676: Chapter 671 Serving as Chief Advisor

Evelyn also extended her hand and shook it gently.

"Hello, Ms. Wu."

The gazes of two equally outstanding women met in the air; beneath the calm surface, an undercurrent surged.

Shen Yan seemed not to notice.

"Wu Ya, you are responsible for arranging all matters for Dr. Reed upon her return to the country."

"The handover with janus will also be handled by you."

"Tell those kids that I have hired the best teacher in the world for them. Anyone who dares to slack off should pack their bags and get out."

Wu Ya nodded.

"Understood."

She looked towards Evelyn.

"Dr. Reed, I will have the team prepare all the documentation for the project janus is currently working on, 'Enlightenment'."

"We can report to you anytime."

Evelyn shook her head.

"No need."

"I don't need to look at documents."

"When I arrive, have them show me the code and architecture directly."

"I am tired of theoretical discussions on paper."

Wu Ya was slightly stunned, then nodded.

"Very well."

This Evelyn Reed, just like President Shen, was indeed someone who didn't play by the rules.

Three days later.

H Country, Shenyan Group Headquarters Building, Seventeenth Floor.

janus Artificial Intelligence Studio.

The entire floor had been opened up, filled with an atmosphere of youth, freedom, and a touch of messiness.

Beanbag chairs, snack racks, and whiteboards covered in various lines of code and formulas were visible everywhere.

A group of young people, whose average age did not exceed twenty-five, were gathered around a giant display screen, fiercely debating something.

They were geniuses personally recruited by Shen Yan from major universities and society after his comeback.

They were young, proud, and rising stars in the domestic AI circle.

The large model they developed, "Enlightenment," although not yet officially released, had already shown astonishing potential in internal testing.

The technical lead of the studio was a young man named Li Mo.

He wore black-rimmed glasses and a plaid shirt—a typical image of a major technical expert.

At that moment, he was pointing at an algorithm on the screen, speaking animatedly.

"There is still room for optimization in this context window compression algorithm! I think we can use a scrolling summary method to..."

Before he could finish speaking, the studio's glass door was pushed open.

Wu Ya walked in wearing high heels, followed by a tall, blonde, blue-eyed foreign woman.

All discussion instantly stopped, and all eyes turned towards them.

"Let me introduce everyone."

Wu Ya's voice broke the silence.

"This is Dr. Evelyn Reed, a world-class AI scientist."

"Starting today, she will serve as the Chief Consultant for our janus, guiding our research and development work."

The studio fell silent.

The young geniuses looked at each other.

Chief Consultant?

Guiding them?

What a joke.

They admitted that President Shen had great vision, but AI research couldn't be achieved just by throwing money at it.

What would an outsider parachuted in understand about "Enlightenment"?

Li Mo pushed up his glasses and walked forward.

He did not show obvious dissatisfaction, but the sense of distance in his tone was clear.

"Dr. Reed, hello. I am Li Mo, the technical lead for the 'Enlightenment' project."

"Director Wu, did President Shen ask us to report our work to Dr. Reed?"

Before Wu Ya could speak, Evelyn stepped forward.

She surveyed the room, her gaze finally landing on the giant display screen behind Li Mo.

It was covered in dense code and data streams.

"This is 'Enlightenment'?"

Her Chinese pronunciation was surprisingly standard.

Li Mo nodded with some pride.

"Yes, this is the culmination of a year of our hard work. Its logical reasoning ability and multimodal understanding are already close to..."

Evelyn interrupted him directly.

"Show me the architecture diagram."

Li Mo froze.

So direct? Not even a polite opening remark?

He hesitated for a moment, but still pulled up the underlying system architecture diagram for "Enlightenment" on a nearby computer.

It was an extremely complex network structure, the crystallization of the entire team's wisdom.

Everyone puffed out their chests, waiting for the newly arrived consultant to express admiration.

However, Evelyn only glanced at it.

It took no more than ten seconds in total.

Then she walked over to a blank section of the whiteboard wall, picked up a black marker.

"Your approach is fundamentally flawed from the root."

This single sentence instantly solidified the air in the entire studio.

Li Mo's face flushed crimson.

"Dr. Reed, I don't understand what you mean!"

"Our architecture has undergone countless validations; it is the most suitable for the current computing power environment..."

Evelyn did not turn back; the marker in her hand was already moving across the whiteboard.

She did not draw a complex network diagram, but only sketched a few simple squares connected by lines.

"You are trying to construct a multi-dimensional thinking core on a flat plane."

"It's like trying to fold a true sphere using two-dimensional paper."

"No matter how ingenious your algorithms are, or how massive your data is, what you ultimately get is just a superficial 'quasi-sphere.' It can never grasp the true mystery of three-dimensional space."

Her pace was not fast, but every word struck the hearts of these young geniuses like a hammer.

Li Mo's lips moved, wanting to retort, but he found himself unable to utter a single word.

Because what Evelyn was saying was precisely the biggest bottleneck they currently faced.

"Enlightenment" was smart, but its intelligence was like that of a scholar with a photographic memory, not a wise person capable of making inferences from one thing to another.

It lacked true ability for 'epiphany.'

"Then what should it be?"

A young team member wearing headphones couldn't help but ask softly.

Evelyn's pen stopped on the whiteboard, and she drew an entirely new structure.

"Abandon planar thinking."

"What we need to build is not a network, but an 'ecosystem.'"

"I call this the 'Synaptic Weaving' architecture."

She wrote rapidly on the whiteboard, as unfamiliar terms and formulas flowed from her pen.

"The first layer is the Data Perception Layer. We shouldn't just feed it data; we must also teach it how to actively capture and filter information through different 'sensory' channels, just like a living organism. This requires introducing an 'Information Entropy' judgment mechanism."

"The second layer, the Logical Reasoning Layer. Your current approach is sequential, which is too inefficient. It needs to be changed to a parallel matrix, introducing a 'Conjecture and Verification' model, allowing it to simultaneously open tens of thousands of 'thinking threads' to engage in self-contention."

"The third layer, and the most core one, I call the 'Emergence' Layer."

Evelyn drew a circle at the very top of the whiteboard.

"Here, we will introduce a 'Chaos Variable.' It will not produce any specific information, only responsible for one thing—disrupting the system randomly at the moment of high coordination."

"Just like the burst of human inspiration, it follows no logic and no reason."

"When logic reaches its end, there is chaos. And great creation is often born from within chaos."