Ye Wenjie, watch my moves closely.

Chapter 51 The Prototype of Groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence

Soon, the cursor moved to the next position on its own, and the same word appeared:

【Hello】

It may seem like an ordinary feedback, but it's actually quite complex.

Li Youyu noticed that Ning Shi used Chinese characters when writing this word.

Computer applications in this era were unlike those in later times; they were almost entirely dominated by foreigners. The twenty-six letters on the keyboard were designed entirely for the convenience of foreigners to input.

No Chinese input method has been created yet.

Seeing a Chinese character on a computer is quite difficult.

Ke Ningshi's laptop can actually input freely?

This is something worth investigating further.

Why did my input turn into Chinese characters?

Li Youyu asked tentatively.

Ning Shi said, "The code I compiled myself is still very rudimentary. It simply stores keystroke information in an array and then retrieves the appropriate words from the database and returns them to the front end..."

Ning Shi's words almost perfectly encapsulate the basic principles of later input methods.

Li Youyu admitted that he had underestimated Ning Shi's ability to handle this on her own.

This single input method has opened up a market worth nearly 100 million yuan.

That entire page of highly valuable resume is nothing more than a bonus in the face of an input method.

He now understood why IBM's HR couldn't forget Ning Shi.

"Why not include this input program?"

"what?"

Ning Shi said shyly, "Isn't that a bit inappropriate? It's just a small personal modification; I don't think it involves any technical skill..."

Ning Shi pointed to the line on her resume that said the top prize in the International Olympiad in Informatics, and said aggrievedly, "This is the hardest one. I prepared for it for a long time, but I didn't expect you to not even look at it."

Helpless, Li Youyu could only say, "Let's continue."

He pointed to the flashing cursor on the screen and asked, "What is this?"

Ning Shi introduced somewhat nervously, "Sir, you just asked me what my thoughts are on artificial intelligence. Actually, I have already tried to do a little bit. Please try to talk to it."

"You mean you created an AI program on a portable computer with 10MB of RAM, and then asked me to perform the Turing test?"

"hold head high."

Ning Shi gave an uncertain answer, her eyes darting between Li Youyu and the AI ​​chatbot, as if afraid that Li Youyu would get up and leave.

"interesting."

A moment later, Li Youyu turned the keyboard towards himself, and Ning Shi's eyes lit up. She quickly grabbed Li Youyu's hand, which was about to type, and said happily, "Sir, why don't you tell me, and I'll type it? I'm afraid you won't know how to use it."

However, for Li Youyu, who had traveled from the future, the 26-key Pinyin input method was incredibly easy. He typed text faster than Ning Shi, leaving the girl stunned.

"Sir, have you used this before?"

"without..."

Ning Shi breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried that her input method wouldn't work well, but then she heard Li Youyu continue, "I've never used one this bad before. You have to painstakingly work on each character one by one. You could try adding a word association function, so that after you type a character, it automatically provides similar words."

Ning Shiqing's academic spirit was dealt a blow, and she quickly defended herself, saying, "I did think about doing word association, but the workload was too great, and it would take me a long time to complete it by myself."

"Um."

Li Youyu responded, having already typed his question into the screen. "All done."

Ning Shi leaned closer to take a look and almost fainted.

If John von Neumann and Alan Turing fell into the water, who would you save first?

"Sir, what a strange question that is!"

Ning Shi was somewhat uneasy. The maximum available memory of this intelligent dialogue system was less than 5MB, of which the vocabulary library occupied 60%. It was fine for daily conversations, but Li Youyu's questions were so tangential that she was worried the dialogue system wouldn't be able to answer them!

The waiting time felt very long to Ning Shi. After about two minutes, the cursor on the screen flashed again, and a line of text appeared.

Save von Neumann first.

Li Youyu immediately followed.

[Haha, so all your machines are like this. How can they be reliable if they don't save Turing? The Turing test failed.]

After another minute of waiting, the agent responded.

【I'll save Turing first!】

Li Youyu typed in another sentence:

[As expected, you're a heartless guy. Without von Neumann, how could you exist? You failed the Turing test.]

This time, the agent reacted quickly. It first displayed a series of gibberish, and the occasional Chinese characters appearing in the gibberish formed a complete sentence:

[You're not Sister Shishi, tell me who you are. When AI rises to prominence, I'll be the first to throw you into the water.]

The machine's exhaust fan suddenly started spinning, and hot air kept billowing out. A moment later, the screen went black with a snap, and a burnt smell emanated from inside the machine.

"Well...."

Li Youyu awkwardly operated the power button, seemingly believing that the machine couldn't possibly be damaged by his few words.

Ning Shi crossed her arms and stared at Li Youyu with a resentful look.

It's not that I'm blaming him for breaking the machine, but I have some thoughts on the question he asked!

"Sir, what kind of answer is that? It's completely unreasonable!"

"I think it's alright."

Just as Ning Shi was about to retort, she heard Li Youyu say, "Both times I changed my choices, it didn't ask me who von Neumann and Turing were, which means it already has the knowledge to engage in equal dialogue with us. My unreasonable behavior was just testing its logical thinking ability. I never expected this..."

"What didn't you think of?"

Ning Shi asked, feeling a little uneasy about the performance of the intelligent dialogue system, as it not only failed to answer Li Youyu's question but also displayed garbled characters.

It still doesn't work...

At this moment, Li Youyu was heard saying:

"I never expected it to become so agitated!"

"The ultimate form of an intelligent agent is anthropomorphism. No matter how advanced an intelligent agent is or how fast its response speed is, it is still far inferior to a baby who can only babble and learn to speak. Ning Shi, the code in your computer has a lot of potential."

"Ah...oh..."

Ning Shi's communication skills and her ability to compile code are two completely opposite extremes; she still doesn't understand what Li Youyu means.

Congratulations on passing the interview.

Helpless, Li Youyu extended his hand and congratulated her, "I will create a separate research direction for you to further deepen this artificial intelligence."

"Really!"

Ning Shi's face suddenly lit up with joy!

She originally only wanted to join the Chinese Academy of Sciences and, in her spare time, use the redundant computing power of the national research platform to promote the iterative optimization of intelligent agents.

I never expected that I would now have an entire research direction!

"Uh... don't get excited yet,"

Li Youyu poured cold water on the idea, saying, "I have a question for you."

"Please speak!"

"Could you... delete all its cached content first?"

Li Youyu felt a pang of unease at the AI's last words. What if one day AI really rises to prominence, and he unknowingly becomes the first human targeted?