"Liu Lang, I want to ask you a question? I don't know if that's okay?"
Suddenly, a man walked out among the young people in front of him. He was about 25 or 26 years old, wearing a pair of myopia glasses. He looked like he was a college student who had just graduated.
"Wang Haijun, you have arrived to work at Jiangnan Radio Factory!"
Before Liu Lang could speak, a graduate student from the School of Electronics of Huaxia University spoke up. Apparently they knew each other.
"Liu Lang, his name is Wang Haijun. He is an alumnus of our Huaxia University in the 1979 class and a top student of the School of Electronics. He was assigned to work here after graduation!"
The graduate student from Huaxia University quickly explained.
"It turns out to be a senior! Our Huaxia University is really full of students!"
Liu Lang smiled.
"Liu Lang, we are not only alumni, we are actually fellow villagers. I am also from Fucheng!"
Wang Haijun replied with a smile.
"What? Brother Wang is also from Fucheng? Where are you from?"
Liu Lang was surprised. It was not easy to meet a fellow villager in Shanghai. The relationship between the two suddenly became much closer.
"I live over there at Qijing Mine!"
The other party answered.
"Qijing Mine? Then you are the rich people in Fucheng!"
Liu Lang said with a smile.
Fucheng was founded because of coal mines. There are several coal mines in the city, such as one well, two wells, and three wells. Each "well" represents a pit mouth. Each pit mouth can produce nearly a thousand tons of coal a year. At the same time, surrounding each
A group of miners and their families also lived at the entrance of this pit.
The wages of miners working in the mines are higher than those of other units. Among them, the wages of front-line workers are much higher than those of the mayor of Fucheng City. They can be said to be the high-paid class in Fucheng City.
As a family member of a miner, it is not easy for Wang Haijun to be admitted to university, and it is even more rare to be admitted to Huaxia University. Such a talent may become a pillar of the country in more than ten years, but why hasn't Liu Lang heard of it?
"Liu Lang, you are the pride of our hometown! Now there is a statue of you in front of the train station. Our Fucheng is famous because of you!"
Wang Haijun said with a slight smile.
"What? There is a statue of me in front of Fucheng Railway Station? Why didn't I know?"
Liu Lang was startled.
In the previous life, there was indeed a statue in the square of Fucheng Railway Station. Of course it was not of Liu Lang, but of the first athlete in Fucheng to win the World Race Walking Championship. That statue would not be erected there until a few years later.
, but in this life, Liu Lang was actually "standing" in front of the train station.
Liu Lang didn't know about this at all. After all, he now travels home by special car and hasn't taken a train for more than a year.
"You actually stood in front of the train station without my permission. It's too much!"
Liu Lang was furious, but now was not the time to discuss this issue.
"Brother Wang, I just said there was a problem. What problem?"
Wang Haijun is a top student majoring in semiconductors and is Liu Lang's hometown. Liu Lang feels that if he has potential, he must be well cultivated.
"Liu Lang, what you just said about the three industrial revolutions is really great. There is no such description in textbooks. It makes me feel enlightened. I just want to ask, if the third industrial revolution continues to develop, what will happen if the third industrial revolution continues to develop?
Is there a new revolution? If so, what kind of revolution will it be?”
"A new revolution?"
Wang Haijun's question made Liu Lang stunned.
Of course, there is this revolution. More than thirty years later, it will be called the fourth industrial revolution. Its symbol is the intelligent and personalized manufacturing brought about by the rise of big data and artificial intelligence.
It's just that Liu Lang didn't mention this revolution. After all, it was now 1985, and even Americans didn't realize that the third industrial revolution was coming, let alone the fourth.
"Brother Wang, you asked this question very well! I can tell you clearly that the fourth industrial revolution is developed on the basis of the third industrial revolution. The core of this larger revolution is still chips.
Mainly, but the chip at that time was completely different. It had intelligence and its own calculation method. It was what Turing, the father of computers, called artificial intelligence. With the powerful computing power of artificial intelligence, our
Lifestyles have undergone earth-shaking changes, which are beyond the imagination of modern people!"
Of course Liu Lang couldn't go into too much detail, he could only summarize it in one sentence.
"Intelligence, you said that the core of the fourth industrial revolution is intelligence?"
Different from the "confused" state of others, Wang Haijun was extremely excited when he heard the word intelligence.
"Yes, this is artificial intelligence. Turing proposed it more than thirty years ago. In thirty years, this technology will appear, and its arrival will completely change our human society!"
Liu Lang nodded.
"By the way, Navy, we wrote our graduation speech when we graduated two years ago. I still remember your graduation speech. Doesn't it mean that one day in the future, artificial intelligence will definitely appear, and humans will eventually be conquered by artificial intelligence.
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The graduate student who followed Liu Lang remembered what happened two years ago.
"Talent, absolute talent!"
Liu Lang finally found a "treasure". There were probably not many students in the United States who could pay attention to artificial intelligence in the early 1980s. Such a person can definitely shine as long as he is given a chance. This person,
I'm afraid I was an expert in the field of intelligence in my previous life, but I didn't know it. But in this life... I must cultivate him well.
"Haha, that's just what I thought at the moment!"
Wang Haijun smiled and shook his head.
"Brother Wang, as long as computer chips continue to improve their functions, once they break through a threshold, the emergence of artificial intelligence is inevitable. This is undisputed. However, the artificial intelligence Turing said must have self-awareness, which is very complicated.
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What is self-awareness? How does it arise?
Based on my imagination, I can’t imagine when such artificial intelligence will appear. It may be a hundred years from now, or it may not appear at all. Everything is possible!”
Liu Lang did not deny Wang Haijun's statement.
"Yes! Or maybe the fifth industrial revolution is the emergence of artificial intelligence with self-awareness!"
Wang Haijun answered with a smile.
"Yes, in fact, when the third industrial revolution comes, it will not only change the industry, it will change the entire human society, and everything will be different from the tradition.
When the fourth industrial revolution arrives, it will be further ahead than the third industrial revolution. The gap between the two is even wider than the previous three industrial revolutions. Even scientists at the forefront of science and technology cannot imagine it.
How the fourth industrial revolution will change our lives is the power of technological development, which is beyond everyone’s imagination!”
Except for a few people from Wanhe's team, no one could understand the conversation between Liu Lang and Wang Haijun. What artificial intelligence? What self-awareness? Many people have never heard of these words. The only thing they are sure of is that Liu Lang is not
There were "blind words" there, even if they didn't understand, there were still some people who could understand a little bit. This proved that what Liu Lang said was well-founded, but he and Liu Lang were too far apart to understand.