With five minutes left before the meeting, Ilya and Alex put away the paper cups that the guests had just used and chatted while tidying up.

"Hope they can be on time," Alex murmured.

Irya yawned: "If they were late, I think this cooperation would be ruined."

The two of them smiled as they spoke.

Others may not know much about Professor Hinton's temper, but these two students know too much, and sometimes they are so old-fashioned that it is unimaginable.

They have been following Hinton for so many years and have been late, but as long as they are late, they never want to have a second... I really don't want to recall that kind of experience at all.

Time passed minute by minute, and as the time of the agreed meeting was getting closer and closer, there was no movement outside.

Irya frowned and said, "It seems that the people of Qiandu are going to be late..."

Alex spread his hands and said, "Maybe we need to prepare for the afternoon meeting in advance..."

At this moment, footsteps sounded outside the door, and stopped from far to near.

"Dongdongdongdongdong", the knock on the door sounded.

Irya and Alex subconsciously looked at the wall clock together, and the second hand was pointed at the ten-thirty-minute position, not bad for a second!

The door opened, and outside the door stood the three representatives who came to negotiate with Hinton this time.

Qiandu represents Yu Kai, and is also an old acquaintance of Professor Sington.

Facing an acquaintance, Professor Hinton Gu Jingbubo finally showed a rare smile on his face. He turned around with some difficulty, opened his arms and smiled: "Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Yu Kai walked over and gave Hinton a warm hug, but he didn't dare to use too much force to avoid any damage to his fragile lumbar spine: "Yes, the last time we met, it seemed to be in Toronto two years ago. How did you recently

Like, are you feeling better?”

Hinton smiled bitterly and said, "You know my situation very well, it has always been like this. As long as it doesn't worsen, I'm satisfied. It's a nightmare to come to Las Vegas from Toronto this time, and I doubt I can do it."

Go back alive.”

The two of them exchanged a few greetings, and Yu Kai said, "I will introduce my colleague to you. This is Mr. Li Rui of Xingrui Capital. The Ruidu Company we represent this time was founded by Qiandu and Xingrui.

A technology company aiming to develop artificial intelligence technology.”

Hinton said: "You are very welcome!"

Another representative was named Chen Lizhi. He had previously worked at Qiandu. After Ruidu was established, he served as the company's CEO. He was nominally the plenipotent representative of this negotiation, but in fact, Li Rui and Yu Kai made the decision.

After the two sides met, Ilya brought three paper cups, and Hinton said a little apologetically: "Sorry, we only have instant coffee here."

"It doesn't matter what coffee you drink." Yu Kai smiled, "Let's start right."

Alex said: "Please let me introduce the development situation first..."

"We all know that as early as the 1950s, some people proposed the concept of artificial intelligence, but due to technological limitations, there was no breakthrough. By the beginning of this century, most researchers gave up on this

Direction, and Professor Hinton is one of the few people who persevere.”

As soon as the show started, Alex flattered him a little.

Li Rui suddenly felt that this kid had a future.

"In 2006, the development of artificial intelligence had a turning point. This year, Professor Hinton published a paper "A fast learning algorithm for deep belief networks", believing that GPU can be used to accelerate training speed, and for each layer of network, first

Perform pre-training and then fine-tuning, so that the learning speed of the network will be greatly improved.”

"I was born in Wuguo and grew up in Maple Leaf. When I was studying for a master's degree, I read Professor Sinton's thesis and found it very interesting. After graduating from the master's degree, I didn't want to be a programmer so quickly, and I gave it to Sin with a try-making attitude.

Professor Dun sent an email hoping to follow him to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. At that time, I didn't expect that we could really do this." Alex said proudly.

These words were heard by others and did not respond much. After all, they are just a relatively basic neural network at present.

But in Li Rui's ears, he lamented that technological progress sometimes comes from luck, such as the apple that hit Newton, the kettle of Guidvat, and Alex, who doesn't want to be a programmer.

Although there is no apple, kettle or Alex, technology will also develop. Sooner or later, people will discover gravity, invent steam engines, and sooner or later, someone will develop real neural networks. But with these people and stories, human technology will move forward.

Progress continues.

Alex said: "At first, our research didn't make any breakthroughs, but then I realized one thing. In fact, we can use two things to successfully identify the objects in the picture: one is data, that is, a large number of pictures.

;The second is strong computing and processing capabilities.”

"In terms of computing processing capabilities, we chose the GPU model, which is really suitable for the calculation of convolutional neural networks, and can make it very fast and make training far exceeding the previous scale. In terms of data sets, Dr. Feifei Li and

The dataset jointly developed by Amazon has helped us a lot!”

At this time, Yu Kai interrupted: "Professor Li Feifei is the pride of Huaren."

Li Feifei is a female scientist from Huan and a world-renowned artificial intelligence expert. In 2009, she worked as an assistant professor at Stanford University. Suddenly, she thought that she seemed crazy at the time. She wanted to manually mark a large number of pictures.

Come and teach computers to identify various objects and break through the limitations that were previously limited to cars, planes, leopards and human faces.

For example, if the computer directly recognizes objects, it will be very difficult.

But if humans first mark the item and then tell the computer what it is, so that the computer can gain the ability to recognize objects, it will be much simpler.

But it just looks simple. In fact, this is a very huge project. There are more than one hundred million items in the world. It takes a lot of time, energy and money to mark them all. At that time, many people thought that Li Feifei's idea was just

Whimsical, she did not apply.

Li Feifei did not give up on her idea. She even wanted to open a laundry and use the money she earned to support her idea.

God lives up to the hard work. After Amazon learned about Li Feifei's idea, it provided funding and helped her find people to mark their avatars through crowdsourcing on the Internet. It is said that hundreds of thousands of people from more than 100 countries participated.

This project took only one year to complete the picture annotation. This is a famous project and an important milestone event for big data and artificial intelligence!
Chapter completed!