The history of game AI evolution, the only thing that can stop AlphaGo may be Werewolf

  "Stimulate the battlefield below the golden level, 80 AI in one game", this is a topic that cannot be avoided recently about mobile PUBG.

  Regardless of whether the chicken-eating mobile game is really ***ting cold, after all, it is not uncommon for such a hundred-person online mobile game to use robots to make up numbers to speed up the matching rhythm. But why, almost everyone who has played the exciting battlefield will invariably question – "These are all robots, right?" The answer is obvious, the robots used to make up numbers are really ******.

  Without collecting equipment, without looking for cover, with poor marksmanship, and slow response… In a game where everyone has a lot of tricks, these special players are like couriers delivering equipment, which is very abrupt. Even if it is to take care of the gaming experience of novice players, but in high-end games, they will also encounter such "silly and sweet", which makes people wonder: Can’t these AIs be smarter?

  Today, we will discuss the past, present, and future of AI players in the history of gaming.

  Evolution history of game AI

  Since the birth of video games, there has been a shadow of game AI, whether it is the earliest oscilloscope tennis or tic-tac-toe, especially in the past when multiplayer online games were still trapped in the difficulty of popularizing network technology. AI in stand-alone games has become the most reliable companion for players and the absolute overlord of the game world at that time.

  In a sense, the prototype of video game AI may have already appeared in the classic arcade game "Pac-Man". At that time, the AI in the game was beginning to rise around the world, and "Pac-Man" at that time made a great attempt in this regard. There are a total of 4 different colors of monsters in the game, and each monster has a different pursuit algorithm, and all monsters have a unified goal of encircling and chasing. Therefore, in the game at that time, those monsters did not line up to chase the player, but "chased and intercepted" the player from different paths and methods, and there may be different choices at each intersection. This mechanism has made Pac-Man a significant attempt for modern video game AI, and has also made Pac-Man a classic in the hearts of gamers.

  Since then, more classic games have begun to revolve around opposing AI characters, such as Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda, Prince of Persia, and Mega Man 2. In these popular games, AI has become the key to ensuring the game experience and controlling the difficulty of the game. At that time, the core of the game was actually the confrontation between the player and the AI, but in different ways.

  At that time, the ultimate purpose of AI was to let players defeat and then gain a sense of achievement. However, AI at that time was still in the "pseudo-intelligence" stage, and the actions of the relevant virtual characters in the game were based on a series of scripts set in advance based on the conditional judgment language.

  However, as game types and gameplay have evolved, the roles and functions of AI have also changed. A typical example of this is 1987’s Metal Gear, in which AI first appeared in the game as a player’s equivalent, was given the role of patrol, and for the first time added the hostile reaction mechanism to the player. This mechanism gradually formed the enemy alarm mode of the core NPC in the Metal Gear series. The appearance of this AI mode also further expanded the mission and role scope of AI in the game.

  With the rapid development of hardware, algorithms, and computing power in the video game industry over the past 30 years, the pace of evolution of AI in games has gradually widened compared to that of human players. Especially at that time, most game mechanics were testing the player’s reaction and operation. In these aspects, AI has quickly destroyed humans. First-person shooter games are a good example.

  Starting with Counter Strike in 1999 and then Road to Survival, Valve laid the foundation for AI in FPS games, but in the early years, robots in CS have always been one of the places where players complain. At that time, robots were responsible for filling vacancies in the game. They had no other role than being cannon fodder and meat shields, because they basically acted according to easy-to-master rules, and most non-novice players could easily kill them.

  However, it is not difficult for those familiar with FPS games to find that in recent years, the AI in many FPS games has become more and more "brutal", and the difficulty level has also increased. In many cases, the highest difficulty AI combat power has far exceeded that of most players. In a recent online elite game of "CS: GO", there was an amazing scene – a robot named BOT Connor single-handedly killed the members of the opposing team.

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  Today, AI is beginning to surpass humans in all aspects of different games, and even the various chess games that humans are proud of have long been beaten by IBM, Google and other tech giants. Not long ago, Go was completely lost without accident.

  Humans are responsible for inventing games, while AI is responsible for conquering games and players, which seems to be an irreversible trend. But in fact, there is always a battlefield in the field of games, where AI cannot completely defeat humans.

  Real-time strategy, humanity’s last "high ground"?

  After AlphaGo’s 3-0 victory over Ke Jie in May last year, many people lamented that humanity had become a complete catch-up on the road of "Game". However, AlphaGo did not think so, because it has another goal – "StarCraft".

  As early as 2016, after AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, Deepmind announced that it would challenge StarCraft players with AI in the future. But a year later, when AlphaGo was already alone in the Go world, AI was still "crushed" by top human players in the game of StarCraft. Google’s DeepMind practiced for a year and couldn’t even beat simple NPCs. In a game at the end of 2017, CherryPi from Facebook AI Research Institute was also swept by South Korean former professional player Song Bingju 0:4.

  The momentum of AI’s destruction in other fields seemed to stop abruptly in the face of StarCraft, all because of the characteristic mechanism of games like StarCraft, the fog of war.

  "StarCraft" is a game like Go, but the addition of the "Fog of War" mechanism has become a gap that AI cannot cross.

  In the game of Go, both sides could see each other’s current situation at any time, which meant that the player had no hidden information, and all the information in the past was clear at a glance. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one’s enemy depended on the player’s thorough understanding and imagination of the rules of the game.

  In real-time strategy games such as StarCraft, the fog of war makes it impossible for both sides to know all the information in the game. In this case, based on the limited information collected to make judgments and decisions about the dynamic situation, when to do what, many times need to rely on inference and guesswork. This is the "incomplete information game" that makes AI headaches, and games like Warcraft, Dota, etc. belong to this category.

  There is a common phenomenon between top AI and humans in such games – winning the battle and losing the war. If you analyze the gap between AI and humans, intuitively, it mainly lies in the "big picture" and "rhythm" aspects.

  As Geek Park mentioned in the previous article "Win Go first, then win the tower, and how can artificial intelligence catch up with humans in the game?", in this type of game, the change of strength is more dynamic, no one is absolutely strong and weak, the real winner may be at a certain point in time to seize the weakness of the other party, and the judgment of this point in time is a complex decision made through investigation and empirical judgment. Both sides of the game can change the direction of the battlefield by inducing and feigning attacks. Even if they are weak, they can achieve the transformation of the situation through some psychological games.

  When to attack, when to retreat, where to attack, divide and outflank, sneak attack and harassment, feint and lure… In the incomplete information, it is difficult for the AI to tease out absolutely valid logic to support the decision, so it is difficult to make key judgments at the right time.

  Therefore, in the past, many real-time strategy games could only improve their AI level by increasing their AI resource income, building speed, and fully opening the map. Under the same restrictions as human players, it was difficult to simply rely on operations to win the entire game.

  Where is the future of gaming AI?

  Perhaps AI will soon be able to defeat humans in the field of real-time strategy games, but that is not the future of gaming AI.

  With the investment and guidance of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and IBM in this regard, it is not surprising that AI is likely to defeat humans in real-time strategy games in the future. For humans, it is more important to make better use of the development of AI to provide players with a better gaming experience. Just like when AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, AlphaGo did not destroy the 3,000-year-old game, but opened the door to a new world of Go for humans through its own advantages.

  Regarding the exploration of the future of game AI, the famous game masterpiece "GTA5" is a perfect case. This open game with high realism and complexity has huge randomness, providing players with an unprecedented gaming experience. What’s more interesting is that this game has also become an experimental field for many autonomous driving AI. Intel Labs, Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany and Princeton University have all chosen to use the "GTA5" game to train artificial intelligence for autonomous driving.

  You know, smarter AI in the game can do far more than just defeat opponents, more importantly, according to the development of the plot and player characteristics, to provide a more perfect game experience, which can be dynamically increased difficulty, of course, can also be reduced, everything is to make the game more interesting to play.

  There is no need to worry too much about whether AI will eventually defeat humans, after all, we still have Werewolves. If one day AI can really read words, read expressions, and tone, and then deceive all humans to win, that will be the end of AI…

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What is the difference between Xiaodu at home 1S and Xiaodu at home? A picture will answer you in detail!

  Introduction:As an evolved version, what is the difference between Xiaodu Home 1S and the previous generation product Xiaodu Home? You may wish to find out through the following table.

  With the rise of the concept of smart home, smart speakers, known as the entrance to smart homes, have gradually emerged and become a hot product in the market. Recently, as a latecomer in the field of smart speakers, Baidu has once again made efforts to bring a new product to the majority of consumers – Xiaodu Home 1S.

  Xiaodu Home 1S is an evolved version of Xiaodu Home, the first smart video speaker in China. The biggest selling point of this product is that it can communicate intimately with humans and provide on-demand services, from listening to songs and watching dramas to early education companionship.

  So as an evolved version, what is the difference between Xiaodu Home 1S and the previous generation product Xiaodu Home? As shown in the table, the content of winning the bidding red is the difference between these two products. First of all, let’s compare the design of Xiaodu Home 1S and Xiaodu Home.

   Xiaodu Home S1 uses a simple and elegant integrated shape, with a total of red/white colors to choose from; while Xiaodu Home uses a four-color fabric surface splicing shape, which is more selective in color than Xiaodu Home S1. It is available in red/gray/black/green.

    In terms of product specifications, both the Xiaodu Home 1S and Xiaodu Home are equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen. The entire host size of Xiaodu Home 1S is 190mm * 109mm * 185mm, with a gross weight of 150g. The entire host size of Xiaodu Home is 192mm * 125mm * 192mm, with a gross weight of 140g. The former is smaller and more portable than the latter.

    On the camera, small degree at home equipped with a 78 ° wide-angle 5 million pixel camera, small degree at home 1S equipped with 84 ° wide-angle 2 million pixel camera, compared to the former, small degree at home 1S new skin beauty algorithm function, for many users love to take pictures brought more fun, Baidu network disk, can share up to 200,000 massive electronic album.

   In addition, Xiaodu has a built-in 6-microphone ring array at home, and Xiaodu’s home 1S has a built-in 3-microphone ring array; in terms of far-field voice, Xiaodu can easily communicate within 10 meters at home, while Xiaodu’s home 1S only supports about 5 meters.

   In the same way, both products use a 10W high fidelity sound unit, which supports 360 ° pickup, automatic echo cancellation and intelligent noise reduction processing.

   According to the current market price, Xiaodu is priced at 499 yuan for 1S at home, Baidu artificial intelligence subsidizes 100 yuan, and a limited-time discount of 329 yuan for new products; Xiaodu is priced at 499 yuan at home. Interested consumers and friends can buy according to their own situation.

Wei Tao and Wanda Group Chairperson Wang Jianlin held working talks

  On October 24, Wei Tao, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, held a working meeting with Wang Jianlin, chairperson of Wanda Group, to deepen strategic cooperation and promote project construction. Gao Yimin, senior vice president of Wanda Group, and municipal leaders Pei Yaojun, Chen Bo, and Li Yongqiang attended.

  Wei Tao, on behalf of the municipal party committee and municipal government, welcomed Wang Jianlin and his party to visit and inspect, and introduced the advantages of Taiyuan’s industrial development, location and transportation, especially cultural and tourism resources. He said that Taiyuan has a long history and profound heritage, beautiful mountains and rivers and pleasant climate, and has a reputation of "Splendid Taiyuan City" since ancient times. In recent years, we have thoroughly implemented the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary’s inspection and investigation of Shanxi’s important speeches, conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Provincial Party Committee, based on our own comparative advantages, vigorously developed the cultural and tourism industry, and made every effort to build an important cultural and tourism destination at home and abroad. Taiyuan’s attractiveness and influence continue to increase. Wanda Group has long been deeply involved in the cultural and tourism sector, and has first-class innovative planning and management and operation It is hoped that Wanda Group will give full play to its brand, resources and team advantages, expand cooperation models and expand cooperation fields in cultural tourism, sports events, business operations, etc., and plan and implement a number of high-standard and high-quality cultural tourism projects to achieve win-win development. Taiyuan City will set up a special class to strengthen communication and docking, ensure elements, and provide all-round services and create the most favorable conditions for the development of enterprises.

  Wang Jianlin expressed his gratitude to the municipal party committee and municipal government for the great importance attached to this return visit. He said that he came to Taiyuan again after many years and felt that it was a worthwhile trip. Taiyuan’s rich historical heritage, beautiful urban environment, strong development trend and rich cultural and tourism resources left a deep impression. Wanda Group is full of confidence in cooperating with Taiyuan and will combine Taiyuan’s resource endowments to highlight originality, locality and repeated consumption. In-depth cooperation in cultural and tourism projects, sports events and other fields will create a new business card for the city of cultural and tourism business, and contribute to the economic and social development of Taiyuan.

  During the merger, Wang Jianlin and his party went to Jinci, Taiyuan Ancient County, bell tower Street, Jinyang Lake Park, Shuangta Park and other scenic spots for on-the-spot inspections to learn more about the city’s cultural tourism industry planning, project layout, and facility construction.

(Reprinted from Taiyuan News Network)

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British experts say this is not the first time MH370 has been found on Google Maps

  According to the British media "Mirror", British technologist Ian Wilson claims to have found the crashed MH370 passenger plane on Google Maps, lying quietly in the jungle of Cambodia.

  Many netizens searched based on the Google Maps coordinates provided by Wilson (12.089059, 104.151882), and indeed saw the same image.

  But is this really MH370, which has been missing for four and a half years? Suspicions abound, and so far there is no conclusive evidence to confirm this claim.

       In fact, this is not the first time someone has claimed to have found MH370 on Google Maps.

  Off the coast of Padang, Indonesia

  According to the British media "Daily Star", in July this year, some netizens posted a screenshot of Google Maps on social networking sites, pointing out that the picture depicted the crashed passenger plane MH370, which crashed off the coast of Padang, Indonesia.

  The news quickly spread, and many people believed it to be true. According to Xingzhou.com, Eddie, the head of the Indonesian Padang Disaster Management Committee, then "refuted the rumor", saying that the pictures posted online showed traces of posting productin, and the Indonesian government had never received relevant information.

  Near the Round Island of Mauritius

  According to Fox News, in March this year, Australian amateur air crash investigator Peter McMahon said that he had carefully studied Google Maps and confirmed that the wreckage of MH370 was located 16 kilometers south of Round Island in Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. He has given the information to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and also claims that the fuselage of the plane is full of bullet holes.

  A spokesperson for Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre said McMahon contacted the Australian Transport Safety Bureau via Facebook and email in 2016 and 2017, but the date of sending the pictures was November 6, 2009, four years before MH370 disappeared.

  South Africa’s Cape Coast

  According to the Daily Mail, in March 2016, Scott Waring, editor of the daily UFO sighting newspaper, reported that while searching for UFO sightings on Google Maps, he had accidentally found the wreckage of a plane suspected to be MH370 off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

  Mr. Waring said the satellite photo, taken on June 27, 2015, was 16 months away from the accident, and that it was most likely to have drifted there, based on Australian models of currents that floated MH370. But no debris was found in the area in subsequent searches.

  The Operational Secrets Behind Google Maps

  Since the disappearance of MH370, almost the whole world has been actively searching, and many ordinary people also want to do their part. Google Maps has become one of the most efficient search tools.

  According to British technology media Stuff, Google Maps spokeswoman Susan Cadrecha said that Google occasionally captures some difficult-to-explain images, especially objects moving at high speed underwater, such as fish, water currents, etc., which may form an airplane-like outline and give people the illusion.

  However, Google Maps does capture "special effects images" of real aircraft.

  A plane appears to have landed on a rooftop in central Adelaide, Australia.

A passenger plane is low potential among the trees of Brooklyn, USA.

It looks like a plane is parked in the yard of a family in Paraguay.

  It looks like a plane is parked in the yard of a family in Paraguay.

  Forbes reported that Google Maps uses multiple satellite images to map the world, and satellites occasionally capture aircraft in flight, which may give users the above-mentioned bizarre images.

  Google Maps’ satellite imagery is sourced from DigitalGlobe, a US commercial space imagery and geospatial content provider, whose Earth Imaging Satellite is capable of capturing 30-centimeter resolution images.

  Each of DigitalGlobe’s satellites orbits the Earth 16 times a day and can collect 3 million square kilometers of imagery. Working around the clock, these satellites have long amassed a wealth of data that powers Google Maps.

  In addition, Google has hired a special team to manually check and correct maps using an internal program called "Atlas." Operators not only check for problems reported by tens of thousands of users every day, but also fix them as needed.

  Google Maps’ "Scientific Open Way"

  As well as providing users with navigation, Google Maps has long been a "professional assistant" for explorers and archaeologists.

  Google Maps was first used by an Italian programmer to discover historic sites. He discovered an ancient Roman manor more than 2,000 years ago. Since then, Google Maps has become a weapon for many archaeologists.

  Last October, archaeologists discovered 400 mysterious stone gates estimated to be 9,000 years old in a remote desert in Saudi Arabia using Google Maps.

  David Kennedy, a professor at the University of Western Australia who led the study, said he was contacted by a Saudi doctor with an interest in history who spotted the spectacle on Google Maps. The area is a "hellscape" without vegetation or water, so it has not been explored before.

  The high-resolution images are "democratizing" archaeological research, Mr. Kennedy said.

  In May of this year, a British butterfly scientist named Julian Bayliss discovered the last "secret garden" on Earth with the help of Google Maps.

  According to the technology media The Verge, Belize used Google Maps to observe the African rainforest for 15 years. In 2012, he found a volcano-like mountain range between Mabu and Namuri mountains in northern Mozambique.

  After six years of observation and research, Belize led an expedition into this pristine tropical rainforest in northern Mozambique. The reason why it is called the last mysterious garden on earth is because of its steep terrain and 700 meters above the ground, which keeps this rainforest the most pristine ecology.

  In fact, ordinary people can also use Google Maps to start their own exploration and archaeological journey. Google Earth also added an "Explorer" tool last year, which contains introductions from experts in various fields to help you rediscover this wonderful world.

Why does Andy Lau always make bad movies?

Text | Zhang Ying

edit | Zhao ordinary

"Andy Lau is an entertainer who is deified by all the media."

In a speech on a CCTV program in 2013, Andy Lau commented on himself. But everyone knows that the three words Andy Lau can no longer be summed up in words like "an artist".

 

"There can be people in Hong Kong who don’t know the governor, but no one doesn’t know Andy Lau." The media and the public have many similar evaluations of Andy Lau, constantly pushing him to a higher "mythical" status.

(Andy Lau’s "If Heaven Has Love")

It is undeniable that in the past 40 years of his debut, Andy Lau has many roles that everyone loves to talk about, and has also handed over many quality masterpieces such as "Infernal Affairs", "Heaven Ruoyou Love" and "Sister Tao". But at the same time,Poison Eye(WeChat ID: DomoreDumou)It seems that Andy Lau has been entangled and swayed in bad movies over the years.

A few days ago, the new film "Hot Blood Choir" that he produced and starred in was released. As of now, the box office is less than 50 million, and the rating of Douban is as low as 4.8. This result has awakened many people’s memories of "the bad movies that Andy Lau made these years."

"Buchuan Mountain Residence" is an "iconic bad movie" that he starred in that caused audiences to complain and bad reviews on a large scale. There are more films like "Ace", "Macau 3" and "My Agent Grandpa" with Douban ratings hovering around 3-5 points, and acting in movies with bad reputation. This is what happened to Andy Lau from time to time.

He himself has never been shy about this."I don’t care about scenes. I don’t dare to shoot anything except taking off my clothes."

"Stupid child" | "As long as I don’t take off my clothes, I dare to shoot"

"There is a stupid child born in the 1960s outside the quiet village." Andy Lau wrote and sang this lyric about himself.

 

Born in 1961 in a remote village in Hong Kong, Andy Lau moved to the city at the age of 6 and lived with his family in a slum called Diamond Hill. He knew how to live hard before anyone else: as a teenager, he got up at 4 a.m. to pull water and prepare to sell breakfast, helped out in his shop after school, started doing homework at 10, and slept only about four hours a night.

 

Because he had to help his family’s grocery store and the ice room deliver takeout, and the ice room was near the Jiancheng studio, Andy Lau kept an eye on the phone every day, rushing to answer when the bell rang, in order to go to the studio to deliver takeout and see more stars in the crew.

 

Perhaps because of this influence, after graduating from Secondary Five, Andy Lau applied for the wireless artist training class. At the age of 20, he entered the TVB training class and became a trainee.

 

A year later, Xu Anhua’s "Joining the Sea of Rage" began filming. One of the male leads was originally reserved for Chow Yun-fa, but Chow Yun-fa refused to play due to market considerations. After being recommended, the producers found Andy Lau. At that time, Andy Lau, who was a complete newcomer to the film, was not qualified to worry too much like Chow Yun-fa and firmly seize this precious role opportunity.

"Go to the Sea of Anger" won the earth-shattering wins, good reputation at the same time, also won the box office revenue of 15 million Hong Kong dollars, in 1982, this is the absolute head of the hit film, and the newcomer Andy Lau also took this hit, won the Academy Award "Best New Actor" nomination.

(Andy Lau starred in the 1982 film "Joining the Sea")

Perhaps it was because "Go to the Sea of Rage" allowed Andy Lau to dig the first "diamond", and then he buried his head on the "Diamond Mountain".But in this process, there will also be a lot of "sand and gravel".

 

According to incomplete statistics, in the four years from 1988 to 1992, Andy Lau almost made more than 10 movies every year. And among these huge numbers of movies, there are many bad movies that have long been forgotten in the corner.

 

Asked by the media in 2005 why he was making 12 films a year, Andy Lau replied: "I knew at that time that if I wanted to stay in the entertainment industry, I had to take more roles. No matter what, I had to make an impression on everyone, and I had to be firmly tied to everyone’s heart."

 

As a newcomer to the film industry, Andy Lau, who is in his twenties, had to film.

 

In the 1980s, the annual production of Hong Kong films remained at around 100, the total output value of films was once the first in Asia and the second in the world (after the United States). A large number of Hong Kong directors rose, and various types of films such as martial arts, action and comedy were produced. For Lau Dehua, it was a good time. The booming Hong Kong film market gave him the opportunity to make intensive films.

 

"In Hong Kong you can shoot three movies at the same time, shoot this one in the morning, change to another one tomorrow, and go home at night." Behind this "everything" mirrors the fierce competition behind the booming Hong Kong film market.

 

Andy Lau’s "opponents" include Zhou Yun-fat, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye, who are already famous in the market and have box office in the radio training class, as well as Leung Chaowei and Zhou Xingchi, who are in the late class.

 

Only by constantly shooting can Andy Lau catch up with the ever-changing market.Bad movies also became the "fate" he never got rid of in the process of running and catching up.

Businessperson | "Not so artistic, I love money"

"Stupid kid" Andy Lau also has smart things.

 

Perhaps the 15 million Hong Kong dollar of "Go to the Angry Sea" is too charming, and the smart Andy Lau smelled the huge opportunity of the film market. Obviously, this is a broader and more charming blue ocean.

"In the early 1990s, Andy Lau felt that he knew a lot about movies and wanted to try his hand at filming, so he set up a joint venture with a telecommunications company in Hong Kong," Jin Yan, who has worked with him for many years, told the media publicly.

From then on, Andy Lau assumed the role of a businessperson.

 

(Andy Lau concert)

As a novice businessperson, Andy Lau did not go well. He invested in several films using expensive big-name actors such as Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, and Guan Zhilin. The film "The Legend of War" (1992) alone had an investment of 60 million Hong Kong dollars, but in the end, the box office was only over 12 million.

 

By 1995, Andy Lau had lost more than 40 million yuan.

 

"From 1995 to the middle of 2000, all the scenes I made were used to pay off debts."Andy Lau once said in an interview. During this period, Andy Lau starred in a large number of films with poor reputation, such as "Ambition of Heaven and Earth" (1997), "Love Dream" (1999) and "Battle to the Top of Forbidden" (2000).

 

(Andy Lau’s "Love Dream")

After being in huge debt, the 40-year-old Andy Lau had to take a photo.

 

However, after the money was paid, Andy Lau still did not give up his film business. In 2002, he founded Yingyi Entertainment Co., Ltd. This time, Andy began to turn his attention to newcomers: in 2005, his Yingyi Entertainment launched the "Asian Rising Star Direction" program, in which Andy alone paid about 25 million Hong Kong dollars to film six emerging directors.

 

At that time, the list of new directors was now the big director Ning Hao. In 2006, Ning Hao used the 3.50 million invested by Andy Lau to shoot the box office 23.50 million work "Crazy Stone". Director Ning Hao had his own famous work and helped businessperson Andy Lau make money.

 

Unfortunately, of the six films that Andy Lau invested in, the other five lost money. Some were thrown away after filming, some were not released after filming, and some were begged for mercy halfway through the shooting: "Please don’t shoot it, okay?"

 

In the following years, Andy Lau’s company invested in many films, and he often starred in films he invested in in addition to his status as a producer and producer. Among them, there were many masterpieces such as "Sister Peach", and of course, there would also be films with general reputation such as "My Agent Grandpa" and "I Know Women’s Hearts".

(Andy Lau’s "Sister Tao")

 

Bad movies became part of Andy Lau’s businessWhen asked by the media "Don’t you think you are an artist?", Andy Lau could only answer with a smile: "I don’t count, I’m not that artistic, I love money."

Favors | Andy Lau of "On Call"

In the days when Andy Lau was desperately filming to pay off his debts, a familiar figure often appeared in his works: Wang Jing.

 

In those years, Wang Jing would find Andy Lau to act in a suitable film, giving him a lot of help when he was eager to make money. So in many public occasions later, Andy Lau would speak for Wang Jing without hesitation: "I came out of making the bad movies you said. Director Wang Jing gave his all for his movies, which is worthy of our admiration."

 

(Andy Lau and Wang Jing)

"Sometimes, for example, meeting Wang Jing may be too good a friend. I don’t know if this is good or not. I think sometimes some human favors are necessary for people."

 

Andy Lau repaid the money debt and owed the "love debt".

 

Not only Wang Jing, in the 1980s, when Andy Lau experienced being "hidden", he also received a lot of help from Hong Jinbao. After that, Andy Lau has been recalling the love of that year. Even Hong Jinbao himself lamented that he has won many celebrities, and it is difficult for most people to find them to make movies after they become popular, but there is another Andy Lau who is "on call".

 

(Andy Lau and Samuel Hung)

In this way, for the sake of favor, Andy Lau, who is about to turn 60, still had to shoot.

When he recorded the program "Zhiyun Dinner" in his early years, Andy Lau said that he was very eccentric, "friends will help you when you are busy."

When Zhang Weijian’s investment failed and he was facing bankruptcy, he asked Andy Lau to borrow money for help. Andy Lau generously helped him and told him that what he learned should be taught, and what he earned should be given to others.

Perhaps it was because he was helped by too many people in his early years that Andy Lau, who became famous, did not hesitate to assist filmmakers.Helping to play a "bad movie" is also one of the ways.

The 2013 release of "Tianji Fuchun Mountain Residence" (3 points on Douban) was the darkest moment for Andy Lau’s film reputation. Every time he attended an event, he had to face questions from the media "why did you accept this film".

When filming "The Founding of a Nation", Han Sanping took Sun Jianjun (the director of "Fuchun Mountain Residence") to see Andy Lau. At first, he asked Andy Lau to be the director. Andy Lau thought his directing ability was limited and refused, but in the process, Andy Lau and Sun Jianjun established a friendship.

 

Andy Lau said in an interview,"Just like a group of friends, the audience should not think so much about why, it is actually that simple."

 

(Andy Lau in "Secret: The Residence of Fuchun Mountain")

Du Qifeng once told Andy Lau to be selfish and choose works selfishly, so that he can control the quality of his works better.Andy Lau replied that this is not his personality.

 

In the future, Andy Lau’s "road to bad movies" may be longer. But fortunately, as long as they hear the words "Andy Lau", audiences will still walk into the cinema with hope.

 

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Wang Sicong joked that Huang Zitao’s singing skills were poor, and the program team choked: You can do it, you go

??1905 movie network news On the evening of the 25th, the entertainment large "Star Wanted" bombarded Huang Zitao, commenting that Huang Zitao’s RAP performance in the variety show "Who is the Singer" was "The rhythm can’t keep up with the rap, and the subtitles can’t keep up with the rhythm."

??That night, "National Husband" Wang Sicong immediately forwarded the Weibo and commented: "Is this… the’misplaced RAP ‘that has been lost in the music industry for a long time?" This is not the first time Wang Sicong has choked Huang Zitao. Before, he broke the news in the "H surname Xiaoxianrou playing a big name" incident: "I will not break the news of all kinds of dating in the name of dating, a brainless one." Now "National Husband" once again fired at H surname Xiaoxianrou, making the majority of netizens guess: "What exactly did Huang Zitao offend my husband!"

??In addition to attracting tens of thousands of netizens to watch, the official Weibo of "Who is the Singer" also stood up at the first time, forwarding Wang Sicong’s Weibo and commenting: "You can do it, you can do it." Some netizens expressed support for this domineering side leakage, "The official blog is domineering", "The official blog is too cute", "Whether it is hyping the official blog or not, I respect you as a man! What! Da!".

??There are also netizens who, as always, support the entertainment industry Discipline Inspection Commission: "Don’t let people say that you sing badly, he doesn’t know what you sing", "You have finally restored the messenger of justice in the entertainment industry, and finally started to complain about this male **", "Husband, why don’t you go to" Who is the Singer "to have a shot?".

300,000, upgrade but no price increase! Avita 11 Hongmeng Edition Smart Enjoy Upgrade Listed

On January 8, the Avita 11 Hongmeng Zhixiang upgrade was officially launched, and the new car launched a total of 4 models, with a price range of 30-390,000 yuan, consistent with the old models.

The new car is mainly upgraded for intelligent driving, chassis and seats, and is equipped with an 800V high-voltage platform, Hongmeng cockpit, and Huawei ADS2.0 intelligent driving. It provides single-motor rear drive and dual-motor four-wheel drive options, with a 100-kilometer acceleration of 3.98 seconds and a pure electric battery life of 730km under CLTC conditions.

Specifically, the Avita 11 Hongmeng Edition Smart Enjoy upgrade continues to come standard with 34 smart driving sensors, including 3 laser mines, 13 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and 6 millimeter-wave radars, equipped with Huawei ADS2.0 assisted driving system, which can realize high-speed/urban road section assisted driving. The core of this upgrade no longer relies on high-precision maps to complete smart driving NCA, which can cover 300 + cities across the country, including provinces, counties, towns and townships. At the same time, it is not afraid of changes in reality, constantly optimizing algorithms, and it is not afraid of repairing subways, tidal lanes, traffic control and other scenarios.

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In terms of chassis upgrades, the Avita 11 Hongmeng Smart Enjoy upgrade is equipped with Huawei’s iTRACK dynamic torque distribution system, which can realize microsecond-level ultra-fine real-time road condition sensing technology to scan the road environment. When encountering complex road conditions such as speed bumps and potholes, millisecond-level torque fine-tuning can be achieved. At the same time, it also has all-weather, all-scene, high real-time dynamic stability improvement, reducing slip rate by 50%, reducing body shake time by 40%, and reducing lateral swing by 30%, ensuring driving safety and stability in extreme road conditions and extreme scenarios.

Avita 11 Hongmeng Smart enjoys the upgrade of the upgraded seat, which is optimized for the four somatosensory aspects of legs, waist, back and sitting posture. Among them, the seat frame, sponge, foam and face cover have been redeveloped to make the seat surface more suitable for the body curve, the leg support is more in place and the backrest waist is more soothing. At the same time, higher on the priority list of optimization shoulder support, back immersion optimization, and waist top pressure point optimization greatly improve the comfort of the ride.

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At the same time, the rights and interests of this car purchase have been upgraded, and there will be a two-choice rights package. Benefit 1: Give a high-end smart driving package worth 26,000 yuan; Benefit 2:5,000 yuan deposit to deduct 25,000 yuan for the car. From the perspective of cost performance, equity 1 is definitely the most cost-effective, unless you are not interested in smart driving and just want to hold the steering wheel yourself. In addition, the first owner of the three-power quality assurance for life, 6,000 yuan replacement subsidy, all series of gifts Intelligent fragrance system, down payment 42,000 yuan, full-term ultra-low interest and other limited-time rights.

Now with the launch of the Avita 11 Hongmeng Smart Enjoy upgrade model, under the condition of unchanged price, it has upgraded the smart drive, chassis, and seats, and introduced rich car purchase rights, further enhancing its cost performance and enhancing market competitiveness.

Wang Sicong once again denounced the show plagiarism: really don’t **!

1905 movie network news The Muse Life Experience Show variety show created by a satellite TV made its debut last Saturday. Gold medalists He Jiong and Wang Han made their debut with ten popular Muses, which attracted much attention. However, once the show was broadcast, netizens found that the show was quite similar to the Korean variety show "Heroes". In the early morning of the 4th, Wang Sicong, "Secretary of the Discipline Committee of the Entertainment Industry", also forwarded the news that the media had bombarded the show for plagiarism, saying: "I really don’t understand if I copy it."

On the evening of the 4th, a certain satellite TV (Weibo number "Xiaoxiang Wolong") choked Wang Sicong through Weibo, saying: "Wang Sicong, you are really worried? Still watching after one o’clock in the morning? Innovation, happiness and nutrition, it seems that you still need to see and experience more. The world is so much more exciting, don’t follow what others say. In fact, there are many" right and wrong "people, and the same is true of the program. You should have a deep understanding of this —–"The picture on Weibo shows the dog who has been covering his eyes, and he has AT the official Weibo of the program, which has been forwarded by the official Weibo.

But the matter was not over yet. Then, Tang Ji’an once again posted on Weibo: "@Wang Sicong, what is the stalk you haven’t seen before? The old warehouse red carpet and the bridge section of the human-pulled plane really come from the east? There is a unique warehouse inside the dilapidated appearance. Our colleagues have used it more than ten or twenty years ago. We can find all kinds of the same style in the Beijing 798; take a red carpet and take a seat. Which award ceremony is not there? The Guinness record for human-pulled planes is constantly being refreshed. Of course, it is not uncommon for men to pull planes, but have you really seen beautiful women idols pulling planes? The same may be the same space and objects like once, the difference is only the people and the hearts of good and evil —-This will remain the same through the ages!" And the picture of this Weibo is also quite interesting: a little suckling pig wearing red rubber shoes. The intention is intriguing.

Wang Sicong, who was heartbroken by the entertainment industry, was still rebuking until the early morning, forwarding Tang Ji’an’s Weibo and attaching: "Really don’t **, plagiarism is not allowed to be said? Plagiarism You also copied out the sense of honor is also awesome. Can the poor toilet table of Guizhou donkey only rely on Weibo to tear up with me to hype this show? Copyright is not a legal issue, but it is a matter of IQ for you to copy so stupidly."

Then, the scolding war further escalated,Tang Ji’an posted another Weibo post on the afternoon of the 5th: "Good or bad, it doesn’t count if you say it! Beauty will only be more beautiful if it is surrounded by ugliness and evil! Let the stir-fry go away! Go home and take care of your one-acre and three-point land! Don’t pit D again!" Users commented one after another: "Plagiarism is plagiarism, mango platform has copied it all the time, what a ghost?", "Resistance at the top of your lungs, hahaha!"