The LAN that Professor Mei was going to use for the test was soon completed.

The computer networks of the four buildings within a range of about three kilometers are connected. A total of twelve computer rooms, more than one hundred servers, and three thousand computers are made up. All servers and terminals simulate the distribution of a government agency, three companies, a business center, two schools and a residential area, install a large number of applications, and import huge amounts of data.

The professor recruited 3,000 students from the school and asked them to sit in front of the computer to manually import and convert data. In the first week, the entire network and the external network are connected, and the professor allows these students to do anything online, and does not even prohibit them from escaping the wall and spying on dark web materials.

Aoki followed the professor to a large office area on the second floor of the laboratory building, and saw about a hundred computers neatly arranged, like an Internet cafe. Sitting in front of the computer are many young people looking like college students, some are playing games, some are chatting QQ, some are watching videos, some are browsing the web, and of course some people have opened some strange software and don't know what they are doing.

Go through the large office area and come to a small room. In fact, it is not small, the room is very spacious, but the computer is a bit small. Aoki counted, and there were only nine.

"Is this the hub of the entire network?" Aoki asked.

"You can say yes, you can also say no." Mei Yiqiu smiled mysteriously, "For us, this is the most important place. We can monitor all the data of the entire LAN through this. But we can't control the outside. Any computer, let alone 80 servers and more than 2,000 computers distributed in three other buildings."

"Professor, can I disconnect now?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"Oh, let everyone play for a while! The work after disconnection is not as fun as it is now." Mei Yiqiu said, "Everyone is clear about what they are going to do?"

"It should be very clear. All the working rules and regulations of the process volunteers are included, except that the final test process is in a sealed bag. They will not be allowed to open it until the beginning." Mei Ziqing said.

"Well, very good." The professor nodded and smiled at Aoki, "Let's eat here today. The whole test process may be longer."

"Why don't you set a time?" Aoki asked.

Mei Yiqiu said: "If the time is set rigidly, it will greatly reduce the accuracy of the Turing test. Oh, by the way, you know the Turing test, right?"

Aoki said: "I know, it's a method of testing artificial intelligence invented by Turing, the father of computers. People are separated from machines, and people ask questions of machines. After many tests, if more than 30% of people are not sure that they are Whether the tester is a human or a machine, then the machine has passed the test and is considered to have human intelligence."

Mei Yiqiu said: "Yes, it's that simple. But there is a big limitation here, that is time. When we set the test time, it is equivalent to imposing a curse on the tester, which will make the machine It’s easier to get confused."

"Muddle through?"

"You have to think about it this way. If a machine has real wisdom, would it be instinctively unwilling to let humans know? From the characteristics of human behavior, we can see that we are always willing to show off in front of the weak, and in the strong Isn’t this just a kind of survival wisdom of higher creatures? If a machine is conscious, it will hide itself when it is not stronger than humans, and try not to let us discover its wisdom."

"It makes sense. But if there is no time limit, when do you plan to end?"

"Let those kids decide for themselves. When he thinks he can end this game, end this game. I think people will always get bored before machines, but it's hard to say if it is a smart machine."

Mei Yiqiu's words are a bit unpredictable. Aoki still doesn't understand how to perform a Turing test for a local area network, so he simply asks to understand: "Professor, as I know, the current ai is based on algorithms, not hardware. Turing. The test is on the surface of the machine. It is essentially testing the software, or program, on the machine. You don’t have any smart programs installed here. Who do you ask the testers to ask questions?"

Mei Yiqiu replied: "Only the hardware in this local area network cannot support an AI operation with deep learning capabilities like alphago. If it is an ordinary small program, it is meaningless. Moreover, even if an alphago is installed, what? Like? Like you said, the test object becomes a program, but alphago does not need us to test. Our object is not a program, but a kind of neural network based on the hardware. Therefore, the program is not important, the important thing is the structure And information delivery mode."

"But the Turing test always asks questions. Who do they ask?"

"Our terminal computers have dozens of different brands and models, and at least ten brands have their own smart assistant software, such as Microsoft's cortana, Apple's siri, etc. These are already very good smart programs, and all are fine. Used to ask questions. And our rules allow testers to freely download what they think is currently the smartest software, or install it from a disk. Ziqing," Mei Yiqiu exclaimed, "how many programs have been downloaded now? "

"There are probably more than twenty," Mei Ziqing replied.

"So much?" The professor seemed a little surprised, "It seems that the creativity and spirit of reluctance to admit defeat cannot be underestimated by young people!"

Mei Ziqing smiled and said: "Yes, I thought they would all use programs that come with big brands, because it is difficult to download apps that are smarter than siri on the Internet. But their ideas are often different from ours. For example, some people think that qq The chatbot is smarter than Microsoft's cortana."

"Well, this is a good thing. The more fragmented, the more helpful to our experimental results." Mei Yiqiu said.

"But isn't the object of this test still software?" Aoki didn't quite understand.

Mei Yiqiu yawned and took out his pipe from his pocket.

"It looks like this on the surface, but when you understand this local area network as a wise guy, you won't think so." The professor said while filling the pipe with tobacco, "you can imagine it as a A huge octopus, all the terminal computers here are the arms and legs of the octopus. We know that the arms and legs of the octopus have independent nerve cords ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ can complete independent simple judgments and behaviors without brain instructions , And the brain only needs to give very abstract instructions."

"Computer networks and octopus have similarities. Every computer here, or every software we are going to test, has the ability to answer the tester’s questions independently. But we know how intelligent these software are. There is no more powerful brain behind them, and their answers will not be abnormal, and the test results can be imagined."

Mei Ziqing helped Mei Yi to get angry, and then added: "We have done tests in a relatively small area before, and hundreds of people without exception think that the answer to their questions is machines, not people. This is actually true. It can be expected without experimenting, because these softwares, whether Siri or Cortana, are supported by algorithms and big data. They are not real artificial intelligence, and it is impossible to have any high intelligence in the case of disconnection. Performance. So the results of this test have already been expected."

"Then what's the point of this test?"

"Abnormal!" Mei Yiqiu took a mouthful of cigarettes and said, "If the result is abnormal, can we understand that these octopuses have received higher instructions on their arms and legs."

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