An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 361 Shouldn't the machine crash?

That person is none other than one of his crouching dragon and phoenix young generals - Li Zongzheng, the CEO of Yunmeng Games!

Since I handed him the task of developing World of Warcraft last time, Hao Yun hasn't seen him in the company for several days. He thought he was busy and disappeared, but he didn't expect him to be here.

Li Zongzheng also looked surprised.

Obviously, he didn't expect to come here either.

"Mr. Hao? Why are you here?" Wu Fan, who was originally communicating with Li Zongzheng in front of the monitor, asked the question Li Zongzheng asked again with a look of surprise.

Hao Yun collected himself, with a subtle expression on his face.

"Uh, I'm just here to take a look, don't worry about me... Speaking of which, what are you doing here?"

Otherwise, what else can I say?

It can't be said that I have drawn a card from the system and come here to find a place to use it, right?

But the two didn't think much about it.

Li Zongzheng said with a smile when Mr. Hao asked him why he came.

"Have you forgotten? Last time you told me to develop World of Warcraft."

Hao Yun said in a daze.

"What does World of Warcraft... have to do with brain-computer interfaces?"

This thing...

If it can be used within five years, and if it can be popularized within ten years, it's just luck, right?

"It's not what you think." Probably guessing what Hao Yun misunderstood, Li Zongzheng coughed and continued, "Didn't you say before that you want to design a dynamically changing world for World of Warcraft?"

"Yes..." Hao Yun was sure that he had said this.

"Then do you still remember that you said before that the player and the game should be organically combined to establish a feedback system that can influence each other?"

"It seems that there is..." Hao Yun was not sure if he had said the exact words, but he should have expressed a similar meaning.

Li Zongzheng continued enthusiastically: "Then do you still remember that you said that you want to create a living world and make NPCs like living players?"

Hao Yun couldn't bear it anymore.

"Why are you talking so much nonsense, answer my question quickly."

Wu Fan who was standing next to him probably felt that this guy was talking too much nonsense, so he coughed dryly and said.

"It's like this. The neuromorphic network we are researching needs to use AI programs that can accurately analyze and process a series of factors such as user emotions and emotions, and this work needs to observe a large number of samples to achieve it. I just heard that it is developing World of Warcraft in China needs to use a similar AI, so I discussed with Mr. Li, and our laboratory will help design the server used by the game and the operating system running on the server.”

Li Zongzheng nodded vigorously, and said with a hey smile.

"That's right, that's what it means, Brother Wu summed it up well!"

Wu Fan said with an embarrassed smile.

"Mr. Li has won the prize."

Li Zongzheng grinned and patted him on the shoulder.

"Stop talking about Mr. Li, just call me Zongzheng!"

Compared to Lin Jun, that bastard, he gets along better with Wu Fan, who also has an engineering background.

As for Hao Yun, the eyes of those who were listening at the moment were straightened, and their hearts were nothing but shit.

this……

He didn't remember that he ever said that he wanted to achieve this level!

In fact, even if there is no intelligent NPC, the organic interaction between the game and the player can be realized through some ingenious designs.

For example, in the early version of World of Warcraft, in the age when AI technology was immature, the concept of freedom was achieved to the extreme of MMORPG, so that the "corrupted blood" incident that occurred later attracted the attention of infectious disease institutions. Based on the relevant data, a mathematical model of infectious diseases was established for the study of SARS and bird flu, and this research result was also published in the academic journal "Epidemiology".

Of course, even with the advice of professionals, Blizzard eventually reset the server data shamefully, and took this as a lesson.

That is, never give the player too much freedom in an online game, because the behavior of the player with cerebral palsy is never predictable. However, in a sense, this "extreme" thinking has also led to many other consequences, including the boring subsequent versions of World of Warcraft, and a certain FPS game being hacked to death by the designer in the more distant future... Of course, These are all stories from another world.

Looking at Li Zongzheng and Wu Fan who were excited, Hao Yun had a complicated expression on his face.

He originally wanted to remind Li Zongzheng that a good game should allow players to experience the fun of exploration within a limited and rigorous framework by setting good rules, but after thinking about it, his definition seems a bit too absolute.

In my previous life, I was not a top designer, but compared to the designers in this world, I was standing on the shoulders of a group of giants.

It's hard to say how the future will go.

Besides, it's not that he hasn't played those masterpieces that perfectly design AI functions and open worlds to achieve a high degree of freedom and fun of exploration... It's just that he can't remember the names of those games for the time being.

"... You would think that using Yunmeng Technology's AI to realize a dynamic game world is beyond my expectation," Hao Yun coughed and continued, "May I ask, do you have any plans for the game's launch date?" ?”

Hearing this sentence, Li Zongzheng's expression was slightly embarrassed.

"Uh, this...it's hard to say."

"It's hard to tell what the hell it is?!"

Li Zongzheng said embarrassingly: "The models of characters, maps, equipment, and skills are already being designed, including mission scripts, UI interfaces, etc... In short, except for the game running system, the development progress has reached 68% , it will be available in September at the latest."

Hao Yun took a deep breath.

"...Then, what about the system you mentioned? I don't want to hear the percentage. What I want is a specific time, how long ago it can be done."

There was a mysterious silence in the laboratory.

In the end, unable to bear the awkward atmosphere, Wu Fan, the honest man, spoke first.

"……have no idea."

Perhaps sensing someone's anger, Wu Fan hastily added a sentence later.

"There is no way to give a specific time for research in this frontier field, but I can assure you that we have made great progress! At least the framework of the entire system has been completed! It's just..."

Hao Yun said calmly, "Just?"

Wu Fan's expression was a little subtle, and he continued to speak in embarrassment.

"...It's just that we still have some unsolved problems on how to better collect and use the data collected from players, and how to make AI have effective and reliable growth. However, these problems are not only the ones we are working on. It can even be said that we are already ahead of others.”

Because there are too many slots, Hao Yun doesn't know where to start complaining.

In other words, is it really no problem to use this unstable technology in a game that targets millions or even tens of millions of players?

But it seems a little too early to discuss stability now.

After all, this thing has not been made yet...

Perhaps because he couldn't bear the frozen atmosphere, Wu Fan slipped out of the laboratory with an excuse while a researcher came to discuss things with him.

There are only two people left in the laboratory.

Facing the silent boss, Li Zongzheng panicked a lot. Fortunately, a phone call relieved him. After answering the call, he said that the company had an urgent matter, and his feet were slippery.

Looking at the monitor in the laboratory and the documents displayed on the monitor, Hao Yun's heart suddenly moved.

By the way...

Is this the system that Wu Fan mentioned running on the game server?

Glancing at the row of servers displayed on a shelf-like grid next to the monitor, Hao Yun then looked around. It seems that the camera in this room hasn't been installed yet.

So, he walked to the server and took out the "Program Optimization Card" from the inventory.

"...I don't know if this thing is useful."

After all, a dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor, and the doctor is dead.

Without saying a word, he stuck the card on, and an imperceptible blue light flowed into the server case from his fingertips. Accompanied by a slight electric current, the server's fan began to run at high speed.

Hearing the whirring sound, Hao Yun felt a little flustered, and the screen on the monitor also started to froze.

"Damn it... it shouldn't be crashing, right?"

After tapping the keyboard twice, there was no response at all, Hao Yun couldn't help but take two steps back, and also slipped out of the laboratory...