Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Chapter 927 Learning Ability

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At 10:00 a.m. the following morning, in the largest conference hall of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

The entire hall has a ceiling height of over nine meters, which is three times that of the other floors, and it is the only conference hall on the entire floor.

Normally, this place also serves as the venue for Youxing Electronic Entertainment's live broadcasts, and occasionally some important meetings are also held here.

Whenever this conference room is open, it means that the company will announce something important.

The last time this lobby was open was when the Switch was announced and everyone was brainstorming ideas.

"What topic does the president plan to discuss today?" a manager from the Sixth Development Department asked the person next to him in a low voice.

Meanwhile, the manager of the Seventh Development Department shook his head and said, "I don't know, there's absolutely no word of it."

"Hehe, you all don't know, do you? I know a lot."

On the other side, the managers of the Fourth Development Department seemed somewhat smug.

He watched the whole thing yesterday. Although he doesn't know exactly what that artificial intelligence is all about, he definitely knows more than anyone else.

"Then tell me already! Why are you keeping me in suspense?"

"Okay, then I..."

"Good morning, managers. It's 10:00 AM. Let's begin the meeting."

Just as the manager of the Fourth Development Department was about to say something, Zhu Youxing appeared on the podium at the front of the conference room and announced the start of the meeting.

"Since you are all managers working in different product development departments, I will keep it brief. I called you here today to announce a new technology that we plan to introduce next. This technology is artificial intelligence technology, which is AI that is currently popular."

Zhu Youxing paused for a moment, then clicked the control button in front of him, and the large screen behind him lit up.

On the big screen, it appears to be a laboratory where a group of seemingly ethereal young people are either slouching in chairs or simply lying on the floor, fast asleep.

"What...is this going on?"

"I...I don't know."

Zhu Youxing was also stunned when he saw this scene. What's wrong with these people?

However, he quickly realized that these people must have been working hard all day to finish the project he had requested.

"Mr. Benedict, are you there?" Zhu Youxing asked Benedict in an attempt to ease the awkwardness.

"Ah, Mr. Takeyu, I'm sorry, I was a little sleepy just now. I guess I'm getting old."

"You've all worked hard. It seems I pushed you a bit too hard..."

"No, no, no, Mr. Zhuyou, all of this is voluntary. We also want to complete the demonstration you wanted as soon as possible. Once it's done, it will be very inspiring for us too. To be honest, Mr. Zhuyou, your idea is really brilliant!"

Everyone in the conference hall was somewhat confused, wondering what was going on.

Is this lab, with its artificial intelligence and all that—these the new technologies the president wants to introduce?

"That demonstration..."

"We can start now. This demonstration went much more smoothly than expected. I'll switch over our training footage now."

After Benedict finished speaking, a series of clattering sounds rang out, and then the image on the big screen seemed to switch to a computer screen.

There's only one program on the screen right now, it looks like... a game?

Everyone stared intently at the program on the screen.

The program looked rather rudimentary.

Or should this be considered a game?

It's called a game because the program is currently displaying a flat scene without textures, common in game development engines. In the flat scene, there are some square blocks or triangles, and not far away, there are two rather simple little human models, two blue and two red, both of which are smiling.

The audience began to whisper among themselves: "Is this a demonstration of how to make games faster?"

"Shouldn't we use a more complex game scenario to demonstrate that?"

"I can figure out a game like this in half an hour."

"You only have half an hour, just give me twenty minutes."

"Hehe, I'll have ten minutes..."

"I……"

"Go ahead and scramble. Society is going to be destroyed by your scrambling. But to be honest, developing a game like this isn't that difficult, since we have the most powerful Unreal Engine."

When it comes to Unreal Engine, everyone present feels proud.

The world's top game development engine can easily handle any game, whether you want to create action games, high-definition games, 2D games, side-scrolling games, or even pixel games.

This is the capital accumulated over decades.

Countless game companies not only use Unreal Engine but also contribute the code they use when developing games with the engine.

This code then becomes part of the Unreal Engine, helping to improve the Unreal Engine in game development.

This is equivalent to countless people feeding Unreal Engine with experience, allowing it to grow rapidly to a level that no newcomer can catch up with.

"It's obvious that the president isn't showing us how fast the game was made; he probably wants to demonstrate something else."

Some employees who are familiar with Zhuyouxing have already begun to make their own speculations.

"That makes sense. The president should never do anything meaningless."

Zhu Youxing then spoke up, "I think everyone might still be a little confused, so let me give you a brief introduction."

"This demonstration is not really a game, because there are no players involved in the game. It is just a demonstration. The red and blue figures in the game are not players, but artificial intelligence itself."

"What you are seeing now is how artificial intelligence, through countless training sessions, is constantly finding unexpected developments in the game."

As Zhu Youxing spoke, he gestured to Benedict to start the program.

Benedict immediately clicked "Run," and then the red and blue figures on the big screen began to perform simple, random movements.

"Regarding the program, my request to Benedict is to set different requirements for the red and blue characters in the program."

"The red team is responsible for catching the blue guy, while the blue guy needs to avoid being caught by the red guy before time runs out."

"And that's all the program is set up for now, fast forward."

Benedict quickly adjusted the screen.

It seems that an hour has really passed.

The red and blue figures seem to follow some pattern.

The blue character begins to learn how to evade the red character's capture.

Chapter 928 The Frenzied Iteration of AI

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"Hmm...this is interesting. These little people are actually starting to try to dodge. Aren't these human-controlled characters?"

"Since the president said that all of this is done by artificial intelligence on its own, then it must be true. The president would not lie to us about this."

Zhu Youxing didn't know exactly what the people below the stage were discussing, but he guessed pretty much what they were talking about.

He continued his explanation: "After an hour of artificial intelligence training, the red and blue figures have begun to adopt different coping strategies."

"The blue little people began to try to evade the red little people's pursuit. First, they hid in fixed shelters, but there were gaps in the shelters that the red little people could squeeze through and catch. So, after learning, the blue little people figured out that they could use the movable blocks to block those gaps and avoid being caught. As a result, the red little people seemed to be at a loss and didn't know how to catch the blue little people."

As Zhu Youxing explained, everyone present became increasingly focused.

Because they find it interesting.

All behaviors are the result of continuous training under artificial intelligence.

In other words, artificial intelligence is also beginning to have the ability to think?

That's interesting, very interesting.

At this moment, some people even forgot that they came to the meeting today to hear how Zhuyouxing integrates AI into video games.

"Okay, let's continue for another hour."

Benedict on the screen began adjusting again.

To prepare for this demonstration, he used his most powerful computer to calculate for an entire day, recording the results every hour, which resulted in the complete demonstration.

Zhu Youxing continued to explain: "After an hour of training, the little red people who were originally at a loss found a new way to deal with it. They discovered that the triangular structure could be climbed, allowing them to jump over the obstacles and enter the area where the little blue people were hiding to catch them."

The demonstration on the screen quickly showed two red figures dragging two triangles to the side of the bunker, then using the ramps of the triangles to climb up the wall of the bunker, and then jumping down to catch the blue figure hiding inside the bunker.

"At this point, the little blue man began another endless period of being frantically grabbed, and then the next hour would begin."

The scene changes again, and this time the blue character has the upper hand once more.

The blue figure discovered that it could drag the triangular objects that helped it climb the slope into cover before the game started, and then block the passage, leaving the red figure helpless.

Without the ability to climb, the red figure seems to have no way to catch the blue figure anymore.

However, an hour later, the little red man found a new method.

And so, every now and then, the blue and red figures would discover some very strange ways to win, and as the balance of power shifted, their methods of catching and dodging became increasingly astonishing.

In the end, the little blue man sometimes comes up with some very bizarre ways to evade capture: he runs as far away as possible, and as long as he runs far enough, he won't get caught.

Meanwhile, the red character also began to exploit some very inconspicuous bugs and loopholes in the game to catch the blue character.

The people present were increasingly dumbfounded.

"This...is this something a computer can do? I feel like even humans would need a very long time to figure out these operations."

"Is this the reality, this power of artificial intelligence, without needing to feel anything?"

"I think I've thought of something. What do you think? If we added this AI learning ability to the bosses in Sekiro, would those bosses become invincible forever?"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone around him turned to look at him.

The man felt extremely uncomfortable being stared at: "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Are you even human? If you give those bosses AI capabilities, will the players still have a chance to play? Then is the game playing the players, or are the players playing the game?"

While the difficulty adjustment in Sekiro may seem to make every enemy extremely powerful and difficult to deal with, the difficulty curve of each enemy is actually carefully designed.