China’s navy pays tribute to AI struggle video games ‘pioneer’ Feng Yanghe

It is rather uncommon for a mid-ranking officer to be granted such standing however Zhou Chenming, a researcher with the Beijing-based Yuan Wang navy science and expertise assume tank, mentioned it seemed to be in recognition of Feng’s contribution to AI within the navy.

Zhou mentioned Feng was a pioneer within the discipline and the expertise was now broadly utilized in Chinese language struggle video games.

“He died so younger – it’s an enormous loss to the Individuals’s Liberation Military,” Zhou mentioned.

Feng was an affiliate professor on the Nationwide College of Defence Expertise (NUDT) in Changsha, Hunan province, and led the groups behind the event of the “Battle Cranium I” and “Battle Cranium II” AI applications utilized by the PLA to simulate joint operation navy struggle video games, in line with the college.

The applications took the highest prizes in China’s navy simulation competitions from 2019 to 2021, NUDT reported earlier.

Born in Pingliang within the northwestern province of Gansu, Feng was recruited by NUDT in 2003 when he was solely 18.

NUDT mentioned he studied statistics at Harvard College and high-performance computing on the College of Iowa as a part of a “joint coaching programme” from 2011 to 2013.

He returned to NUDT and accomplished his doctorate in 2014, staying on to show, do analysis and be a doctoral supervisor.

NUDT mentioned Feng revealed greater than 60 papers and took cost of greater than 30 nationwide and provincial scientific analysis tasks over the previous decade.

A navy insider, who declined to be named, mentioned Feng was killed in a visitors accident when the taxi he was in hit a truck.

“He took an evening flight from his office in Changsha to Beijing after receiving a name for an vital mission,” the insider mentioned.

“He referred to as a taxi via a ride-hailing app as standard. Sadly, a fatigued taxi driver picked him up and hit a trucker who was additionally working time beyond regulation.”

The supply mentioned there was a number of dialogue on-line about why transport was not organized for mid-ranking navy officers finishing up main duties.

Within the PLA, solely senior officers with the rank of main basic or above are entitled to have non-public service automobiles and private assistants.