I built an armada.

Su Dingping slurped the bone clean and then let out a burp, just as unceremoniously.

The two of them paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then burst out laughing at the same time.

"Let's go, let's go back early."

Su Dingping rubbed his stomach and stood up.

"You've worked so hard today. Don't rush to collect data later, and remember to rest."

"Yes." Guo Xueyun nodded. "You too."

The two walked together toward the dormitory building.

The R&D center compound was very quiet late at night, with only the streetlights casting slightly swaying halos in the autumn wind.

"Guo... Xiaoyun."

Su Dingping called out to her at the fork in the road.

Guo Xueyun turned around.

You did a great job today.

Su Dingping gave Guo Xueyun a thumbs-up, though he seemed a little awkward at it.

"Thanks to your excellent teaching," Guo Xueyun replied playfully.

"Go back and get some sleep." Su Dingping said, then turned and left.

Guo Xueyun stood there, watching his tall but weary back, when suddenly she jumped up and shouted:

"Dingping, can I take this as you being concerned about me?"

Su Dingping's stride forward suddenly stopped, and he stumbled, almost falling to the ground.

Why aren't you answering me?

Guo Xueyun said somewhat mischievously.

Su Dingping turned his head helplessly: "Yes, I'm just concerned about you, okay?"

Under the cover of night, Guo Xueyun couldn't see Su Dingping's expression clearly, but she guessed that Su Dingping's face was probably flushed.

Guo Xueyun did not pursue him relentlessly, but instead waved gently.

"Thank you!"

Only after Su Dingping's figure disappeared did she turn around and walk towards her dormitory building.

Perhaps because she was in a very happy mood, Guo Xueyun hummed a little tune all the way.

The night wind is blowing~

"It's making me so eager to try it!"

My love, where are you?

……

Meanwhile, a revolution in AI technology is quietly taking place.

Initially, people didn't pay much attention to it.

It's simply a matter of which company has launched its own mobile voice assistant and what kind of human-computer interaction functions it has implemented.

The hype was deafening, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the same old thing, with absolutely no improvement whatsoever.

"Domestic manufacturers are all talk and no action."

"When it comes to artificial voice assistants, you still have to look to my Mango phone."

"What AI assistant? It's nothing but artificial stupidity!"

Such rhetoric has been rampant since the concept of AI began to be promoted in the country.

In fact, more than a decade ago, a year after the White Bear Tribe disintegrated, a company from Come on. Eagle Tribe launched the first truly intelligent artificial intelligence assistant.

That's right, it's the computer manufacturer that makes operating systems, as everyone knows.

However, due to technological limitations, this smart assistant named Bob was quickly phased out.

In an era when computer memory was measured in megabytes, such an AI assistant was extremely demanding on performance.

Most importantly, its recognition performance was extremely poor, so it was quickly phased out.

However, it has also appeared in some software later on, which can be considered a kind of waste utilization.

Then, in the two years when Su Dingping was just beginning to make a name for himself, the Eagle Tribe bought a national-level project.

The aim was to explore more directions of artificial intelligence, which in turn gave rise to a company called Siri.

That's right, this company was later acquired by Mango Mobile at lightning speed and became the built-in voice assistant of Mango Mobile.

Back to the present, voice assistants aren't entirely useless; it's just that their usefulness is practically negligible.

Aside from helping him set an alarm or make a phone call, most of the time the voice assistant simply can't understand what you mean.

Often, he will even directly copy your question into a search engine and search for it on the web.

Rather than calling it artificial intelligence, the term "artificial stupidity" is more appropriate to describe the current state of artificial intelligence.

Upon learning that the government was going to vigorously support the artificial intelligence industry, domestic manufacturers have successively launched their own AI assistants.

Compared to foreign AI voice assistants, the small software programs launched by domestic manufacturers are relatively better in terms of localization.

However, its level of improvement is quite limited, and it has not reached the point where it can truly be called artificial intelligence.

At that very moment, a piece of software emerged that swept the world.

Xiao Zhi's popularity initially stemmed from a post on a university's intranet.

I sleep at 2 AM and wake up at 3 AM, and my supervisor praises my good health. I haven't even looked at the paper my supervisor asked me to submit. I accidentally came across an artificial intelligence thing. Can you guys help me see if this thing is reliable?

The screenshot in the post contains a piece of old Fortran code about fluid turbulence simulation.

The so-called AI, Xiao Zhi, quickly responded: "...The array dimension declaration does not match the subsequent call...We are considering introducing..."

This post was unremarkable and seemed destined to be lost in the vastness of the internet.

But a PhD's answer elevated the post to a level that was not his own.

"His answer seemed fine, probably found online, but what I'm concerned about is how this piece of junk could even understand what you were asking?"

The doctoral student quickly wrote a post to express his amazement.

"To avoid anyone saying I'm just filling in the gaps, I'll put my academic credentials below first."

"As you can see from my academic credentials, I specialize in artificial intelligence research."

"It's no exaggeration to say that all artificial intelligence products on the market are artificially stupid, including the one I made myself."

"The most critical challenge lies in semantic recognition; many artificial intelligence systems simply cannot understand what you are trying to express."

"There are many ambiguous sentences and even polysemous words in the language used in nature. In Longxia alone, there are various different ways of expression, such as classical Chinese and poetry."

"For a phonetic script, a word may represent many meanings at the same time. Just getting artificial intelligence to accurately understand what you want to express is already extremely difficult."

"Not to mention getting him to give you a precise answer to your question." "The development of artificial intelligence requires slow training with big data. It's a simple principle: the more frequently a word is used, the higher its frequency of appearance online, and the faster artificial intelligence can understand and recognize it."

"But for specialized questions like this, artificial intelligence may not be able to understand what you mean at all, and even if it does understand what you mean, it may not be able to give an accurate answer."

"But this thing is different. Let me try it out and see where its limits are. This software is called Xiaozhi, right?"

The post was like a boulder dropped into a still lake; the ripples quickly spread throughout the entire school and then along the internet to other universities across the country.

Even frontline researchers and science forums.

People began testing Ash's limits in various ways.

From analyzing the rhetorical devices used in the article to the possibility of controlled nuclear fusion devices...

Soon, people realized the correct way to use Xiaozhi.

For example, an author who has stopped updating might ask Xiao Zhi to help them continue writing a part of the story.

For example, some elementary school students who don't want to do their homework can ask Xiaozhi to provide the answers to their questions.

To be fair, Xiaozhi is not omniscient. His answers are often inaccurate, and most of the time he simply summarizes information from the internet.

Often, his reasoning also contains slight deviations.

However, its ability to structurally break down complex problems has amazed everyone who has used it.

Xiao Zhi seems to genuinely understand the questions users pose, rather than simply searching mechanically.

In just one day, Xiao Zhi became a mainstream figure on various social media platforms.

Meanwhile, official media outlets remained unusually silent.

Only the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University issued a brief statement confirming that Xiaozhi is a preliminary result of the institute's project to explore a general cognitive architecture.

Moreover, this software is currently in a limited technical verification phase.

In addition, the research institute also reminded the public to pay attention to personal information security.

Since the results are still in the technical verification stage, this project is not currently considering charging fees or making a profit.

This answer undoubtedly fueled the enthusiasm of the people across the country.

Various jokes about artificial intelligence have begun to go viral online.

This software, called Xiaozhi, has become one of the must-have apps on young people's phones.

University students, in particular, are all involved!
There's no way around it, this software is just too good to use.

No more agonizing online searches for answers to assignments given by professors and tutors; simply import the question into Xiaozhi, and Xiaozhi will quickly provide a perfect answer.

Even many programmers and media professionals have started using Xiaozhi, asking it to create a PowerPoint presentation or a new advertising plan...

Regardless of the quality, just tell me whether it was made or not?
But Xiaozhi is ultimately just an artificial intelligence, not a mentor or expert with professional knowledge.

If he does some simple homework problems, it's fine, but once it involves professional topics, he makes a lot of mistakes.

Moreover, it was a rather basic and obvious mistake.

To be honest, the quality of the things Xiao Zhi makes varies greatly, and most of the time the quality is particularly poor.

As a result, the discussion about whether the use of Xiao Zhi among young people should be restricted quickly became a trending topic in the media.

Before long, various universities successively issued notices prohibiting students from using Xiaozhi to complete assignments and papers!
The impact extends beyond students to include professionals from all walks of life.

But these are all minor details.

Because Jimmy Lin's popularity far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Many scholars abroad who study artificial intelligence have also begun to pay attention to this software from the Far East.

Since it is a product of Longxia, Xiaozhi has the highest compatibility with Chinese.

If you switch to another language, its versatility will decrease slightly.

Even so, the intelligence that Xiaozhi displayed surprised all the researchers!
"...It made me realize that Xiaozhi wasn't just reciting literature, but actively thinking!"

"This is true artificial intelligence!"

"What exactly is its underlying architecture? And where does the database used for training come from?"

"How did he manage to make AI understand what people are saying?"

The emergence of Xiaozhi was like a bomb, completely shattering the understanding of the world's top AI research community!

Many researchers even felt a sense of shame.

They are the real experts in the field of artificial intelligence, and they were among the first to begin researching artificial intelligence.

But this leapfrog progress and development actually occurred in the far East, in that ignorant and backward country!
This made many researchers feel humiliated.

……

What exactly is its architecture?

Hassa's company was once considered the world's most likely to be the first to develop true artificial intelligence.

But after Ash appeared, this possibility vanished instantly.

The halo above Hassa's head was instantly shattered.

All the praise he received before now seems like mockery.

In fact, long before Xiao Zhi became popular, Hassa had already noticed the software and held a meeting overnight to analyze it.

Unfortunately, three days passed and they had not obtained any useful results.

"Based on fragmented information," a researcher adjusted his glasses, his hands trembling slightly, and pulled up several images, "it might be a layered, hybrid architecture?"

"The bottom layer is probably... but the middle layer may contain some... We speculate that the top layer should be a metacognition..."

"Probably? Possibly? Speculation?"

"What I need is an accurate result, not some kind of guess!"

"You used to always talk about how artificial intelligence could understand humans, and that there was still a long way to go, but reality has shown us that it won't take that long at all!"

"I'm only giving you one month!"

"Within a month, we must produce research results comparable to Xiao Zhi's!"

Hassa said calmly, "If I don't see any tangible results within a month, you're all fired!"

"Yes, sir..."

To be honest, their technological progress is actually quite good.

However, these researchers could never have imagined how Long Xia overcame one difficult problem after another and produced a practical and usable result in such a short period of time.

Everyone knows what kind of country Longxia is.

These researchers had already begun their in-depth work in the field of artificial intelligence several years, or even more than a decade, ago.

And Long Xia? At that time, Long Xia was probably still busy farming!
At that time, all the computers in Longxia's entire country combined might not have as many as the computers in their single research institute!

It's impossible to say that Longxia had already begun to venture into the field of artificial intelligence at that time, right?
This is utterly a fantasy! (End of Chapter)