After resting for two days, completely stealing the jet lag, and gradually integrating into the atmosphere and aura of Silicon Valley, Gu Mojie finally ushered in the day of meeting with Jeff Hinton.

At first, Gu Mojie thought that the meeting place would be in Mountain View, where Google's headquarters is located, but later learned that it would be in Palo Alto. Palo Alto is also a small town, just a dozen kilometers from Mountain View, also along Route 101. Later, when Gu Mojie and his liaison inquired, they learned that many semi-independent scientific research institutions under Google's name were placed in Palo Alto, so that Stanford University was located there, so as to coat those scientific research institutions with a layer of non-commercial color.

The Belmont where Gu Mojie stayed was still on the periphery of Silicon Valley, and the environment was a bit idyllic. Further south from Palo Alto, there are almost all neighborhoods, even if there are some green spaces, which are nothing more than parks. There are more and more international giant-level large companies, and land will always be precious.

Watching the scenery all the way, the only thing that still makes Gu Mojie feel envious is that even in the most densely populated core area of Silicon Valley, these small towns and the "suburbs" between small towns have disappeared, but the architectural style of these places still retains the pattern of American villas with independent courtyards, and has not had to be stuffed with high-rise buildings like New York and Chicago.

This kind of style, domestic people will not be envious of a lifetime.

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Palo Alto, Google Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

When Gu Mojie and his entourage arrived, the other party had already sent someone to wait there, and as soon as he saw Gu Mojie, he came up to greet and lead the way, speaking Chinese.

"Mr. Gu, welcome, Professor Hinton asked me to wait for you early in the morning, please here."

Gu Mojie was a little surprised when he heard Chinese, and looked up. It turned out to be Yan Lei, whom he had met a few times in Qiantang a few months ago -- the graduate student who had followed Professor Bangil to negotiate at that time.

Gu Mojie smiled politely: "Mr. Yan also came to Google?" Aren't you still studying? ”

"I just graduated last month with a PhD. I came here with my mentor to work. ”

As soon as Yan Lei said, Gu Mojie suddenly realized: It's summer vacation right now, isn't it just a fresh graduate who should graduate? It's just that I didn't expect Yan Lei to be this time.

Yan Lei led Gu Mojie into the research institute in a hurry. As soon as you enter the building, you will be greeted by a strong sense of modernity. The building is very low, a bunch of east and west. All connected by a glass cloister. Whether it is on the ground or on the wall, there is no place with marble or wood boards, all of which are very simple decoration styles, and have nothing to do with luxury.

It is such a simple ceiling and walls, with a strong sense of design, but it is far from being comparable to any complex decoration. There are no lights in every room, but the light is softly reflected off every wall and ceiling.

Gu Mojie looked at this environment, and his curiosity about the atmosphere of Google rose in his heart. While walking, he chatted with Yan Lei.

"It seems that Professor Hinton has made a name for himself. You students, too, are also very popular. Besides you, everyone else has also been recruited by Google? ”

Yan Lei and Gu Mojie can obviously talk about it, and this kind of industry dynamics is naturally known:

"Thanks to Mr. Gu's cooperation in this matter, without your 'Hatsune Input Method' for us to reverse analyze, Professor Hinton's academic system would not have been able to integrate so quickly. After all, this is a new discipline, when it was just established. Surely the talents are popular, and we are also stained.

So far. All over the world, there are only about 20 people engaged in deep learning algorithm research, including my class, plus those who graduated in 05, which is also hot in Silicon Valley. Professor Hinton himself brings with him four PhDs who graduated this year. Including me, Google, who came to Google, also pre-signed a few students who will graduate next year. ”

Gu Mojie thought in his heart that Google would take the lead in the field of artificial intelligence in the future. It's a pity that his own capital is too small now, and he doesn't like to let venture capital dilute his equity. But there is no way to fully compete with others in the field of artificial intelligence for the first time.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Mojie feels that he should care about the future talent in this field. He can't invite the current fresh graduates for the time being, and there is nowhere to arrange if he does. But it will always be useful in the next few years, and it will be necessary to get to know some people in advance.

Thinking about it, Gu Mojie subconsciously asked, "Then, what about the faculty and staff?" Professor Hinton is gone, and the other professors don't want to go to the sea to pan for gold? Or do you still teach at the university? ”

Yan Lei thought for a while and replied: "It's not easy to generalize - Professor Hinton was in Toronto at the beginning, and there were mainly two deputies. One is Professor Bengil, whom you met last time, and the other is Andrew. Professor Nikley.

I won't hide some things from you, Professor Nikelai originally had a higher academic status. However, Professor Bengill helped Professor Hinton win your work, and he is a meritorious person. When Professor Hinton left the university, Professor Hinton was given the choice of whether to recommend him to succeed Professor Hinton in Toronto's position as dean and director of the institute, or to recommend him to other industrial companies. Professor Bengill didn't like the Internet company that came to recruit people, so he chose to continue teaching and become a director. ”

In China, both parties will definitely speak more obscurely. However, Yan Lei obviously doesn't have that tendon, obviously he has been in North America for a long time, and he doesn't talk so much officialdom, this kind of naked transaction between academics and rights, he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with it.

When Gu Mojie heard that Professor Bengil was still teaching in Toronto, he was also very happy in his heart, and said that when he needed to recruit talents in this area in two years, he had an old acquaintance to contact.

In line with the idea of knowing more people and multiple ways, Gu Mojie asked more casually: "What about the Professor Nikley you are talking about?" What happened later? ”

"Professor Bengil has become the director, why is Professor Nikley embarrassed to stay in the school and look at the faces of his original subordinates? HE ASKED PROFESSOR HINTON FOR AN OFFER TO GO TO THE INDUSTRY, AND FOUND AN INTERNET COMPANY IN THE NORTHEAST, WHICH WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A SEA. ”

Gu Mojie secretly thought that the OFFER that could be put in Hinton's eyes, even if it was not as good as Google, which he came in person, should be a very powerful company, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "That company should be very famous, right?" ”

Yan Lei smiled slightly sarcastically: "There is a famous fart, I think Professor Nikelay must have been in a moment of mood at that time, ran out to the sea, and now his intestines should be repentant." ”

Gu Mojie urged Yan Lei to continue: "Don't sell Guanzi, just say what the company's name is." ”

"A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE CALLED FACEBOOK, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT. The website, which was just built during the winter break, was a thing that Harvard students did amateurally, and for the first two months, it was only for Harvard students to sign up for social networking and share photos. In April and May, I got the venture capital, and then I set up the company and started to open registration to students from other universities.

The Harvard student's name was Mark Zuckerberg, and he was a Jew. He founded the company just in time for Professor Hinton to release the systematic theory of deep algorithms. That guy didn't know how to get the sky, and said that he was going to use Professor Hinton's algorithm to develop an application that could automatically recognize people's faces and names in social spaces, and made a plan, and I don't know how he fooled and got a lot of money in New York. ”

Gu Mojie secretly thought: It should be the East Coast financial dogs who are suffocated, in the Internet industry, the traditional old famous schools in the Northeast have been beaten by UC Berkeley and Stanford in the West, New Yorkers must be angry, and they must be angry at the Harvard students, who are still of Jewish descent, have come up with new gadgets, and are creative and on the right path, so they naturally spare no effort to support.

It's like the New York Knicks don't play very well, but the money is enough. Since coming to the United States, what he has seen and heard in just a few days has made Gu Mojie have a lot of feelings about this society. IF ANYONE TELLS HIM THAT AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE SUCH A NARROW REGIONAL BIAS AS THOSE IN CHINA, GU MOJIE WILL DEFINITELY FAN BACK THE EXAMPLE OF KNICKS AND FACEBOOK.

Yan Lei didn't know what Gu Mojie was thinking, so he said it smoothly, so he couldn't stop the car, and said to himself:

"It's funny to come. THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO MAKE PROFESSOR NICLEY THE DIRECTOR OF THE FACEBOOK INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BUT IT TURNED OUT THAT HE RAN INTO SOME TROUBLE WHEN HE WENT TO WALL STREET TO PULL INVESTMENT. Later, Professor Hinton's old rival, Professor Yanlaika of New York University, was temporarily found, and Professor Nikley was replaced in the position of deputy director. Then I went to Wall Street to look for money, and I found it all at once.

Later, there were some rumors in the industry, saying that it was because Mark Zuckerberg replaced the technical head of his company's artificial intelligence section with a professor at New York University that he got the money, which is really a shameless thing. ”

In Yan Lei's words, his disdain for Mark Zuckerberg was overflowing. Gu Mojie has no empathy for the suffering of people in the academic circle, but he does not have a sense of substitution; I just secretly wrote down the name in my heart.

"Mark Zuckerberg? Being able to find a new application direction of deep learning algorithms for the first time is also a talent, and his vision must be keen. As for the character, it doesn't matter what the businessman is, anyway, it's just a means to make money. This person, you can pay attention to it when you go back. ”

Thanks to the fact that Palo Alto's land is not valuable, a Google research institute can occupy such a large area, so that Gu Mojie and Yan Lei can talk about it while walking around the park. When Yan Lei wanted to talk about another topic, Professor Hinton's conference room had already arrived, and the two of them stopped talking about industry trends.

Swipe the card, the bell rings, and wait for the person in the house to confirm. After a few seconds, the sliding door opens silently, filled with the privacy of high-tech.

“MR.GU，WELCOMETOTHEUSA。”

A scholar in his fifties with gray hair and a hairstyle that looked a bit like a symphony orchestra conductor appeared in front of Gu Mojie and took the initiative to greet him very casually. Yan Lei hurriedly whispered: "This is Professor Hinton." ”

Gu Mojie walked up and shook hands with the other party without humility or arrogance, and said a few simple greetings in English. Then the guests and hosts sat down, and Yan Lei served as today's interpreter. (To be continued.) )