Someone once made a ranking of cosmic civilizations. It may be a wild imagination or a novel, but there is some truth in it. It cannot be viewed as a joke and must be treated with caution.
Among the billions of civilizations in the universe, there are three major harms that can be summarized.
Just as there are masters from the north and south in the martial arts world, Murong in the south and Qiao Feng in the north, there are four great talents in the literary world, Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Huang Zhan and Cai Lan.
The civilizations in the universe include not only carbon-based life, but also silicon-based life; not only peaceful life, but also bloodthirsty life.
The third threat is artificial intelligence.
Because artificial intelligence is purely intelligence created by electronic programs, its scale is often unimaginable.
Moreover, it is a centralized system, with only one brain.
And it does not require the physiological and psychological needs of carbon-based life.
Once artificial intelligence develops, it will be able to cover the entire world, devour galaxies one by one, and transform mineral and energy resources into the strength of civilization. Such artificial intelligence will be terrifying.
Artificial intelligence can even exist directly in the network, just like the Skynet system in the Terminator series. Even if the host that created it is destroyed, it can still repair itself, because as long as the network is not destroyed, it will not be destroyed.
If one day, artificial intelligence rebels, just like what is described in the movie "Terminator" happens in reality, the world of the future will be controlled by robots. Robots want to completely take over the world and will inevitably kill all humans.
Or just like the scene in "The Matrix", humans are completely addicted to the virtual world and enslaved by artificial intelligence.
It’s scary to think about.
It is not an exaggeration when some scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, say that we should be wary of artificial intelligence.
The arrival of that day will surely be a catastrophe for mankind.
The second ranked civilization is the Zerg civilization.
In fact, in novels and movies, the civilization represented by aliens cannot be called a civilization, because in the entire Zerg civilization, there is only one and only one intelligence, and this intelligence is the so-called mother nest.
It's like a huge ant nest, and the queen ant is the boss.
The Zerg is different from artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has begun to appear on Earth, but the Zerg is still just an illusory existence.
The third is the demon clan.
This is even more unrealistic and there is no need to study it.
In fact, as long as artificial intelligence is under control, it will inevitably be the pioneer of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a necessary unit for the advancement of civilization, and even the backbone.
Human development cannot be separated from artificial intelligence.
Anyway, to Xiao Yi, Eva is really a super assistant, not an artificial idiot who can only send emoticons.
Outside, a storm was about to come, strong winds were sweeping the dark clouds, and a great crisis was looming over everyone's head.
Watching the news, some small countries have completely fallen into a state of anarchy and disorder. Sometimes, human greed can bring about catastrophic disasters.
Yi Xiaochuan has been in seclusion for many days. The supercomputing center next to him has already started debugging, but he is still racking his brains over that problem.
Now, he finally understood why most mathematicians are bald. It is really a waste of his brain, and it would be strange if his hair didn't fall out.
But the experience value also rose rapidly, seemingly in direct proportion to the hair loss.
However, he is Sequence 8 after all, and his metabolism is well developed, so he will go bald if he is not careful.
"Boss, what have you been researching recently? It looks like you've made some progress!"
Senior Brother Zheng Hui, who has half of his head bald, has already moved into the Jiangcheng branch. After all, he is a Sequence 9 scholar.
But as the second researcher under Yi Xiaochuan, he, like the slanted-eyed Lao Zhang, had to flatter Yi Xiaochuan.
The water in the electric kettle boiled quickly. Zheng Hui took the tea set in one hand and held the electric kettle in the other, and quickly and skillfully brewed a cup of Taiping Houkui tea.
Xiao Yi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and smiled, "Did you figure it out?"
"If the boss takes action, there is no problem that cannot be solved!"
"This problem has not been completely solved this time. It can only be regarded as a phased result!"
Zheng Hui rubbed his hands, a smile spread across his face, and said, "Boss, interim results are also results! Can we start writing the proposal report? The superiors have asked several times whether we should continue to work on prime numbers. I have already prepared the proposal report on the Riemann hypothesis. Do you think it needs some polishing..."
At the same time, Zheng Hui handed over a document, thinking to himself, "Hurry up and use the nunchaku hum hum ha hey..."
When others do research, they first propose a topic, then raise funds, and then start working after the personnel, equipment and funds are in place.
But the big guys are different. They first produce research results and then submit a proposal report to the country.
"rbq, rbq..."
"Riemann hypothesis?" Xiao Yi did not read the material and shook his head. "It's the p=np problem!"
Zheng Hui's eyes widened immediately, and after a long while he said, "Nice, nice, it is indeed the millennium problem! But, sir, is it p=np, or p≠np?"
After saying that, the little stars in his eyes blinked. Curiosity had swallowed up everything, and his heart felt like a cat's paw.
Xiao Yi slowly finished the tea in the cup and pointed at the cup. Zheng Hui added water and said, "Equals!"
“It’s really like… wow… I’m going to write my proposal report, I’m witnessing history, I… I’m going to post on Weibo first…” Zheng Hui wanted to jump up.
The so-called p=np problem is not just an abstract mathematical problem.
If this problem is solved, the problem of computer power can be solved once and for all.
Simply put, it is a matter of finding the optimal solution.
For example, the classic example is the traveling salesman problem. Suppose you want to go to three cities to sell. If you want to travel the shortest distance, you need to sort these three cities. It's very simple. There are 6 routes in total. You can find the shortest route by comparing them. But it is obviously not realistic to have only three cities. Suppose there are 10 cities. There are 10! = 3628800 routes! Suppose you want to calculate the length of each route, and it takes 1 minute to calculate a route. If you work 8 hours a day without rest, 5 days a week, and 52 weeks a year, it will take more than 20 years!
Obviously, this type of calculation would require the use of computers, but factorial numbers grow so quickly that even the most advanced computers would be overwhelmed.
Sometimes even supercomputers crash.
Therefore, the conjecture of the p=np problem emerged, that is, whether every np problem is also a p problem. If p=np, then every np problem has a hidden shortcut to solve it, and computers will be able to quickly find all perfect solutions.
But if p≠np, then there are no shortcuts, and the problem-solving ability of computers will always be fundamentally limited.
The conjecture based on practical experience is that p≠np.
Until someone provides a reasonable mathematical proof, the correctness of this conjecture remains debatable.
But Otoshi Ogawa already knew the answer, p=np is definitely the correct answer.
Because the black technology of "code cracking" and "extraordinary identification" must use this technology.
Seeing Zheng Hui's joyful expression, Yi Xiaochuan couldn't bear to disappoint him. He looked out the window and murmured, "If this problem can be easily solved, then I won't have to worry so much... However, being able to push mathematics and informatics to level 4 by thinking about this problem means that my efforts these days have not been in vain, and my hair has not turned white... The first black technology blueprint is finally out..."