Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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"Hello? I'm Benedy."

"Ah hi! It's been a long time, senior, I didn't expect you to call at this time."

While answering the phone call, the professor signaled to the students in front of him to go out.

These students watched the professor leave, and they were all listless like deflated balls.

"What should we do? What should we do? Are we really going to announce our results in an imperfect manner?"

"Professor... hey..."

Professor Benedict quickly left the laboratory and walked to the dimly lit corridor.

Outside the door, an old-looking sign looked a bit bleak under the dim light of the corridor.

"Senior Aya Tsukino, you saved me for a short time."

Benedy let out a long breath as he spoke.

All his students just now were waiting for his final answer.

But he is really hard to answer.

...

Benedy is a professor at Stanford University.

Aya Tsukino is Benedy's senior. Although Benedy is actually more than ten years older than Aya Tsukino, Aya Tsukino is indeed Benedy's senior in her studies.

Once Benedy was a doctoral student in another discipline, and he had a bright future.

However, by chance, or some kind of inevitable encounter, he came into contact with video games.

Of course, video games are not a rare thing, anyone can touch them, but video games alone have a huge impact on him.

When games like Mario, Contra, and Tetris were all the rage in Japan, it was because one of his classmates was Japanese, and that classmate happened to be one of the first to come into contact with the game when he came back from the summer vacation. The Americans of this video game.

Immediately afterwards, he was completely attracted by the miraculous thing in his eyes.

On a TV screen, people can actually manipulate the actions of the pixel characters inside.

How you act is all up to you, just like Homo sapiens saw modern humans use a lighter to light a fire.

Hmm...maybe it's an exaggeration, but that's how the shock felt in Benedy's heart at that time.

For the first time after becoming a Ph.D., he had the urge to delve into a new subject again.

And he soon knew the principle of this video game, which was explained to him by a Stanford computer doctor friend he knew.

Then, in his thirties, he immediately decided to turn around to learn programming, to learn computers, and to learn the principles of game development.

But he is a theoretical school.

His dream is not to develop a brilliant and interesting game.

His dream is to explore the origin of video games.

How did the programs change into magical and interesting entertainment products in front of the programmers.

With amazing talent, even if he starts to learn a new subject from scratch, he can successfully reread it in five or six years and become a doctor of information digitization.

Then, relying on his own qualifications, he successfully stayed in the school to teach.

Later, after he had explored almost all the origins of modern video games, he began to feel a little bored.

So he later found a new direction, that is artificial intelligence.

The research institutes and teams he formed can be regarded as the first batch of artificial intelligence research and development teams.

With the help of the first-mover advantage, their team really achieved a lot of results in the early stage.

Later, he suddenly had a new idea.

Let artificial intelligence and video games combine.

It's just that he didn't expect Zhu Youxing to be so deep.

What he wants is to train an artificial intelligence to fight against humans. He wants to use artificial intelligence's learning ability to surpass humans and become a desperate high wall in the e-sports industry, and completely use artificial intelligence to rule the e-sports field.

However, this kind of thing is a bit thankless, and the output of the results is slow, and even if it is output, it seems that it is difficult to become something that has a substantial impact.

If it weren't for his qualifications and achievements over the years, he might not have been able to persuade Stanford University to insist on injecting funds into his research projects.

It’s just that in the end, Stanford University’s funding management department will eventually be unable to bear it. They seriously suspect that Benedict wants to use the convenience of research to make himself happy, because everyone knows that he switched because he likes video games. major.

"Benedy, it seems that you haven't been doing well recently? Has your research encountered a bottleneck?"

On the other end of the phone, Tsukino Aya first showed her caring attitude.

"No, there's no bottleneck, it's just other reasons. Forget it, let's not talk about it. Senior sister, why did you suddenly think of calling me today? Do you want to borrow some students from me to help you study game technology? "

In the past, Aya Tsukino occasionally asked Benedy, a junior, to borrow a few well-qualified Stanford students to help develop some related technologies for video games.

Of course, this is not free, Yue Yecai is very generous, and the money given is not a lot.

Benedy suddenly thought that if his senior sister wanted someone to help, even he could lend it out.

It's just that I want more money, maybe it's better than nothing for project research, but no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat, isn't it?

"No, I didn't want to ask you to borrow someone this time. Let me ask you how your research on artificial intelligence is going?"

"Huh? Didn't you borrow someone? Did you ask me about the AI?"

Benedy was a little surprised.

I didn't expect Aya Tsukino to ask this suddenly.

"I remember you told me back then that your StarCraft artificial intelligence AI that can defeat professional players seems to be about to complete the research? I kind of want to see the specific results."

"Ah... You said this, the result is actually almost the same, but there is still a little gap."

"The gap... What exactly does it mean..."

"It's just...a matter of funding."

Benedy said hesitantly.

Tsukino Aya came to a sudden: "Are you short of money? Didn't the people at Stanford give you money?"

"They felt that our project output was a bit slow and a little impatient, so they temporarily stopped continuing to provide financial support, but now is just when we want more computing power, we need more equipment..."

"I'm here to sponsor you."

"Um?"

"Oh, what I said may not be rigorous. It should be that our Youxing Electronic Entertainment can sponsor your research, but before that, our president Zhu Youxing has a request. This specific request is that he wants you to First……"

At this moment, Benedy could hardly hear what Tsukino Aya was going to say later.

What echoed in his mind now were the few words Tsukino Aya just said.

'Youxing Electronic Entertainment can sponsor'

All of a sudden, Benedy felt that all the haze in his heart was swept away with this sentence.