Chapter 40: For the first time, a little unskilled

Meng Fanqi did not expect Li Yanhong to propose a meeting so bluntly.

After inquiring, it turned out that Mr. Li was in the Baidu Headquarters Building outside the North Fifth Ring Road at this time.

Meng Fanqi forgot about this stubble, don't look at this place is very biased, birds don't. There are really a few big factories that have made their homes here.

"Mr. Li's enthusiasm is difficult, of course I can't refuse, let's make an appointment outside, and I won't visit your company." Meng Fanqi has decided to go to Silicon Valley first and Google to develop, so there is naturally no need to look at anything inside Baidu at this time.

In his opinion, Robin Li could not offer better conditions than Google at this time to win him in.

Therefore, this meeting, Meng Fanqi wanted to confirm the possibility of cooperation.

When it comes to cooperation, it is still necessary to be outside.

Meng Fanqi was originally the first time to deal with a boss at this level alone.

In terms of momentum, he was a lot inferior at first, and then ran to the base camp, Meng Fanqi didn't have the guts.

After hanging up the phone, without too much delay, Meng Fanqi rushed to the intersection agreed with Robin Li to wait.

After a while, a black Mercedes-Benz S600 slowly stopped on the side of the road.

Li Yanhong, who was in the back seat, lowered the window and beckoned to Meng Fanqi, who was waiting on the side, with confidence and grandeur in his expression and demeanor.

Meng Fanqi stepped forward slowly and recalled that the past two years seemed to be the time period when Li Yanhong successively seized the richest man in China.

With a value of tens of billions of dollars and a car of more than two million, it is actually low-key.

"Mr. Li, shall I sit in the back?"

"Come on." Li Yanhong moved in and patted his vacated seat.

"So, Mr. Meng, can you tell me about this DreamNet?" Seeing Meng Fanqi get in the car and close the door, Li Yanhong didn't say much and went straight to the point.

"How did you come up with this method? What impact do you think it will have on the world? ”

"Mr. Li, do you want to ask something more specific?" Meng Fanqi smiled when he heard this, "Why did you go around the bend as soon as you came up?" ”

"Hahahaha! If you're willing to say it, that's even better. Li Yanhong saw that he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he still had the heart to joke with himself, and he also admired it, "I can't hide it, I have asked the team to do their best to try to reproduce your results." Try to find clues from the generative adversarial network that you have made public. ”

"I'm not afraid of being embarrassed when I say this to you. The best we've done so far is just the same as last year's AlexNet, and it's impossible to imagine how you did that. ”

"I'm just an ordinary undergraduate now, and you are willing to come here in person, which is the only one in China." Meng Fanqi did not contact these manufacturers during this time, except that he really did not plan to join the company, and used this simplest and crude method to screen sincere people.

"Lee has always been my senior, and he also came from a computer background. The communication between us is the communication between technicians, and I will speak directly to the paper. ”

Meng Fanqi took out the DreamNet paper directly from his bag, which has been submitted and will be presented in detail at the December conference.

Hiding for another month is actually meaningless, it is better to take it out directly to give Li Yanhong this face.

It's not a big difference for Meng, but saving at least a month of development and exploration time is a lot of money for Baidu's team.

Just a researcher with a salary of tens of thousands of dollars in a dozen months, this adds up to a small million.

"So refreshing?" Li Yanhong's eyes lit up, he didn't expect this undergraduate student to be so neat, and he directly took out the manuscript of the dissertation.

During this time, not to mention specialized researchers, even Robin Li himself was very curious about how he could achieve this result.

Without further ado, he quickly flipped through it. "Yes, I've always struggled with the fact that deeper networks don't get better results. It stands to reason that a deeper number of layers and additional parameters will always make the model more capable of learning. ”

"This is really a simple and elegant solution..."Li Yanhong couldn't help but sigh when he read the method part, "I expected to see a very complex structure and design, but I didn't expect your way to be so simple and clear." ”

"Don't add entities unless necessary. I believe that simple and effective methods are the best and most versatile. ”

"Have you ever wondered what kind of impact AI technology will have on human society?" Mr. Li's car had arrived at a small and inconspicuous club near Baidu's headquarters.

Li Yanhong often has distinguished guests to visit, and there are many who are reluctant to go to the Baidu headquarters, or who are inconvenient to go and don't like to go.

There are some inconspicuous small bases around here, and the store may be a small shop selling wood carvings and tea. But there is a lot of room inside, and there are one or two rooms upstairs that are not big or small, which can be used for meetings and negotiations.

The materials and colors used in the decoration are quaint and restrained, and there are no customers in the store, perhaps the small shop was not originally used for business.

This may be the style and taste of the richest man in the mainland, right?

Li Yanhong took the lead and walked into the store, followed by Meng Fanqi.

After a few steps, I went around to the back of the shop, but I didn't expect that there was a hidden mystery here, and there was a garden that was not big or small.

There is a small man-made waterfall on the side, and the sound of the water is quite elegant.

"The impact of AI on the future industry may be mainly divided into three aspects." Meng Fanqi was admiring the scenery while answering Li Yanhong's previous question.

"If you look at it from the perspective of ordinary people, it may be a little bit unclear. But from the perspective of technical practitioners, I think there are nothing more than three main tracks, visual images, language and speech, and recommendation maps. ”

"What direction are you going to focus on?" Li Yanhong thought that Meng Fanqi was a technician specializing in a certain aspect, but he did not expect that his technical vision was quite broad.

"Why do you have to focus on what direction, if you draw a framework in advance to bind yourself inside, it will be easy to limit your thinking." Meng Fanqi smiled, only children do multiple-choice questions, and adults and I want them all!

Li Yanhong frowned slightly imperceptibly, the content of a field is so extensive, and images alone can be separated, classified, detected, segmented, super-resolution and other general directions.

Although the undergraduate student in front of him has achieved remarkable results, if he has this mentality, he will not be able to do much.

However, he didn't show it, but led Meng Fanqi to the room in the backyard quickly, "Come, sit." ”

"It's the first time I've had a direct conversation with a giant of Mr. Li's level." Meng Fanqi sat down calmly, but to be honest, he was still nervous. "It's a little rusty, don't be surprised by Mr. Li."

"Where, where." Li Yanhong did not have any condescending posture throughout the whole process, and completely achieved the appearance of equal intersection, which made Meng Fanqi actually a little surprised, "It is also the first time for me to contact such a young undergraduate, which shows how much potential and value your achievements have." ”

"Let's skip the recruitment part and talk about collaboration." Meng Fanqi smiled, and Li Yanhong's expression was stunned.