Video connection.

Lin Chong saw the familiar chief engineer's office and the chief engineer whose hair was always neatly combed.

"Hello, teacher." Lin Chong greeted with a smile.

"Have you been at home all the time?" The chief engineer found that Lin Chong was in a home environment. "I thought you were in a laboratory abroad, and you had a group of colleagues working together to create such a wonderful chip architecture."

"Yes, I am at home, I have been in Shanghai." Lin Chong did not hide his situation, "but my situation is difficult to explain, so I cannot meet you."

"Difficult to explain?" The chief engineer thought for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, "I thought you were a good student, but I didn't expect that your decisions would always be beyond my expectations."

"Teacher, you are making fun of me." Lin Chong was a little embarrassed.

That’s right, he was the one who had to retire at a young age, and after retirement he went back to his old job and was still doing chip architecture research.

"Let's not talk about anything else. Regarding this architecture, I want to know your design concept. You know, it is different from MIPS and ARM architectures. This is very interesting. What kind of application did you...or you guys design it based on?"

A CPU architecture has developed from simple to complex over decades.

It does not mean that just designing a circuit diagram will be OK.

Instead, it develops in coordination with the instruction set, hardware, and software.

Just like when you make a pot and use firewood to cook, it should be made of iron, but in the era of using induction cookers, more considerations must be taken into account, and the material and shape must change.

The CPU is the pot.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when people burned firewood, there was not even a mouse, and software could only input characters under DOS.

Two thousand years later, with the explosion of the Internet, countless peripherals, software, games, and protocols were running with the support of the CPU.

So now, in theory, it is impossible to design a completely new CPU architecture from scratch, because without any hardware, software, or protocol support, such an architecture is equivalent to waste.

But Lin Chong did it anyway.

At the same time, the chief engineer discovered that it had miraculous uses.

"Actually, it wasn't designed by us." Lin Chong was thinking about how to explain to the chief engineer.

He was not afraid to talk about time travel. After all, he had no conflict with the real world and they could not interfere with each other. But explaining it would divert the focus, so he had to let the chief engineer accept it slowly.

"This is an attempt at bionics. I...we used a circuit diagram to describe the control core of a living organism. When we described it, it was alive." Lin Chong used the most tactful language to describe how he obtained the blueprint of the 'Demon Pill'.

"It's actually... like this!" The chief engineer was shocked. He lowered his head to chew on the information carefully, but still found it unbelievable.

"Lin Chong, this is hard to believe. I am not familiar with the cutting-edge level of biotechnology, but as far as I know, depicting the brain is not something that can be achieved in this era."

"No, it's not the brain." Lin Chong shook his head. "This is another core. It may be located in the brain, replacing the brain, but it may also be located in the internal organs. It should be considered an energy core..."

The more Lin Chong spoke, the more he wondered if he was talking about future technology.

Doesn’t this sound like it means reverse disassembling the intelligent robots of the future?

The chief engineer became increasingly confused.

"Teacher, let's not discuss this for now." Lin Chong smiled bitterly, "This is a brand new architecture. Do you think it can make a difference in the field of AI? We have no judgment on it. The idea of ​​sending you the blueprint is to copy it, just like the 'Demon Wind' blueprint, to copy it."

"Also, I want to report a good news to you. The 'Demon Wind' has been successfully manufactured, but I cannot show you the finished product for the time being."

The chief engineer was stunned for a moment. "So fast? Although the first drawing is simple, I still don't understand its application scenario... Well, I can't see it, but I'm curious."

"For the second drawing, I performed simulation calculations and compared the input and output results 10,000 times. Guess what?" The chief engineer showed a childlike interest when talking about the technology. "The results were all different!"

"Then I performed another 100,000 calculations, and the results began to converge toward the correct unity!"

interesting.

Lin Chong's eyes lit up as he understood what this meant.

A computer is like a calculator. When you press one plus one, the result is always two. But if one plus one is sometimes three and sometimes ten, there must be an error in the program. If it is wrong at the beginning, it may gradually become correct.

That leaves an incredible possibility: it is learning.

"I performed another million calculations, and found that there would be an error occasionally, but the probability is extremely small, close to zero." The chief engineer said excitedly, "Lin Chong, do you know what this means?"

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"What?" Lin Chong couldn't help but ask.

"That means it could potentially pass the Turing test!" the chief engineer exclaimed.

Ah...Lin Chong couldn't help but be shocked by the chief engineer's ambition.

The Turing test means that if a person chats with a machine through a keyboard, and more than 30% of the machine's answers make the human feel like they are chatting with a real person, then it is considered a pass.

The key to this test is 'Can machines think?'

You're just starting to conduct calculations and simulations on computers and you're already trying to develop true artificial intelligence?

"I have done some research on artificial intelligence before." The chief engineer looked thoughtful.

“Even if the power of computers becomes infinitely powerful, it is just a collection of digital symbols. True artificial intelligence will never appear in the field of pure mathematics. It must be a combination of mathematics and biology.”

"Your experiment has confirmed my idea. Next, I will manufacture the 'Demon Wind' blueprint in the laboratory. This will be a very long process and will require a lot of energy and funds. Lin Chong..."

"Don't worry." Lin Chong knew what the chief engineer was worried about. "You can use this drawing to register a patent. We will have no problem."

From blueprints to laboratory products, and then to commercial use, countless manpower, material resources and financial resources are required during this period. Just creating the input and output interfaces for this chip is a problem that Lin Chong cannot imagine.

The chief engineer's company cannot accomplish all of this, and the chief engineer will probably have to use his resources in the national laboratory.

"I hope it will be a shared patent between us and you, Lin Chong, if you can come back and join this project..." the chief engineer said expectantly.

It's not that I won't go back, it's that I can't go back... Lin Chong smiled bitterly, "Teacher, I can't go back. I'll explain the reason to you later. How long do you think it will take to complete the simulation experiment?"

"About three months."

"Okay, I look forward to your results."