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Luo Sheng returned to the company headquarters and started a new plan in the 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 a supercomputer. Luo Sheng currently does not have a private supercomputer, 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-scale physical servers in different regions are aggregated into a supercomputer for unified scheduling and use.

There is no one on the two sides that is strong, because each has its own strengths and different focuses. With the development of technology, cloud computing and supercomputing will also become you and you, and we are together for big data. Times provide a powerful technology engine.

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

According to Nov’s pronunciation and literally translated from its homophone, the Chinese name is "Na Fu".

After confirming the name, Luo Sheng began to program and develop Nafu's agent.

If you want to develop artificial intelligence, you must first understand three concepts, artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence, AI for short), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL).

These three are closely related. To put it simply, artificial intelligence is to give a device or machine the same intelligence as a human, machine learning is a way to realize artificial intelligence, and deep learning is a technology to realize 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 leader in the field of machine learning, and his student Ras Lahudinov published an article in "Science" that opened deep learning in The wave of academia and industry.

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In the following days, Luo Sheng established a terminal-to-terminal "ecosystem" for the development of Nafu, and personally wrote programs for it.

Luo Sheng hasn't managed much of the two companies recently. He started to be a shopkeeper for a while. On the one hand, the company is not busy now, and the arrangements are clear. Second, there is Yao Jianhong on the Blue Coast and Zhang Bowen from Bluestar Technology.

This "ecosystem" is currently temporarily arranged in the underground library of his private villa. When his super luxury mansion is completed, after moving in as a whole, Luo Sheng has now spent several billions to build a sense of technology. A super mansion, located on the bank of Yangcheng Lake.

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

The upgrades include advances in software and hardware. Instead of typing a few lines of code on the keyboard, a smart AI with self-emotional logic analysis is born.

The “ecosystem” created by Luo Sheng includes the design of 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 truly strong artificial intelligence, more advanced and more hardware support is needed, so as to create perception, action and cognitive abilities that can simulate the human brain, which can be composed of complex structures or composed of multiple nonlinear transformations. The multiple processing layers of the data are processed by high-level abstraction.

Obviously, deep learning algorithms are extremely critical.

Another key link is data. Only companies with massive amounts of big data have the advantage or foundation for research and development of artificial intelligence.

In fact, there are not many companies or institutions in the world that have this advantage. There are Google, Yahoo, IBM, etc. abroad, but there is no doubt that it is "L-BAT" in China, especially "L", the 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., the business sectors of Bluestar Technology are filled with vast amounts of data.

However, the "Nov-Nov" to be developed by Luo Sheng is not an asset of Bluestar Technology or the Blue Coast. It is completely independent and belongs to Luo Sheng's personal proprietary technology, but will provide AI technical support for these two companies in the future. It is certain.

As the founder of Bluestar Technology Group, Luo Sheng's database is undoubtedly completely open to him. The forthcoming "Nov-Nov" will enter the Bluestar Technology Group and the Blue Coast database.

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Day by day, Nafu's prototype also completed the pioneering stage with Luo Sheng staying up all night and fighting hard. Although it is far from the true artificial intelligence, it is a breakthrough of 0 and 1.

No matter what the world is, it has to accept the existence of real genius, and people will only anger people more than people.

What's more annoying is that geniuses work harder.

Earlier this morning, Luo Sheng came to the company, but he did not handle the company's affairs. He stayed in the office and tossed Neve. The original code has been written.

Luo Sheng opened his dedicated work computer to connect to the cloud, located in the Sioux City Data Center, his private cloud service.

Quickly indexed to the "Nov" folder, and after confirming that the operation was correct, he did not hesitate to start and wake up "Nov".

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

However, he also knows that even if Nave is awakened now, it is now properly an "artificial mental retardation". 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 ultimate form of "super artificial intelligence" is not achieved overnight.

Completing the first step is often the most difficult.

[100%, start-up is complete!

"Nice!!"

Luo Sheng, who was staring at the screen, immediately became energetic when he saw this scene. He immediately connected to the external network without saying anything. 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 will do today, that is, let "she" compete in the ranking system of Blizzard Battle.net's "StarCraft: Brood War" ladder system.

Compete with the top players.

This is the first learning course that Luo Sheng has determined for Naf, to let "she" promote deep learning and research on real-time strategy games (RTS).

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

Players need to always consider the balance of economic and military development, and make a large number of decisions in a very short period of time, such as rioting, mining, climbing technology, offense, defense, sneak attack and anti-sneak attack, harassment and anti-harassment, reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance, etc. Wait.

Such a real-time strategy game is undoubtedly an excellent platform for Nov to advance, but Luo Sheng gave Naf certain restrictions before "she" entered the celestial system to compete against the top human players.

The first is the fog of war, which is exactly the same as a human player, otherwise the map will hang.

The second is the restriction of apm and epm on Nov. If there is no restriction, human players will lose 100%, and it is impossible to play. This is obviously not a fair confrontation, nor is it Luo Sheng’s original intention. There is no deep learning training for Nov. Great help.

The so-called apm is the number of player operations per minute. Like South Korea’s top interstellar players, apm can soar to a terrifying 500 or more on average, and epm is the number of effective operations per minute by the player. Apm is counted as long as the player clicks on the mouse and keyboard. Among them, a blind point is also counted, so apm has a large number of waste operations, and each operation of epm is an effective operation, such as repeated operations, it only counts once.

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

At the operational level, Nave is restricted to the top human professional players. Then "she" wants to defeat the top human players, and needs to be played at the "intelligence" level. To be honest, the consciousness is very high. important.

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

In Luo Sheng’s eyes, Blizzard’s Battle.net system is a scum. With 100% absolute confidence, it is sufficient to ensure that the “glass slag” system cannot detect any abnormalities in Neve, so she can pretend to be a human player and a real one. Human players compete.

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

This is the incomparable advantage of human beings compared with AI.

Next, Luo Sheng did not do any intervention, sitting motionless, staring at the computer screen.

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

And Luo Sheng didn't say a word at the moment, he quietly watched Nafu's first perspective, and it took less than ten seconds to search for the opponent and quickly found the player.

The first game of confrontation officially began.

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