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Under Hargrove's commands, the AI kept performing all sorts of image processing on various images. When it ran into a command it couldn't understand, it would even feed back to communicate. Hargrove's expression grew more and more serious, and he straightened up in his seat.
He was gradually coming to realize just how powerful this AI's functions were.
From the angle of image recognition alone, its recognition precision was perhaps already about on par with the AI used in self-driving cars, and possibly even stronger.
Although that didn't mean it could be used in self-driving cars right now, it absolutely had the potential.
And in the image domain, it was like a god, seemingly capable of anything.
While he could tell that plenty of the operations needed further tuning, he could imagine that the heights this AI could reach after tuning would be absolutely astonishing.
Beside him, Finch couldn't hold back his curiosity either, and murmured to himself.
"Isn't this AI's language comprehension a little too strong?"
That sentence was like a bolt of lightning.
Only then did Hargrove abruptly come to his senses. The most powerful thing about this AI wasn't that it could perform image processing, but that it could perform image processing while understanding these words of his.
Every one of the things he'd typed in just now, this AI had in the end understood completely, and executed correctly.
The two of them both looked at Ryan. Of the three of them, only he understood the mystery hidden within this AI.
Ryan shrugged. "I already told you before, this AI has done natural language and visual training. As for the image-processing ability, that's one of its functions."
Anyone could tell it had certainly done training. Without training, how could there be an effect like this?
Hargrove was about to gripe when he suddenly thought of a key point. "How long did this AI train? How many training sets did it use?"
He looked at this machine room, which had only been put into use today, and a faint guess formed in his heart. The servers Ryan had used to train this AI earlier had probably been even less powerful in compute than what was here.
And training sets were essential for an AI's self-directed learning, roughly equivalent to the AI's textbooks. The more textbooks, the more it learned, and naturally the more it knew.
"Before, I'd only set up a few GPU servers. As for the training sets, I used publicly available ones online or ones I could buy," Ryan said.
At this, Hargrove fell silent.
Although he'd already guessed the compute power wasn't large and that the training sets used might therefore not be many, he hadn't expected it to be this few.
It had to be understood that at some big companies, the data generated by their hundreds of millions of customers was fed directly to the AI for training. Compared to that, using only that little bit of public training data, how could the effect be this outstanding?
"It's mainly because of the algorithm. I'm using a brand-new neural network algorithm. Unlike other algorithms, it can achieve a better training effect than other algorithms with a small training volume," Ryan said, seeing what he wanted to ask.
Listening, Hargrove no longer knew what to say. Achieving a better effect through less learning, wasn't that the "genius" of the algorithm world?
A genius's written algorithm turned out to be a genius too?
"I'd already done a lot of mental preparation beforehand, and I had high expectations for your algorithm." Hargrove gave a wry smile. "But I still didn't expect that this algorithm of yours would completely exceed even my expectations."
Hargrove let out a breath. He was now completely at ease. With an algorithm this powerful, his choice this time hadn't been wrong.
He'd bet right.
Watching the worry vanish from Hargrove's eyes, Ryan began telling him about the research center's future planning.
"Relying on this super algorithm, the effects of our AI training will be far better than the other companies in the industry."
"So we need to leverage our advantage and put out an era-defining AI product as quickly as possible. On one hand, it can gather data for us to use in AI-related training. On the other, it can quickly make our name and attract more talent."
On the topic of talent, even Ryan had to give a wry smile.
Right now, Prism's AI research center held no appeal at all for the programmers out there. Algorithm engineers, operations engineers, hardware engineers, development engineers, so many positions, and added all together they barely numbered a hundred-some people.
With a headcount like that, trying to build the intelligent platform he envisioned, he'd need to tack two more zeros onto the end before it came close.
Clearly, before they put out their first product, the research center being short on people would be a perfectly normal phenomenon.
Hargrove was extremely confident, and said with a smile, "Chief Designer, you can set your mind at ease. To other AIs, this algorithm is an Excalibur-class blade."
As long as they played their cards normally, other AIs simply had no possibility of resisting.
"But which direction should our first product go in?"
Ryan mulled it over. "What this AI is strongest at right now is image processing, and there's still a lot of potential to be tapped there. Start with that direction first."
Hearing this, Hargrove already had a detailed plan brewing in his heart.
Ryan added, "Also, the other areas of training need to begin as soon as possible too. The work on voice recognition and voice synthesis needs to get going quickly."
"Rest assured. Once we've moved in, I'll push these efforts forward right away." Hargrove patted his chest and made the pledge.
Ryan was very satisfied.
He imagined that under the lead of this new tool, the artificial intelligence would surely develop at a rapid pace.
He could set his mind at ease too, and head back to the base.
The base now looked completely different. From the moment you entered the controlled zone, it was like stepping into a small town, with all kinds of landscaping trees along the road, plus a commercial street where internet cafes, hair salons, and bars could all be found. There was even a park, and it looked no different from one in a big city. Quite a few researchers and technicians would come here to rest during their time off.
Ryan's car was carrying his parents, and the two of them were a little surprised to see this little world.
Both research centers were nearing the end of their preparations. They'd be holding a launch event at the new research center in a few days, so neither of them would be leaving anytime soon.
"And here I thought the conditions here wouldn't be very good." Seeing this environment, Ryan's mother finally set her worries about her son's life to rest.
"So what if the conditions were a little worse? Can't our son handle a bit of hardship?"
"Less talk out of you."
Watching his parents bicker in front of him as usual, all Ryan could do was sigh helplessly.
He opened the system panel. The MOSS project had long since been completed, and all the code had been categorized and was lying in the panel, awaiting his arrival.
The fourth project had refreshed. He looked at the new project's progress.
Three percent.
Mm. Having confirmed by the look in its eyes, he'd run into a tough customer.
This project had refreshed nearly a month ago, and even with the boost of Summon Points, after all this time, it had somehow only reached three percent.
Clearly, this was not an easy project.
Taking his parents off the car and returning to his own dorm, with the server room right next door, Ryan settled them into an empty room on the same floor.
After that, he even took them to the cafeteria for a dinner. The family enjoyed themselves together, though his father did occasionally have to take a scolding.
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