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Chapter 55 "Parallel World" Engine

"Husband, it's already past twelve o'clock."

At this time, Cheng Hui had already slept for a round. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he found that Ji Hong was still not there. He also came in to remind him, holding a glass of milk: "I'll heat up a glass of milk for you. Drink it and go to bed quickly."

"Thank you, wife, hehe, right away!"

Life is getting better. The company is getting bigger and bigger, and he is making more and more money. However, Ji Hong's days of working overtime in the middle of the night are not less, and he even works harder than before.

After many talks, Cheng Hui also made an agreement with him: no matter what, we must not go past twelve o'clock.

"You can never finish your work, but your body is yours. Haven't you noticed that you've been a little powerless lately?"

"No way!" Ji Hong immediately turned off the computer and ran to the bathroom to wash up and go to sleep. He was still muttering in his heart: You always use this to scare me when there is nothing wrong. I never follow my heart. Don't I know it myself? I don't know who it is...that or something. So what...that is, the soundproofing of this community is pretty good...

Looking at Ji Hong running away in a hurry, Cheng Hui also smiled knowingly. It was so nice to have a husband who, no matter how his status changed, remained the same in front of him and never changed at all.

……

Silent all night.

The next day, Ji Hong came to the company early.

"Mr. Ji, here is an invitation from you. How do you respond?" As soon as he sat down, Ji Hong's administrative assistant came over to deliver an invitation letter.

"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang? Are you coming to Juer Intelligent Technology?" Ji Hong thought for a while and decided to meet. The possibility of cooperation is unlikely - this is not a problem between two companies, but a problem between two countries. .

But Ji Hong was still a little interested in the man who invented the GPU: "Let's make arrangements. I will be at the company for these two days. Tell Mr. Chen and ask him to be in charge of reception first.

"Well, by the way, let me also inform Mr. Zhang on the sixth floor. He happens to be here right now. They are all old friends. We can chat together later.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away."

The assistant retreated, and then Ji Hong called Zhao Donghe over.

“How’s the situation with the APP?”

For the training of the Growth Pilot model, some key data were collected and provided through this APP. The initial consideration was somewhat poor, resulting in a late start of development and failure to catch up with the launch ceremony.

Zhao Donghe has also been working overtime these days: "It's basically completed, and the final test will be in these two days. Fortunately, there is code AI, otherwise this APP alone, even if three teams are invested in joint development, will have a construction period of at least one month. .”

"That's okay." Ji Hong arranged: "The first round of training of the model will take about a week. When the first round is completed, the APP will be released to 200 volunteers. At that time, the model will be tested and trained together. Grow as you improve.”

"How is the development progress of the development tools now?" Ji Hong asked immediately.

"what?"

"I'm not rushing you, I know, it's only been less than ten days."

More than a week ago, the development work of the development tools was handed over to Zhao Donghyuk as a precautionary measure and as a basis for the Whisper system to be separated from the Wine software ecosystem.

"I was shocked!" Zhao Donghe patted his chest: "The development tool is system software, which is different from the development of general software, and it also needs to integrate code AI into it, so requirement design takes a lot of time."

"I know that." Ji Hong said with a smile: "Things have changed a lot. That day I communicated with Mr. Zhang Jian. He was going to talk to game developers about special game optimization for Whisper systems and Moore Technology graphics cards."

"On my side, this version of the development tool needs to consider the needs of game development, right?" Zhao Donghe asked doubtfully: "In the development of games, IDE is not the most critical, the most critical is the game engine." I also I have learned that there are currently two mainstream engines: Unity3D and Unreal Engine, and then there are some self-developed engines and open source engines. "

"Game engine?" Ji Hong doesn't play games very much, and he really doesn't know much about it. He knows a little about Unity3D, but it was useful because the VR camera was integrated into the project at that time. As for other things, he doesn't really know much about it. learn.

Thinking of his company's advantages, Ji Hong immediately asked: "Are there any AI-based game engines now?"

Speaking of games, that is one of Zhao Donghyuk's biggest interests. Back then, a text dialogue cyber girlfriend could make him uneasy, let alone other high-quality games. He knew this aspect quite well:
"Today's game engines have more or less integrated some AI functions, but there are no engines that are currently on the market or open source that deeply integrate AI. As for whether any companies are developing them, it is unknown."

"If you were asked to design a game engine based on AI, what would you think?" Ji Hong asked with interest.

“Behavior trees, decision trees and path planning are the most sensitive to AI.

“The former can directly generate AI-based NPCs with different personalities and behavioral logics on a large scale, simulating the decision-making process of AI. In particular, we have analog thinking, which can be used to determine the NPC’s logic and behavior.

"In this way, the same NPC that everyone encounters will become completely different due to factors such as time, external environment, player dress, behavior, etc., and even the logic of actions can be related to it, so the playability of the game will be greatly increased. .

“The path planning algorithm is indispensable for large map games, including addressing and navigation.

“There’s also the perception system, which would be great if it could simulate taste, hearing, and touch in response to events in the game.

"Moreover, logic control..."

Zhao Donghe talked a lot, and Ji Hong nodded while listening - now he doesn't need to analyze the growth pilot model, he already knows what job is suitable for Zhao Donghe.

He is almost interested in doing more in-depth AI cutting-edge research, but if AI is available, let him do the application of AI in the field of games. Based on these analyzes alone, he should be able to get close to ten points.

"Have you prepared in advance?" Ji Hong asked.

"What are you preparing in advance? Games?" Zhao Donghe smiled: "I just thought about it while playing games, and I didn't think about it now. I thought about it a long time ago, but at that time, there was no AI as powerful as thought-like thinking. I can only think about it.”

"Now that there is such a powerful AI and AI capabilities, I will provide you with whatever you want," Ji Hong said seriously: "Use your imagination and make an ultimate deep AI-bound game engine that can Is it done?”

"We have no experience in picture rendering, and pictures are also very important for games." Zhao Donghe pointed out the current disadvantages.

"Are you stupid? Don't you know how to recruit people without experience?" Ji Hong said: "Many domestic start-up companies are doing this and directly recruit a team."

"That's no problem at all!" Zhao Donghe was excited. Combining his hobbies and work, wouldn't it be great in the future?
Especially when such a powerful AI is used in a game engine, the dialogue can become more human-like. However, the graphics are really not that interesting. Even if 3D is only visual, the essence is still a flat-screen game.

If VR technology advances further in the future, or has realistic rendering capabilities, combined with AI, it will even become a second world for humans!
Zhao Donghyuk used his imagination to imagine things that were unknown how far in the future.

"Then let's name this engine [Parallel World]." Ji Hong said.

Parallel world - every game you play is another version of you in a parallel world. How meaningful!

In just a few words between the two people, the parallel world engine was confirmed.

"I originally just wanted to adapt the development tools to make it easier and faster for game developers to adapt to our system and graphics card. After all, you can use code AI to develop applications and games for the Whisper system."

Ji Hong shook his head: "Weicheng wanted to make such a decision. In this case, it is urgent to improve the performance of the graphics card."

(End of this chapter)