Chapter 312: Is the Japanese’s technical route correct?
This type of teasing content received a lot of likes, but when people really needed to know the news, you disappeared.

Of course, there are some valuable answers.

“Thanks for the invitation. After Guangshen’s interview was published, everyone invited me to answer. I became well-known on Zhihu because I received the funding from the Natural Science Foundation managed by Guangshen, and because I was engaged in artificial intelligence-related research.

Everyone must think that I have something to do with the project mentioned by Guangshen, but I think the research I do has little to do with what Guangshen mentioned, because my research is mainly about assisting artificial intelligence.

I have introduced this many times before. The artificial intelligence I work on is mainly used in the intelligent assisted review of the Natural Science Foundation. Guangshen and I have only talked about it once, so it is not a revolution at all.

Intelligent assisted review: Don’t current project reviews require experts to be selected from the expert database? Previously, there were dedicated department staff to make the allocation, but now it is done by artificial intelligence, which assigns projects to experts.

This system began to be used in the year when the Implementation Outline for Deepening Reform of the National Natural Science Foundation of China was released in 23. At that time, all youth fund projects under the F02 code were grouped and expert reviews were assigned by artificial intelligence.

However, there were still cases where the matching was inaccurate, or the actual matching degree was much different from the matching degree calculated by the AI ​​backend. So people still had to make fine adjustments.

My project is to improve its calculation and matching accuracy and minimize human intervention.

The significance of this matter is obviously not as far-reaching as what Guangshen mentioned in the interview.

Therefore, I don’t think that what I do is that great and can bring disruptive changes to artificial intelligence as Guangshen mentioned in the interview.

But at the same time, I see many people online saying that the Nobel Prize winner deliberately exaggerated, which I don’t believe. The Nobel Prize winner was able to make such a big announcement in an interview after winning the Nobel Prize that he had achieved a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence technology, so it must be a technological breakthrough of sufficient significance.

Given the status of the God of Light, he does not need to exaggerate the facts to gild himself, and we know the God of Light very well. He will only do more than he says, not less.

What's more, the theme of this interview with the central bank was Qian Xuesen's question. Since we are talking about the innovation mechanism, many people have questioned in the past whether it is appropriate to hand over the review and screening rights of the annual 20 billion natural fund to Guangshen alone.

Three years have passed since it was handed over to Guangshen, and these projects under Guangshen have indeed not produced any amazing results.

If the final breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence is far from what the God of Light said, then people will only question the rationality of his continuing to manage this part of the Natural Science Foundation, which will do him more harm than good.

Three years is not a long time, and this Nobel Prize, whether it is Yenching or the public, will definitely give Guangshen more patience and wait for the natural fund project he leads to bear fruit.

Therefore, it is meaningless for the God of Light to exaggerate in this regard.

Now I am looking forward to the God of Light revealing what kind of results are worthy of him using such exaggerated language and such an important occasion to promote them. "An Zhihu blogger who received funding from the Natural Science Foundation under Chen Yuanguang replied.

Another blogger who is also famous for this responded:
“Lexanthelasma, I actually roughly know what the project is because I participated in it. I can only say that it is very, very magical.

None of us believed it was real at the time.

In addition, the God of Light did exaggerate, but he definitely did not exaggerate the final results. What he exaggerated was the role we played. The final presentation of the entire result can be said to be entirely the credit of the God of Light alone.

Of course we have also made contributions, but our contributions are very small.

You can understand that the contribution we provide is the raw materials, and finally the God of Light integrates these raw materials into an unimaginable delicacy.

It's really incredible. The whole result has been out for half a year and has undergone some verification, but when I saw the data, I still had the illusion that this is something we can make now.

I don’t know whether it has anything to do with people creating mechanical life in the future, but in my opinion, it must be the precursor technology of mechanical life.” The answer from a person named Colin quickly became the answer with the most likes under the entire question.

The number of comments was also growing rapidly, and soon exceeded one thousand. Two thousand likes and one thousand comments were truly an unimaginable ratio.

"Hello, I'm from the northern part of the mainland. Can you tell me specifically what the technological breakthrough is?"

"Boss, please take off my knees."

"I'm so curious. It's been running for half a year, and there's no news in the industry. How high is the level of confidentiality?"

"Master, I just want to ask one question, that is, will there be a paper in the end? Will the relevant results be open source?"

Finally, this comment was replied by the answerer, "There will definitely be a paper. I was responsible for part of the data processing and corresponding module writing, but I don't know whether the results will be open source. This depends on the light god and the above.

I also don’t know whether they will promote technological progress through open source or not open source the relevant technology for the sake of confidentiality.”

Later, some people who participated in the project came out to support it, which aroused the curiosity of domestic netizens, and the official documentary of the University of Tokyo shifted the focus away.

The day after Chen Yuanguang was interviewed, a documentary titled "The Legend of the Core Fire" was quietly launched on major platforms.

The most watched episode is the last one, "The Photolithography Factory".

This episode fully demonstrates how Laos and China solve the foreign technology blockade.

"Faced with the complex and ever-changing situation of the chip industry, Chen Yuanguang did not panic at all, because under the leadership of Chen Yuanguang, Dongda's chip industry has always had a backup plan in Mianyang, and this backup plan is the lithography plant that will be launched in 2023.

The photolithography plant has always been a key project within the University of Tokyo, and its difficulty far exceeded expectations."

That’s right, public opinion at the University of Tokyo immediately shifted to the photolithography factory.

There have always been rumors about the photolithography factory, saying that Dongda has achieved 3nm process technology by relying on the photolithography factory.

Later, after OPPO's Butterfly chip was successfully taped out and outsourced to the lithography factory, even with the confidentiality agreement, most of the information that should be revealed had been revealed.

It's just that it hasn't been officially recognized, and people aren't quite sure what role Chen Yuanguang played in it. Also, people have only heard of it, but no one has seen it in person.

Now that the documentary has been released, everyone knows that Chen Yuanguang has been deeply involved in the photolithography factory since its inception. And the appearance of this product is also in line with the imagination of the old Chinese.

"Fuck, I found that the projects that the God of Light is involved in are all about huge projects, such as the photolithography factory and the electromagnetic propulsion rocket. If the God of Light was born in the Soviet Union, he would definitely be a fan of industrial wonders."

"What kind of industrial Leviathan is this? Isn't it too spectacular? I'm curious what TSMC's top executives think when they see this thing. I think they'll be furious. The lithography factory won't lower the price of chips to the dirt cheap."

"I think Samsung should be the most panicked. Yangtze Memory has already made it so profitable for memory chip manufacturers that they can't make much money. With this thing, they can further reduce prices."

“I seriously doubt how long Samsung’s memory chip business can survive.”

Hot topics come one after another. Before the veil of artificial intelligence is unveiled, the lithography factory has arrived.

There are so many surprises that the Chinese can hardly keep up. It is a surprise to the Chinese, but a shock to the foreigners.

Because it is really hard to guess what level of technological breakthrough it is.

Foreign academic circles have called on Southeast University to open source relevant technologies and stop hiding them.

The bigwigs in the academic world directly emailed the scholars they believed to have status and power in the University of Tokyo:

“I believe that artificial intelligence is related to the development of all mankind, and the University of Tokyo should shoulder the corresponding responsibility and open source the relevant technologies.”

"In the past, our AI technology has always been open source. Dongda cannot hide it like a treasure just because it has achieved technological breakthroughs in certain areas."

In this regard, foreign scholars can naturally speak from the moral high ground, because the technology in the field of artificial intelligence has indeed always been open source, both the code and the framework are public.

Even Silicon Valley technology companies have adopted an open source attitude towards many artificial intelligence technologies, the most famous of which is probably Facebook's Llama model.

Bill Gates said in an interview: "I think we should adopt a fully cooperative attitude towards artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is not only related to the future development of human society, but also contains unpredictable risks.

I think Wright should make it fully public so that the world can judge the risks involved.”

Musk did not say anything, but instead posted a video on Twitter. In the video, a robot was driving. The entire video was accelerated, and the robot could be seen visibly driving through the streets.

(This is a research result of the University of Tokyo, where a robot drives a car on a test track)
After that, Musk then released the results of the research team of Kento Higashiohara Tsukasa, which was also a robot driving.

Comparing the two, we can find that the former has already been driving on the road, while the latter is only on the test track.

"It's very incredible that Wright chose the same technical route as the Japanese, building a robot to drive. Is this the future direction of driverless cars?
So we've all taken the wrong path?"

Musk then sent several tweets in succession to explain.

"I spoke to Wright and he showed me this video and said it was part of what he called an incredible breakthrough in artificial intelligence."

"The robot in the video has achieved L4 level autonomous driving. Yes, L4 level autonomous driving does not require lidar, cameras, or optical satellites. L4 level autonomous driving is when a robot drives for people."

"After watching this video, I realized that Tesla's entire autonomous driving technology route needs to be rethought."

"And Wright said this was just part of the whole technological breakthrough."

After this video was released, a large number of practitioners reposted it with only one word in the caption: Amazing.

There are only two mainstream technical routes for autonomous driving: lidar or machine vision, and of course there is also a combination of the two.

The one that Tokyo University created is considered a joke by everyone, because adding a robot to drive on it is like taking off your pants to fart, isn't it?

No one really can imagine the significance of doing this.

Chen Yuanguang said that this was the direction of development, and he produced evidence and released the videos, and there was obviously no trace of artificial synthesis.

This incident really subverted everyone's cognition, just as Chen Yuanguang said in the interview.

Originally everyone thought this was a stupid route, and it was another classic case of Japan choosing the wrong technical route.

With Chen Yuanguang's support, the situation is completely different.

Before everyone could come to a conclusion, the robot was already driving on the road in Shenhai, driving for Didi.

"Oh shit, what is this? Is it a robot? I got a robot in my taxi today." Xiao Li was shocked after seeing this thing on social media yesterday and getting one in real life today.

He did not get into the car immediately, but took out his mobile phone to prepare for filming, because he realized that if he uploaded it to Tik Tok, it would become popular on the entire Internet.

Xiao Li looked at the logo of the car and saw it was a Volkswagen. He looked more closely and saw it was a Volkswagen Jetta. He thought, "Why isn't it Xiaomi?"

After he sat in the back seat, he glanced at the silver-white robot in front of him and thought, damn, it's a manual Jetta.

"Brothers, today I took a taxi to go to work, and I got a Didi driven by a robot driver. Can you believe this?"

After taking the video and uploading it, Xiao Li started to look at the interface on Didi. “Master Tie? Is this robot’s last name Tie? What a strange last name.”

"Master Tie, are you a robot?" Xiao Li started to make small talk. In fact, the robot ignored him altogether. After smoothly dropping him off at the destination, it stopped steadily, and then Didi's built-in voice notified him that he had arrived.

Xiao Li also recorded the whole process.

When he arrived and looked at his phone, the number of likes on Douyin had exceeded 100,000. It was obvious that someone had bought traffic for him.

“Is the blogger in Shenhai?”

"Why does it feel unnecessary for a robot to drive a car for you?"

"Fuck, didn't you realize this is a Volkswagen? Other cars' autonomous driving previously required cameras or lidar, but now this robot can achieve L4 autonomous driving in a Jetta?"

"I feel like other car companies are going crazy."

“It turns out that what is needed to go from L3 to L4 is not a camera or a lidar, but a robot.”

"I am now curious about what algorithm is behind it."

On this day, many internet celebrities wanted to take advantage of the popularity and wanted to get a chance to drive the Volkswagen Jetta driven by the robot.

Even ordinary people would like to see if they can have this good luck when taking Didi.

This indirectly boosted Didi's market share in the entire Shenhai area, and Jetta became popular.

(End of this chapter)