I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 215: Eating shit can't catch up with the heat (6000 words 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 Twitter and Facebook is not that big and is limited to technology enthusiasts. It is far less popular than the new relationship and big drum of the Kardashian family.

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 1, 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 to challenge me. Does AI only pick on the weak? [Dog head]" (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 criticized the Goryeo Chess Institute, he still respected his predecessor Li Changhao.

And this little brat Gu Jie really confronts everyone, yet he still keeps saying that he is his idol.

He has seen the chess records of AlphaGo's match 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. The reason it was able to win against Fan Hui was purely because Fan Hui's level was indeed not high.

However, in this game, it could be seen that the AI ​​played as if it was a natural skill. It made almost no fatal mistakes throughout the game, and even made several brilliant moves that made his eyes light up.

Based on this game, although he is confident that he can beat AlphaGo, he is already under considerable pressure, and this pressure is no less than the pressure he faced when facing Park Ting-huan.

Is Google improving artificial intelligence so quickly?

Lee Se-sil 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 bonus of one million dollars.

It’s hard to make money these days.

The highest prize money for the World Series is only 40 Malaysian dollars, which requires a year of hard work.

He could win one million dollars for 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 due to 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 dog 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 on the chessboard. The game he was writing was the last game between AlphaGo and Fan Hui.

Here you can actually dig a little...

If that's the case...how will you deal with it?

Huh?
Why does this chess move look so similar...

Li Shishi stood up, sat in front of the computer, opened the game program, 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 made in AlphaGo's chess record, so this move became a useless one.

Let’s take a look at the time of the last game between AlphaGo and Fan Hui, January 3062, 1.

It seems not.

Li Shishi breathed a sigh of relief.

When he first saw this move, he almost thought that this AlphaGo was the mysterious chess player named Orange.

He had watched the two games between Orange and Gu Jie. If it was Orange, he really didn't have the 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 of them only played one game, and Lee Se-sil lost in the middle of the game after 116 moves.

In a chess video on Weibo, Gu Jie commented on this game, saying that Ju Zi's chess strength seemed to be at the twelfth level, which was not only stronger than when he played against him, but also far superior to both him and Lee Se-sil. It was possible that they were a team fighting together.

As for Gu Jie's questioning, Orange never responded, as if it had never occurred.

So, could this orange also be an artificial intelligence? 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 can it be?

Li Shishi found his own guess a little funny.

This is Google, a global company at the forefront of artificial intelligence.

How is it possible that we are surpassed by other companies without knowing it?
Moreover, Orange uses Zhou Wen, and judging from the name, it is a company owned by Da Zhou, which makes it even more impossible.

Li Shishi had played Go in the Great Zhou for more than ten years. He was not like other Koreans who knew nothing about 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 effort of 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 where masters of the world can still be found?
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 appears 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 over, which was a screenshot of Yicheng's webpage.

In the “Kuaiyi Enchou” chess club, a person named Orange posted a message, which was also the only post posted by this person.

"AlphaGo? Interesting..."

what's the situation?
Look at the comments below, all of which are like "The great god has appeared!", "Does the great god Orange want to challenge AI?", "Worship the great god!", "Gu Jie said that this account must be a collective cheat! What are you worshipping mindlessly?", "I am a reporter from Go World, can you arrange an interview? My contact information is: 156XXXXXXXX, there is my photo below~"

Gu Jie was a little confused and simply called Ling Xuyang.

"Now no one knows what happened. Ju Zi just posted this post. After that, no matter what others asked him, he didn't reply. According to Yicheng, he hasn't been online since then."

Ling Xuyang explained it to Gu Jie.

After Ju Zi won a game against Lee Se-sil last month, Gu Jie asked Ju Zi to play against him many times, but the other party never came online. After he came online today, he posted such a message?

What does it mean?
What does it mean? Of course, it is to lay the groundwork 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 the field investigation that Youzi conducted via the Internet to DeepMind, although the performance of AlphaGo is far inferior to the Orange model, it has also undergone more than 12 chess training games and millions of self-games, and has now evolved to version V.

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 just about to reach the level at which the Orange model defeated Gu Jie for the first time.

With such abilities, Lee Se-sil wouldn't stand a 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 will feel so good to step on Google to get to the top and raise your own status.

As expected, the methods 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, and there will probably be so many reporters clamoring to my door.

The world is about to change.

For Qianxun’s senior executives, they have no idea whether the world is changing, but Qianxun may really be changing. The strategic direction is changing again!
In the past two years, Qianxun's biggest strategic investment has been O2O. Whether it was the acquisition of Jiangmi.com for 19 billion Mai Yuan, or the self-investment of 200 billion Dazhou coins in Qianxun Takeaway, they were all clearly conveying a message - O2O is both the future and the present of Qianxun!
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.com, 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 by introducing a second round of financing of 33 billion Malaysian dollars led by Tengxun and followed by 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 review in the entire O2O market has exceeded 55%, which is higher than the total market share of the second place, Chizuma, and the third place, Qianxun Waimai!
During this process, Chihiro just watched without any movement.

You know, a year ago, before Dianping obtained 8.5 million yuan in financing from Tencent, it first looked for 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 could provide real help to Dianping.

At that time, the investment agreement had been given to Robert Li for signature. However, Robert dragged on for a month and did not sign it 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 after eating it, while Chihiro was unwilling to accept the latter.

Dead end.

But now, judging from what the boss is saying, is he going to make another strategic transformation?

At the end of last year, the boss, along with all the senior executives, convened technology investors from all over the country to explain Qianxun’s future investment direction and investment strategy, and hoped that the market would also be the first to know the changes in Qianxun’s strategic investment concepts.

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 came back 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 keep warm. If you continue like this, all of Qianxun's past investments will go down the drain!"

"I really don't understand why you are always so slow in doing something that we have already agreed on!"

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 softly, "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 a partnership 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 long time, and under Madeline's repeated questioning, he spread his hands and said, "Okay, Madeline, I didn't want to invest in Dianping at the beginning, and I don't want to acquire it now either."

"Then what do you want?" Madeline's thin eyebrows stood up. "The current valuation of Maituan has exceeded 25 billion dollars. Qianxun just fell below 60 billion last month, and it's still falling. We have been left behind by Tengxun Ali. Do you want to be left behind by a junior like Wang Xing?"

Robert also looked a little embarrassed: "You also 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 funny! I've been out of Qianxun's management for so many years, and you're still pushing the blame onto me!? If you hadn't let me make a bid back then..."

Madeline's face was full of 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 when the operation did not go well, this man actually put the blame on her!
"That's what I'm worried about!" Robert raised his head suddenly, interrupting Madeline's chattering, and took two heavy breaths.

He is in very good physical condition. Although he is nearly 50 years old, his appearance and figure are still quite good. It would not be inappropriate to say that he is 37 or 38 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 girls from all over?" Madeline slammed her coffee cup heavily 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 right away?" Madeline felt like she was going crazy.

"What on earth are you thinking!?"

"Why are you always so indecisive?"

"You have Yuan Shanjun to assist you in internal management, and I have also 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 the word "yes" came out of his mouth.

"What?" Madeline couldn't believe her ears when she heard Robert's sudden words. She stared at this most familiar stranger.

"Madeline, Chihiro's O2O business is a dead end." Robert took two deep breaths without looking into Madeline's eyes. "Chihiro's future is not O2O, but AI."

"Qianxun must transform now! I hope to sell the O2O business and, at the same time, reorganize the current "Liaoba" and bidding ranking. I will use the cash from selling O2O to make up for the losses caused by the reorganization of bidding ranking. At the same time, the research and development focus will be fully shifted to AI."

"You have seen the recent news. Google's AlphaGo is about to challenge Lee Se-sil. If Google didn't have confidence, it wouldn't do it. I have discussed with Andrew, and he thinks Lee Se-sil has no 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 investment, we will definitely lead this industry. This is a huge industry worth tens of trillions of dollars!"

"I have no objection to investing in AI. Qianxun is already investing in AI. You have spent a lot of money on AI before, but I don't see any positive feedback in the financial report."

Madeline also took a deep breath, her face cold as ice, "Anyway, 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 the door, Madeline returned to her intellectual and elegant state with a smile on her face, and greeted the employees passing by cordially, as if nothing had just happened.

Seeing Madeline leaving, Robert hugged his head and closed his eyes in pain.

To outsiders, the couple seemed to be in perfect harmony with each other, with a deep affection and the husband following the wife's 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 for the company to continue operating due to the lack of a commercial monetization model. It was because his wife proposed the business model of paid ranking that Qianxun successfully IPOed, and its 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 by the world as a Phoenix Man husband who was jealous of his wife's abilities.

As time went by, it seemed that nothing really happened, and even if something did happen, it could be settled 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 fine, after all, there are no serious consequences. But if a patient believes in these Putian advertisements 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 even imagine what would happen to Qianxun if this really happened.

Within the company, he must appreciate 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 concerns 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 worthy of investment, 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 reason, an absurd idea suddenly came to Robert's mind.

If Qianxun really had problems due to paid ranking, maybe it would be more beneficial to itself?
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, 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 does not seem to have any major problems at the moment. Ahem, be gentle, but your service response speed cannot meet our needs. You need to work harder in this regard."

Zhang Miaojin nodded with a humming voice, 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 on the seat opposite him.

"Isn't my mouth sweet enough? Then change it?" Zhang Miaojin cast a coquettish look.

"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.

"Yes, yes, give me...the balance quickly..." As the Party B, Zhang Miaojin was completely controlled 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 a lesson from 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]

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