Chapter 416: A Competition with an Innovative Theme (Part 2)

“Advocating innovation?”

“Professor Ma, what kind of topic is this? How are we supposed to innovate?”

Innovation, these two characters, might still be somewhat unfamiliar to domestic university students.

But.

Professor Ma had pushed through opposing opinions to settle on this topic. Since the nation needs talent, we cannot always stick to the old ways. Not only do students need to have the ability to innovate, but the way competitions are conducted must also be innovative. Free rein is often the best way to activate people’s limitless imagination. In modern terms, it’s about letting students think outside the box and use all their capabilities to design their visions and ideas for computing.

“Everyone, please be quiet!”

After Professor Ma finished speaking, a judge quickly spoke up to calm everyone, “As judges, it was also difficult for us to make this decision. But that’s how things are in the world, without breaking the old, new cannot be established. Doesn’t this also align with how we update and iterate our computers? Our previous exam topics were too outdated, some even discarded by the West. Therefore, under Professor Ma’s proposal, after careful consideration and decision, the competition committee finally settled on ‘innovation’ as the foundation of this competition topic, without restricting anyone’s creativity. Moreover, the selection of the champion will not be solely decided by the judges but will give half of the votes to the contestants themselves. This is also an innovation, emphasizing fairness, justice, and democracy!”

What a great innovation.

Zhao Qingfeng vaguely seemed to remember something.

He recalled seeing a similar news report in his previous life.

But he was too busy at the time to pay attention. Now, after being reminded and recalling his memory, there indeed was an innovation competition. If he remembered correctly, the champion of that year was…

As he was pondering, the competition was announced to begin.

Shen Lingyao was still cheering from the audience, while Li Ping was sweating profusely, clueless about how to innovate.

Fixed mindsets are like this.

Some people are like children, only daring to walk on wide roads, fearful of the unexplored grasslands.

Zhao Qingfeng smiled secretly, scanning around and noticing many students looking as lost as Li Ping. Then, looking at Ma Wei, their eyes met briefly. From the old professor’s expression and attitude, it seemed that the minister hadn’t informed him about joining and leading the 863 Plan. It looked like he needed to come up with something impressive these next two days to shake up the old man. Otherwise, it might be difficult to carry out plans to serve the country in the future. Not because Ma Wei wanted to cause trouble, but fearing his disbelief could create obstacles, further delaying the nation’s progress.

“What should we do?”

Li Ping thought for a while but couldn’t come up with anything.

“Let me handle it.”

Zhao Qingfeng asked him to step aside and took the main seat.

“What kind of innovation are you thinking of? It looks like everyone else is working on their proposals.”

Li Ping took the opportunity to look around. Students from Hua Qing and Jida, true to their prestigious backgrounds, quickly got into the groove.

“I’m thinking of writing out the entire code for Transforr.”

Zhao Qingfeng thought for a long time and felt this was a good idea, but Li Ping didn’t understand at all.

What’s Transforr?

This term was still very unfamiliar in 2001, and even 20 years later, it was not well known to the general public.

However, mentioning ChatGPT would be a different story, with everyone from bus aunties to tech enthusiasts being able to hold a conversation about it.

And ChatGPT was developed based on Transforr, a deep-learning language model. Although later versions like ChatGPT-4 had changed the model, it was essentially an upgrade and revision of Transforr. That is to say, to fully grasp and understand artificial intelligence and deep computation, mastering Transforr is a must.

“You’ll see in a bit.”

With that, Zhao Qingfeng immediately began to recreate the source code.

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