"Have you ever communicated with them?" Hinton became interested, full of curiosity about this mysterious Dream team. "If we can confirm it, no, you should contact him and see if this Meng is the same Meng from the Dream team."

"If we can contact them in advance, it will be very advantageous for us."

Nowadays, major technology companies are gradually expanding into the AI industry. Our team joined Google at the beginning of the year, and another AI giant, Lekun, who is at the same level as us, recently announced plans to join Facebook.

The battle for AI talent is becoming more and more intense. As one of the main leaders in the AI direction at Google, Hinton naturally does not want to fall behind in this matter.

"If we can negotiate the terms of cooperation with him before he reveals his identity and contact information at the conference, and persuade him to join Google, it will greatly reduce communication and time costs, not to mention the issue of money."

Hinton and Alex recalled the time when they were first recruited, and it was really overwhelming. All the companies extended olive branches and bid against each other, which resulted in them having to negotiate repeatedly.

Although it feels great to negotiate and increase the price by hundreds of thousands of dollars each time, it is troublesome. However, they still enjoyed it. Counting money until their hands cramped, sometimes even negotiating in their dreams.

But times have changed, and their way of thinking has completely changed in less than a year.

"There is still less than a month left. I will contact him first." Alex felt that there was still enough time. "If possible, I will try to meet him before the conference starts and try to reach an agreement with the company in advance."

"That's good. For this conference, I will personally go to Australia." Hinton's back was seriously injured, and he rarely sat down in recent years, let alone long-distance travel. This is also the main reason why he ultimately refused Baidu.

"Sir, what about your back?" Alex was worried when he heard this.

"Just for this result, it's worth it for me to go in person." Hinton waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to worry. Occasionally taking a trip is still manageable. The days are not so tight now, and there won't be much problem lying in first class for a while.

"For people in the field of AI, it's still worth giving me some face." Hinton is ready to go in person, and this attention is what many people who were hesitant to come need. After seeing Hinton, they will no longer hesitate.

"Besides, I'm very curious about someone who can surpass us in so many ways so quickly."

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After the results of the rankings came out, Meng Fanqi had been surfing intensively, searching for the latest information and reports on AI and the competition on the internet.

He paid so much attention to the news not only to satisfy his vanity, well, not just for that little vanity.

More importantly, he wanted to pay attention to the comments and interviews related to the competition, and see which companies and media are already paying attention to the event and the related field at such an early stage.

After searching for two days, there was no news. Meng Fanqi thought that he might have to wait until the end of the competition to see bigger media coverage, but he didn't expect that The New York Times published a news flash today.

The title was "AIDream: A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities."

Meng Fanqi looked at the title and felt a little dissatisfied.

The performance of DreamNet actually exceeded human capabilities, but The New York Times used the word "rivals" in the title, which not only means reaching human level, but also implies competition.

This is slightly different from what Meng Fanqi hoped for.

However, Meng Fanqi was still very satisfied with The New York Times itself. The newspaper has been established for nearly two hundred years and is not limited to the United States alone.

It has a wide distribution around the world and has a high influence.

And The New York Times as a whole has a serious and classical style, completely devoid of the annoying sensationalism of new media.

"Shocking! All humans are defeated by it?" "How far is it from ruling humans? AI has surpassed humans!"

If it were this style of reporting, it would definitely be a cure for low blood pressure.

Meng Fanqi clicked on The New York Times' report webpage and saw a familiar name right away, the author, Markov.

This person is highly skilled in the field of technology reporting and has been in the industry for more than 40 years. Among the first people in the United States to pay attention to and report on the Internet, there is Markov.

The reason why Meng Fanqi has some impression of him is mainly because many Silicon Valley big shots, such as Jobs and others, trust Markov very much.

They often give him exclusive interviews and exclusive news. Many news that Meng Fanqi has read in his previous life, such as the news about Google's self-driving cars, came from the reports of this senior technology journalist.

"I didn't expect that he would personally write this article. It's really surprising." Meng Fanqi marveled.

Mr. Markov's wording is quite restrained and rigorous. "Computer researchers have made new advances in AI technology recently - AI technology can now demonstrate abilities surpassing humans in a small number of vision-related tasks."

"The breakthrough and improvement of this technology are worth paying attention to, because the so-called computer vision systems have become ubiquitous in many aspects of life. These breakthroughs in new technologies come from the scale expansion of neural networks and the development of computing devices."

Neural networks can be trained to recognize human speech, detect objects in images, or identify various behaviors by touching a large number of examples.Even though this type of network is modeled after the behavior of biological neurons, they are not yet capable of learning new concepts as quickly as humans. However, in this year's annual academic machine vision competition, this approach has for the first time broken through human limitations.

The competition is known as the "IMAGENET Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge", where teams composed of researchers from academic, government, and corporate laboratories compete against each other to design programs that can both classify and detect objects. This year, a team of researchers from China won the award."

The team that achieved this result is called "Dream", which to some extent symbolizes that the human pursuit of the AI dream is gradually being realized. It is reported that the official conference and report of the competition will be held in Australia in December."

The article is very short, after all, this is just a news flash, not a full report, or a front-page headline.

However, Meng Fanqi was quite satisfied with it, because the highlight of the competition, the final conference, has not yet been held. The relevant researchers have not yet gathered together, and many big shots are not as eager as he is to check the leaderboard.

The fact that the results on the leaderboard have attracted the attention of major media like the New York Times is quite rare.

Perhaps for this reason, the overall description feels very restrained. Meng Fanqi read it again, carefully pondering the wording in the text, and felt that the mainstream media's attitude towards this technology is still relatively conservative.

Even Markov, who is so focused on and supportive of AI and new technologies, does not have a clear positive bias in his wording throughout the article.

"It seems that these algorithms are still too early for the world at this time." Meng Fanqi closed the report webpage and shook his head slightly. "Taking too big a step, and it's backfired."