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

Chapter 203 Different Thoughts Inside and Outside the Arena

At 1:30 p.m. the following afternoon, under the bright sunlight, a long, winding queue had already formed in front of the School of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences building at Tsinghua University.

The boy in the plaid shirt stood on tiptoe, counting the number of people in front of him, his expression excited.

"Wow, it's been so long since our SMTH forum has been this lively!"

"Excuse me, student, could you please move aside?"

A curly-haired boy carrying three laptops pushed through the crowd, and several students on either side quickly stepped forward to protect the lecture posters that had been hastily made overnight.

In the poster, Jiang Qing stands in front of a neural network model with one hand in his pocket, and the title "The Ultimate Goal of Artificial Intelligence" shines brightly in the sunlight.

The crowd suddenly became agitated.

Six boys pushed a portable blackboard through the crowd; the blackboard was covered with sticky notes.

"What are Jiang Shen's views on the copyright issues of AI-generated paintings?"

"I'm desperately seeking recommendations for introductory books on artificial intelligence!"

"Can you derive the neural synapse algorithm on the spot?"

Before everyone could get a closer look, the sound of propellers hummed in the sky.

Three drones carrying red banners flew over the tops of ginkgo trees, on which read:
"All students of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences welcome Professor Jiang."

On the other hand, since the news that Jiang Qing would be giving a lecture at Tsinghua University today was released, the Weibo hot search list has been rapidly refreshing since early this morning.

"Shuimu Lecture Scene" Explodes
"Jiangqing Tsinghua University" is popular
Jiang Qing's speech theme is new.
……

In the comments section, listeners rushed to the front row, flooding the screen with messages like, "Please enjoy Jiang Shen's daily routine of delivering a devastating blow!"

In the Douyin live stream room, the host with the ID "Shuimu Intelligence Station" is pointing the camera at the side door of the lecture hall.

"See that! Jiang Shen is going to give a lecture here today. It's his second lecture at Tsinghua University."

Suddenly, the barrage of comments was flooded with golden special effects, and Lei Jun left a message with his officially verified account.

"I suggest adding benches to the aisles; that's what I did when I gave a speech at Wuhan University back then."

The comments section scrolled rapidly, with netizens jokingly saying, "Lei Jun is everywhere!"

When the number of viewers in the Douyin live stream exceeded one million, Jiang Qing was standing in front of a full-length mirror adjusting her neckline.

His dark gray shirt accentuated his straight shoulders, and a ginkgo leaf-shaped cufflink was pinned to his collar, which Jiang Nan had specially put on this morning.

"elder brother!"

The door to the lounge was flung open, and Jiang Nan rushed in, phone in hand.

Guess how many people are watching the live stream right now?

She wore a preppy dress today, with a "staff" badge pinned to her chest, and her ponytail swayed merrily with her movements.

Jiang Qing glanced at the comments on her screen.

"Where is Jiang Shen? Tissues are ready!"

"I'm watching the live stream seriously to enhance my knowledge!"

"I believe what the person upstairs said. That's right, I came here to learn!"

"I didn't expect there would be a live broadcast. Well done, Shuimu!"

"I'm ready to accept Jiang Shen's overwhelming attack!"

……

He reached out and straightened his sister's ID, then gently poked her forehead.

"No snacks allowed when you sit in the front row."

"Know it!"

Jiang Nan shrank her neck, looking obedient.

"Professor Zhang asked me to tell you that the spare laser pointer is in the drawer on the left side of the podium."

"understood."

Jiang Qing turned to look at the full-length mirror, her eyes flashing.

Shui Mu reacted quickly, but he didn't mind revealing some information in advance.

Behind him is the entire USTC (University of Science and Technology of China).

Hengdian, the "Heart Protection" film set.

During a break, Zhou Ye opened the live stream and his eyelids twitched when he saw the huge crowd at the scene.

"Has it not started yet? Ugh~ I really want to take a day off to watch the live stream!"

she whispered.

"Mr. Zhou Ye, get ready. We'll continue filming in three minutes."

The stagehand shouted at her from a distance.

"Ok."

She smiled and responded.

She glanced at the screen and, seeing that Jiang Qing still hadn't appeared, had no choice but to put away her phone and stand up with a puffed-out face.

The overseas Chinese capital, the filming location of "Sheep Without a Shepherd 2".

Meng Ziyi, dressed in a simple and unpretentious woman's outfit and with barely noticeable makeup, was acting opposite Xiao Yang.

"Does Professor Meng want to watch Dr. Jiang's live stream?"

Xiao Yang noticed that she kept glancing at the seats not far away, and covered her mouth to tease her.

"Ah! This, this..."

Meng Ziyi stammered for a moment, and her cheeks flushed when she saw his teasing gaze.

"Is it so obvious?"

"With such a high level of online buzz, who wouldn't know? Go watch it; we barely have any lines in our scene together today."

Xiao Yang winked at her.

"Hehe~ Brother Xiao, you're such a nice guy."

Meng Ziyi chuckled, craned her neck to look around, and seeing that Sister Han wasn't there, she immediately ran to the seat, picked up her phone, and started the live stream.

Seeing that it hadn't officially started yet, she patted her chest in relief.

Thank goodness, I made it in time.

Xiao Yang smiled slightly as he watched her actions from afar.

There's never a bad thing to make good connections.

Shanghai, an advertising filming location.

"Okay! Teacher Tian!"

"Yes, that's it, make your smile even sweeter!"

"Please turn your face to me!"

……

With each instruction from the director, Tian Xiwei, dressed in a pink dress and sporting pigtails, made various sweet and playful gestures under the spotlight.

Wink, tilt head, cup face, make heart shape with hands...

The way she switched between the two scenes was so captivating that the male staff members on site couldn't take their eyes off her.

"Click! Good!"

The director waved with satisfaction as Tian Xiwei completed her final pose.

"Teacher Tian is in great shape today! She finished filming half an hour early!"

He smiled and praised Tian Xiwei as she approached.

"It's all thanks to the director's talent, and all the teachers have worked hard."

Tian Xiwei politely bowed to him and the surrounding staff to express her gratitude, with a sweet smile on her face.

Once she returned to the dressing room and sat down, she instantly suppressed her smile and raised her hand to rub her face, which was almost frozen from laughing.

Gong Yuhan had just assigned her a stylist who came up to help her remove her makeup, but she couldn't wait to take out her phone and start a live stream.

I'm working so hard today just to make it to Jiang Qing's lecture.

Upon seeing the bustling scene in the video, a sense of pride inexplicably arose in her eyes, which she then quickly dismissed with a smirk.

There was such a heated discussion online yesterday, but hardly anyone mentioned her name. How annoying!
next time!

She absolutely has to be at the table next time!
On the other side, in a high-end apartment in Shanghai.

Barefoot on the thin blanket by the bay window, Wang Cheran was watching the live stream on her tablet. Whenever a comment praised Jiang Qing, she would smile and give it a thumbs up, but there were just too many to click on.

She frequently switched to split screen to post screenshots of the scene in the super topic, and also reminded other fans to pay attention to controlling the comments in the trending topics.

Although Jiang Qing doesn't care about these things and doesn't want everyone to do this, her fans always feel that it's only natural, and they don't want to see those sour people in the comments section of Jiang Qing's trending topics.

"Jiang Shen, I will always be with you."

Wang knelt with her hands around her knees, her eyes burning with fervor as she stared at the screen. Beside her lay a magazine, the very one she had torn to shreds last time.

At this moment, it has been glued on almost perfectly.

Zhenze, the filming location of the movie "Fortress".

The air conditioning in the lounge was very strong. Chen Duling was wrapped in a thin blanket and leaned back in her chair, with a live broadcast on the tablet in front of her.

"The Fortress" is a spy film set during the revolutionary period. She didn't have many scenes, which gave her enough time to watch the live stream.

Speaking of which, although she has recently resumed normal chatting with Jiang Qing, they haven't video chatted for a long time. Today's live stream is a good opportunity for her to see him.

Moreover, she really admired Jiang Qing's brilliance in her professional field.

"Dudu, are you watching Jiang Qing's live stream?"

A woman's voice suddenly sounded behind her. When Chen Duling turned around, she was met with a pair of smiling eyes.

"Tongtong, you didn't have any filming this afternoon either?"

She smiled and pulled out the chair next to her.

"Yeah, that's why I wanted to chat with you. I didn't expect you to be watching Jiang Qing's live stream."

Li Yitong gracefully sat down and glanced at the live stream screen next to her.

"I almost forgot, you are [Yan Zhi You Li]."

She smiled and joked.

Her gaze flickered, and Chen Duling's lips curled slightly.

"It's all just netizens joking around. I just remembered, Tongtong, you visited Wuwen Technology before."

A hint of curiosity appeared on her face.

"Tongtong, how did you and Jiang Qing meet?"

“When he was recording Peach Blossom Village, I happened to be in Beijing for work. Mengmeng invited me to dinner and introduced us.”

Li Yitong's calm explanation suggested that her relationship with Jiang Qing was simply that of friends.

"Oh, I see. Does Tongtong want to watch it too?"

Chen Duling extended the invitation with a smile.

"Okay."

Li Yitong agreed without the slightest hesitation.

When the two of them turned around to face the screen, Chen Duling pursed her lips slightly.

Would ordinary friends speak of Jiang Qing so naturally?
Her hands were twirling under the table, her eyes slightly narrowed.

Jiang Qing, how many things are you hiding from me?
Xingcheng, a high-end residential area.

Zhang Jingyi was wearing a white nightgown and sitting cross-legged on the sofa. Her hair was casually tied up, with a few strands falling beside her face, looking very relaxed.

A tablet sits on the coffee table in front of him, and he's holding half a watermelon in his hand.

Seeing that Jiang Qing had not yet appeared, she scooped up another spoonful and put it in her mouth.

"Mmm~ So sweet."

The girl squinted her eyes happily.

Seeing the scene in the live broadcast where there was almost no place to put her feet, she suddenly sighed.

Everyone here is a prodigy, a small but elite group of people from all over the country.

Now, they are like fans of a celebrity, eagerly awaiting Jiang Qing's appearance.

She suddenly pouted as if she had remembered something.

By the way, does he think I'm stupid when he's with me?
……

At 1:45 p.m., the scene in the lecture hall of the Tsinghua University School of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences was unprecedented.

Although there were still fifteen minutes until the event started, the lecture hall, which could accommodate 600 people, was already packed to capacity.

Three rows of students with their own folding stools were sitting in the aisle, and two boys in lab coats were even sitting on the windowsill, shouting at the door with draft paper rolled into a megaphone shape.

"Hey guys in the back, move over! There's room for two more people here!"

The news agency members occupied the best positions, with four cameras mounted on the steel frame in the back row, and the tripods almost touching the ceiling.

Inside the side passage, three girls were adjusting a Canon EOS R5 equipped with a 200x zoom lens, striving to capture the clearest photo of Jiang Qing.

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard. A boy standing on the air conditioner unit in the northwest corner accidentally knocked over the pyramid-shaped stack of "Introduction to Deep Learning." The fifty brick-like textbooks collapsed with a bang, causing a small commotion.

The head of the news agency, who was adjusting the 360° panoramic camera, immediately raised a megaphone: "Attention students, the school's media center needs to ensure the main passage is unobstructed!"

Before the words were even finished, three boys in plaid shirts had already carried in a mobile crane from the fire escape. The steel arm almost snagged the hanging banner of the Quantum Computing Alliance when it extended.

The air was filled with the smell of sweat and the scent of printing ink, and the central air conditioning vents were blocked by a poster of "gradient descent path diagram of neural network" squeezed next to the electrical distribution box.

The humming of the laptop's cooling system, mixed with the constant clicking of camera shutters, raised the room temperature by two degrees.

Suddenly someone noticed that the power strip reserved for the media area on the side of the podium was lit up with a red light, and the five members of the news agency immediately took out six power banks and started to connect them in series to provide power.

When Qiu Yongyao and his group of school leaders entered through the backstage passage and saw the scene before them, they couldn't help but look at each other in disbelief and shook their heads with amusement.

They seem to have underestimated Jiang Qing's influence.

Upon seeing them, the volume immediately dropped two decibels, but returned to normal after the school leaders took their seats.

"Jiang Qing's lecture today doesn't seem to have much to do with what we wanted to hear."

Qiu Yong maintained his smile and leaned closer to Yao Qizhi beside him.

"It's alright, just watch."

Yao Qizhi responded with a smile.

"Ah."

Qiu Yong nodded knowingly.

The safety door on the second floor was suddenly pushed open, and several girls in JK uniforms rushed in.

The girl with pigtails, who was running at the back, suddenly covered her mouth and pointed excitedly downstairs.

"Jiang Shen is coming from the laboratory building!"

The crowd, like thumbtacks attracted by a magnet, slammed onto the west glass curtain wall.

The graduate student, who was adjusting the projector, accidentally switched the PPT to page 38, showing the electroencephalogram (EEG) chart.

"Students, please return to your seats!"

The department head's cough could be heard over the loudspeaker.

"Sit down properly, you in the Pikachu onesie, according to the questionnaire you received at the entrance! Yes, I'm talking to you!"

A boy dressed as a yellow electric mouse was clinging to the window frame. Upon hearing this, he turned his head and showed his teeth.

"Director! This is our AI club's mascot!"

As he spoke, he held up a hand-painted light sign, the crooked words "Please, God of the River, help my graduation project take off" drew laughter from all sides.

At 1:59, the curtains were slowly drawn shut.

When Jiang Qing pushed open the back door and entered the lecture hall, the female students in the audience collectively held their breath, and the live stream chat paused for a moment.

Today he wore a light gray shirt with black trousers, the sleeve cuffs accentuating his muscular arms, and a silver pen peeking out of his breast pocket swayed slightly with his steps.

"Dear leaders and students, thank you for waiting."

He unbuttoned his cuff with one hand and stepped onto the podium with a smile on his face.

"I heard someone complained yesterday that my outfit was too casual?"

Good-natured laughter erupted from the audience, and a boy in the back row shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Jiang Shen looks handsome even in a burlap sack!"

"That's right! The most handsome man in the tech world!"

"Even I am inferior to Jiang Shen in terms of looks!"

"Xu~~"

Amid the boos, Jiang Qing smiled and gestured for the crowd to quiet down.

He picked up the laser pointer, put on the headset, and tested the sound.

"Alright, let's not discuss the existing facts for now."

Raise your hand and gently tap backward.

"Today, the topic I want to talk to you about is this."

On the big screen, the phrase "the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence" was displayed to everyone present.

Off-site, AI teams from major internet companies are already ready.

The scrolling speed of the live stream comments began to slow down.

The lecture is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)