mesbooks Chapter 1015: A Powerful Background
Chapter 1015: A Powerful Background
He received the warmest welcome from the school and the college. The students of Jinda Institute of Intelligence had been eagerly anticipating his arrival, wanting to hear the truth from this world leader in artificial intelligence. As the saying goes, one can learn from others' experiences, and perhaps what this expert said will bring everyone a lot of inspiration.
The lecture hall was packed with students and professors from Jinan University, as well as students and professors from Shanghai University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
The corridors were packed with students who didn't have seats. Some simply sat on the floor with their backpacks, while others stood against the wall, all hoping to see Mickey Wu.
Several graduate students from other universities sitting behind Tang Ruixuan were whispering among themselves: "Wow, I didn't expect him to actually come to Jinan University."
"As far as I know, this is the first time he's accepted an invitation from Huaxia University. Many other universities in China have extended invitations before, but he's never responded. Jinan University certainly has a lot of influence!"
Lin Weiwei, who was sitting next to Tang Ruixuan, overheard their conversation and asked curiously, "Xuanxuan, is this Mickey Wu really that amazing?"
Tang Ruixuan nodded: "In the field of artificial intelligence research, Mickey Wu can be called a pioneer."
Tang Ruixuan's evaluation was not based on the opinions of others. She had a face-to-face conversation with Mickey Wu, which further solidified her belief that choosing artificial intelligence as her major was the right decision.
Just as the two were whispering to each other, their college dean walked onto the podium.
"Dear teachers and students, we are very honored to have Dr. Mickey Wu, a distinguished scientist in the field of artificial intelligence research, with us today. Please welcome him with applause."
The hall erupted in enthusiastic applause.
Amid applause, Mickey Wu, wearing a dark gray jacket, walked onto the stage.
He spoke in a Southeast Asian accent: "Thank you, Jin Da, for giving me this opportunity to stand here and discuss artificial intelligence with everyone."
This researcher, who has made outstanding achievements in artificial intelligence research, did not engage in much small talk or preamble, and went straight to the topic of his visit after his opening remarks.
"Today I'm going to talk about the crossroads of artificial intelligence: the future of symbolism and connectionism."
He paused when the image on his PowerPoint presentation showed "Breakthroughs of Deep Learning in Image Recognition".
"I know that many people still adhere to connectionism and believe that neural networks are the key to unlocking artificial intelligence, but I don't think so."
He tried his best to explain his views and research progress to everyone present in simple and easy-to-understand language.
After he finished speaking, the next step, according to procedure, was the Q&A session.
I didn't expect the first question to be so pointed.
"Dr. Wu, I am a graduate student majoring in computer science at Shanghai University. What you just mentioned about symbolism has profound value, but in reality, statistical methods are very practical in the known applications of artificial intelligence. Does this mean that symbolism is just superfluous?"
He paused slightly, then gestured with his hands: "In the short term, being able to describe the outline of a mountain seems like a significant improvement, but in the long term, if we don't know how mountains are formed, we can't truly understand why a mountain is here and not elsewhere, nor can we predict what changes it will undergo millions of years from now. So I want to ask, what is the ultimate goal of the artificial intelligence we hope to create? Is it to create tools or to be able to understand intelligence itself?"
The Q&A session continued, with questions covering ethical, technological, and future prediction aspects. When a student asked whether artificial intelligence would be able to understand concepts like pain or love in the future, Mickey Wu laughed.
"A girl recently asked me a similar question. I told her, if you dream that you are flying, but you are not actually flying, does your brain know the feeling of flying at that time?" Wu also looked at Tang Ruixuan sitting in the third row below the stage.
In the entire lecture hall, he only recognized Tang Ruixuan. A few months ago, this girl had gone to Singapore with her uncle, who was also his investor and behind-the-scenes financier, Huang Xiaochuan.
At the time, the girl was very interested in artificial intelligence, like a rough gem. Mickey Wu discussed many issues with her, answered her questions, recommended some relevant books, and provided guidance on her learning direction.
Just before the lecture was about to end, Tong Hua struggled to walk to the front of the stage.
"Dr. Wu, my name is Tong Hua. I have some preliminary computational models of symbolic systems and neural networks that you just mentioned. I wonder if I could take a little of your time to give you some feedback."
As Tong Hua spoke, he took out his notebook, which contained hand-drawn algorithm structure diagrams, but a teacher from the department stopped him.
"Dr. Wu, could you spare a few minutes to take a look?" Tang Ruixuan said, this was her way of repaying Tong Hua for the help she had given her when she first started school.
Tong Hua nodded: "My name is Tong Hua, and I'm a sophomore this year. These are some ideas I came up with after referring to your paper on hybrid architecture published in 2003."
"You're very perceptive!" He handed the notebook back to Tong Hua. This young man seemed to have a lot of ideas and appeared to be quite familiar with the girl. He decided to do her a favor.
"You can continue in this direction. I'll give you six months. If you make any progress, please email me."
After saying that, he asked his assistant to give Tong Hua a business card with his contact information and email address on it.
Tong Hua was overjoyed by this surprise, and his voice trembled as he said, "Thank you!"
"That's not necessarily true!" Tang Ruixuan replied with a smile.
Tang Ruixuan replied, "Okay, have a safe trip!"
Tong Hua stood not far away, clutching the business card tightly in his hand. He was utterly shocked by what he saw. He hadn't expected Tang Ruixuan to be so familiar with Mickey Wu. With just one sentence, she had earned Mickey Wu's appreciation and even obtained this business card. Only now did he realize that this girl was not as simple as she appeared on the surface.
This fully demonstrates that Tang Ruixuan comes from an extremely privileged family background.
Similarly, other students and teachers in the college gained a new understanding of Tang Ruixuan, especially Lin Weiwei, who realized how lucky she was to be transferred to 301.
The whole thing was naturally witnessed by Li Wenbo, who was present at the time, and at that moment his heart was filled with jealousy towards Tong Hua.