Go Legend - Chapter 919

   Chapter 919 The prelude kicks off

   “Li Xiangping?!”

   When Li Xiangping made a call, a slightly unexpected and pleasant voice soon came from the receiver:

   “Why did you think of calling me today?”

   “Hello Yanqing, this is how it is…”

   That’s right, now it’s Yan Qing who is on the phone with Li Xiangping, his former “nemesis”. As I said before, there are two types of smart people in the Go world, one is the giant baby type, and the other is the master type. Yan Qing obviously belongs to the latter.

  Yanqing is now in Europe and belongs to the group of professional chess players living in Europe. Of course, Li Xiangping asked him about the birth of a generation of Afagou.

“…Ha! You’re asking Lao Fan, of course we know each other well. I met him last week… Yes, hey, Xiangping, your news is quite well-informed. There is a team that found Lao Fan, It seems that someone from the US emperor Google said that they want to develop some Go AI… Ha, why didn’t you come to me? My reputation in Europe can’t be compared with Lao Fan, they are European champions, and Xiangping , what kind of Go AI are you talking about developing, is this reliable…”

   After hanging up Yanqing’s phone, Li Xiangping secretly laughed, because nowadays, most people think the same as Yanqing.

   Even including Fan Erduan himself, it is still the old view of the past, that Go is too complicated, and it is unlikely to be conquered by computers in a short period of time.

  As a traveler, Li Xiangping of course knows that this time is different, this time is really different!

   It’s just this “different”, and he couldn’t tell Yan Qingming on the phone, so in the end he could only ask Yan Qing to help him pay attention. If there is any new development in Europe, please let him know at any time.

  Then the time quickly came to the end of 2015. One day in November, Li Xiangping received a call from Europe:

   “Xiang Ping, you really got it right…”

Yan Qing said on the phone: “This time it seems to be really different, Xiangping, do you know, Lao Fan played a few games with the software that he just made, what do you know? Lao Fan was actually killed by the software. A 0 to 5…”

   “Oh, Yan Qing, can you do me a favor.”

   “Xiang Ping, you said.”

   “Can you send me those 5 chess scores.”

“Hey, what do I think, I’ll contact Lao Fan now. By the way, Xiang Ping, you can actually contact him yourself. After Lao Fan 0 to 5, I heard that Google may make a big move, no I know if I dare to look for you, but at least I will find a first-class expert who is still on the front line to try their new software.”

   “Hehe, I’ll talk about it later, let me see how this software beat Lao Fan first.”

   “Okay, I’ll go and show you the chess records.”

  Because of Yan Qing’s relationship, Li Xiangping saw the first human sacrifice after a generation of dogs was born earlier than the public.

   and others have studied the five chess scores, and Li Xiangping asked himself:

   “Brother Ding’an, how do you feel?”

   “Well, if the dog has been staying at such a level, you don’t have to be afraid of it at all, let alone you and me teaming up, even if I go alone, there should be more than a 60% chance of winning, right?”

   Li Xiangping laughed when he heard it. Of course, he didn’t laugh at the ignorance and arrogance of the plug-in. In fact, after reading the five chess records, his personal opinion was exactly the same as that of Lao Shi.

   And in the real history, the professional Go world at that time had seen the 5 chess replays of Fan’s 2nd Dan losing to a generation of dogs, and most people’s views were the same as the current Li Xiangping:

   If the Go AI is at this level, then they are definitely not the top-ranking opponents of the top human beings.

   is also for this reason, so before Lee Sedol goes to the dogfight, everyone’s prediction of the outcome is very interesting.

  People in the scientific and technological circles and chess-blind people who don’t understand Go at all, mostly prefer machines to win.

   Only professional Go players and experienced Go fans believe that Lee Sedol can win.

For example, Li Xiangping at that time, he was also a senior chess fan, and he had considerable strength. He saw too many loopholes and flaws in the dog’s 5 chess replays in which the generation of dogs defeated Fan’s second dan, so in Li Shishi Before losing the first game, he had always believed that humans would win.

   It’s a pity that Li Xiangping and those who know Go were wrong at that time, and completely underestimated the evolution speed of dogs.

   In just over 3 months, dogs with “deep learning” ability quickly make up for their various weaknesses and directly achieve the ability to crush top human occupations. Then, when the second generation of dogs evolves to the third generation of dogs, when dogs completely abandon learning human chess repertoire, the two are no longer in the same dimension, and Go AI has left humans a dimension.

“Brother Ding’an, you heard it before, the generation of dogs is now choosing opponents, and is preparing to have a man-machine battle after the year. Do you want me to use other channels to get in touch, and I will fight with the generation of dogs after the year. ?”

   “Hey, strange, ordinarily, with your current status, why didn’t they find you the first time?”

   “It should be these 5 chess records that affected their team’s judgment.”

  Li Xiangping smiled and explained to Lao Shi:

“I guess it was Yan Qing, Fan Erduan and others who said to the R&D team of Generation Dog that with Generation Dog’s current performance, it is possible to beat other top-ranking professionals, but if you want to beat me, you can’t do it. Well, after all, it is a professional. People, so they listened to the opinions of professionals, and for the first time, they were not going to find me, but to contact that Goryeo Lee Sedol.”

   “Why him?”

“Because besides me, he has won the most world championships in the past five years. Well, Ding’an brother, don’t care who they are looking for, I will ask you if you want to fight with a generation of dogs. If so, I have other channels to replace Xiao Li.”

   “Hehe, if a generation of dogs only have the ability now, I’m not very interested in competing with them.”

“Ha ha.”

   After listening to Lao Shi’s words, Li Xiangping thought about it and said:

“That’s ok, since Brother Ding’an said this, I won’t fight with Xiao Li for the first time, but Brother Ding’an, I want to remind you that after a generation of dogs and Xiao Li compete, they will level up immediately. In 2 months, it will evolve into a second-generation dog. The second-generation dog is the key. We cannot avoid this. They may test it online. During the test, we must find a way to defeat the second-generation dog once. Only in this way can we arrange a formal contest with three generations of dogs.”

   What Li Xiangping said can be regarded as the truth of the previous life.

   In fact, in real history, even though a generation of dogs has already won the man-machine war against Lee Sedol in the first season, the performance of the dogs has not convinced everyone.

  For example, Ke Shaoxia made the rhetoric at that time, “Dogs can beat Li Shishi, but they can’t beat him”. Only after the second-generation dog “Master” was born, and then the second-generation dog made trouble on the Internet, and a 60-game winning streak came directly to the human profession.

   In fact, at that time, the entire professional Go world was convinced of Go AI.

  Since the first generation of dogs is not ready to fight with Xiao Li, then Li Xiangping’s dogfighting plan should be arranged after the second generation of dogs is born.

   (end of this chapter)