When Lam was in the hospital, Sun would take turns bringing the bone soup made by the two parents to Lam to drink after work every day, intending to supplement his body and promote the healing of Lam's ribs as soon as possible.

After drinking bone soup for more than ten days in a row, Lam felt that he had gained more than a dozen catties, and now he felt like vomiting when he smelled it.

So one day Lam had a whim and asked Sun if she could go home and tell Lam's parents that he wanted to drink cabbage tofu soup.

Sun agreed, and brought the cabbage tofu soup that Lam wanted the next day.

Lam took the soup and put it in his mouth, his expression gradually froze, but he finally swallowed it slowly.

"How is it? Is this soup delicious?" Sun looked at Lam expectantly.

"Sun, is this soup made by my mother? Are you sure?" Lam looked at the soup in his hand, then at Sun, and asked suspiciously.

"It's not all. Your mother taught me how to make it. She taught me very seriously, and I did it very well. After I finished it, I gave it to your mother for a try. She thought it was very good after drinking it. Let me bring you more. " Sun hesitated, and then urged Lam to finish the soup quickly. This was her first time cooking, but it took a lot of effort.

"I'm actually not very hungry. Why don't you drink it? You've gotten fat by stealing my soup recently. You need to drink more light." Lam gave Sun the soup with all his strength. He really didn't want to take a second sip.

"Hum, I’ll drink it myself!" Sun spit it out as soon as she took the first sip.

Why was it so sweet? Sun looked at Lam with a mournful face. Seeing the oil floating on top of the soup, Sun suddenly felt nauseous and went straight to the toilet.

When Sun came back, seeing Lam's schadenfreude face, she was so angry that she wanted to slap him on the arm a few times.

"Sun, do you think sugar is salt, ah." Lam laughed out loud, but then remembered that his mother looked so calm after drinking and asked Sun to bring it to him. It was indeed his own mother.

Hearing this, Sun packed up her things and left straight away, but on the way, she deliberately went around to a nearby restaurant to buy a lighter soup for Lam before returning home.

After lying in the hospital for more than half a month, Lam hurried back to the laboratory as soon as he was discharged from the hospital.

When returning to the laboratory, Lam looked at the colleagues who came over and greeted them kindly, but these people looked at him and shook their heads with pity, and then nodded to him from a distance.

Some colleagues even acted as if they couldn't see him, and walked past him quickly.

Lam wanted to stop them and ask what happened, but as soon as he made a sound, those people walked faster, as if something would happen if they got in touch with Lam.

What's the matter? Lam couldn't figure it out.

Just when Sun and Muzi came out at this moment, Lam hurriedly asked them what happened.

Sun glanced at Lam, hesitated to speak, but finally Muzi said: "Lam, Tom Zhang has replaced Professor Zhou as the head of our laboratory."

Tom Zhang? Lam hadn't figured it out yet.

Oh! Tom Zhang, Bird Zhang's father. Lam's heart sank.

It seemed that the next days would be difficult. No wonder those people didn't want to get close to him just now. They obviously knew about Tom Zhang.

Sun took Lam to the laboratory bulletin board, where Tom Zhang 's appointment notice was posted.

Tom Zhang, academician, researches in the field of artificial intelligence, and was a master of artificial intelligence symbolism in Hua country. Lam took a look at the time when he took office, and it happened to be today.

"What qualifications does he have to replace Professor Zhou in managing this laboratory? If he can teach a son like Bird Zhang, he is not a good person." Sun said angrily, obviously dissatisfied with Tom Zhang as the head of the laboratory . Muzi also nodded along with her.

"He is an academician of Hua country's Academy of Sciences, and he still has some academic achievements." After looking at Tom Zhang's resume, Lam still recognized his academic achievements to a certain extent, although he was not very interested in symbolism.

Now that Professor Zhou was gone, Lam felt that he still had to face some things by himself.

As soon as Lam read the announcement, he went back to the laboratory. He knew that Tom Zhang would definitely come to the various laboratories to understand the situation later, and told Sun and Muzi not to get angry and go back to prepare.

Sure enough, Tom Zhang came to Lam's laboratory after a while, asked Lam about the current experiment situation in a pleasant manner, and looked through the previous experiment records.

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Lam answered one by one calmly. Tom Zhang nodded, and said a lot of words of appreciation to Lam.

Afterwards, Tom Zhang sent his secretary to call Lam to his office, saying that he had something to talk to him about.

Lam didn't know what Tom Zhang wanted to talk to him about. Maybe it couldn't be about the death of his son Bird Zhang, but it was none of his business!

"Dr. Lam, here, please sit down! let's have a chat." Tom Zhang smiled and beckoned Lam to sit down.

Lam looked at Tom Zhang sitting on the chair where Professor Zhou used to sit, and couldn't help thinking of Professor Zhou, wondering how he was doing in the north.

"Professor Zhou was quite good at enjoying himself, but it's not my style. Personally, I prefer to work hard. Today, I asked someone to change this style." Tom Zhang looked at the office environment and patted the chair armrest, saying to him.

"Academician Zhang, I don't know why you called me here?" Lam withdrew his thoughts and asked Tom Zhang.

"It's no big deal. I know there are some grievances between us, but I am a person who pays attention to the distinction between public and private. Public is public and private is private. I won't talk about it together." Tom Zhang suddenly said to Lam seriously, and then added: "I know that my son has some misunderstandings with you, but he is dead after all, so don't think that I will treat you well in private. I want to explain this to you."

Lam was puzzled, not knowing what Tom Zhang meant by saying this to him.

Seeing Lam's expression like this, Tom Zhang continued: "I am now the person in charge of the entire Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. My ass determines my head, so I have to be responsible for the development of the entire laboratory. I read your experiment. The research project is indeed at the top level in the country, so I want you to continue the research. I don't want you to look forward and backward because of the bad relationship between us..."

When he came out of Tom Zhang's office, Lam had been thinking about how credible Tom Zhang's words were.

What Tom Zhang said today was not like his previous reputation. Could it be that the rumors in the academic circles were wrong, or was he just trying to be paralyzed him and then slowly clean up him?

Lam couldn't make a judgment for the time being, so he could only take a step to see.

In the afternoon, Sun hurried over to find Lam, told Lam that there was a lecture from Tom Zhang in the afternoon, and asked Lam to find fault quickly.

Lam gave Sun a disgusted look when he heard the words.

It really wasn't a big deal to watch the excitement, but he still followed Sun to Zhang's lecture.

The host of the lecture introduced Zhang's academic experience with emotion on the stage.

When he talked about the wonderful things, there were exclamations from the audience from time to time, expressing their admiration for Academician Zhang's achievements.

Tom Zhang picked up the microphone and started today's topic - a brief history of the development of artificial intelligence. Zhang made some brief introductions from the emergence, evolution, and future trend judgment of artificial intelligence.

He also interspersed some interesting stories from time to time during the lecture, making the main lecture less boring.

Lam and Sun also nodded after hearing this, thinking that Zhang was still a bit interesting, and he deserved to be an academician. When it came to the interactive session, Sun raised her hand to ask questions.

The host saw that Sun was the first to raise her hand, so he handed the microphone to Sun, and Sun asked: "Academician Zhang, you are a master of symbolism in our country. I would like to ask what are the advantages of symbolism? Where are the shortcomings? Does symbolism have a future compared to behaviorism?"

Hearing this, Zhang looked at Sun one more time, and then explained the advantages of symbolism.

The advantage of symbolism lied in its simple and clear assumptions.

As long as the corresponding functions were realized in symbolic calculation, then the corresponding functions would be realized in the real world.

Functionality, in short, as long as it was correct on the machine, it was correct in the real world. For example, the Turing test was a well-known experiment evolved from the characteristic of symbolism.

Lam also nodded when he heard this.

The Turing test was a typical experiment of the symbolism school, but it was now recognized as an experiment to test the level of artificial intelligence. The reason for the spiritual test, because there was really no other effective method.

As for the shortcomings of symbolism, Zhang glanced at Lam in the audience and continued to introduce that symbolism would fall into the uncertainty of conceptual understanding.

For example, artificial intelligence would tell you something according to the program, but you didn’t know artificial intelligence really understand the concept of this thing?

This was where symbolism had always been criticized, but only such artificial intelligence was in line with human logic, and those scholars who always thought that artificial intelligence could have human consciousness were just a group of liars, nothing more than sensationalism.

In response to Sun's three questions about the comparison between symbolism and behaviorism, Zhang smiled, pointed to Lam who was beside Sun and said, "There is a behaviorist next to you. Come on! We have invited Dr. Lam to tell us about artificial intelligence behaviorism."

After speaking, Zhang took the lead in applauding.

Those colleagues who didn't dare to get too close to Lam in the morning were a little surprised.

Academician Zhang didn't make things difficult for Lam, and even set up a platform for him.

People in the audience whispered. It seemed that Academician Zhang was not as narrow-minded as the rumors, and the hearsay was really unbelievable.

As soon as Lam came to the stage to introduce various basic concepts of behaviorism and the current status of technological development, he also timely raised the problem that behaviorism was now facing-the Moravec paradox.

In the 1980s, Hans Moravec, Brooks, Marvin Minsky and others discovered a phenomenon that was contrary to common sense.

Unlike traditional assumptions, the unique high-level intelligence of human beings required very little computing power, such as reasoning, but unconscious skills and intuition required a great deal of computing power, so this phenomenon was called Moravec's Paradox .

The most difficult thing to replicate was the unconscious skills and intuition of human skills.

If this problem was not solved, artificial intelligence could not achieve true intelligence at all.

Therefore, even if humans had made a huge breakthrough in the Turing test, there was still a long way to go.

As for Zhang's final question about the intelligence of artificial intelligence, Lam did not comment and did not answer directly.

As soon as Lam finished speaking, he nodded towards Zhang and stepped off the stage.

Zhang gave Lam an appreciative glance, and kept praising Lam in front of everyone.

For a period of time after that, Zhang never approached Lam, nor did he come to make things difficult for Lam.

Lam felt relieved for the time being, and continued to do his own experiments, thinking that this Zhang was not as bad as the rumors said.

It was indeed clear from the public and private perspectives.