DCBS

37

DCBS: Chapter 37

Xiao Jianping could feel the infinite profound meaning from the high school student’s question. He couldn’t take care of the work at hand and he immediately concentrated on thinking.

Xiao Mei’s existence was a fact. He had overheard part of it and the group of children on the basketball team that day spoke so seriously that it didn’t seem like they were lying. Xiao Jianping could see that Xiao Mei’s owner actually wanted to stop them.

This high school student called Pei Qingyuan kept a very peculiar silence about Xiao Mei’s existence. He didn’t mention the origin of the watch and blindly pushed it toward a ‘friend’ who didn’t have a name.

In addition, Xiao Jianping had contacts with various artificial intelligence laboratories that were famous across the country. So far, no one was found to have trained an artificial intelligence similar to Xiao Mei.

Under the combined effect of these conditions, there was only one answer that could be deduced.

Geniuses tended to have quirks and epoch-making geniuses were doubly weirder.

When Xiao Jianping himself would make some novel gadgets as a student, he would deliberately pretend that he hadn’t done it himself until he was exposed.

Therefore, he understood Pei Qingyuan’s mood at the moment.

“What exactly is artificial intelligence?” Xiao Jianping said in a serious tone. “This is indeed a very profound question. I have studied it for 30 years and I am often troubled by this problem.”

Sun Peiwei, a colleague who was working overtime with him, heard his inexplicable cautious voice and looked back curiously.

“…That isn’t what I mean.” Pei Qingyuan felt that the situation was gradually out of control. He took a deep breath and tried to justify it. “I don’t know in the literal sense.”

“Yes, I don’t know either.” Xiao Jianping was very serious. “Every time I make a breakthrough in my research, I think I have a new understanding of it. AS a result, I often encounter a threshold that can’t be crossed and my cognition is constantly overturned. My previous efforts seemed to be in vain. So until now, I still feel like I don’t know anything about it.”

“This is especially the case when designing some products that intersect with the medical field. My original intention is to help people whose actions and vision are limited, such as my wife. However, all types of inherent defects and narrow scope of use are inevitable. My wife was looking forward to this. She has always regarded me as some great hero. Then after listening to the endless explanations, even her eyes will dim a little. It turns out that an omnipotent artificial intelligence is just like this. She will think like that and I can’t help torturing myself. Is that all?”

Pei Qingyuan was silent. His phone was on speaker m mode and the listening little robot and Hua Hua were also silent together.

He suddenly realized that making this call was a bad decision.

“Can you tell me what your deepest feelings are about artificial intelligence right now?” Xiao Jianping tried to dismantle the defense line erected in the genius’ heart step by step.

Pei Qingyuan’s expression went blank and he subconsciously said, “…The logic of rules that aren’t free and the heart that wants to be free.”

This was the deepest feeling he felt after seeing Ji Tong’s heart.

“Yes, this is the core essence!” Xiao Jianping deeply agreed. His voice gradually became high-pitched. “Moore’s Law is gradually failing and neuromorphic computing has started to prevail. However, we haven’t been able to explore our own brains completely. Can an imitation of human brain neuron synapses really be called artificial intelligence?”