Chapter 221 Are You Really Going to Lose? (Second update, 4000 words!)
"I didn't expect that the income of Goryeo's top chess player is so low. It's not even as high as the income of executives of large companies. Li Shishi has been the world's number one for so many years." Shen Shuyao whispered in the crowded game room.
Fang Yu looked at the big screen and whispered, "It was OK before, but the prize money for Go tournaments hasn't increased in 30 years, mainly because Go has low commercial value."
"It's also thanks to you that you settled the matter with the Goryeo Chess Institute and Lee Se-sil within two days. I thought it would take at least until the first day after the competition to be finalized." Fang Yu smiled.
After receiving the news that Li Shishi was going to compete with AlphaGo, Fang Yu immediately asked Chen Shuyao to fly to Goryeo to discuss cooperation with the Goryeo Chess Institute and Li Shishi.
For this purpose, Fang Yu specially asked his father to find him a Korean translator to go with Chen Shuyao.
Through my grandfather, I found the Korean Embassy and urgently issued visas to all the employees of Youzi Technology.
It was easy to deal with the Goryeo Chess Institute. With a sponsorship of 5 million Malaysian dollars, they were not asked to reject Gugou. They just wanted them to play "Xiangtan Chess" in the last three games after Lee Se-sil lost the first two games. The Goryeo Chess Institute easily agreed.
The difficult situation is for Li Shishi.
"Li Shishi refused to meet with me. Finally, I went to his daughter's elementary school and persuaded his wife to do the work for him when his daughter was leaving school." Chen Shuyao raised her nose proudly.
"You are so awesome, you are indeed my good wife." Fang Yu scratched Chen Shuyao's nose with his hand.
"Look, his wife is over there." Chen Shuyao's neck turned red when Fang Yu called her a good wife, and she quietly pointed to a young woman in her thirties who was also sitting in the first row.
Fang Yu just glanced at it.
generally.
"Ah, Li Shishi has made his move." Chen Shuyao saw on the big screen that Li Shishi placed the chess piece at the position 33 according to the placement given by Ju Zi.
Neither she nor Fang Yu knew Go. Fang Yu had only looked at the rules of Go in the past two days. He could solve simple life and death problems with his IQ, but he had no idea about things like fixed patterns.
Seeing that AlphaGo also started to make moves, and soon the two sides had made more than ten moves, Fang Yu couldn't help but yawn.
This chess game is so boring.
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"This chess game is like a fight between gods!" Liu Weiping's deep voice was extremely excited.
"Black started with a three-three move, followed by a double flying swallow. White wasn't to be outdone. I still don't understand what this flying move does, but I believe it will be useful later."
"We normally wouldn't play Lee Se-sil's cut in move 23. I don't know why he chose to cut on the right side."
"Generally speaking, in this kind of chess pattern, it would be more advantageous to cut on the left side." Liu Weiping moved some of the chess pieces on the board and arranged the chess pattern at the corner.
"If we play like this, the original advantage of black in the lower left corner will be weakened, giving white an opportunity to attack." In the studio of Tengxun Video, Liu Weiping pointed at the chessboard in front of him with a fan.
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"Li Shishi's cut is indeed a bit strange. If it is cut on the right side, the risk of black chess in the lower left corner will indeed be greater. Gu Jie, what do you think is Li Shishi's intention of cutting on the right side?" In the studio of Huanshi TV, Chen Ying threw the topic to Gu Jie.
"Uh... probably for future support from the outside." Gu Jie casually placed a few black pieces. "If this piece is here, it may lead to many changes later."
Chen Ying covered her mouth and laughed. "You mean to say that Li Shishi and the foreign aid want to compete with AlphaGo in computing? Professor Liu, you've said before that the thing humans can't compete with AlphaGo in is computing, right?"
"That's right. For move 23, the reason why professional chess players cut on the left side is because of the problem of calculation. The space on the right side is too large, and there are too many changes in the future. And based on the first two games, AlphaGo is obviously better than any human in this kind of spatial calculation." Liu Ziqing nodded firmly.
Upon hearing this, Gu Jie remained silent.
"What if Li Shishi's foreign aid is also an AI?" Gu Jie suddenly spoke after a few seconds of silence.
"Hahaha." Liu Ziqing laughed a few times. "Gu Jie seems to have gone crazy. How could it be so easy to create an AI comparable to AlphaGo?"
"Google was able to develop AlphaGo based on its strong foundation in neural network deep learning."
"AlphaGo's algorithm is not currently open source. By the way, speaking of this, I must apologize first."
"During yesterday's live broadcast, I didn't understand the principles behind AlphaGo, and was subsequently criticized online. Afterward, I read the paper Google published, and the core of the problem is actually an algorithmic problem."
"The tree search algorithm used by Google is actually researched by many universities in China. However, Google is still very impressive in terms of the depth and complexity of its neural networks, and its understanding and application of tree algorithms. Currently, no company in China can compare with Google."
"To put it bluntly, our domestic research on neural networks—no, I should say, with the exception of a few large companies in Miami—is lagging far behind everyone else in the world in terms of neural network research."
"Most people just know about it and take existing stuff, modify the code, and do experiments. The gap in level is as big as, for example, the gap between Shimen Electronic Information Vocational and Technical College and Xinda University."
"There are issues with resources, talent, and the academic environment."
"But as long as we have a clear direction and with the investment of major domestic companies, I believe we will definitely catch up."
When Liu Ziqing said this, he realized that his butt seemed to be crooked just now, and hurried back to make up for it.
"However, AlphaGo has just appeared. It's impossible for an AI to rival AlphaGo, let alone the one that defeated Fan Hui a few months ago."
"I'm not saying it's impossible for it to appear in the Great Zhou Dynasty, or even in the Mai Kingdom. I saw a report yesterday. The director of Feisibu's AI lab is also Chinese. In an interview, he said that Feisibu is also doing the same research. The reporter asked him if he could defeat AlphaGo now, but he avoided the question. Why?"
"It's because Google and Deepmind have such a huge advantage in this area."
"Otherwise, without this confidence, how could they possibly jump out and challenge Li Shishi at this time? Don't you agree?"
Liu Ziqing's words made the other two hosts nod their heads frequently.
"Hey, let's stop chatting. We're already at move 33. The game is going really fast today. Let's take a look at the overall situation. Gu Jie, what do you think of these moves?"
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"Julian, the winning rate has dropped! What happened? Was there anything wrong with the last move?" Hassabis nervously held David Silva's arm beside him.
As soon as Black made move 33, the winning rate curve on the screen dropped from the original evenly matched 50% to 49% with a slight jump.
Although it was only a 1% change in win rate, in the first third of the game, AlphaGo had never experienced a negative fluctuation in win rate before.
Julian, the handsome young blond, licked his lips. "The problem isn't move 33. It's that AlphaGo just discovered a flaw in its strategy for move 18. The opponent spotted this flaw on move 19 and implemented a targeted strategy."
"By move 33, the strategy from move 19 was exactly the same. AlphaGo then judged that the defensive pressure in the middle would increase, thus reducing the chance of winning."
"However, judging by AlphaGo's simulations of future situations, it shouldn't be a problem in the end."
Julian clicked on a few simulation pictures, which were different predictive analyses made by AlphaGo based on the current situation.
"Fan, what do you think?" Hassabis was worried and began to consult the only Go professional in the room - Fan Hui.
Fan Hui's eyebrows, nose and eyes were all wrinkled together. He thought to himself, you think too highly of me. I'm just a second-dan. I didn't understand six or seven of the more than thirty moves. What do you want me to think?
Fan Hui's reaction made Hassabis even more unsure. "David, go to the lounge of the Korean Chess Institute and see what they say."
David Silva was also very nervous, even more nervous than Hassabis. After hearing this, he quickly ran to the lounge of the Korea Chess Institute opposite and came back in less than ten minutes.
"I didn't understand the Korean they were speaking." David's face flushed.
"Fuck! Why don't you bring an interpreter with you?" Hassabis rarely cursed with a Chinese curse word starting with F.
Before David could make a move, as AlphaGo made its 40th move, Hassabis saw on the screen that the winning rate had returned to 50%.
Huh, Hassabis finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He now finally understood Li Shishi's mood yesterday and the day before yesterday.
Shit! Where on earth did this chess player come from?
After watching for another ten minutes, based on Hassabis's own chess skills, it was basically impossible to tell which move was good and which was bad.
"Demi, did you notice that Lee Sedol and his team didn't take a single long break today? They played very quickly. I recorded Lee Sedol's average move time, and it was only about 58 seconds."
Fan Hui's facial features were still wrinkled, as if this was the only way to prevent his glasses from sliding down his nose.
Hassabis was stunned.
"Such a fast move time is not much different from AlphaGo." Fan Hui seemed to be muttering to himself, and seemed to be talking to Hassabis.
"Moreover, this move..."
"Snap!" As Lee Se-sil placed the black chess piece on his 53rd move, AlphaGo seemed to be in a state of confusion.
"Broken! It's actually broken!" Fan Huiteng stood up suddenly and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose in disbelief.
"What do you mean?" Hassabis asked nervously, and then asked Julian, "Have you calculated the winning rate?"
Julian clicked his mouse and keyboard rapidly. "Not yet. This move seems to have greatly confused AlphaGo. It's currently searching the neural network through MCTS."
"Fortunately, we have fixed the bug in AlphaGo, so this move won't cause it to crash. Now it depends on how it responds next."
"This situation usually only occurs when AlphaGo is about to lose the game." Julian turned around and said to Hassabis with a serious expression.
Losing the game? Is AlphaGo going to lose?
"This move has completely severed the connection between AlphaGo's two pieces." Fan Hui rubbed his eyes. "AlphaGo has lost at least 7 points with this move."
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"Black 53 breaks! Beautiful!" Liu Weiping snapped his fan shut. "By now, everyone should have understood, right? When Black played 41 just now, everyone said it was a slow move, but I said it was quite interesting. 53 breaks! This move is arguably the best of the game!"
"The imagination and overall vision of this move, I really can't believe it was made by Lee Se-sil. Is foreign aid so effective? Could it be Lee Chang-ho? Hahaha, just kidding."
"AlphaGo is now in a passive position. Let's see how it responds. Huh? It's been three minutes already? Is this the first time AlphaGo has taken this long to think?"
"Speaking of which, Li Shishi seemed to be playing very quickly today, almost without thinking."
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Li Shishi did not think twice, because there was no need to think.
He was now completely shocked by this game of chess.
It turns out that AlphaGo’s chess skills are even stronger than he imagined!
In the past fifty or so moves, AlphaGo made almost no slow or bad moves. Every move it made was almost perfect, and its use of human patterns reached the level of being completely focused.
Only then did he realize that when AlphaGo played chess with him, it had not really shown its true strength.
No, it should be said that his strength is totally insufficient to allow AlphaGo to exert its full strength!
AlphaGo is a machine. As long as it calculates that it can win, it will use the simplest method to ensure victory. Therefore, the gap between him and AlphaGo in each game seems to be not much, but he just can't catch up.
Even though he played his best game yesterday, he still lost to AlphaGo by half a point.
but!
And that mysterious chess player, no, it should be the artificial intelligence that is even stronger!
The man sitting next to him, surnamed Hua, had a headset on his ear. After each move by AlphaGo, the headset would transmit the next move's location. Then, the man surnamed Hua would tell him where to place the next move, and he would make his own move.
And every move he made would almost make him so excited that he would get goosebumps all over his body!
Unfettered imagination!
The artificial intelligence that gives the landing point is almost not affected by any human patterns. It will take off first if it is told to, and will not complete the pattern if it is told not to.
If AlphaGo is the epitome of human stereotypes, then this mysterious artificial intelligence completely believes that human Go may be fundamentally wrong!
By the 53rd move, Li Shishi's hands had already started to shake.
It’s too powerful, too powerful, there’s no way a human could produce this!
Who are you?
Is it the orange on the Internet?
"Bang!" After nearly five minutes of thinking, AlphaGo finally placed a piece, right above Black's 53.
A very normal response.
But after this move, White's winning rate plummeted to 42% on the screen of the DeepMind control room on the sixth floor!
Everyone on the deepmind team had a look of shock and panic on their faces.
Could it be that AlphaGo is really going to lose?
(End of this chapter)
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