March 9.

Lee Sedol's battle of the 'showdown of the century' against Google's Go robot AlphaGo has finally officially begun.

After the boiling news reports in the past few days, especially the non-stop news bombardment of Al Jazeera by Shen Zhengyuan, the attention of the South Korean people has been successfully focused on this showdown.

As soon as the broadcast began, the number of real-time viewers of the TV station exceeded imagination, and it was obvious that Shen Zhengyuan's national pride that had been hyped up some time ago played a big role.

Focusing on the game, the entire duel process is fully broadcast by the TV station, but Go is a relatively boring game after all, especially compared to artificial intelligence, the human side needs to think for a longer time, in order to avoid the whole broadcast process becoming boring, Shen Zhengyuan specially arranged two special commentators to explain the various details of Go for the audience watching the program.

“…… It seems that this move by AlphaGo has put a lot of pressure on Lee Sedol Kudan, and he has spent much longer thinking time here than he has done before. ”

"After all, human duels against artificial intelligence are rare, and in the past it was only an example of the robot versus the chess king Kasparov in 1997, but after all, there is still a big difference between chess and Go, Go has extremely high requirements for thinking and judgment, and its complexity is far more than chess, and it is the most suitable mental competition for human games, can artificial intelligence surpass humans in this regard?"

"As far as I know, Lee Sedol is currently ranked second in the world, which means that if AlphaGo wins, it will directly mean that his Go level has reached the top level in the world. ”

"There are reports that Lee Sedol Kudan was so nervous during the pre-match press interview that even his fingers were shaking. It can be seen that against an opponent like AlphaGo, even a world champion is very stressful. ”

In the show, the narrator continues to share the weight of the show through explanations, and the discussion about this showdown on the Internet has not stopped.

"I'm so nervous, the robot is playing chess so fast. ”

"It can't be helped, the computing speed of artificial intelligence is obviously much faster than that of humans, and we need to use our brains to figure things out, they don't need a second to be clear. ”

"Watching this matchup, I suddenly felt scared. ”

"Me too, artificial intelligence, what will ...... in the future"

"Lee Sedol Nine-Dan Fighting!"

"Not necessarily, I look at the chess game in the first half, Lee Sedol has a certain advantage in the ninth dan. ”

……

Back in the broadcast room, the game was clearly at a critical juncture.

"Ah, Lee Sedol made a mistake in the ninth dan, and this mistake obviously shouldn't have happened to a top chess player like him. ”

"It seems that it is a little relaxed, the smooth start of the first half of the game made Lee Sedol careless, and at the same time, you can see that the second half of the game AlphaGo chess style is a bit like Lee Chang-ho, who is also at the level of a top professional chess player. It can be expected that AlphaGo's closing ability is very powerful, the key is whether it can survive until that time, it was originally unable to hold on, but because of Lee Sedol's nine-stage mistake......"

"At the end of the game, Lee Sedol lost in nine dans. ”

At 16:34 p.m., AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence Go software developed by Google, and South Korean world champion Lee Sedol Kudan ended the first set in Seoul. ”

"In this game, Lee Sedol was a little careless and missed the chance to win because of a mistake, but we can also see that the artificial intelligence AlphaGo has a level comparable to that of professional chess players, and it is foreseeable that in the next four games, this 'showdown of the century' will be very intense. ”

"We've seen the engineers on the AI AlphaGo side of the talk. ”

"How many games of chess can Lee Sedol play a year as practice? Maybe a thousand? Alphago can be a million-pray...... Every day. ”

"It can be seen that the other party has high confidence in the artificial intelligence AlphaGo. ”

Hearing the arrogant words of the other engineer, most of the people around Shen Zhengyuan were a little indignant, including Li Zheng beside him, but Shen Zhengyuan turned his head quite calmly and said: "Cut out this passage, and broadcast it on the TV channel every day for the next few days." ”

Since the other party dared to say so, Shen Zhengyuan naturally did not let go of the opportunity to hype.

……

March 10th

The second game was still scheduled to be played on time at one o'clock in the afternoon, and early that morning, Shen Zhengyuan first got the ratings of yesterday's program in the office.

During this time, followed by the east wind of the Go duel, the ratings of TV news programs still improved significantly, but when he saw the report in his hand, Shen Zhengyuan was still surprised.

The ratings of 3.765%, not to mention being placed on wired stations, even if they are placed on wireless stations, it is a rather amazing ratings result.

Moreover, it should be clear that such ratings do not come from a variety show on a TV station, but a news report.

"Make sure there are no errors in the report. ”

After repeatedly glancing at the ratings results, Shen Zhengyuan asked with some disbelief.

"President, it's been confirmed, and there is nothing wrong with the ratings. In the office, Li Zheng also replied excitedly.

It seems that the public is very concerned about the situation of the duel, especially after Lee Sedol Jiudan lost in the first set of the duel, which caused an uproar on the Internet, making the support for Lee Sedol Jiudan more numerous on the Internet, and it is foreseeable that the ratings of the next show should increase a little more. ”

The Ministry of Information, as the department with the lowest ratings on TV stations all the year round, was able to achieve such high ratings all at once, even if Li Zheng had been in the Ministry of Information for so long, he had never seen it.

Nodding, Shen Zhengyuan also knew that since the defeat of Lee Sedol in the first round of the matchup, the audience naturally became nervous, and even made them pay more attention to the next game. After all, in the game, although the battle situation was deadlocked, at least AlphaGo did not show overwhelming strength, and such a performance also gave the viewers, including Lee Sedol himself, the illusion that he could win if he worked harder.

"Since the momentum on the Internet is good, then take advantage of the victory and broadcast the words of the other engineer's predecessor on the official website of the TV station, so as to attract more attention to watch the broadcast of the second game of the TV station. ”

If the engineers on the AlphaGo side knew that they were just pretending to be forced to say a word, they would actually be cut out by Shen Zhengyuan and used the squeezing effect repeatedly, I don't know how they would feel.