Scholar’s Starry Sea

After a highly concerned man-machine battle, Alpha Dog can be said to have become famous in the first battle. Although it is not a household name, there are indeed many more people who know its name.

However, before the defeat of Li Shishi, the original AlphaGoFan swept the European Go champion with a record of 5 to 0, so it appeared on the cover of the international academic journal "Nature". It received a lot of response.

However, Google was obviously not satisfied with this. It didn't take long for the human-computer war that caused heated discussion in the world to be staged.

Lee made his debut on the second-generation AlphaGo, defeating professional nine-dan player Li Shishi with a score of 4:1, becoming the world's first artificial intelligence to defeat the world champion of Go.

Lian Zhan Lianjie, Google, which has already been on the top, quietly threw their third-generation AlphaGo and Master on the Internet. It took only a few weeks to create a record of 60 consecutive rounds of victory, and these 60 The players are all Peak experts from China, Japan and South Korea, and even include the human Ranked 1st player Ke Jie in China.

This time, Alpha Dog was completely eye-catching and became the number one star in artificial intelligence, and once again aroused such remarks as "Is artificial intelligence about to eliminate humans and occupy Earth?".

So is the intelligence of Alpha Dog really so powerful?

No, in the eyes of artificial intelligence experts, the three generations of "Fan, Lee, and Master" can sweep the Go world not by "intelligence", but by massive amounts of data.

Because they will learn from the opponent’s game before the game, so that when the opponent takes any step in the game, they will be listed by all the probabilities of the next step, and then Step by step is pushed backward, and finally the hand with the highest winning rate is selected.

To put it simply, Alpha Dog doesn’t even understand the rules of Go. It can only play prepared battles. If it is allowed to play on the spot, it may not even be a win for an amateur chess player.

What about the word "smart"?

Recently, due to experiments, papers, and a bunch of trivial matters, Wu Bin’s daily visits to the official websites of major scientific research magazines have indeed decreased a lot, so he curiously asked: "Zero... What new trick is there?"

Gu Ningshan thought for a while, replied: "It should be said that it is a big step towards true intelligence."

"Started to focus on learning this Is it a piece?"

Gu Ningzha first glanced at Wu Bin a little unexpectedly, and then nodded and said: "Yes, the biggest feature of Zero is that you can learn from a blank state, without any human beings. Under input conditions, it can still learn Go by itself quickly."

"Oh? Then Interesting." Wu Bin nodded, showing interest.

Seeing Wu Bin’s shining eyes, Gu Ningshan snickered first, and then said: “This time Zero should be considered to have learned the rules of Go by himself. AI has gradually started to lose or win. Adjust the parameters in the game, so that it changes from using data streams to brute force the opponent's chess path to that it will really choose those moves that are conducive to winning the game."

Wu Bin : "How effective is it?"

"That's amazing. After only three days of self-study, Zero has rubbed the second generation Lee on the ground with an absolute score of 100 to 0, and then passed on again. For 40 days, the third generation Master also became the soul of his chess game."

"Interesting, if you don’t bully humans, do you start playing civil war..."

Before the Master was almost bloody abused. After all the human elite chess players, Google immediately announced that it would no longer participate in any chess competitions between humans and machines in the future, typically running after installing B.

Talking and chatting, the two have arrived at the Golden Arch. As usual, Wu Bin ordered Gu Ningshan a Hegemon package. This girl at first also said that Hegemon is so big, how could she eat it? Yes, but then it turned out that it was not enough for her to eat!

"Would you like another box of chicken nuggets?" Wu Bin turned his head and asked Gu Ningshan.

"One burger is enough for me." Gu Ningshan shook his head.

"That's OK, I'll eat it myself."

After ordering the meal, the two of them casually found a place to sit down with the plate, Wu Bin first took a drink and took a sip. I asked: "What do you think after watching this Zero?"

"How do you say~" Gu Ningshan tore the ketchup as he thought about it. "I think a single solution can solve multiple complex problems. Algorithms are the first step to create a machine learning system to solve practical problems, and it is also the most important step."

"Ugh~It's very profound, it seems that you have learned well recently." Wu Bin laughed I exaggerated, "What do you think about the level of professors in the Faculty of Letters?"

Although the University of Science and Technology already has the idea of ​​opening an artificial intelligence Academy, it still hasn't been implemented. Therefore, artificial intelligence is still classified in automation and computer-related majors.

Gu Ningshan, who has a keen interest in artificial intelligence, is also very swift and decisive. She was transferred to information technology in minutes. From the current point of view, she should be very satisfied with her choice.

"It's amazing." Gu Ningshan nodded, "Oh yes, Professor Zhang will give a lecture at the Water Lecture Hall next week. You should be interested to listen."

"Which Zhang...Um!? Is it Professor Zhang Yaqin?" Wu Bin cry out in surprise.

When Wu Bin was still in the National Team, Song Nanfeng mentioned Zhang Yaqin to him several times.

Entered the junior class at the age of 12, the first academician in the history of George Washington University, the former president of Baidu, these all are around Zhang Yaqin's aura, saying that he is the best in the junior class of the University of Science and Technology Successful people are not counted as too much.

Picking up a french fries, Gu Ningshan replied, "Otherwise, which Professor Zhang could be."

Wu Bin took a bite of the hamburger and asked vaguely: "What is it? Lectures on the subject?"

"It seems to be about artificial intelligence and autonomous driving."

"Is he still doing scientific research?" Wu Bin was a little surprised.

Zhang Yaqin has a total of more than 60 US patents, and he is completely lying on Jinshan, and after he resigned as Baidu's president, he was low-key, so Wu Bin thought he had already enjoyed his life.

"I don’t know if I have done scientific research. Anyway, I’ll know if I listen to it. If you want to come, I can reserve a place for you."

"Yes~ Xiao Gu Comrade, the power is great."

"That's not~" Gu Ningshan proudly drank a coke.

"Well, put away your little tail and talk about the topic just now. I think the appearance of ZERO means that Google has begun to unhurried to win and start to pay attention to learning."

"It's this concept. This time they used 5000 TPUs on ZERO, combined with deep neural networks, enhanced learning algorithms and general tree search. I am now very curious about where they plan to use this technology in the next step. "

"Yes~ I'm also curious..." Wu Bin chewed on the hamburger and began to meditate.

PS: Four days that I don’t know how to describe...I have experienced a thrilling life adventure, and now the adventure is back, anyway, it’s starting to update!