390. The future and the present

"The second item is similar to Go, but it is relatively simpler." Cao Yang said, "You have been doing chess and card games for so many years. I want to set up the second topic-

Researching AI in Landlords makes it possible to make the Internet rivals matched by players unable to tell whether it is a real person or an AI.

Cao Yang smiled and said: "After artificial intelligence develops to a certain level, it can become a powerful tool in the gaming industry.

For example, when playing Landlord in a chess and card game, it is very likely that the opponent you encounter is not a real human, but a computer, but they simulate human playing cards, so that you can't tell whether it is true or false.

The advantage of doing this is that—

First, when the number of players in the game is relatively small, injecting a certain amount of AI into the game can provide a good experience for players.

For example, if you deliberately lose to players, you can enjoy the joy of winning money.

Second, it is used to recycle currency.

If you want to make money in chess and card games, you mainly use the method of recycling currency. From the perspective of the market, if the real players of Doudizhu lose more money than wins, then the platform will make money.

AI is a relatively implicit control method, and it can also make the platform give people the illusion of [very lively], so whoever masters AI technology first will master the development direction of future games."

...

Liu Guangran was shocked by Boss Cao's idea.

It's simply...

Apart from being cunning, Liu Guangran could not find a more suitable word to describe him.

No wonder he is the boss. Thinking that the way of making money is so unique... Liu Guangran has not yet thought about the future application scenarios of artificial intelligence, so Boss Cao actually thought about it for him in advance.

"Um……"

Liu Guangran followed Cao Yang's thoughts and thoughts down.

"This approach is equivalent to using computers to simulate human behavior. Doudizhu is very suitable for this topic, and is even much less complex than Go.

The only requirement is the timely handling of the network.

From sending the packet and going to the server background calculation, the total time will not exceed 5 seconds, which is more in line with human behavior."

The difficulty is a little different from the focus of Go, but it is relatively similar to the cloud computing they are studying now. Through a large number of server groups in a short time, a relatively reasonable result is obtained and then returned to the client.

The complexity of Doudizhu is much lower than that of Go, and it is a relatively good research topic for artificial intelligence.

Cao Yang smiled calmly.

In fact, his asking Liu Guangran to study Doudizhu AI does not mean that he can use it.

After all, there are many people in Bomi chess and card games now, so there is no need to use AI to fill it, let alone use AI to recycle currency. The biggest fun of chess and card games lies in fairness.

If someone knows that Bomi Company uses AI to control the outcome of the chess and card games, then its reputation will definitely plummet. At that time, it will not be a problem of recycling currency, and maybe it will be a problem of recycling games.

If Cao Yang doesn't do this, it doesn't mean that no one does this. Some chess and card games in his previous life did this, so the dealer basically won.

But before it was discovered, it was fair for everyone to see it.

On the basis of ensuring fairness, it is not impossible to use AI to make concessions to players.

For example, for some players with very dark faces, they can cooperate with him to win and improve the experience during the next match between Landlords. This will also help users retain them. Don’t always lose and lose them.

For some players who have been winning money, occasionally controlling their winning rate will also help them enjoy the game's winning or losing fun.

But that's the same principle-

If there are enough players in the game, AI will not be used at all. Once the player discovers that the official backend manipulates data, the reputation of this game platform will be gone. Although Cao Yang is very confident in the confidentiality and data security of his company, it is always a hidden danger. He only does this thing to help Liu Guangran and others better study topics.

It is relatively easier to start with Landlord.

...

"Forget it," Cao Yang shook his head and said, "You'd better stop being an AI for Landlords, just be a bridge player."

"Uh..." Liu Guangran's head was covered in black. How did it change in just a few minutes?

"And boss, there is no bridge in our game now."

The rules of bridge are much more complicated than ordinary chess and card games. They are a 2-to-2 competitive intelligence game. In this process, mathematical calculations are required to guess the opponent's cards, which is actually a test of a person's mental arithmetic ability.

It is precisely because of this that the audience of bridge is very small, and many chess and card game halls do not do bridge, and Bomi Company does not do it either.

"Boss, I want to be a Landlord. Landlord is simpler than bridge."

"It's almost the same." Cao Yang frowned, "It's mainly because of the issue of fairness. I just thought about it carefully. The chess and card games launched by Bomi are very particular about fairness, because only fair players are willing to play it.

If we do Landlord AI, we will give people a handle even if we don’t use it in the future. At that time, the media and competitors in related industries will rely on this to slander the fairness of our game.

Regular casinos don’t want to pay for thousands of dollars.”

Um……

Liu Guangran felt very uncomfortable, and he had no way to refute the reason for Boss Cao.

...

Cao Yang lowered his head and thought, starting with chess and card games, and gradually making game AI is a relatively silky transition method.

Many AIs in games are now implemented through behavior trees or triggers.

The so-called behavior tree is to plan to determine the monster's behavior pattern based on the user's behavior and use various prerequisites.

This behavior tree has a fixed pattern, which is equivalent to planning to write code using a behavior tree. For example:

The AI ​​logic of a remote monster discovering humans might look like this:

1. The monster itself detects whether the player is in the field of vision. If it is in, then enter 2

2. Determine the distance between the player and the monster itself. If it is greater than 300 meters, enter 3, otherwise enter 4

3. Judge your own health. If the health exceeds 50%, shoot the player, otherwise enter 5.

4. Judge your own health. If your health exceeds 50%, use a melee attack on the player, otherwise enter 5

5. Turn around and run away

A fixed AI logic is easily understood by players. Just like the boss battle in World of Warcraft, everything you do at each stage is fixed, and the order is similar. Although it will be affected by player behavior to a certain extent, it always gives people a very routine and low IQ.

It's still far from real artificial intelligence.

Cao Yang smiled and said, "My goal is of course to achieve real personification in the game. These AIs' judgment abilities will have different personality traits.

For example, reckless player AI occasionally makes some minor mistakes in the game. The cautious player AI may wait until you get on the first place before following, and of course there is a perfect AI...

The more the AI ​​in these games looks like a real person, the richer the experience it will give to players."

In fact, in all online games, there are such prosperity and decline. The main reason for decline is not that the game is meaningless, but that some people leave the game for various reasons, resulting in a decrease in the number of active players in the game. Once it is below a certain critical point, the phenomenon of [the game is cool] and [no one plays it] will occur, resulting in a large number of players being lost.

The fewer the number of daily active players, the fewer the behaviors that can interact, the more you will feel that the game is not fun.

In fact, a large part of the fun of online games comes from the social behavior of players.

Fighting with others is endless fun, and if people are gone, they will naturally become cold.

Therefore, Cao Yang's future goal is to when Bomi's artificial intelligence technology is relatively mature, it can provide a basic AI model like a game engine, and then change it according to the different needs of different games, allowing AI to simulate player behavior, which can greatly extend the game life.

Although you don’t know whether the girl who greets you every day and has an ambiguous relationship, and has a copy exists in reality, you have gained happiness in the game.

Of course, this kind of AI is still in the early stages of artificial intelligence application.

Even if they can pass the Turing test, it does not mean that they have real human thinking and emotions, so there will be no ethical issues involved.

A virtual artificial intelligence that plays with games has neither emotions nor will it die, but it is meaningful. Her greatest significance is to provide players with companionship and extend the lifespan of the game.

The application prospects of artificial intelligence will be more extensive in the future, such as smart home appliances and automatic cars...

That is, in the era of [Internet of Things] in the next 20 years, everything can be connected to the Internet and everything can interact.

Artificial intelligence-related technologies will first begin to be applied in the Internet industry, and then gradually become popular in other industries. Therefore, from the perspective of the broad development prospects, the development prospects in the fields of artificial intelligence-related are still very broad.

And more likely—

In the future, as the demographic dividend disappears, some related non-creative industries will be replaced by artificial intelligence.

Human beings can be liberated to do more creative things.

Artificial intelligence should be the next boom in productivity explosion. When artificial intelligence becomes popular in all walks of life, the total wealth of human beings will increase greatly.

It is more beneficial to the entire society and the people.

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When Cao Yang discussed this topic with his colleagues in his previous life, many people maintained a pessimistic attitude and were frightened by the word "substitution". Therefore, the emergence of artificial intelligence and rapid development will inevitably lead to a period of panic, because replacement means unemployment for many people.

Unemployment will lead to poor food and your purchasing power will decline.

But in fact, these worries are redundant.

First of all, the development of productivity will inevitably lead to rapid increase in total social wealth. When the water rises, the people's income level will also increase significantly.

Many professions have actually disappeared from the long river of history. For example, operators, and many children born in the 2000s don’t know what operators do. In fact, as early as the era of telephone invention, communication technology was far from being as developed as it is now. If you want to make someone else’s phone number, you have to transfer through the operator first and the operator will help you connect.

However, with the development of mobile device technology, the country's network construction was developed, and operators disappeared.

In addition, there are train ticket sellers and bus ticket sellers...
To be continued...