Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 410 409. Ten paragraphs

"Taste carefully so that you don't miss every trace of the deliciousness of the ingredients. Once you take a photo, the taste will change."

Looking at Xia Yingying who was about to take pictures, Pei Qian, President Pei sitting opposite, suddenly said with a smile.

Hearing this, Xia Yingying originally stretched out her hand to take a photo with her phone but could only retract it.

Such exquisite food, such a delicious restaurant, cannot take photos and post on social platforms to show off, which is a big pain for girls.

Family members, who understands?

However, the person sitting across from him was a rare big boss, so Xia Yingying naturally did not dare to say anything.

Now I can barely make ends meet by relying on the dead wages from the Shanxi team. How dare I talk back to my boss?

If I don't even have this guarantee, I will have to teach children how to play Go to survive.

Not to mention, Mr. Pei himself is an existence that sees the beginning but not the end of the dragon. He rarely interferes in the operation of Go and has never met him in real life.

The only contact between Xia Yingying and Mr. Pei was when her team lost in the Women's Go League A. Pei would always send big red envelopes in the group to comfort everyone and keep up the good work.

And it will also come with Mr. Pei’s exclusive encouragement: Don’t be afraid of failure, failure is the mother of success.

And the most important thing is that the amount of money she grabs every time is a lot. Xia Yingying couldn't grab it several times because she was sleeping, and she wanted to learn how to use the Vajra Hammer herself.

If Xia Yingying hadn't still had the spirit of a professional chess player, she would have just thought about losing every game. Anyway, if you lose, you will get a red envelope, but if you win, you will get nothing.

But out of the spirit of professional chess players, your boss encourages you like this, and it really makes no sense if you don’t win.

Xia Yingying and other female team members were eager to work overtime for training and vowed to live up to President Pei's hopes and achieve good results.

"Mr. Pei, I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't expect you to come here."

Compared to Xia Yingying, Ying Jie had slightly more contact with Mr. Pei. At least the other party was present when Ying Jie signed the contract, but subsequent contact was also limited.

But although Mr. Pei is no longer in the world, the legend of Mr. Pei is spread everywhere in the world.

At least for such a long time, Mr. Pei has sponsored countless Go competitions, ranging from amateur to professional, from national to world, and can be called the largest sponsor of Go competitions.

Unexpectedly, this time, on a day off during the man-machine battle, Mr. Pei would invite himself and several members of the Shanxi team to have dinner together.

Ying Jie was a little surprised, after all, the other party was definitely managing everything.

What was even more surprising was that Ying Jie didn't expect that in a villa area in Danghu, there was actually a residence that looked like a villa on the top but was actually a high-end restaurant on the inside.

Although I have long heard that there are some strange high-end restaurants in some places, they even only entertain some private guests, and they can even be called private clubs.

But in a small city like Danghu, which is a certain distance from Shanghai and Hangzhou, wouldn’t it be a loss to open a restaurant in such a place?

After all, this kind of high-end private restaurant should only have customer traffic in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It is difficult for other small cities to recover the cost.

There can't be anyone who comes all the way here to eat.

"Everyone can eat whatever you want, no need to leave it open, I own this restaurant, I've reserved the place today, and there are no outsiders.

You have to be bold when eating crabs, and eating them like cuckoo clouds is very good.

When we eat, we eat first. As the saying goes, you eat without talking. After eating, we chat slowly, digesting food while chatting. "

Mr. Pei looked at Cugu Yun who was sitting opposite, picked up a crab leg, dipped it in the condiments and stuffed it into his mouth and said with a smile.

The king crab on the table weighs at least ten kilograms. The price of this dish alone is estimated to be enough to earn a month's salary of a programmer in a first-tier city.

Hearing this, Ying Jie didn't know what to say. The loss-making business of relationships belonged to Mr. Pei.

But think about it, Go itself is a loss-making business. It’s better not to force yourself to do anything but give advice to others.

If people are unwilling to invest in you, then they are really guilty.

Faced with this kind of hard food that she never even thought about eating, Xia Yingying couldn't help but pulled up the crab legs. She even moved so much that her double chin was exposed.

"Did Mr. Pei call us here for something today?"

After a few people had finished their meal, Xia Yingying, who had been showing off her boldness at the dinner table, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she looked at Mr. Pei opposite.

There is no way, compared to the terrifying strength of the Shanxi men's team, the women's team is a bit of a trap.

Not to mention the outrageous number one player like Ying Jie, even the overall strength is inferior.

This year's results have dropped directly to the Women's Second Division, and they are about to buy someone else's team, go public through a backdoor, and then compete in the First Division.

Although to a certain extent it has reduced the burden of Red Star's first-placed defense, the pressure on everyone has become even greater.

The boss has already achieved this level, and it’s really unreasonable for you to fail to achieve results.

Xia Yingying couldn't help but be afraid that this meal would be some kind of Hongmen Banquet. Mr. Pei would use this meal to fire her?

After all, my grades are average.

Shanxi team's "The Last Supper"?

"It's nothing. As a Go enthusiast, I naturally want to watch such a grand event like the Man-Machine War. I didn't have time before, so I delayed coming until now and missed the exciting first few games.

But I have always watched the live replay, and it was very exciting.

Let me first congratulate Ying Jie for once again winning today, achieving four consecutive victories in the second stage of the man-machine war. If he wins one more game, he can win this game completely.

It's a miracle. "

After hearing this, everyone raised their oranges and drank a toast.

“Although the Go artificial intelligence did not perform very well this time, I still believe that the Go artificial intelligence is quite promising.

Go plus artificial intelligence is as promising as kung fu plus football.

It may even be one of the future development directions of Go. Our company Yehu Go is developing a new Go artificial intelligence, but there has not been much progress yet.

But I feel that a Go artificial intelligence competition can be held to promote communication between various companies and better development of Go artificial intelligence. "

Hearing this, Ying Jie nodded.

However, the current artificial intelligence except AlphaGo, the strongest artificial intelligence is only at the ordinary professional level, which can be said to be far behind.

Compared with the later battles between artificial intelligences, which were the battle of gods for humans, the first artificial intelligence war that Mr. Pei is about to host can only be said to be a fight between rookies.

Even if Xia Yingying and Cugu Yun, who are working next to each other, take the field, they may win the championship.

However, if you calculate the speed of artificial intelligence development, by the time of the competition, there may already be some artificial intelligence that can reach the level of ninth-dan or even strong nine.

After all, it is true that it is impossible to say the R\u0026D progress of each company, but there is a high probability that it will still not be able to catch up with AlphaGo.

But it didn't make much sense to Ying Jie, and he couldn't participate in this competition.

No matter how high the bonus is, it has nothing to do with my mortgage.

"The reason why I called you here is actually that the commentators for the game will definitely have more people from within our Shanxi team.

And regarding the development of artificial intelligence, I also heard the idea mentioned by Ying Jie before in the interview. He said it very well. Artificial intelligence's self-playing is a very novel idea.

I feel that we can develop in this direction in the future, and I also told the R\u0026D team about this idea to see if there is any opportunity to implement it.

It's just that the implementation of the project is more difficult. I learned about it from many technical staff and we still have to do it step by step, but I still regard this as the main direction. "

For scientific research and development, direction is the direction, but implementation is the most difficult thing.

For example, the so-called enlarged version of the lithography machine that was popular all over the Internet seems to have no problem according to the principle, but when it is put into actual operation, it will definitely face various implementation problems.

Not to mention, whether this solution can adapt to some current situations is an issue that needs to be considered.

The difficulty of putting something on paper is completely different from that of getting it in reality, let alone putting an idea into reality.

So essentially the R\u0026D team must still be strong.

"It's a pity that I heard from AlphaGo's R\u0026D company and they didn't give up on this project.

Instead, I continue to invest in developing a higher version of AlphaGo. It's a pity. If the other party gives up, I would like to take over the other party's team to continue research on Go artificial intelligence.

However, Ying Jie may want to pay attention. If the other party can develop a more powerful artificial intelligence, they may challenge you again.

After all, they have severely lost face with you this time. Whether it is for the company's stock price or the recognition of artificial intelligence, they must challenge you again. "

Mr. Pei wants to take over the artificial intelligence research and development team directly. After all, it is better to have something ready-made than to start from scratch.

And most importantly, they are all talents with relevant experience in the industry.

What is the most important thing in the 21st century?

Talent!

But unfortunately, the other company obviously did not give up on this seemingly failed project, which led to the failure of Mr. Pei's idea of ​​poaching the other team.

After all, even if the result this time was worse, it was still 5 to 5, which proved that the Go artificial intelligence indeed defeated most humans, but lost to a bug.

There has obviously been considerable progress.

After all, it turns out that Go artificial intelligence is regarded as a toy by everyone, and even professional players cannot defeat it.

If we continue research and development, it is not impossible to overcome this bug.

Therefore, it is not abnormal for the company to continue research and development.

After all, the most important thing for investors is to be able to see visible progress and results.

Upon hearing the news disclosed by President Pei, Ying Jie just nodded and said with a smile: "If there are still challenges, I will definitely continue."

If artificial intelligence comes next time, it will probably be the second-generation dog.

That's when the real storm begins.

"As long as you have confidence, they will definitely have to be sure next time before they are willing to go with you.

After all, this time it was a big loss, and it had already made a lot of news in Europe. "

Cugu Yun couldn't help but shook his head: "In this pre-match interview, didn't they say it was a sure shot?"

You will definitely lose this time, and you will lose again next time.

Seeing Cugu Yun's arrogant look, those who didn't know thought he had defeated the artificial intelligence.

Mr. Pei didn't speak, just smiled and shook his head: "But don't talk about these things, there is still something happy that I want to talk about with you.

I shouldn't have told you this directly. Someone should tell you after a while, but I'd better reveal it in advance.

The Chess Association is looking for me to sponsor a competition about you, and we have reached a preliminary plan. "

When Ying Jie heard what Mr. Pei said, his head was filled with questions.

"About my game?"

What is a match about me? Can competitions also be linked to individuals?

Generally speaking, even if it is about personal competitions, most of them are named after chess players, and most of them use the brand effect of the chess players for brand promotion.

There are even some competitions held by individual Go players with their own money.

For example, there were Ke Mou Cup, Nie Lao Cup, etc. before.

But generally speaking, even if the chess association wants to hold some competitions, it is impossible to put its own name on it.

Because it doesn’t make much sense, it may even affect the brand’s investment mood.

After all, even if the effect of sponsoring Go is not very good, the name is still your brand. If the main name is not your own brand, it would not be a pure injustice.

Unless this brand owner is the only fan of chess players and spends money to help their idols expand their popularity.

But other than that, Ying Jie couldn't figure out what his game was about.

"You also know your current results."

Mr. Pei looked at Ying Jie and couldn't help but smile.

"What happened to my grades?"

"OK!"

When Mr. Pei heard this, he clapped his hands directly: "Since the formal development of Go in China, Japan and South Korea, which Go player has a 100% winning rate?

Not to mention that when artificial intelligence appears and a new era transitions from the old, you as a human can defeat artificial intelligence.

You have to know that this time, not only in China, Japan and South Korea, not only in Asia, but even in Europe and the United States, many people are paying attention to this game. Many people know Go, and they all know you.

To a certain extent, the significance of this game is no worse than the last time Mr. Nie ended the game with a winning streak in the arena.

It can even be said that Go has broken the circle again. "

In the last century, when everyone was in a special period of self-doubt, and in a desperate moment when everyone thought it was impossible to win, Mr. Nie showed his majesty with a winning streak.

Speaking of which, that game was also very dramatic. Before the game, due to the strength gap between the two sides, China even believed that being able to force out the opponent's main force was already a victory, and even just set such an ordinary goal.

But everyone did not expect that a young player from the Chinese team would directly penetrate the opponent's main force and directly complete the pre-match goal ahead of schedule.

And just when everyone sees the dawn of hope, do you think it is possible to win this game?

He was completely killed by the opponent's main force, and one person directly killed him in front of the main general Nie Lao.

At this time, there is only one person left in the Chinese team, and three people left in the Fuso team.

Even before Mr. Nie took the stage to compete, Fuso had already prepared to arrange the closing ceremony in advance.

But as the leader, Mr. Nie directly created a miracle. He not only defeated the opponent, but also defeated Fuso in one go. The remaining three people won the ring at once.

In that special era, victory in foreign wars had a completely different meaning.

Coupled with his performance in the arena later, Mr. Nie directly won the title of official chess saint.

"The higher ups want to give me an honorary title?"

After hearing this, Ying Jie seemed to understand what it meant to find Mr. Pei.

But isn’t it enough to just confer honorary titles directly? Need to sponsor any competition?

Is it possible that I have to go to the competition myself and win again?

These people are really confident in themselves and are not afraid of overturning at all.

"Actually, it's not an honorary title. The Chess Association feels that you are still too young. It seems inappropriate to add an honorary title to you at this time.

If you announce your retirement one day, they will probably award you with some honorary title immediately.

However, the title of Chess Saint is no longer available, and there seems to be no name that sounds particularly suitable for Chinese domineering.

Tianyuan national players and so on, it seems that they are almost interesting again. "

Looking at Mr. Pei who was shaking his head, Ying Jie couldn't help but ask: "If it's not an honorary title, what is it?"

Even if you are my boss, it's still very uncomfortable!

Looking at the anxious Ying Jie, the corners of Mr. Pei's mouth turned up slightly: "Tenth paragraph."

Before Ying Jie could say anything, Xia Yingying forcefully swallowed all the desserts in her mouth: "Tenth Dan, isn't that just a title fight?

Ying Jie already has five titles, so adding one more wouldn't make much sense. "

The title Judan is known to almost all professional chess players. It is one of the seven major news chess matches in Fuso (Chess Master, Celebrity, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Throne, and Qisheng).

The ten-dan battle began in 1962 and was sponsored by the Sankei Shimbun. The winner received the title of "ten-dan". Its predecessor was the rapid chess celebrity match held by Sankei Jiji, the predecessor of Sankei Shimbun.

For ordinary chess players, even world champions, winning a title is a very honorable thing, and can even be said to be one of the important achievements of the year.

But for someone like Ying Jie who already monopolizes all five major domestic titles, even one more title fight would make no difference.

It's nothing more than changing from the holder of five major titles to the holder of six major titles.

It’s already a Grand Slam, but let’s give it another Grand Slam.

It makes absolutely no sense.

Mr. Pei shook his finger: "You are wrong. This time the tenth-dan title is not the title, but the tenth-dan rank."

"Rank?"

Hearing Mr. Pei's words, all three people sitting opposite were stunned.

Even Ying Jie didn't expect that the Chess Association would create a special level for him.

As we all know, the professional ranks of Go are from 1st to 9th dan. Even if the 9th dan is divided into strong and weak, some have never even won a national championship, and some have even won many world championships. There is also a certain gap in strength.

But in terms of rank, everyone is at the highest level, ninth dan.

Even in the later era of artificial intelligence, there is absolutely no so-called ten stages.

This does exist in 10-dan online chess, but it is also a very difficult thing for many people.

The 10-dan online Go competition requires that all players must play against the lowest national champion player within twenty games and achieve more than 18 wins in order to obtain the honor of 10-dan online.

But in reality, the so-called ten-dan ranks are simply unheard of.

It can even be said to be an unprecedented first time.

Moreover, if China wants to achieve this rank, it must be recognized by the other two countries.

If it is not approved by the three parties, then the other party will deliberately disgust you and come up with a few ten-dans at will.

Although it's unlikely, it would be disgusting if it happened.

"There is no way, Ying Jie is too strong."

After hearing this, Xia Yingying and Cugu Yun, who had wanted to say something, suddenly fell silent.

Yes, it is indeed too strong.

Up to now, Ying Jie has never lost in his career.

That's all, but this time facing the artificial intelligence that completely crushed Gao Yongxia, Ying Jie once again won the battle.

Many people have already said that Ying Jie can definitely put the world first.

Many chess fans even said that all professional chess players would not be able to beat Ying Jie in a normal game anyway. It would be better to let Ying Jie play handicap moves in future games. Maybe it would be more interesting.

What is the concept of giving first place?

Even if the difference in strength between ordinary ranks is one or two, it is not enough to give priority.

To a certain extent, it would be considered humiliating to let Jiudan play handicap with others, mainly those who are currently active in the professional world.

It is no different from a 100m sprint track and field athlete saying I want you to run 20m first.

But Ying Jie's current results have made everyone have to admit that maybe he really has to give up before he can win.

"Then this tenth-dan rank..."

Regarding the advancement of Go, excluding some special level-skipping modes, there are mostly two ways to upgrade in general, but in the final analysis, it is actually one

One is to participate in the annual promotion competition, and you can be promoted if you meet certain requirements.

However, in order to adapt to development, the once-a-year competition could not keep up with the progress of many young players. Therefore, it was later stipulated that professional Go players could be promoted as long as they reached a certain winning rate in the number of effective games.

But after reaching the ninth level, there is no way for anyone to continue to rise.

This time the Chess Association has launched the 10th Dan level for the first time, and a corresponding supporting promotion measure will inevitably be introduced.

After all, promotion can't just be a channel for one person. If someone later says that he can do it, or even I feel that I am better than Ying Jie, why can't I challenge?

Therefore, this promotion measure must be extremely strict. Otherwise, the rank of tenth rank may start to spread again and become worthless.

This expansion of combat power is meaningless.

“I am still discussing this, but it has been decided that it will be in the form of a competition.

In the last ten paragraphs, there is no clear result of the discussion on whether to play the first move or to play from multiple sides, and the regulations are still being planned.

However, there is no doubt that the difficulty level has to be the biggest game yet.

A normal nine-dan player, even a Go world champion, would never be able to pass my test.

Because he will give birth to the first professional Go player in human history.

This person must be the undisputed first person beyond all human chess players.

Ying Jie, are you confident? "

Ying Jie just smiled.

"I don't know what confidence is?

All I know is, who else would it be than me? "

…

"This is the last game. We have lost four games in a row. This is something we never thought about before the game."

Mike looked at the people in front of him and sighed.

Before the game, everyone thought that the most difficult result would be that Ying Jie could win one or two games, which would create a little trouble for everyone, and even make many people question that artificial intelligence is not invincible.

There is still hope for humans to defeat artificial intelligence.

When the time comes, the next time he asks for a fight, he will beat Ying Jie so thoroughly that even his grandson doesn't recognize him.

But facts have proven that artificial intelligence is really not invincible.

He was directly pushed to the ground and slapped in the mouth by a human being, and he couldn't even fight back.

"Although the head office told us that research funds will continue to be provided, are you really satisfied with this result?

Even if we have a chance next time and no matter how good we win next time, it will be difficult for people to forget our failure this time. "

When Dr. Wang heard this, he couldn't help but said: "Alpha Dog also regretted it after the game."

"ah?"

Hearing Dr. Wang's sudden words, several other R\u0026D personnel couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

What does it mean that Alpha Dog regrets after the game?

Is it possible that the Go artificial intelligence can produce any regretful emotions?

If this were the case, then he would just study Go and prepare to compete for the highest prize.

Seeing everyone's eyes on him, Dr. Wang quickly responded: "When we reviewed the game again after the game, AlphaGo gave some better moves at some key nodes."

Hearing this, Mike couldn't help but shake his head.

There is no point in saying this.

Even if you can beat someone 100 times after the game, what's the use?

You can figure it out after the game. What did you do during the game?

“No matter what, I hope we can win tomorrow’s game.

4:1 is at least not someone who kicked me bald. 5:0 is really a shame to some extent. "

"I don't think anyone wants to return to Europe with this shame, right?"

Dr. Wang was speechless when he heard this.

There is nothing wrong in saying that.

No one wants things to develop like this.

If you give me a few more months to develop, maybe there is hope.

But now we suddenly demand that artificial intelligence can defeat Ying Jie, doesn't this disrespect the objective facts?

What is the difference between this Nine-Headed Insect saying to Benboba: "Go and get rid of Tang Monk and his disciples"?

I can’t do it!

PS: I haven’t coughed much during the day, but I started coughing again at night. Recently, it’s better to wear a mask. It feels like many people have caught a cold.