I Became a Genius Engineer - I Became a Genius Engineer chapter 85

Artificial Intelligence Developer Cheolwoo Lee (9)

Google planned this event for 5 days. One major country per day, a total of 5 major countries. I heard it doesn’t matter if you win or lose.

And that first match began.

“No, Cheolwoo oppa. Our lab also made artificial intelligence harvesting robots. But Google was also making artificial intelligence.”

Hyejeong said.

“Actually, Minseok and I knew.”

“……. Eh? Really?”

“huh.”

“hehehe, that’s it. Wow, I think it’s great.”

“Which one?”

“Hmm, what should I say? Should I say that modern technology is great? I don’t know much about Go, but um… Even if I just thought about it simply, it seemed like there would be too many cases? How can a computer win?”

“That’s right, it should be said that it is a new technology, but it was a difficult problem without an algorithm.”

In fact, the number of cases that go into Baduk was comparable to being called infinite.

In contrast, board games such as chess and chess have already been dethroned by computers a long time ago.

“So, it’s amazing. After all, wouldn’t it be possible for us to travel in space when we grow old and become grandparents?”

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“Ha ha ha ha. Grandpa or grandma? Maybe not? My uncle or aunt would be enough?”

I didn’t know what the age standards for grandpa and grandma were, but they were in their 40s and 50s. I thought it would be possible even after about 20 to 30 years.

at the current rate of technological advancement.

“is that so?”

“I think so.”

While we were talking about this and that, the match began.

– The game started with AlphaGo’s first move. Will Google’s artificial intelligence AlphaGo be able to surpass Lee Soo-dol’s 9th Dan?

The person running the game seems to think that a computer cannot beat a professional Go player.

The match continued to progress.

-Suro Lee Soo-dol, 9th Dan, just got the win.

In the midst of that, I heard the words of an unexpected commentator.

“Ee-ing? Lee Soo-dol is said to win?”

“Ummm. Is that so?”

This was an unexpected result. Of course, I thought that Google’s AlphaGo would win… … .

“No, I don’t know yet. How it will be.”

suddenly got interesting.

Continuing on, the great country progressed. And after a while, even though we didn’t know anything about Go, we knew that the game was over.

– Google’s AlphaGo threw a stone. It is Lee Soo-dol’s 9-dan victory.

… … . Is this a bit surprising? Google’s AlphaGo lost, and Lee Soo-dol, 9th Dan, won.

Me, Minseok, and even Changsoo had a slightly dumbfounded face.

“Wow! As expected, humans are great. Still, it wasn’t something that computers could touch. Baduk.”

Breaking the silence, Hyejeong spoke.

“…… Huh? It’s so different from what I expected?”

“So…? What would happen to us if we did this? Of course we expected to win.”

What kind of English is it?

* * *

After the first match between 9-dan Lee Soo-dol and AlphaGo, Google’s artificial intelligence development room was in an emergency.

“Director Fail! How did this happen! Don’t you say you can beat a professional Go player?”

The result was so different from what he expected, Martin said angrily.

“…… We are also confused. We learned more than 10 million notation data.”

“Shouldn’t you have tested it privately?”

“Of course I did. I hired a professional Go player under the condition of confidentiality.”

“I did?”

“At that time, AlphaGo won the game.”

“… Then what the hell happened?”

“I don’t know. First of all, let’s review the contents of the match.”

He turned on the AlphaGo system and started playing the match.

“112 moves. Up to this point, the win rate was 50:50. And as soon as Lee Soo-dol placed the stone, AlphaGo’s win rate dropped to 30%.”

“…”

“Anyway, it seems that Lee Soo-dol’s ability is much greater than we thought.”

For a while, Martin and Pale Johnson were silent.

“Then, what will happen if the game continues like this?”

“Probably, the game will end with AlphaGo’s defeat.”

“…”

Hearing that, Martin thought.

‘I just can’t have that result.’

By giving away the first win already, AlphaGo’s prestige was greatly diminished. Let alone trying to show off Google’s technological prowess, I thought that if AlphaGo lost, it could tarnish its corporate image.

If it’s like this now, the only thing I can’t do is not seem to be able to do it.

“No, why do you think this result came out?”

“Manager Martin. First of all, it’s big that the time has moved forward by half a year.”

“……You said it was possible, right?”

“Yes. But what did I say? I said that there was not enough training time. The current result is the result of the lack of training time. I didn’t even do any reinforcement learning,”

“Reinforcement learning?”

“Yes. While AlphaGo and AlphaGo play against each other, they create new notation data and learn it again. Infinite learning becomes possible. However, due to time constraints, we couldn’t do it.”

There was a good reason why AlphaGo lost.

First of all, as it was half a year ahead of the scheduled time, learning was not as good as previously planned. Reinforcement learning didn’t work.

“…”

“And when I said I was using the NF network, you said no? If only the throughput of the NF network was available, this result wouldn’t have come out.”

Pale Johnson, who developed AlphaGo, thought that Martin was to some extent responsible for the incident. And that was not in any way wrong.

Because artificial intelligence learning through NF network was reluctant for various reasons.

First, Martin was reluctant to borrow the power of the NF network, which he would become his enemy in the future. It was the same with Martin’s superiors.

And I thought it would be a leak of information if I used the NF network. Because the AlphaGo they were making was a top secret.

In addition, they thought that learning was possible only with their own supercomputer. Of course, this is the responsibility of the fail director.

“Who is responsible is not important now. What is important now is how can AlphaGo win?”

Still, they weren’t talking about avoiding responsibility. I first found a way to make AlphaGo win in the next match.

Because it was the first thing to solve the current problem.

“…… There is one way. Please give permission to use the NF network right now. Then, with the tremendous computational power of the NF network, reinforcement learning will be completed in no time.”

The very next day, they had to beat Lee Soo-dol, but they didn’t have time. And it was the NF network that could solve that time.

“Okay. I’ll approve.”

Martin was reluctant, but he had no choice. It was better to use the NF network than to lose Google’s image by defeating AlphaGo as it is.

“I’ll start working on it right away. You’ll see a changed AlphaGo in the game tomorrow.”

“Does that change when you use the NF network?”

“Yes. If you pay only NF to the NF network, there are many places where you can lend your computing power. It’s almost infinite.”

“……I understand. Anyway, please suffer.”

In order to keep the NF Network in check, the event was moved forward, but in the end it became an ironic situation to receive help from the NF Network.

* * *

The night the match ended. We, who had been together for a long time, were having a drink.

“Hey, I never dreamed that AlphaGo would lose.”

Changsoo said.

“I mean, I mean. I don’t know what the hell those Google guys are thinking.”

Minseok said.

“If you look at it, isn’t it just a lack of technology?

“Is that so? hahahahaha. Anyway, Google guys are nothing.”

Tiri-ring- Tiri-ring-

While we were talking about this and that, someone’s phone rang.

“Sorry, what’s going on with Team Leader Cho Hyuk at this time? I’ll take a call and come back.”

“huh.”

It was Changsoo’s cell phone. It seems that the call is related to the NF network.

After a while, Chang-soo received a phone call and the expression on his face did not look good.

“Why? What’s going on with the NF Foundation? You don’t look good.”

“It doesn’t seem like a big deal, but…”

“What?”

“I just got a call from Team Manager Hyuk Cho, and now the NF network usage is reaching almost 100%.”

“100%?”

What is the computing power of the NF network? It now equals the total computing power used by developing countries.

However, using 100% of that computing power was really rare.

“…… Uh, the network seems to be slowing down.”

“Who the hell is that? Using that much computing power?”

“That’s technically impossible.”

“I know, but I was afraid there might be a place to guess. If you’re going to use that much computational power, you should have a lot of NF.”

In fact, using 100% of the NF network computing power was consuming that much NF.

And to own and hold that amount of NF, you must have a huge amount of capital.

“If you use 100% of the NF network, how much will it cost per hour?”

While Changsu and I were talking, Minseok said.

“Hmm, I don’t know the exact figure, but as a rough estimate, I think it would use around 100,000 NF per hour.”

The market price of NF was roughly 10,000 won per 1.

If 100,000 NF is converted into Korean currency, it is about 1 billion won. It took 1 billion won an hour to use the entire NF network.

“Heh heh…… How many places can you pay 1 billion won per hour? So you say you’re still using it?”

“Yeah. If the usage decreases, I asked them to call me back.”

“Hmm…”

“If you use 100%, are there any other problems?”

“Well, there is a problem that the processing becomes a bit slow due to the large amount of traffic…”

“Tell me a little easier.”

“The point is that all programs based on the NF network are lagging.”

“Huh, there’s a problem.”

“It’s just a minor problem. If you continue to use it 100% like this, the price of NF will go up tremendously. And the person who uses it will end up running out of money and going bankrupt.”

100% use of the NF network meant that there was a lot of demand, and that was the same as saying that the price of NF went up.

Instead, when demand was low, the price of NF was lowered.

“Hmm…. I don’t think it’s time for us to play like this.”

I’ll have to find out for myself what happened.