Chapter 969: Chapter 353: Human-Like Thinking
From middle school onwards, it is a fact that mathematics becomes more difficult.
However, for the department in charge of education, there is no choice.
Someone once put forward this question: what should be done if one day the foundational disciplines develop to the point where humans need a lifetime to learn them?
Will the development of various basic sciences come to a halt? At least, judging from the current situation, the answer is obviously no!
The solution is probably to compress foundational knowledge, eliminate certain outdated knowledge points, and systematically move up the time for learning some concepts and theorems.
Every ten years or so, primary and secondary school curricula undergo significant changes. Outdated knowledge is discarded and replaced with more updated points.
The difficulty naturally rises steadily in this process.
And as the difficulty increases, the work of talent selection becomes increasingly stringent.
From a macro perspective, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
After all, for the vast majority of ordinary people, mastering just one skill is enough to get by in life.
The foundational scientific research that pushes the entirety of human civilization forward has never required that many people.
This is true now, and naturally, it will be true in the future interstellar age.
So when it comes to the online complaints and trending topics, Qiao Yu feels this is the normal direction of development.
The complexity of learning content is an inevitable development trend, it’s just that the difficulty increase has been more noticeable in recent years.
In a few more years, when everyone gets used to it, it will be fine.
Not to mention, this era is definitely the best era for Huaxia.
After all, Huaxia is considered one of the most friendly nations to ordinary people and especially to the poor worldwide.
Even if just for show, to win the world’s hearts, benevolent governance will be instituted.
As long as people follow Huaxia’s arrangements, ordinary people can have a good life, which is one of the primary themes advertised worldwide in "The Richards" documentary.
There will definitely be no response to these complaints. In Qiao Yu’s view, whether it’s the middle school entrance exams or the university entrance exams, they are essentially talent selection tests.
The department in charge merely plays the role of a traffic light in this process.
As long as they don’t let the traffic at the intersections get blocked.
The curricula and teaching guidelines getting more difficult is a fact, but after all, it’s the same for everyone.
Throughout Huaxia’s thousands of years of civilization, inequality, not scarcity, has been the real concern.
As long as it’s not just one’s own child who faces difficulties, people generally accept it.
So this topic is purely a vent of frustration, people join in for a bit of excitement and then leave...
After all, Huaxia’s economy is thriving, somewhat analogous to West University in the 1980s.
With global infrastructure contracts being signed one after another and planetary development being put on the agenda, people are very optimistic about the future. Basically, no matter what they do, they can make a profit.
Furthermore, Huaxia’s government is quite adept at controlling inflation.
They can always find suitable reservoirs to prevent inflation from rapidly impacting people’s lives.
For example, this time the target is still the real estate market, specifically those high-end properties.
Especially in Huaxia’s major cities and key areas of each provincial capital, only those premium, intelligently-designed homes are allowed to be built, and the prices are essentially uncapped.
There’s even a Moon Resort Plan. For the wealthy, spending a little, which is not much for them, allows them to book a fully functional 30-square-meter apartment on the Moon.
With these reservoirs, though the economy is developing rapidly, the inflation of various essential commodities is well-controlled.
Moreover, Huaxia never abandoned its role as an industrial nation. Various modern industrial products remain cheap.
From this viewpoint, Huaxia people in the 2030s likely lead a more carefree life than West University people in the 1980s.
So it really is just complaints without any serious discontent.
As time passes, the online crowd’s attention begins to be drawn to the first general artificial intelligence "July" shown in conference videos.
Most people don’t actually understand the difference between AI and AGI.
Especially in this era where companies are releasing various AI products that are becoming increasingly common.
In everyday life, most people already interact with artificial intelligence.
Not to mention online intelligent chatbots and smart speakers.
AlphaGo, the chess-playing AI, is still dominating the chess world, with humans unable to compete against it.
There are also the smart home central robots, smart medical robots, intelligent service robots, and intelligent therapists launched in recent years...
A dazzling array of products.
Some hospitals have even started experimenting with robot-assisted surgeries and received excellent feedback.
For many people, especially Huaxia people, they have long since become accustomed to the presence of artificial intelligence in their lives.
Suddenly, a general artificial intelligence appears, and given the situation, many mathematicians are astonished, leaving people quite bewildered.
Fortunately, in the internet era, there’s never a shortage of science communicators. And there’s always someone who enjoys exaggerating in their explanations.
Additionally, Qiao Yu in the conference directly proposed the concept of using mathematics to define consciousness, which led to overwhelming publicity that the Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center has launched a general artificial intelligence with human consciousness.
To be honest, this somewhat distorts the facts.
At least in Qiao Yu’s definition, mathematical consciousness does have some differences compared to the naturally occurring autonomous consciousness in humans.
