There is no shortage of idealists in every era.

But most idealists are said to be crazy, stupid, and a group of unrealistic "outliers" who don't know the height of the sky.

They are indeed outliers, and some people struggle for that unrealistic "ideal" for half their lives and end up doing nothing.

There are also people who know that the outcome of their insistence is likely to be empty, but they still choose to persist without hesitation.

Because they believe that as long as they persist for a while, then those who have the same ideals as themselves in the future may have a lot easier when they struggle.

They are also a lovely and respectable people.

Because sometimes the world changes because of them.

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"Pengfei, what are you worried about?"

A chess player who has a good relationship with Peng Fei, he looked at Peng Fei with a sad face, and he asked half-jokingly: "Is it because we lost to the artificial intelligence chess player that your face is so ugly?" ”

Peng Fei didn't speak, although he was indeed a little sad because of the fiasco to the AI chess player.

But when his friend asked that sentence, his heart seemed to tell him that he shouldn't be sad about it.

Although they lost to the AI chess players in this competition, they also performed well in the Four Nations Challenge, and they also successfully won the championship of the competition, and they have accumulated a lot of materials to play against artificial intelligence.

It can be said that the harvest of this competition is far greater than the sum of the gains of previous years.

"No, I'm just wondering if there is a possibility for a human chess player to defeat an AI chess player." Peng Fei hesitated for a long time and expressed the doubts in his heart.

"In our generation, there is a high probability that it will not be possible." His friend was also a little melancholy.

"It's not just us who don't have this possibility in Chinese chess."

"Go, chess is also not possible."

A friend's words are like a bitter medicine, which can't tell the effect, but it can make people sober up instantly.

"You have also seen in this competition, whether it is Master Li or Master Liang, as the top chess players in China, they are not opponents of artificial intelligence."

"What's even more terrifying is that artificial intelligence is still evolving at a high speed."

"And we human beings not only have limited energy, but also have a short lifespan of only a few decades. It is completely unrealistic to surpass artificial intelligence in these decades. ”

"It's not just me who thinks so, almost all professional chess players know the power of artificial intelligence."

When my friend said this, he was also a little melancholy.

After all, he is thirty-three years old, and as a professional chess player, he is at his peak, but again, as a man, he is also the most sober age.

"But... There are still a lot of people trying to surpass artificial intelligence. ”

I don't know why... Peng Fei actually said such a somewhat angry thing.

And this friend listened to Peng Fei's childish words, he didn't laugh at Peng Fei.

Instead, he said very seriously: "There are indeed many chess players who are working hard in the direction of surpassing artificial intelligence, but they, no, including you and me, are just looking for something to do." ”

My friend's words are very straightforward and sober.

He looked at Peng Fei thoughtfully, he smiled and sat down next to Peng Fei again, and asked again seriously: "Do you think that artificial intelligence chess players will replace human chess players one day in the future?" ”

Peng Fei didn't speak, because since the first day he was in contact with chess, his parents had told him that no matter how powerful the artificial intelligence was, it would not be able to replace human chess players.

But as Peng Fei really entered the professional chess world, he became more and more impatient, and he was inexplicably worried that artificial intelligence chess players would completely replace human chess players as the mainstream of the game.

He is even more worried, worried that Huaxia chess will slowly break off its inheritance because of the emergence of artificial intelligence.

But now that you think about it, most of the people who first said these words were not real chess players, but almost all of them were journalists and businessmen.

Some of them have good intentions, some of them are deliberate, and some of them are deliberate.

Slowly, under their overwhelming reports, many young chess players, including Peng Fei, as well as those elderly chess players who have played chess all their lives, unconsciously began to "worry about the sky" under these reports.

And Pengfei's friends are alive and transparent.

He looked at Pengfei and didn't speak.

He added: "No matter how artificial intelligence develops, it will not be able to completely replace artificial intelligence. ”

"After all, history has given us the answer."

"When the world first saw the camera, it was thought that the art of painting would no longer be alive and that the camera would replace painting altogether.

But what other photographic work in the world today is more valuable than Van Gogh's work? Because the painting is full of what the author wants to express, emotions, techniques, and comprehension of life? These things sound illusory, but they can be vividly displayed under the painter's brush. ”

"Photographers, on the other hand, have to pick and choose what others have to say. Chess is actually the same as artificial intelligence, and the battle between people is very direct and full of suspense. ”

"But the performance tension of AI chess players is not as powerful as that of human battles, for example, AI battles are a competition for computing power, even if an artificial intelligence with the same computing power plays against each other, the first player has almost a 99% probability of winning. The battle between people, even if the chess power is much exceeded, will be affected by factors such as emotion, age, energy, and physical environment, which also makes the battle of human chess players full of infinite possibilities. ”

The young chess player patted Peng Fei on the shoulder.

"I know what you're worried about, and I vaguely know what your dreams are."

"I used to have the same unrealistic dreams as you, and although I have long since given up that dream for the sake of life, I can tell you for sure."

"It's hard for a player like us to get to the top of chess, but we're very keen to be a challenger."

"Even if we know that the end is a mess, we still like to challenge again and again."

"After all, we spend most of our lives in chess."

"I'm not sure if I've been playing chess for 20 years still love chess as much as I did at the beginning."

"But what I know for sure is that I've learned a lot in these twenty years of chess."

"I've learned that no matter how you win or lose a game, as a chess player, you should never be afraid of a challenge."

The young man's last words seemed to be not just to Peng Fei alone, but to the good master who was also slumped after losing the game.