Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 439 Unique Skill
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Zhang Xinping hadn't actually finished his introduction yet. He himself was quite interested in introducing this kind of product, after all, he had been in charge of the entire research and development process as the research director.

However, seeing that the other members of the Chinese Chess Academy were starting to doze off, Zhang Xinping took the initiative to change the subject.

"Let's talk about the competition I want to hold this time. I want our company's artificial intelligence to play a best-of-five game against Yi Zheng, a 9-dan professional."

Zhang Xinping started researching artificial intelligence two or three years ago, and they were already envisioning who artificial intelligence would challenge in the future.

At that time, Li Junhe certainly didn't think he was second to anyone. Even though he was at the end of his peak, he was undoubtedly the number one in the world.

Zhang Xinping's idea was that if he were to invite him, he would have to play all five games, regardless of the outcome, and give him a clean sweep of five to zero.

But since it's family, a best-of-five series or a 3-0 score is fine as a token gesture; there's no need to go overboard.

Upon hearing Zhang Xinping's words, everyone present hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to refuse, since they all felt that holding such a competition was completely meaningless.

Just as Jin Wan was about to speak, Zhang Xinping continued, "Regardless of the outcome of this match, we will provide an appearance fee of one million yuan for each game. If Yi Zheng wins, he will receive a bonus of ten million yuan, and all of these are after-tax income."

Upon hearing this, the group, who had initially intended to refuse, immediately fell silent.

It's not that people like money, it's just that they think Go and artificial intelligence are very promising fields.

After all, the prize money for this competition is already so high, so the cost of organizing the competition will only be higher. Although there is a considerable amount of operating expenses every year, no organization would complain about having too much money.

After all, these days we only hear about organizations and companies that are short of money, not those that have more money than they can spend.

Yi Zheng was slightly taken aback when he heard this, after all, the prize money for a World Cup is only ten million, and the personal income tax is also very high.

Furthermore, the World Cup has a 64-player format, with the quarterfinals consisting of a best-of-three series, the semifinals a best-of-five series, and the final a best-of-seven series. It can be said that winning the championship requires a winning streak of more than ten games.

Even just a man-machine battle, if you participate in three rounds and lose all of them, you can still win a prize of three million.

After paying taxes and taking a cut, the World Cup champion's remaining money is at most a little more than this.

Not to mention, this is without winning a single game; if they had won, they would have received a prize of ten million.

Even Mr. Ke, who was standing next to him, was stunned when he heard this. After all, when he played against the second-generation dog, the match fee was only 300,000 US dollars, and if he won, he was told that he could get 1.5 million US dollars.

Yi Zheng is currently beating a broken first-generation dog, yet they're offering such a high price?!
Is there still justice? Is there still law?
Is there any law?
urgent!
However, most of the people present were not scared off by the price. After all, Yi Zheng is the world's top Go sports star. Although the price is a premium, it does not mean that Yi Zheng cannot earn this money.

Zhang Xinping was willing to pay this price mainly because he believed that artificial intelligence would definitely eliminate Yizheng, and by stepping on Yizheng's commercial value, he would reach the pinnacle, and the company's stock price would most likely skyrocket.

Compared to the returns from the capital market, the money spent on organizing the competition is just a drop in the ocean.

Therefore, after confirming Yi Zheng's willingness to participate, the Chinese Chess Academy quickly reached an agreement with Muye Fox Company. The next step is to determine the specific time and method of the event.

As an invitational tournament hosted by Yizheng, and with the added element of artificial intelligence, it is bound to attract a large audience.

Therefore, there's no need to worry about the venue. It's estimated that many venues will want to host the competition, and some will even be willing to pay to do so, because it's a blatant advertisement. The chess academy is considering setting up five separate venues for each of the five games to maximize the promotional effect.

However, Zhang Xinping clearly wanted the competition to end as quickly as possible, and preferred to put the matches together and decide the winner in one go.

The competition format will proceed according to the normal rules, using Chinese Go rules, since the artificial intelligence was trained using Chinese rules.

The reason is simple: Chinese Go rules are theoretically more reasonable than numerical rules.

The principle of "all pieces are territory" is actually very simple. Calculating the outcome of a game using points is also based on this principle. Each player's move is of equal value. If you lose a piece and it is taken from the board, it is worth 2 points to me. If we use the "all pieces are territory" rule to calculate the outcome of a game, many thorny issues can be easily solved.

For example, the famous Panjiaoqusi (盘角曲四) is a fatal flaw in the Japanese and Korean rules.

If Black wants to kill White, it must play a corner move (four-legged bend) and then play a ko fight. If White has an advantage in ko threats, Black can kill White. However, if Black doesn't have an advantage in ko threats, it can't kill White. Therefore, in Chinese rules, this is called "the game ends when the ko is exhausted."

In the end, in order to resolve this ko, White had to place a stone in its own territory to eliminate the ko threat. However, placing a stone in its own territory would result in a loss of points. Therefore, the Japanese and Korean rules had to stipulate that a curved four-stone formation in the corner is a dead stone.

This is ridiculous. When we talk about dead and living pieces, we mean that if you say I am a living piece, then you cannot remove my piece from the board; conversely, if you say I am a dead piece, then you can definitely remove my piece from the board. How can there be a forced definition of dead and living? This is far removed from the actual solution in a game.

Therefore, the only solution to the above problem is the Chinese rule, which is that every piece is a territory. It doesn't matter if you fill in one or two more pieces in your own empty space, because whether it's an empty space or a piece, it's all a territory. It's that simple.

Therefore, artificial intelligence doesn't bother with this during training; it simply uses the more normal Chinese rules.

There was an AI that was trained using Japanese and Korean rules, which led to data chaos in the later stages of the game, causing it to lose to humans repeatedly, and it was even hailed as the shame of AI.

The bug in this AI was publicly attributed to a disorder caused by tagging, but it was actually a problem with the rules.

As for the match time, both sides simply agreed on a two-hour time limit with five one-minute countdowns.

There were no major issues on either side, as both were very confident and believed they were 100% certain of victory.

However, when it came to the last question, Zhang Xinping was stunned, because Yi Zheng asked what the name of this artificial intelligence was.

"Internally we call it v18 because it's the eighteenth version of artificial intelligence, but we haven't really come up with an official name yet."

Upon hearing this, Yi Zheng nodded and offered a suggestion: "How about calling it a unique skill?"

Upon hearing the name, Jin Wan couldn't help but clap his hands and exclaim, "What a wonderful name! This is a line from a poem by Du Mu praising the national champion Wang Feng."

"Skills like yours are rare in the world, and idle men like me are unparalleled." This phrase is used to praise the opponent's exceptional chess skills, which are unmatched by anyone.

However, is it a bit of a misnomer to use this name for artificial intelligence?

However, Zhang Xinping felt very good about the name when he heard it. It was simple, easy to remember, and had a Chinese feel to it: "Jueyi! Great! Let's call it Jueyi!"

The man-machine battle: Yi Zheng versus the artificial intelligence Fine Art! I think this will be a significant chapter in history!

(End of this chapter)