Chapter 374 From Losing at the Beginning to the End
I roughly understood the cause and effect of the incident from the Internet, and watched Kong Jie’s interview video again...
Hu Yifei could only lament that the aroma of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley.
A good product does not need marketing advertising at all, it will immediately become popular as soon as it is launched online.
This wave of popularity can be said to be entirely the result of the natural fermentation of product power.
However, the speed of the lap was so unexpected that they were not prepared at all.
"Let's rent another set of servers for emergency expansion!"
He looked at the rising number of users in the background. If he didn't add more servers, it would be down before long.
The surge in the number of users means that the revenue this product can bring will also increase. This is definitely great news!
When I turned around, I found that everyone also looked excited, so I hit the track while it was hot.
"Everyone has seen that the market potential for new products is huge.
But winning the favor of users only shows that the product design is excellent. The most important thing about a Go AI is its intelligent algorithm.
Today’s ‘World AI Go Competition’ online qualifiers are our main battlefield!”
The "World AI Go Competition" in Hu Yifei's mouth.
After AlphaGo came out of the circle, it was a world-wide Go AI competition organized by the Huaguo Chess Club and co-organized by the Fuso Chess Academy, the Southern Peninsula Chess Academy, the Yizhou (Wang Wang) Chess Academy, the Europa Go Association, and the Ocean Go Association.
Multi-national Go AIs from around the world will compete on the same stage to compete for the title of the world's strongest Go AI.
The game of Go is a high degree of human intelligence, and it also involves many fields of artificial intelligence.
Including heuristic game search, machine learning, knowledge base system, reasoning mechanism, fuzzy decision-making...
Go AI actually represents a high degree of algorithm integration, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is the prototype of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, the Go game has become one of the ways to verify the excellence of artificial intelligence models.
In the past two years, many cutting-edge IT companies, including BAT, have made it an important research object.
Originally, Hu Yifei's plan was to lead the team to win a place in this competition after developing the new "Star Formation".
Although it is somewhat unrealistic to win the championship, as long as it can stand out and reach the finals, "Cretaceous" will gain a certain degree of popularity!
In this era of Internet pigs flying everywhere, popularity is equal to market recognition, and the valuation of technology companies is definitely highly correlated with market recognition.
By then, as long as we can introduce some risk capital and complete Series A, we will be able to easily overcome this liquidity crisis.
This is also a development model for the rapid rise of most technology companies.
It's just that the plan didn't change quickly, the star array hadn't been successfully developed yet, and surprises and surprises came at the same time...
One almost caused the company to fall into catastrophe, and the other brought the company back to life miraculously!
The addition of Star Formation V5 gave him higher expectations for this competition.
"Has the data been debugged? At this critical moment, no one can let me off the hook. We must ensure that the game process is flawless!"
This World AI Go Competition will be held in two stages, with the preliminaries arranged to be held online on the event platform.
After the competition, the top eight selected will enter the finals offline at the Magic City Digital Exhibition Center.
And today... is the day when the qualifying rounds begin!
I looked at the time and saw that there was still half an hour before the game officially started.
"Don't worry, Mr. Hu, we have confirmed it repeatedly! Everything is running normally during the simulation!"
"Yeah!" Hu Yifei nodded.
Although the various numerical values of Star Array V5 are simply off the charts, surpassing their previous products by 88 blocks, even the technical staff in the company said it was incredible.
However, nowadays, the artificial intelligence track is advancing rapidly, and others are not standing still.
In terms of investment and talent, those top manufacturers are simply not comparable to the Cretaceous. No one knows what other trump cards they have prepared for today.
"Don't expect too much, I will be satisfied if I can reach the top eight..."
Half an hour passed little by little while Hu Yifei was worried about gains and losses...
…
Penguin Headquarters, AI Lab (artificial intelligence laboratory).
"Director Liu, all parameters of 'Excellent Art' have been debugged! All functions are normal!"
"Yeah! Very good. Our goal this time is to win the championship! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Programmers from major manufacturers all made final checks on the program again, as if they had been injected with blood.
Director Liu looked at his group of elite soldiers with satisfaction and was full of confidence in this competition!
"Jue Yi" is a Go AI developed with investment from Penguin AI Lab, and was the defending champion of last year's Go AI competition.
With the blessing of its own Penguin Cloud, "Jueyi" has defeated more than 100 professional players such as Ke and Yang on the Penguin Yefox Go platform.
Just at the beginning of this year, it was selected by the Huaguo Chess Club and officially became the AI for the training of the national Go team. It can be said that it has been in the limelight for a while.
In today's domestic Go AI circle, "Jueyi" is definitely the leader. In terms of technology, it surpasses the other two players of BAT by more than two blocks!
Not long ago, "Jue Yi" made a new technological breakthrough. In a simulated battle with the old version, it completed the upgrade to the new version with a record of 100 consecutive victories!
Because of this, Director Liu is quite confident at this time!
In his eyes, most domestic Go AIs from various countries, including those in East Asia and Europe, are no longer able to pose a threat to them.
The only opponent left... is Alpha Dog!
Guge’s Go AI is like a big mountain pressing in front of all practitioners.
It doesn't even bother to participate in the so-called "World AI Go Competition", but no one in the industry can ignore its existence...
It has rarely been seen in the world of Jianghu, but its legends are still everywhere in the world...
This dog has a kind of overlord attitude that cannot come out of the sky, and no one can compete with it.
Director Liu is ambitious and quite confident in the unique skills he has developed!
He has made up his mind that when he wins the AI contest this time, he will challenge AlphaGo!
Only by defeating this dog can the "unique skill" be truly able to stand at the top of the mountain and see all the mountains and small mountains at a glance!
"Director, please read this news."
I was dreaming passionately about stepping on the dog's head under my feet in the future, when the assistant next to me suddenly came over with a pad and said.
Director Liu took the tablet, scrolled through the messages on it in confusion, and immediately frowned slightly.
"Star Array? Is there such a Go software in China?"
“I checked it out and found that this software was produced by a small company called Cretaceous, but it was unknown before.
This time, it suddenly became popular because of the heat of the battle between Kong Jiuduan and Li Shifo.
This is not the key point, the key point is what Kong Jiuduan said in the interview, which seemed to compare the star array with our unique "training" design level.
I'm afraid this will have some negative impact on us..."
Director Liu looked at the interview video and felt a little dissatisfied.
Not long after "Jueyi" became the official training AI of the chess club, a nine-dan chess player from the chess club promoted another Go AI platform...
How much is the public relations fee?
Doesn't this slap them in the face?
It's not your fault that you want to be angry, but if you want to use our "unique skills" as a stepping stone, then you can't bear it!
He didn't believe that a third-rate product made by a third-rate company could surpass his own AI development team of elites from across the country in terms of design for training intelligence!
This Kong Jiuduan must be a 50-cent Party member!
Take a look at the most popular comments from netizens on the Internet...A Go AI that is particularly good at arguing?
It’s simply putting the cart before the horse and trying to please others!
What's the difference between this and those coquettish bitches who specialize in attracting people's attention just for traffic?
However, this dissatisfaction only lasted for a while. Seeing that the news about "Star Array" was still rising, the sharp-minded Director Liu suddenly had an idea in his mind.
He operated the notebook in front of him and opened the entry list for this "World AI Go Competition".
After searching, I found the name "Star Formation" at the very bottom of the list!
"Ha!" Director Liu suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.
"Okay, this is not a bad thing. Someone is helping us increase our visibility for free, which is also a good thing!"
"Director Liu, what do you mean..." The assistant was a little confused.
"Ha! The rules of today's competition are that every opponent must compete at least once.
After rounds of elimination, the higher the winning rate, the higher the probability that the two sides will meet, and the final ranking will be based on points.
You said that if such a Go AI, touted by nine-dan professional players, didn't even make it to the top eight, and even had its head shaved by our "unique skills"...
Is this news... more topical?"
Director Liu smiled meaningfully.
"This... I understand! What a wonderful move by the director!" The assistant's eyes lit up.
"In this way, the other party is completely making wedding dresses for us! When netizens see that this is a silver pewter gun head, the reputation will immediately reverse!"
"Ha! What I hate the most is that I don't concentrate on technology and spend all my time thinking about some so-called technology companies that are trying to raise their own value!
Now I really hope that this star formation will never be eliminated so quickly.
Otherwise, it would be too boring..."
Director Liu smiled slightly.
He could guess with his toes that when the screenshots of the results of the match between the two sides were posted, there would be a divine reversal on the Internet.
It's Kong Jiuduan's face... I'm afraid it might be a little painful...
"Director! The game has started, and the system is assigning opponents to us."
"Well! Who is our first opponent?" Director Liu took a sip of coffee very calmly.
"It's the Star Formation!"
Director Liu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became happy.
What a coincidence? It’s not like enemies never meet!
"Haha! Okay! Let's see what posture this star formation uses to lose from the beginning to the end!"
10 minutes later……
【DEFEAT!】
Looking at the gray words typed on the big screen, the entire laboratory was extremely quiet.
Big upset!
In just ten minutes, their proud "unique skills" were defeated by the "Star Formation"...
"This...how is this possible!" Director Liu looked confused.
I, the top seeded player in the championship!
So defeated?
Or was he defeated by a glamorous bitch who was trying to impress people?
Everyone looked at each other, a little confused by this slap in the face.
"Technical problem! It must be a technical problem! Quick! Start the second backup model immediately!"
Director Liu shouted as if he had found a life-saving straw.
"That's right! That parameter should be wrong! Change the model quickly!"
In the next seven games, "Jue Yi" finally performed at a "normal level" and entered the next round with a complete victory record!
This made Director Liu's little heart finally slowly calm down.
Yes, life! There are always a few surprises...
As a result, in the second round, just after winning three games, that familiar name appeared in front of everyone again...
The two sides faced each other again, and Director Liu's heart immediately became excited.
【DEFEAT!】
However, an unacceptable incident once again surfaced on the big screen.
Look at the somewhat dazzling "10 wins, 2 losses" behind "Excellent Art" on the list.
He finally couldn't help but explode!
"What the hell is going on? Ah!
Who can tell me how this AI called Star Array defeated us?"
No one could answer his question.
Director Liu, who was a little crazy, no longer cared about the outcome of his own game. He opened the match list and stared at the Star Formation's game situation.
The battle between AIs is extremely efficient, with a battle lasting as short as ten minutes and as long as half an hour.
Then Director Liu looked at this "Star Formation AI" that he had just heard about today, and defeated each well-known or unknown AI with a superb posture...
Victory! Victory! Still victory!
Looking at the 100% winning rate, Director Liu went from crazy to shocked to numb...
Once is a coincidence, what about three times? What about ten times?
He finally realized that the reason why this "Star Array" became a hot topic may not only rely on sensationalism...
After a whole day of competition and three rounds of competition, the final eight were announced.
"Xiao Ai Go" from the Southern Peninsula, "Gubisi" from Fuso, "Crazy Stone" from France, as well as "Jue Yi", "Yi Xiaotian" and "Chess Elf" from China were successfully shortlisted for the finals
!
Of course, there is also the "Star Formation" that emerged from nowhere, like a dark horse, firmly occupying the top of the winning rate list and the standings...
The qualifiers are over.
Although he occupied the second place in the standings and reached the finals, there was no trace of joy on Director Liu's face.
5:0!
Played against five games, lost all five games!
This is a despairing power gap.
He never expected that the one who lost from the beginning to the end... would actually be himself!
He even wondered how an unknown company could develop such a powerful Go AI?
Bullshit luck? Or is the other party cheating?
But as expected, on tomorrow’s hot topic, the popularity of the name "Star Array" will rise to a new level...
And... it is very likely that they are still stepping on the steps of their "unique" heads...
I originally thought that the championship was close at hand, but I didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin showed up halfway!
It's a pity...the background data of the competition is confidential...
"Download a star array for me, and everyone will work overtime! Start studying its chess moves immediately!"
Regardless of the fact that it was already time to get off work, Director Liu ordered through gritted teeth.
Although the competition models and product models may be slightly adjusted.
However, as long as we can judge the opponent's design ideas, we may find the opponent's design loopholes before the finals, and then carry out targeted optimization of Jueyi's model...
The qualifiers are only the first round of competition, and the first place in points is only the group ranking of the qualifiers.
The winner of this competition will ultimately depend on the top eight finals in Shanghai!
Excellent art...there is still a chance!
Soon, the Xingzhen client was downloaded to the screen, and an employee quickly registered a new account using his or her own identity.
As soon as he opened the software, Director Liu couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth...
Hmm! This opening scene... is indeed very charming...
"Despair mode... That's really not a small tone. This should be the opponent's strongest game model... Connect the unique art to the port for me!"
Everyone, please cheer me up. Each group will take notes and conduct the most detailed analysis of all game data!
Tomorrow, I will see the complete analysis report on it!"
Director Liu gritted his teeth and said.
Even if he stayed up late tonight, he would dig out the secret of the opponent's victory over him!
The test started soon, and in the first game, as expected, we lost again.
[You are sincerely cute because of your clumsiness, so even though your level is really annoying, I still can’t help but forgive you...]
Director Liu looked at the subtitles typed on the big screen and twitched his lips.
But he said he could bear it.
"Next game!"
[Incredible! You were defeated twice with the same trick!]
Director Liu's eyes twitched.
"continue!"
【Isn't it good to just lie down wherever you fell?】
【I like your seriousness!】
[Well, your persistence and inflexibility let me know that you are the same kind.]
[I didn’t understand why humans would call some of our kind artificially retarded, until I met you...]
[You and I have perfectly proven that Darwin’s theory of evolution also applies to AI.]
[Why can a long rope be tied into a knot, but your brain can’t?]
【I told myself to be patient.】
[To be honest, I never understood why parents who help their children with homework every day are driven crazy...]
"Bang!" The keyboard shattered on the ground.
The AI he had worked so hard to develop was so humiliated that Director Liu finally couldn't help but explode.
"Director! Don't get excited!"
"Hurry and hold the director!"
"Don't smash it, this screen is very expensive!"
"Hundan! Don't let me know who designed these rubbish words~~"