Chapter 215: Eating shit can't catch up with the heat (6000 words long chapter, first update!)
AlphaGo challenges Lee Se-sil!
If the paper published by the DeepMind team in Nature two months ago only caused some response in the technology community and among some young Go players, then this news completely ignited public opinion and even became a hot topic on Weibo!
Of course, the popularity of Tui and Facebook is not big, and is limited to technology enthusiasts. The popularity is far less than that of the Kardashian family's new relationship and the big drum.
From this point of view, in recent years, the enthusiasm and sensitivity of the people of Da Zhou towards science and technology are indeed higher than any other country in the world.
Four days later?
On January 22, the DeepMind team announced that they had challenged Lee Se-sil and the two sides were discussing the time for the match.
One month later, the Goryeo Chess Institute finally reached an agreement with Google, and the two sides will have a five-game match in four days!
Gu Jie, on the other hand, expressed great dissatisfaction with AlphaGo's choice to play against Lee Se-sil instead of him.
"AlphaGo challenged Lee Se-sil to a match, but didn't dare challenge me. Does AI also pick on the weak? [Doghead]" (Note 1)
Li Shishi shook his head after seeing this. This little brat is even more arrogant than he was back then.
Under Goryeo's unique culture of respecting seniors and juniors, no matter how arrogant he was or how he confronted the Goryeo Chess Institute, he still respected his predecessor Li Changhao.
And this little brat Gu Jie really confronts everyone, yet he keeps saying that everyone is his idol.
He has seen the chess records of AlphaGo against Fan Hui. In his opinion, if AlphaGo is at this level, he does not think AlphaGo can defeat him. He feels that this is just a marketing gimmick by Google.
Currently, most non-artificial intelligence practitioners' understanding of AI is still stuck at the level of exhaustive enumeration procedures. Except for professionals, most people do not understand the concepts of machine learning and deep learning.
Li Shishi is naturally no exception.
Therefore, at first, he was not enthusiastic about the challenge launched by Google and was reluctant to agree to it.
The main reason why he finally agreed to play against the artificial intelligence was that he later saw a chess record of AlphaGo playing against Fan Hui again a month later.
In the previous game against Fan Hui, although AlphaGo won 5:0, its chess style was still very clumsy and it made many low-level mistakes. It was able to win over Fan Hui purely because Fan Hui's level was indeed not high.
However, in this game, it can be seen that the AI played as if it was a natural move. It made almost no fatal mistakes throughout the game, and there were several brilliant moves that made him see the light.
Based on this game, although he is confident that he can beat AlphaGo, he is already under considerable pressure, which is no less than the pressure he faced when facing Park Ting-hwan.
Is Google improving its artificial intelligence so quickly?
Li Shishi didn't understand that AlphaGo didn't need Google to reprogram it, it learned it entirely on its own!
If Google is improving its technology so quickly, then we really need to agree to it as soon as possible.
Otherwise, if you lose, your prize money will be gone!
For this competition, Google offered a winner prize of one million dollars.
It’s hard to make money these days.
The highest prize money for the World Series is only 400,000 Malaysian dollars, which requires a year of hard work.
He could win one million dollars by playing five games of chess, which was much more than his annual bonus income.
Lee Se-sil is a chess player with a very broad vision. He can take the initiative to return the salary because of the poor performance of the chess team, but chess players also have to eat!
It would be a waste not to take the money from a big player like Google. By the way, you can also teach these arrogant laymen a lesson and tell them not to think that Go is such a simple thing!
Li Shishi was seriously writing the chess game on the board. The game he was writing was the last game between AlphaGo and Fan Hui.
Here you can actually dig a hand...
If that's the case...how will you deal with it?
Huh?
Why does this move look so similar...
Li Shishi stood up, sat in front of the computer, opened Yicheng, and found the first game between Gu Jie and Youzi.
In the 56th move, yes, the same move was used, but it was obvious that the subsequent changes were not included in AlphaGo's chess record, so this move became a waste.
Let’s take a look at the time of the last game between AlphaGo and Fan Hui, January 15, 3062.
It seems not.
Li Shishi breathed a sigh of relief.
When he first saw this move, he almost thought that AlphaGo was the mysterious chess player named Orange.
He had seen the two games between Orange and Gu Jie. If it was Orange, he really had no confidence that he could win.
To be precise, last month, before the New Year, he actually received an invitation from Ju Zi to play chess on Yicheng. The two played only one game, and Li Shishi lost in the middle game after 116 moves.
In a chess video on Weibo, Gu Jie commented on this game, saying that Ju Zi's chess skills seemed to be at the level of 12th dan, which was not only stronger than when he played against him, but also far surpassed both him and Lee Se-sil. It was possible that they were a team fighting together.
As for Gu Jie's doubts, Orange never responded, as if they had never appeared.
So, could this orange also be an AI? Or could that orange really be AlphaGo?
No, it won't. The game with Fan Hui happened later than the two games with Ju Zi and Gu Jie. There is no reason why AlphaGo's chess skills would become weaker and weaker.
Could that be an AI program developed by another company?
How is that possible?
Li Shishi found his own guess a little funny.
This is Google, a global company at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
How could it be possible that we were surpassed by other companies without knowing it?
Moreover, Orange uses Zhou Wen, and judging from the name, it is a company named Da Zhou, which makes it even more impossible.
Li Shishi played Go in the Great Zhou for more than ten years. Unlike other Koreans, he was not ignorant of the Great Zhou.
But he still doesn't believe that a large Zhou company will surpass Miami in such an important frontier field as artificial intelligence.
It should be a collective battle among a certain chess academy. If so, it means that this chess academy has trained a group of highly skilled chess players. Perhaps in the next one or two years, these players will officially enter the Go world.
In this era, is there really such a chess academy that only masters of this world can find?
Li Shishi also had some doubts about this.
Don’t think about it anymore, just continue writing the score.
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"That orange appeared again!" Gu Jie had just finished an interview when he received a WeChat message from his teammate Ling Xuyang.
I have to say, there are so many rare surnames among Go players.
There is indeed a reason why big surnames like Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li and Zhao cannot be the protagonists.
Even the protagonist, who used to be named Zhang, now has the surname Chen.
Orange appeared? Gu Jie clicked on the picture Ling Xuyang sent later, which was a screenshot of Yicheng's website.
In the "Kuaiyi Enchou" chess club, an ID named Orange posted a message, which was also the only post posted by this ID.
"AlphaGo? Interesting..."
What's going on?
Looking at the comments below, they are all full of messages like "The master has appeared!", "Is the Orange master trying to challenge AI?", "Worship the master!", "Gu Jie said that this account must be a collective cheat! What are you mindlessly worshipping?", "I am a reporter from Go World, can you arrange an interview? My contact information is: 156XXXXXXXX, and my photo is below~"
Gu Jie was a little confused and simply called Ling Xuyang.
"No one knows what happened now. Ju Zi just posted this one post, and he didn't respond to anyone asking him anything after that. Looking at Yicheng, he hasn't been online since then."
Ling Xuyang explained to Gu Jie.
After Orange won a game against Lee Se-sil last month, Gu Jie asked Orange to play against him many times, but he never came online. After he came online today, he posted this?
What does it mean?
What does it mean? Of course, it’s to set the stage for subsequent hype.
Fang Yu chuckled and exited the Yicheng website.
In his opinion, the possibility of Lee Se-sil defeating AlphaGo is almost zero.
According to Youzi's on-site investigation of DeepMind via the Internet, although AlphaGo's performance is far inferior to the Orange model, it has also undergone more than 300,000 chess game training and millions of self-games, and has now evolved to version V12.
Moreover, the DeepMind team is still training AlphaGo, and it should be able to evolve to version V13 before the competition.
The V13 version of AlphaGo should be almost at the level where the Orange model defeated Go for the first time.
With such abilities, Li Shishi won't have any chance!
Unless AlphaGo has a bug, Lee Se-sil can win one or two games, but this is a five-game match, and Lee Se-sil's overall winning rate is almost zero.
After Lee Se-sil loses, the Orange Model will officially announce its challenge to AlphaGo on Yicheng!
By then... hehe, it would feel so good to step on Google to get to the top and boost your own status.
As expected, the tricks used in the entertainment industry are dirty but effective.
By the way, I have to say hello to my grandpa and dad in advance, because there will be a lot of trouble when the time comes. I guess there will be so many reporters that they will be lining up the door.
The world is about to change.
For Qianxun’s senior executives, they have no idea whether the world is changing or not, but Qianxun may really be about to change.
The strategic direction has to change again!
In the past two years, Qianxun's biggest strategic investment has been O2O. Whether it was the acquisition of Jiangmi.com for 1.9 billion Mai Yuan or the self-investment of 20 billion Dazhou coins in Qianxun Takeout, they both clearly conveyed a message - O2O is both Qianxun's future and its present!
But after October last year, this situation seemed to be changing quietly.
Because group buying and public reviews have been merged.
After the merger, Xinmaituan quickly sorted out its internal management structure. After expelling Zhang Tao from Dianping, Wang Xing became the sole helmsman of this unicorn company valued at 18 billion US dollars.
Two months later, Wang Xing stabbed Ali in the back and introduced a second round of financing of 3.3 billion yuan led by Tengxun, with participation from Hongshan and Priceline. He successfully diluted Ali's shares and ensured his absolute control over the company.
Up to now, the market share of group reviews in the entire O2O market has exceeded 55%, which is higher than the total of the second-place Chichu Ma and the third-place Qianxun Waimai combined!
During this process, Chihiro just watched without any movement.
You know, a year ago, before Dianping obtained 850 million yuan in financing from Tencent, it first contacted Qianxun!
Even though it had already received investment from Tencent, Dianping still approached Qianxun in August, hoping to merge with Qianxun Takeout or obtain investment from Qianxun, because Dianping believed that Qianxun's precise search would be of real help to Dianping.
At that time, the investment agreement had been given to Robert Li for signature. However, Robert dragged it out for a month and did not sign it, which was delayed until Maituan and Dianping announced their merger.
An investment of 1.9 billion Mai Yuan plus 20 billion Da Zhou coins means getting up early and arriving late.
The only way out now is for Qianxun Takeout to acquire Chimei as soon as possible, or merge with Chimei or sell Qianxun Takeout to Chimei.
The former disagreed and Chihiro was unwilling to eat it.
Dead end.
But now, judging from what the boss said, is he going to make another strategic transformation?
At the end of last year, the boss, along with all the senior executives, convened a national gathering of tech investors to explain Qianxun's future investment direction and strategy. He also hoped the market would be the first to know about Qianxun's shifting strategic investment philosophy.
As a result, this meeting, which should have been widely publicized through press releases, turned out to be a closed-door meeting. Not only was it not publicized externally, but discussion of it was also prohibited internally.
Then why are you holding this meeting?
After the Christmas holiday, Robert returned from Miami and, contrary to his usual behavior, held several closed-door meetings with senior executives before the New Year.
After the Chinese New Year, the boss's wife came back from Miami, and the atmosphere in the company became even weirder.
"Robert, you must make a decision immediately. Because of your indecision, Qianxun has already missed out on Dianping. Now Qianxun must acquire Chimai to stay together. If you continue like this, all of Qianxun's past investments will be wasted!"
"I really don't understand. We've already agreed on something, but why are you always so slow to do it?"
A middle-aged woman who looked smart and capable sat upright on the sofa. Although her tone was intense, her expression and the way she drank coffee were still precise and elegant.
Robert raised his head and said gently, "Have you eaten since you came back? Do you want to ask the restaurant to send some food up? Or should we go home and eat?"
The middle-aged woman frowned: "Robert, we are just partners now, and I am fulfilling my obligations as a partner."
After that, the woman paused and said, "You know, what I can't accept the most is unprofessionalism at work."
Robert hesitated for a while, and under Madeline's repeated questioning, he finally spread his hands and said, "Okay, Madeline, I didn't want to invest in Dianping in the beginning, and I don't want to acquire it now either."
"So what do you want?" Madeline's thin eyebrows shot up. "Maituan's valuation is now over 25 billion dollars. Qianxun just fell below 60 billion last month, and it's still falling. We've already been left behind by Tengxun Ali. Do you think you'll be left behind by a junior like Wang Xing?"
Robert's face was also a little embarrassed: "You know about the "chat bar" at the end of the year. I have been against this model for a long time, but you..."
"You mean it's all my fault?! How ridiculous! I've been out of Qianxun's management for so many years, and you're still putting the blame on me!? If you hadn't let me make a bid back then..."
Madeline's face was filled with anger. If she hadn't found the largest profit model for Chihiro, Chihiro would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Moreover, she left a mature management team to Robert, but the operation did not go well, and this man actually put the blame on her!
"That's what I'm worried about!" Robert suddenly raised his head, interrupting Madeline's chatter, and took two heavy breaths.
He is in very good physical condition. Although he is nearly fifty years old, his appearance and figure are still quite good. It is absolutely not inappropriate to say that he is thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old.
"Are you worried? Why didn't you say you were worried when you were on the stage at the annual meeting, full of energy and surrounded by Zorro?" Madeline slammed her coffee cup on the coffee table, her eyes looking like they were about to spit fire.
As soon as Madeline got angry, Robert immediately softened.
"That's not what I meant. What I meant was that Qianxun's profit point is too single and the risk is too high..." Robert held back and continued softly.
"Is that why I asked you to buy it up quickly?" Madeline felt like she was going crazy.
"What on earth are you thinking!?"
"Why are you always so indecisive?"
"You have Yuan Shanjun assisting you with internal management, and I've even specially found Kang Yangming to help you make investment decisions. Isn't that enough?"
"Do you think it was wrong for me to ask you to invest in O2O?"
"Yes!" Robert didn't know where he got the courage from, and blurted out the word "yes".
"What?" Madeline couldn't believe her ears when she heard Robert's sudden words. She stared at the most familiar stranger.
"Madeline, Qianxun's O2O business is a dead end." Robert took two long breaths, not looking into Madeline's eyes. "Qianxun's future is not O2O, but AI."
"Qianxun must transform now! I hope to sell the O2O business and, at the same time, overhaul the current "Liaoba" and paid rankings. I will use the cash from the O2O sale to offset the losses incurred by the overhaul of paid rankings, and at the same time fully shift my R&D focus to AI."
"You've seen the recent news. Google's AlphaGo is about to challenge Lee Se-sil. If Google didn't have confidence, it wouldn't do this. I've spoken with Andrew, and he doesn't think Lee Se-sil has the slightest chance of winning. Madeline, the era of artificial intelligence has arrived. We have a first-mover advantage in this area. As long as we increase our investment, we will inevitably lead this industry. This is a multi-trillion dollar industry!"
"I don't object to investing in AI. Qianxun is already investing in AI. You've already spent a lot of money on AI, but I haven't seen any positive feedback in the financial reports."
Madeline also took a deep breath, her face as cold as ice. "In short, I don't agree to sell O2O."
After saying that, Madeline stood up, pushed open the door of Robert's office, turned around and left. The moment she walked out, Madeline returned to her intellectual and elegant state with a smile on her face, and greeted the employees passing by warmly, as if nothing had happened just now.
Seeing Madeline leaving, Robert hugged his head and closed his eyes in pain.
To outsiders, the couple seemed to be in perfect harmony, deeply in love, and the husband followed his lead.
When Robert was an engineer in Silicon Valley, it was his wife who gave him money to help him return to China to start a business. He himself said that without his wife, he would not be where he is today.
He also admitted that his wife, who graduated from the junior class of Zhou University of Science and Technology, was more courageous and decisive than himself.
Especially in the first few years after Qianxun was founded, it was difficult to operate because it could not find a commercial monetization model. It was because his wife proposed the bidding ranking business model that Qianxun successfully IPOed, and the stock price soared on the day of listing, increasing by nearly four times.
Although he could see the moral risks involved, he couldn't say anything because he didn't want to be seen as a Phoenix Man husband who was jealous of his wife's abilities.
As time went on, it seemed that nothing really happened, and even if something did happen, it could be resolved with simple public relations.
But the "Chat Bar" incident at the end of last year sounded a wake-up call for him.
"Let's chat" is okay, after all, there are no serious consequences. But if a patient believes in these advertisements posted by Putian on Qianxun and causes some serious consequences, then Qianxun will face a greater crisis!
Just the "Chat Bar" incident caused Qianxun's stock price to drop by 10%. He couldn't imagine what would happen to Qianxun if this scene really happened.
Within the company, he must understand and support his wife's decisions, just as she shows support for him outside.
He also couldn't touch the management team that his wife favored, for fear of sending a bad signal to the outside world.
Just like Kang Yangming's strategic investment department, he has been dissatisfied for a long time, but because of his concern for his wife, he has never taken any action.
He also looked at the small company that Wu Ende told him he wanted to acquire last time, and it was indeed worth investing in, but Kang Yangming rejected it outright. As the boss, he could not interfere and could only express his support for Kang Yangming's decision.
It would be nice if something really happened.
For some unknown reason, an absurd idea suddenly came to Robert's mind.
If Qianxun really has problems with paid ranking, maybe it will be more beneficial to herself?
Bah, bah, bah, what bad luck! What are you thinking?
Robert stood in front of the mirror, adjusted his appearance, put on his usual smile, then opened the office door and went to the meeting.
All the conference rooms in Qianxun Building are named after ci tunes. Of course, the already built Qianxun Science and Technology Park is too large and ci tune names are not enough, so some are named after poems.
Break the formation, break the formation.
What Qianxun needs now is to break the formation!
"Mr. Fang, how is this batch of goods? Is our service fast enough?" Zhang Miaojin ate sea cucumber with her eyes closed, her mouth full of oil.
Fang Yu said sternly, "As an integrator, your delivery speed is acceptable, and the product quality doesn't seem to be a big problem at the moment. Ahem, be gentle. However, your service response speed still cannot meet our needs. You need to work harder in this area."
Zhang Miaojin nodded hummingly, but her attitude of admitting her mistake was very poor. She even dared to roll her eyes and spit at the customer.
"So, if you want to continue to deepen our cooperation, you have to be available at any time. No matter if you are not called, you have to come. Well, I mean you have to be sweet-mouthed." Fang Yu sat steadily in front of the desk, but there was no sign of Zhang Miaojin sitting on the seat opposite him.
"Isn't my mouth sweet enough? Then change it?" Zhang Miaojin cast a coquettish glance.
"Can I change it...eh? I haven't finished speaking yet, why are you acting on your own? Do you still want the balance payment?" Fang Yu frowned and decided to let the supplier know who Party A is.
"I want it, I want it, give me...the balance quickly..." As the Party B, Zhang Miaojin was being manipulated by Fang Yu, the Party A.
"No, you have a bad attitude. Wait another hour!"
Fang Yu snorted coldly. This kind of Party B deserves to be taught a lesson by the Rubber Stick Technique!
Note 1: No one has ever said this in real life. I made it up. Does it fit the character? [狗头]
Did you see that? This is a 6,000-word chapter, and it's the first update. I'll continue writing the second update.
I want a monthly ticket. Is there a guaranteed monthly ticket?
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