Chapter 593: Have you encountered any difficulties?
After lunch, Xu You and Lu Zhiyao took a slow walk on the campus of Jijing University, enjoying the campus scenery and chatting from time to time.
Although scientific research work is urgent, it is still necessary to have necessary time to relax.
Even though his brain power has reached over 500 points, Xu You still needs to clear his fatigue regularly.
"Ajinov contacted me two days ago, hoping to have a chance to communicate with me again. He also wanted some Soviet students to come here to study and learn some of the latest theories. And Schultz had the same idea and wanted to recommend German students. This has almost never happened before."
Xu You was in a very good mood when he talked about this.
For a long time, most of the best students in our country have chosen to study abroad in pursuit of better learning environment and learning resources.
Such a choice is very normal. After all, people tend to move up, and if there is a better environment abroad, studying abroad is indeed a better choice.
Although Xu You did not choose to go abroad, he knew that he was very special and he could not force others in this regard.
Instead of advising students to give up studying abroad, it is better to make the domestic learning environment better and make fundamental changes .
After years of hard work, Xu You has indeed achieved all of this, making domestic universities such as Jijing University one of the best universities in the world.
Studying in China has become the first choice for many outstanding foreign students.
"That's great. This time we won't lose a large number of our excellent students to foreign countries. The quality of our students is definitely not worse than that of foreign students. When the learning environment improves, our development speed will definitely get faster and faster."
While Xu You and Lu Zhiyao were talking, they suddenly saw a familiar figure walking towards them.
It’s Nie Jie.
Nie Jie also immediately noticed Xu You and Lu Zhiyao and walked up to greet them.
"Academician Xu, long time no see!"
"Nie Jie, didn't you graduate a long time ago? Why are you back in school?"
"Oh, I just felt a little bored a while ago, so I took a postgraduate course. I come here to take classes when I have nothing to do. If I don't play chess anymore, I can do some academic work like you, hehe."
When old friends met, both of them were a little excited.
Since today was not too busy, Xu You decided to chat with Nie Jie for a while.
"Nie Jie, are you busy today? Why don't you come to my office and sit for a while? I'll treat you to tea."
"I'm not busy, as long as I don't disturb you."
As they spoke, Xu You and Lu Zhiyao led Nie Jie to Xu You's office.
Lu Zhiyao was not familiar with Nie Jie, so she did not stay with them anymore and went to find Lin Shi to study academic issues together.
After asking Cui Ying to help make a pot of good tea, Xu You and Nie Jie chatted alone.
"Xu You, I saw your latest paper. The naming of the most basic particles that make up matter as black and white should be inspired by Go, right?"
"Yes, the initial inspiration did come from Go. In Go, there are only two kinds of chess pieces, black and white, but they can form countless possibilities, which shocked me. And it turns out that there are only two kinds of the most basic particles that make up matter."
When talking about Go, Nie Jie's expression became a little excited, as if he also had some credit for Xu You's theory.
"Why, do you want to play a game of chess together? I'll ask Teacher Cui to help me prepare the chessboard and chess pieces." Xu You said.
Nie Jie shook his head when he heard this, as if he was not that interested in playing chess.
"Forget about playing chess. To be honest, the reason why I want to study for a master's degree is largely because I don't want to play chess for the time being. Go has long been a part of my life, but I just can't muster any interest in playing the game for the time being."
Xu You has not contacted Nie Jie recently, but he has some understanding of Nie Jie's recent situation.
For some reason, Nie Jie's recent record has been very poor. Not only has he been defeated repeatedly in matches against South Korean chess players, but he has also suffered upsets when playing against some unknown domestic chess players.
This level is obviously not Nie Jie's normal level.
"What's wrong, Nie Jie, have you encountered any difficulties?" Xu You asked.
"It's not that difficult, but maybe I have encountered a mental demon. Now I have no interest in playing chess. Whether I play against AI or human players, I feel very painful."
Hearing Nie Jie's thoughts, Xu You couldn't help but sigh softly.
Xu You could understand Nie Jie's feelings.
Even Xu You himself experienced a brief period of boredom with scientific research.
This kind of mentality is very normal. No matter how much you like something, if you have to do it day after day for decades, you will inevitably feel resistance.
People are not machines, it is impossible for them to have no emotional fluctuations.
"In fact, when I first started playing against AI, I had some shadows in my heart, but as time went by, the shadows gradually faded away. And these days, during the training with AI, I feel more and more that I have deviated from my original intention when I learned chess. Is my ideal to become the best chess player, or to become the best student of AI? No matter how hard I try, AI will always crush me."
After listening to Nie Jie's thoughts, Xu You also felt that he could relate to them.
Lou Song had the same feeling, and Xu You himself had it too.
"To be honest, I don't like this kind of training mode with artificial intelligence . I study the software's moves every day and use the winning rate to decide which move is better. I don't feel the joy of playing chess at all. Even when I participate in competitions, I will occasionally lose my mind and think about these things, and I can't control this emotion myself."
This is also the reason why Nie Jie could suddenly make a wrong move even when the situation was going well, leading to total loss.
"Nie Jie, come to think of it, everyone has these emotions. You once stood at the top of the Go world, so it's normal to have these thoughts. Including myself and Lou Song, we actually have similar thoughts when facing artificial intelligence."
" So , Xuyou, how did you overcome it?"
"It's very simple, if you can't beat them, just join them." Xu You said with a smile.
"If you can't beat them... then join them?"
"Yes. In terms of computing power, we are not only incomparable to artificial intelligence, but we are even several orders of magnitude behind. Especially in a sport like Go that tests computing power, humans will never be able to beat artificial intelligence."
