If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools. Research on artificial intelligence requires the purchase of supercomputers. Supercomputers have strong computing and data processing capabilities, which are naturally more effective for researching artificial intelligence.
So, Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin came to Sun Microsystems.
The company's CEO, Dr. Jim Clark, took Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin to the Cray Research Laboratory.
After coming here, Li Zetian first saw a room of machines, which looked like silver sailboats, very cool, covering less than 15 square meters and weighing no more than 12 tons. It looked like a work of art!
Seymour Clay came up at this time.
"Mr. Li, hello!"
"Well, hello, Clay, how is the development of a new generation of supercomputers?" Li Zetian asked.
"Mr. Li, as you can see, this is it!!!" Seymour Clay said proudly, pointing to the pile of machines in front of him.
Dr. Jim Clark said with a smile, "Based on the 'Cray-1' supercomputer, the Cray Research Laboratory has successfully developed a new generation of supercomputers with a computing speed of up to 1.2 billion times per second, which is amazing. Compared to the Cray-1 computer, it is equivalent to 5 times!"
Cray-1 is a very good supercomputer on the current market, with a world-renowned reputation and the largest market share. When it was just released in 1975, it crushed the IBM 370 supercomputer by more than 40 times. Neither of them were products of the same era! ! !
Now in 1983, despite the rapid development of supercomputers, supercomputers that can operate at a speed of more than 500 million per second are rare.
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 this era. He was really surprised to hear such a fast speed. Of course, it is naturally incomparable with the supercomputers of the previous life, and maybe even an ordinary home computer. The speed of 1.2 billion operations per second is roughly equivalent to the level of the iPhone 4 smartphone launched by Apple in 2010.
"Cray, 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 of 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, expressing understanding.
Generally speaking, the more processors a supercomputer has, the more powerful it is. But it's not that you can add as many processors as you want to a supercomputer, there are technical limitations. Otherwise, just relying on stacking processors, wouldn't the supercomputers in many countries be very good? In fact, only a few countries and companies can do 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 brand new beginning after Cray Research Laboratory joined Sun Microsystems!"
Jim Clark and Seymour Clay both nodded.
Li Zetian pondered for a while, and then said: "The name is "Solar Storm", it symbolizes that the supercomputer's ability is as shocking as the solar storm!!!"
Jim Clark said with a smile: "Well, the name is good, it has the sun, and it fits well with the brand of Sun Microsystems! By the way, Mr. Li, I heard that the Evolver Robotics Company is going to build an artificial intelligence laboratory, you this time Come, are you going to buy a supercomputer?"
"Yes, that's right. With supercomputers, artificial intelligence research and development can do more with less!" Li Zetian paused and asked, "How long does it take to produce a solar storm supercomputer?"
Seymour Clay replied: "It may be slower at the beginning, about half a month..."
"What's the cost?"
"Around $7 million!" said Seymour Clay.
"If it's $7 million, the price will be $10 million!" After speaking, Li Zetian looked at the two of them and asked, "What do you think of this price?"
"$3 million for a machine, very fitting!" Seymour Clay nodded.
"IBM's supercomputer is more than $10 million, but it can't match the performance of the 'Solar Storm'. I think the 'Solar Storm' computer can be sold even for $12 million!" 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 cheaper than it
"Well, then according to what Dr. Clark said, the price of each unit is 12 million US dollars!" Li Zetian said, "The Evolution Robot Company needs to purchase 3 'Solar Storm' supercomputers! One is placed in the United States, and one is placed in the United States. London, UK, and 1 more... in Hong Kong!"
"Okay!" Seymour Clay nodded.
After explaining this matter, Li Zetian left the Cray Research Laboratory and, under the guidance of Jim Clark, inspected the company and learned more about the situation of Sun Microsystems.
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At present, the "Solar Storm" supercomputer has not been released to the public, so the outside world does not know about it. Of course, good things are first provided for their own use, and then sold to the outside world. The products circulating on the market are often products made by second-class technology, and first-class products are all in the laboratory.
In addition to computer science, artificial intelligence research 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 many expensive things to buy, and hiring talents with high salaries is also a huge human cost expense. The evolutionary robot company's funds are obviously not enough, Li Zetian then announced to inject 1 billion US dollars into the evolutionary robot company, and strive to build the world's most advanced artificial intelligence laboratory.
The shares of Joseph Engelberg and others couldn't help being diluted.
There is a saying, "It's easy to get on the boat, but it's hard to get off the boat!" It's too late for them to regret it. Now they are on the same boat as Li Zetian. Only when they grow the Evolution Robot Company together will their shares be valuable.
At this moment, the three people sitting in front of Li Zetian are the initiator of the Dartmouth Conference, the "father of artificial intelligence" John McCarthy, Alan Newell, and Seymour Papert.
Li Zetian said with a smile: "At the beginning of the establishment of the 'Umbrella Artificial Intelligence Laboratory', top talents were urgently needed to join. I am really happy that you three famous predecessors in the artificial intelligence field can join!!!"
The three people in front of them are the winners of the highest honor in computing, the Turing Award, the great god among the great gods. Almost all the top AI talents in the world are their students, and conquering three of them is equivalent to conquering a group of AI research talents.
In fact, Li Zetian also invited two founders of artificial intelligence, Herbert Simon and Marvin Minsky. But they were rejected.
Herbert Simon refused Li Zetian's invitation on the grounds that he was too old. Indeed, he was 67 years old, and he was indeed a little old. However, he said his students were interested in the Umbrella AI Lab. Li Zetian thought about it for a while, but he still didn't embarrass the old man.
And Marvin Minsky was actually as young as John McCarthy, only in his fifties. Li Zetian invited him several times, but he was rejected. Marvin Minsky was one of the first experts in the world to work 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 himself founded a company called Thinking es in 1982.
Thinking es (Thinking Machines) is the world's first truly commercial artificial intelligence company and has won a multi-million dollar order from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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With the news that Li Zetian injected 1 billion US dollars into the Evolution Robot Company, it caused a sensation all over the world!
Obviously, for artificial intelligence researchers all over the world, the laboratory established by Li Zetian has become a place they yearn for, and many people take the initiative to apply for jobs without him even poaching people.
And there are three authoritative figures in the field of artificial intelligence sitting, which naturally attracts a large number of talents.
At this moment, because of Li Zetian's actions, the whole world has set off a frenzy of artificial intelligence development, and it has begun to grow savagely! Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Soviet Union, and even China have joined the artificial intelligence research and development competition, and no one is far 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 previous lives are advanced. Li Zetian knows a lot about the algorithms and theories of AlphaGo, such as the deep learning algorithm used by Google's AlphaGo. Although he doesn't know much about it, the research direction is the most important. It's like opening a door, which is full of wonderful The world is waiting for you to conquer.
PS: . . . . I may not be able to update the fourth update today. How much I owe today will be made up tomorrow.