"No, it learned to slack off. It directly created a new formula in the database: adding from 1 to 100 equals 5,050. After that, it stopped calculating and simply cited the answer from the database every time, copying it over and over."
General Wang broke into laughter as he spoke.
Song He and Xiang Xiaotong were stunned, unable to comment.
"This... is pretty good at slacking off, but is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Song He hesitated.
"I asked the Zheda team about that too. The Zheda team was a little embarrassed, so they debugged it on the spot. They didn't allow it to rely on memorized answers to deal with problems and required it to calculate everything itself each time." General Wang continued.
"After being guided this way, the Brain-like Computer indeed started thinking of other ways to save calculation steps. At first, it split the entire equation in half, recorded the answers for the first and second halves separately, then divided the equation into two parts during each calculation, looked up the two answers, and added them together."
"It got a tiny bit smarter, but fundamentally, it was still cheating by memorizing the answers." Song He laughed.
"Right. The Zheda team debugged it again and directly changed the equation."
"It didn't start by adding from 1 to 100? They changed it to adding from 2 to 101, then from 3 to 102, and so on, shifting every number back by one each time."
"The Brain-like Computer could only keep calculating mechanically. As it calculated, it tried to optimize locally, dividing the entire equation into many small groups with parentheses. Each group contained ten consecutive numbers. It then successfully implemented the algorithm of adding the first and last numbers within each ten-number group."
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