CIATB Chapter 73 The direction they're running in now is completely different from what's drawn
Chapter 73 The direction they're running in now is completely different from what's drawn
"What is it asking?"
"It's asking why people lie."
Zhou Weiguo's expression remained unchanged. However, his body leaned forward slightly.
Lin Yu sat down and placed his hands on the keyboard.
"I'm not lying."
He said, "It asks something deeper than lying. It asks why a person would choose to hide their true self."
He didn't rush to answer the AI's question.
He opened Xia Zijin's behavior analysis model and brought up all the calculation logs before the AI output that line of text.
The data densely filled half the screen.
Xia Zijing pulled up a chair and sat down. The two of them looked at the text line by line.
Fifteen minutes later, Xia Zijing spoke first.
"It's not imitation."
"confirm?"
"confirm."
She pointed to a key point in the log, "Its reasoning chain was spontaneously constructed from known data. No training data directly taught it that people use language to mask emotions. It was deduced by itself from hundreds of dialogue samples."
Lin Yu leaned back in his chair.
An AI learned something from human conversations: sometimes what people say and what they think are different.
Human children can probably only understand this when they are three or four years old.
Tianyan was used in less than two weeks.
"and then?"
Wang Lei arrived at some point, peering at the screen. "It asked why, how did you answer it?"
No answer.
Wang Lei was stunned.
"Aren't you going to tell it?"
"Tell it what? Tell it that people lie because they're afraid? Because they're kind? Because they want to save face? Because they want to gain something?"
Lin Yu shook his head. "Every answer is correct, yet none of them are entirely correct. If I give it any standard answer, it will stop thinking."
"What should we do then?"
"Give it more samples."
Lin Yu's fingers landed on the keyboard. "Let it find the answer itself. If it finds it, it takes a step forward. If it doesn't find it, it thinks again."
He began sifting through the database for new training samples.
It wasn't randomly selected.
He chose only the same type of dialogue: conversations where humans say "I'm fine" in different scenarios.
In the hospital, the patient told his family that he was fine.
Outside the exam hall, the student told his parents that he was fine.
When breaking up, one person tells the other, "I'm okay."
On the war zone,
He paused for a moment and glanced at Zhou Weiguo.
Zhou Weiguo stood at the back, his face expressionless. But his eyes changed.
Lin Yu didn't ask him. But he typed the last keyword.
On the battlefield, the soldier told his comrades that he was fine.
He packaged these samples and pushed them to the AI.
"Eat."
He said softly, "Chew slowly."
Then he stood up and stretched his neck.
Xia Zijin.
"Um."
Do you think it will find the answer on its own?
Xia Zijin thought for three seconds.
"In theory, if there are enough samples, it can generalize various motivational models for humans to hide their emotions. But the problem is..."
"But the problem is, it has no emotions."
"Yes. It can understand why others hide their emotions, but it has no emotions to hide itself. It can analyze the causes of sadness, but it cannot feel sadness."
Lin Yu fell silent.
This is the ultimate challenge of the FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) project. It's not computing power, not data, not algorithms.
It is a fundamental philosophical question: can something without feelings truly understand feelings?
"No need to understand," Zhou Weiguo suddenly said.
Everyone looked at him.
"What you need to do is not to make it understand people."
Zhou Weiguo's voice was calm: "It's about enabling it to make the right judgment even without understanding."
"A good commander doesn't need to understand every soldier's fear. He only needs to know what behaviors fear will lead to, and then take preventative measures."
The control center fell silent.
Lin Yu looked at Zhou Weiguo.
Then he laughed.
"Zhou Chu".
"Um."
"What you just said is worth a billion."
Zhou Weiguo said expressionlessly, "My salary isn't enough for your mockery."
"I wasn't being sarcastic."
Lin Yu turned back to the control panel and sat down again. His eyes lit up.
AI doesn't need to have emotions. It only needs to understand what behaviors emotions lead to.
Then predict the behavior.
This is enough.
He started typing on the keyboard. He typed three times faster than before.
Xia Zijing sat down next to her, opened her laptop, and started modeling simultaneously.
The two people didn't communicate. They didn't need to communicate.
Wang Lei tactfully brewed four cups of tea, one for each person, and then shrunk into a corner to write code.
Zhou Weiguo stood there for a while, then turned and walked back to his workstation.
He picked up his pen and wrote a line in his work log for the day.
[Key development. The project direction may undergo a fundamental shift. Continued monitoring is recommended.]
He paused for a moment, then added a sentence.
Lin Yu's approach is on the right track.
After writing it, he glanced at it and felt that the sentence sounded like he was endorsing someone else. He had worked as an inspector for twenty years and had never written anything like that before.
But he didn't delete it.
Because that's the truth.
11 p.m., the base canteen.
Lin Yu and Xia Zijing sat in the corner eating noodles. Wang Lei was asleep on the table, drool dripping from his mouth.
Xia Zijin put down her chopsticks.
What did Kevin say to you today?
"He wants to cooperate."
"You refused."
"certainly."
"Did he mention the military?"
"He guessed it."
Xia Zijing tapped her fingers lightly twice on the table.
"Does he know about the 'Heavenly Eye'?"
"I'm not sure. He knows I work on AI, but he may not know exactly what it is."
"Where's the whiteboard photo?"
"The photo shows the initial architecture of FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope). But that version is outdated. The direction I'm taking now is completely different from what's drawn on the whiteboard."
Xia Zijin remained silent for a few seconds.
"You did it on purpose."
"What?"
"You left that whiteboard unerased on purpose."
Lin Yu paused for a moment while drinking the noodle soup.
Then he smiled and put the bowl down.
"No. It was indeed an oversight at the time."
He stood up and put the bowl in the recycling bin.
"But since it's already leaking, let's make the leaking valuable."
He walked to the door and glanced back at Xia Zijing.
"To be continued tomorrow."
Xia Zijin nodded.
Lin Yu walked out of the cafeteria.
His phone lit up in the hallway.
An unfamiliar number. International dialing code.
He answered the call.
There was a two-second silence on the other end. Then a voice rang out, in English, with a heavy German accent.
"Mr. Lin. I am Klaus Weber."
The industry giant who verified the data on the spot at the Chicago SC conference.
"Professor Weber."
"I have some news to tell you."
Weber’s voice was deep. “Kevin Sterling’s new materials consortium achieved a thermal conductivity of 5100 in experiments last week.”
Lin Yu didn't say anything.
5100. It's less than three percentage points away from his 5247.