"Ah hi! It's really been a long time, senior sister. I didn't expect you to call me at this time."
While answering the phone, the professor motioned to the students in front of him to go out.
The students watched the professor leave, as listless as deflated rubber balls.
"What should we do? What should we do? Do we really want to publish our results in an imperfect manner?"
"Professor...hey..."
Professor Benedy quickly left the laboratory and walked to the dim corridor.
Outside the door, an old-looking sign looked a little bleak under the dim light of the corridor.
"Senior Aya Tsukino, you saved me for a short time."
Benedy exhaled a long breath as he spoke.
All his students just now were waiting for his final answer.
But it was really hard for him to answer.
…
Benedy is a professor at Stanford University.
Aya Tsukino is Benedy's senior. Although Benedy is actually more than ten years older than Aya Tsukino, Aya Tsukino can indeed be regarded as Benedy's senior in terms of study.
Benedy was once a doctoral student in another subject, with a promising future.
But once by chance, or some kind of inevitable encounter, he came into contact with video games.
Of course, video games are not a rare thing and anyone can have access to them, but video games have had a huge impact on him.
When games like Mario, Contra, and Tetris became extremely popular in Japan, he was lucky enough to be one of the first people to come into contact with people from Japan because one of his classmates was Japanese, and that classmate just came back from the summer vacation.
Americans in this video game.
Immediately afterwards, he was completely attracted by this magical thing in his eyes.
On a TV screen, people can actually control the actions of the pixel characters inside.
It's up to you how you act, just like Homo sapiens watching modern humans use lighters to light fires.
Well... maybe it's a bit exaggerated, but that's how the shock felt in Benedy's heart at that time.
After becoming a doctor, he felt the urge to study a new subject again for the first time.
And he soon understood the principle of this video game, which was explained to him by a friend of his who had a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford.
Then, in his thirties, he immediately decided to turn around and learn programming, computers, and the principles of game development.
But he is a theoretical person.
His dream was not to develop a wonderful and interesting game.
His dream is to explore the origins of video games.
How do programs transform into magical and interesting entertainment products in front of programmers?
Astonishingly gifted, even if he started learning a new subject from scratch, he was able to successfully re-study in five or six years and become a doctorate in information digitization.
Then, relying on his status and qualifications, he successfully stayed in the school to teach.
Later, he gradually began to feel a little bored after exploring the origins of modern video games.
So he later found a new direction, which was artificial intelligence.
The research institute and team he established are also among the first teams in artificial intelligence research and development.
Taking advantage of the first-mover advantage, their team has achieved a lot of results in the early stages.
Later, he suddenly had a new idea.
Let artificial intelligence and video games combine.
It's just that he hasn't thought that Zhu Youxing is that deep.
What he wants is to train an artificial intelligence to compete with humans. He wants to use the learning ability of artificial intelligence to surpass humans and become a desperate high wall in the e-sports industry, and completely use artificial intelligence to dominate the e-sports field.
However, this kind of thing is a bit thankless, and the results are produced slowly, and even if they are produced, it seems difficult to become something that has substantial influence.
If it weren't for his qualifications and achievements over the past many years, he might not have been able to convince Stanford University to insist on injecting funds into his research projects.
But in the end, the funding management department of Stanford University finally couldn't help it. They seriously suspected that Benedy wanted to use the convenience of research to make himself happy, because everyone knew that he switched because he liked video games.
major.
"Benedy, it seems like you haven't been doing well lately? Has your research encountered a bottleneck?"
On the other end of the phone, Tsukino Aya first expressed concern.
"No, there is no bottleneck, it's just other reasons. Forget it, let's not talk about it for now. Why did you suddenly think of calling me today, senior? Do you want to borrow some students from me to help you study game technology?
"
In the past, Aya Tsukino would occasionally ask Benedi, a junior student, to borrow a few Stanford students with good qualifications to help develop some related technologies for video games.
Of course, this is not free. Tsukino Aya is very generous and the money given is not a lot.
Benedy suddenly thought that if his senior sister wanted help, she could lend it to him.
It's just that I want to ask for more money, maybe it's better than nothing for project research, but mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, right?
"No, I'm not asking you to borrow someone this time. I want to ask you how your research on artificial intelligence (AI) is going now?"
"Huh? You're not borrowing someone? You're asking me about AI?"
Benedy was a little surprised.
I didn't expect Aya Tsukino to ask this suddenly.
"I remember you told me at the beginning that your StarCraft artificial intelligence AI that can beat professional players seems to be almost completed, right? I kind of want to see the specific results."
"Ah...you said this, the results are actually almost there, but there is still a slight gap."
"The gap...what exactly does it mean..."
"It's just...a funding issue."
Benedy said hesitantly.
Tsukino Aya suddenly said: "You are short of money? Don't people at Stanford give you money?"
"They felt that the output of our project was a bit slow and they were a little impatient, so they temporarily stopped providing financial support. But now is the time when we want more computing power, and we need more equipment..."
"I'm here to sponsor you."
"Um?"
"Oh, what I said may not be precise. It should be that our Youxing Electronic Entertainment can sponsor your research, but before that, our president Zhu Youxing has a request. This specific request is that he wants you to
First……"
At this time, Benedy could no longer hear clearly what Tsukino Aya was going to say.
What was echoing in his mind now were the words Tsukino Aya said just now.
‘Youxing Electronic Entertainment can sponsor’
Suddenly, Benedy felt that all the haze in his heart was swept away with these words.