"You've spoken?" Hinton was intrigued, and he was curious about the mysterious origin of the Dream team. "If you can confirm it, no, you take the initiative to contact him and see if this Meng is the Meng in the Dream team."

"It would be very beneficial for us to be able to reach them in advance."

Nowadays, major technology companies have begun to gradually deploy AI-related industries. His team joined Google at the beginning of the year, and another AI giant with the same status, Likun, recently heard that it plans to join Facebook.

The battle for AI talent has become more and more intense, and Hinton, who is now one of the main leaders of Google's AI direction, is naturally not willing to be left behind in this matter.

"If you can negotiate the terms of cooperation with him before he reveals his identity and contact information at the meeting, and persuade him to join Google." Not to mention the issue of money, at least it can greatly reduce a lot of communication and time loss. ”

Hinton and Alix recalled the time when they were first recruited, and they were really dazzled. Each company has extended an olive branch and bids against each other, which leads to several of them having to communicate and negotiate the price repeatedly.

Although it feels really cool to be able to raise millions of dollars every time I communicate, it is very troublesome, but I still enjoy it, counting the money until my hands cramp, and sometimes I am negotiating with others in my dreams.

It's just that time has passed, and the head follows the ass. In less than a year, the angle and way of thinking about problems between the two have completely changed a pattern.

"It's less than a month away, so I'll communicate with him first to confirm." Alix felt that there was plenty of time, "If possible, I try to make an appointment with him before the meeting starts, so that the company can negotiate with him in advance." ”

"That's good, I'm going to go to Australia in person for this meeting." Hinton's back injury was so severe that he rarely sat down over the years, let alone traveled long distances. This is also a big reason why he finally rejected whiteness.

"Teacher, your back?" Alix was a little worried when he heard this.

"With this result in mind, it's worth my own trip." Hinton waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have to worry, and that he could afford to take the occasional trip. Now the days are not so tight, and it will not be too much of a problem to lie down in first class.

"People in the direction of AI still sell me a little bit of face." Hinton was ready to go in person, and it was this attention that was hit, and many people who were originally hesitant to come no longer hesitated after seeing Hinton.

"Besides, there are so many people who can overtake us so quickly, and I'm very curious about what kind of person he is."

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Since the results of the list came out, Meng Fanqi has been surfing intensively, searching the Internet for the latest news and reports about AI and the competition.

He didn't pay so much attention to the news to satisfy his vanity, well, not just for that vanity.

It's more about paying attention to the commentary and interviews, and seeing what companies and media are focusing on the event and related fields so early now.

After looking for two days, I didn't see any movement. Meng Fanqi thought that he might not see a larger media report on this matter until the event was completed, but he did not expect that the New York Times would publish a flash news today.

Titled "AI Dream: A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities", it is also known as "AI Dream, Advanced AI Technology Can Match Humans".

Meng Fanqi glanced at this title, and was still a little dissatisfied in his heart.

DreamNet's performance is actually beyond the human level, but the New York Times headline uses rivals, which not only means that it is human, but also implies that it is a competitor.

This is slightly different from what Meng Fanqi had hoped for.

However, for the New York Times itself, Meng Fanqi is still very satisfied. The newspaper has been around for nearly 200 years, and its distribution is not confined to the United States alone.

It is distributed all over the world, and its influence is still high.

And the overall style of the New York Times is more serious and classical, without the most tiresome new media shock.

Shocked! All of humanity should lose to it? How far are we from ruling humanity? AI has surpassed humans! 》

If it is a report of this style, it must also be a treatment for low blood pressure.

Meng Fanqi clicked on the New York Times report page, and as soon as he came up, he saw a familiar name, the writer Markov.

This person is extremely skilled in the field of science and technology reporting, and has been in the industry for more than 40 years. Among the first people in the United States to pay attention to and report on the Internet was Markov.

The reason why Meng Fanqi can have some impression of him is mainly because many Silicon Valley bulls, such as Steve Jobs and others, trust Markov very much.

often gives him exclusive interviews and exclusive news, and many of the news Meng Fanqi has seen in his previous life, such as the news of Google's unmanned car, are all from the reports of this senior technology reporter.

"I really didn't expect that this report would be written by him himself." Meng Fanqi was amazed.

Markov's rhetoric was quite restrained and rigorous, "Computer researchers have recently made new advances in AI technology that can already surpass humans in a small set of vision-related tasks. ”

"The breakthroughs and improvements in this technology are very noteworthy, as so-called computer vision systems have become ubiquitous in many aspects of life. These new technological breakthroughs are the result of the increase in the scale of neural networks and the development of computing devices.

Neural networks can be trained to recognize human speech, detect objects in images, or recognize various behaviors by touching a large number of examples.

Although such networks are modeled based on the behavior of biological neurons, they are not currently able to learn new concepts as quickly as humans. However, in this annual academic machine vision competition, this method breaks through the boundaries of human beings for the first time.

THE COMPETITION, KNOWN AS THE IMAGENET LARGE-SCALE VISUAL RECOGNITION CHALLENGE, INVOLVES TEAMS OF RESEARCHERS FROM ACADEMIC, GOVERNMENT, AND CORPORATE LABS COMPETING AGAINST EACH OTHER TO DESIGN PROGRAMS THAT CAN BOTH CLASSIFY AND DETECT OBJECTS. This year, a team of researchers from Huaguo won the award. ”

The team that achieved this result is called "Dream", and to some extent, it also symbolizes that the pursuit of AI dreams that mankind has been pursuing is gradually being realized. It is reported that the official meeting and report of the event will be held with Australia in December. ”

The full text is very short, after all, it is just a flash and not a whole story, or a front-page headline.

However, Meng Fanqi is still quite satisfied with this, because the highlight of the event, the final conference has not yet been held. Relevant scientific researchers have not yet gathered together, and many bigwigs will not be as anxious to see the list as they are.

Just the results on the list can make a big media like the New York Times pay attention to this matter, which is quite rare.

Probably for this reason, the overall description feels very restrained. Meng Fanqi read it again, pondered the wording in the article, and felt that the current mainstream media's attitude towards the technology is still relatively conservative.

Even Markov, who is so concerned about and supports AI and new technologies, does not have a clear positive bias in the wording of the text.

"It seems that these algorithms are still too early for the world in this time period." Meng Fanqi closed the report page and shook his head slightly. "The step is too big, and it's going to hit the egg."