Rewrite the Technological Landscape

The man standing at the door of Meng Qian's room is named James. He is a somewhat mysterious legendary figure. Those who have a little understanding of cryptography will definitely know the RSA key, a key that is very commonly used in later generations.

This was released by three researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. However, many people later said that they were plagiarizing, and everyone believed that the object of their plagiarism was the first person in the world who invented an asymmetric key. Now James standing at the door of Meng Qian's room.

It’s just that this accusation didn’t appear until the late 1990s. That’s because James had a special identity. He worked in an intelligence agency. He left the intelligence agency in the late 1990s, and some things, including some of his personal information, were made public.

Only now do you know that there is such a mathematical genius in this world. James has shown superhuman mathematical talent since he was a child, and his achievements are far more than inventing asymmetric keys. He is also a well-known world-class hacker. , he has a deep research on quantum mechanics.

After leaving the British intelligence agency in the late 1990s, James first went to Microsoft as an information security consultant, but he left after a short stay, and then went to IBM. Began to take charge of quantum technology.

However, he didn't stay in IBM for long. It wasn't until later that everyone knew that he was very opposed to the commercialization of quantum mechanics, so he decided to study quantum mechanics independently. This can be seen in many documents.

The three directions that Meng Qian chose at the beginning have their own purposes. Needless to say, artificial intelligence is one of the company's future trump cards. The reason for mentioning Goldbach's conjecture is to see if there is a chance to attract to James.

But James is too mysterious, and Meng Qian doesn't know where he is. His only clue is that James participated in the 2002 World Congress of Mathematicians. After all, as a member of Hongke, James is also Meng Qian's idol.

People in technology companies understand one thing. The core of technology companies is the battle of security. If security is lost, a company will lose everything.

Regarding Alibaba's technical talents, everyone is most familiar with Wang Jian who works in Alibaba Cloud and Wu Hanqing who works in security.

But imagine, without Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba would definitely be able to survive. However, Alibaba experiences billions of attacks every day. If there is no absolute security protection, it would have died long ago.

And quantum mechanics is the battleground of the future science and technology war, so it is no wonder that such a genius Meng Qian is not tempted.

"Hello, who are you?" Naturally, Meng Qian pretended not to know him. For an unpopular genius like James, it's better to pretend not to know him.

"Mr. Meng, hello, my name is James, I'm sorry that my Chinese is not very good." James' Chinese is actually not bad.

"You looking for me?"

"Yes, I heard that Mr. Meng also participated in this conference, and I came here especially for the name. I have seen Mr. Meng's calculations on Goldbach's conjecture at Kyoto University. I wonder what step Mr. Meng has achieved now?"

Meng Qian deliberately glanced at his watch, and James who noticed Meng Qian's performance quickly said, "I have extended Goldbach's conjecture to the 25th power of 10."

Meng Qian made a slightly surprised expression in cooperation, and then said, "Wait for me a moment, let's go downstairs to the conference hall to chat."

In 2002, a person said that he extended Goldbach's conjecture to the 25th power of 10. It is normal to be interested, but not interested can only show that this person does not understand Goldbach's conjecture at all. So Meng Qian can use this to chat with James logically.

"good."

Meng Qian went into the room to take the computer, paper and pen, and then went to the conference hall downstairs with James. At ten o'clock, the conference hall was still full, and the reason why Meng Qian brought James here was also for logical reasons.

If he was brought into his room because of a stranger's words, then Meng Qian would be too unguarded.

After finally finding a corner position, Meng Qian and James took out their computers respectively, because James knew about Meng Qian's performance at Kyoto University, but in his view, Meng Qian didn't know about James' abilities, so James took the initiative to show himself research results.

Goldbach's conjecture is a verification problem. Meng Qian can understand all kinds of verification methods. This is another reason why he dared to use this thing as bait. When chatting with myself, I don't understand anything and can immediately reveal my secrets.

Moreover, a large part of Goldbach's conjecture is done by computers, so the verification of Goldbach's conjecture is also a manifestation of the development of computers. At this moment in 2002, regarding the Strong Goldbach's conjecture, computers can only calculate 10 times 18 Fang, regarding the weak Goldbach conjecture, the computer can only calculate to the 20th power of 10.

James used elliptic curve prime number verification. He used a computer to verify the weak Goldbach's conjecture under the 10 to the 20th power, and proved the weak Goldbach's conjecture under the limit of 10 to the 25th power through his own model.

"Mr. James, have your research results been released?" Meng Qian asked deliberately.

"No." James shook his head. "This range is not enough. I don't want to waste time on other things."

Meng Qian showed hesitation, and spoke after a long silence, "To tell you the truth, Mr. James, I have expanded the range to 10 to the 28th power."

James showed a shocked expression subconsciously, and Meng Qian continued, "But the method I use may be a little special."

"What method does Mr. Meng use?" James asked hastily.

Meng Qian glanced around and opened a video file on the computer after making sure there was no one there, "Mr. James can take a look at this."

A video was played on the computer. It didn't take long for James to react, but his face was full of doubts, "Mr. Meng raised the computing limit of the computer to the 28th power of 10? Did Mr. Meng change the computing power of the computer? "

"It can also be said, but the upper limit of the computer's hardware is not something I can change, but I have made an overall adjustment to the calculation method and adopted a new calculation method. Mr. James can look at some details."

Meng Qian clicked a video again, and James watched it more carefully this time, until a few minutes later, "This is not a calculation, this is a calculation? Mr. Meng taught the computer various prime number verification methods? No, this is"

"Does Mr. James see the problem?"

"Mr. Meng, what is this?"

"This is a brand-new artificial intelligence model. I use the brand-new artificial intelligence to calculate Goldbach's conjecture. The computer not only increases the upper limit of calculation, but also realizes self-learning and calculation capabilities to a certain extent. It is a pity that the current chip calculation Force limit, there is no way to go further.”

James couldn't help thinking, "So Mr. Meng wants to make a lithography machine?"

"It can be understood that the current lithography machines limit the further development of chips. Without the evolution of chip computing power, artificial intelligence will stagnate.

From the moment the computer appeared, everyone hoped that the computer could replace human work, but after so many years, the computer has indeed replaced certain human work, but it is the most basic regular work. In my opinion, this is not what the computer should do. achievable level.

So I have been doing a lot of research on artificial intelligence. I believe that artificial intelligence can truly liberate mankind and push mankind to the next era. "

James showed a tangled expression, "If artificial intelligence can greatly help human beings on such century-old problems as Goldbach's conjecture, the value of artificial intelligence will indeed be re-evaluated. But where is the end of artificial intelligence? Or, where is Mr. Meng's destination?"

"I am like many curious people. I want to know the truth of the world, how the universe was born, and how human beings appeared. I, like many entrepreneurs in the technology industry, want to use technology to change the world.

It's just that this road has become more and more difficult, and I have encountered new difficulties. "

"What?"

"Quantum technology."

James was silent for two seconds, "What does Mr. Meng think of quantum technology?"

"This problem is a bit big. I always think that challenging quantum technology is challenging the universe. But there is one thing, the development of the world must be disordered, but order has appeared in the process. This is what makes me most curious. .”

"What do you mean by Mr. Meng?"

Meng Qian noticed the subtle expression change of James, because this sentence appeared in the documents released by James in later generations, that is to say, this sentence was actually said by James, around 2005.

Now that James is getting into the trap, next, Meng Qian will start from his true in-depth views on this issue and try to further attract James, "Mr. James, do you know about entropy increase?"

Thanks for the reward for writing the poem!