Take stock of 5 excellent games featuring animals and experience different fun.

Most video games use human or anthropomorphic characters as the main characters, but some games take a different approach, directly using animals as the main characters, and try to restore the characteristics of animals as much as possible, which will be very special fun to play in the end. Today, Xiaobian will take stock for everyone.5 excellent games featuring animals.Let’s take a look ~

Lost/Wandering

First of all, of course, I have to mention the cat game "Lost" which has attracted much attention this year. This game is set in a declining cyber city in the future, where there are no human beings, only some strange robots are left. The player manipulated a stray cat that strayed into the city and managed to escape with the help of a small drone.

"Lost" very exquisitely restores the various actions and characteristics of cats in reality. Its body is light and agile, and it can move flexibly in narrow passages or places with great height difference. It can also interact with the bucket on the roof, the carpet on the floor and the camera under the eaves. The game also has a "meow" button, which seems to really turn the player into a cute kitten.

Although "Lost" is not rich in play elements, however, "playing the cat" has moved many players, and it has even been selected as "Golden Rocker PS Game of the Year" by players, which is enough to show everyone’s love for it.

Trick or Treat Goose/Untitled Goose Simulator

Goose, a creature, has a lovely side, but they are actually not a good crop, and they are even called "village tyrants" in the countryside. The game "Trick or Treat Goose" is a good way to restore the cute and terrible feeling of geese. You are a goose in the game, which makes the originally quiet village uneasy. You wander around the town, from the backyard to the street shops, and then to the village green space, playing pranks, stealing hats and quacking, ruining everyone’s day.

At the same time, the puzzle design of "Trick or Treat Goose" is also quite interesting, which makes full use of the various characteristics of this animal, such as it can swim to avoid human beings, it can use quack to scare human beings, and it can also use its powerful beak to grab various objects. All kinds of practical jokes are very interesting, which makes people smile after playing them.

Man-eating shark

The horror of the goose is actually just some practical jokes, but the protagonist of "Man-eating Shark" really wants to launch a deadly attack on human beings. In this game, players become sharks and experience the ultimate power of top predators to dominate the ocean. Starting from a shark cub, your task is to survive in the harsh world and eat to the top in the ecosystem.

The game scale of "Man-eating Shark" is larger than the above two works, which provides a vast and diverse open world with many different styles to explore. And players have to face not only humans, but also other wild animals such as crocodiles. At the same time, this game also has its own growth factors. If you find the right resources, you can grow and realize supernatural evolution. Players can also customize the skill attributes of sharks according to their own styles. Producers call it a "shark-playing game".

In addition, the "Man-eating Shark" has also added black humor elements. Because sharks can’t talk, the game uses a method similar to a reality show to let the narrator explain the scene, and occasionally inserts some tricks and teasing to make the game experience less tense.

Ancestors: Human Odyssey/Ancestors: Human Epic

Although the protagonists of the above three games are animals, there are still a lot of traces of modern human activities. Ancestors: The Odyssey of Mankind is to set the time back to thousands of years ago and let players experience the evolution of ancient apes. You will cross a beautiful but heartless landscape, from the top of the canopy above the dense jungle to the golden grassland on the savanna. Behind every amazing scenery, there may be terrible weather, predators and other dangers that threaten your survival.

In order to restore the feeling of ancient times as much as possible, Ancestors: Human Odyssey has adjusted many common game mechanisms. It has no map, no voice, and few tips and guidance, so that players can truly experience the dangers of ancient jungles. You must eat well, drink well, sleep well, avoid predators, make tools, strengthen the tribe, and pass on knowledge bit by bit.

Although the apes are the ancestors of human beings, when playing this game, we can still clearly feel that we are not manipulating human beings, but manipulating a wild animal, which needs to jump out of the human mindset.

Simulated goat 3

If you like to play pranks on animals, then Simulated Goat is also a very good choice. A series of new works "Simulated Goat 3" has been released at present, which perfectly maintains the advantages of the previous works, adds richer whole live and egg content, and also joins the four-person online cooperation mode, which is simply extremely happy.

In the game, you play an unattractive ewe and do whatever you want in a very realistic physical sandbox. You can rampage and destroy the normal life of NPC; You can complete all kinds of interesting challenges and use different props to get the collections hidden in the corner; You can also dress yourself up, wear all kinds of skin, become a tall sheep, striped sheep, or dress up as a roll of paper or a tea tray.

Although "Simulated Goat 3" has no touching story, no complicated and deep system, and even everywhere it goes, it is like "playing games in bugs". However, it is such a simple and unreasonable way to play to the extreme, but it can give people simple and pure relaxation and happiness.

In addition, there are some other well-known games with impersonal animals as the protagonists, such as Terminal: Extinction Eternity (relatively small), Capcom’s Great God (relatively old), and THQ’s Biochemical Variation (with mixed reviews). Do you like this kind of games featuring animals?

1-1! Premier League for four patterns: Manchester United Newcastle scored 1 point in two rounds = Liverpool missed the top four!

In the 37th round of the Premier League, a focus matchup was ushered in. Liverpool, ranked fifth, played against Aston Villa, ranked eighth at home. This victory or defeat will determine the pattern of the fourth round. Next, let’s take a look at the wonderful process of this game.

Liverpool starters: alysson, Arnold, konate, Van Dyke, Robertson, Jones, Fabio, Henderson, Diaz, Gakpo, Salah.

Villa starting: Martinez, D-Nie, Mince, Consa, Cash, Douglas, Camara, Jacob Ramsey, Mackin, Leon Bailey, Watkins.

At the beginning of the game, Aston Villa took the lead in launching the offensive. Watkins took the ball to the restricted area and was put down by konate. The referee indicated a penalty. Watkins took the penalty but missed the opportunity. Liverpool escaped. I didn’t expect that what should come was still here.In the 27th minute, Douglas picked the pass and assisted Ramsey to score the goal.Aston Villa scored a goal advantage.

In the second half, Salah’s goal in the penalty area was confiscated by Martinez. In the 55th minute, Gakpo scored a goal in front of the goal, and VAR intervened. The referee watched the video playback and finally decided that the goal was invalid.

In the 72nd minute, firmino came on as a substitute and ushered in a farewell game at home.In the 89th minute, Salah made a cross from the side and firmino glided and scored a goal to complete the tie.Perhaps this is the best gift for home fans before he left. Liverpool equalized the score and both sides returned to the same starting line.

At the end of the game, Liverpool drew 1-1 with Aston Villa. They were three points behind Newcastle and Manchester United in the top four after one more game. At the same time, Liverpool only had the last game in Southampton this season, and even if they won, they just tied 69 points. Manchester United and Newcastle still have two games left, so they can lock in the top four as long as they win one point. It seems that there is little suspense in the fight for four.

One night, it was unpopular! Four giants are invincible, Bayern lost the championship, Arsenal lost two games in a row, and Barcelona sleepwalked.

# Hundreds of teams #

In the past night, the five major leagues in Europe were unpopular, and now the season has reached the final stage, but the major giants have begun to be absent-minded, which really makes the fans anxious. In particular, some teams that are expected to compete for the championship and the fourth place have unfortunately overturned, which is hard to understand.

Bayern lost 3-1 to Leipzig.

This season, Bayern has been eliminated from the German Cup and the Champions League, leaving only one goal for them to defend the Bundesliga. Under such circumstances, they were defeated by Leipzig 1-3 at home, and were reversed with a 1-0 lead.

In this game, Gnabry’s goal once helped Bayern take the lead. If they can keep this advantage, as long as they beat Cologne in the final round, Bayern will successfully defend their title and save some face for this seemingly failed season.

However, Bayern wanted to win, but Leipzig refused. If they scored 3 points, they would lock the Champions League seats in advance. After falling behind 0-1, Leipzig let go of his hands and feet instead. With leimer pushing the goal, Leipzig saw hope, and then they scored two penalties and finally made a successful comeback.

After this game, Bayern completely lost the initiative to win the championship. Once Dortmund can beat augsburg in the away game, Bayern will lose the top spot. If it fails to defend its title this season, Bayern really lost the championship to Dortmund.

Arsenal was upset, Manchester City won the championship ahead of schedule, Liverpool lost points, and there was basically no chance for the fourth place.

This night, in addition to Bayern, Arsenal also suffered a defeat. They lost 0-1 to Nottingham Forest in the away game, and the Premier League suffered a two-game losing streak. At the crucial moment of the season, Arsenal kept losing the chain and helped Manchester City win the championship ahead of time. After the Champions League entered the final, Guashuai once banned players from drinking champagne to celebrate, so I am afraid that even Guashuai himself could not help but revel.

With Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Villa, their hopes for the fourth place were basically dashed. At present, there is only one league round left in Liverpool, three points behind Manchester United and Newcastle United. As long as the opponent gets one more point behind, Liverpool can only play the Europa League.

Barcelona sleepwalked and lost to Real Sociedad 1-2 at home.

I don’t know if I celebrated the championship too much before. All the Barcelona players were not in the state this night. They made two fatal mistakes and were finally robbed and counterattacked by their opponents.

Prior to this, Barcelona only conceded two goals at home in La Liga this season. In this game, Ter stegen picked up the ball in his own net twice. The German goalkeeper is definitely the most depressed player in the game.

Funnily enough, after the game, Barcelona lifted the championship trophy at home, and the surprise didn’t affect the mood of the players and Harvey at all. While the team lost, it was also celebrating the championship. This picture is really strange. I wonder what the fans in the stands think?

Sun Zhunhao’s investigation highlights the intensity of China’s football purge! Fighting corruption and counterfeiting, both hands are hard

From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, after the anti-corruption "hurricane" that affected the management of the China Football Association to a great extent, Sun Junhao, a player of the Korean national team, was investigated, which proved his anti-corruption stance, Sean said. Report. Football fraud in China is in an unprecedented situation.

On May 16th, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yonhap News Agency, East Asia Daily, KBS, SBS TV and other mainstream Korean media reported that Song Junhao, a Korean foreign aid worker, had been detained by the China police in Taishan City, Shandong Province. On the same day, when answering questions from foreign journalists, it was reported that Sun Junhao had been detained by the Public Security Bureau of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province since May 12th, and the Consulate General of South Korea had applied for consular visit on the 17th. China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin confirmed that a Korean citizen was criminally detained by the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Bureau on suspicion of accepting bribes. The Korean Embassy in China also confirmed that Sun Junhao was under investigation by the China police, but it was the first time in the history of China football that foreign aid involved in corruption and counterfeiting.

China national team coach Li Tie and some senior officials of the China Football Association have been investigated one after another, and the coaches and players of the China national team have also been investigated recently. Deep. The investigation of South Korean international Song Junhao is a symbolic event, which proves that the intensity and scope of this football liquidation operation are unprecedented. However, recent reports from Korean media and mainstream European sports media say that this attention is a proof of the strength of this anti-counterfeiting activity, and its shocking power is self-evident.

South Korean media did not pay much attention to the anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting actions of China football management, but it was reported that South Korean national team player Song Junhao was being investigated by China police, which caused concern. Pay attention to Song Junhao and his fight against corruption and counterfeiting in China football. The South Korean Embassy in China and the Consulate General of Shenyang in China paid close attention to the arrest of Sun Junhao at the boarding gate of Shanghai Pudong Airport on the 12th, and met with members of the South Korean national team at Hao’s location. Criminal detention. Sun Zhuohao said that he was in good condition, but did not elaborate on the case under investigation as required by China law.

The Korean Football Association had previously written to the China Football Association, the Asian Football Association and FIFA, asking for cooperation in investigating Sun Junhao, but no response was received. In addition, the Korean Football Association also informed the South Korean team coach Klinsmann, who lives in the United States, about Song Junhao’s situation. The Korean Football Association announced that it would send two experts to Sun Xingyu’s detention place to provide him with necessary assistance according to the laws of China.

Sun Junhao’s Korean agent denied these allegations, saying that Sun Junhao was healthy and cheerful. The China agent who controlled Sun Junhao’s entry into Taishan Mountain was also brought in for investigation. As the investigation time dragged on, South Korea hired a local China lawyer to follow the progress of Sun Junhao’s case, which was a plan.

Fans in China are no strangers to the crime of accepting bribes from non-state officials. Because Qi Hong, Shen Xi and other players were convicted of such crimes in the previous lawsuit against gambling and cracking down on gangsters. Sun Zhuohao’s involvement in this case objectively proves that he is likely to participate in match-fixing and match-fixing like Qin Si and Qi Hong. Sun Zhuohao was taken to emergency headquarters, Liaoning Province, and before that, Hao Wei, Gu Chao, Jin Jingdao and other coaches and players were also investigated one after another, and it was this task force that shot. The task force has not officially announced the specific suspects involved. As the details of Sun Zhuohao’s situation gradually became clear, the focus of the Liaoning task force was on counterfeiting.

Korean media was shocked by Sun Junhao’s criminal detention investigation, but it was actually unnecessary. Football corruption and match-fixing are not uncommon in South Korea. In 2011, more than 50 people, including coaches, agents and club management, were killed in the K-League match-fixing scandal, which led to the suicide of two players and one player. Coaches and athletes are involved. People are on trial.

In 2017, South Korean football giant Jeonbuk Hyundai was deducted 9 points in the league for bribing the referee and was deprived of the AFC Champions League seat. At the end of March this year, the Korean Football Association pardoned 100 people who were disciplined by football, which caused strong dissatisfaction in Korean society, and 48 of them were punished for manipulating the game. In the end, the Korean Football Association took responsibility and resigned at once. It was not until May that the Korean Football Association was completely reorganized.

Sun Zhuohao’s criminal detention for investigation is the latest development of anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting in football in China. It is only because of his status as a player of the Korean national team that he has received more extensive attention. Sun Zhuohao is just a small player in the background of anti-corruption and counterfeiting in China football. This not only proves that corruption and match-fixing in China football are infiltrating into foreign aid groups, but also proves that the scope of this attack is beyond the past and the intensity can be imagined.

The six-month-long "hurricane" against corruption and counterfeiting in football is still raging in China football. The constant censorship of football leaders, coaches, players and agents in China means that anti-corruption and anti-counterfeiting measures are still on the rise. For China football, which is currently at a low ebb, this is the only way to rebuild. China’s football will have a future only after it has thoroughly cracked down on crime and completely restored the industry atmosphere.

Wilshere praised Arsenal’s best talents.

Arsenal’s Emile Smith Rowe is on the release list.
Smith Rowe is from Arsenal’s youth team, so he has high hopes. He entered the professional league for the first time at Arsenal in 2020-21, and later became the crown prince of head coach Mikel arteta. Jack Wilshere, an Arsenal midfielder, told Smi, then a youth team, in 2018: "If a young player plays in a leisurely way, then he is a special player. Smith Rowe is like this. His potential is endless.
Until last season, he was also highly anticipated. This is the key to Arsenal’s replacement under Arteta. Smith Rowe performed very well last season, including young second-line resources of Arsenal, Martin Edgard, Bucayo Saca and Gabriel Martin Nellie. In 33 league games, he scored 10 goals and assisted twice, which became the core of Arsenal’s attack. However, this season has been in a downturn due to overlapping injuries. Smith Rowe underwent groin surgery last September. But after returning from surgery, I didn’t find my own state. I only came off the bench in 11 league games this season. Among them, the attack point has only one assist.
It was immediately listed on the release list. The British media "Telegraph" announced the list that Arsenal will release in the transfer market next summer after the end of this season. The media also mentioned Smith Rowe, including kieran tierney, granit xhaka, Rob Holding, Porarinn Barlogan, Nunu tavares, Charlie Fatino and Albert Sambi Roconga.
At the same time, it is not that no team wants Smith Rowe. Recently, it was even connected with Aston Villa. The British media "Talk Sports" said: "Aston Villa are very interested in the joining of Arsenal No.10 Smith Rowe. A few days ago, Villa offered him 30 million pounds (about 49.9 billion won) in 2021, but it was rejected.
Villa is the first full season of emeri’s coaching this season, ranking eighth in the league, with performance exceeding expectations. Smith Rowe, once highly anticipated, is watching whether he will decide whether to stay or not.

It is De Technology’s AI-driven automated test to optimize the user experience of 5G smart phones.

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A new application test automation method, which can quickly evaluate the experience quality provided by the world’s popular mobile applications.

German technology company recently announced the introduction of enhanced functions for its Nemo device application test suite. The software solution adopts automation technology and artificial intelligence (AI), which gives a powerful boost to wireless service providers and application developers, and can help them quickly evaluate the real interaction between smartphone users and local mobile applications. It is German Technology that provides advanced design and verification solutions, aiming at accelerating innovation and creating a safe and interconnected world.

In the past few years, the number of users who use mobile applications to access digital content and participate in social media platforms and online games has increased significantly worldwide. Compared with the mobile web browser, the local mobile app can provide a tailor-made excellent experience; Therefore, the use of mobile applications has significantly promoted this growth.

Matti Passoja, the head of Nemo wireless solution of De Technology, said: "Service providers and mobile application developers want to know the real experience of end users when they access OTT applications with smartphones connected to cellular networks, and they need a reliable way to verify it. It is DeTech that has created an automated application testing method based on its unique software and hardware technology platform. This method uses real applications, and can accurately understand network performance even in extremely complex and changeable situations. "

It is DeTech that makes full use of artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) and automation technology, and uses the data captured by local mobile applications (instead of the simulated data flow) to create a brand-new device testing application method. This method can evaluate the interaction between end users and their mobile applications more accurately. The new application test automation method can help wireless service providers quickly optimize the performance of 5G network, and at the same time provide better quality of experience (QoE) for smartphone users. Users can enjoy the world’s most widely used OTT services and social media applications, such as Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Snapchat, TikTok and Zoom.

The new automatic test application method is one of the three supplementary test methods provided in Nemo device application test suite of German Science and Technology. According to the type of mobile application and key performance indicators (KPIs), the test method can be used with a Nemo field test solution. Nemo test suite users can obtain comprehensive, real and flexible 5G network performance verification and end-user QoE evaluation.

It is a Nemo testing tool of German Science and Technology, which can capture real measurement data in the field and use it for real-time analysis or post-processing analysis. These test tools include Nemo Outdoor 5G NR drive test solution, Nemo Backpack Pro 5G indoor benchmark test solution and Nemo network benchmark test solution.

Generative AI stands on the cusp: Silicon Valley bets that future technology giants will shuffle?

Generative AI is getting more and more popular. Is this really a good business?

Recently, AI painting is on fire.

By inputting some words, AI can generate an image that matches the words in a few seconds. These images are wild, and some are even bizarre. For example, people have extra fingers on their hands, and their fingers bend unnaturally. Even, AI can generate some meaningless billboards and alphabets that humans have never seen before.

Although AI painting is outrageous, it has set off a wave of science and technology: the spring of generative AI has come.

David Beisel, a venture capitalist at NextView Ventures, said that in the past three months, the word "generative AI" once became a hot word. Moreover, the generative AI technology has developed rapidly and the market enthusiasm is so high that many people even quit their jobs to start a business in this field.

There is no doubt that AI has been in a prosperous stage in the past five years or so, but most of these past advances have to do with understanding the existing data-for example, the AI model has been able to quickly and efficiently identify whether there are only cats in your mobile phone photos. However, the generative AI model generates something completely new that has never been seen before. In other words, generative AI is not just about analyzing existing data, but creating.

Boris Dayma, founder of Craiyon generative AI, believes that "generative AI is not only creating old images, but also creating many new things, which are completely different from what we have seen before."

Sequoia Capital also said in a blog post on its website: "Generative AI has the potential to create trillions of dollars in economic value." Sequoia Capital predicts that generative AI may change all industries that require human beings to create original works, from games to advertising to the legal profession. It is worth mentioning that Sequoia Capital also pointed out in its blog post that this message was partly written by GPT-3 (GPT-3 is a generative AI capable of generating text).

Working principle of generative AI

In the past, deep learning technology was widely used to train the model on large data sets. When the program understands the relationships in these data, the model can be applied to actual scenes, such as identifying whether there is a dog in a picture or translating text, and so on.

The working principle of the image generator is to reverse this process. For example, instead of translating English into French, it translates English phrases into images. Specifically, it usually has two main parts, one is to process initial phrases, and the other is to convert data into images.

At first, generative AI was based on a method called GAN, that is, the generative adversarial network. In essence, this method is to make two artificial intelligence models compete with each other to better create images that meet the target.

At present, generative AI is usually based on Transformer, such as image generator DALL-E and so on. DALL-E was first created by OpenAI in 2021, and in 2022, OpenAI released DALL-E 2.

Christian Cantrell, a developer who focuses on generative AI, said: "With DALL-E 2, we can really cross uncanny valley." (The Valley of Terror theory is a hypothesis about human perception of robots and non-human objects. It was put forward by Japanese robot expert Masahiro Mori in 1970. )

Another commonly used AI-based image generator is Craiyon (formerly known as DALL-E Mini), where users can enter phrases in the browser and see the illustrations it generates within a few minutes.

According to Dayma, since its launch in July 2021, Craiyon has produced about 10 million unprecedented pictures every day, which adds up to 1 billion. Earlier this year, the use of Crayon soared, and Dayma also took Crayon as its full-time job. In addition, Dayma has created a Twitter account to post the weirdest and most creative pictures generated by Craiyon. For example, ketchup comes out of the tap on the Italian sink.

In addition, Stable Diffusion has also received wide attention. The project was released in August this year and has been open source on GitHub. Developers can run the project on computers, not just in the cloud or through programming interfaces. For example, Stable Diffusion can be integrated into Adobe Photoshop by plug-in, allowing users to generate backgrounds and other parts of images, and use layers and other Photoshop tools to operate in applications.

Cantrell, the developer of the plug-in, said, "I want to meet these creative professionals, so that they can introduce artificial intelligence into their creative work, instead of destroying their work."

It is understood that Cantrell has worked for Adobe for 20 years. After leaving in 2022, Cantrell focused on the direction of generative AI. Cantrell said that Stable Diffusion has been downloaded tens of thousands of times, and artists told him that they used this plug-in in many unexpected places, such as making Godzilla animation or creating pictures of Spider-Man.

Start-up companies get together

Some investors regard generative AI as a potentially transformative change, just like the early development of smart phones or the Internet. This kind of transformation has greatly expanded the potential market of this technology.

"Before that, artificial intelligence was not unprecedented. Before 2007, we were not without mobile devices, "said Beisel, a seed investor." But at this moment, everything came together. The final consumer can experience and see something different from before. "

Cantrell believes that machine learning is similar to a more basic technology: database. "Machine learning is a bit like a database, which opens up a whole new world for network applications. All the applications we have used in our life are built on the database. But no one cares about how the database works. People only know how to use it. "

Michael Dempsey, managing partner of Compound VC, said that in the past, it was "very rare" for laboratory technology to enter the mainstream, but at present, generative AI has attracted wide attention of venture capitalists. Nevertheless, he warned that the current generative AI may be in the "curious stage" near the peak of the hype cycle, and the companies established at this stage may fail because they don’t focus on the specific uses that enterprises or consumers are willing to pay for.

Others in the industry believe that startups that can apply new technologies such as generative AI today may challenge technology giants such as Google, Meta and Microsoft in the future.

At present, many companies applying generative AI technology have already received large amount of financing, and their valuations have also risen. For example, earlier this year, Hugging Face was valued at $2 billion after receiving investments including Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital; OpenAI has also received more than $1 billion from Microsoft and Khosla Ventures.

In addition, according to Forbes, Stability AI, the developer of Stable Diffusion, is negotiating with investment institutions to raise up to $1 billion in venture capital.

Cloud vendors and chip vendors will benefit.

Besides start-ups, cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google can also benefit from it, because generative AI may require a huge amount of computation.

Meta and Google have also taken action and started recruiting talents. In September of this year, Meta released an artificial intelligence application called "Make-A-Video", which can generate videos, which makes the generative AI technology a step further.

"This is a great progress," Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, posted on his Facebook page. "It is much more difficult to generate videos than photos, because besides correctly generating each pixel, the system must also predict how they will change over time."

Recently, Google matched with Meta and released a program code called Phenaki, which can also convert text into video and generate several minutes of footage.

This craze may also boost chip manufacturers such as Nvidia, AMD and Intel, because the advanced graphics processors produced by these companies are ideal for training and deploying artificial intelligence models.

At a recent meeting, Huang Renxun, CEO of Nvidia, emphasized that generative AI is the key use of the company’s latest chip, and he said that this kind of program may "revolutionize communication" soon.

At present, there are not many uses of generative AI that can generate commercial benefits. Many exciting breakthroughs today come from free or low-cost experiments. For example, some writers have tried to use image generator to generate images for articles. An example of Nvidia is to use a model to generate new 3D images, including people, animals, vehicles or furniture, which can be filled into the virtual game world.

Ethical issues can not be ignored.

While generating AI excites the industry, the ethical issues it brings are also worthy of attention.

The first is employment. Compared with professional illustrators, generative AI is obviously cheaper. Therefore, generative AI is likely to rob artists, video producers and other people engaged in creative work of their "rice bowls".

In addition, there are complex problems in originality and ownership of the content created by generative AI.

Generated AI is trained on a large number of images. Therefore, it is still controversial whether the creator of the original image has copyright requirements for the generated new image.

Some time ago, an artist won an art competition in Colorado, and his winning image was created by a generative AI named MidJourney. After winning, the artist said in an interview that he selected one image from hundreds of images generated by himself and post-processed it in Photoshop.

It is worth mentioning that some images generated by Stable Diffusion are watermarked, which indicates that some of the original data sets are copyrighted. Previously, Getty Images (a picture trading company based in Seattle, USA) announced that it was forbidden for users to upload generated AI pictures to its picture library, because the company was worried that there might be some copyright problems in such pictures. .

With the improvement of image generation software, generative AI may also deceive users, make them believe false information, or display images or videos of events that never happened.

In addition, developers must also deal with the possibility that models trained on a large amount of data may have biases related to gender, race or culture contained in the data, which may cause the models to show such biases in their outputs.

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Science fiction come true? In the future, mankind will sleep in the meta-universe.

People don’t seem to care much about the future world described in the sci-fi movie The Matrix, but a recent news released on the Meta platform has made people curious about the future world. According to Forbes, a virtual community named Game Free is building a virtual world-"Metauniverse". It has been established for more than ten years, but it is relatively simple compared with the world in the Matrix. What is the magic of meta-universe? Has it become a reality now?

I. Future Society
The idea of "Metauniverse", first put forward by Meta Company, is an expression way to turn people’s vision of the future society into reality. In the setting of X-Men, Professor X has special devices and abilities in real life, and can breathe and move freely, but he can’t turn his control into a real society. The reality is not infinitely close, but gradually close to the ideal society. That is to say, the "infinite approach" pursued by the X-Men is not realistic in real life: it is impossible to turn one person into another; Unable to control human behavior; Unable to control the direction of people’s actions in reality … eventually led to the X-Men being abandoned by the world. If the X-Men movies are sorted out, it is found that the movies have a clear vision for the future society, then the meta-universe will be closer to the real state in reality: on the one hand, the meta-universe, as a virtual space, can be infinitely connected to the real world; On the other hand, Metauniverse will become the key "cornerstone" for building the infrastructure of human society … So what will human society become in the future?

Second, intelligent hardware
The universe is not only a game world, but also a technology. In MetaUniverse, through various virtual carriers such as games and videos, MetaUniverse players can be immersed in it, which is not only a space for games and entertainment, but also an interactive space for knowledge, skills and contacts. There is a kind of meta-universe in a special sense, which is a "virtual life" mode in which the virtual world and the real world merge, influence, blend, promote and expand with each other. It is a place where people can exchange and interact with each other, acquire knowledge and skills and cultivate friendship in this virtual world. For users, Metauniverse makes itself a "human" character-this is the experience they need in games and the real world. For hardware equipment manufacturers, it is the performance of the product itself besides ensuring entertainment, interaction and other functions.

Third, artificial intelligence
As the core of scientific and technological innovation, artificial intelligence will gradually get more applications in the meta-universe. With the help of human beings, artificial intelligence has developed from relying on single software and single function in the past to the present artificial intelligence. In the future, artificial intelligence will be more dependent on computing power. For example, driverless cars are an attempt to realize barrier-free travel in the meta-universe. Starting from the progress in the field of driverless cars, this paper explores the possible forms that driverless cars may appear in the meta-universe, hoping to provide more exploration space for the meta-universe. It is foreseeable that artificial intelligence will play an important role in the meta-universe in the future.

IV. Conclusion.
With the rise of meta-universe, virtual world has been given more and deeper meanings, and the application of science and technology by human beings has changed from passive acceptance to active creation. At the same time, the lifestyle and experience provided by the virtual world in the meta-universe have greatly enriched human thinking and feelings, and made people interested in a new thing. However, with the development and innovation of technology, this trend will gradually become stable. But we believe that technology is always a double-edged sword. It can bring convenience and benefits to human beings, but it may also bring harm to human beings. Like the future world described in science fiction movies, human beings are sleeping in a dormant warehouse made of machines, and their brains are linked to the meta-universe world, so they live falsely.

Running away from Baidu, he became a scientist and entrepreneur! Zeng said that scientists should start their business from the future.

From scientist to entrepreneur, Yu Kai is not the first person to "run away" in the field of artificial intelligence.

Despite the previous achievements in scientific research, joining in entrepreneurship means facing the reality of bone feeling.

In March 2015, Yu Kai said in an interview: "If a business can get the resources it deserves to do what it wants, then choose to start a business; If you join a big platform and have more resources to do one thing, then join a big platform. " Sure enough, three months after that, he left Baidu and founded Horizon.

Yu Kai

From the initial "no one pays the bill" to October this year, Horizon successfully won the investment of 2.4 billion euros from Volkswagen, setting the largest single investment record for Volkswagen in the past 40 years, and establishing a joint venture company with audi ag’s software company. The transformation of Yu Kai’s identity can be described as unsuccessful.

Before becoming the founder of Horizon, Yu Kai’s label was the top international scholar in the field of machine learning and the main promoter of deep learning technology in China. His published papers were cited more than 20,000 times, and he won the silver award for the best paper in ICML-2013 International Machine Learning Conference. He himself also served as the domain chairman of ICML and NIPS, two major conferences of machine learning.

Yu Kai’s achievements in the academic field go far beyond this.

NEC Research Institute of the United States was once one of the major centers of international machine learning research. During his tenure, Yu Kai established a highly prestigious technology research and development team in Silicon Valley. This team is one of the earliest and most active teams in the field of deep learning in the world. A series of technologies led and developed by him have pushed image object recognition to a new level worldwide, and won many international famous awards.

After joining Baidu in 2012, the voice technology team, deep learning technology team and image technology team led by Yu Kai won the "Baidu’s highest award" three times in succession, creating records of various technical and business teams within Baidu.

In the eyes of outsiders, Yu Kai at that time, both academically and professionally, was smooth sailing.

But at this time, he chose to start a business.

Yu Kai’s reason is straightforward: "In the past three years, what I have done at Baidu is to promote artificial intelligence in the cloud. But I think there will be a bigger trend in the next few years that I have to do: from artificial intelligence in the cloud to artificial intelligence around everyone. "

Therefore, Yu Kai, who has always believed in "doing things is the most important thing", founded Beijing Horizon Information Technology Co., Ltd. in July 2015, focusing on edge computing in the field of artificial intelligence.

From the moment the company was founded, in his own words: First of all, I will forget that I am a scientist more and more.

To be a scientist, you can put the mainexperienceDo research and write papers, but as an entrepreneur, you should focus more on business and customer needs.

Yu Kai has always wanted to grasp some "truth" things in this process, for example, things that can really create long-term value. With this idea in mind, at the beginning of Horizon’s establishment, he played the slogan of "making brains for machines", and avoided the edge of the field giants, took the edge computing route, and insisted on making AI chips.

It was really hard at first.

When recalling the initial stage of starting a business and determining the development direction, Yu Kai mentioned: At that time, we were predicting a far future, a future that might take 20 years as its dimension. From computers to smart phones, and beyond, what is a bigger computing platform than these? At that time, they were sure,beRobot computing platform. AI chip is the indispensable key to realize this calculation.

Now that we hear about AI chips, it’s needless to say its importance. But when Horizon was founded, not every investor could understand the "blueprint" in Yu Kai’s eyes. As a direct result, the horizon was once unsustainable. Until smart cars become "robots"calculate"The first and biggest landing scene at present, everyone began to understand that Yu Kai had bet on it.

In 2020, smart cars ushered in an outbreak period. As a result, there is a global "lack of core" in the automotive industry.question.

A chip with excellent computing power, like a smart brain, can accurately control the behavior of the vehicle. A series of functions, such as environmental awareness, route planning, driving assistance and so on, advertised by smart cars all need to rely on chips to be realized.

This is also consistent with what Yu Kai has always wanted to do. He has always believed that the real significance of artificial intelligence is not to survive and develop as the opposite of human life, but to support people’s decision-making and enhance their ability. Once the smart car scene is broken down, this ability will definitely spill over to others.floatApplication scenario of robot.

In August 2019, Horizon announced the mass production of China’s first car-class AI chip "Journey 2";

In September 2020, Horizon officially launched the AI chip "Journey 3";

In July, 2021, Horizon released "Journey 5", a high-performance and large-computing, full-scene intelligent central computing chip for the whole vehicle.

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Yu Kai once said, "The course of a scientist’s entrepreneurship is not based on business opportunities,FromStart in the future. "

This cooperation between Horizon and Volkswagen may be the next future in Yu Kai’s plan.