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Luo Sheng returned to the company headquarters and started a new plan in his office where Bluestar Technology is located. I am afraid that only he can complete this plan, and he only wants to do it himself.

The development of AI requires supercomputers. Luo Sheng does not have a private supercomputer now, and the two companies do not have their own independent supercomputers, unlike IBM.

However, Luo Sheng now has a data center and cloud computing, and the bottom layer of cloud computing is also a supercomputer. Through the data center and operating system, ultra-large physical servers in different regions are aggregated into a supercomputer, which is scheduled and used uniformly.

There is no one on both sides that is powerful, because each has its own strengths and focuses on different things, and with the development of technology, cloud computing and supercomputing will also become a part of me, you and me, together for big data. Times provides a powerful technology engine.

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At this moment, Luo Sheng created a new folder on one of his work computers, and the index directory was called "Nov", which was the codename or name of the artificial intelligence to be developed.

According to the pronunciation of Nov, and then translated directly with its homophonic, the Chinese name is called "Nufu".

After confirming the name, Luo Sheng began to program and develop Nefu's intelligent body.

If you want to develop artificial intelligence, you must first understand three concepts, artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence, referred to as AI), machine learning (Machine Learning, referred to as ML), deep learning (Deep Learning, referred to as DL).

These three are closely related. Simply put, artificial intelligence is to give a device or machine the same intelligence as human beings, machine learning is a method to achieve artificial intelligence, and deep learning is a technology to achieve machine learning.

Artificial intelligence includes machine learning, and machine learning includes deep learning.

Last year, in 2006, Jeffrey Hilton, a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada and a master in the field of machine learning, and his student Ras Lahudinov published an article in Science that opened up the depth Learn about waves in academia and industry.

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In the following days, Luo Sheng established an end-to-end "ecosystem" for the development of Neve, and wrote programs for it himself.

Luo Sheng didn't care much about the two companies recently, and started to be the shopkeeper for a while. On the one hand, the company is not busy now.

It has been arranged clearly, followed by Yao Jianhong in the Cote d'Azur, and Zhang Bowen in Bluestar Technology.

This "ecosystem" is currently being arranged in the basement of his private villa. When his super mansion is completed, Luo Sheng has now spent billions of dollars to create a set of technological sense after moving in as a whole. The super mansion is located on the bank of Yangcheng Lake.

The development of artificial intelligence is not achieved overnight. It is an advanced road of continuous upgrading and optimization, from simple programs, to weak artificial intelligence, strong artificial intelligence, and even to super artificial intelligence.

Among them, the upgrade and advancement include the advancement of software and hardware. Instead of typing a few lines of code on the keyboard, a smart AI with self-emotional logic analysis was born.

The "ecosystem" created by Luo Sheng includes a simulator, a programming language, an integrated programming environment, an algorithm library, a set of tools for applying firmware for deep learning, a set of teaching logic courses, and Cloud computing support.

Just that, this "ecosystem" is not enough.

To achieve true strong artificial intelligence, more advanced and more hardware support is needed, so as to create the perception, action and cognitive ability that can simulate the human brain, which can be composed of complex structures or multiple nonlinear transformations. The multiple processing layers of the data are abstracted at a high level.

Obviously, deep learning algorithms are extremely critical in this.

Another key link is data. Only companies that master massive amounts of big data have the advantage or foundation to develop artificial intelligence.

In fact, there are not many companies or institutions with this advantage in the world. There are Google, Yahoo, IBM, etc. abroad, but there is no doubt that it is "L-BAT" in China, especially "L", which is Bluestar Technology Group.

The amount of data it holds can be said to be one of the best in the world. BlueSpace, Cloud Song Search, Reddit, Bluestar Video, etc., and the business sectors of Bluestar Technology are all full of vast amounts of data.

However, the "Nov-Nov" that Luo Sheng wants to develop does not belong to the assets of Bluestar Technology or Cote d'Azur. It is completely independent and belongs to Luo Sheng's personal exclusive technology, but will provide AI technical support for these two companies in the future. is certain.

As the founder of Bluestar Technology Group, Luo Sheng has no doubt that the database of the group company is completely open to him, and the upcoming "Nov-Nuff" will enter the database of Bluestar Technology Group and Azur.

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As time passed, the prototype of Neve also completed the pioneering stage under Luo Sheng's continuous struggle to stay up all night. Although it was far from the true artificial intelligence, it was a breakthrough of 0 and 1.

No matter what the world does, it has to accept that there are truly geniuses, and people will only be mad at people.

What's more annoying is that talented people work harder.

This morning, Luo Sheng came to the company, but he didn't deal with the company's affairs. He stayed in the office and tossed Neve. The original code had already been written.

Luo Sheng turned on his dedicated work computer to link to the cloud, located in the Sioux City data center, his private cloud service.

It quickly indexed to the "Nov" folder, and after confirming the operation, it started without hesitation and woke up "Nov".

Watching the percentage progress bar keep advancing, Luo Sheng waited patiently.

But he also knows that even if Neve is awakened now, he is now an "artificial mental retardation", and the road has to be taken step by step, from "artificial mental retardation" to "artificial intelligence" and then to "strong artificial intelligence" or even to The final form of "super-artificial intelligence" is not achieved overnight.

Completing the first step is often the hardest.

[100%, the startup is complete! 】

"Ness!!"

Luo Sheng, who was staring at the screen, was instantly refreshed when he saw this scene, and immediately connected to the external network without saying a word. He had already made a "plug-in".

At this moment, Luo Sheng opened Blizzard Battle.net, and quickly registered a battle.net account, the ID nickname was "Nov".

Then, he spent a few minutes arranging what Nov was going to do today, which was to let "her" compete in the ranked system of Blizzard Battle.net's "StarCraft: Brood War" ladder system.

Compete with those top players.

This is the first study course that Luo Sheng has determined for Neve, allowing "her" to promote deep learning in real-time strategy games (RTS).

StarCraft is essentially a fast-paced war game. The player plays the role of a commander who leads the overall situation, so any operation, decision, or consciousness of the player will directly or indirectly determine the outcome of a confrontation.

Players need to always consider the balance between economic and military development, and make a lot of decisions in a very short period of time. Wait.

Such a real-time strategy game is undoubtedly an excellent platform for Nov to advance, but Luo Sheng has given Neve certain restrictions before "her" enters the Celestial System and competes with those top human players in a qualifying match.

The first is the fog of war, which is exactly the same as the human player, otherwise the map will be hung up.

The second is to impose apm and epm restrictions on Nov. If there are no restrictions, human players will lose 100%, and it is impossible to beat. This is obviously not a fair confrontation, nor is Luo Sheng's original intention, and it is not too deep for Nov's deep learning training. Great help.

The so-called apm is the number of operations per minute of the player. Like the top interstellar players in South Korea, the apm can soar to a terrifying 500 or more on average, and the epm is the number of effective operations per minute of the player. Among them, blind points and passes are also counted, so apm has a large number of waste operations, and every operation of epm is a valid operation. For example, repeated operations are only counted once.

Luo Sheng set an upper limit of apm of 550 for Neve, which can achieve the same value as the world's top interstellar professional players, and the online value of epm is set at 188.

At the operational level, Neve is restricted to be on par with the top human professional players, so if "she" wants to defeat the top human players, she needs to play at the "intelligence" level. important.

After Luo Sheng got everything done, he shook his head and decisively put Nefu on the battle.net, and let "her" enter the celestial system to match players to fight.

In Luo Sheng's eyes, Blizzard's Battle.net system is the existence of scum. With 100% absolute confidence, the system of "glass scum" can't detect any abnormality in Neve, and let her disguise as a human player and the real one. Human players play against each other.

At the same time, Neve is also connected to the database of Bluestar Technology, and is constantly contacting and analyzing massive information through deep learning algorithms, which will not prevent "her" from competing with human interstellar players on the ladder at the same time. .

This is the comparison between humans and AI, and the unparalleled advantages of the latter are reflected.

Next, Luo Sheng didn't intervene, and sat motionless, staring at the computer screen.

Now his computer has been taken over by Neve, and he has entered the ladder system to start matching players. The battle mode is the 1V1 battle mode with the highest level of competition.

Luo Sheng didn't say a word at the moment. He quietly watched Neve's first point of view. It took less than ten seconds to search for the opponent and quickly found the player.

The first round of confrontation officially begins.

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