Cyber Heroes

Regarding Norwich's question, Xiang Shan smiled and said: "What do you think of the back-up game?"

The back-up game, or "warm-up game", is used to enliven the atmosphere before important games.

Of course, it may also play a role in how long it lasts.

After all, it is very rare for endurance competitions to last the entire round in professional matches. Let’s just talk about Tyson’s match. If it started as the main match, it would only last a few minutes. In this case, tickets may not be easy to buy.

In some professional leagues, back-up games are not even broadcast live.

Generally speaking, low-ranked players or unranked novices will be arranged to play in the back-up games. Their games are generally not cared for either. The level of the back-up game is not high and the excitement will be lower than the main game.

However, things are not certain.

A fledgling boxing champion may also start from the back-up matches. Some boxers with lower rankings but bright futures will be watched by people in their back-up matches.

But for the most part, people cared more about the main event.

It seems that... it's not impossible to send some robots to Xiangshan Fortress for back-up games?

Norwich is a little worried: "But the back-up match is the biggest hope for some low-level boxers, right? Many low-level boxers can only play two back-up matches a year."

Xiang Shanyi spread his hands: "As a back-up match, it's not impossible to insert additional time between games. Anyway, I only need these robots to come on stage to box. In addition, our company can also fund and hold special commercial sports events. For AIs from various boxing gyms to compete - of course, the prerequisite is that my AIs can attract the attention of major professional leagues in the fighting world."

Norwich continued to think for a moment, and he felt that this was very feasible. At least the professional leagues don't have much reason to object.

However, he still had some questions.

"If a boxing gym purchases a machine and then specifically trains the top boxers in the gym, and does not allow ordinary students to use it at all, will it reflect the average level and teaching strength of the boxing gym?"

Xiang Shandao: "This is easy to solve. Specify the sampling time. The AI ​​of a boxing gym will only collect samples from any one user for a few hours every day. Then you can use rules to stipulate how many people must provide training data for the AI. , or simply weight class, 'private AI of star boxers' counts as heavyweight, 'public AI of all professional players in the boxing gym' counts as middleweight, and 'playing with non-professional students' counts as lightweight. Just formulate the corresponding rules. alright."

"What if a boxing gym trains different robots?"

Xiang Shan sighed: "Coach Norwich, the focus is on AI and software. The data of all robots in a club can be interoperable."

Norwich was lost in thought again.

Then, he nodded: "It should be possible."

The old man immediately understood why Xiangshan wanted him to do this. He is a well-known coach in the circle, has produced champions and boxing champions, and has friendships with various well-known training camps.

If he acts as a salesman, the effect will be better than if the company official comes forward.

However, the old coach still had his own insistence: "I have to train Lu here for a while to see the effect."

Xiang Shan nodded: "There's no need to rush this. I originally wanted you to see the effect. This can be done during the training of Lu Xuanyu."

Coach Norwich felt a little disappointed: "Now, it will be more difficult for those boxers with poor financial conditions to get ahead."

"Aha!" Xiang Shan smiled, turned around, picked up a packaged gadget from the desk, and opened it, "I have already considered it. The advantage of the industrial revolution lies in its universality."

That's a pair of smart glasses. Xiang Shan touched the frame of his eyes and whispered: "Guest mode, activate Bluetooth connection, search for the device with the note 'Xiang Shan', password 0505... Well, allow unknown devices to access. Hosted mode. Start 'AR Fighting Star Training' alpha', high quality..."

After completing the settings, Xiangshan threw this thing to the Norwich coach: "This thing is a sign-in gift for you. It contains some beta gadgets that our company is developing. Put it on and take a look."

The Norwich coach put on his glasses and was startled. He saw a lifelike sparring robot standing in front of him, assuming an attacking stance like a beast. He was so frightened that he leaned back, but quickly realized: "Is this CG?"

"That's right!" Xiang Shan opened his hands: "I said, the real key is not the robot, but the AI. Of course there is no problem in giving the AI ​​a steel body, but you can also prepare a virtual model body for it. The same effect. .”

"Of course, the only disadvantage is that you can't feel this AI tactilely, it's not that intuitive. But believe me, if it were based on Muhammad Ali's dodge skills, most people wouldn't be able to feel it tactilely. to robots. At least in terms of dodge training, there is no difference between CG and steel."

The Norwich coach exclaimed: "This is amazing!"

"By the way, it can be used as a professional training prop or as a somatosensory game." Xiang Shan said: "Using the money to buy ordinary games to buy professional training software is a good thing that every boxer is not willing to miss, right? "

Norwich didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Then this game will definitely not be sold. Normal people can't touch those professional boxers."

"Of course, there are different AIs. This is a cooperative project, and Action Master (Action Master) participates in the production. They will be responsible for writing a set of AI that adapts to the player's level." Xiangshan said, "In action games, AM is professional. When the time comes, everyone will buy it back. Generally, players set their own game AI, and professional athletes use the boxing champion AI. Of course, we also have internal suggestions to make the game free of charge for the original props."

"Action Master?"

"A game company is best known for its action games," Xiang Shan said. "I hold a considerable share of the company's equity, so I can let them collaborate on various projects."

"For example, in the past few years, AM has released many fighting games. The game packaging and user agreement have statements that when players play this game, part of their device's computing resources will undertake our company's research tasks. I Some of the company’s AI technologies will also be shared with AM.

In addition, AM can also publish some "youth version" games on its own and cast out the technical support part of our company. Then the price will be slightly higher, but there is no need to provide computing resources to our company. "

Xiang Shan smiled: "Our company is very short of computing resources. But compared to spending a lot of money to repair supercomputers, it is more cost-effective to obtain distributed computing resources in this way. From this point of view, I buy A bitch... Ahem, I mean AM’s stocks can be used to free AM players’ resources, so it’s worth every penny.”

I don’t need to say much about the prototype of the AM company in reality.