Cultivation Department Shura Field

Chapter 182 181 Listen to his opinion
Faced with Shen Lan's invitation for a night walk, Xu Zhe did not immediately agree because he had seen the winter camp schedule.

Xu Zhe reminded: "In two hours, all contestants will go to the auditorium to listen to the lecture."

Shen Lan said: "I mean after the lecture and before going to bed. The scenery of this school is nice, and Huadu is not too cold now. It is quite suitable for a walk at night."

Xu Zhe pondered for a moment.

At this time, he found that his new roommate was staring at him with some anxiety in his eyes, as if to say, 'Why don't you agree yet?'

Then Xu Zhe looked at the senior sister and said with a smile: "Okay then."

Shen Lan gave him a bright smile, then lowered her head to eat.The food she took was relatively small and she ate very quickly, so before the two boys finished eating, she emptied the plate, then picked up the empty plate and stood up.

"I'm leaving now. I'll see you later. I'll call you via mobile phone."

Shen Lan walked towards the plate recycling area.

Xu Zhe looked at the girl's back, thoughtfully.

Lin Keji couldn't help but ask: "Is this your girlfriend?"

Xu Zhe shook his head slightly: "No, she is a relatively good friend, not a girlfriend, at least not yet."

Lin Keji: "Does that mean it will be the same in the future?"

Xu Zhe smiled and said nothing.

Regarding this kind of thing, he will no longer firmly say that it is impossible.But to start talking now... he wasn't sure whether the goodwill between the two parties had reached that level.

Shen Lan's performance didn't seem to be determined, and he couldn't really get clear answers to the questions of 'when' and 'with whom'.

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Not long after dinner, the school announcement announced that everyone should go to the auditorium.

The auditorium is quite spacious, enough to seat hundreds of contestants.Most of these people are teenagers aged fifteen or sixteen, and they are all interested in computer programming.In this environment where we are of the same age and speak the same language, everyone is very excited.

Until the leader of the winter camp spoke on the stage, there were still many people in the audience whispering to each other and chatting non-stop.

Xu Zhe sat with his new roommate.

Lin Keji wanted to chat, but Xu Zhe looked down at his phone and obviously had no desire to talk, which made Lin Keji scratch his head.He also took out the same smartphone, but didn't know what to do with it.

I secretly glanced at Xu Zhe's mobile phone screen again, good guy, I'm chatting with someone on QQ.Lin Keji didn't need to think too much to guess that this guy was definitely chatting with that pretty girl with short hair!

On the stage, after the leader finished speaking, it was the turn of the professional teachers to share some competition experiences with the seniors who had won gold medals before, telling these young juniors how to adjust their mentality and how to make choices between college entrance examinations and competitions...

Xu Zhe looked down at his phone almost the whole time, only looking up when he heard something he was interested in.Suddenly, what the teacher said on the stage finally aroused his interest.

"...So you can see that the knowledge in the competition is actually closer to real-life applications than the knowledge tested in the college entrance examination. Here I would also like to share with you the research I am currently engaged in, which is the AI ​​visual recognition project. I am currently studying in Magic Capital Jiaotong University leads a team to do a project, and if we want to recruit a new person for our team, I would rather choose from all of you here than from the ordinary top students who took the college entrance examination."

AI?Visual identity project?
These words made Xu Zhe subconsciously raise his head and look at the teacher on the stage.He was a rather young teacher, less than 30 years old by visual inspection, and his face was a bit dull.But when it comes to professional matters, he is quite talkative.All in all, it fits Xu Zhe's stereotype of a technology geek.

Taking another look at the large projection screen on the stage, it was marked with the name of the speaker - Zou Tianyan.

Teacher Zou began to talk about his project: "What we are doing now, to put it simply, is to develop a set of AI algorithms, let the algorithm look at pictures, and identify whether the pictures are cars, animals, or faces. Now even There is a professional international competition called the ImageNet Challenge, where everyone competes to see who can come up with a better algorithm and who has a lower recognition error rate."

Hearing this, Xu Zhe's back straightened.

As a programmer, he knows a lot about the history of this area.In my impression, it was from this challenge that everyone realized that graphics cards could be used to build neural network models. Since then, Yin Weida’s graphics cards have soared, and artificial intelligence has become more and more developed. Later, there was AlphaGo who can play Go. , and the chatGPT that shocked the world...

This year, at this moment, the entire academic community and industry seem to have not realized the importance of graphics cards in the AI ​​field, including Yin Weida manufacturer itself.

Teacher Zou Tianyan on the stage was still talking: "In order to prepare for this competition, we also plan to invest a lot of money, such as more than a thousand high-performance CPU chips."

Hearing this, Xu Zhe couldn't hold it in any longer.He knew that the teacher in this kind of lecture would most likely leave immediately after the lecture, and there would be no chance for communication after the lecture was over.And if you don't say anything, it's like watching the opportunity to change history slip away before your eyes.

When he first started making games, Xu Zhe had long thought about whether to also make AI.But considering the high cost and my weak technical capabilities, it was really impossible to do it.But the teacher Zou in front of him could clearly afford the cost and had the corresponding technical ability, but he went astray due to wrong old ideas... This made Xu Zhe feel that he really needed to say a few more words.

Even if you don’t get the prize money from that challenge, and you don’t get the patent for the AI ​​algorithm, maybe you can become your own network in the future?
So Xu Zhe raised his right hand high and stood up impatiently.

Of course Zou Tianyan on the stage noticed him and asked, "Classmate, do you have anything to say?"

Xu Zhe took a deep breath and shouted: "You should not use CPUs to do AI, you should use GPUs! What you are doing is a neural network, and what you need is large-scale parallel computing!"

Zou Tianyan was stunned immediately.

In the audience, many students were silent for a few seconds, and then started talking one after another.

"GPU? Isn't that a graphics card?"

"Isn't the graphics card just for playing games? What is he talking about?"

"Haha, this guy is really brave..."

Beside Xu Zhe, Lin Keji asked hurriedly: "It's not the question period yet, what are you in a hurry for?"

"If this teacher Zou is really doing AI research, he should be more anxious than me now."

After Xu Zhe finished speaking in a low voice, he saw Teacher Zou on the stage looking at him with interest.

Zou Tianyan said into the microphone: "Send a microphone to that classmate. I want to hear his thoughts."

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　The character appearing in this chapter comes from the book review area: Zou Tianyan.

　　(However, the role of this role may be relatively important, because it involves the college line after the protagonist, so the positioning has gone beyond the scope of a supporting role...)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)