Science and technology news, in its long research and development process, always rarely attract the attention of the people who eat melons. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The people who eat melons will only notice that the original era has progressed to this extent after the arrival of epoch-making landmark achievements.

Therefore, when Hatsune Intelligence issued an invitation to the Korean Chess Academy to verify the application of artificial intelligence in the field of Go that month, not many people in the outside world actually noticed this inconspicuous news.

Hatsune's offer was "man-to-man, or man-to-man."

The specific mode of operation is that the owner of the Hatsune Group, Gu Mojie, an amateur chess player, and his Go AI assistant "Beginner" challenge world champion Lee Sedol.

If Lee Sedol is unwilling to find his own artificial intelligence assistant, he can not find it.

If he wants to try it too, he can find an AI-powered Go assistant from any supplier other than Hatsune on Earth.

After the offer was issued, the Korean Chess Academy accepted the challenge and did not plan to find an assistant at first.

But just a month later, Google, the only company on the planet that can catch up with Hatsune in this field, took the initiative to extend an olive branch - Larry Page, chairman of Google's board of directors, said that he hoped to let Google's Go artificial intelligence assistant act as an assistant to Lee Sedol.

The Korean Chess Academy chose to take it with reservations.

Google's efforts in "sports big data" are about the same time as Hatsune.

As early as 2010, Hatsune chose the football world as a testing ground for big data, and fine-tuned the results of that World Cup with the "Hand of God", so that the era of muscle memory playing football was hit hard.

It was also in the same year that Google began to take the NBA, preparing to transform the Golden State Warriors to create an unconventional powerhouse that "three-pointers win disgusting opponents". In the past two years, the Golden State Warriors' style of play has set off a mudslide in the NBA, and it has quite an effective trend, and maybe it may be possible to win the first place in the regular season this year.

But when it comes to AI development for "intellectual sports," Google is a few months behind Hatsune.

Hatsune launched a challenge after the 2010 World Cup, and Google rushed to recruit a team.

Moreover, the game of Go is really not very professional in Westerners.

This information is not confidential, and the Korean Chess Academy also knows it. If Google's goods don't help, it's better not to let Lee Sedol use an assistant.

In this way, if you lose, you will still be honored.

Although they felt that Lee Sedol was unlikely to fail.

……

Seoul, early December.

Korean Chess Academy.

As an old bureaucrat, Dean Liang is very difficult to make decisions in the final stage.

"The Chinese can really pick the time, the decisive battle on December 21 - isn't this day just the end of the 'Fifth World' predicted by Mayan legends, so mysterious, obviously thinking about the whole big news. The decisive battle between man and machine and man is unfair no matter how you look at it, even if Lee Sedol should not fight, no one will say anything, right? ”

In terms of Hatsune, in order to let the Korean Chess Academy allow this kind of unconventional game, it still promised to plug a little benefit, but the Korean side has always felt that this kind of transaction is a bit awkward.

Dean Liang was still considering the final pros and cons when one of his secretaries came in and told him the not-so-good news.

Lee Sedol himself is very determined to participate in the battle.

The Chinese have offered very generous conditions: 10 million yuan will be given for the competition, a best-of-five system, and Lee Sedol will be allowed to temporarily decide whether to use a third-party artificial intelligence assistant in each game. For every game Lee Sedol wins, he will give another 10 million yuan.

It is impossible for Lee Sedol to refuse such a condition.

Dean Liang had an even more headache.

He knew that the Korean association couldn't control Lee Sedol, an unruly guy.

As early as ten years ago, Lee Sedol, who was still a three-dan chess player at the time, already had the strength of a world champion. However, the Korean Chess Academy and Association have a very old-fashioned ranking system, and if you want to move up the ranks, you can only participate in special rank competitions, and you can only move up one section a year.

Since then, Lee Sedol has already shown his disobedience, and he publicly stated that he will not participate in the rank tournament held by the Chess Academy, because he "does not want to use the strength of the world champion to slaughter the other three or four dan in the rank competition".

Then, Lee Sedol slaughtered the eight-dan and nine-dan people for two years with the rank of three dan in the international competition.

The Korean Chess Academy couldn't save face, so it changed the promotion system for Lee Sedol: from the next year, no matter what the original number of paragraphs was, as long as they could win the world championship once, they would be promoted to three dans; Take the world runner-up or domestic champion and rise two stages.

This is an additional way up in addition to the Rank Races.

Then within half a year after the new rules came out, Lee Sedol quickly won two world championships, and he changed from three dan to nine dan.

Such an unruly person, I can't control it!

As long as he is determined to earn Hatsune's money, the chess academy can stop a fart!

Dean Liang's heart is very angry. He felt that his attempts to maintain the forced style of the Korean Chess Academy were all in vain.

It's better to collect the black money quickly, and pretend to be half-pushed.

"No more ink, just leave it here." President Liang gave up resistance in his heart and prepared to prepare a final reply to the Chinese side.

The secretary was about to go to the draft, and an internal phone call was received to Dean Liang.

"Dean, the director of the Ministry of Culture and Sports has called and asked you in person."

Dean Liang suddenly became energetic and a little nervous.

The Ministry of Culture and Sports, but in charge of all cultural and sports undertakings in the country, the position of Director Quan can be said to be his top boss.

And I heard that after the general election at the end of the month, the new president will adjust the position of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Vice Minister Kim's position as the deputy must definitely be transferred to the minister.

Director Kwon is very likely to take over the position of Vice Minister Kim.

This is a strategic adjustment made by the country to the Korean Wave after the extinction of Japan.

"Director Quan, I wonder what instructions you have?"

"This month, you're going to accept Hatsune Intelligence's man-machine war, right? Let Lee Sedol behave well. “

"Yes, definitely, please rest assured." Dean Liang patted his chest and agreed, "Lee Sedol will go all out to ensure victory." “

"Victory, of course, is to be pursued. However, don't give up on exploring because you're worried about winning. In order to make a good alternative, once Lee Sedol fails, he should introduce the artificial intelligence assistant provided by Google in time to fight the battle between man and machine - it should be regarded as a scientific attempt to contribute to human scientific research, understand? ”

Dean Liang was surprised: "What? But...... We roughly studied the alpha go provided by Google, and the skills of that thing still overlap with Lee Sedol, and whether there is alpha go or not really doesn't have much impact on Lee Sedol's strength......"

"Really? Then you can do it yourself, I don't know much about Go, but I just remind you to do things in the spirit of science and seek truth from facts. Go is about seeking the Tao and exploring possibilities, not for you to be bound by face. ”

Director Quan didn't plan to talk to Dean Liang much, so he hung up here.

Seek truth from facts and do it yourself.

Dean Liang's face was more ugly than bitter gourd.

Alpha GO is a semi-finished product, I really don't have much to look forward to! If you are defeated by the Chinese after being added, you will lose face even more.

Add? Or not?

After struggling for a long time, Dean Liang hid from Lee Sedol and hinted at making a backup schedule: if Lee Sedol really loses more than two sets, he will join Alpha GO as a staff officer for Lee Sedol.

Gu Mojie + Beginner vs Lee Sedol + Alpha Go.

……

Jiangnan will be a quiet room like a snow cave.

There are only a few futons on the ground, a chess case.

Gu Mojie, who has now gradually handed over the matter at hand to his subordinates, has been in retreat here almost since this month. Opposite him, there was a master with a number of domestic masters, and next to him there were two masters with the same number of paragraphs to watch and analyze on the spot.

The AI assistant of the "beginner" will also work in real time for professional experts to evaluate.

There is a strong atmosphere of preparation.

As a scholar, the tutor is not bad, Gu Mojie originally knew how to play a little Go.

But the level, that is, a stinky chess basket, the strength of the amateur second and third sections.

Since he decided to challenge Lee Sedol + Alpha Go with a beginner, he began to practice one after another.

With Hatsune's current financial resources, if he promises to sponsor a new world-class Go tournament in the future, the top players in the domestic Go world can naturally be easily invited to feed him.

In South Korea, aren't the International Go Invitational Tournaments similar to the "Samsung Cup", "LG Cup", and "Nongsin Cup"?

Japan has the "Fujitsu Cup" and the domestic "Chunlan Cup".

The electronics giants of China, Japan and South Korea seem to have a penchant for sponsoring Go cups.

With Hatsune's current status in the rivers and lakes, Gu Mojie's words are of course unambiguous. As soon as he said that he was going to start running the "Hatsune Cup" in 2013, all kinds of procedures were completed without any obstacles.

The proposed prize money for each place is also much higher than any existing Go Cup in the world.

Gu Mojie practices chess, of course, not blindly.

After all, he is such a busy person, with two months of spare time and nearly a month of all-out efforts, even if he has the best coach in the world and the greatest objective investment, practicing to the fourth or fifth stage of the amateur is the theoretical limit.

Relying on normal chess practice methods, he can't beat Lee Sedol even if he practices for ten lifetimes.

Even, it is impossible to form a guide screening for the AI assistant of the "beginner". The final result is equivalent to the "beginner" single-handing Lee Sedol, or the combined state of Lee Sedol + Alpha Go.

Therefore, Gu Mojie's practice method is definitely not a normal practice.

For example, there is absolutely no need for him to touch something like an official.

Long before the arrival of this wave of artificial intelligence, when the computer's calculation of chess sports was still stuck in the violent algorithm, the final stage of the official's sprint had already been overcome by the machine.

It is absolutely impossible for a human official to win a computer.

The emergence of artificial intelligence is to push Go backwards from back to front, a sport that computers have not yet completely conquered.

Therefore, all he has to do is return to the original source.

When Gu Mojie was immersed in the self-cultivation of the chess sea, his mobile phone rang.

The masters present all frowned imperceptibly.

"I'm sorry, it should be something important." Gu Mojie apologized for a moment and picked up the phone.

Since he went into complete retreat a week ago, he has changed his mobile phone, and there are very few people in the world who can call his number.

It is the number of Kwon Boer.

"Done?"

"That's it, as I said, if Lee Sedol loses the first two sets, I guarantee to introduce Alpha GO as Lee Sedol's assistant in the next three sets."

"Okay." (To be continued.) )