1991 Starting from the core

"The opposite example is you, senior brother."

Su Yuanshan put his hands in his pockets, kicked a pebble away from his feet, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, you are one of the few generous people in my eyes. You stayed when you said you wanted to stay, you went to Silicon Valley when you said you wanted to do it, and you did it when you said you wanted to do CRM. CRM, and then I started working on mathematics software... As soon as I heard about deep learning and artificial intelligence at this year's annual meeting, I immediately jumped into it."

"What is this? This is grandeur! No, this is domineering!"

Xi Xiaoding stared at Su Yuanshan, wanting to see some dishonesty on this guy's face.

However, he was disappointed...

Su Yuanshan looked sincere.

Xi Xiaoding said dumbly: "You guy, you are such a flatterer... you are so awesome, the photo made me really feel a little bit distraught."

Su Yuanshan laughed: "Hahaha! Are you really floating?"

Xi Xiaoding nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I was somewhat confident originally, but after hearing what you said, I suddenly felt that my confidence was too conservative."

"So, senior brother, you see, the most difficult thing for people is to realize themselves."

"Yes, the most difficult thing for a person is to know yourself." Xi Xiaoding stared at Su Yuanshan: "What you said is so right - do you know yourself clearly?"

"I know myself very well...well, don't talk about me."

"Hahaha, then don't say it. If you ask me to flatter you to your level, I really can't do it." Xi Xiaoding said leisurely: "But I really admire you."

Su Yuanshan opened his arms and made a flying gesture: "I'm floating too."

Xi Xiaoding: "..."

"Brother Haoming, we still have to rely on him to wake him up." Su Yuanshan smiled and then said seriously: "He has the technology himself, and also has database expertise. He is an excellent chief technology officer who can lead the overall situation."

Xi Xiaoding nodded: "Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have recommended him to take over my position."

"So he only needs to master the current products and dominate the basics of the Internet. He will consider other things when he has enough energy."

"Well, I'll have a good chat with him these days." Xi Xiaoding nodded and continued walking: "By the way, do you know chess?"

"You know a little bit, senior brother, do you want to talk about it?"

"Haha, welcome to challenge Pandora Labs' Wonderful Story Chess in a while." Xi Xiaoding chuckled and said, "In order to verify the learning algorithm, we are developing an artificial intelligence for chess, and we will soon develop Chinese chess."

"Holy shit..." Su Yuanshan almost jumped up. He almost subconsciously thought of IBM's "Deep Blue".

For non-related majors in China, few people know about IBM, but few don't know about "Deep Blue". Even if you don’t know Deep Blue, you still know that in 1997, a computer defeated the world chess champion, marking the victory between machines and humans in the intellectual game.

——Except the old man who can beat the red and white machine Chinese chess.

——Author's words: The reason why I didn't beat that old man back then was because I was a fast chess player, and that old man was too J2 ink-stained... so I didn't bother to play with him.

But this is limited to chess, a game with relatively few changes. As for Go, it is still the world of human intelligence. It was not until 20 years later that AlphaGo was born. It first fought against the ninth-dan Li Shishi of the Bang Kingdom, and then launched a 60-game winning streak against the masters of the Three Kingdoms on the Go website.

Finally, in 2017, exactly 20 years after Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov, AlphaGo also defeated the world champion of Go, Ke Jie, who was ranked first. From then on, humans were in the final position of intellectual games Declare the fall.

And there will never be a day of recovery.

This is the charm and magic of deep learning.

…

Su Yuanshan took a deep breath: "Have you all progressed to the point where you can automatically learn chess records?"

"Theoretically..." Xi Xiaoding used a very safe word: "I don't know what bugs there are yet, and I don't know what my learning ability is, and how it will be after it is actually launched. In addition, it cannot be done on ordinary computers or even workstations. To meet its requirements, we have to supercompute.”

"Yes... we need supercomputing." Su Yuanshan said immediately: "The supercomputing center will be officially launched at the end of the month, but the related business is not expected to be opened to the public until next year - but we can enter in advance."

The supercomputer designed by the Electronic Science and Technology Corporation has entered the final assembly and testing stage, and will face its first major exam in its life later this month - a test by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Electronic Industry, and computer-related majors from major universities. An acceptance team of up to twenty people composed of professors.

Once the acceptance is successful, it will become a National Day gift for the 45th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

By then, it will be the first supercomputer in Asia and the third in the world.

Of course, because it comes with political tasks and gifts, the successful acceptance does not mean that it can be officially opened to the outside world. Various supporting tools must be developed, in-depth testing and so on.

As an in-depth partner, Yuanxin naturally has to participate in the test.

"We think so too. When the time comes, we will use the country's electricity..." Xi Xiaoding chuckled and touched Su Yuanshan again: "But seriously, when will you get one."

"We'll wait until we have a server-specific CPU in two years." Su Yuanshan breathed out and said with a smile, "By the way, why don't you play Go?"

"Go requires too much calculation, and today's hardware simply can't bear it. Take your time, and break chess first."

…

The two stood downstairs and chatted for a while before going back to their houses.

He was still a little excited until he lay on the bed.

Frankly speaking, whether IBM was engaged in AI chess or chess at the beginning, or Google in later generations was engaged in Go.

Although it has its essence of pursuing technology, for enterprises, in the final analysis, it still falls on establishing a corporate image.

If you don't develop some high technology, how can you dare to call yourself a high-tech enterprise?

Just by assembling a computer or a mobile phone?

Now looking at Xi Xiaoding's posture, it seems that Yuanxin has taken this step a little faster than IBM... because IBM only officially launched Deep Blue in 1996, and then challenged the world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time, but lost 2-4. defeat.

After losing the first game, the Deep Blue team worked hard for another year. The next year, in 1997, Kasparov never turned around again.

But even if it is slower than IBM, Su Yuanshan is completely able to accept it.

Yuanxin started from scratch and has been established for only three and a half years. In the field of AI against a giant like IBM, it is absolutely a win-win situation and a loss-free situation.

Then, just as sleep was slowly creeping in on him, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Su Yuanshan was startled when he saw that the caller ID showed international long distance call.

Then quickly picked up the phone.

On the phone, a nice voice with a London accent said hello in English.

"Mr. Su Yuanshan?"

"Yes." "I hope it didn't disturb your rest." There was joy, some excitement, and even grateful voices on the other end of the phone.