After serious consideration, Professor Kong Zhemin asked, "Can it be understood as an easy-to-understand popular science textbook for ordinary people?"
Yu Pingan nodded. "Yes, you can understand it that way.
"We will use the Internet to allow more people to see this content and provide a more efficient way of searching."
"At the same time, in terms of content compilation, we will strive to make it neither too esoteric nor too professional for ordinary people to understand, nor too empty, vulgar, and nutritious.
"That's why I came to visit you, hoping to ask you to come out of retirement.
"You are not only a big name in the industry, but also a professor loved by students. You have rich experience in compiling textbooks. With you to check these contents, it is absolutely foolproof."
Professor Kong Zhemin's face was a little surprised.
"It sounds like a great thing for a thousand years.
"However, this seems to be a very large project.
"Just the various courses of the Chinese major, such as ancient literature, modern literature, foreign literature, etc., have a large number of monographs. Even if it is organized and simplified into a encyclopedia, the content is beyond imagination.
"What's more, the extensible content of the question-and-answer section is infinite. This is not something that can be completed in eight to ten years.
"I usually have to take graduate students. I'm afraid I don't have that much time.
"If a lot of people work together to do this, whether to pay, how to bear the cost … have you considered these issues, Boss Yu?"
Yu Pingan was prepared and quickly explained: "Elder Kong, don't worry, we have considered these issues.
"This project was decided by Boss Pei of our Tengda Group, and we can mobilize all the resources of the entire group to escort it.
"I also asked Boss Pei about the workload. Boss Pei's answer was: the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now. It is precisely because this is a huge project that it cannot be delayed. If it continues to be delayed, nothing will be done.
"Even if the content is incomplete in the early stage, as long as the information in it is useful, it can attract users.
"You don't have to worry about manpower. You are equivalent to the person in charge of this professional field, only doing overall planning and the highest supervision work. We will also invite some young scholars, professors, and excellent graduate students to participate in these projects, each responsible for different divisions of labor.
"We will fully protect the intellectual property rights of creators, and at the same time, set up a legal team to crack down on the phenomenon of manuscript washing and plagiarism, and protect the rights of creators.
"Creators will receive a corresponding monthly remuneration based on their star rating and workload."
"As for the distribution of remuneration, it's like this. All members of the 'Useful App' have to pay to browse it. The fees are based on the usage time and the number of views. We will take 10% of this revenue as operating costs, and 90% of it will be returned to the creator. "
"Of course, considering that we don't have enough paying members in the early stages, we will provide all creators with a guaranteed remuneration. As long as the content that passes the review for the month exceeds 10,000 words, they will receive a subsidy of 2,000 yuan."
Professor Kong Zhemin was stunned for a moment. "The subsidy doesn't change with the number of words?"
Yu Pingan nodded. "Yes."
"Because this is a simplified knowledge, if the reward is linked to the number of words, there might be a slight phenomenon of overpayment."
"This subsidy is just a basic guarantee of life, so that the creator doesn't have to work for nothing in the beginning."
"Of course, this is not to encourage eating from the same pot and idling around."
"When there are enough members on the 'Useful App', the income will definitely increase. We will determine the income weight of each department and each creator according to a more complex set of algorithms, including: creator stars, the number of views of content written or modified, the initial creation of new items, the number of times and proportion of content likes, etc., to calculate the income share of each section and each creator."
"The income in this area is of an incentive nature."
Professor Kong Zhemin nodded slightly. "It's also very reasonable."
Domestic professors should be considered one of the groups with the largest income variance, but more than 90% of professors did not have much additional income apart from salary and basic performance.
The annual salary of a lecturer at Handong University was less than 100,000 yuan, and the annual salary of an associate professor was less than 130,000 yuan.
Especially for liberal arts majors, some professors who focused on academics were quite poor.
Although the subsidy of 2,000 yuan was not much, as long as they produced 10,000 words for the Useful App every month, they could get it, which was still relatively attractive. After all, this was not as difficult as writing a paper. It was mainly to sort out existing knowledge.
Moreover, the content had to pass the review for it to be effective. It would not be unlimited, and there would not be the phenomenon of 'spending money to buy rubbish'.
Professor Kong Zhemin thought about it carefully. "Boss Yu, I trust Tengda Corporation, and the conditions in all aspects are also very sincere.
"Moreover, this is a good thing that will benefit future generations. I have been in education all my life. If I can do some popular science on the Internet, I will be very happy.
"But I want to ask …
"It should be very difficult for your company to make money from this project, right? Is this some kind of public welfare project or some kind of new business model? "
Professor Kong's eyes were filled with confusion.
Indeed, the conditions in all aspects were quite good.
However, the problem was that these conditions seemed to be too good. It was good for content creators, good for users, but not good for the company.
Wouldn't it be a big loss to leave only 10% for operating expenses?
Even if it was for public welfare and to increase the popularity of the company, it had to be efficient, right?
The current 'Useful App' took a long time to make, burned a lot of money, and was slow to see results. It would not have much influence before there were real results. What was the point?
Even if it was considered according to the best case scenario, it would be popular in a few years or even a decade later. Who could think about such long-term things?
That was why Professor Kong was confused and felt that it was a bit strange.
Yu Pingan was silent for a moment and said, "Elder Kong, I have also asked Boss Pei this question.
Boss Pei said that some things have to be done.
He wants to create a pure land without rubbish for the Internet. "
Professor Kong Zhemin was silent for a moment and nodded. "Yes, I agree.
"About this … money is not important, and success is also not important."
The meaning of this matter itself is very important. "
Yu Pingan couldn't help but light up. "Thank you so much, Elder Kong! With you, many things are much easier to do! "
Kong Zhemin smiled. "Don't thank me, I should thank you. There are really not many companies like Tengda that have a strong sense of social responsibility.
Boss Pei is really an unusual entrepreneur. "
Yu Pingan couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, Boss Pei's personal charm was really too strong!
It could be clearly felt that Boss Pei's words had moved Elder Kong.
A big shot like him had long been in a state of being aloof from the world. He was successful and famous. He taught every day and did research. If it was something that he was not interested in, money would not be able to hire him.
However, Boss Pei's words had moved Elder Kong!
The addition of Professor Kong Zhemin not only added a big shot to the literature section of Useful App, but the professionalism and quality of all kinds of content were guaranteed. More importantly, when Useful App expanded to other fields, it would be convenient to hire more big shots.
When all kinds of big shots in different fields gathered together, it would form a cluster effect. There would be more and more high-quality content, more and more excellent producers, and naturally more and more users.
It could be said to be a good start!
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October 26th, Wednesday …
Otto Technologies …
The development team of AEEIS was working intensely on research and development.
The current artificial intelligence assistant technology was simply divided into two parts: front-end and back-end.
The front-end was mainly speech recognition and speech synthesis technology, which converted the user's spoken language into text, and then converted the returned text results into voice output.
The back-end was to process the user's request with a program and return the most matching result.
All in all, the artificial intelligence assistant on the cell phone was mainly responsible for four dimensions: device control and system function call, third-party application support, dialogue and intelligence level, and skill learning ability.
The initial technology of the artificial intelligence assistant was provided by Xunke Technologies. All manufacturers were only updating and optimizing on this basis.
However, whether the intelligent assistant was useful or not depended on how much the manufacturer optimized in these four dimensions.
Chang You decided to focus all his energy on the two aspects of system function call, dialogue and intelligence level during this research and development cycle.
Third-party application support and skill learning ability were also very important, but these two had more content to do. Moreover, only a portion of users might have similar needs, so the priority was a little lower.
The so-called system function call was the user using voice to control the cell phone system function.
For example, when the user said 'weather', the smart assistant would automatically display the weather page on the screen and use voice to read tomorrow's weather conditions and temperature changes.
Similarly, calculators, calendars, memos, phone calls, text messages, and so on could be controlled by the smart assistant, which would bring a certain degree of convenience to users.
On the other hand, dialogue and intelligence level was how the smart assistant would react when the user asked some more personalized questions.
For example, if the same question was asked, "Who is your father?", some smart assistants would answer, "My father is the product manager of the development department", and some artificial intelligence assistants would answer, "They are a group of smart people who dare to innovate".
Strictly speaking, this did not have much practical meaning, but it would make AEEIS more recognizable.
That was because AEEIS was an artificial intelligence with no emotions according to Boss Pei's requirements. Thus, AEEIS would use an emotionless mechanical voice when all the other voice assistants used anthropomorphic voices.
Since the 'persona' was already there, it had to stand and cooperate in other aspects.
Only by doing these personalized customizations and matching AEEIS's personality and voice could the product be completed very well.
Previously, Director Zhu Xiaoce found Chang You the day after the name AEEIS was finalized. He wanted to ask for an artificial intelligence name that could be used in movies and games.
The two departments had worked together as early as Tomorrow is Beautiful. This time, they naturally thought of the same thing. Chang You told Zhu Xiaoce about the AEEIS that he was working on. Zhu Xiaoce readily agreed and used the name in the movie and game.
At that time, he could also use the popularity of the movie or game to promote AEEIS. Why not?
Chang You came out of the conference room. He had just finished some key functions with a few core members.
After taking a sip of tea, Chang You found a few messages refreshed in the small private group set up by the department heads. One of them was sent by Yu Pingan.
This group was not used to chat and chat, but to share the movements of the various departments here.
Yu Pingan: "'Useful App' successfully invited Professor Kong Zhemin!"
Chang You put down his teacup and could not help but be curious.
Useful App?
What was that?
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