I'm back in 1990

Chapter 963: The Vision of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence

As a result, Jiang Yufei was quite relaxed in the front cabin. At first, she was a little reserved, but she soon found that no one cared about her anymore. Moreover, the flight attendants were incredibly kind to her and even offered her a lot of snacks, drinks, and bottled water. She had never seen most of the snacks before, and she didn't know that the bottle of water the flight attendant gave her cost tens of dollars.

"Huh? You mean there's internet access here?" When Jiang Yufei learned from the flight attendant that there was internet access on this plane, her jaw almost dropped to the floor.

It's no wonder the child was so surprised. She had only flown a handful of times in her life. Back in 2008, almost no commercial airliners had internet access. But this plane was different. First, it was a nearly new aircraft that had been in service for less than two years. Second, it was designed with business travel and office needs in mind, so it was equipped with a satellite network receiver, allowing passengers to use devices like laptops to access the internet.

"Yes!" The flight attendant smiled and pointed to the network connection port.

This makes the several-hour flight even more interesting.

With the internet, several hours flew by. When the flight attendant reminded Jiang Yufei to put away her laptop and fasten her seatbelt in preparation for landing, she realized they were almost in Singapore.

After passing through customs, Huang Xiaochuan pointed to the two people Zhang Yun had sent and said to Jiang Yufei, "Feifei, just go with them in a bit. They will take you safely to school, and they will also help you with the relevant procedures."

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Huang!" Jiang Yufei expressed her gratitude to Huang Xiaochuan.

Huang Xiaochuan smiled and waved his hand: "Alright, hurry up and go. Get to the school early and familiarize yourself with it. If anything happens, just call the number I gave you earlier."

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Huang!" Jiang Yufei expressed her gratitude again before leaving with the two people who came to pick her up.

Huang Xiaochuan then said to He Wenfeng, who had come to pick him up at the airport, "Go to U."

"u" is an abbreviation for unsolved ysteries.

This is a technology company researching artificial intelligence. This company is not affiliated with any group controlled by Huang Xiaochuan, but is an independently operating company under Huang Xiaochuan's personal control. However, its security is handled by the Singapore branch of Yellowstone Security Company, whose head is He Wenfeng, a former subordinate of Huang Dahai.

So the person who came to pick me up at the airport today was He Wenfeng.

Not long ago, a researcher from this company proposed a theoretical idea. When Huang Xiaochuan learned about this idea, he made this trip to Singapore to have a face-to-face exchange with the researcher.

Huang Xiaochuan had a rather crazy idea. Perhaps this idea wouldn't be considered crazy twenty years from now, but it would definitely be considered crazy now.

So Huang Xiaochuan had to go to U as soon as he arrived in Singapore.

"Yes, Mr. Huang!" He Wenfeng knew that his boss must have something important to do on this trip, so he certainly didn't dare to delay.

The convoy left the airport and headed towards One-North, a hub for Singapore's high-tech industries, where many high-tech companies are based, including U Company.

His beard hadn't been shaved in a long time; it was uneven, and he looked like he wasn't getting enough sleep.

"Oh, hello!" Wu didn't seem to care much about basic social etiquette. He shook hands with Huang Xiaochuan perfunctorily and then withdrew his hand.

This scene left everyone else present dumbfounded.

Huang Xiaochuan didn't take it seriously. After all, some scientists or researchers tend to be less attentive to other things when they are focused on certain things, and the person in front of him seemed to be that kind of person.

He dismissed everyone else present, wanting to have a private, face-to-face conversation with this person.

He began by posing the question: "What are your thoughts on general-purpose artificial intelligence?"

In fact, Huang Xiaochuan only knew that artificial intelligence technology was very important, but he didn't know much about it in his previous life. Now that he had plenty of funds, he naturally wouldn't let go of this important technological research project, and he also studied some knowledge in this area in depth.

In fact, during this period, artificial intelligence was only a concept and some signs. The deep learning revolution had not yet taken off, and related research was slowed down due to the impact of the global economic crisis.

Moreover, the mainstream research direction of artificial intelligence is still based on a model that combines symbolism and machine learning. Only a very small number of people are still persisting in researching neural network-based artificial intelligence, and Mickey Wu is one of them.

So he patiently answered the question.

So he patiently answered the question.

"Take a look at this picture first." Pointing to the image projected onto the large screen, he explained earnestly, "This is the performance of the multilayer perceptron on the NIST handwritten digit set. The current accuracy has reached 983, and we spent three days training it for this."

Who knew that this unkempt researcher would suddenly change the subject: "As for the general-purpose artificial intelligence you mentioned, it was just a mirage to me before. In my opinion, it's impossible to develop a truly general-purpose artificial intelligence within ten years, because those of us in this field are always going through cycles of spring and winter."

"But this year is indeed a bit different. I downloaded a paper online about deep belief networks, and they used unsupervised learning."

Huang Xiaochuan couldn't stand it anymore. He didn't come here to be lectured by this person, but rather because of a certain remark this person made that he came here to see him.

That is, general artificial intelligence may be able to independently design the most feasible controllable nuclear fusion device. If it weren't for this, how could Huang Xiaochuan have traveled thousands of miles to meet a researcher?