The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games Chapter 538

Chapter 538 536. Three topics

“By the way, there is also the game League of Legends. How is the development going now?” Speaking of Honor of Kings, Cao Yang suddenly thought of League of Legends.

Since the launch of the new Dota last year, Cao Yang has used this game as a strategic reserve for Ice Frog and the others to develop.

But then I didn't pay much attention to it.

"Um... I'm sorry, I just missed it." Li Lanyun flipped through his notebook and said, "League of Legends is now relatively complete, and it is expected that it will definitely reach the online standard by the end of this year.

But I'm still waiting for your decision as to when it will go online. "

It was precisely because it was not included in the plan that Li Lanyun skipped it. He originally wanted to wait until League of Legends was fully developed and passed the test before reporting to his boss.

Yes, this request was also made by Cao Yang himself.

Because he was not sure when he would release this grand strategic weapon.

The game is developed quite quickly. After all, it has the foundation of DOTA. In addition to the bottom layer of combat that needs to be redesigned and developed (of course, even if it is redesigned and developed, the program functions are supported.) In addition to the art resources that need to be redone, other All very fast.

Moreover, Meng Xiao's team is also very good at making MOBA games. Although the time is short, the development efficiency is extremely high. In addition, League of Legends only needs to release Summoner's Rift at the beginning, which is equivalent to reducing the amount of art work. It saves a lot of work, so it will naturally be done quickly.

Cao Yang was not surprised at all that it could be completed at this time.

Fortunately, for some unknown reason, Riot Games has not been able to produce League of Legends until now, which gave Bomi some starting opportunities.

In fact, it's normal to think about it. After all, many things have changed since rebirth.

The impact of the butterfly effect was more complicated than Cao Yang imagined.

The development of League of Legends in the previous life is inseparable from the company Penguin.

It can be said that without Penguin, there would be no Riot, and there would be no League of Legends.

As early as 2008, when LOL was still being developed, Penguin had already begun to invest in Riot Games and became a shareholder of Riot Games, accounting for 20% of the shares.

In February 2011, Penguin spent US$231 million to acquire 92.78% of Riot Games' shares, basically eliminating Riot Games, and the LOL national server began its public beta at about the same time.

In other words, Penguin played a big role in the development of LOL. Even at the beginning, Penguin lost money in it. It was not what players thought. Penguin saw that LOL was making money, so it acted as an agent for LOL.

Rather than saying that LOL was designed by Riot Games, it would be better to say that it was developed by Riot Studios under Penguin. From this point of view, we have to admire Penguin's strategic vision.

Although Penguin had already begun to invest in Riot when LOL was still in the research and development stage, and gradually became the largest shareholder of Riot. However, in order to ensure the quality of games developed by Riot Games, Penguin still retains Riot's independence and leaves development and operation rights to Riot. Riot is equivalent to Penguin Studio that can operate independently.

Riot Games was born in 2006. It encountered financial difficulties when developing "Strike", the predecessor of "League of Legends". At that time, Riot Games was just a "fresh" small studio that needed a lot of financial and technical support.

Penguin had already established a firm foothold in China and had abundant funds. At that time, Riot Games was not favored by other American game companies, and Penguin also had the attitude of giving it a try.

At that time, most of Penguin's games came through agents. There was a lack of creative game studios, and there was no place to use the money. Riot had ideas but lacked money. The two sides met again at a game show and immediately fell in love. , hit it off immediately, and today's League of Legends was born.

Penguin's acquisition of Riot Games is a process of constantly throwing money. League of Legends operates so well thanks to Riot's independent operations.

What Riot received was sufficient R&D funds, and what Penguin received was the popular game "League of Legends."

If it weren't for Penguin, the “bole”, to pick up the “good horse” of Riot Games, there would not have been League of Legends. At the same time, Penguin also increased Penguin's international influence through the game “League of Legends”, so It's a win-win.

In this life, the penguin is Cao Yang himself.

If he didn't throw a fist, then the financial chain of the fist would be extremely tight, and it is normal for the progress of the game to be affected.

Taking a step back, assuming that Riot Games really makes this game, Cao Yang's understanding of Riot Games is that their ideas on commercialization are actually very naive, and they are still thinking about how to make money by selling in-game props.

At that time, he can only die with all his body and skin intact.

Moreover, the success of LOL in the previous life was largely due to Penguin Operations. Penguin has the most powerful operation team and publicity channels in the country, and has abundant funds behind it. It is under this situation that Penguin keeps burning inside. Money can make League of Legends a success.

If Ding Sanshi had the same courage to burn NetEase's own MOBA games, it would be another story.

So far, Cao Yang has not heard any foreign reports about the birth of League of Legends, which should be considered a good thing.

It also shows that the influence of Penguin in the previous life was indeed great. Now without Cao Yang's intervention, Riot Games' League of Legends is in trouble.

Cao Yang thought for a while, picked up a pen and wrote the name of the company Riot in Li Lanyun's notebook, and then specified where in the United States it was.

"You should pay more attention to this company and see if they have recently developed competing products similar to our company's League of Legends. If so, pass the news to me and I will find someone to acquire them."

These words are extremely domineering, and they are also the words Bomi Company says most often when training newcomers to the game -

If you are worried that your ideas and games are infringing, you should report it to your superiors as soon as possible, or contact the company's legal department, and they will find a way to acquire the other party.

In a simple sentence -

Bomi Company is not short of money.

Whatever you want to do, the company supports you.

If someone else made it first, we'll buy it.

Li Lanyun looked at the names on the book and nodded silently.

"Boss, if there is nothing else, we will leave first." Li Lanyun and Lai Yuling stood up and said goodbye.

Cao Yang smiled and said, "It's okay, you go and do your work."

After the two left, Cao Yang called Liu Guangran into the conference room.

"How about this trip to Xiangjiang?" Cao Yang said to him with a smile.

When the two of them were alone, they obviously seemed more relaxed.

Liu Guangran is considered to be Cao Yang's veteran subordinate. They have been together for almost ten years, and they may be more of friends in private.

After hearing Cao Yang's question, Liu Guangran recalled his experience of going to Xiangjiang and nodded silently.

"Well, that's awesome."

Cao Yang couldn't help but laugh.

What the **** is this so awesome?

Some people say that traveling is great?

In fact, during this trip to Xiangjiang, Ai Xiaomi reported to the boss after returning. Cao Yang knew the whole process, but the details were not very clear.

And Ai Xiaomi didn't mention that Liu Guangran came to her to ask questions that night in the hotel.

"I met many big-name celebrities." Liu Guangran sighed, "They are all my childhood goddesses."

"puff…"

Cao Yang couldn't help but laugh, "She's still a childhood goddess. You're not much different in age from them, right?"

Overall, the result of this trip to Xiangjiang was completely beyond Cao Yang's expectations.

Originally, this movie was made in the form of a charity, and Cao Yang himself did not want to make money, but only wanted to reduce losses.

But after discussing the cast list with Ai Xiaomi, Cao Yang knew in his heart that it was definitely over and he couldn't hold it back.

It looks like at least 1 billion will be poured into it.

The main reason is that the cast list is all big names, and most of them are movie kings and movie queens. Think about how much it costs?

It will also cost a lot to do publicity in the future.

So what Cao Yang said to Ai Xiaomi at that time was that money doesn't matter, anything that money can accomplish is no big deal.

You can give me as much as you want, as long as the movie can be made according to your ideals.

Of course Ai Xiaomi went into the discussion with this mentality in mind.

The results of it?

Except for some old actors who have real problems in life, or supporting actors who need some remuneration, many stars have said that they will appear for free, or Bomi's company will use the corresponding remuneration for charity, and they will not take any money.

What a group of moral and ethical actors these are.

After Cao Yang heard about this incident, he sighed extremely.

Compared with some unscrupulous artists in China, it is really much better.

And he believes that even if these stars don't want the salary, he will still give it to them, but as they say, it will be used for charity without taking any money.

Cao Yang chatted with Liu Guangran for a while. Hearing him talk about what happened in Xiangjiang made him happy.

The atmosphere in the conference room is quite good.

But what Liu Guangran didn't expect was that while he was sighing silently, Boss Cao ended the topic, and then changed the topic and started asking about the work of Bomi Research Institute.

"Have you completed the previous three tasks?"

"Why?"

Liu Guangran was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn't recovered from the warm atmosphere just now.

The boss's face changed really quickly.

"Ahem, let me take a look."

Liu Guangran quickly sat upright. Since he was talking about work, he still had to look like he was working.

In 2007, Cao Yang proposed three topics to their scientific research institute.

The first one is to make an artificial intelligence Go software, hoping that Liu Guangran and his friends can beat the nine-dan masters in the Go world within five years.

The second is to build bridge AI, allowing computers to simulate human strategic behavior. The acceptance standard is that real people participating in the game cannot tell whether the opponent is a real person or an AI.

The third topic is an extension of these two. To make a chat AI, as long as most humans can't tell whether it is a real person or not.

On the one hand, Cao Yang mentioned these three topics because he knew that although these topics themselves are difficult, they can all be done and can be applied in practice.

After all, this is what Google did in its previous life.

On the other hand, after setting goals for Liu Guangran and the others, and having specific goals, they will be able to do things more smoothly. They will not be blindly researching everything or doing random research because the technology of artificial intelligence is too broad. Purposeless research is a waste of time.

Also, the main purpose of proposing the topic is to have an acceptance standard. Otherwise, how would Liu Guangran and the others know where they have accomplished? Cao Yang cannot clearly know the current level of artificial intelligence, and they themselves have no idea.

This is definitely not possible.

Therefore, the three topics can be regarded as a compass for research, giving them a light in the vast sky.

Time flies so fast now, more than two years have passed in a flash, and they are already halfway to the time limit Cao Yang originally gave them, so it is normal for Cao Yang to care about the research results.

Among these topics, the bridge problem is the simplest and the easiest to produce results.

Then there is Go. Although there are certain differences in the AI ​​algorithms of Go and Bridge, the essence is similar because they are all based on massive databases, and then through algorithm research and simulation, the process of arriving at the optimal solution is achieved.

Go has more variations, so it's more complex.

AI chat needs to be more complicated and is considered a comprehensive topic, because you not only need to be based on the deep learning algorithm based on the above two topics, but also have in-depth research on Chinese character language and a certain degree of human thinking logic. Analyze.

There is also feedback and processing of instant chat messages.

Otherwise, the answer you give will easily make it obvious that this is not a real person.

Computers cannot think like humans. For them, language is logical processing, but for humans, language itself contains too much information. In addition to solving problems, it is also the transmission of emotions.

"That's the kind of boss he is."

Liu Guangran scrolled through his phone, looking for relevant documents.

The relevant content has been prepared before today's meeting, so it is easier to talk about it.

"I have good news for you. We have solved the bridge problem." Liu Guangran nodded seriously.

"Wow, is it true? So fast?" Cao Yang was a little overjoyed.

This answer really exceeded his expectations.

Because according to Cao Yang's idea, it would be quite good to be able to produce results within 5 years. He did not expect that the bridge issue could produce results in such a short time.

"Complete is complete." Liu Guangran touched his bald head and said with some embarrassment, "That is to say, it has reached the standard you set originally, that real people cannot tell whether the other person is a real person or an AI. We have found a total of 1,464 people. Players come to test.

By last month, the recognition rate was almost zero.

Many people think that their opponents are real people online, and there are even cases where people directly criticize others because they play cards too badly. "

"Uh..." Cao Yang stared at him in confusion, not quite understanding the shyness on Liu Guangran's face, "So?"

"But in high-end poker games, that is to say, in terms of optimal solutions, there are still some shortcomings," Liu Guangran laughed awkwardly, "But this is also in line with the characteristics of real people. No one will never make mistakes, precisely because there are Some small flaws make our bridge AI look more like a real person.”

"But you don't look like a bridge player, do you?"

Cao Yang rolled his eyes.

I finally understood what Liu Guangran meant.

The current bridge AI can achieve real-person strategies, but it cannot achieve optimal strategies. In other words, in the eyes of players, this is a real-person player with [limited IQ].

Occasionally he makes mistakes, his card counting is not always accurate, and his coordination is somewhat lacking, but he is still a good person.

There are times when you play well, and there are times when you play poorly.

This is probably true human nature...

Cao Yang felt a little uncomfortable.

Bridge is made like this, so isn't Go...?

"The progress in Go is going smoothly," Liu Guangran said with a smile. "The Bomi Go Master version 4.18 we have developed now can already beat professional five-dan players."

"Huh?! Is it true?" Cao Yang couldn't believe what Liu Guangran said.

"But some strategies may need to be modified." Liu Guangran said, "Our previous algorithm, the AI ​​​​learns and plays chess on its own, there will be some small flaws. It has been improved several times and the effect seems to be good. I think more changes will be made. After a few times, you should be able to compete with a professional ninth-dan chess player.”

Although there is a certain gap between professional fifth-dan and professional ninth-dan, this gap is no longer very obvious.

Because in the Go world, it is not impossible to beat a ninth-dan player at the fifth-dan level.

It's just that some 9th-dan players who have been famous for a long time are more sophisticated in experience and handling, and some talented players can maintain a greater chance of winning.

So if the current [Bomi Go Master] can play five levels, he is indeed not far away from winning nine levels.

"What's the reason for this?" Cao Yang suddenly felt a little funny, "Bridge should have less changes than Go. There are only so many cards and combinations in total. Why is it that Go progresses more smoothly?"

Liu Guangran felt a little ashamed.

I originally thought that the boss had a better idea when he raised these topics, but I didn't expect that he would have to explain the reasons in the end.

"The number of bridge cards actually changes a lot. Players can choose a total of 8, 12, or 16 decks of cards to play. There are much more people playing bridge than Go. It is a four-player strategy game.

This complexity is higher than the 1v1 of Go.

When we play Go, we only need to consider the before and after. In bridge, we need to consider the relationship between opponents and partners. These are all different. "

Oh, Cao Yang finally understood after hearing this.

Therefore, it is the simplest for AI to implement a 1v1 strategy. The complexity of chess is far lower than that of Go, so it was quickly broken through. The reason why Google chose to implement Go is mainly because it is relatively easier and more enjoyable to watch. and effect.

It can maximize the topicality and enhance the company's reputation.

"No wonder…"

Cao Yang touched his chin. It seemed that he was still too young and his knowledge of AI was limited.

In fact, at this level, although the complexity of Go has increased, it is mainly reflected in the strategy after each move. In the later stages, the space for change becomes smaller and the easier it is to calculate.

And they are all based on the method of simulating massive data and deep learning to find the optimal solution. Therefore, after the study of Go, it will be more effective for the company to conduct accurate analysis and delivery of big data.

"This is a good thing," Cao Yang couldn't help but smile knowingly, "Then when can we beat the ninth-dan players?"

"It depends on the situation." Liu Guangran said, "After all, a game of Go lasts a long time, and we have to make an appointment with the players in advance before we can do the test. The test cycle is once a month.

According to my personal judgment, there should be no problem by this time next year. "

Wow.

When Cao Yang heard this, his heart was filled with excitement.

If Liu Guangran's judgment is correct, then Bomi's Go master will definitely cause a sensation in the world when he comes out next year.

I feel extremely excited when I think about it. In this world, the first company to create an AI that can defeat Lee Sedol is actually Bomi.

And it will definitely be Bomi.

Cao Yang was looking forward to that day coming soon.

"The progress of the remaining topic is still relatively slow." Liu Guangran said sheepishly, "AI's understanding of language, even if it is given a very standard sentence that conforms to Chinese grammar, it will still make errors when parsing it. .

It's possible that if you say some more complex sentences to her, the AI's response will be wrong.

This topic is really difficult for us at present, and it will probably take a lot of time. Liu Guangran said.

"Well, it's okay, keep doing it."

This was also what Cao Yang expected. If it were really that easy to simulate real-person chatting, the past life would have come out long ago.

However, according to the news, in 2021, it seems that a professor abroad can already use AI to simulate her conversations with students and assign homework.

It's not that it can't be done, but this development does require a process.

Cao Yang is still very optimistic about his team.

Bomi Company is not short of money, so just invest slowly.

… (End of this chapter)

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