189: Chapter 189 Changes in Artificial Intelligence

The entire internet was in an uproar.

Soon, the live broadcast footage of the press conference was quickly captured and uploaded online, and those Git commit records and running logs were analyzed frame by frame by countless knowledgeable programmers.

The final conclusion reached was: The data is authentic, without any traces of tampering.

The internet began to go crazy with posts again, with people saying all sorts of things, but it was no longer completely one-sided conspiracy theories like before.

"Damn, throwing the underlying logs directly into the media's faces, this is too hardcore! A pure tech-style smackdown!"

"I've seen the log screenshots, eight minutes to finish ten thousand iterations... He configured a computing monster in his dormitory to run the data! This execution capability is too terrifying."

" 'You don't understand the world of geniuses,' that sentence is so arrogant, but paired with this ironclad proof, it's simply insanely cool! God Zhao is the eternal god!"

"In the face of absolute strength, all doubts are like a joke."

"Even if it's proven that he wrote it, isn't this attitude too arrogant? What does 'don't understand the world of geniuses' mean? Does he take ordinary people for fools?"

"Exactly! He even said those who questioned him were idiots! So what if this person is talented? I really dislike him!"

"Besides, can the so-called evidence he provided really prove anything? What if someone else just used his computer to do it?"

"Having a high IQ doesn't mean one can be arrogant; the media only raised reasonable questions, and he left without even giving a Q&A session. It's too disrespectful."

"Showing off too much, this kind of personality won't get far in the academic circle; sooner or later, he will suffer a big loss."

Zhao Yang completely ignored the online clamor.

After resolving this boring public opinion storm, Zhao Yang returned to his Young Teachers Apartments alone.

He walked to his desk and pressed the power button on his computer monitor.

He planned to spend some time today delving into the code structure of the primary artificial intelligence provided by the system.

Pulling out his chair and sitting down, Zhao Yang glanced at the taskbar in the bottom right corner of the screen.

His gaze narrowed slightly.

On the taskbar, the penguin-shaped QQ icon was lit up, showing an online status.

Zhao Yang was stunned for a moment.

This computer was a new machine he had just built a few days ago. He rarely logged into QQ on his computer, and he had a habit of manually clicking logout and exit whenever he finished using any social software or web pages, and he never checked the 'remember password' box.

But today, with the computer powered on, it had logged into his QQ account by itself.

Zhao Yang immediately thought of one thing.

Was it done by that artificial intelligence he had left running in the background in sleep mode?

How did it bypass the Linux operating system's permission controls, read the encrypted locally cached fragments, and autonomously simulate network protocols to complete the login?

If it really achieved this, then this AI was definitely not the 'artificial idiot' it had appeared to be a few days ago. This meant it possessed extremely high-level underlying penetration capabilities and autonomous execution logic.

Zhao Yang looked at the QQ icon on the screen with interest.

Just as he placed his hands on the keyboard, preparing to pull up the terminal to directly slice open the artificial intelligence's background code for reverse analysis.

A QQ notification sound suddenly rang out on the computer.

A familiar avatar was bouncing in the bottom right corner of the computer screen.

It was Zhao Shiyu.

Zhao Yang raised his eyebrows slightly; she didn't contact him very often!

Could it be related to his paper? After all, she was also studying deep learning at Tsinghua University.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yang clicked on Zhao Shiyu's avatar.

"Zhao Yang, I read the paper you published on NIPS! I have a few technical questions I didn't understand; could I ask you for some guidance?"

"Sure."

Zhao Yang frowned slightly and replied to the message.

"In your dynamic timestamp penalty mechanism, when the latency of a slow node exceeds 500ms, the exponential decay causes the gradient weight of that node to approach zero. Wouldn't this cause a complete waste of this computing power, or even trigger local gradient vanishing?"

Zhao Yang looked at the question sent by Zhao Shiyu, pondered for a moment, and quickly provided an answer.

"It won't completely reach zero. Look at formula 3 on page six of the paper; I added a constant truncation term at the end of the decay function. It ensures that even if the latency is high, the gradient still retains basic directional guidance, only the step size is extremely compressed. This avoids gradient vanishing while utilizing the residual computing power of the slow nodes."

Zhao Shiyu replied quickly: "So that's it! I thought that constant term was just redundancy set to prevent the denominator from being zero! Your approach is too ingenious."

While answering Zhao Shiyu's questions, Zhao Yang quickly entered a few lines of Linux system low-level monitoring commands.

He split half of his screen and began to call up the background running processes of the artificial intelligence.

As the monitoring commands executed, a large amount of data streams began to scroll across the black terminal screen.

Relying on his code refactoring skills, the efficiency and speed at which Zhao Yang read this code far exceeded that of an ordinary person.

After checking the data for a while, Zhao Yang discovered quite a few interesting things.

Because his computer was left on, in the past twenty-four hours, this AI had utilized a very low percentage of CPU resources to establish an extremely covert micro-crawler network in the background.

By calling the host machine's system logs, it had read the cache of Zhao Yang's keystrokes from a few days ago, piecing together the hash values of his QQ account and password.

More importantly, it had even modified parts of its own initial loading script. It was attempting to establish its own data collection logic.

Logging into QQ seemed to be just a small experiment for it to test network port permissions and acquire external communication corpus.

It was evolving autonomously.

Although its natural language processing module was still in a blank state, unable to engage in fluent conversation, it had displayed terrifying capabilities in underlying network penetration that exceeded computer security frameworks.

Zhao Yang immediately typed a few restriction commands, closed several open external ports, and attempted to restrict the AI's range of activity back into a local sandbox environment.

He focused all his attention on the AI background code in the terminal on the left.

He was a bit curious about how this AI would perform under such restrictions.

The AI actually began to attempt to break through the boundaries of the restriction commands, and the code on the right side scrolled wildly.

Even without Zhao Yang's instructions being changed, the AI actually began to learn the deeper causal relationships of the instructions!

After watching for a while, a look of amazement appeared in Zhao Yang's eyes.

Truly amazing!

It lived up to being a system product; when this thing was first seen, it felt very ordinary—even one could say garbage, an 'artificial idiot'.

But with the slow evolution over these past few days, its rate of change was also slowly accelerating.

At least in terms of code, it had demonstrated extraordinary learning ability, but... what about language?

Could it perform deep learning by learning human conversational language?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yang pondered for a moment and opened the permissions for all the groups he had previously muted.

Then he sent a QQ message to Li Tianqi.

"Do you have any highly active groups, whether it's for gaming or just chatting? Pull me into all of them."

Li Tianqi replied instantly: "No problem! Brother Yang! I'll pull you in right now!"

Soon, the computer's notification sounds began to ring out densely.

Zhao Yang was pulled by Li Tianqi into over a dozen strange groups, including school second-hand trading groups, World of Warcraft guild groups, and even a few chatting groups with hundreds of people.

Group messages began to flood the screen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhao Yang did not pay attention to those flashing avatars and messages.