jiang Qing was the only one in her eyes. This discovery made her heart flutter even more than the emotional model he had mentioned.

When Jiang Qing mentioned "using Markov chains to simulate the probing and retreat during the ambiguous period," she inexplicably reached out to straighten his microphone. The moment she touched him, her breathing, like that of a monitoring device, was picked up by the speakers throughout the venue.

Jiang Qing glanced at her and nodded gently in thanks.

She withdrew her hand with a calm expression, even though her heart was pounding.

So you believe that actors will eventually be replaced by AI?

The man who asked the question couldn't understand Jiang Qing's answer. His eyes darted around, and he reluctantly escalated the topic.

Jiang Qing leaned back in her chair, watching him as if he were observing an interesting experimental subject, or perhaps a joke.

“Last year, we showed the robot ‘Farewell My Concubine.’ It categorized Cheng Dieyi’s obsession as a system error. This beautiful misinterpretation is precisely the meaning of the existence of human actors.”

He suddenly pulled out his phone and swiped to open a certain screen.

"Such as this."

Jiang Qing turned her phone screen towards the media, where the lyrics of "The Peony Pavilion" and neuronal activation maps were leaping through the code stream.

A group of media outlets quickly rushed forward to capture clear images of the screen on his phone.

"When AI translates 'the living can die' into a quantum tunneling probability formula..."

He raised an eyebrow.

"Humans need to tell it how many kinds of floral fragrances Du Liniang should have on her skirt when she crosses the line between life and death."

Zhao Jinmai suddenly burst out laughing, her eyebrows curving into crescent moons.

"Dr. Jiang might as well say it directly: AI is responsible for deconstruction, and we are responsible for breaking the rules."

She didn't realize she had used "we".

When Jiang Qing uses Bayes' theorem to dismantle the ethical dilemma of "Thunderstorm" and uses topology to interpret the closure of the character's arc.

When Zhao Jinmai responded to his algorithm with Grotowski's theory of "poor drama," she also hid pineapple can stems from "Chungking Express" in the gaps between the terms.

All the cameras and microphones are faithfully recording this intellectual exchange, yet they cannot decipher the Morse code they share.

"last question."

Jiang Qing suddenly tapped the glass with her pen.

Why did I choose acting?

He turned the cup, which had been warmed by Zhao Jinmai.

"I'm trying to find the God particle of emotion models, those bugs that make AI still make mistakes after 100,000 learning iterations, bugs that are unique to humans."

The scene fell silent again, and the reporters looked at each other in bewilderment. Although they didn't quite understand what Jiang Qing was saying, they had a sense of awe and wonder.

The man who asked the question at "Yidian Entertainment" was already sweating profusely, and Jiang Qing smiled and gestured to Chen Duo, who was standing next to him, to hand him some water.

"Speaking of wasting talent, I am reminded of Turing Award winner Professor Yao Qizhi."

He suddenly switched to reading a passage from a quantum computing paper entirely in English, and then gave a sly smile while everyone looked on in confusion.

“Look, this is a real waste of talent. Something that could be explained clearly in Chinese.”

Zhao Jinmai burst out laughing, but when she saw Jiang Qing looking over, she quickly covered her mouth, her cheeks slightly flushed.

"Technological development is like the infinity symbol."

He looked away and suddenly leaned down to press down on the bus poster on the table.

"Every scholar is a link in the chain, and my involvement in film and television is just like..."

He traced the circular track with his fingertips.

"Let's open a window on the Möbius strip so that more people can see the possibilities beyond the code."

As the words fell, enthusiastic applause erupted. Zhao Jinmai watched the man slink away into the crowd, and out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Jiang Qing's white T-shirt billowing like a sail in the sea breeze.

Or rather, she saw what it meant to be full of vigor and high spirits.

Even though Jiang Qing can no longer be considered a young man.

"I might have some talent, but..."

When Jiang Qing gave her concluding remarks, the smile on her face completely disappeared, and her expression became extremely serious.

"I believe that even without Jiang Qing, millions of young people would have carved even more beautiful formulas on Gulangyu Island."

He suddenly looked at Zhao Jinmai.

"Just like Li Shiqing will always find a new Xiao Heyun."

The media area suddenly erupted in gasps of amazement. In the footage captured by a NetEase reporter, Zhao Jinmai was hurriedly lowering her head to hide her nervousness, while Jiang Qing was turning her head to look at her with a smile.

Just then, a sea breeze swept in, lifting the red silk backdrop and casting their shadows in the center of the cyclic symbol.

Zhao Jinmai suddenly understood what he meant by "opening a window".

At this moment, the moonlight that pierced through the formula was gently bathing her in the hottest summer of her nineteen years.

-

At 10:03 a.m., less than half an hour after the "Beginning" media exchange ended, it had already caused a huge uproar on the entire internet.

Jiang Qing's use of Markov chains to confront reporters went viral, topping the Weibo hot search list and sparking heated discussions among netizens.

"Jiang Qing's God Particle"

Zhao Jinmai tidied up the wheat for Jiang Qing.

"Jiangqing Technology's development is like a wireless symbol."

……

Nearly ten terms related to Jiang Qing surged into the trending search list, and searches related to "beginning" also skyrocketed.

What has garnered the most attention from fans and netizens is, of course, his interaction with Zhao Jinmai.

"Something's not right! The way Zhao Jinmai is looking at Jiang Shen is strange!"

"Mai Mai's movements were so natural when she was mixing the wheat for Jiang Qing. Didn't they just meet yesterday?"

"Didn't you guys notice a detail? Zhao Jinmai was staring at Jiang Shen the whole time he was speaking, her eyes practically glaring at him!"

"No! My fishing boat and lights on the river!"

"My love at first sight is real! I just saw Jiang Shen visiting Meng Jie on set a couple of days ago, and it's only been a few days! They'll be filming together later, I think my on-screen couple might be in danger!"

"Those who are near the water get the moon first, how despicable!"

"MaiMai is only 19 years old, while Jiang Shen is already 26! I just realized it!"

"Ugh! What a jerk! An old man eating young grass!"

"Pah! It's clearly your real master who's benefiting from our Jiang God's fame!"

"Our MaiMai is a seasoned veteran. No matter how good your Jiang Shen is, can he match MaiMai's acting skills? Don't drag MaiMai down!"

"Do you even know what a genius is? Just wait and see!"

"Hey, can we just quietly ship them for now? Isn't this age gap even more appealing? It's like a real-life Yu Tu and Qiao Jingjing, isn't it!"

"Is your idol as famous as Qiao Jingjing?"

"You're talking like your boss is the chief engineer!"

"I ride on a horse..."

The comments section was filled with heated exchanges, with neither side's fans willing to concede. Jiang Qing's large fan base held a slight advantage, but Zhao Jinmai's fans, who had accumulated their strength over the years, proved exceptionally resilient, making it impossible to determine a winner for the time being.

Tech blogger @Observer published a frame-by-frame analysis.

"Dr. Jiang used the convergence of neural networks as an analogy to the emotional control of actors, seemingly explaining the principles of AI, but actually subtly criticizing the reporter's question for lacking logical closure."

Lei Jun reposted this interpretation with the caption: "I suggest including it in public relations textbooks."

Netizens commented scathingly, "Lei Jun is everywhere!"

The issue has sparked heated discussion on Zhihu, with a researcher from the Cognitive Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China providing a verified answer to the question, "How would you evaluate Jiang Qing's response to 'opening a window on a Möbius strip'?"

"This is actually a topological metaphor for neural symbolic systems. Senior Brother Jiang used the continuity of cyclical spacetime to explain the rationality of cross-disciplinary approaches, which not only avoids accusations of neglecting one's proper duties, but also brings performing arts into the scope of cognitive science research."

However, sharp criticisms emerged in the comments section of that answer.

"Don't forget that the Huawei Ascend chip team launched Project Falcon for him, but now he's wasting his energy memorizing lines. Doesn't he feel ashamed of the resources of the national laboratory?"

This comment, which received 1.2 likes, was reposted to Hupu, where it spawned a trending post titled "Jiang Qing's three months of filming = three fewer satellites built?"

The comparison video posted by Bilibili's "I Love Sugar" account garnered nearly 200 million likes in ten minutes.

On the left is a video of Jiang Qing explaining the NSF model at the NeurIPS Summit, and on the right is a slow-motion replay of him helping Zhao Jinmai twist a bottle cap at the opening ceremony, with background music from the "Interstellar" soundtrack and the subtitle "When the rational universe and the emotional galaxy meet".

A popular post on Douban's Goose Group titled "Exposing the Red Marks on Zhao Jinmai's Collarbone" has caused a huge uproar.

Some users zoomed in on photos of the incense burner ceremony, claiming that the light pink marks on Zhao Jinmai's collarbone matched the shape of the buttons on the shirt Jiang Qing wore on the day of the script reading.

Although the production team quickly clarified that it was caused by an allergic reaction to the prop necklace, fanfiction about the "button kiss mark" quickly emerged on LOFTER, and its popularity soared.

A memorable moment from the "Cyberpunk 2077" engine reconstruction launch event by bionics UP master @墨家小灵.

Analysis showed that when Jiang Qing mentioned "how many kinds of floral fragrances should Du Liniang's skirt be covered with", Zhao Jinmai's pupil dilation rate reached 17.8% according to the algorithm, exceeding the ASMR stimulation threshold.

The comments section was filled with "She's fallen in love!"

Tech media outlet @HardcoreResearch published a lengthy article titled "Beware of the Public Opinion Schemes of Academic Stars," directly targeting Jiang Qing.

"Using pseudo-concepts like the God particle in the emotion model to shift the focus cannot change the fact that a top AI genius wasted precious time acting. Just like a car company executive using technical terms to cover up test fraud, academic elites crossing over into other fields need more supervision."

This post sparked heated discussion, with supporters, opponents, and bystanders all clashing.

When public opinion began to spiral out of control, Yu Chengdong of Huawei suddenly posted on Weibo.

"The team just used Ascend AI to analyze the videos circulating online. When President Jiang was deriving the formula, his heart rate fluctuation was less than 5%. Some of the 'blushing and heart-pounding' rendering can be put to rest."

This sarcastic remark, accompanied by the company's verified blue V badge, poured a bucket of cold water on the boiling public opinion.

Meanwhile, the hashtag for Jiang Qing and Zhao Jinmai's "Anti-Explosion CP" had been quietly created.

(End of this chapter)