At noon on November 13, with a slight cool rain, the temperature was a little lower.

The sycamore leaves in the sky of Southeast University are still falling, and after being stepped on by pedestrians, they cling to the sycamore avenue.

The entire Sipailou campus seems to be painted with a natural cold color filter.

At half past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Suian sat in the classroom of the mid-term defense.

He was in this classroom with Cao Xiaohui and another classmate in the research room.

The classmate saw Liu Suian, came over with a notebook, and asked about the relationship between Liu Suian'an and the Zhiji Picture Scroll, but Liu Suian pretended to watch the PPT and fooled him.

Cao Xiaohui sat on the other side of the classroom, the mobile phone screen was an advertisement for a smart machine scroll, and he lifted his black-framed glasses, controlling himself to try not to look at Liu Suian.

He frowned, he couldn't figure out how this kid couldn't finish his job half a month ago, and now he is thriving.

There was still half an hour before the start of the mid-term defense, and the three professors had not yet arrived.

The students in the classroom, except for Liu Suian, are repeatedly reviewing their PPT and practicing how to explain.

Liu Suian is not in the mood to watch PPT, and it is unlikely that he will be killed anyway.

He hugged his phone, opened the app store, and searched for AI paintings.

Click on the search button, and several related software pop up on the screen.

He didn't know how Tang Caifang's department calculated the market share, and he could only understand it one-sidedly through this simplest method.

Ranked according to the number of users displayed in the app store, from high to low, they are OmniArt, PaintingAPP, Smart Machine Picture Scroll, Renyi AI Painting Software, and then, there are some apps that have never heard the name.

The number of users of the smart machine picture scroll surpasses that of the web-based AI painting, but it is still far from OmniArt.

One is nine hundred and twenty thousand, and one is two hundred and ninety-thousand.

It's more than three times worse, but for a piece of software that was just released yesterday, it's an astonishing speed.

Could it be that the advertisements placed on the Phantom Station and the publicity of a thousand faces have been effective so quickly?

Liu Suian suddenly wanted to take a look at Qianmian's Weibo.

As soon as he opened Weibo, Liu Suian was attracted by the hot search.

The first two hot searches on Weibo are occupied by a star named Deng Lixuan, as if a new drama has been launched.

Skipping the hot search of the third advertisement, Liu Suian saw a familiar name in the fourth article.

Zhuge fish.

Liu Sui'an swept it roughly, and found the relevant entries of Zhuge fish in the fourth and seventh articles respectively, 'Zhuge fish education' and 'what happened to Zhuge fish during his study abroad'.

Liu Suian forgot what he was doing when he opened Weibo, and immediately clicked on the relevant entries of Zhuge Yu.

The first thing I saw was the revelation of a so-called big V.

"Zhuge Yu has participated in many variety shows as a graduate of the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, but I didn't expect her academic qualifications to have many doubts, now follow the editor to take a look. Zhuge Yu's original name was Zhu Geyu, and he took the college entrance examination as an art student in 2010.......

A smell of marketing accounts.

Liu Suian took a quick look, and the content was roughly the same as what he saw at Tang Caifang yesterday.

Then he clicked on the seventh hot search.

As he expected, it was the revelation that Zhuge Yu and the foreign man he had newly met in the discotheque opened a room, and the tattoo of the ace of spades on his ankle, which was the same as Tang Caifang's document, even the punctuation.

The following article of the marketing account is the content push of the smart machine picture scroll, which is equivalent to soft broad.

Click on the comment section.

- First floor: Sick, is it unusual for adults to do these things, still living in the Qing Dynasty? And the ace of spades does not mean that it is dark, don't be dirty by yourself, and feel that everyone is dirty.

Click on the information on the first floor, and sure enough, it is one of Zhuge Yu's two million fans.

- Second floor: Hahaha, I know that these students are not good birds, and there are few who don't mess around, not to mention kneeling and licking white men, and tattooing the ace of spades, I guess it's all loose.

This statement is rather obscene, and the scope of the AOE is too broad.

Liu Suian likes to talk about things, and his undergraduate friend Zhao Ting, who is studying in the United States, is very conservative and never messes around.

- 3rd Floor: Don't you smell marketing? The company just launched AI painting software yesterday, and today the spokesperson of OmniArt is thundering, use your brain to think about it.

- Fourth floor: Don't care about marketing or not, the owner of Omniscient is here, and the defective software under the guise of first place should have died a long time ago. By the way, the guy in the smart machine picture scroll advertisement is so handsome (I'm not Nantong).

- Fifth floor: Am I the only one who doesn't know who this sister is?

- Seventh floor: My God, this is a yellow rumor, support Sister Yuyu to use the law to defend her rights.

- Reply from the seventh floor: Guess why your Yuyu sister doesn't speak up now (dog head).

The comments below are varied, and everyone has them, and the diversity of Chinese netizens is on full display.

Liu Suian's face was full of doubts.

Didn't you discuss with Tang Caifang the day before yesterday and give up this plan?

He immediately sent a message to Tang Caifang's WeChat to ask about the situation, and the latter replied shortly after.

- Tang Caifang: Alas, it was a misunderstanding, I forgot to inform Xiao Yang, she thought it was the original plan, so she implemented it.

- 23-year-old male high school student: That's right.

Liu Suian pursed his lips, seeing through it without saying anything.

Come on, how can you not inform the product manager before this kind of thing is implemented.

This woman is a three-year-old child.

It seems that except for Yang Dongshan, these managers of Jixin Company do not have a fuel-efficient lamp.

If you mix it in it, you need a few more eyes, and if you can't keep it, you will be sold one day.

So far, Liu Suian actually has no resistance, on the contrary, there is still a little, how to say, a little easy?

He has done a good job of psychological construction for himself, anyway, he has stopped it, and Zhuge Yu itself is not very clean, there is no need to be a moral guardian at the moment of life and death.

He still remembers that Zhuge Yu deliberately gave Omniscient a low score in the final of the AI painting competition, and he must have contacted the humanoid studio at that time.

In this way, with this large wave of traffic, it is no wonder that the number of users of the smart machine picture scroll has soared so much all of a sudden.

Then, Liu Suian checked the Weibo of Qianmian, the hot search of the economic sector, and the hot search of the technology sector.

Different from the hot searches on the whole network, the focus of these places is on Jixin Company, Liu Sui'an and Zhiji Picture Scroll, and there is a lot less anger and yin and yang in the comments.

Turning off Weibo, Liu Suian glanced at the app store again, and in just a while, the number of users of OmniArt and Smart Machine Picture Scroll increased a little more.

Not only did the number of OmniArt users not decrease, but increased slightly, which is unsurprising.

The traffic does not distinguish between friend and foe, and black and red are also red.

It seems that the entry of Jixin Company has not only changed the distribution of market share, but also expanded the market in disguise.

AI painting is in the ascendant, and the competition of major companies to seize the market is not a zero-sum game.

Before going on stage to defend himself, Liu Suian glanced at the number of users of the smart machine picture scroll every few minutes, and he was more nervous than checking the results of the college entrance examination.

Finally, it was time for Liu Suian to take the stage to demonstrate the PPT.

Liu Suian put down his mobile phone, walked to the podium, and projected his PPT.

Seeing that there was no problem with the projection of PPT, he picked up the projection pen and glanced at the audience.

In the first row, there are three professors who are responsible for scoring the defense, two middle-aged professors in suits, and one elderly professor holding a thermos cup.

In the back, there were more than a dozen other graduate students in the School of Computer and Software who participated in the defense, all of whom stared at Liu Suian curiously.

Liu Suian was untimid under the gaze of many people and explained confidently.

"Hello teachers and students, the topic I did was a super efficient multi-head attention mechanism. In the first part, I'll start with the background of the project......"

The mid-term defense has a time requirement, with the lecture lasting between 20 and 25 minutes and the professor's questions for 10 minutes.

Liu Sui'an's time control was perfect, and he just ended the PPT presentation in the 24th minute.

During this period, the two middle-aged professors sitting in the first row kept nodding their heads, while the other old professor was expressionless and picked up the thermos cup from time to time to take a sip of water.

The old professor was not dissatisfied with Liu Suian's demonstration, he was purely because he couldn't understand Liu Suian's title and content.

For the older generation of professors, neural networks are a new thing that has emerged in recent years, and they don't have the energy to study convolutional neural networks, Transformer and the like.

After all, the discipline of artificial intelligence is only a branch of the School of Computer and Software, and the old professors are proficient in traditional computer vision algorithms, such as the expansion and corrosion of images.

Because he didn't understand, the old professor only asked some questions about the background of the research.

As for the two middle-aged professors, they understood, and they raised questions about Liu Suian's contribution points and experimental results.

Liu Suian's answer was fluent.

The questions that the two middle-aged professors would ask were completely within Liu Suian's expectations, and with Bai Ze's help, his graduation project did not have any moisture, it was all dry goods, so he answered it easily.

The two middle-aged professors were very satisfied, and they all bowed their heads and scored them.

At the end, a middle-aged professor asked, "What journal or conference are you going to submit your paper to?" ”

"Ready to vote for CVPR." Liu Suian said with a smile.

"It's really nice to have students like you this year, and I look forward to your paper publication and glory to our college." The middle-aged professor applauded.

At this point, Liu Suian's interim defense was completely over.

The sword of Damocles that once hung over Liu Suian's head was shattered lightly.

He thanked the three mentors, packed up his things, and left early through the back door.

In order not to be forced to reopen by Han Fengyin, he had to go to Jixin Company to follow up the progress of the smart machine scroll.

Recently, he has been so busy with the explosion that he can't wait to break himself into several parts.