No. 279 Crushing Lee Sedol (1)

Artificial intelligence is the feature of smartphones, and it is also the selling point of smartphones.

Throughout the Sapientia_4 release, the focus was all around artificial intelligence.

The U.S. stock market opened that night, because Wei Dongsheng admitted that the U.S. branch of Spring and Autumn Search provided user privacy data to the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and claimed that it might withdraw from the U.S. market, and the stock price of Spring and Autumn Search plummeted 2.71% on the same day, and the market value evaporated more than one billion dollars. However, as Spring and Autumn Search began to promote the Bad Ke Go Challenge, the capital market immediately ignored the hidden danger that Spring and Autumn Search might withdraw from the U.S. market, and the stock price of Spring and Autumn Search rebounded rapidly and soared.

On March 27, the stock price of Spring and Autumn Search rose by 10.02% on that day, and the market value not only crossed the $70 billion threshold in an instant, but also soared all the way to $76.21 billion.

On April 6, Spring and Autumn Search crossed the $80 billion threshold, and the market value record was refreshed to $80.81 billion.

On April 29, Spring and Autumn Search crossed the $90 billion threshold, and the market capitalization record was refreshed to $92.62 billion.

On May 12, Spring and Autumn Search crossed the $100 billion threshold, and the market value record was refreshed to $103.4 billion.

Of course, the peak of the $100 billion market cap is not stable. Subsequently, on May 13th, 14th, and 17th, the stock price of Spring and Autumn Search continued to decline, and when the Rotten Go game officially started on May 18, the market value of Spring and Autumn Search had fallen to $96.75 billion.

Overall, the withdrawal of Spring and Autumn Search from the U.S. market has a limited impact on the market value of Spring and Autumn Search.

Other competitors also failed to take advantage of the fire.

For example, Google, the biggest competitor of Spring and Autumn Search, has also had its own troubles recently.

In December 2009, when the smartphone operating system was attacked by the FreeHuman worm, Google also claimed to have been the victim of an extremely sophisticated and well-targeted Operation Aurora (Operation_Aurora) cyberattack: the attack originated in China, and the goal was to steal Google's source code and certain Gmail account data related to human rights issues and dissident politics. Before Wei Dongsheng hacked the NSA to steal hacking tools, Google publicly stated that it would negotiate with the Chinese government in the coming weeks to provide Chinese users with unfiltered services that operate within the framework of Chinese law. On the same day, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton duly took Google's platform and issued a brief statement condemning the attack and asking China to respond.

When Spring and Autumn Search Research withdrew from the U.S. market, Google was also studying its exit from the Chinese market.

From the beginning of January to the beginning of March 2010, Google received a lot of sympathy and retention.

It is said that in the memory of 30 years, the Chinese market started with the back of the search engine, and the spring and autumn search of this world is obviously several times better than Baidu. Measured by the simplest market value, Baidu's 30-year memory sprints to a market value of 100 billion US dollars every year, but it ends regrettably every year; On the other hand, the Spring and Autumn Search, before taking advantage of the Bad Ke Go Challenge to brush up its sense of existence, piled up its market value to around $70 billion.

Brand building and technology competition outside the market, Spring and Autumn Search is far beyond Baidu's ability. Spring and Autumn Search can easily lead Google by one to two years in its own core areas of concern, and the most important field of artificial intelligence, Spring and Autumn Search is more ahead of time. For example, Google's normal progress will not be until the turn of 2016 and 2017 to perfect AlphaGo to crush the top human players. Such results can be simply regarded as Google's seven years behind the Spring and Autumn Search.

Spring and Autumn search such a technical background, Baidu can not be matched.

Therefore, the Chinese market searched in the Spring and Autumn Period is also completely different from the Chinese market in the memory of 30 years. Spring and Autumn Search is now completely suppressing Google in the Chinese market, and the number of Google die-hard fans has shrunk significantly.

However, when Google announced that it would negotiate with the Chinese government to provide Chinese users with services that operate within the framework of Chinese law without filtering and censorship, countless netizens turned to support Google's uprightness. This is not because people like Google, but because they hate China's Internet censorship policies. Netizens hate internet censorship policies and keyword blocking, especially censorship that is blocked because "operating system" has the word "" and "java" has the letter "av", which is simply insulting to people's intelligence. Because of the resentment in their hearts, a large number of netizens stood on Google's position to denounce the Internet censorship policy, hoping that the Internet censorship policy would at least not be so stupid as to recognize the idiom "water milk-blending".

The next day, Wei Dongsheng hijacked the Pirate Bay homepage in the name of the Avengers, claiming to have stolen countless cyber weapons developed by hacker teams such as SpaceTime and Equation_Group under the US National Security Agency.

Google's "straightforward statement" suddenly became embarrassing.

Then the Avengers continued to release hacking tools, and in early February, a vigorous global virus crisis broke out, resulting in Operation Aurora being so insignificant. Wei Dongsheng's early detonation of the Prism Gate incident made the praise of "Google Gengzhi" extremely ironic.

Netizens who supported Google were in an uproar, and it turned out that Google was part of the Prism Project, and it turned out that Google was also cooperating with the Obama administration to spy on the American people. When Wei Dongsheng made public at the Sapientia_4 press conference that the U.S. branch was blackmailed by the Omapa administration with a hardline attitude to the privacy data of Chinese users, Internet public opinion became even more boiling, and they all subjectively concluded that Google had shared the privacy data of Chinese users with the National Security Agency, the CIA, the FBI and other departments.

Under the deliberate guidance of certain forces, Internet public opinion has taken a sharp turn, and the Internet in China has been angry with voices: "Google, get out of China." ”

In the past 30 years, Google calmly retreated to Xiangjiang with a positive image in the nostalgia of countless netizens in China; In this life, Google was unfortunately hit by the Prism Gate incident that broke out in advance, and it was embarrassed to become a Google disgusted by ghosts and gods, and its brand image plummeted.

There are also disadvantages.

Google's reversal of public opinion indirectly led netizens to denounce the Internet censorship policy to no avail, and then how the Internet should be censored or censored, and how should various forum websites be blocked by imbeciles or imbeciles. Some administrations firmly believe that the sun will always shine if people can't see or hear it on the Internet; Website operators who aspire to make money are also desperately trying to reduce costs, and simply and rudely launch "water milk-blending" keyword blocking to reduce risks. But then again, even without Google's reversal of public opinion, Google's withdrawal or not, and the condemnation of netizens or not, there is no hope of improving the poor online environment for low-IQ keyword blocking.

the world.

There are no gods.

There is no savior either.

Let's go back to the business competition between search and Google.

Affected by the withdrawal from the Chinese market and the Rotten Go Challenge, Google's stock price continued to decline, and on January 12, Google's market value was $199.4 billion; On May 17, Google's market capitalization was $171.5 billion. Of course, Google's stock price slipped again, and it was also 1.77 times that of Spring and Autumn Search.

In this context, the Rotten Ke Go Challenge was slowly unveiled.

Speaking of Go, although it originated in China, it has been carried forward by Japan in modern times. Go is written in English as Go, which is a transliteration of the Japanese character "碁". In the 60s of the last century, Japan and China opened a new exchange of Go, and as a result, China went from a fiasco to another fiasco.

However, after 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, the once incomparably powerful Japanese game of Go has now gradually declined.

With January 1 of each year as the symbol, we look back on the 30-year history of the world Go player rankings from January 1, 1980 to January 1, 2010. Japanese chess player Hero Otake, who was the world's No. 1 in 1980; Zhao Zhixun, a chess player in Japan, was the world No. 1 in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985; South Korean chess player Cho Hoon-hyun was the world No. 1 in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990; South Korean chess player Lee Chang-ho, who monopolized the world No. 1 from 1991 to 2006; South Korean player Lee Sedol monopolized the world No. 1 from 2007 to 2010.

As for the Japanese game of Go, it has long since decayed to the point of failure.

On January 1, 2010, the World Go Players Ranking List, top five, three Korean players, two Chinese players; Top 10, 5 Korean players, 5 Chinese players; Top 20, 9 Korean players, 10 Chinese players, 1 Japanese player; Top 30; There are 12 Korean players, 16 Chinese players, and 2 Japanese players.

Seeing the subtle knowledge, you can imagine the existence of Japanese Go.

Based on 2010, Korean Go has been at its peak for many years and continues to flourish under Lee Sedol's leadership. Gu Li, the best Chinese chess player, ranked second in the world from 2001 to 2004, below Lee Chang-ho; In 2005, he was ranked third in the world below Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol; From 2006 to 2009, he was below Lee Sedol and ranked second in the world year after year. Compared to the 80s, such results are already very good, but unfortunately the second in the world is the second in the world after all.

In the 30-year memory, the Lee Sedol era ended, and Park Yeon-hwan continued, he is still a Korean chess player; It wasn't until Ke Jie came out of nowhere that he really ended the history of Korean Go hegemony, brought Chinese Go to the top of the world, and continuously monopolized the world's No. 1 from 2015 to 2017.

Unfortunately, it's 2010.

In 2010, it was the heyday of Korean Go and Lee Sedol's heyday. In 2009, Lee Sedol had just brushed a 19-game winning streak in the Huaguo Wai League. Public opinion even regretted that if it weren't for Lee Sedol's conflict with the Korean Chess Academy, he would definitely be able to continue his 19-game winning streak in the second half of 2009.

At this moment, Lee Sedol is still in his prime, far stronger than Lee Sedol in 2016.

However, no matter how strong Lee Sedol is, the Rotten Go program must also defeat him.

Defeat Lee Sedol, and Rotten Go can defeat Go.

Only by defeating Go can it become a milestone in the history of computer development and prove its "wisdom" to the world.

Only by defeating Go can Spring and Autumn Search establish a glorious image of the world's first-rate enterprises and maintain the market value that has skyrocketed recently.