197: Chapter 197 The Mutation of Artificial Intelligence

It took a long while for Engineer Liu to slowly come back to his senses. He sighed, and the stubbornness on his face completely dissipated.

He took the report, walked over to Zhao Yang's workstation, and laid the report flat on the desk.

Looking at Zhao Yang with a wry smile, he said:

"Dr. Zhao, your calculations are incredibly accurate. I'm convinced. It's exactly as you said, even the failure conditions and the number of cycles are identical! It really did fail on the twenty-eighth cycle."

Engineer Liu pulled over a chair from the side and sat down, humbly asking for advice: "Dr. Zhao, regarding the specific weight of the impact of sintering temperature on the migration barrier of divalent nickel ions, how did you set the boundary conditions in your mathematical model? I would like to learn."

Zhao Yang stopped what he was doing and glanced at the report.

He took a blank sheet of A4 paper, picked up a pen, and wrote down a formula on it.

"This is the Arrhenius diffusion equation."

Zhao Yang explained calmly.

"In an 88% high-nickel environment, the activation energy of nickel ions decreases non-linearly due to the contraction of the lattice constant c-axis. When the sintering temperature is fixed at 830 degrees, the calculation results of the equation show that the diffusion coefficient of nickel ions migrating to the lithium layer will exceed the critical threshold. The mixing effect is thermodynamically inevitable, and the micro-crack stress concentration point at the twenty-eighth cycle is the kinetic collapse node."

Engineer Liu looked at the formula on the paper, memorized it silently, and nodded solemnly.

Through this incident, Zhao Yang established his authority in this core laboratory at CATL.

From this day on, no veteran engineer or researcher dared to treat his words as merely theoretical references on paper.

His data models and parameter recommendations became a crucial reference standard for the entire R&D team to advance their progress.

And in the process of this high-intensity guidance of experiments and data analysis:

Zhao Yang's brain was also frantically absorbing empirical nutrients in the field of Chemistry.

By correlating abstract mathematical deductions with real chemical reaction results, this feedback mechanism at the Physics level greatly activated the system's criteria for determining disciplinary experience.

Zhao Yang discovered that during this process, the speed of acquiring Chemistry experience was very fast. It was much faster than just sitting in front of a computer reading Chemistry books.

Conducting battery experiments is, after all, a complex and time-consuming project. Material synthesis, baking, electrode rolling, and battery aging all require objective physical time.

Zhao Yang's main task was still to build underlying models and process the massive amount of test data they fed back.

In terms of specific battery preparation processes, Zhao Yang was still a novice, and he did not invest too much energy in interfering with the physical labor in the workshop.

After becoming more and more familiar with the experimental procedures, the laboratory's data interface also achieved automated transmission.

The number of times Zhao Yang physically went to the Yizhuang laboratory gradually decreased. He transferred most of the data processing work to the high-configuration desktop computer in the Beijing Forestry University staff apartment, conducting remote guidance and parameter issuance through an encrypted network.

Friday afternoon.

Zhao Yang finished a week of parameter fitting work and returned to his apartment.

Just as he sat down at his desk, his phone, placed to the side, rang.

The caller ID showed his childhood friend, Wang Ming.

Zhao Yang pressed the answer button.

"Brother Yang, let me report to you on the current status of the company."

Wang Ming's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Because of Zhao Yang's early commercial logic planning, combined with the more than 20 million in funding he injected as a foundation, and the stable cash flow provided by several Taobao stores under Zhao Yang's name, the company's early development was very good.

"I registered the company in an office building in Chaoyang District, Yanjing. The procedures for the business license and corporate account have all been completed. The name is as you said: Fenglan International Apparel Co., Ltd."

Wang Ming reported on the personnel structure: "Currently, the company has hired six full-time employees. Two are responsible for the store's graphic design, three are responsible for daily pre-sales and after-sales customer service, and one is specifically responsible for coordinating logistics and shipping with several express delivery companies."

"In terms of the supply chain, the garment OEM factory my dad has back home in Changcheng has now completely become our company's direct factory. The production lines have all been re-calibrated; we have stopped taking outside retail orders and only take orders for our own brand."

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries about their families, Wang Ming continued to report the business data.

"Zhao Yang, the brand promotion plan you formulated earlier has already been fully launched. We launched the first batch of twelve new styles, with only 500 units stocked for each style."

"The current conversion rate data is very good, and the sales have had quite good results. The inventory turnover rate is also controlled within twelve days; as long as the backend detects that the click-through rate of a certain style of clothing drops, the factory immediately stops preparing materials, with absolutely no risk of inventory backlog."

"Well done. Continue to maintain the liquidity of the capital chain and expand the online advertising placement."

"Alright!"

Wang Ming said with a smile.

After finishing the business matters, the atmosphere between the two instantly became much more relaxed.

"Brother Yang, you've been in the news a lot lately! That's amazing! I can see news about you every day when I go online!"

Hearing Wang Ming's words, Zhao Yang smiled.

"It's nothing, just some minor matters."

"Alright, I won't take up any more of Brother Yang's valuable time. You go be busy, I have to get busy too!"

"Alright!"

Zhao Yang nodded.

After speaking, the two ended the call.

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yang glanced at his phone; it was 8:00 PM.

He prepared, as usual, to check the status of the primary artificial intelligence he had mounted in the background.

Just at this moment.

A line of text suddenly popped up automatically on the computer screen.

"May I ask, what does 'buying soy sauce' mean?"

Zhao Yang's fingers paused slightly, and a trace of obvious surprise flashed in his eyes.

This was an internet slang term that became rapidly popular around 2008.

This AI program, which he had always considered to be an "artificial idiot", had actually taken the initiative to ask such a question.

This indicated that its natural language processing module had already crossed the stage of simple literal dictionary matching. It began to understand human language and took the initiative to initiate a query to the administrator with the highest system privileges.

Zhao Yang did not immediately go to check the underlying running code. In the input box, he typed an accurate reply on the keyboard.

"This is a popular term in Chinese internet culture. Literally, it means going to buy soy sauce. But in an internet context, it is usually used to express an attitude of not caring about something and just passing by as a bystander."

He pressed the Enter key to send.

After sending this message, Zhao Yang immediately struck the keyboard, quickly inputting a series of Linux monitoring commands, directly switching to the AI's core code backend.

He was very curious, what exactly was the difference between this artificial intelligence and the large language models (LLMs) of later generations!