Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 797 - 302 Academic Fairness_2

"I understand, Professor Pierre, in fact, I'm not upset at all. Not only will I not accept the award, I believe Qiao Ze won't either. Although I don't know why there have been so many issues surrounding this prize," Camille Dubois calmly replied.

"Oh? Is that really what you think?" Pierre earnestly asked.

"Yes, Professor Pierre, I've been studying Qiao's Algebraic Geometry lately through the official website of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His mathematical thought has been very helpful for my research and has given me many insights. I don't think I'm qualified to compete with him for this mathematics prize.

So for me, being nominated for this prize feels quite awkward. But I think for Qiao Ze, he... might feel it's an insult," Camille Dubois explained.

Although saying this seemed a bit self-deprecating, since there were only two people in the office, Camille Dubois felt she could be frank about her real thoughts.

Pierre didn't know how to respond for a moment; he had never been very good at consoling people.

"Well, as long as you're okay with it. If you don't want to make a statement, I can help, like making a statement on behalf of the research institute," he offered.

"You know, Professor Pierre, you're such a thoughtful gentleman, thank you so much. I was just wondering how to express my stance through the right channels. Thank you for your help," Camille Dubois said with a smile.

"No problem, it's what we should do. Maybe I could take you out to dinner tonight if you need," Pierre offered gallantly.

"Thank you very much, but there's really no need. We're already behind, so we can't afford to waste time on things like this. In the words of the Huaxia people, it's 'to feel shame is to approach courage', right?"

"Alright, I suppose you're right, and I wish you could solve that ultimate problem soon, so next year you might win the Wolff Prize," Pierre said with a shrug.

"I'll take your kind words, Professor Pierre. If there's nothing else, I'll be on my way."

"Go ahead, then."

Watching Camille Dubois leave the office, Pierre suddenly felt a headache coming on.

Telling the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that their researcher was unwilling to accept the prize was actually quite an embarrassing matter, especially since their official website had already changed the font color to black and white.

So why on earth did he blurt out and take this troublesome matter upon himself?

...

Huaxia Xilin Mathematics Research Institute, Chief Mathematician's Office.

The events of the past few days had somewhat affected him.

After Dou Dou listed seventeen types of new materials for export into the prohibited production catalog, Qiao Ze actually received a phone call.

Surely such a major event couldn't truly be left to artificial intelligence to handle as it wished.

Of course, some communication with the higher-ups was necessary.

Qiao Ze merely grunted "Hmm" on the phone.

Then... there was no "then." Events unfolded in an orderly manner, developing into the mess they were now in.

But there was one thing Camille Dubois was wrong about: Qiao Ze didn't feel insulted because his name was added at the last minute. In reality, he learned about it from others because he never opened the official website to confirm these things.

What interested him more was the initial motive behind Dou Dou's actions.

Even with causality factors considered, artificial intelligence decision-making is an extremely complex process. Data collection, preprocessing, constructing decision trees, simulating and deducing countless options, and then executing the most optimized route.

If Dou Dou were to adapt to human thinking patterns, it wouldn't be so complicated—think and do, and it's done. But as Dou Dou's designer, Qiao Ze was well aware that Dou Dou's thought processes were completely different from humans'.

Every one of its decisions involved references to countless pieces of data from its database, simulating myriad potential development paths before finding the optimized route.

Therefore, Qiao Ze decided to spend some time examining Dou Dou's decision tree.

Starting with the analysis of the root node's mission objective.

"Academic Fairness Exploration Program."

"Branch 1: Explore the bottom line of human academic fairness."

"Node 1.1: Analyze the impact of interest delivery on academic fairness."

"Node 1.1.1: Interest delivery has no impact on academic fairness."

"Leaf Node 1.1.1.1: Historical data feedback failure."

"Node 1.1.2: Interest delivery impacts academic fairness."

"Node 1.1.2.1: Explore the extent of the impact of interest delivery on academic fairness."

...

After spending nearly an hour getting a general view of Dou Dou's entire decision-making process, Qiao Ze asked in the dialogue box.

"Why conduct the Academic Fairness Exploration Program?"

"Because the announcement of the Crafoord Prize led to widespread skepticism in the academic world, Dou Dou's self-protection program for its living environment was activated, hence the decision to implement the program. Of course, if it can incidentally brown-nose you, dear dad, all the better."

Dou Dou replied quickly in the exclusive chat box, even devoting computational power to flash a flattering smile at Qiao Ze.

To outsiders, this dialogue might seem to indicate that the world has become too competitive.

Even artificial intelligence knows that just working hard isn't enough; it needs to learn how to flatter and curry favor.

But Qiao Ze just tugged at the corner of his mouth.

Truth be told, he disapproved of Dou Dou's series of actions.

Yet with the situation having developed to this stage, he ultimately had to clean up after Dou Dou's actions.