Luo Sheng returned to the company's headquarters and started a new project in the office where he was Bluestar Technology, which he was probably the only one who could complete it, and he only wanted to do it himself.

Developing AI requires a supercomputer, and Luo Sheng now has no private supercomputer, and the two companies do not have their own independent supercomputer, unlike IBM.

However, Luo Sheng now has a data center and cloud computing, and the bottom layer of cloud computing is also a supercomputer, through the data center and operating system, the ultra-large-scale physical servers in different regions are aggregated into a supercomputer, unified scheduling and use.

With the development of technology, cloud computing and supercomputing will also become a powerful technology engine for the era of big data.

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At this moment, Luo Sheng created a new folder on one of his work computers, and the index directory was called "Nov", which is the code name or name of the artificial intelligence to be developed.

According to the pronunciation of Nov, and then translated literally by its homonym, the Chinese name is "Nafu".

After deciding on the name, Luo Sheng began to program and develop Nafu's agent.

If you want to develop artificial intelligence, you must first understand three concepts: artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL).

These three are closely related, simply put, artificial intelligence is to give a device or machine the same intelligence as a person, machine learning is a way to achieve artificial intelligence, and deep learning is a technology to achieve machine learning.

Artificial intelligence encompasses machine learning, which in turn encompasses deep learning.

Last year, in 2006, Jeffrey Hilton, a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada and a leading figure in the field of machine learning, and his student Russ Lahudinov published an article in Science that started the wave of deep learning in academia and industry.

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In the days that followed, Luo Sheng built an end-to-end "ecosystem" for the development of Nafu and wrote the program for it himself.

On the one hand, the company is not busy now, and it has been arranged clearly, and secondly, there is Yao Jianhong on the Cote d'Azur, and Zhang Bowen on Bluestar Technology.

This "ecosystem" is currently temporarily arranged in the underground warehouse of his private villa, and when his super mansion is completed, Luo Sheng is now spending billions of dollars to build a mansion with a strong sense of science and technology, which is located on the shore of Yangcheng Lake.

The development of artificial intelligence is not achieved overnight, it is an advanced road of continuous upgrading and optimization, from simple programs, to weak artificial intelligence, strong artificial intelligence, and even to super-artificial intelligence.

Among them, the upgrade and advancement include the progress of software and hardware, not a few lines of code on the keyboard, a smart AI with self-emotional logic analysis is born.

The "ecosystem" created by Luo Sheng includes the design of a simulator, a programming language, an integrated programming environment, an algorithm library, a set of tools for applying firmware for deep learning, a set of teaching logic courses, and cloud computing support.

This "ecosystem" alone is not enough.

To achieve truly strong AI, more advanced and more hardware support is needed to create a system that mimics the perception, action, and cognitive abilities of the human brain, and can use high-level abstraction of data using multiple processing layers that include complex structures or multiple nonlinear transformations.

Clearly, deep learning algorithms are crucial to this.

Another key link is data, and only companies that have mastered massive big data have the advantage or foundation to develop artificial intelligence.

In fact, there are not many enterprises or institutions in the world with this advantage, such as Google, Yahoo, IBM, etc., and there is no doubt that there is "L-BAT" in China, especially "L", that is, Bluestar Technology Group.

The amount of data it has can be said to be one of the best in the world, such as BlueSpace, Yunge Search, Reddit, BluestarVideo, etc., and the business segments of Bluestar Technology are full of vast data.

However, the "Nov-Nafu" that Luo Sheng wants to develop does not belong to the assets of Bluestar Technology or the Cote d'Azur, it is completely independent and belongs to Luo Sheng's exclusive technology, but it is certain that it will provide AI technical support for these two companies in the future.

As the founder of Bluestar Technology Group, Luo Sheng's database of the group company is undoubtedly completely open to him, and the soon-to-be-born "Nov-Nafu" will enter the database of Bluestar Technology Group and the Cote d'Azur.

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Time passed day by day, and the prototype of Nafu also completed the pioneering stage under Luo Sheng's continuous stay up all night, although it is far from artificial intelligence in the real sense, but this is a breakthrough of 0 and 1.

No matter what the world is, we have to accept that there is really a genius, and people will only be angry with people compared to people.

What's even angrier is that geniuses work harder.

Early this morning, Luo Sheng came to the company, but he didn't deal with the company's affairs, he stayed in the office and tossed Nafu, and the original code had been written.

Luo Sheng opened his dedicated work computer to link to the cloud, located in the Sioux City data center, his private cloud service.

The index quickly reached the "Nov" folder, and after confirming that it was correct, it started without hesitation and woke up "Naf".

Watching the percentage progress bar continue to advance, Luo Sheng waited patiently.

However, he also knows that even if Nav is awakened now, she is now a "retarded artificial intelligence", and the road has to be taken step by step, upgrading from "artificial retardation" to "artificial intelligence" and then to "strong artificial intelligence" and even to the final ultimate form of "super artificial intelligence", which is not achieved overnight.

Completing the first step is often the hardest.

[100%, startup complete!] 】

"Ness!!"

Luo Sheng, who was staring at the screen, suddenly perked up when he saw this scene, and immediately connected to the Internet without saying a word, he had already made a "plug-in".

At this moment, Luo Sheng opened Blizzard's Battle.net, and then quickly registered a Battle.net number, and his ID nickname was "Nov".

Then, he took a few minutes to arrange what Nov was going to do today, which was to have "her" hit the ranked match in the StarCraft: Brood Battle ladder system on Blizzard Battle.net.

Compete against the best players.

This is the first learning course that Luo Sheng has identified for Nave, allowing "her" to promote deep learning research in real-time strategy games (RTS).

StarCraft is essentially a fast-paced war game, and the player plays the role of a commander who dominates the overall situation, so any action, decision, and consciousness of the player will directly or indirectly determine the outcome of a confrontation.

Players need to always consider the balance of economic and military development, and make a lot of decisions in a very short period of time, such as rioting, mining, climbing technology, attack, defense, sneak attack and anti-sneak attack, harassment and anti-harassment, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, etc.

Such a real-time strategy game is undoubtedly a great platform for Nov to advance, but Luo Sheng gave Nav a certain restriction before "she" entered the celestial system to compete against those top human players.

The first is the fog of war, which is exactly the same as a human player, otherwise it would be a map hanging.

The second is the restriction of Nov's apm and epm, if there is no restriction, human players will lose 100%, and it is impossible to beat at all, which is obviously not a fair confrontation, nor is it Luo Sheng's original intention, and it is not of much help to Nov deep learning training.

The so-called APM is the number of operations per minute by the player, like the top interstellar players in South Korea, the APM can soar to more than 500 on average, and the EPM is the number of effective operations per minute by the player, the APM is as long as the player clicks on the mouse and keyboard will be counted in it, and the blind point is also counted, so there are a large number of waste operations in the APM, and every operation of the EPM is a valid operation, such as repeated operations, no matter how much it is counted, it is only counted 1 time.

Luo Sheng set an apm upper limit of 550 for Naf, which can achieve the same value as the world's top interstellar professional players, while the upper line of EPM is set at 188 values.

At the operational level, Nav is limited to make it on a par with the top professional players of the human race, so if "she" wants to defeat the top players of the human race, she needs to be exerted at the level of "intelligence", and to put it down-to-earth, awareness is very important.

After Luo Sheng got everything done, he shook his spirits and decisively put Nafu in the battle net, and let "her" enter the celestial system to match players to fight.

Blizzard's Battle.net system is scum in Luo Sheng's eyes, and he has 100% absolute confidence enough to ensure that the "glass slag" system will not detect any abnormalities in Naf, allowing her to disguise herself as a human player to fight against real human players.

At the same time, Nafu is also connected to the database of Bluestar Technology, and is constantly contacting and analyzing massive amounts of information through deep learning algorithms, which will not prevent "she" from competing with human interstellar players on the ladder at the same time.

This is where the unparalleled advantages of humans and AI come into play.

Next, Luo Sheng didn't intervene in any way, sitting motionless, staring at the computer screen.

Now that his computer has been taken over by Nave, he has entered the ladder system to start matching players, and the battle mode is the 1v1 confrontation mode with the highest competitive content.

And Luo Sheng didn't say a word at the moment, he quietly watched Nafu's first perspective, and it took less than ten seconds to search for the opponent and quickly found the player.

The first game of confrontation officially began.

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