I Am Really A Superstar

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
Noon.

At China Qiyuan.

Reporters were swarming the outside!

They came from all over the place, from the television stations to the newspaper firms to the online media outlets. Right now, China Qiyuan was the focus of discussions all over the country. Even the equivalent organizations in j.a.pan and Korea were watching China Qiyuan"s actions very closely. After all, China led Go in Asia. In the top ten of the world rankings, half of them were taken by Chinese citizens. The remaining places were then made up of those players from j.a.pan and Korea!

"Is President Dan around?"

"Is Xiang Rong 9-dan here?"

"I"m from Central TV. Could you grant us an interview?"

"I"m from Beijing TV. Could you let us have an interview with Changhe 9-dan!"

"If s.h.i.+nji 9-dan loses, will we also send a representative?"

"Is Xiang Rong 9-dan confident in winning?"

China Qiyuan was bursting with people!

"Please wait!"

"The players are holding a meeting right now!"

"Don"t squeeze! Please be patient!"

The staff were all busy attending to the media reporters.

Inside.

Dozens of professional Go players gathered around in a gloomy atmosphere. After Chen Ying had recreated the match, and with the a.n.a.lysis given by Xiang Rong 9-dan and Li Yi 9-dan, everyone finally finished studying the game between Peter and Chen Chi 9-dan. As a result, they were all shocked by the "intelligence" of Peter!

Xu Han 8-dan exclaimed, "This is so ridiculous!"

"He really knows how to consider his moves!" Tian Weiwei paled!

Hu Liang 7-dan could not believe it. "This is impossible!"

Li Yi 9-dan gasped and said, "But these moves should only be possible if a human played. A machine would never be able to make them, so how could this AI manage to do it? This simply cannot be done through big data a.n.a.lytics!"

"Will s.h.i.+nji 9-dan be able to win?"

"I don"t know!"

"Everyone is still in a state of confusion!"

"Yeah, no one knows anything about Peter!"

"We don"t have enough understanding of the program. But using all the game data from the Internet and television broadcasts, it has all the information it needs about the other world-cla.s.s Go players!"

"How does it work exactly?"

"How can they say that it has intelligence?"

Everyone was in disbelief!

In those two games of Go, they saw many frightful insights that convinced many of them that this AI could really think like a human. Further, the thought process was even more detailed than a human could muster, with the considerations of every move much more comprehensive! This was too scary!

…

Back at home.

After lunch.

Zhang Ye called Wu Zeqing.

Zhang Ye asked, "Has the Go community met with some trouble?"

Old Wu confirmed, "My dad has gone to China Qiyuan for an emergency meeting to discuss the strategic countermeasures to take. If s.h.i.+nji 9-dan wins, it"ll be fine. But if even he loses, then that will be problematic. Right now, the Qiyuan is also quite in the dark about the developments. Without any technical data and a blueprint of how Peter operates, no one has any idea of what kind of machine it is. The enemy is in the shadows while everything about my dad and the other Go players is known, so that makes it a very tricky situation.

Zhang Ye replied, "If it"s about that, I might know a little."

"Oh?" Old Wu said.

Zhang Ye thought about it for a moment and said, "How about this? I"ll send you some information about what I know of AI. It might not necessarily be correct, but it should be good enough for reference."

Old Wu said, "Alright, I"ll forward that to my dad."

After hanging up, Zhang Ye went online and found the match between Chen Chi 9-dan and Peter. After studying it for a long time, he managed to get an idea of the inner workings of the program.

His third sister pushed open the door and came in. "Eh, Brother, what are you doing?"

Zhang Ye smiled, typing and saying, "I"m writing a doc.u.ment."

"Aren"t you on leave from work for half a month?" His eldest younger sister also came into the room.

Zhang Ye said, "Hai, I"m helping someone with something."

…

At China Qiyuan.

Dan Donghe was getting interviewed.

Meanwhile, Xiang Rong 9-dan declined to get interviewed. He sat there and continued to a.n.a.lyze the game between Peter and Chen Chi 9-dan, at times shaking his head, at times frowning.

A distance away.

Wu Changhe received a call.

"Daughter, I"m busy right now."

"Dad, I sent you some information. Take a look at it."

"What information?"

"Little Ye sorted out the working principles of Peter."

"Him? What could he possibly know!"

"Take a look at it first, alright?"

"Is the information reliable?"

"Have you forgotten what Little Ye does? He"s a world-cla.s.s mathematician and all computer programs are based on binary, so don"t you think it"s reliable? In this area, he"s the real professional. Depending on a world-cla.s.s mathematician"s research information is better than listening to a group of Go players a.n.a.lysis of a program, isn"t that right?"

"Alright, I"ll take a look then."

After hanging up, Wu Changhe downloaded the doc.u.ment onto his cell phone.

Soon after, Dan Donghe came back. He was exhausted from handling the interview with the several dozen reporters. This was because he was unable to give them a proper conclusion about the meat of the matter.

Everyone gathered again.

Wu Changhe suddenly said, "Come, everyone! Take a look at this!"

"Ah?"

"What is it?"

"Teacher, what"s the matter?"

Everyone looked to him.

Wu Changhe said, "Someone sent me a doc.u.ment regarding that P-whatever thing"s working principles." He handed it to his disciple Tian Weiwei. "Put it up on the big screen for everyone to see."

Tian Weiwei immediately said, "Yes!"

Everyone was skeptical.

"Working principles?"

"Did someone manage to a.n.a.lyze them?"

"Is it real?"

"How can it be so fast?"

Dan Donghe"s eyes lit up. He hurriedly strode over and said, "Brother Wu, who sent it to you?"

Wu Changhe scowled and said, "Don"t ask about that. It"s just someone who works with math."

The doc.u.ment was quickly shown on the display!

Everyone looked up!

Xiang Rong also looked up at the screen!

Peter.

This is an AI program written for Go.

It mainly consists of four parts:

1. Policy Network: Picks likely moves to play at every step.

2. Fast Rollout: Has the same goal as 1. A rollout policy that is 1,000 times faster but less precise under certain conditions.

3. Value Network: Learns to look at a board state, and predicts who is likely to win.

4. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS): Combining the three parts above, it forms a complete program.

The main theory behind it is deep learning. Deep learning refers to multilayer neural networks and its training. A layer of neural networks can take in a large number of inputs, and through a nonlinear method to obtain appropriate weights, finally obtain a final output score. It works just like biological brains. Using an appropriate matrix, multiple layers are connected together, forming a neural network "brain," allowing for complicated manipulation, just like how humans process image recognition. It has two "brains." It uses these two neural network "brains" to play Go. These brains" neural networks are similar to how image search engines search for images. They begin with the multiple layers to handle the Go board"s positions and deal with it like a picture cla.s.sification website. Through a filter, a 13-layer policy neural network will a.n.a.lyze the setup presented. These layers are able to cla.s.sify and reason logically.

The first brain: Move picker.

The second brain: Position evaluator.

And so on and so on!

It was a 2,000-word report. It looked like a research paper and was written highly professionally.

Many of the professional Go players were dumbfounded. There was many professional jargon they did not understand at all. They could only guess, but they gained a rough idea of what Peter was!

Xiang Rong 9-dan asked in shock, "Who wrote this?"

President Dan Donghe quipped, "Brother Wu, you even know an expert like this? Which mathematician is he?"

"Why do you care who he is?" Wu Changhe did not understand a thing anyway. "So is it of any use?"

"Of course it"s of use!" Chen Ying was the most excited of them all. Not only was she a top female Go player, she was also an academic. She was a Tsinghua math student. "This a.n.a.lysis and information is incredibly important! This has exposed how Peter works! If it"s true, then this AI can"t think like how the Americans bragged. It can"t think at all. It just makes people believe that it can think. Its core is still based on data processing!"

Two "brains"?

Deep learning?

They finally knew!

They could finally see Peter"s true face!