I'm a scientist, why can't I have faith?

Yanjing Flight Control Center.

Commander-in-Chief Fu Zhihan had just returned to his office from the launch site. This launch mission was quite important, and he needed to be present to observe it in person.

In Fu Zhihan's office, a guest had been waiting for a long time.

Fu Zhihan was not surprised to see the person who came. He knew some of the things that had happened, and he could roughly guess the other party's purpose.

However, sometimes it cannot be shown; one must know how to be tactful.

"Old Qian, what brings you here?"

The figure in the Zhongshan suit on the office sofa slowly stood up when he saw Fu Zhihan push open the door and enter.

"Isn't this place to ask you for someone?"

"Take whoever you want without asking me. If you hadn't insisted on not doing this, you would be sitting in this commander-in-chief position right now."

Qian Xiuyuan smiled and shook his head.

"Let's not dwell on the past; the necessary procedures still need to be followed."

After he finished speaking, he took out a transfer document.

Fu Zhihan took it and read it through from beginning to end. The specific transfer was not clearly stated, but it was required that the original position of the transferred personnel be retained.

The document ended with the name of the transferred person: Su Tiangong.

"Xiao Su, I don't remember you being your student?"

Fu Zhihan did not hesitate and signed his name and handed the document back. After all, this was just a formality, and everything had been arranged in advance.

Even if he objected, it wouldn't make a difference, especially since he had no reason to object.

"He should be in Jiuquan right now. Just contact him directly; he's one of yours now anyway."

Qian Xiuyuan nodded. For two old friends who had known each other for many years, everything was understood without words.

A plan is about to unfold around the greatest genius of the Great Xia Dynasty, but at this moment, the geniuses may still be asleep.

Wang Dong had never realized that a lunch break was so useful; a short nap left him full of energy for the entire afternoon.

However, even in his current excellent condition, it is still somewhat difficult for him to gain a deep understanding of artificial intelligence.

Looking at the book "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" in front of him, Wang Dong felt a headache coming on.

Bayesian machine learning, which is more theoretical and mathematical, is still too difficult for an undergraduate student who has just started university.

Who knows when we'll be able to finish digesting all of this?

Wang Dong closed the brick-like book and began to think again.

Perhaps there's a problem with the approach I've chosen. Even when communicating with academicians, I don't need to fully understand all the knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence.

It's just about exchanging ideas. You only need to understand the basic concepts and add a little of your own understanding to write a reasonably decent email.

It's perfectly adequate for communication.

But do I really understand it?

Even with the numerical bonus from the [Believer System], Wang Dong only felt that he could understand and memorize the concepts in the books.

It's still somewhat difficult to express one's own opinions and views on them.

He can only repeat it in his own words; it would be difficult to go any further, at least in the short term.

It seems we need to find another way.

Although Wang Dong was reluctant to do this, the best solution now was to put forward faith in a new "god".

Although, based on current reasoning, believing in a new "god" is definitely a double-edged sword.

Not only will it bring the pressure of forced prayer, but it will also issue all sorts of difficult tasks like Sir Isaac Newton, though the rewards are indeed very helpful.

Moreover, it seems that only when one reaches a certain level of faith will "God" influence reality in return.

Overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Wang Dong now only needs to consider which new "god" to believe in.

After a rigorous selection process, he chose Alan Mathison Turing over John von Neumann.

After all, this is a discussion about artificial intelligence, and Alan Turing was clearly more adept at it than John von Neumann.

If you want to have faith in a God, the first thing you need to do is to understand Him.

[Alan Mathison Turing], what is your world like?

King's College, Cambridge, would never have known that a future world-changing genius would be studying mathematics there.

At this time, the mathematics community was experiencing a crisis.

Hilbert's program, a grand program to prove the completeness, consistency, and decidability of mathematics, was torn open by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, leaving an unhealable wound.

Gödel proved that in any sufficiently complex mathematical system, there always exists a proposition that can neither be proven nor falsified.

The young genius was not concerned with the crisis; he was only curious about the last remaining question in Hilbert’s program: the judgment problem, and whether there was a solution.

In other words, is there a general, mechanized procedure that can determine whether any mathematical proposition is provable?

In an era when most people were directly studying mathematical logic itself, Alan Turing chose a completely different path.

Instead of arguing about what is provable, let's first define what is computable.

An extremely simple machine was born in Alan Turing's mind.

An infinitely long strip of paper is divided into squares.

A read/write head can move left and right on the paper tape to read and rewrite the symbols on the grid.

A status register that records the current state of the machine.

A set of rules determines the next action based on the current state and the symbols read.

These four extremely simple components form the model known as the "Turing machine".

By exploiting the undecidability of the halting problem, the young genius refuted the last decision problem in Hilbert's program.

There are problems in mathematics that are inherently unsolvable.

The grand plan collapsed, and the young genius established his own reputation.

Alan Mathison Turing endorsed your beliefs.

[Having become a follower of the heroes of Bletchley Park]

[Gained Passive: Turing Test]

[Turing Test: Significantly Improved Understanding of Computers and Artificial Intelligence]

In an instant, the knowledge that Wang Dong had absorbed from textbooks over the past few days began to unfold and change in his mind.

Those understandings that were merely superficial can now be explored in greater depth.

Wang Dong suddenly realized that he could talk fluently about artificial intelligence.

While I may not have the most advanced understanding of the times, I should be more than capable of having a long conversation with an academician.

He put the heavy books back on the shelf and rushed straight back to his dormitory from the library.

I took out my laptop, slowly turned it on, and opened Word.

After staring at the blank page for only a few seconds, his hands became dancing sprites, frantically traversing the keyboard.

A reflection on statistical and causal reasoning related to artificial intelligence suddenly appeared on the paper.