Chapter 239 Umbrella Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. To study artificial intelligence, you need to purchase a supercomputer. Supercomputers have strong computing and data processing capabilities, so they can naturally get twice the result with half the effort when studying artificial intelligence.

So, Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin came to Sun Microsystems.

Company CEO Dr. Jim Clark took Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin to Clay Research Laboratory.

After arriving here, Li Zetian first saw a room full of machines, which looked like silver sailboats. They were very cool. They covered an area of ​​less than 15 square meters and weighed no more than 12 tons. They looked like works of art!

Seymour Clay came forward.

"Hello Mr. Li!"

"Well, hello, Clay, how is the development of the new generation of supercomputers going?" Li Zetian asked.

"Mr. Li, as you can see, this is it!!!" Seymour Clay pointed at the pile of machines in front of him and said proudly.

Dr. Jim Clark said with a smile, "Cray Research Laboratory has successfully developed a new generation of supercomputers based on the 'Cray-1' supercomputer, with a computing speed of up to 1.2 billion operations per second, which is very amazing. Compared with the Cray-1 computer, it is equivalent to 5 times!"

Cray-1 is an excellent supercomputer currently on the market. It is world-renowned and has the largest market share. When it was first released in 1975, it crushed the IBM 370 supercomputer by more than 40 times. Both were simply not products of the same era! ! !

Now in 1983, despite the rapid development of supercomputers, there are very few supercomputers that can operate at a speed exceeding 500 million per second. As for supercomputers that exceed 1 billion per second, they have not yet been born.

A look of shock flashed across Li Zetian's face. After so many years, he has become accustomed to the snail-like computing speed of computers in this era. He was really surprised to hear such a fast speed. Of course, it is incomparable to the supercomputers of previous generations, and may not even be comparable to an ordinary home computer. The computing speed of 1.2 billion operations per second is roughly equivalent to the level of the iPhone 4 smartphone launched by Apple in 2010.

"Clay, you did a good job!" Li Zetian gave a thumbs up and praised.

Seymour Clay said: "The reason why the new generation of supercomputers can have such excellent computing power is because it uses the high-performance processor ARM1.0 developed by ARM." He pointed to the pile of machines in front of him and said, " This supercomputer has 4,500 computing cores, and each computing core has two ARM1.0 processors!"

Li Zetian nodded to express understanding.

Generally speaking, the more processors a supercomputer has, the more powerful its computing power is. But it does not mean that supercomputers can add as many processors as they want. There are technical limitations. Otherwise, wouldn't supercomputers in many countries be very good just by stacking processors? In fact, only a few countries and companies can produce supercomputers!

Dr. Jim Clark said: "Mr. Li, should the new supercomputer be named "Cray-2", or should it be renamed?"

Li Zetian thought for a while and said, "Rename it. It marks a new beginning for Cray Research Laboratory after joining Sun Microsystems!"

Jim Clark and Seymour Clay both nodded.

Li Zetian thought for a while, and then said: "The name is "Solar Storm", which symbolizes that the power of super computers is as shocking as a solar storm!!!"

Jim Clark said with a smile: "Well, the name is good, it has the sun, and it fits well with the Sun Microsystems brand! By the way, Mr. Li, I heard that Evolution Robot Company is going to establish an artificial intelligence laboratory. What will you do this time? Come on, do you want to buy a supercomputer?”

"Yes, that's right. With supercomputers, artificial intelligence research and development can get twice the result with half the effort!" Li Zetian paused and asked, "How long does it take to produce a solar storm supercomputer?"

Seymour Clay replied: "It may take a little slower at the beginning, about half a month..."

"What's the cost?"

"About $7 million!" Seymour Clay said.

"If it's US$7 million, the price will be US$10 million!" After speaking, Li Zetian looked at the two of them and asked, "What do you think of this price?"

"A machine can earn US$3 million, which is very appropriate!" Seymour Clay nodded.

"IBM's supercomputer costs more than 10 million U.S. dollars, but its performance cannot be compared with that of Solar Storm. I think the Solar Storm computer can be sold even for 12 million U.S. dollars!" Dr. Jim Clark said.

Li Zetian thought about it and felt that what Dr. Jim Clark said made sense. IBM's supercomputers are sold for more than 10 million US dollars. Why is the 'Solar Storm' supercomputer sold cheaper than it?

"Well, according to what Dr. Clark said, each unit will cost US$12 million!" Li Zetian said, "Evolution Robot Company needs to purchase 3 'Solar Storm' supercomputers! One in the United States and one in There is another one in London, England... placed in Hong Kong!"

"Okay!" Seymour Clay nodded.

After explaining this matter, Li Zetian left Clay Research Laboratory. Under the leadership of Jim Clark, he inspected the company to learn more about Sun Microsystems.

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At present, the "Solar Storm" supercomputer has not been released to the outside world, so the outside world does not know about it. Of course, good things should be provided for your own use first, and then sold to others. Products circulating on the market are often products made with second-rate technology, while first-rate products are produced in laboratories.

In addition to computer science, the research of artificial intelligence also involves information theory, cybernetics, automation, bionics, biology, psychology, mathematical logic, linguistics, medicine and philosophy. The main contents of the research include: knowledge representation , automatic reasoning and search methods, machine learning and knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing systems, natural language understanding, computer vision, intelligent robots, automatic programming, etc.

Therefore, the development of artificial intelligence is not easy, and there is still a long way to go in the future.

To develop artificial intelligence, in addition to purchasing supercomputers, there are also many expensive things to buy, and hiring talents with high salaries is also a huge labor cost. The funds of Evolution Robot Company were obviously not enough. Li Zetian subsequently announced that he would inject US$1 billion into Evolution Robot Company in an effort to build the most advanced artificial intelligence laboratory in the world.

The shares of Joseph Engelberg and others could not help but be diluted.

There is a saying that "it's easy to get on board, but it's hard to get off!" It's too late for them to regret now. Now they are in the same boat as Li Zetian. Only by growing the Evolver Robot Company together can their shares be valuable.

At this moment, the three people sitting in front of Li Zetian are John McCarthy, Allen Newell, and Seymour Papert, the initiator of the Dartmouth Conference and the "father of artificial intelligence."

Li Zetian said with a smile: "When the 'Umbrella Artificial Intelligence Laboratory' was first established, it was in urgent need of top talents to join. I am really happy that you three famous seniors in the artificial intelligence industry can join!!!"

The three people in front of me are all winners of the Turing Award, the highest honor in computing. They are great gods among the great gods. They are over fifty years old and have great talents all over the world! Almost all the top artificial intelligence talents in the world are their students. Conquering three of them is equivalent to conquering a group of artificial intelligence research talents.

In fact, Li Zetian also invited two founders of artificial intelligence, Herbert Simon and Marvin Minsky. However, they rejected it.

Herbert Simon refused Li Zetian's invitation on the grounds that he was too old. Indeed, he was 67 years old and was indeed a bit old. However, he said his students are interested in the Umbrella AI Lab. Li Zetian thought about it and decided not to embarrass the old man.

Marvin Minsky was actually as young as John McCarthy, only in his fifties. Li Zetian invited him several times, but he was always rejected. Marvin Minsky was one of the first experts in the world to conduct research on artificial neural networks, a key technology in the field of deep learning. The reason why he refused Li Zetian's invitation was probably because he founded a company called Thinking Machines in 1982.

Thinking Machines is the world's first truly commercialized artificial intelligence company and has received a multi-million-dollar order from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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With the news that Li Zetian injected US$1 billion into Evolution Robot Company, it can't help but cause a sensation all over the world!

Obviously, for artificial intelligence researchers around the world, the laboratory established by Li Zetian has become a place they all yearn for. He doesn't even need to recruit people, and many people take the initiative to apply for jobs.

There are also three authorities in the field of artificial intelligence, which naturally attracts a large number of talents.

At this moment, because of Li Zetian's actions, the whole world has set off a craze for the development of artificial intelligence, and it has begun to grow wildly! Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Soviet Union, and even China have joined this artificial intelligence research and development competition, and no one is willing to lag behind.

Li Zetian has actually been studying artificial intelligence for a long time. Looking at the current artificial intelligence and his understanding of artificial intelligence from the perspective of his previous life in 2016, he is obviously more powerful than the current father of artificial intelligence, and many of his previous lives are advanced. Li Zetian knows a lot about algorithms and theories, such as the deep learning algorithm used by Google's AlphaGo. Although he doesn't know much, the research direction is the most important. It's like opening a door with exciting things inside. The world is waiting for you to conquer.

PS:. . . . I may not be able to update the fourth update today. Whatever I owe today, I will make up for it tomorrow.