The end of technology.

At the new product launch conference of Youwei Group's M10, it became a hot search with Youwei's smartphone assistant.

For more people, the revelation of this mystery can be regarded as solving the case.I probably understand why Youwei Group directly sponsored a department of the University of Physical Education, not to mention, even the teaching building, dormitory and supercomputing center are all covered.

Sure enough, there is no love and hate for no reason in this world, and there is no enterprise that burns with too much money...

Really, when Fan Zhenhua saw this news on the Internet, he was completely stunned!

He originally thought that Ning Zi was able to persuade Youwei Group to sponsor the construction of the University's Computer Academy because of the turbulence algorithm, but now it seems that he was wrong.

At the same time, the professors and students of the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University who are studying artificial intelligence are also excited.

The news that Ning Zi was able to answer questions for graduate students in the weekly classroom of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Physical Education has spread.

Now it seems that the questions asked by the first batch of graduate students who have the opportunity to go may not be what Ning Zi is best at.

From the M10's smart assistant, it can be seen that Ning Zi is probably best at the direction of artificial intelligence...

Some professors also believe that mathematicians who can solve problems such as NS equations should be very good at solving artificial intelligence problems.Because it is well known that the NS equation describes the turbulent flow problem, and the turbulent flow problem is a complex system problem.

As we all know, it is extremely difficult to study complex systems in physics.The difficulty is that even if the formula is written, most people can't understand it.Similarly, if one can make achievements in the research direction of complex systems, it also means that the mathematical methods used by researchers in the process of solving problems will promote the development of artificial intelligence.

The rationale for this is simple.

Theoretically, once a problem has a complete mathematical solution, it means that it can be simulated by a computer. As we all know, for complex physical systems, if an initial parameter is inconsistent, the conclusions drawn will be very different.

Especially for extremely complex motions like turbulent flow, if the calculation is performed according to the way that the computer requires accurate results at every step, even the most powerful computer in the world may not be able to solve a relatively simple problem after tens of thousands of years. turbulence.

This is the same as the difference between the human brain and the CPU.

The human brain is definitely not as good as a computer in precise calculations, but the human brain can appear to be more intelligent than a computer. The reason is that the human brain does not pursue precision when dealing with problems.In particular, the human brain can always directly eliminate the interference items that have nothing to do with the task through experience and unconsciously, so as to obtain efficiency far better than that of machines.

It's like when a person first enters a public toilet, he will feel very smelly, even unbearable.But as long as you squat in the urinal and take out your mobile phone, after a few minutes, you can hardly feel the smell.

This is the wonder of the human brain, it can automatically and directly eliminate these distracting cues that have nothing to do with what you are doing.In more scientific terms, the response of the nervous system to external stimuli will be intelligently adjusted over time.

But machines are different.If a computer with a sense of smell is in the toilet, then for it, the stench is always there.And will always interfere with its judgment.This is why computers can seem stupid a lot of the time.

Without the ability of fuzzy thinking, it can only complete the orders given by humans according to the established procedures.

Through these simple analyses, many mathematics professors have come to the conclusion that it is not surprising that Ning Zi can design a program similar to the intelligent voice assistant on the M10 mobile phone.Because this young man probably has mastered too many theoretical foundations about artificial intelligence mathematics.

Some people even suspect that the turbulence algorithm designed by Ning Zi is not as simple as it appears on the surface, and it is not just as simple as defending against DDOS attacks. Maybe there are other functions hidden in it, which no one has discovered yet.

The first guess was originally spread within Yanbei University. It was a guess made by a mathematics professor in the classroom. First, undergraduate students from the School of Mathematics of Yanbei University posted it on their own BBS Weiming Lake, and then spread it to On Huaxia Network.

So this Yanbei University's speculation became popular on the Huaxia Internet.

Many netizens who watched Youwei Group's M10 conference directly assigned the honorable title of "Daddy of Artificial Intelligence in the New Era" to Ning Zi.

Hmm, that sounds exciting.At least it's more interesting than the "father" who doesn't move at all.

As for the second guess, it is said that it was initially expressed by a foreign professor on Twitter. Unfortunately, it did not attract much attention abroad.Probably because the promising M10 conference has not yet been held abroad.

Of course, this does not mean that no one abroad has paid attention to this press conference. In fact, there are not only some, but also very high-end ones.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook opened his eyes on time at 4 a.m., and began to get up and wash up.

This has been a habit he has developed for a long time.

Of course, he has no interest in the streets of New York at four o'clock in the morning. After a simple wash, he directly picked up his IPHOE and started his day's work.

Yes, a good day starts with work.Today, Tim Cook's first job is to understand the press conference of Youwei Group.This is a work plan well in advance.

Youwei Group's M10 press conference started at 1:30 pm China Beijing time, lasted for one and a half hours, and ended at 3:13 pm.In October, the United States is still using daylight saving time, and Silicon Valley time is 10 hours earlier than China time.It is equivalent to the start time of the press conference at [-]:[-] am and [-] minutes in Silicon Valley time, and the end time happens to be the time Tim Cook gets up, at [-] am.

This time is just right for the Apple CEO to quickly review the advantages of the new products of Huaxia's friends.

Naturally, there are reasons for the importance of the Promising Group.

For Tim Cook, Youwei is the second company in the world to design its own chips for smartphones.Coupled with Youwei Group's scientific research strength in telecommunications network equipment, it is enough to gain the attention of the Apple CEO.

There will be sympathy between heroes, because both of them know how difficult it is to be a hero.

It seems that Apple is very aware of how difficult it is to develop its own chips, but if this step is successful, the benefits will be great.

The most easy-to-understand advantage is that in the process of designing mobile phones, designers do not need to consider various hardware configurations and software designs to match other people's chips.On the contrary, you can even make your own chip to match the overall design concept of the mobile phone.

This degree of freedom is what other smartphone manufacturers do not have, and it is also one of the reasons why Apple has been able to occupy the high-end market and even collect Apple taxes at the software level.

Now Tim Cook sees the same ambition in Youwei Group.In addition, the performance of Youwei Group's mate9 series has been greatly improved compared to the mate8 series, and there have long been rumors that the mate10 series will be a mobile phone for Youwei Group to officially enter the high-end market, so he naturally needs to pay attention.

The task was arranged early, and naturally someone had already put English subtitles on the press conference held by Huaxia.He needs to make a cup of coffee after waking up, sit at the dining table, pick up his mobile phone and enter the special APP to start watching.

Sure enough, the new-generation Kirin 970 chip was placed at the very beginning of the press conference, which is probably the biggest highlight of the M10.Tim Cook thought silently in his heart, after carefully reading Ge Dongshu's introduction to the performance of Kirin 970, the most important capability of this chip probably lies in its AI technology...

With a judgment in his heart, Tim Cook began to fast-forward, especially the comparison of some appearance technical parameters with Apple. Tim Cook passed directly at three times the speed, until the rostrum suddenly began to change people. .The English subtitles also showed that the press conference was about to announce a feature of the M10 that was ahead of its time, which made Tim Cook interested again and adjusted to the normal speed.

Then the Apple CEO, like other netizens who followed the press conference today, witnessed a miracle.

If he still remembers taking a sip of coffee from time to time while watching Ge Dongshu introduce the various performances of the Kirin 970, then during the period of watching Liao Zhengqiang introducing the M10 artificial intelligence assistant, he has always maintained his attention. He was so focused that he didn't even touch the coffee cup that was at hand.

He watched the conversation between the smart assistant on the mobile phone and Youwei Group's customer service specially marked in English subtitles, and watched Xiaoyi's alternative interpretation of artificial intelligence, and his expression became more serious from the previous relaxed and freehand.

The situation was wrong, he couldn't even comprehend it.

The accumulation of technology takes time, especially for artificial intelligence assistants.

Without long-term semantic recognition training and large capital investment, he can't imagine why the M10's voice recognition assistant can perform like this.

He is well aware of how much Apple has invested in the Siri system over the years, but even so, Siri is far from reaching Xiaoyi, who was only born a few years ago.

This - extremely unscientific!

Straight to the end of the press conference, Liao Zhengqiang read Ning Zi's name to the camera...

Tim Cook pondered for a while, and found the name in the memory bank.

In fact, when Ning Zi's paper on solving the NS equation problem was published in the "Annual Journal of Mathematics" and the turbulence algorithm he released surprised countless people in the test, Apple had already noticed this young Chinese mathematician.

Back then, I also thought about waving a check to get such talents into the bag in advance.

It's a pity that neither Tida nor Ning Zi himself gave Apple this chance.

Whether it was a phone call to Ning Zi or an email sent to Ning Zi through official channels, all of them fell into the sea, and no reply was received at all.

Not to mention, Apple China also tried to have a direct interview with Ning Zi, but was blocked outside the building.

Until the photo of Ge Dongshu and Ning Zi of the Youwei Group became popular on the Internet, Apple learned through its own channels that even after the interview between Ge Dongshu and Ning Zi, Ning Zi also did not join the Youwei Group. Lost my mind.

Of course, the observation of Ning Zi is still going on.

Tim Cook also paid attention to the process of guiding mines that shocked the world, but he only paid attention.

This experiment did not help Apple's development.

Even Tim Cook felt that Ning Zi was wasting his time.

It is understandable that young people are energetic, but there are still many problems in mathematics that need to be solved. Why do these messy things?

It's just that I never expected it. I thought this young man would stop for a while, but who knew that Apple would suddenly give him such a big surprise less than a month after it released a new product.

Subconsciously glanced at the time, it was already five o'clock in the morning.

Tim Cook thought for a moment, then decisively picked up the phone and dialed out.

The call was to Bill Stacio, the head of Apple's Siri.

The phone was connected after several rings.

It obviously disturbed the other side's lucid dream, but Tim Cook still asked directly: "Bill, I want to know where our Siri technology reserves are."

"Huh? Mr. Cook... you mean now?"

"I want to see the full report before eight o'clock in the morning. But I suggest you don't sleep any more. I hope you can watch the product launch conference that Youwei Group just concluded before submitting the full report. You can just watch the last half of the report." In addition, I will take time to listen to your report today."

"Okay then, I'll go and see later."

"No, don't wait, I hope immediately."

"Yes, Mr. Cook, immediately."

"Well, bye then."

After speaking, Tim Cook hung up the phone directly, then came to the study, opened the mailbox and sent an email directly to the general manager of Apple China.

Ten minutes later, a simple video conference was officially held.

There were only two people in this meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook and the newly appointed Managing Director of Apple Greater China, Ge Linyue.

"Ge, I believe you have paid attention to today's Youwei Group's M10 product launch, right?"

"Of course, Mr. Cook, in fact, I have already asked people to specifically evaluate the possible impact of the launch of the M1O series products on the iPhone 8 series products, and started to prepare corresponding marketing plans."

Tim Cook nodded in satisfaction.

This is also the reason why he pushed the woman opposite the video to the position of the most important market leader against all opinions.With a technical background, he leads the technical team to publicize multiple technical projects, and at the same time has a very keen insight into the market.

For example, in this matter, the reaction speed is already quite fast.

Tim Cook quickly put forward his own ideas: "Well, these are of course the work that must be done recently. But the problem now is, can we contact the developer of the M10 intelligent voice assistant, that is, the one named Ning Is he a mathematical genius? I just checked the information, and he is still studying at Yanbei Sports University, and has not joined Youwei Group. In other words, he is not an employment relationship with Youwei Group. So I am thinking, How much price has been paid for the group to obtain intelligent voice technology, we can pay the same, or even more, what do you think?"

Soon the other side also gave an answer: "Of course, Mr. Cook. In fact, I have already booked a ticket for tomorrow morning. After I have arranged things tonight, I will go to the capital to meet him in person and discuss some technical cooperation."

Tim Cook nodded again and said: "Okay. I wish you all the best. If you can meet him tomorrow, if you encounter problems that are difficult to decide, you can contact me at any time. I mean 24 hours any time within."

The other side nodded, and said: "I understand. In addition, the release of M10 by Youwei Group at this time may have a great impact on the sales of iPhone 8 series products in China. Some of the resources should have been digested by Huaxia, and transferred to these markets before the M10 is officially launched in the European and American markets."

Tim Cook thought for a moment, and said: "I will give full consideration to your proposal and bring it up at today's meeting. So let's come here first today. I will wait for your good news."

"Okay, bye."

"goodbye!"

……

Lu Zhengyue has been in a daze since she followed Ning Zi to the room in the administrative building yesterday.

so to speak.

In the past, although I always said that I was old, in fact, I was not too old in my heart.

Until that day in Ning Zi's room, listening to Ning Zi's detailed explanation of the theories he had studied recently, his head was like a paste, and the more he listened, the more confused he became.

In fact, the content of Ning Zi's current research, although it can also be explained by mathematics, is indeed very different from Lu Zhengyue's research direction.It even made his brain a little bit overwhelmed.

Of course this is a euphemism.

To put it bluntly - I don't quite understand it.

Even in a certain period of time, he could feel that Ning Zi had worked very hard to break apart some complicated mathematical processes, just to let him understand the principles. It looks like when I was with students.

At that time, he was only three or 40 years old, and it was the time when mathematicians were at their most energetic and vigorous.

Really, at that time, he felt that he had clearly explained a certain knowledge point, even a pig should understand it, but when those students were always at a loss, he felt that these students were as pure as Cute as Peppa Pig.

For example, when proving a certain lemma, there are obviously shortcuts to choose from. The link method is much simpler than the jump method, but some students just don’t understand the difference, and must use those cumbersome methods to lead themselves into a dead end.

Even for this reason, he once said a word to many students who want to apply for his postgraduate entrance examination: "Don't force yourself into number theory if you are not talented enough! You don't need so many people who study number theory, only the most talented group of people are needed. Enough is enough."

After leaving Ning Zi's place yesterday, Lu Zhengyue only felt that Ning Zi was the same as he used to be, and he had become the student he couldn't teach at all...

People really have to obey their old age!

Originally, Lu Zhengyue was in a good mood.

Anyway, he didn't come to the University with the intention of teaching Ning Zi too much.

But he couldn't understand what Ning Zi studied, which was a bit too much.

Although when I tossed and turned in bed that night, I still felt that I had found some mathematical context, but it was embarrassing enough to think about it.

It's a pity that Lu Zhengyue didn't know that there was also a mathematician in the prime of his life who, after analyzing the turbulent flow algorithm, found several formulas from it, and was directly scared by these formulas to run away, otherwise his mood would be relieved a lot.

But at this moment, he only felt that he should be old.

It’s just that some people are obsessed with old age, probably thinking of a beautiful retirement life. Although some people are obsessed with old age, their desire to open up a second battlefield is stronger.

Yes, although I, Lu Zhengyue, am 67 this year, it is indeed becoming more and more difficult for me to understand the new mathematical system, and my energy can't keep up.But if your brain is not flexible, it doesn't mean that you can't do things like developing the mathematics department.

So after a peaceful day, when Lu Zhengyue saw the excellent performance of the M10 at the press conference of Youwei Group, he called a meeting of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Physical Education on the same day, and quarreled with Fan Zhenhua on the phone the next day stand up.

"What? Eight thousand per class? Lu Zhengyue, why don't you go grab it?!"

"Heh... this counts as a robbery? I just informed you! The surname Fan, how expensive is it to get Ning Zi's guidance during the [-] class? Let me ask you, there was a press conference for Weiwei Group yesterday afternoon Have you read it? Shall I help you calculate how much it costs to invite Ning Zi to a lecture now?"

"Can that be the same?"