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As the game entered the confrontation stage, Luo Sheng was looking forward to watching Nefu's first point of view to see how she performed.

This confrontation is [Human VS Zerg], the human opponent is a Zerg player, and Neve chooses the Terran.

As soon as the game started, Luo Sheng, who was watching Naf's first perspective, felt embarrassed because "she" controlled the four farmers to wander around the map before turning back to mine for about half a minute.

Yes, it's a bad start.

This is also peat, which is really an artificial mental retardation.

This scene directly made Luo Sheng drunk.

Those who didn't understand thought that "she" was full of curiosity about the world, but she was indeed an artificial mental retardation.

Afterwards, Neve built two houses in a row. Luo Sheng thought that "she" would put down the barracks building, but "she" did not build the barracks.

Instead, I saved a sum of money to open a second mine...

Luo Sheng, who was watching from the first point of view, suddenly felt that Nefu's current actions and actions were just like the first time a pure rookie came into contact with the game StarCraft, and there was no difference.

As time passed by, the Zerg players who were fighting against it came to scout and saw the opponent's opening.

Zerg players are also dumbfounded.

what the hell?

What kind of play is this?

So a wave of puppies came over. At this time, Neve had just built the first machine gunner and hadn't come out yet.

As the opponent's wave of scout troops tentatively attacked the puppies entering the mining area, Neve resisted for a while and was powerless, and finally played GG to end the game.

The first confrontation was killed by the opponent's small reconnaissance force.

In fact, the human player on the opposite side is not very strong, just an ordinary player. If you want to meet a real top professional player, Neve needs to constantly confront each other in the ladder, defeating individual human opponents, and each victory will be matched with a better player. Strong opponents until you reach the top of the pyramid against real top pros.

Of course, with Luo Sheng's technology, the algorithm of the matching system can be forcibly modified, so that Nefu can directly match the top players,

But he didn't do that.

At present, StarCraft is a popular e-sports game, and it is played by a lot of people, especially in South Korea.

There is even an exaggerated claim that in South Korea right now, a 10-40-year-old man will be ridiculed wildly if he says he can't play Interstellar.

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Soon, the second round of confrontation began, this time it was a TVT confrontation, that is, [Human VS Terra].

In the second round of confrontation, Neve made obvious progress. Although this round of confrontation was also lost, at least the pawn was pushed to the opponent's home.

After all the main force was sent away, it was pushed back by the opponent's mechanized tactics.

Play GG again.

The next quick restart.

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When it came to the fifth game, it was TVZ again, which is [Human VS Zerg].

Neve, who lost the game one after another, finally showed her extraordinary side. Her strong learning ability allowed her to adapt to this level of "TVZ" confrontation, and easily defeated her opponent with manipulation.

Although this match against Neve defeated the opponent with the level of operation comparable to the top professional players, one of the details is that "she" will never make a second mistake in the same place.

In other words, the speed of Neve's learning progress is terrifying, and every confrontation is learning for "her".

Through these five matches against human players, Luo Sheng also saw a flaw exposed by Neve, that is, "she" cannot form a flexible force distribution except for specific division tactics.

In the fourth game that was lost, a high-level human player kept harassing Neve's base in multiple lines, and once "she" returned to defend the opponent, she ran away and waited for "her" soldiers to go out. When attacking, turn back and continue to harass.

In this confrontation, in the face of the flexible deployment strategy of human players, Neve could only respond passively, and could not form an effective attack on human players, which also led to the final snowball effect.

ultimately lost.

After the fifth round of confrontation, Luo Sheng asked Nefu to stop matching the opponent, and then re-upgraded and optimized it a lot.

He felt that such learning efficiency was still too slow.

Naf's agent uses a deep learning algorithm. After Luo Sheng has carefully upgraded it, it includes algorithms or technologies such as neural network, self-play through reinforcement learning, multi-agent learning, and imitation learning.

The so-called self-play is simply self-learning, and through constant trial and error, you can find the game that maximizes your chances of winning.

And through self-play and reinforcement learning, it constitutes the basic paradigm of open-end learning algorithms, learns human strategies, and ensures that Neve's agent continues to explore these strategies throughout the game, so that "she" can get greater upgrades with progress.

Furthermore, because of the huge action space in StarCraft, many previous reinforcement learning methods are rendered ineffective.

Therefore, Luo Sheng also developed a brand-new algorithm for Neve to perform non-policy reinforcement learning, so that "she" can effectively update decisions from the old historical decision-making game.

And Luo Sheng's ultimate goal is not to make Nefu an "IMBA" StarCraft AI player, but to use this as a starting point to make "she" capable of other complex and changeable application scenarios.

If "she" only becomes a super master in the StarCraft game, and changes the scene, such as in Go, language or other fields, it will not work, it is still a pure artificial mental retardation, and there is a huge gap with real artificial intelligence.

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Time passed by minute by minute, Luo Shengmao spent more than three hours in his office unknowingly, finished the second optimization and upgrade for Nefu before leaving get off work, it was getting late.

Before Luo Sheng left the office, he put Neve into the Blizzard Star Battle.net ladder, and let "her" fight against human players.

After all this is done, I will not be in charge. In the afternoon, I have to go to the Cote d'Azur to deal with some work, and there is a meeting.

And the stocked Neve is doing one thing, constantly fighting with human players.

The support behind Nefu is almost the entire Sioux City data center, which consumes computing power resources and electricity bills.

In fact, if there is no money, it is impossible to afford an artificial intelligence, let alone the development stage.

If it is an artificial intelligence research and development institution like IBM, it may be the developers themselves that restrict their development, but Luo Sheng, who has witnessed artificial intelligence, is the easiest for development.

But there are still problems holding him back.

That is hardware. Neve's growth is limited by the current hardware level. If there is a better hardware foundation, it will usher in a qualitative leap.

Deep networks require high-end GPUs to train in a reasonable amount of time with a large amount of data. These hardware are very expensive. Of course, there is no such thing as expensive here in Luo Sheng.

But the problem is that there is no hardware that meets his requirements now, and even if you have money, you can't buy it.

Training deep networks to achieve high performance is not feasible without an advanced hardware foundation.

Not just a high-end GPU, but a fast CPU, storage, and fast and massive RAM.

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With the passage of time, through constant battles, Neve's winning rate started to be terrible from the first game of "her" tournament career, and gradually reversed, and the winning rate was rapidly increasing.

At the operational level, Neve is undoubtedly the number one in the world, and no human player can compete with "her" at this level, even if it is limited by APM and EPM.

But this is not the point, the point is the "consciousness", "behavior" and "decision" that Neve shows in the game, which is the embodiment of intelligence.

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Unknowingly, Neve has fought 27 games on the ladder, and the win rate has climbed to about 70%, which is a very high win rate.

In order to improve the efficiency of Nefu's "evolution", Luo Sheng allowed "her" to enter the massive database of Bluestar Technology Group and some websites of StarCraft to access the "battle report" videos of some top players while fighting against human beings. The player's game replay video trains in parallel, and then trains against other opponents.

A script running in the background will make "her" iteratively upgrade at regular intervals, update through reinforcement learning, and then launch new confrontations.

In each iteration, new opponents are matched, and the previously defeated opponents are frozen at the same time. The probability of matching opponents determines the learning objective function adopted by the agent, which preserves the diversity and increases the difficulty.

With the progress of self-play, Neve gradually developed more and more mature tactics, or relatively optimal solutions. This process is similar to the process of human players discovering tactics. The new tactical system keeps defeating the old tactical system. Then replace the old tactical system.

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In the 32nd round of confrontation, just like climbing the ladder, Neve kept defeating her opponents, constantly iterating herself, becoming stronger and stronger, and the human players she encountered became stronger and stronger, but 90% of them had become "her". "The defeat of the men.

At this moment, another round of confrontation has begun, and the players that Neve has matched have reached the level of confrontation of professional players.

All the human players who were defeated by "her" did not know that their opponents only started to play this game today, let alone that their opponents were not humans, but an AI.

This round of confrontation is [Human VS Zerg], and the IDs of the two sides are [Nov] and [=Y.J=F91] respectively.

At the beginning of the battle, both sides started operations and reconnaissance normally. The human player with the ID of [=Y.J=F91] was in a room in Hangcheng, and he had left the team of "Yi Jing".

But he still retains this ID, and he is now a real interstellar professional player. He is a first-class top player in the domestic interstellar world. Jianghu people gave him the nickname "Jiangnan Dog King". As a Zerg player, his puppy operates in The first five minutes of the game are known as world class.

In five minutes...

Well, if F91 goes to South Korea, his strength is that of a dishwashing person there. Anyone who is squatting at a water dispenser can hang him up. If he pulls out a Korean interstellar professional player, he may hang him up and beat him.

"Nov...?? Whose vest is this ID? The operation is good, and it has some strength." At this time, the confrontation has entered the middle stage, and F91 did not win the game as lightly as the previous one. On the contrary, it was quite difficult to play, and he even clearly felt the pressure brought by his opponent.

The key is that he is very puzzled now. He has never seen this ID before. If there are players with this strength in the domestic interstellar circle, it is basically a card face, and he basically knows it.

But this is the first time I have seen the ID of Nov, and the style of play is also the first time I have seen it, which directly makes F91 exclude those domestic interstellar masters that he is familiar with one by one.

"It doesn't matter, which way the gods are coming, if they meet my brother, they have to die." F91 meditated in his heart, and then his main force started to go out, ready to attack.

[Chicken land is attacked! ]

But just after his main force went out, the sound of the earphone frantically indicated that the base was under attack. F91 subconsciously switched to his main mine, and then saw a picture that shocked him.

"Baking on the bed, roasting on the bed, what is it? What is this? This operation of a spicy butt... roasting on the bed!!"

It turned out that just as F91 was about to launch an attack, Neve had already sent five marines to attack, and also deliberately circled the map at six o'clock in order to avoid the vision laid by the opponent in the middle of the map, and repeatedly Use radar to do anti-reconnaissance in advance to ensure that your airdrop troops are not discovered by the other party.

If Luo Sheng sees it, he will be very satisfied. This seems to be an ordinary decision for human players, but if an AI is executing it, it will be different.

This progress is not too big.

It is worth mentioning that although Neve is an AI, "she" does not "open the picture", there is also a fog of war, and the operation also needs to cut the screen like a human player. Make sure to be the same as a human player in these parameters, or else bullied people.

F91's troops just went out, and Neve's five ships then successfully arrived at the opponent's main mine highland.

Then, F91 saw the operation screen that shocked him.

The opponent's five transport planes actually dropped troops while flying, so that the combat troops were tiled on the map like a carpet, thus achieving the maximum firepower output in the shortest time.

This wave of airdrops directly destroyed F91's main mine, but in a short while, another wave of three-shipmen's carpet airdrops completely destroyed F91's sub-mining base and a small number of troops left behind.

Seeing that there are two flowers in the family, the main force has already advanced more than half, and it is meaningless to return to the aid at this time, and it will definitely lose.

So F91 decided to fight for a shot.

Change home with your opponent!

The main force does not return to help, and only in this way may there be a chance of victory.

Therefore, regardless of the flowering situation at home, the Zerg troops rushed to the mining area where the Terran was located.

"Architecture is doing a little better..."

F91's troops pushed to the opponent's sub-mine, and it was a bit uncomfortable to be blocked by some constructions in the middle, but after a while, they exclaimed again: "What is this spicy buttock? This... How can there be so many in his family? Troops? Violent soldiers like diarrhoea?"

The shocked F91 tried hard to replace the opponent's sub-mine, and the main force has lost two-thirds, and the family has already blossomed.

Already unable to return to the sky, he sent all the remaining troops A up and sent it to the light, giving himself a reason to play GG.

After exiting, F91 did not qualify. He immediately clicked on the video to watch the game. From the beginning to the end, he watched the entire first-view replay of the opponent. The opponent's operations, violent soldiers, technology climbing, and offense included defense. and many more.

The operation and operation displayed by this ID, which he has never seen before, shocked him. This is definitely the level of top Korean players.

Especially when the opponent attacked the carpet airdrop troops, the moment he saw that scene, he felt that this ID was the operation of the interstellar "Human Emperor" Boxer, and the carpet airdrop was the limit operation he created.

In fact, F91 knows how to operate a carpet airdrop, but he can't operate it at all, which is a flaw.

The carpet airdrop of the opponent's 5 navy soldiers just now requires the operation process to number each transport aircraft one by one, and then switch the formation in turn with the left hand when landing troops, and at the same time operate the mouse with the right hand to click on the soldiers in the transport aircraft, and repeat the operation for many times until Complete all airdrops.

It sounds simple, but it is actually extremely difficult. It is impossible for ordinary players to do it. To complete such an operation means that it needs to achieve 40 precise and coherent left and right hand coordination operations of the mouse and keyboard in about three seconds. A sequence error occurred.

If you just do this, then StarCraft will not be so difficult to play, and you have to run your home while doing this.

At this moment, F91's mind is full of question marks: When did the interstellar players with such cheating operations appear in China?

This level of operation has definitely reached the top level in the world, including smooth operation and terrifying ability of violent soldiers. If you hadn’t played GG in person, fought in person, and watched the video in person, F91 would never believe that this was a domestic player, and would definitely believe it. This is the vest of a top Korean player.

After the shock, he continued to qualify.

I hope to be able to touch it again, even if it is abused, I am very happy. For professional players, I am very happy to fight against a master who is stronger than myself, even if they are hanged and beaten by the opponent, because I can also improve.

However, he can no longer be ranked next, and any human player who is defeated by Neve will not be ranked second.

After Neve reaches the top in China, "she" will enter Korea's Battle.net and compete with the real world's top interstellar professional players.

In this short one day, Luo Sheng did not know that this ID was suddenly popular in the domestic interstellar.

All the great god players who became "victims" began to post on the community forums asking who the immortal Nov who suddenly popped up was, and actually blasted all the masters one by one.

The hand didn't even have a GG.

And the "victims" all gathered together to "comment" with each other about how they were beaten up. At the same time, some videos of the battle with Neve were also uploaded to Bluestar Video, and more and more interstellar players came here. Watch the video.

The ID called "Nov" became popular in the domestic interstellar circle almost overnight.

The topics in the circle are all discussed around this mysterious and powerful human player, and they are all trying to find the real person with this ID.

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