Faced with Shen Lan's invitation to take a night walk, Xu Zhe did not immediately agree, because he had seen the schedule of the winter camp.

Xu Zhe reminded: "In two hours, all the contestants will go to the auditorium to listen to the lecture. ”

Shen Lan said, "I mean after the lecture, before going to bed." The scenery of this school is good, and the flowers are not very cold now, so it is suitable for walking at night. ”

Xu Zhe groaned.

At this time, he noticed that his new roommate was staring at him, and there was some anxiety in his eyes, as if to say, 'Why don't you say yes?'

Then Xu Zhe looked at the senior sister and said with a smile: "Okay then." ”

Shen Lan gave him a bright smile, and then lowered his head to eat. She had fewer meals and ate quickly, so she emptied her plate before the two boys finished eating, and then stood up with the empty plate.

"I'll go first, I'll see you later, contact by phone."

Shen Lan walked towards the plate recycling place.

Xu Zhe looked at the girl's back thoughtfully.

Lin Keji couldn't help but ask, "Is this your girlfriend?" ”

Xu Zhe shook his head slightly: "No, it's a good friend, not a girlfriend, at least not yet." ”

Lin Keji: "Does that mean it will be in the future?" ”

Xu Zhe smiled but said nothing.

He would no longer insist that it was impossible. But to start talking now...... He wasn't sure if the two sides had reached that level.

Shen Lan's performance did not seem to be resolute, and he couldn't ask himself a really clear answer to the questions of 'when' and 'who to start'.

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Not long after dinner, the school radio announced that everyone had gone to the auditorium.

The auditorium is large enough to seat hundreds of competitors. Most of these people are fifteen or sixteen-year-olds, and they are all interested in computer programming. In this environment of the same age and the same language, everyone was very excited.

Until the leader of the winter camp spoke on the stage, there were still many people in the audience talking to each other and chatting non-stop.

Xu Zhe sat with his new roommate.

Lin Keji wanted to talk, but Xu Zhe looked down at his phone, obviously not having any desire to talk, which made Lin Keji scratch his ears and cheeks. He also took out the same smartphone, but he didn't know what to do with it.

Sneaking a glance at Xu Zhe's mobile phone screen again, good guy, chat with someone QQ. It didn't take much thought for Lin Keji to guess that this kid must be talking to that beautiful short-haired girl!

On the stage, after the leader finished speaking, it was the turn of the professional teachers to share some competition experience with the seniors who had won gold medals before, telling these young juniors how to adjust their mentality and how to choose in the college entrance examination and competition......

Xu Zhe looked down at his phone almost the whole time, only glancing up when he heard something of interest. Suddenly, the content of the teacher's speech on the stage finally aroused his interest.

“…… Therefore, you can see that the knowledge of the competition is actually closer to the practical application than the knowledge to be examined in the college entrance examination. Here I would also like to share with you the research I am working on, which is the AI visual recognition project. I'm leading a team at Modu Jiaotong University now, and if I want to recruit a new person for our group, I would rather choose from all of you here than from those ordinary top students in the college entrance examination. ”

Artificial intelligence? Visual identity project?

These words made Xu Zhe subconsciously raise his head and look at the teacher on the stage.

It was a rather young teacher, no more than thirty years old, with a somewhat wooden face. But when it comes to professional things, it's quite talkative. All in all, it fits Xu Zhe's stereotype of a tech geek.

glanced at the large projection screen on the stage again, and the name of the speaker was marked on it - Zou Tianyan.

Mr. Zou began to talk about his project: "What we are doing now, in simple terms, is to make a set of AI algorithms, and let the algorithm look at the picture and identify whether it is a car, an animal, or a human face in the picture. Now there is even a professional international competition called the ImageNet Challenge, where everyone competes to see who can come up with a better algorithm and who has a lower recognition error rate. ”

Hearing this, Xu Zhe's back straightened.

As a programmer, he knows a lot about the history of this area. In my impression, it was from this challenge that everyone realized that they could use the graphics card to make a neural network model, and since then, Yin Weida's graphics card has soared, and artificial intelligence has become more and more developed......

And this year, at this moment, the entire academic and industrial circles do not seem to realize the importance of graphics cards in the field of AI, including Yin Weida manufacturers.

Teacher Zou Tianyan on the stage was still saying: "In order to prepare for this competition, we also plan to invest a lot of money, such as more than 1,000 high-performance CPU chips. ”

Hearing this, Xu Zhe couldn't hold back any longer. He knew that the teacher in this kind of lecture would most likely leave after the lecture, and there would be no opportunity to communicate after the lecture was over. And if you don't say anything, it's like watching the opportunity to change history slip away from you.

When he first started making games, Xu Zhe had long thought about whether to do AI at the same time. But considering the high cost and their weak technical capabilities, they really can't do it. But Mr. Zou in front of him can obviously afford the cost and has the corresponding technical ability, but he went in the wrong direction because of the wrong old ideas...... This made Xu Zhe feel that he really needed to say a few more words.

Even if you can't get a share of the prize money of that challenge, and you can't get a patent for the AI algorithm, maybe you can still become your own network in the future?

So Xu Zhe raised his right hand high and couldn't wait to stand up.

Of course, Zou Tianyan on the stage noticed him, so he asked, "Classmate, do you have anything to say?" ”

Xu Zhe took a deep breath and shouted: "You shouldn't use a CPU to do AI, you should use a GPU!" What you do is a neural network, and you want to do large-scale parallel computing! ”

Zou Tianyan was stunned for a moment.

In the audience, many students were silent for a few seconds, and then they began to talk.

“GPU？ Isn't that a graphics card? ”

"Isn't the graphics card just for gaming, what is he talking about?"

"Haha, this guy really has the courage to ......"

Beside Xu Zhe, Lin Keji hurriedly asked, "It's not time for the question session, what are you anxious about?" ”

"If this Mr. Zou is really doing AI research, he should be more anxious than me now."

After Xu Zhe finished speaking, he saw Teacher Zou on the stage cast an interested look.

Zou Tianyan said into the microphone: "Send a microphone to that classmate, I want to hear his thoughts." ”

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The character who appears in this chapter is from the book review area: Zou Tianyan.

(However, the role of this character may be heavier, because it involves the college line after the protagonist, so the positioning is beyond the scope of the show...... ）

(End of chapter)