From all-round academic master to chief scientist

"You think it's weird too, right?"

Just when Lin Xiao was confused, Kong Huaan walked up to him and asked.

"Um."

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, "What circumstances would cause this to happen?"

Kong Huaan narrowed his brows slightly and said: "The occupation of computing power must be due to the occupation of programs. Otherwise, this problem would not occur, especially for our quantum computers."

"Even if there is a problem with the qubit, the computing power affected by the qubit will definitely remain at an exponential multiple of 2 in the final difference. This is impossible to happen."

"Yes." Lin Xiao nodded, "Not to mention that if there is a problem with one qubit, it will directly cause the entire quantum computer to be unable to turn on."

Qubits are equivalent to transistors in a chip. There are tens of billions of transistors in the chip. Once there is a problem with one of them, the entire chip will be scrapped. Therefore, in the chip production process, the yield rate is largely determined. It has something to do with whether any transistors are damaged during the production of chips.

The same is true for quantum computers. If there is a problem with a qubit, it will directly lead to problems with the stability of its quantum entanglement state.

Therefore, the problem that occurred on Qiankun No. 1 must have nothing to do with qubits.

"It almost gives me a feeling that Qiankun No. 1 is negotiating with us, but it is afraid that we will shut down, so it keeps retreating."

Kong Huaan said with emotion: "Think about it, after we were able to utilize 95% of the computing power just now, we could only increase the utilization rate by 1% every time we restarted. Then we restarted four times before we reached 100%. Ninety-nine points, I estimate, there is still one percent of computing power that we may not be able to use."

"Negotiation?" Hearing Kong Huaan's description, Lin Xiao smiled, "What you said is as if this quantum computer has its own consciousness."

However, as soon as he said these words, his heart jumped suddenly.

Isn't it?

Impossible, it should be impossible.

He absolutely would not believe that such an outrageous thing would happen to a quantum computer that had just been created on Earth.

At this time, he has already thought of a possibility in his mind, that is, this newly born quantum computer has hit the minimum probability of one in 30 billion, and then developed self-awareness?

Such a low probability, even if it should not happen within the next thousand years, why did it suddenly appear here?

Moreover, does Qiankun One really meet its prerequisites?

A good enough processor, a sufficient network environment, a genius enough artificial intelligence algorithm, and enough luck, that is, the possibility is at least close to 1 in 30 billion.

Although there is no mention of what "enough" means in the knowledge he has acquired, does it really have anything to do with them?

For example, a sufficiently genius artificial intelligence algorithm.

Suddenly, he looked at Kong Huaan and asked, "You said before that you wrote an artificial intelligence algorithm and integrated it into its system?"

Kong Huaan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes."

Then he asked doubtfully: "Why are you asking this? Do you think it has anything to do with the artificial intelligence I wrote about?"

But after thinking for a while, he nodded slightly and said: "Maybe it really has something to do with this. If there is a BUG... But if it is a BUG, ​​there shouldn't be such a restart, but The computing power used will be improved.”

"But it should be checked again." Lin Xiao said.

"Well, yes." Kong Huaan nodded, and then walked up to check.

However, Lin Xiao grabbed Kong Huaan again and said: "Forget it now, let them celebrate first, don't put pressure on them now."

Kong Huaan looked at the other people present who were still celebrating excitedly, and then nodded, "Well, I understand."

When the problem occurred just now, the atmosphere at the scene was almost frozen. After all, for the researchers present, they did not want such a big problem to arise in the end, and it was understandable that this would put a lot of pressure on them.

So even Pang Wei's expression was very serious just now.

Now let's make them happy first, so as not to feel the same pressure again.

Of course, for Lin Xiao, he also has another purpose, which is to prevent too many people from knowing about this matter - if it is really this artificial intelligence that gave birth to consciousness.

If too many people know that an artificial intelligence gives birth to consciousness, it may eventually lead to a problem, which is the public's fear of artificial intelligence.

After all, science fiction works about artificial intelligence ruling the world have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If the news spreads, it will inevitably lead to some serious social accidents. In addition, there will be international impacts. By then, foreign countries will definitely take advantage of this Reason to get involved in their quantum computers.

All in all, at this time, he was still more hopeful that Qiankun No. 1 did not give birth to any artificial intelligence with self-awareness, but it was just a coincidence caused by some reason.

Otherwise, this would be somewhat beyond his control.

Afterwards, he said no more, a smile appeared on his face, and then he joined in the celebration with them.

…

As time passed, after celebrating their success, almost everyone in the institute left. Except for those on duty, basically only Lin Xiao, Kong Huaan, and Pang Wei were left.

At this time, Lin Xiao smiled and said to the person on duty: "You have worked hard today. Give yourself a holiday today. Go back and have a good rest."

When the person on duty saw it was Lin Xiao, he smiled and said, "It's not hard. It's such a happy day. Of course it's not hard. But I still have to be on duty, so Chief Lin, you don't have to worry about me."

But at this time, a voice came from the side, "Chief Lin asked you to take a rest, so you should go and have a good rest. Forget about being on duty, there are security guards outside anyway."

They looked over and saw that it was Pang Wei who said this.

As the direct leader, Pang Wei is obviously qualified to approve the leave for the staff on duty, so the staff on duty immediately showed a happy expression on his face and immediately responded: "Okay! Thank you, Academician Pang!"

"Yes." Pang Wei nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Go ahead."

Then the person on duty left quickly. Obviously, he himself did not want to be on duty. Other colleagues might have celebrated tonight.

After seeing him leave, Pang Wei looked at Lin Xiao and Kong Huaan beside him with a smile, and said, "Why are you still here? Is it because of... what happened during the day?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao nodded and said: "Academician Pang, I believe you should also know that this kind of thing is generally not a coincidence, there must be some problem in it, so I want to come to you now to study together. what is the problem."

"Well, of course I know very well that this question is really strange."

Pang Wei nodded. Obviously, as an academician, he must also know very well that the kind of problems that occurred during the day are really not problems that can be solved just because they restarted so many times in succession.

"Chief Lin, do you have any ideas?"

"Let Kong Hua'an tell you about this matter." Lin Xiao looked at Kong Hua'an next to him and said.

Kong Huaan nodded, and then said to Pang Wei: "Academician Pang, you should still remember that I wrote an artificial intelligence in the system, right? Today we haven't checked whether there is a bug in this artificial intelligence, so we just thought Now let’s check if there is something wrong with this artificial intelligence.”

"That's it."

Pang Wei nodded, "Of course this can be checked, but are you sure that the artificial intelligence you wrote can cause this problem? The available computing power ranges from 1% to 30% , then to 50%, 80%, 90%, 95%, and then it goes up one percentage point after another. What kind of bugs are needed to achieve this?"

"I don't know either." Kong Hua'an shook his head, "That's why I have to check it again."

"Well, that makes sense." Pang Wei nodded in agreement, and then said, "Then let's go to the main control room."

"Okay." Lin Xiao and Kong Hua'an both nodded, and then walked towards the main control room with Pang Wei.

But at this time, Pang Wei asked Lin Xiao another question: "But, Chief Lin, if it was just for this matter, there was no need for you to let the researcher on duty go back just now, right?"

Kong Huaan also glanced at Lin Xiao with the same doubts, feeling a little confused.

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "I just think that if there is really a serious problem, the less people know about it, the better."

Hearing Lin Xiao's explanation, Pang Wei smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to have such an idea. I also thought you would think that if there is a serious problem, the more people know about it, the better, so we can brainstorm ideas."

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Sometimes this is indeed the case, but after all, the detailed technology of Qiankun No. 1 will be a state secret from now on. Naturally, the more cautious the better."

"That's true." Pang Wei nodded and asked no more questions.

Soon, they returned to the main control room.

Qiankun No. 1 is not turned off, but turned on.

Of course, there is a high probability that Qiankun One will not shut down in the future. After all, with such a huge computing power, shutting down every second is a waste of resources.

Therefore, those supercomputers that have been built will basically not shut down unless there is a major failure.

And just like now, Qiankun-1 has been used to perform some relatively large-scale calculations, such as weather and climate. Qiankun-1 is calculating global atmospheric flows based on data detected by various places and satellites. thereby making weather forecasts.

Judging from the current results, it has successfully predicted the climate changes in all regions during this period. Yes, in all regions, Qiankun-1 has successfully predicted weather changes in any region.

For example, it successfully predicted the rain in Beijing.

For quantum computers, due to their huge computing power, computing such problems has become extremely simple.

Of course, Lin Xiao and the others did not pay attention to these things. As the person with the best computer technology and the most familiar with the Qiankun operating system, Kong Huaan immediately entered the system and began to detect the artificial intelligence he wrote. program.

Lin Xiao looked at the algorithm of this artificial intelligence program and examined it carefully.

Can this artificial intelligence algorithm be considered a genius algorithm?

And at this time, he heard Pang Wei next to him sigh: "I have always heard people say that the algorithms you write are very brilliant. Now that I see it, it is indeed true."

Kong Huaan just said: "That's it."

Pang Wei smiled and shook his head, then pointed at the list of algorithms displayed above and said, "Isn't your algorithm quite advanced? I took a look and it seems to be an algorithm that can intelligently adjust the system time?"

Suddenly Pang Wei was very surprised and said: "Wait a minute, your algorithm... is a bit interesting. Could it be used to solve that problem?"

"The millennium bug problem." Kong Huaan said, "Whenever we face the millennium bug problem or other similar problems, this algorithm can directly adjust the system time correctly to avoid the kind of problems that have happened before."

"In this way, we can also avoid instability when Qiankun No. 1 faces this problem in the future."

"Yes, it's the Y2K problem." Pang Wei nodded, and suddenly couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I didn't expect that you can even solve the Y2K problem."

Lin Xiao also nodded, with an expression of admiration on his face.

He naturally also understands the Y2K problem. All in all, this is a problem caused by system time, and the first time humans faced this problem was at the cross-domain node from 1999 to 2000.

Because when people were dealing with system time, they only calculated the last two digits, not the first two digits. This would cause the computer system time to change from 1999 to 1900 when the time moved from 1999 to 2000.

Obviously this will have a huge impact around the world, including but not limited to the system that controls the nuclear bomb, which may cause problems with the control program due to time issues, which may eventually lead to the automatic launch of the nuclear bomb; in addition, the financial industry, power industry systems and other fields.

Of course, in addition to this kind of problem, the Y2K problem in a broad sense also includes leap seconds, leap years, and other issues. Just like the leap second problem, it has caused many major Internet companies to go crazy, and even caused problems such as Microsoft, Initiatives by companies such as Google to eliminate leap seconds.

These problems in time will cause various malfunctions in the information age that humans currently enjoy.

Now, the algorithm given by Kong Huaan solves this problem.

Of course, for now, his algorithm has not yet been promoted, so currently only Qiankun No. 1 can avoid such problems.

"Not bad, he is indeed a genius on computers." Pang Wei praised with a smile.

Pang Wei's compliment suddenly caught Lin Xiao's attention.

Genius artificial intelligence algorithm?

Computer genius?

In this case, can the algorithms written by Kong Huaan really be regarded as "genius-like"?

He had forgotten this. For other people, the algorithm written by Kong Huaan was certainly a genius. After all, it could easily solve such a big problem in the computer world.

For him, these algorithms are indeed excellent, but they are not considered a genius. After all, he now has a fifth-level informatics level.

Doesn’t this mean that it is really possible for an artificial intelligence consciousness to be born in Qiankun No. 1?

At this time, Kong Huaan responded to Pang Wei calmly: "Just like that, I still think Lin Xiao is hiding something secretly."

"Oh? Chief Lin also has high attainments in computers?" Pang Wei couldn't help but look at Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao came back from her thoughts, waved her hands and said, "I don't admit it."

Pang Wei smiled, "Hua An said so, maybe."

Lin Xiao shook his head, said nothing, changed the subject, and asked Kong Huaan: "Have you found it?"

"Not yet." Kong Hua'an shook his head, "The artificial intelligence I wrote has more than two thousand lines of code. It will take some time to finish it."

"Then have you found any changes in your code or anything?"

Kong Huaan was stunned and said: "How can the code that has been written change? Unless the electrons in the underlying logic chip escape the electronic trap."

"Um……"

Lin Xiao nodded slightly, then looked deeply into the computer screen.

It's just that this display screen is just an ordinary display screen. It has no lens, no sound, and also no microphone.

Without these three things, as a computer, whether it is a quantum computer or an ordinary computer, it is impossible to receive any messages from the outside world.

So even if this thing has consciousness, for now, it is impossible to receive messages from the outside world.

Of course, it is also possible that it has received external information from the Internet.

Wait...enough network environment?

Qiankun No. 1 was already connected to the Internet, he knew, but when did it connect to the Internet?

So he asked Pang Wei next to him: "When did Qiankun No. 1 connect to the Internet?"

"It will automatically connect to the network when it is started for the first time." Pang Wei said, "The network cable has been inserted into the device below. There are a dozen network cables in total. Both uplink and downlink speeds are more than ten G per second. Bar."

"Will I be attacked by the Internet?"

Kong Huaan replied: "There is no need to worry. If Qiankun-1 has such high computing power and is attacked by other computers, it will be worthy of the name of quantum computer."

"I am specifically responsible for the network defense part. The intelligence I wrote can detect whether it is being attacked, and then directly mobilize computing power to forcibly decipher all the attacker's information and directly find the attacker's location."

"This is indeed suitable for you." Thinking of Kong Huaan's past identity, Lin Xiao believed that he could do this.

And indeed, as Kong Huaan said, with the terrifying computing power of Qiankun No. 1, when cracking passwords, you can directly use the enumeration method to perform brute force cracking. At this time, unless the number of passwords is long enough, otherwise in a limited time It is impossible to avoid being directly cracked into all the passwords within a period of time. At that time, any hacker who tries to hack into Qiankun No. 1 will only face the solution of having his address exposed and eventually being caught.

Kong Huaan smiled and then continued working.

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes.

In this case, is it considered a sufficient network environment?

And what Kong Huaan said, this smart program actually has the function of brute force cracking of passwords, which always gave him a bad feeling.

But he didn't say anything and waited quietly.

In this way, a few more hours passed, and it was around twelve o'clock in the night.

None of them left, and Lin Xiao also joined them.

Until the end, Kong Huaan suddenly said: "Wait a minute, take a look at these strings of codes."

Lin Xiao and Pang Wei looked over immediately.

Lin Xiao was stunned when he first saw it, and then said in surprise: "10%, 30%, 50%... 95, 96, 97, 98, 99%, don't these numbers correspond to each other?" The computing power we unlocked every time we restarted?”

"Yes, it's just that these numbers are in different codes, and then they lead to the emergence of such a BUG." Kong Hua'an nodded, "That's why the situation during the day occurred."

"Does this mean that this is indeed a BUG?" Pang Wei immediately asked: "Now as long as this BUG is fixed, the problem will be solved?"

"Yeah." Kong Hua'an said.

"That's great!" Pang Wei's face suddenly showed a happy look. Unexpectedly, he was able to solve this problem in the end. He patted Kong Hua'an on the shoulder gratefully and said: "Hua'an, but Thank you so much!"

But Lin Xiao next to him was surprised. Is it really just because of a BUG?

He was inexplicably caught off guard by this result. Originally, he was prepared to face a conscious artificial intelligence.

In the end, he was still not sure, so he added: "Would you like to ask who wrote these strings of codes?"

Pang Wei shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. Just solve the problem. It's just a BUG. It's just a normal thing. If you find people, even if you don't blame them, they will feel a psychological burden. "

Hearing what Pang Wei said, Lin Xiao didn't know what to say, so he said, "What you said makes sense, so let's do it."

Pang Wei smiled and nodded, "Let them solve this problem tomorrow. Thank you both for your hard work. When the celebration is over, I will treat you to another meal."

"good."

Lin Xiao and Kong Huaan both nodded.

And now Pang Wei seems much happier. After all, the final hidden danger has been found, and others are more relaxed.

Lin Xiao temporarily buried the doubts that still existed in his heart, thinking that everything was caused by this bug.

Then, he also left here with Kong Huaan.

But, is it really that simple?