We are all reborn, who wants to be the richest man?

Hong Kong Island welcomes a peak of tourists in March every year. As the Far East Technology Exhibition becomes more and more famous around the world, tourists from all over the world come to Hong Kong Island from March to mid-April to experience the charm of technology and have some fun.

Many people who have plenty of time will join a tour group in Hong Kong Island to go to Rabbit to experience the beautiful mountains, rivers, customs and people of this ancient country with 5,000 years of civilization.

This peak will begin to decline in mid-April and will not slowly pick up again until June.

However, the situation this year is somewhat different. In mid-April, the number of tourists coming to Hong Kong not only did not decrease but instead saw a surge.

The people of Hong Kong Island have become accustomed to this kind of popularity, as there are several such waves every year, and they will not be caught off guard by the sudden popularity in April.

The New Territories Rebirth Stadium, the largest stadium on Hong Kong Island, was crowded with people and media today.

There were machines set up not only around the lawn, but also inside the lawn.

The three major public television stations of the United States, the BBC of Britain, the Fuji TV of Japan, the SBS of South Korea, France 1 and other major television stations from various countries are gathered here.

In addition to the TV stations, there were even more reporters from news print media, all with their cameras pointed at the center of the venue.

In the center of the court, a chess table is placed in the middle. On the seats in the rest area next to it, the new and old generation chess kings Kasparov and Karpov are resting.

The two of them didn't exchange a single word from beginning to end, and it felt like kings not meeting each other.

Since Kasparov defeated his opponent and won the chess championship in 1984 at the age of 20, the two have become fateful rivals, and every duel has touched the hearts of all chess fans around the world.

However, when the two of them arrived today, surrounded by a swarm of media, it did not mean that there was any confrontation between the two.

There was a competition, but it was not between the two of them. Instead, it was a contest between the two and a supercomputer, a man-machine battle that attracted the attention of the whole world.

Their opponent was none other than Far East's latest supercomputer, Tuen Mun-1.

Tuen Mun-1 is a supercomputer developed by Far East. It was named so because the Harbour Research Institute, which developed the supercomputer, is located in Tuen Mun, very close to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Not only various top researchers work here, but also postgraduate students in related industries from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. However, they are only exposed to some peripheral projects and are not allowed to touch the core.

"We saw Kasparov sitting down at the table, and it looked like the game was about to start.

The two sides adopted a six-game match, with the winner getting one point and no points for a draw.

We saw Kasparov play White first and the game officially started."

From the moment the game started, all focus was on the chessboard. Even Karpov, who had been resting, turned his gaze to the big screen on the scene.

Not only Karpov, but also in Box No. 1 of the Rebirth Stadium, Luo Nianzhong was leading the senior executives of the Far East and Yagi McCarthy, the head of the Harbor Research Institute, who were watching this unprecedented battle.

"How high can our Tuen Mun No. 1 computing power reach?"

When talking about this, McCarthy couldn't help but smile.

"The computing power of Tuen Mun-7.8 can reach 2 GFLOPS, which is definitely the most powerful supercomputer in the world, far exceeding the 3.9 GFLOPS of Cray's Cray-."

McCarthy's face darkened when he said this. "But as far as we know, the ETA10-G supercomputer developed by the University of Florida has made a breakthrough, and I believe it will be available soon.

It is said that the computing power of their supercomputer will exceed 10GFLOPS, and Cray's new generation of supercomputers is also under development."

FLOPS is a unit of measurement for supercomputer computing power. One GFLOPS means one billion floating-point operations per second.

Don’t think it’s amazing, its computing power is not as good as that of a smartphone in later generations.

Luo Nianzhong knew that there would be TFLOPS of one trillion floating-point operations per second, PFLOPS of one trillion floating-point operations per second, and EFLOPS of 100 trillion floating-point operations per second.

There was one thing that puzzled Luo Nianzhong. Because of himself, the computing power of the processor should be much stronger than that of the same period in the previous life. Why was there no obvious improvement in the supercomputer?

"Is the computing power of Tuen Mun No. 1 affected by the processor?"

"Not really," McCarthy explained, shaking his head.

"Like the University of Florida's ETA10-G, our Tuen Mun- also uses massively parallel technology to achieve the use of multiple processors in a supercomputer.

But because it is a new technology, the computing power architecture and system are not very mature, so we have to start from scratch.

As long as this technology matures, it will be no problem to use thousands of processors at the same time, let alone dozens of processors, to the point where thousands of chickens can kill a cow.

In addition, the most important problem is cooling. Currently we use liquid cooling, but the cost is very high."

Speaking of cooling issues, Luo Nianzhong remembered something he had always wanted to build.

"How about we build an underwater fortress in the waters north of Tuen Mun?".

Everyone could not help but smile bitterly at Luo Nianzhong's idea. Their boss really was unpredictable.

"Will it cost too much to build a supercomputer?" It would be inappropriate for anyone else to speak first, so Chris had to speak first.

Moreover, he was in charge of the finances of the Far East Group, and this aspect was also her responsibility.

“Who said it’s just for this supercomputer? There will be more supercomputers in the future.

I have said that the future is the Internet era, and the most important thing about the Internet is data storage. In the future, this place will become a server storage site for Hong Kong's Internet companies, managing the data centers of Hong Kong and even the whole of Asia."

Seeing Luo Nianzhong getting more and more excited, Chris, who knew him well, rolled his eyes and asked unhappily, "So what do you want to say?"

"What does it express? It means it has to be big, as big as an underwater manor."

Luo Nianzhong nodded, self-affirming his idea and said, "I've made up my mind. I'll ask someone to make a plan when I get back. We'll start with a budget of 20 billion Hong Kong dollars for one phase."

The people in the private room widened their eyes again. Twenty billion Hong Kong dollars, and for one phase. Are you trying to avoid the end of the world?

Luo Nianzhong is not fooling around, he has his own ideas.

First of all, in the era of big data, collecting data from major Internet sources will facilitate better collection of big data.

Then there is the issue of cooling. The temperature at the bottom of the sea is low, so it can be cooled better.

The next step is to reduce costs. Natural cooling is one aspect, but physical cooling is also essential.

The temperature on the seabed is low, and the gases produced by the flow of sea water are equally cold.

As early as ten years ago, buildings in Hong Kong had used cold air generated by circulating seawater to replace air conditioning. This was first invented and used by Island Land.

The people in the private room were discussing the issue of the underwater fortress, and the first game on the field ended.

It took 1 hour and 37 minutes for Kasparov to defeat Tuen Mun No. with great difficulty.

However, he was obviously overworking his brain, and large sweat stains on his face could be clearly seen on the big screen at the scene.

A lot of it even dripped onto his pants. I believe many people saw it through the TV broadcast.

It was impossible for Luo Nianzhong to watch the game to the end. If Karpov was included, it would probably take at least two days for him to finish the game.

"McCarthy, in my opinion, this kind of artificial intelligence is not good enough. You need to let it evolve on its own."

Artificial intelligence. The current artificial intelligence may be different from what many people know.

The earliest artificial intelligence was proposed by Turing in the 20s, but the experiment took place in 30.

At that time, he proposed a conceptual experiment. The basic idea of ​​the experiment was to use a dialogue system to evaluate whether the machine could use human language to respond to the observer.

If the machine's performance is such that it is difficult for a human to tell whether it is a machine or a human, then the machine is considered to have passed the test.

This test also has a very famous name, which is the Turing test.

It was also in the 50s that the first wave of artificial intelligence arrived. This wave can be summed up in two words: logic.

The rise of the first wave was marked by two scientists, Newell and Simon, who successfully developed a program that could prove mathematical theorems.

Think back to when we were in school and were solving math problems, we found that our way of thinking followed certain rules.

The two scientists also found this point. After in-depth research, they found that there are basically two steps for humans to prove mathematical theorems.

The first step is to decompose a big problem into several sub-problems.

The second step is trial and error, which is to use known formulas to solve the reasoning sub-problems until all sub-problems are proved, thus solving the entire big problem.

The proof program they developed was very successful, proving 38 theorems in mathematician Bertrand Russell's mathematical masterpiece, Principles of Mathematics.

Later, a Chinese-American scholar named Wang Hao developed a Wang-style algorithm, which proved all the theorems in this mathematical masterpiece in less than nine minutes.

You should know that there are more than 350 mathematical theorems in this masterpiece, and it took the two masters Russell and Whitehead a full ten years to complete its proof.

The idea of ​​building artificial intelligence from a logical perspective is like a gold mine, attracting scientists from all over the world to explore.

But the gold mines were limited after all, and there were many people mining, so they were soon mined out.

The first wave of artificial intelligence ended here.

Time came to the end of the 70s. Just when everyone was discouraged about artificial intelligence, American scholar Feigenbaum discovered a new gold mine in the field of artificial intelligence, which triggered a new wave of artificial intelligence.

The key words for the second wave of artificial intelligence are still two: knowledge.

Scientists of the last wave of artificial intelligence have thoroughly studied all the possibilities that can be achieved by logic. Baum asked, if in addition to logic, I provide the computer with a rich knowledge base, then will it be able to achieve more possibilities?

This is indeed the case. Knowledge plus logic constitute an expert system, which is also the symbol of the second wave of artificial intelligence.

The expert system is divided into two parts. The first part is the knowledge base, which is used to store knowledge.

The second part is the inference engine, which is responsible for reasoning about your questions and helping you find answers in the knowledge base.

It's like a person with strong theoretical knowledge and good logic will naturally become an expert.

For example, in a medical expert system, we can input all symptoms into the knowledge base, so that it is equivalent to a knowledgeable doctor.

Take the common cold as an example.

A runny yellow nose is a heat cold.

Runny nose is caused by cold.

Fever is a heat cold.

Body aches and pains are caused by a heat cold or a cold.

At this time, if someone tells the expert system that his symptoms are runny nose and fever, the inference engine will find the knowledge in the knowledge base and tell the other party that it is a fever cold and what medicine to take.

Does it feel familiar? I think it should be familiar to everyone.

The current Tuen Mun No. 1 is such an artificial intelligence. The reason why it can play chess with two chess kings is because the programmers of Harbour have stored tens of thousands of chess game ideas in its knowledge base.

Relying on its powerful computing power, think about the most reasonable way to play.

How did this artificial intelligence die? Just like Baidu's per capita cancer.

A large number of ignorant people uploaded some knowledge that they thought was correct into this expert system, causing a crisis of trust.

Why not prohibit them from uploading data? That would be too much work and no company or individual would be willing to bear the cost.

Therefore, if you want to prohibit the other party and reduce costs, there is only one way, which is to let artificial intelligence learn by itself, which is the artificial intelligence we are familiar with.

This is what Luo Nianzhong meant by letting Tuen Mun No. 1 evolve on its own, but McCarthy obviously didn't understand.

"Can't it play chess with itself when it's free, and develop new chess moves and problem-solving ideas?"

With just one sentence, McCarthy widened his eyes in shock, and it took him a long time to recover.

"Boss, you are a genius.

You shouldn't go into business; all that money is a disgrace to your talent.

You should devote yourself to science. I believe you will definitely become one of the greatest scholars in human history.

Really, if you want, I can help you find the best scholars in the world to teach you the relevant knowledge."

Looking at McCarthy's fanatical face and then at the people who were laughing on the side, Luo Nianzhong felt that he should leave here first.

“Boss, believe me, although you are not young anymore, your talent is enough to make up for everything.

Stop wasting your time on money and women; your mission is to explore the world and save all mankind."

Even after leaving the box, McCarthy's persuasion was not over yet.

Looking at Christine Luo, who was laughing so much as she took two steps forward and put her arm up, he said unhappily, "Have you laughed enough?"

Have you ever lived the kind of ascetic life that McCarthy talks about? No fucking kidding.

I don't have the heart of a saint to explore the world and save all mankind.

Let people like you save the entire human race. My duty is to help you continue the entire human race and allow more people to be saved by you.