Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 271 - 266: Shining Appearance (5)

Because Li Tianle and Li Tianyou, the Robot Brothers, had a tight relationship with Antonio, naturally there was no reason for Antonio’s Chinese roommate at Stanford to not get along.

When a good friend came to his turf, Qi Yi naturally wanted to treat him to a meal.

On the day Qi Yi invited the "Hot Dog Youth" and "Robot Brothers" for a meal, Yan Yan was initially planning to treat just her cousin to dinner.

Yan Ling also came to the United States at that time to discuss with her the future development of the Y.Y. brand.

Qi Yi’s best buddies at Stanford University, aside from Antonio, had never met Qi Yi’s girlfriend.

After a bunch of teasing and various kinds of ribbing, Qi Yi called Yan Yan and asked if she wanted to join them for dinner.

Finally, the two separate dining plans merged into one.

Five men and one woman, aside from Yan Yan, all male.

When these "big boys" got together, it naturally led to discussions about robots.

Qi Yi was skilled in algorithms and had also participated in many Artificial Intelligence projects while at Stanford.

However sophisticated computers are, the top algorithms were still provided by humans, at least for the present.

Computers also have a growth process called machine learning, which requires continually "feeding" the computer big data to allow it to grow strong and increasingly intelligent.

The most basic Artificial Intelligence, for example, after you read a few books, the computer knows what kind of books to recommend you.

The more books you read, the more accurate the computer’s recommendations become, your personal preferences being specific data.

All specific data on book reading constitute big data.

The larger this base number, the more accurate the computer’s recommendations.

Initially, when there’s little data, the computer is rather dumb and often makes wild recommendations.

Gradually, the computer can distinguish truth from falsehood in big data.

And its ability to do so ultimately depends on the algorithm.

If the algorithm isn’t good enough, even loads of data are useless.

At a certain stage, the computer will stagnate and may even veer off course.

If the algorithm is correct, every piece of data can make the machine smarter.

Qi Yi had previously written software using his own algorithms at school.

It could let the computer deduce the user’s preferred interior decoration style just from their choices between four sets of pictures.

Subsequently, this AI-versed computer could, after receiving specific measurements of the user’s house, draw the decoration and construction plans directly for the user.

This was entirely aimed at putting interior designers out of a job.

Had Qi Yi stayed in Silicon Valley and pursued Artificial Intelligence, he would definitely have been a star.

However, Qi Yi’s interests lay elsewhere, and before he even graduated, he sold the algorithm and software to an online decorating company.

Although Qi Yi wasn’t interested in studying Artificial Intelligence, it didn’t stop him, Antonio, and the Li Family Brothers from excitedly discussing combat robots.

As they were talking, "fight-loving" Yan Ling also joined in the somewhat impassioned robot combat discussion.

As the group got too hype talking about robots, they sort of left Yan Yan feeling sidelined.

When everyone "came to their senses," they consciously included Yan Yan, who had been unable to join the fierce combat robot conversation.

They turned the discussion towards topics related to Yan Yan.

Yan Ling also shared the challenges the Y.Y. brand currently faced in the United States, which he hoped to resolve.

But the conversation quickly returned to robots.

Yan Yan felt somewhat helpless.

In an effort to show she really wanted to join, in a world of robots completely foreign to her, Yan Yan blurted out a question, wondering if Artificial Intelligence and robots could address the problem of her and Yan Ling being stretched too thin.

Jokingly, Yan Yan said Y.Y. needed a humanoid, completely naked, 360-degree no blind spot, mannequin-like robot that could replace a factory quality inspector.

Upon hearing "completely naked," the Li Family Brothers got excited.

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Despite their name containing the word "man," combat robots are fundamentally machines and, appearance-wise, have absolutely nothing to do with "man."

Combat robots have always been those oddly shaped "machines" with nothing in common with humans in the trade sector.

To merely use the skills learned from Stanford University’s AI lab for creating combat robots was absolutely a waste of talent.

The AI combat robots designed by Li Tianle and Li Tianyou had reached quite formidable levels, operating without manual control and actively seeking out opponents to "fight."

Although they had never won a world championship before, they had come very close several times. freewebnøvel.com

That achievement was far more incredible than it sounded.

If you were a black belt Taekwondo world champion fighting other Taekwondo fighters, you would likely be very competitive.

But with robot combat, you absolutely had no idea of the opponent’s form.

Tall, short, long, stubby, round, square, wielding a hammer or using a crowbar, whether endurance type or burst type.

It was like having a Taekwondo world champion sequentially fighting sumo wrestlers, fencers, Tai Chi masters, boxers, martial artists... all sorts of world champions.

If "everyone" looked and functioned the same, then remote control wouldn’t be too difficult.

As long as there was enough historical data, it was easy to find the weaknesses of one’s "kind."

Robot combat competitions were even harder than a Taekwondo master’s sequential fights.

Human shape variations are basically just tall, short, fat, thin – you wouldn’t expect the bizarre shapes as with machines.

Before winning the world championship, Li Tianle and Li Tianyou were only passionate about developing "smarter, tougher-fighting" combat robots.

They held no interest in applying their expertise in robots to other areas.

During this trip to New York for a competition, the Li Brothers’ AI combat robots finally clinched the BattleBots crown.

After winning the robot combat championship, the Li Family Brothers felt they needed to find some new interests.

The things they were interested in weren’t many, aside from robots, there were also women.

As a haute couture designer, Yan Yan had measured many supermodels, created many mannequins for them, and had her unique insights into the most perfect human proportions.

It was these "human measurement" details that for the first time extended the Li Family Brothers’ talents in robot making from the utterly "cringe-worthy" combat robot field to Artificial Intelligence simulation robots.

And so came Master Y, the "master-level" robot that caused the Y.Y. brand to rise distinctively in the fashion brand world with a new business model.