NCCnovel Chapter 67, the window period, is for regular projects.
Chapter 67, the window period, is for regular projects.
She lowered her head and ate her noodles.
Lin Yu looked at her profile and remained silent for a second.
Then he took out his phone and scrolled to Shen Yue's messages.
The latest post was published three minutes ago.
Kevin's New Materials Consortium has received its first tranche of funding: $300 million. Five labs are starting construction simultaneously. The goal is clear—to exceed 5247.
[In addition, he mentioned a word in today's interview.]
Asymmetric competition.
Lin Yu looked at it for three seconds.
"Asymmetric competition".
This means Kevin doesn't intend to go head-to-head with him on the same track anymore. He wants to open up new tracks.
interesting.
He exited the message and opened another dialog box.
I sent a message to Li Jianbin.
[Loongson's mass production progress is accelerating.]
Li Jianbin replied instantly.
【I'm rushing. What are you urging me to do?】
Lin Yu did not reply.
He put his phone back in his pocket, picked up the bowl, and finished the last mouthful of noodle soup.
As he stood up, he glanced at the clock on the wall of the lounge.
8:27 PM.
The FAST telescope project has commenced, and this is its first day.
It will probably be another six months before Kevin's new materials alliance produces results.
There are seven days left until Xia Zijin passes the security check.
The time until Zhou Weiguo truly let down his guard against him—
Lin Yu didn't know.
But he felt it shouldn't be too long.
Because Zhou Weiguo took a step back behind him this afternoon.
That step speaks louder than any words.
He pushed open the door to the main control center, walked back to the console, and sat down.
On the screen, the data matrix he reindexed was slowly taking shape.
Like a giant, growing spider web.
At the center of the spider web is a blank node.
That will be the brain of the Sky Eye.
Lin Yu's fingers rested on the keyboard, but he didn't type anything.
He stared at that blank node for a long time.
Then he muttered something to himself, very softly, so softly that only the buzzing servers could hear it.
"Hello there."
He said.
"I'll teach you how to open your eyes."
For the first three days, Zhou Weiguo couldn't find anything wrong with Lin Yu.
It's not that Lin Yu has changed his ways. It's that he's been too clean in his actions, so clean that Zhou Weiguo wondered if he was superfluous.
Every morning at eight o'clock, Lin Yu would appear in the control center on time. He would sit down, type on the keyboard, and stare at the screen. He would go to the cafeteria for noodles at noon, then come back and continue. He would leave at eleven o'clock at night, and the operation logs would automatically sync to Zhou Weiguo's terminal.
There was no external network connection, no unauthorized software, and no violations.
Zhou Weiguo spends two hours every day checking the logs. Every single one is compliant.
His four team members began to slack off.
"Director Zhou, this job is too easy, it's like retirement."
Zhou Weiguo remained silent.
He couldn't relax. Although he couldn't see any violations, he could tell that what Lin Yu was doing was far more complicated than what was shown in the log.
Logs record actions. But they don't tell you the logical relationships between actions.
Zhou Weiguo doesn't understand algorithms, but he understands people.
If someone works fifteen hours a day without consulting any materials, reading any documents, or discussing anything with anyone, and just sits there writing line by line, they are either a genius or a madman.
On the fourth day, he couldn't hold back any longer.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yu returned from the cafeteria with a bowl of noodles in his hand.
Zhou Weiguo stood at the entrance of the main control center.
"What are you teaching AI to learn?"
Lin Yu walked past him and placed the noodles on the worktable.
"Learn to see things."
"What is it?"
"Everything."
Lin Yu sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and asked, "Look at this photo, what can you tell?"
Zhou Weiguo did not answer.
"A person stands on a road."
As Lin Yu ate, he said, "You can tell how old he is, what he's wearing, and how he's feeling. The AI can't. It just sees a bunch of colored blocks."
"So you're teaching it to recognize color blocks."
"No."
Lin Yu shook his head. "I'm teaching it the relationship between the color blocks."
He pointed to the screen.
The screen displays a black and white photograph. A young man in military uniform stands in front of a wall.
Below the photo is a line of small text that says it was generated by AI.
[Character: Male, 20-25 years old. Emotional indicators: Unable to determine. Environment: In front of a building.]
"This is its current level."
Lin Yu took a sip of noodles. "It's like the blind men and the elephant."
Zhou Weiguo stared at that line of text for three seconds.
Then he said something that made Lin Yu pause with his chopsticks.
"That person wasn't standing in front of the wall. He was standing in front of the ruins after the wall collapsed. You cropped out the right third of the photo."
Lin Yu turned to look at him.
Zhou Weiguo remained expressionless.
"I've seen photos like this in the military. The person's posture is wrong. When you stand normally in front of a wall, your body is relaxed. This person's center of gravity is shifted forward, and their knees are slightly bent. This is a posture that indicates they are ready to move at any time."
He paused for a moment.
"He wasn't looking at the wall. He was looking behind the wall to see if there was any danger."
The control center was silent for a few seconds.
Lin Yu put down his chopsticks and leaned back in his chair.
"Zhou Chu".
"Um."
"What you just did is what I'm going to teach AI to do."
Zhou Weiguo fell silent.
"Judging the whole from the details. Inferring the whole from the part. Judging information beyond the scope of a photograph from the angle of a person's knee bend."
Lin Yu's gaze fell on the screen. "This isn't calculation. This is understanding."
"Anyone can do calculations. Understanding is what distinguishes AI from a calculator."
Zhou Weiguo didn't say anything, turned around and walked back to his workstation.
But that night, an extra note appeared in his logbook.
It is not a violation record.
The message reads: "[Suggestion: Request the project team to increase multimodal training samples, especially scene data containing complex human behaviors. The current data structure is insufficient for training the AI's environmental reasoning capabilities.]"
Zhou Weiguo didn't tell Lin Yu about this annotation.
Lin Yu saw it, of course.
He didn't say anything. But the next morning, there was a bowl of noodles on the counter.
Zhou Weiguo stared at the bowl of noodles for five seconds.
"I've already eaten."
"Then leave it there; throw it away when it gets cold."
Zhou Weiguo took the noodles away.
Wang Lei witnessed the whole thing and his jaw nearly dropped. He sent Xia Zijing a message.
Sister-in-law, Zhou Yanwang ate the noodles the boss treated him to.
Xia Zijin replied with a period.
Wang Lei stared at the period for ten seconds, confirming that he couldn't read any emotion into it.
These two are a perfect match.
Day .
Day .
The progress of AI is neither fast nor slow.
It has begun to recognize simple cause-and-effect relationships. For example, if there are dark clouds in one picture and someone holding an umbrella in the next picture, it can connect the two events.
But they are still a long way from independent thinking.
Lin Yu wasn't in a hurry.
Wang Lei was the one in a hurry.
"Boss, Director Zhao is pressing us. He said the higher-ups want to see some progress."
"Make him wait."
"He said he couldn't wait. He gave us a two-week window, and half of that has already passed—"
"The window period is set for regular projects."