Monday, February 25th.

Today is the first day of school.

After the first class in the morning, Chen Xu was called to the comprehensive building.

What he didn't expect was that many people came, in addition to the three professors including Tang Tianhua, the deputy director of the department, Zhang Hao and his team members, Ji Qinglin and Yang Shihan, they were all there.

In addition, there are two strangers, a man and a woman, the man is handsome and chic, and the woman is generous and has a good temperament.

Seeing Chen Xu coming, Professor Tang Tianhua smiled and said, "Everyone is here, right? ”

With a loud noise, Ji Qinglin, Yang Shihan, Zhou Kuo and Fu Anxin quickly sat down beside Chen Xu.

Without waiting for Chen Xu to ask, Ji Qinglin took the initiative to say: "Boss, the one in front of me is Jiang Xiaorou, the only daughter of our Dean Jiang, I heard that she is now studying for a doctorate in the Department of Computer Science of Princeton University, which is very powerful. ”

Chen Xu asked, "What about the one next to him?"

"The one next to him is called Richard, his family is from Xiangjiang, and he is also a doctoral student at Princeton University like Jiang Xiaorou, he is 25 years old this year, and our Director Tang has spent a lot of effort to invite them to our school as exchange students for a year. According to the grapevine, the two of them are still a couple. ”

Chen Xu nodded, "Well, it's normal, people are divided by group things, and genius girlfriends or friends who play better are generally geniuses." ”

For example, a freak like him is matched by a freak like Xiaobai.

On the stage, Professor Tang Tianhua congratulated the young AI interest group on its achievements and made a summary explanation of the next tasks.

Let me tell you about it...... Jiang Xiaorou, Li Yanbo, come up for a moment.

As you all know, they are Ph.D. students at Princeton University, and they will spend the next year studying in the computer science department of our school.

In addition, they will be the team leader for this AI Challenge......"

As soon as Ji Qinglin and the others heard that the team leader was going to be replaced, they immediately exploded.

It's not that they can't eat and drink with the team leader anymore, in fact, they are already content, mainly because Chen Xu is unhappy, others don't know, they don't know yet, Chen Xu is definitely a dark horse, with extraordinary abilities in the field of artificial intelligence.

Otherwise, just because they can eat and drink with them, they won't be able to shout "boss" again and again.

"Hello Professor Tang, I don't agree to change the team leader!" Before Professor Tang Tianhua finished speaking, Zhou Kuo was the first to stand up and say.

Director Tang raised his hand and gestured, "You sit down first, and then I'll talk about it if you have any opinions." ”

Ji Qinglin also stood up, "I don't agree either." ”

The remaining two, Yang Shihan and Fu Anxin, also stood up.

Chen Xu didn't want to embarrass Professor Tang, so he hurriedly said, "Zhou Kuo, sit down." ”

"Boss ......"

At this moment, Richard and Jiang Xiaorou, who were sitting in the front row, whispered a few words, then Richard stood up, turned around and glanced at Chen Xu and them, then stared at Chen Xu carefully, and said with a smile: "Chen Xu, right? I read your project summary report, to be honest, ennnnnn...... The choice of words and sentences is good. ”

Chen Xu understood that what the other party meant was that his project report had no bright spots, and would only pile up words.

Chen Xu slowly stood up and said with a smile: "Are the turtles at Princeton University so proud?"

Richard shrugged his shoulders and said with a handsome smile, "Maybe my words made you uncomfortable, but I was telling the truth."

Since 1956, when the concept of Artificial Intelligence was proposed at the Dartmouth Society organized by the United States Computer Association, the United States has been at the forefront of the world......

Richard spoke in a coherent manner, presented facts and reasoned, mixed Chinese and English, with a sense of superiority.

After Richard finished his speech, Chen Xu said: "It doesn't matter who came up with the concept, China invented gunpowder as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was already used in the military field during the Tang Dynasty, and the rice country was not born at that time."

Also, I admit that the United States has a strong theoretical foundation in the field of AI, which is not a big deal, after all, the United States has developed so many years before China.

However, this does not mean that Mi will always be ahead, especially in the field of practical applications.

You can look at big data statistics, in 2012 Chinese artificial intelligence has just begun to set sail, the world share is less than 1%.

By January 2019, a total of 5,128 artificial intelligence companies were monitored in the world, including 2,058 artificial intelligence companies in the United States, while China excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan had a total of 1,211 artificial intelligence enterprises, ranking second in the world and first in the world in terms of growth rate. ”

Richard said: "Not to mention how much water these figures have, what if they are ranked second in the world? Just like in industry, a slight gap may be as vast as a moat.

I want you to accept reality and be humble enough to learn from the strengths of others, rather than immersing yourself in self-hypnosis. ”

Chen Xu: "I've been studying, you don't have to worry about this."

And really, I hope that the media will come out to pour cold water on my country's artificial intelligence field, cool down, and by the way, provide a little ammunition for the war, after all, my country is still a developing country, and I can't always think about being the first, be humble, and let the United States continue to be his world boss. ”

After Chen Xu finished speaking, a burst of laughter rang out in the conference room.

Zhang Hao, who has always looked at Chen Xu unpleasantly, also has a bit of hatred for the enemy at this moment.

After all, it is already very unhappy to lose to Chen Xu, if Chen Xu becomes Richard's follower, then he won't become the follower of his follower?

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder between the two was getting stronger and stronger, Professor Tang Tianhua hurriedly said, "Okay, let's discuss the matter of team leader later, you two sit down first." Let's start with the rules of the competition in the middle of next month......"

……

After the meeting, Professor Tang Tianhua called Chen Xu, Li Hard, and Jiang Xiaorou to the office.

Chen Xu said: "It doesn't matter if I don't lead the team or not, but if I change the topic, I won't be able to help in the competition." ”

"Well...... this" Tang Tianhua had a headache. Richard is a researcher of convolutional neural networks, so how can he give full play to his greatest advantages without changing his subject?

But he also had high expectations for Chen Xu, a student.

Before Richard said that the application technology of Chen Xu's project report has been outdated, in fact, Richard does not understand the domestic form, and the most cutting-edge theoretical knowledge he learned looks high, but some are out of reality, and in the application field, it is not as simple and unpretentious as Chen Xu.

Talents like Chen Xu are in line with the future development path of Chinese artificial intelligence.

But this time it's a competition. Hands-on ability is important, and the depth and breadth of the subject are also important, which is commonly known as "forced qualification", after all, it is a global AI challenge, how can it be done if it is not in line with international standards?

The vigorous face recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation of domestic research are still a little immature in the face of the big topic of deep learning. Convolutional neural networks are one of the most representative algorithms under deep learning.

After Tang Tianhua thought about it, he decided to be led by Richard.

As for Chen Xu......

Richard and Jiang Xiaorou left together. When he left, Richard had a reserved smile on his face, and said hello to Chen Xu, he couldn't see the previous aggressiveness at all, as for Jiang Xiaorou, he didn't look at Chen Xu from beginning to end, and he looked very cold.

Chen Xu didn't care. How can he become a doctoral student at a top university in the world at a young age, how can he not have a little temper, and it is normal to be a little arrogant.

Here, after Professor Tang Tianhua and the two of them left, he asked Chen Xu not to be distracted and continue to study the topic of machine translation.

Chen Xu knew that Professor Tang was preparing to advance the two topics at the same time, and when the time came, it would be up to him to see which one was ripe and which one was used.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, he himself is also studying Chinese-English translation, machine translation is just incidental, and when the time comes, just let Xiaobai produce a few project reports.

After agreeing, he took out a professional semantic analysis paper that he had sorted out last night from his bag, put it in front of Professor Tang, and asked him to help him submit it to JCST.

Professor Tang was surprised to hear that he had produced results so quickly, picked up the paper and flipped through it, as before, the opening was rigorously structured, clearly organized, and fluent in language, and he knew that it was definitely a rare masterpiece without reading any further reading.

At this moment, how does Professor Tang see Chen Xu's eyes, if it weren't for the fact that the direction of research was different from his own, he would be eager to accept the other party as his official student immediately.

Professor Tang smiled and said, "Okay, let's put it here first, and I'll look at it slowly when I get back." ”

"Then teacher, I'll go first~"

"Well, go for it......"