"Have you ever communicated?" Hinton became interested. He was full of curiosity about this mysterious Dream team. "If it can be confirmed, no, you should take the initiative to contact him and see if this Meng is the Meng in the Dream team."
"It would be very beneficial to our situation if we could contact them in advance."
Nowadays, major technology companies have begun to gradually deploy AI-related industries. My team joined Google at the beginning of the year, and Likun, another AI giant with the same status as myself, recently heard that it plans to join Facebook.
The battle for AI talent seems to be intensifying. Hinton, who is now one of the main leaders of Google's AI direction, is naturally unwilling to lag behind others in this matter.
"If we can negotiate the terms of cooperation with him and convince him to join Google before he reveals his identity and contact information at the meeting. Not to mention the money issue, at least a lot of communication and time problems can be greatly reduced. loss."
Hinton and Alix recalled the time when they were first recruited, and they were really spoiled for choice. Each company extended an olive branch and bid against each other, which resulted in several of them having to communicate and negotiate prices repeatedly.
Although it feels really good to be able to earn millions of dollars every time you communicate, it is very troublesome, but I and the others still enjoy it. Counting money makes my hands cramp, and sometimes I dream about negotiating with people.
It’s just that times have changed and my head follows my butt. In less than a year, the two people's perspective and way of thinking about the problem completely changed.
"There is less than a month left, let me communicate with him first to confirm." Alex felt that there was enough time. "If possible, I will try to make an appointment with him before the meeting starts, so that the company can advance the meeting." Make a deal with him."
"This is good. For this meeting, I want to go to Australia in person." Hinton's back injury was serious. Over the years, he rarely sat down, and he was not suitable for long-distance travel. This is also a big reason why he ultimately rejects whiteness.
"Teacher, your back?" Alex was a little worried when he heard this.
"Just because of this result, it's worth a trip in person." Hinton waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to worry, and it was still bearable to go there once in a while. Life is not so tight now, and it won’t be a big problem to lie down in first class.
"People working in the field of AI should give me some face." Hinton was planning to go there in person, and he paid attention to this. Many people who were originally hesitant to come no longer hesitated after seeing Hinton.
"Besides, someone who can overtake us so quickly and has so many methods makes me very curious about what kind of person he is."
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After the results of the list came out, Meng Fanqi has been surfing intensively, searching the Internet for the latest information and reports about AI and the competition.
He pays so much attention to relevant news not to satisfy his own vanity, well, not just for that vanity.
More is to pay attention to relevant comments and interviews, and to see which companies and media are paying attention to the event and related fields at this early stage.
After two days of searching, I didn't see any movement. Meng Fanqi originally thought that the matter would not be reported by the larger media until after the event was completed, but he did not expect that the New York Times published a news report today.
It is titled "AI Dream: A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities", which is also called "AI Dream: Advanced AI technology can already rival humans."
Meng Fanqi glanced at the title and felt a little dissatisfied.
DreamNet's performance actually exceeds human level, but the title of the New York Times uses "rivals", which not only means that it has reached human level, but also implies competitors.
This is slightly different from what Meng Fanqi hoped.
However, Meng Fanqi is still very satisfied with the New York Times itself. The newspaper has been established for nearly two hundred years, and its distribution area is not limited to the United States.
It has been distributed all over the world and its influence is still high.
Moreover, the overall style of the New York Times is relatively serious and classical, without the most annoying new media shock smell at all.
"Shock! Did all mankind lose to it? "How far is it from dominating mankind?" AI has surpassed humans! 》
If it were a report of this style, it must be that it specializes in treating hypotension.
Meng Fanqi clicked on the New York Times report page and saw a familiar name as soon as he came up, writer Markov.
This person has a very high level in the field of science and technology reporting and has been in the industry for more than 40 years. Among the first people in the United States to pay attention to and report on the Internet was Markov.
The main reason why Meng Fanqi has some impression of him is because many Silicon Valley tycoons, such as Steve Jobs and others, have great trust in Markov.
He is often given exclusive interviews and exclusive news. Many of the news Meng Fanqi saw in his previous life, such as the news about Google's self-driving cars, were all reported by this senior technology reporter.
"I really didn't expect that he would write this report himself." Meng Fanqi clicked his tongue in surprise.
Mr. Markov's words were quite restrained and rigorous. "Computer researchers have recently made new progress in AI technology - AI technology can already surpass human capabilities in a small number of vision-related tasks."
"Breakthroughs and improvements in this technology are noteworthy because so-called computer vision systems have become ubiquitous in so many aspects of life. These new technological breakthroughs come from the increase in the size of neural networks and the development of computing devices.
Neural networks can be trained to recognize human speech, detect objects in images, or recognize various behaviors by being exposed to large numbers of examples.
Although such networks are modeled after the behavior of biological neurons, they currently do not learn new concepts as quickly as humans. However, in this annual academic machine vision competition, this method broke through human boundaries for the first time.
The competition, called the IMAGENET Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, pits teams of researchers from academic, government, and corporate labs against each other to design programs that can both classify and detect objects. This year, a group of researchers from China won the award. "
"The team that achieved this result is called "Dream". To a certain extent, this also symbolizes that mankind's long-standing pursuit of the AI dream is gradually being realized. It is reported that the official meeting and report of the event will be held in Australia in December. "
The full text is very short. After all, this is just a news bulletin and not a full report, or a front-page headline.
However, Meng Fanqi was still quite satisfied with this, because the highlight of the event, the final conference, had not yet been held. Relevant scientific researchers have not yet gathered together, and many big names will not be as anxious to read the list as I am.
It is quite rare that just the results on the list can make a large media like the New York Times pay attention to this matter.
Perhaps for this reason, the overall description feels very restrained. Meng Fanqi read it again, carefully considered the wording in the article, and felt that the current attitude of mainstream media towards this technology is still relatively conservative.
Even though Markov is so concerned about and supports AI and new technologies, there is no obvious positive bias in his wording throughout the text.
"It seems that these algorithms are still too early for the world at this time." Meng Fanqi closed the report page and shook his head slightly. "The step was too big and I pulled my balls."
