Chapter 383

On Wednesday morning.

A van stopped at the door of cloud dream technology.

Yang Yuan, who came all the way from Shanghai with his photographer and interview equipment, jumped out of the car. Looking at the Research Institute in the corner of the high-tech park, there was an unexpected expression in his eyes.

When most people talk about Yunmeng group, they mostly think of the Yunmeng building located by the river. Few people will remember this Internet enterprise and such a low-key and mysterious Research Institute hidden in the corner of the high-tech park in the east of Jiangcheng.

"Is this the Institute of cloud dream technology?"

After he got out of the car, Wang Hongsheng wiped the sweat on his forehead and said.

"Yes, and listening and speaking is still a hot brain computer interface technology."

Yang Yuan nodded thoughtfully, picked up the camera hanging around his neck, and took a picture of the front door and the main building of the Research Institute, intending to keep it as material.

At this time, he suddenly noticed a familiar face standing at the door of the Research Institute.

At a glance, he recognized the identity of the man. Yang Yuan's face showed a smile, put down his camera, and across the distance, he stretched out his right hand and walked towards the man.

"Hello! I'm Yang Yuan, editor in chief of renlian information industry daily! Thanks for Hao always taking time out of his busy schedule to accept our interview. "

Holding editor Yang's hand, Hao Yun said with a friendly smile.

"Editor in chief Yang is the one who came all the way from Shanghai. It must have been a hard journey."

Yang Yuan said with a hearty smile.

"That's what we do. We've been used to the rhythm of life for a long time."

A greeting.

After Hao Yun, a group of people from the newspaper office walked into the mysterious Brain Computer Interface Research Institute and came to a computer room deep in the corridor on the first floor.

"Is this the server room of world of Warcraft?" Looking at the rows of blade shaped chassis displayed on the server rack, Yang Yuan's face was surprised.

"Yes." Hao Yun nodded, looked at the server in front of him, and continued with a smile, "Azeroth world is here. At present, there are 60000 players playing games in the server."

"It's hard to believe that 60000 players need so many servers." Yang Yuan couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Of course, these servers are not just for the 60000 players, but for the AI systems running on the servers."

"Artificial intelligence system?"

"That's right," Hao Yun continued, nodding at Yang Yuan's surprised face

"Before, I forgot to explain that the Azeroth world that players see now is not completely designed by the staff of our world of Warcraft project team. Compared with designing the content of the game itself, the biggest role played by our staff is actually to design the framework of the whole game. "

Yang Yuan's face was slightly moved.

"You mean... World of Warcraft is a collaboration of AI and human? And those missions and NPCs are masterpieces of AI? "

Hao Yun nodded.

"Yes."

"And more than that, so far, all the interaction between NPC and players in the game, and even the operation of the game world itself, are maintained by the artificial intelligence system running on these servers."

There was silence in the computer room for a while, only the whine of the chassis.

For a long time, Yang Yuancai recovered from his surprise, but the incredible expression on his face did not change.

The Adam's Apple moved and he squeezed a word out of his throat.

"It's not possible."

Games designed and run by AI?

How could that be!

Although technically speaking, this is not impossible, but this kind of thing happened in a hot game, it is beyond his imagination.

It's like AI writing.

To be able to write is certainly to be able to write, and to be able to achieve the basic fluency of logic and sentences. However, it is basically impossible to write a famous book or a best seller.

The reason is very simple. AI is AI after all. Although it can imitate human behavior, it can't have human feelings. The core of the logic of a best-selling work is to have a spiritual resonance with readers.

No matter where the resonance takes place in the spirit

But at least it has to exist!

How can an AI without emotion understand the human spiritual world.

Yang Yuan can't believe that this is what the current AI technology can do.

Hao Yun doesn't know how to explain this to him. He can't say that he took a card from the system and stuffed it on the server chassis, so it's what it is now, right?

Although it's true and true

With a slight cough, Hao Yun said.

"I know it's hard for you to accept, but it's true. Of course, I'm afraid you won't believe that. So on this point, I suggest that you download the world of Warcraft client after you go back, log in to the game and feel for yourself. "

"I'll feel it." Yang Yuan nodded, looked at the servers in front of him, sighed and said, "but really, if the AI technology you designed is really so magical, I can understand why you have set up so many servers and have to build the Supercomputing Center."

The more intelligent the program is, the more huge computing power is needed as support.

Yang Yuan can't figure out what kind of intelligent system this is, but I'm afraid that the computing power consumed by this system can only be satisfied by super computing level hardware.

It's just

He couldn't imagine why it was necessary to do so.

Before he came here, he had a detailed understanding of Yunmeng group. From pig raising to bike sharing, to hotels, to games, even movies and toys, the company has done almost every business that makes money.

If it's just to make money, is it really necessary to do so?

From the perspective of return on assets alone, this game is far from being compared with tribal conflicts, love and producers, even with its own "ancestor" Warcraft.

As if seeing through the doubts on his face, Hao Yun stopped for a moment and continued.

"Your conjecture is correct. In fact, even for Supercomputing hardware, we don't have absolute confidence to satisfy its growing appetite all the time. With the operation of the game, in theory, it will become more and more intelligent. Until the end, the players can't tell who is the player and who is the NPC in the game - if we don't specify it

"That sounds interesting... But is it really necessary to do that for a game?"

"On the surface, it's a bit of a fuss, but in fact, about this AI system... We're not really designed for world of Warcraft."

"... is that for?"

Looking at the surprised Yang Yuan, Hao Yun continued.

"This involves a key project being studied by our brain computer interface research institute."

Yang Yuan asked in a hurry.

"Is it convenient to disclose?"

"It's not inconvenient. It's all public things," Hao Yun continued with a faint smile. "It's not a simple plug to completely connect the spirit with the Internet. In addition to the BCI itself, we are also studying how to connect our consciousness directly to the digital world. "

Yang Yuan opened his mouth and said.

"... it sounds like a science fiction movie."

Hao Yun said jokingly.

"What we're doing now, for us 50 years ago, isn't it just a science fiction movie? Someone has to take this step, or what's the use of making so much money? "

In fact, this is not Hao Yun's Versailles, but the most real thought in his heart at the moment.

If it's just for money, he has made money that he can't spend all his life. As for fame, he is not interested in it. On the contrary, he is too famous now, which makes him feel uncomfortable when he is used to making a fortune.

However, the casual answer failed to answer all the doubts in Yang Yuan's mind.

"So... What's the relationship between the neural network and the intelligent system running on the world of Warcraft server?"

"Of course it does."

Looking at Yang Yuan whose face is still full of confusion, Hao Yunyan said simply and comprehensively.

"The intelligent system running on the world of Warcraft server is actually the same thing as the core system of the neural network we are studying."

"Or --"

"The former is the rudiment of the latter!"