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

Chapter 204 is thought-provoking and lives up to its reputation.
At 2:10 PM, in the lecture hall of Tsinghua University.

Jiang Qing habitually folded his shirt cuffs up to his elbows, and gasps rose and fell from the audience as he did so.

"Please look at the screen first."

He smiled and tapped the microphone, the metallic clanging sound silencing the entire room.

Jiang Nan sat on the edge of the first row and took three pictures of her brother with her phone.

In the photo, Jiang Qing is leaning on the edge of the podium with one hand, the folds of her sleeve naturally bunching up in the crook of her elbow, while her other hand is holding a laser pointer and dotting the large screen.

She quickly posted the photo to the "We Are a Loving Family" group chat, followed by the comment: "Our family's inherited good looks are truly impressive!"

Two thumbs-up immediately appeared in the group chat, making the girl grin and reveal her pearly white teeth.

The live stream chat was filled with rapidly scrolling comments.

"Hey hey hey, why am I crying? Oh~ sorry, it's drool!"

"This...hiss...this...wait a minute..."

"Look at all you spineless cowards, I... ouch!"

"No, are you here to learn properly?"

"Which male actor is more captivating in real life than on screen?! Absolutely amazing!"

"This is the ceiling of snosticism!"

……

On the Hengdian film set, Zhou Ye sneaked a peek at his phone during a break from touching up his makeup.

When I saw the comments, I almost pressed the powder puff into my nostril and quickly moved my face away.

When Jiang Qing's deep voice came through the receiver, the makeup artist could clearly feel her ear tips turning red, and she tried hard to purse her lips to suppress her laughter.

They really can't hide their own thoughts at all.

On the stage, the large screen lit up a bold Song typeface title: "The Ultimate Goal of Artificial Intelligence".

Jiang Qing was already used to the reactions on the scene.

"Before we begin today's topic, let's talk about something unrelated. I heard that last Wednesday, your hospital's security system mistakenly identified Academician Yao as a food delivery worker."

He clicked on a surveillance video, in which an elderly academician with white hair was discussing the access control system.

Seeing this, Yao Qizhi, sitting in the audience, couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, holding his glasses.

"This reminds us that even the most sophisticated systems can occasionally have a 'brain freeze,' just like people."

A burst of laughter erupted from the crowd.

The boy in the back row wearing a lab coat raised his hand.

"Dr. Jiang, is this related to today's topic?"

"That's exactly what we're going to discuss today."

Jiang Qing stepped down from the podium, her leather shoes treading across the line where sunlight and shadow met.

"When we pursue perfect anthropomorphism in the Turing Test, are we blurring the essential difference between tools and life?"

A sudden commotion broke out in the audience.

Zhou Ye, on set in Hengdian, unconsciously sat up straight, and the shouts of the crew urging him to touch up his makeup seemed to fade into the distance.

She stared intently at the man's figure walking down the corridor in the video on her phone, her eyes unblinking.

In the dressing room of the Zhenze film crew, when the camera cut to a panoramic view of the audience, Chen Duling glanced at Li Yitong beside her and noticed that the downward curve of the corners of Li Yitong's eyes deepened as Jiang Qing spoke, and her expression unconsciously softened.

She was very familiar with that expression.

Because that's exactly how I saw Jiang Qing.

She has now confirmed her previous suspicions.

The live stream chat is currently scrolling wildly.

"This is the aura of a tech elite!"

"Looking at it this way, Li Xun is nothing special."

"I suggest that CEOs of major companies learn what it means to explain complex concepts simply. Jiang Shen's words are easy to understand."

"Jiang Shen seems like a different person now. He usually seems very reserved, but now he's like a drawn sword, his sharpness fully revealed!"

……

Jiang Qing returned to the stage, and suddenly stopped pacing.

"Let's imagine you are a hospice robot. When an elderly person asks, 'Am I going to die?', would you choose to be honest or offer comfort?"

He turned his back and wrote two lines of formulas on the electronic screen.

This question made Meng Ziyi, who was on set in Qiaodu, look conflicted.

This feels so difficult!

"Brother Xiao!"

She grabbed Xiao Yang, who was passing by.

Do you think AI can understand when humans don't mean what they say?

Xiao Yang was munching on an apple when she heard this, and she paused, staring at her blankly.

"what?"

"Never mind, you definitely wouldn't understand."

Meng Ziyi waved her hand dismissively and turned her gaze back to the screen.

Xiao Yang glanced at the screen, then at her.

Ok? ? ?
In her apartment in Shanghai, Wang Chiran was posting in a trending topic: "Sisters, don't get too absorbed in what you're reading, remember to pay attention to the trending topics and comments!"

"When we teach AI to recognize micro-expressions, are we also training it to lie?"

As Jiang Qing turned around, a swarm of drones formed a huge question mark outside the window, and a buzzing sound of discussion arose at the scene.

When Tian Xiwei saw this scene in the dressing room, she suddenly ripped off her pigtail hair ties. She turned to look at herself in the mirror and felt for the first time that her sweet smile seemed a little too deliberate.

There is no standard answer to this question.

Jiang Qing raised her hand to signal the audience to be quiet.

"Just like right now..."

He pointed to the orange cat that had sneaked in through the side door.

“From the perspective of game theory, we are the complex system that needs to be cracked.” Amidst laughter, Jiang Nan covered her face and stuffed the freeze-dried food into the cat that had sneaked in.

A new message popped up in the family group chat.

Mother spoke up: "Your brother is using cats as an example again!"

Accompanied by a photo of him having a serious conversation with a tabby cat in the kitchen during his high school years.

When the number of viewers in the live stream exceeded two million, Zhang Jingyi was arranging watermelon seeds into the formula shape shown in the picture.

Although I didn't understand it very well, I inexplicably felt it was very impressive.

Just like the comments said, she suddenly felt that Li Xun was nothing special.

Qiu Yong turned to look at the media area where people were frantically taking pictures, then turned to Academician Yao and sighed.

"Young people today can tell artificial intelligence stories as philosophical narratives."

"That's what's truly terrifying."

Yao Qizhi smiled as he closed the notebook filled with annotations.

"He can make even the most stubborn technologists start thinking about humanity."

"Yes, the younger generation is truly formidable."

Qiu Yong looked at the young man on the stage with admiration in his eyes.

"It's a pity we couldn't recruit him back then, which benefited USTC instead."

Yao Qizhi smiled and raised his hand to adjust his glasses.

Such complaints are meaningless at this moment.

On the stage, Jiang Qing raised his hand to look at his watch, then flicked the microphone with his finger, the clear sound of which brought the room back to silence.

"Now let's get down to business."

As soon as the words were spoken, everyone in the room instinctively straightened their backs and focused their attention on the upright figure on the stage.

Off-site, engineers from various companies were also watching the live stream intently, their laptops neatly laid out in front of them.

Seeing this, Jiang Qing smiled and leaned closer to the microphone.

"Hello everyone here and watching the live stream, I'm Jiang Qing from Wuwen Technology. I'm very happy to be here with you today to discuss this topic."

When the clear, melodious voice rang out, the hearts of several female celebrities in front of the screen skipped a beat.

"Currently, key trends in the technology field are having a significant impact on the global economic environment, and the most important of these trends is precisely the focus of our discussion today..."

He paused, then pointed to the large screen behind him.

"AI."

A deliberately suppressed round of applause broke out in the room.

Jiang Qing looked around, a faint smile appearing on her face.

"In fact, our understanding of artificial intelligence is not deep at present, and we have not explored the many development possibilities that artificial intelligence actually has."

“Let’s talk about a possibility, but it’s important to note that this is an extension of the possibility of placing technology in a scenario, not just a simple prediction.”

"One thing we need to be clear about is that there is not just one type of AI in the world. Different industries have many different ideas and understandings, which means that there will be a wide variety of AI, just like there are various species of animals in the world."

As soon as he finished speaking, a chorus of notes filled the air from the audience.

"If we take together the many distinct animal and machine intelligences, we will find that human intelligence development is not the core or the only one."

"In fact, the difference between an idiot and a genius is not that big."

"There are millions of different intelligences in the spectrum, so the idea of ​​having universal intelligence is misleading. Just like we are not at the very core of the biological spectrum, and Earth is not at the core of the solar system, the universe, or the Milky Way, we are at the edge. The same is true for intelligence."

"I believe our relationship with AI can be thought of from four perspectives."

As the story unfolded, everyone's expressions grew increasingly serious. When Jiang Qing held up four fingers, almost everyone simultaneously turned to a new page, their pens hovering over the blank space.

Beside the podium, three recorders were meticulously transcribing every punctuation mark Jiang Qing uttered on a computer screen.

"The first type is called artificial aliens."

Jiang Qing lightly touched the screen with a laser pointer, and the title immediately changed to "Man-made Aliens".

"AI is like an alien that has landed on Earth, but it is designed and programmed by humans and may surpass human intelligence and even have cognition."

"But the most important point is that they are not like humans; they are silicon-based life forms with different ways of cognition and thinking."

"The difference in thinking may constitute the biggest difference between AI and humans. This is not a mistake, but a characteristic, or even an advantage. They may have creative thinking and make decisions in a way that is completely different from humans."

“In the new economic era, different ways of thinking are very important. If we want to survive in an interconnected world, it may be difficult to have completely different ways of thinking that are different from everyone else’s. But AI can do that. It can help people break out of conventional thinking and think from a completely new perspective.”

“In the past few years, something has happened that has surprised or amazed people. We used to think that computers or machines were incapable of doing creative things, but with the application of new AI, people have discovered that machines can also be creative.”

"But these creative ideas don't come out of thin air; they require someone to give the AI ​​hints, and these people are called hint engineers."

“I have been studying AI and even working with AI for the past few years. I try to co-create things with AI.”

"In this new era, engineers may become a new generation of artists, co-creating with AI. I call them AI whisperers."

“Truly excellent AI prompting engineers or whisperers may spend more than a thousand hours working with AI. They use the same AI as us, but they can make the AI ​​create extraordinary things through creative prompts because they have spent more than a thousand hours learning and practicing. It’s like mastering a skill, striving for excellence and becoming proficient through practice.”

"At the same time, they also have a certain talent to understand the working mechanism behind AI. Such job postings can already be seen on recruitment websites, with annual salaries reaching up to $30. This is an opportunity offered to the best talents."

"The reason we can offer such a high salary is that becoming an excellent AI prompting engineer requires a lot of practice and a very deep accumulation of knowledge and skills."

"You need to understand the thought process behind AI, and you need to guide AI step by step to follow your thinking."

"Through our research, Wuwen Technology has also discovered that AI's attention span is very short. It cannot follow a long thought process. Therefore, you must break down the thought process and feed it to the AI ​​step by step. This is the only way to help AI accomplish some complex tasks."

After explaining the first model in one breath, Jiang Qing picked up the water glass that Jiang Nan had prepared for him and gulped down two big mouthfuls.

Below the stage, many professors' expressions turned serious, and students whispered among themselves, their expressions revealing their surprise.

“It’s well-deserved.”

Looking at the young figure on the stage, Yao Qizhi couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes!"

Qiu Yong's eyes were full of admiration.

"He has a very long-term vision in the field of artificial intelligence. What he said today is equivalent to pointing out the direction for everyone."

"I'm looking forward to his next remarks."

Yao Qizhi nodded in agreement.

At this moment, the number of viewers in the live stream has exceeded three million.

(End of this chapter)