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Zhou Buqi said: "The computing power of mobile phones is definitely not enough. We must solve the problem of computing power. It is best to cooperate with supercomputers to promote an artificial intelligence product that can cause a sensation in the world!"

"What is it?"

Shen Xiangyang's eyes were burning and his heart was burning.

He knew that his team had made some mistakes this time, so no matter what kind of AI products he would develop next, he would go all out to make up for this mistake.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Learn from IBM?"

"Huh? Question show?" Shen Xiangyang raised his eyebrows, put down the coffee in his hand, and said with a little confusion: "Do you want to play chess? Chess?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's learning, not copying. IBM solved chess through artificial intelligence in the 1990s. What's the point of us following up? There are so many AI softwares for chess now, and they are all better than those back then." Deep Blue is strong. But it is Deep Blue that truly leaves a legacy to the world and can produce long-term effects."

Shen Xiangyang also knew that the idea of ​​​​chess was unreliable, "If chess doesn't work, what about chess? This is probably even worse. Xiangqi is not as complicated as chess. As for other chess games..."

Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "Go!"

"Go?"

Shen Xiangyang was slightly startled.

Zhou Buqi looked at him with a smile, "Can you play Go?"

Shen Xiangyang shook his head, "No, I just understand some rules."

Zhou Buqi said: "I don't know how to play Go, but I learned a little bit about some of the algorithmic rules of Go last night. This is much more difficult than chess, Xiangqi, etc."

Shen Xiangyang nodded, he knew this, "Well, since 'Deep Blue' defeated human chess players, artificial intelligence has shown very powerful computing capabilities in many fields. However, in the field of Go, it has not yet been conquered. Go requires too much computing power and the algorithm is too complex.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, Go requires very high deep learning capabilities. There are too many possibilities in Go. It seems... I don't know whether it is true or not. I read an article and said that a 150-round game of Go may appear. The number of changes is greater than the total number of atoms in the universe. So much so that when playing Go, the choice of moves depends on intuition formed by accumulated experience. This has led to a lot of philosophical thinking in the field of Go, and exploration through different concepts To understand Go, people in the Go industry even compare the chessboard to the entire universe."

Shen Xiangyang said: "Chess...including international chess, all have a clear goal, and the value of each chess piece can be calculated. However, the way to play Go is largely based on the perceptual judgment of the chess shape."

"What kind of perceptual judgment?" Zhou Buqi smiled disapprovingly, "Today's Go players just praise Go too highly. It's just that Go is too complicated and cannot be calculated by rational calculation, so we can only rely on it. Understand it based on perceptual knowledge and make some ambiguous choices. Before AI conquered chess, no one believed that pure computer computing power could surpass human judgment of higher-level perceptual thinking."

IBM's "Deep Blue" defeated the chess master Kasparov that year, and it was not achieved overnight.

At first, this product was called "She Shen Shen". I tried it several times but couldn't get it off.

Later, the product was upgraded, there were algorithm iterations, and it was renamed "Deep Blue", and it was finally possible to tie the game. Later, it was not until the decisive battle in 1997 that "Deep Blue" finally defeated Kasparov in one fell swoop, causing a sensation in the world.

This event marketing has won countless praises and expectations for IBM, allowing IBM to successfully complete its strategic adjustment and industrial transformation from hardware to software.

Shen Xiangyang said solemnly: "So next we will develop a Go-like AI product, and then on behalf of artificial intelligence, challenge the world's top Go players!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, Go is the most difficult problem to overcome in this field. In addition to AI technology, it also needs the support of super powerful computing power. It just so happens that the Ziwei Cloud platform can Provide this kind of super computing power. As long as our AI product is developed and successfully defeats the top Go players, then this event will be enough to rise to a revolutionary height in history."

"ah?"

Shen Xiangyang was a little surprised and felt that the big boss's words were a bit excessive.

"You don't believe it?" Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "In history, human self-esteem has been severely challenged and hit three times."

"Is it?"

Shen Xiangyang almost laughed. This boss Zhou is really a history buff. In the management of the company, he always puts on the face of a history teacher and starts using historical stories as teaching materials.

Zhou Buqi didn’t look like he was joking at all. “First, the ‘heliocentric theory’ proposed by Copernicus overturned the ‘geocentric’ view. For the first time, mankind had no choice but to admit that it was not the center of the universe.”

Shen Xiangyang immediately followed. This was all common sense knowledge. He said with a smile: "There is also the theory of evolution proposed by Darwin. Human beings discovered that they evolved from apes and lost the sanctity and sanctity of God's creation of humans. Nobility.”

"Yes." Zhou Buqi nodded, "Third, there is Freud. The psychological theory of 'human nature' he proposed pointed out that human behavior itself does not have absolute nobility and special significance. Many behaviors There is no difference between their own pursuits and those of animals. In fact, this is the point of view that I agree with most. Our traditional culture is either 'human nature is good' or 'human nature is evil', which are too emotional. In fact, it should be 'based on animals' "Sex is the human instinct', 'human nature is the animal'. Acquired education and growth are the transformation of animal nature into human nature."

Shen Xiangyang automatically ignored the private goods he brought with him at the end, and said thoughtfully: "Indeed, these three major blows have given mankind a more cruel self-understanding."

Zhou Buqi said: "Now, human beings only have the last line of defense for dignity and confidence, which is intelligence. From an evolutionary perspective, human beings are not as strong as cattle and can't walk as well as horses, but they can stabilize their position in the entire nature." , relies on collective wisdom based on cooperation, which is reflected in many aspects such as learning ability, reasoning ability, and analytical ability. This is also the reason why Homo sapiens can exterminate other species of humans and survive to become the master of the earth. In terms of intelligence "No creature currently known in nature can compare with humans in almost every aspect."

Shen Xiangyang's heart was tangled like a thread, "So you want to destroy the last remaining line of defense for mankind, the intellectual line of defense."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's a bit big to say that, but at least humans are better than artificial intelligence in the calculation and cognition of Go. This is like a fig leaf. If Ziweixing can lift this fig leaf, not only will If the entire Go community's faith collapses, it will cause a global emotional shock. The influence it brings to the world will not be much worse than IBM's Deep Blue back then!"

Shen Xiangyang coughed and said solemnly: "Compared with 'Deep Blue', this is feasible. But compared with the three major cognitive challenges in human history, it may still be worse."

Zhou Buqi was speechless.

I feel that when communicating with such scientists, one should not be too careless and must speak clearly and strictly.

"Old Shen, a child who cries will get milk."

"ah?"

Shen Xiangyang was slightly startled.

Zhou Buqi said: "Many times, publicity is about gaining popularity and eyeballs. Especially for team building, drawing a big pie is more important than immediate benefits. Looking at the plum blossoms to quench the thirst can stimulate the combat effectiveness of the army, and rush all the way; sending plum blossoms will stop it. If you are thirsty, your soldiers will be busy eating plums and lose their ability to fight immediately."

Shen Xiangyang was silent.

Indeed, management requires skills.

Especially the management of scientific research teams, this is a very complex job. The more scientists and the more skilled they are, the more eccentric and withdrawn they are, and the more difficult it is to communicate.

If you want to manage a scientific research team that focuses on cutting-edge fields, you must adopt necessary management routines to unify everyone's efforts.

In the past few years, Zhou Buqi did not have much confidence to teach his meager experience to such a world-class scientist. After all, he was too young.

There is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not stable.

But it's different now.

Even Google CEO Larry Page has become his little fan, which makes him even more powerful.

Zhou Buqi said: "Go back and discuss with Lu Qi to assign a vice president of marketing to your team to assist you in your work. Don't think of this as being too commercial and dragging down scientific research. On the contrary, this It’s helping scientific research. What’s the most important thing about doing scientific research?”

Shen Xiangyang replied, "Talent."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, it is talent. However, Ziweixing's competitiveness in the recruitment market in Silicon Valley is really not as competitive as that of leading technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. If you want to attract the best talents, You must draw the most beautiful pie!”

Shen Xiangyang fell into memories. He remembered that when he was working in China, Boss Zhou led Ziweixing to suddenly emerge in the country and competed with giants such as Baidu, Alibaba, Penguin, and NetEase. They were also playing similar tricks.

You must draw a big pie.

Draw a pie that is completely different from others!

At that time, Ziweixing successively painted five or six pieces of pie for the market: multinational companies, the concept of fairness, justice, openness and transparency, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, chip design, unlisted option packages, etc.

This strategy was successful.

In a short period of time, Ziweixing's appeal surpassed that of Baidu and became the most competitive company in China for talent.

People with international ambitions are attracted by "multinational companies", people with a strong sense of justice are attracted by "the concept of fairness and justice", people who want to make a lot of money are attracted by "unlisted option packages", and people with higher technological pursuits are attracted by Attracted by cutting-edge hard-core technological propositions such as "artificial intelligence", "chip design" and "cloud computing".

Now, similar routines are about to be implemented in overseas markets.

But here's the rub.

For the beautiful pieces of pie that Ziweixing has created in China, these technology giants in Silicon Valley also have similar ideas, and even do better than Ziweixing.

Without innovation and uniqueness, how can Ziweixing stand out? Only by drawing a better pie than other companies can Ziweixing have stronger talent attraction.

Now is your chance.

Zhou Buqi said slowly: "The top technical talents will not work just for wages. They will be attracted by projects like Rokid-go that are expected to change the world."

"It really is."

Shen Xiangyang has a say in this.

There are too many scientific research laboratories in Silicon Valley. When talents are choosing a career, why would they choose you instead of me? Choose me instead of him? Many times, they are attracted by scientific research projects.

The salary of NASA is so low, but the scientific research projects are so fascinating that people are willing to work overtime for free and work hard for a long time without sleep or food, just because NASA is exploring the mysteries of the universe. This is so exciting.

In addition to NASA, Google's competitiveness for talents is the first in the world, and this is also because Google has too many magical and challenging scientific research propositions that may change the world.

Zhou Buqi said: “Only by joining the most difficult and challenging projects can people hone their abilities, reflect the value of talents, and cultivate real top talents. To attract talents, feelings and dreams are inevitable. To put it bluntly, it is to draw an attractive pie.”

Shen Xiangyang now understood what Boss Zhou meant, "This Go-playing AI project wants to truly compete with the three major theories of 'heliocentrism', 'evolution' and 'sexual instinct' under the same sky. This is really It’s not very realistic. However, this does not prevent Ziweixing from providing a beautiful space for scientific and technological talents to imagine, so that their scientific research results can be compared with the great contributions made to mankind by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud.”

Whether it can be done or not is not certain.

Nine times out of ten it can't be done.

But it does not matter.

It needs to be marketed, publicized, and hyped in the market. We want the whole world to know that Ziweixing’s AI team is doing something big that is about to change the world.

Whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter.

What matters is awareness.

To provide the outside world with such a basis for thinking.

In this way, the role of Ziweixing's brand premium is reflected.

Not only can you enjoy the supreme industry status in the field of artificial intelligence, but you can also have greater choice in recruiting talents.

At the same time, with the development of the times, data is exploding.

The massive data on the cloud computing platform needs to be processed manually, which is impossible. Artificial intelligence must be used to handle it.

In other words, whose AI technology level is strong will largely mean that whose cloud computing platform’s technology level is higher!

This indirectly plays a positive role in fueling Ziweiyun's market development.

The brand is there, the talent is there, and the market is there.

Kill three birds with one stone!

In the past life, such an opportunity was seized by Google. Relying on the sensationalism of AlphaGo, Google established its dominance in the AI ​​field in one fell swoop, and even Google Cloud also rose strongly.

In fact, this is imitating IBM's "Deep Blue" and "Watson" routes. The difference is that Google's technical level is stronger, the AI ​​products it launches are more powerful, and the market effects will be more obvious.

Now that Zhou Buqi has broken through IBM's "little trick" of using artificial intelligence to transform into cloud computing, how can he still give IBM a chance? Not to mention IBM, even Google’s chance is gone!

Such an important and epoch-making event in the field of artificial intelligence should be handled by Ziweixing, so I won't bother my good friend Larry Page.

If he had the time and energy, he might as well build two social products, Google+ and Twitter!