After Li Rui asked the question, he clearly saw that Hasabis and Leg's faces were a little stiff.

"Can we give us a few minutes to discuss?" Hasabis asked.

Li Rui nodded: "Of course, if my request is too unreasonable, you can refuse it at all. This will not change our view of deepmind."

Hasabis and Leg went out and discussed for about ten minutes. When they came back, they all had a spirit of "the wind was whistling and the water was cold, and the heroes never returned once they left."

"Korai will show you the code." Hasabis said.

Korai Kagukuoglu is the head of the software torch used by deepmind to build and train deep neural networks. He brought everyone to a strictly protected computer, entered a long list of very complex passwords, and turned on the background code.

Li Rui couldn't understand at all, and Dalula seemed to understand. Although Professor Hinton was a theorist, his actual operation might not be better than anyone present. Only Ilya was a master in this field. He looked through the code very seriously and read it without saying a word for fifteen minutes.

Then Ilya took a long breath and looked at Kaguku Ogru with great admiration and said, "Obviously, you have put in a lot of effort in the code, you know what you are doing!"

This is a very high evaluation.

For cutting-edge science like artificial intelligence, the highest evaluation of a scientist is probably "he knows what he is doing"!

The investigation has come to an end, and the next step is negotiation.

This will not be a long negotiation, because Li Rui realized that deepmind was facing a very huge problem--they had no money!

Research on artificial intelligence is a very expensive project, and there is almost no profit in a short period of time. It is simply a dream to rely on a group of people to achieve their goals. This is why Hinton sold his research, and it is also a difficult problem encountered by deepmind.

The funds raised from Thiel, Elon and others are almost exhausted. Although I don’t know how long it will last, the analysis of Hassabis and Legge’s somewhat anxious mood should not be too long, maybe a few months or weeks.

Once there is no financial support, it means that deepmind will soon fall and scatter. Top researchers like Graves and Kaguku Oglu can easily find jobs with annual salary of hundreds of thousands or even millions of magnesium in other companies. They gather here for their ideals, but if they cannot pay for the bread they buy in supermarkets, they can only give up their ideal choice and return to reality.

Thiel obviously will not fund deepmind anymore, so they can only rely on existing technology to find buyers who are interested and able to provide enough funds.

According to information provided by Professor Hinton, Google is one of them. Now the R incubator represented by Dalula has joined the competition. There may be other potential buyers, but the main opponent is Google, which has Google's brain.

At the beginning of the negotiations, Hasabis proposed a series of conditions on behalf of deepmind, the most important condition is that deepmind will maintain absolute independence after the acquisition.

This was once a promise made by the three founders to all members when deepmind was first established. Although it seems a bit naive now, Li Rui has also seen a promise that is more naive than this. Yes, what he is talking about is the three principles of whatsapp's stupid...

Li Rui had no intention of integrating deepmind into any of its industries. In his opinion, this project should develop independently and provide technical support for other industries in the future. If Xingrui's industry is an ecosystem, the artificial intelligence technology of redo and deepmind is similar to energy providers such as sunlight, soil, and air, providing the entire ecosystem with energy that can continuously grow. ωωw..net

Next, Hasabis proposed two more conditions: no matter what happens in the future, deepmind's technology should not be applied to the military field.

Another point is that Hassabis hopes to establish an independent ethics committee to oversee their use of general artificial intelligence technologies.

These two points seem a bit overwhelming. After all, artificial intelligence currently uses bricks to imitate human handwriting. Is it too early to consider military and even moral and ethical issues?

But judging from the negotiation attitude of Hasabis and others, they were very serious and not a joke.

On the contrary, in terms of price, their requirements are not high, with a quotation of 800 million magnesium.

This is a very high price, especially compared to the company that acquired Professor Hinton, which is 20 times higher.

But considering that Professor Hinton has only three people and technology is still theoretically still, deepmind has gathered fifty of the best researchers and engineers in the field of artificial intelligence and has produced very impressive results, the price seems acceptable.

During the negotiations, everyone had lunch together and continued to discuss until about two o'clock. Both sides were talking freely. The deepmind requirements were not harsh, and Li Rui did not bargain too much. The overall atmosphere was always well maintained.

At 2:30, the afternoon tea time for Londoners came, and everyone came to the lounge and picked up their coffee to chat.

Li Rui pointed to the TV hanging on the wall: "Can you turn on the TV and watch the NBA game broadcast? My team has a playoff game today."

Everyone was stunned.

Talula smiled and explained to them: "Li Rui is the owner of the NBA Houston Rockets."

Hasabis said in surprise: "Li, I didn't expect you to be a sports tycoon!"

Dalula said: "He not only owns a basketball team, he has just acquired Crystal Palace."

"Crystal Palace!" Everyone was shocked.

For these science and engineering researchers in London, it doesn’t matter if Li Rui acquires basketball, ice hockey, rugby, baseball, and it’s too far from them.

But Li Rui actually acquired a football team, and it is Crystal Palace, which has a fan base in London. This is amazing!

Eagle country man,

Li Rui said: "There won't be any Brighton fans among you, right?"

Everyone laughed and shook their heads.

In the Eagle Gran Football League, Crystal Palace is not as jealous as Arsenal and Tottenham, Manchester United, Liverpool, Liverpool and Everton, but also has old opponents who are entangled with each other's fate. Brighton is one of them. Currently, the two teams are chasing each other on the Eagle Crown rankings, fighting to the death for the playoffs.

If there are fans of Brighton in deepmind, it would be really hard to deal with!
Chapter completed!