Jiangnan Hui, Dingjialou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Qiantang, a small city in the south of the Yangtze River, ushered in an unusual and rare first snow in mid-December this year.

Shengdou Xiaomin smiled and sighed: The time is so abnormal, shouldn't the 21st really end the world.

Since Qi Da brewed the Eight Regulations, the Jiangnan Association has ceased official banquets and no longer receives public customers, and there are no guests in the single-family small buildings of the nine shareholders.

Gu Mojie inquired in the circle and found that his old buddy Ding Sanshi had no customers there recently, so he borrowed Ding's house to entertain the "international friends" who came to participate in the competition.

As for the money, what grade of people are they, borrowing a building to live for ten days and half a month, and still need to talk about money?

Early this morning, Lee Sedol, one of the "world champions", was picked up from Seoul by Lei Jun's Bombardier plane, and as soon as he got off the plane, he stayed in Ding's house. Before coming, he had already collected 3 million yuan in appearance fees, regardless of victory or defeat. For every win in the future, there will be 10 million yuan.

He will rest here for five days to prepare for the epic battle of man and machine on the 21st.

The luxurious and low-key connotation of the Jiangnan Club opened the eyes of the Korean chess player and made him more open-minded.

It's not that the Korean Peninsula is without places of interest, but whether it is Sungkyunkwan in Chongnyemun, it is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty in China. Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty monuments of the Jiangnan Society, the realm is naturally different.

In the garden, there is a circle of cold plums of the old piles of the Southern Song Dynasty, Ling Ran is proud of the snow, and the rhyme is extraordinary.

"Isn't it just playing against a robot, plus an amateur chess player layout, hmph, what's the big deal."

"Gu Mojie is just a businessman, he thinks he knows his machine very well, can he work with the machine? When he doesn't exist well. ”

"He invited me to come just to advertise his artificial intelligence assistant, but when the time comes, he will receive tens of millions of yuan in bonuses, even if he lets his machine win a little bit to save some face, it's not a big deal."

Sitting in the Ding family building, roasting around the fireplace of the Silver Frost Beast Charcoal, Li Shishi messed up a lot of things that were not there.

Lee Sedol is not a rich man, and it is impossible to bring servants and housekeepers when he goes abroad, so all the attendants in the Ding family building are provided by locals, and Lee Sedol has no eyes and ears.

He sat for a while, and a maid happened to come in to serve refreshments.

a pot of hot dragon wells, a few delicate Japanese sweets; One of the lotus cakes of the ancient recipe of Zhiweiguan, layered as thin as cicada wings, is placed on a folding fan of blue and white porcelain. The blue and white porcelain pattern on the folding fan is just the background color of the wind lotus swing willow, and the lotus crisp is lined on the celadon stalks, which is just right.

Li Sedol looked at the delicate refreshments, but he was a little upset, grabbed the maid and asked: "I heard that your President Gu is practicing chess himself for the man-machine battle in five days?" Who did you train with in these two months? “

The maid paused for a moment, as if unprepared for the question.

Lee Sedol also found that he was asking confusedly, and he had a lot to say to this kind of waiter: "Forget it, how can you know, this kind of thing must be kept secret." “

"No, no, no, it's not to be kept secret, Mr. Gu said, if you have any questions, we can all answer them, there is no secrecy - since last month, Mr. Gu mainly asked Gu Li Jiudan to help him practice quickly, I don't know what he learned."

"Gulee...... Okay, it's none of your business, let's go down. Lee Sedol's eyes rolled and he sent the maid away;

When he was the only one left in the room, Lee Sedol thought a little brokenly: "Sure enough, it is Guli, and it is unlikely that the Chinese will find someone else to 'feed' against me." It's just a defeat, and it can't increase the robot's 'experience points'. “

At first, he was slightly nervous, just because he was in the light and the enemy was in the dark.

After all, human beings will always have a trace of awe of unknown opponents, and this kind of vigilance has nothing to do with strength or weakness.

And after hearing that Gu Mojie mainly asked Gu Li to feed him, and even wanted to improve the intelligence of the "first line" in a targeted assault, he relaxed instead.

A week ago, on December 11, 12 and 13, he had beaten Guli 2-1 in the final of the Samsung Cup in Seoul.

At the end of July, at the Kempinski Hotel in Yanjing, he and Gu Li had a four-calamity cycle draw in the Samsung Cup preliminaries.

The strongest opponent that the Chinese can come up with is Gu Li.

As soon as humans feel that they can predict their opponents, the tension dissipates by half.

The only thing he needs to worry about now is his physical and mental recovery, and he must rest and adjust his state in the next five days.

From the last game of the Samsung Cup final to the first game of the epic battle between man and machine, there was only a short break of eight days in total.

Lee Sedol and the Korean Chess Academy initially wanted Hatsune to postpone the tournament a little longer. But the reasons and colors given by Hatsune are also very clear:

The man-machine battle is theoretically five games and three wins in five games. Starting from December 21st, there will be one game per day, compared to the 25th. Exactly from the "end of the world" than to Christmas.

In the legends of the Mayan culture, the 21st of the month is the end of the world, and the "Fifth World" of humanity will be destroyed and reset, and enter the "Sixth World", a legendary spiritual world.

Perhaps, this is just a metaphor?

Will the human spirit be sublimated in the virtual world of artificial intelligence?

This Christmas, there may be a new Christmas that will reshape human civilization.

With such a major gimmick, Hatsune is absolutely unwilling to change the date of the competition. They would rather give the South Korean side a few million more appearance fees.

Nowadays, on the Internet, print media, and social media all over the world, the manuscripts of the epic battle of man and machine have long been flying all over the sky.

Especially when I heard that Alpha GO on Google's side, it is possible that after Lee Sedol's loss, as Lee Sedol's electronic assistant, and Gu Mojie played an upgrade match where "both sides are centaur players", not only Asian media paid attention to this matter, but even European and American media were very concerned.

Whose intelligence is more powerful, who is the one who opens up a new world, it is useless to beep alone, you still have to take it out for a walk.

……

Five days of adjustment and preparation passed in a flash.

Lee Sedol can be regarded as having seen a lot of the world.

I have participated in the finals of the top cup tournaments in the Go circle sixty or seventy times.

However, on match day, the broadcast lineup still surprised him.

Whether it's the Samsung Cup or the Ying Cup, I've never seen so many channels set up cameras there.

This time, not only the sports media in China, Japan and South Korea have to take first-hand information, but also traditional news TV stations such as N, the official YouTube press corps of online media, as well as ESPN and a bunch of unnamed European and American media.

In addition to the broadcast, a total of more than a dozen Chinese, Japanese and South Korean nine-dan chess players watched the game.

Gu Li didn't show up because he was asked away by Hatsune Video and needed to be an anchor in the broadcast hall next door to provide commentary to the audience. This live broadcast of Chuyin Video will also be broadcast live by CCXV5 sets.

There will also be a broadcast commentary on the Korean side, but not here. They will stay in Seoul and wait for the video signal to pass and then explain there.

The venue was set up in the Jiangnan Club, and Gu Mojie vacated the living room on the first floor of his building and asked his subordinates to arrange it to meet the needs of the game and broadcasting.

A large rosewood table from the Ming Dynasty, a chess apron, and a large screen behind each of the two positions, and Gu Mojie also has an additional host on his side. Lee Sedol could also have one behind him, but it's still empty — that's a spot reserved for Alpha Go, and if he loses the first two sets, he'll ask for "outside help" as agreed.

Of course, those who know the industry know that whether it is a beginner or an alpha go, their core processing power is not what the "flesh" of one or two hosts in front of them can carry.

In the cloud, there are thousands of machines working for this calculation.

Because it is a human-machine combination of competition mode, Gu Mojie's side will not directly follow the results given by the machine, but let Chu Xing draw up a plan at each step, and give him up to 20 alternatives according to priority, and the human will finally choose how to go.

In addition, Chuxing also has a man-machine combination function, that is, to predict the current situation and danger - that is, according to the current layout of the chess game and the valuation of the "sphere of influence", it is instantly determined how many black and white pieces can be ensured according to the current situation and how likely it is to win.

Judging the merits of the current situation is a job that machines are particularly good at compared to going straight ahead. It only takes less than 5 seconds for each step to determine who is superior and who is inferior at the moment, and what is the number of meshes and the difference between the two sides when the trend naturally develops.

This judgment is also very useful for Gu Mojie, because Gu Li's two-month special training for him only allowed him to strengthen "what chess style should be leaning towards in a specific strength and weakness situation", but the specific strength and weakness, let Gu Mojie use the human brain to judge, it is definitely not as accurate as the first move.

In other words, Gu Mojie knows exactly how to work with the machine to best allocate time.

His biggest goal is to make trade-offs when the machine can't make trade-offs, which will consume too many seconds and have little impact on a single step.

However, it is precisely because of the existence of these factors that the screen in front of Gu Mojie can only be disclosed to the broadcast camera to ensure that he is not cheating, but it cannot be seen by Lee Sedol - otherwise, the robot's quick judgment of who is superior and who is inferior to the current situation can be discovered by Lee Sedol.

As for whether he wants to invite Alpha GO to "help punch" in a few days, and what the human-machine interface of Alpha GO will be at that time, that's another question.

On that day, Gu Mojie would not have peeked at the screen of Alpha Go.

The two sat down separately, and after a final check, the female anchor in the infield stepped forward and confirmed softly:

"Do you have any questions? If not, the game will officially start in 3 minutes. ”

"No problem." "No problem."

Lee Sedol and Gu Mojie both expressed their positions.

Then, Gu Mojie took out a jade fracture fan and opened it a few times.

At the end of December, the house needs to be heated, and a fan is still used, which is also xx.

Li Sedol looked disgusted, and accidentally saw Gu Mojie's fan and drew a Taiji diagram.

"You ......" Lee Sedol couldn't understand.

Could it be that this kid has such reverence for the culture of my "Republic of Korea" that he actually painted the Taiji flag on the fan?

He didn't ask, but Gu Mojie knew what he was thinking. He was not afraid of guessing wrong, so he pointed out straightforwardly: "Don't think about it, who told you that the Taiji diagram is Korean?" Do you recognize these words? ”

Lee Sedol's face turned red when he was said, and he could only take a closer look at Gu Mo Jie's coquettish shaking fan.

Next to the hand-drawn freehand Taiji diagram, there are four big characters with craggy bones, plus signatures.

"Dao Survival is dead, Wu Qingyuan."

Lee Sedol was slightly shocked and looked sideways at the audience.

Even the ninety-nine-year-old senior grandmaster Wu Qingyuan came to watch this epic battle.

Wu Qingyuan, the Chinese chess god, has not been out of the mountain to watch the battle for more than 30 years.

"You say I'm a sturgeon, I'm a sturgeon! Who is the Tao, there is no evidence, just see the real chapter under your hands! The muscles on Lee Sedol's cheeks twitched slightly, and he was a little impetuous.

He hates being said to be "seven sections in the layout and thirteen sections in the middle game". (To be continued.) )