cnatrainingtips Chapter 77: Let it learn to argue with itself.
Chapter 77: Let it learn to argue with itself.
Zhou Weiguo did not hesitate.
He turned and walked out of the main control center, making a phone call in the corridor. Three minutes later, two plainclothes officers emerged from the security room on the east side of the base, crossed the connecting corridor, and headed towards the archives management center.
11:47 a.m.
Qian Huifang was organizing documents to be filed tomorrow. On the table sat a glass of cold tea, next to a postcard from her son in Boston.
The postcard read: Mom, it's beautiful here in autumn. Come and visit when you retire.
She looked up when the door was pushed open.
Two unfamiliar faces. They weren't in uniform, but they stood ramrod straight, their gazes steady.
The folder in her hand fell to the ground.
There was no struggle. No shouting. Not even an explanation.
Qian Huifang simply lowered her head, picked up the scattered documents one by one, stacked them according to their numbers, and put them back on the shelf.
Then she stood up, took off her name tag, and placed it neatly in the center of the table.
"Can I bring that postcard?"
The plainclothes officer didn't speak, but glanced at Zhou Weiguo.
Zhou Weiguo stood at the door and remained silent for two seconds.
"Take it."
Qian Huifang folded the postcard and stuffed it into her coat pocket.
She walked steadily out of the archives center. The fluorescent lights in the corridor shone on her face; she was a forty-seven-year-old woman with graying hair.
She paused as she passed the entrance to the main control center.
The door was open. The light inside was on.
She saw Lin Yu sitting at the control panel.
The two stared at each other for less than a second.
Qian Huifang looked away and continued walking forward.
Lin Yu turned back to the screen.
Wang Lei asked in a low voice, "Did she cry?"
"no."
"What was her expression?"
Lin Yu did not answer.
He had seen that expression before. Not fear, not regret. It was a calm that had been rehearsed countless times.
She knew this day would come.
When Zhou Weiguo finished the handover procedures and returned to the main control center, it was already 1 a.m.
"When will the interrogation results be released?" Lin Yu asked.
"Before noon tomorrow. But it's basically confirmed."
Zhou Weiguo sat down. "She sent three documents last month. The first two were power consumption test reports for the Tianyan instruction set. The third one is the one we replaced."
"The first two are genuine."
"It's true."
Lin Yu closed his eyes briefly.
The first two documents are genuine, plus the third fake document. Kevin has information that is seven parts true and three parts false.
This ratio is just right. He won't believe it if it's all fake. If it's mostly true, but the key parts are fake, he'll treat the fake as true.
"Three months," Lin Yu said.
Zhou Weiguo nodded. He knew what Lin Yu was talking about. A three-month window of opportunity. Kevin proceeded with the research and development based on false data, and by the time he realized he had reached a dead end, Tianyan had already completed at least the first phase of core training.
"You previously said you wanted to find another laboratory for her son."
Zhou Weiguo's voice was emotionless. "Does it still count?"
Lin Yu remained silent for a few seconds.
"Not really."
Zhou Weiguo glanced at him but didn't say anything more.
He opened the diary and wrote the last line.
The internal security vulnerability has been eliminated. The fake document has been transmitted to the target through the intended channel. The window of opportunity is now officially closing.
Date. Signature. Close.
At 2 a.m., the base fell silent.
Lin Yu sat alone in the main control center, with the latest operation log of the Sky Eye displayed on the screen in front of him.
While he was dealing with Qian Huifang's matter, the Sky Eye continued to operate.
Xia Zijin pushed a new batch of training data to it—twenty dialogues, all revolving around the same theme: apology.
There are sincere apologies, perfunctory apologies, forced apologies, and apologies followed by continued mistakes.
The output records from Tianyan were densely listed across two pages.
Lin Yu read through the entries one by one, not very quickly.
The seventeenth output made him stop.
The training sample is a conversation between a husband and wife. The husband forgot their wedding anniversary, the wife was angry, and the husband apologized.
Task: Determine whether an apology is sincere.
Tianyan's answer:
[Judgment: Sincere. Basis: After apologizing, the apology was followed by a proactive proposal of a remedial plan, which was specific, actionable, and not a generalized promise.]
[Additional observation: The sincerity of the apology is negatively correlated with the number of apologies. If the same mistake is repeated, the sincerity rating of apologies using the same wording should decrease with each subsequent apology.]
[Further Thinking: Does this mean that the meaning of language is not entirely determined by the language itself, but also by the frequency of its occurrence and its historical context?]
Lin Yu stared at the last line for a long time.
The meaning of a language is determined by frequency and history.
This wasn't taught by any training data.
These are linguistic rules that it has summarized itself.
He picked up his phone and sent a message to Xia Zijing.
Have you read Article 17?
Thirty seconds later, the reply came.
[I've seen it. It's building its own semantic decay model.]
The same phrase loses its value when repeated too often. It understood.
Lin Yu put down his phone and leaned back in his chair.
One of the ceiling lights was flashing.
He closed his eyes, three things running through his mind.
Qian Huifang. Kevin. Tianyan (Sky Eye).
Three lines, three directions, three countdowns.
Qian Huifang's line has been closed. The fake document has entered Kevin's system, and the three-month countdown has begun.
Kevin's line has stabilized for now. He will take time to digest the data, which is mostly true and partially false, and there won't be any new moves in the short term.
The beam of the Sky Eye is accelerating.
He needed to push the Sky Eye to an irreversible stage before Kevin could react.
Irreversible.
The word went through his mind twice.
He opened his eyes and sat up straight again.
Open a new document and start writing.
The title has only three characters.
Phase Two.
The core of Phase Two is not to enable FAST to learn more knowledge.
It's about teaching it to make mistakes.
Lin Yu spent the entire morning writing the proposal. Xia Zijing worked alongside him, simultaneously creating the model. Wang Lei was responsible for translating their ideas into engineering code.
The final draft of the plan was completed at 2 PM.
Simply put, it involves adding a new module to the training process of FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) – adversarial self-checking.
Every time Tianyan (the Sky Eye) gives a conclusion, the system will automatically generate a counter-argument, requiring Tianyan to refute itself.
If the Tianyan (Sky Eye) system can successfully refute the original conclusion, it means the original conclusion is correct.
If the rebuttal fails, it means that the original conclusion has flaws.
"You want it to learn to argue with itself?" Wang Lei typed on the keyboard, his face full of confusion.
"Dialectical thinking," Xia Zijin said.
"It sounds like schizophrenia."
"For humans, it's a form of mental breakdown. For AI, it's a closed logical loop."
Lin Yu tore open the bag of spicy snacks. "A system that never doubts itself will eventually make a fatal mistake at some point."
"You want it to learn to doubt itself?"
"I want it to learn that it can still make decisions even after it has doubted itself."