The richest man started taking advantage of loopholes after joining Alibaba.

Chapter 156: The next prey is...

"A pair of eyes that can understand this world."

Wang Jian's pupils suddenly contracted.

He's a technical genius; he grasps things instantly.

Visual recognition.

Computer vision.

Deep learning.

These words exploded in his mind.

"Do you want to do... autonomous driving? Or security monitoring?" Wang Jian's voice trembled slightly.

"The vision is too narrow."

Lin Che shook his head.

He walked to the desk and pulled out today's newspaper from under a pile of messy documents.

The newspaper was published in March 2016.

The front page featured a black-and-white photograph. It showed a bespectacled, gaunt-faced Korean man deep in thought, staring at a chessboard.

The title is only one line long, but it's shocking:

On the eve of the man-machine battle: Google's AlphaGo will challenge world champion Lee Sedol.

Lin Che threw the newspaper to Wang Jian.

"Did you see this?"

Wang Jian glanced at it, somewhat disdainfully: "It's just hype. Go is the crown jewel of human wisdom, how could a computer possibly win? Twenty years ago, Deep Blue won chess, but that was by brute force. The variations in Go are more numerous than the atoms in the universe, so brute force is completely useless."

"Yes, that's what everyone thinks."

Lin Che looked at Lee Sedol's confident expression in the newspaper, his eyes becoming deep and unfathomable.

Memories of my past life flooded back like a tide.

That was in the spring of 2016.

The moment AlphaGo fell, all of humanity felt despair. It wasn't a victory of computing power; it was a victory of "intuition." AI had learned to think like humans, even more ruthlessly and precisely.

That week was dubbed the "Year Zero of AI".

Since then, Nvidia's stock price has increased fiftyfold. All the companies that control computing power and data have become the oil tycoons of the new era.

"Wang Jian."

Lin Che's voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable sense of prophecy.

What if I told you Lee Sedol would lose?

"And it was a crushing defeat."

"Out of five games, I might only win one."

Wang Jian's eyes widened: "That's impossible! Lee Sedol is a fourteen-time world champion! That AlphaGo is just..."

"It's just a monster made up of a few thousand GPUs."

Lin Che interrupted him.

"It's essentially the same kind of monster as the server room you built yourself."

"However, what Google feeds it is chess records."

"And what we feed it..."

Lin Che pointed to the 450PB data on the screen.

"It is the real human world."

The air suddenly became quiet.

The only sound was the roar of the server fans, which no longer sounded like noise, but rather like the breathing of some kind of enormous creature.

Wang Jian looked at Lin Che.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was a stranger.

He thought Lin Che was a business genius who was taking advantage of information asymmetry to profit from the live streaming industry.

But he only realized it now.

Live streaming? That was just bait Lin Che casually threw out to feed this AI behemoth. Those live streaming platforms that fought tooth and nail for it were nothing more than free feeders.

"Boss......."

Wang Jian swallowed, feeling his throat go dry.

"If Lee Sedol really loses..."

"If he loses."

Lin Che walked to the floor-to-ceiling window—although this was a basement, he had a huge virtual floor-to-ceiling window screen installed, displaying a real-time street view of the ground.

"Then hot money from all over the world will flock to the AI field like mad dogs."

"GPUs will become a currency harder than gold."

"Companies that own data will have their valuation increased by zero."

Lin Che reached out and pressed his hand on the virtual screen, as if trying to grasp something from afar.

"We made 200 million yuan in this live-streaming battle. Is that a lot?"

"No."

"That's just the admission ticket."

"The next gamble is on the Go board. But the stakes are technological dominance over the next decade."

Lin Che turned around, his eyes flashing with an almost insane calmness.

"Wang Jian, notify the finance department."

"Transfer all 50 million that Douyu just transferred to our overseas account."

"What are you doing?" Wang Jian asked instinctively.

"Buy a graphics card?"

"No."

A mysterious smile appeared on Lin Che's lips.

"Go buy Nvidia call options."

"Increase leverage by ten times."

"I bet... humanity will lose."

Wang Jian felt a chill run down his spine.

Is this gambling with the fate of the nation? No, it's gambling with the fate of its people.

But when he looked into Lin Che's eyes, those eyes that seemed to have seen through the river of time, his rational heart as an engineer began to waver.

"it is good."

Wang Jian took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind.

"I'll take care of it."

"in addition......."

Lin Che called out to Wang Jian, who was about to turn around.

He pointed to Project Alpha on the screen.

"Prioritize this project to the highest level."

"Change the name."

"What's your name?"

Lin Che pondered for a moment.

In its previous life, the AI that defeated humans in Go was called AlphaGo.

In this life, he aims to create more than just a chess-playing machine.