November 15th, Tuesday …
Handong University Ancient Chinese Master's Dormitory.
Several students were tapping on the keyboard and typing content on their respective laptops. They would stop from time to time to search for various information on the Internet.
Those who did not know would think that they were writing papers.
But in fact, they were the first batch of creators of the 'Useful App'. At this time, they were completing the task assigned by their mentor.
Each of these master's students was responsible for a portion of the content, mainly poetry, lyrics, songs, ancient Chinese, and so on. After uploading the basic content to the entry of the 'Useful App', these people would be responsible for summarizing and sorting out existing research results and knowledge, and improving the entry.
The 'Useful App' had a special back-end template. These creators only needed to fill in the content according to the template. The content filled in would be reviewed by a higher-level creator, usually a doctoral student or a young lecturer. After the review, it would be displayed according to the template.
These master's students would usually log on to the encyclopedia website or the Knowledge Network, but compared to these two websites, the biggest feature of the 'Useful App' was that its structural planning was more scientific.
Although the structure of the 'Useful App' was somewhat similar to the encyclopedia website, apart from the difference in content, there was also a big difference in the details of the use of the experience.
Simply put, the 'Useful App' was working hard to do subtraction and layering.
Ordinary encyclopedia websites would display most of the information of the same entry on the same page. On the one hand, it was too messy. On the other hand, the content was not hierarchical and could not adapt to the needs of personalization.
For example, some people only wanted the most basic information, while others needed a detailed analysis of a certain word or sentence. It was difficult for the encyclopedia website to take care of these two extreme needs.
The 'Useful App' was actually a multi-layered structure. The first layer was the core and essence analysis of a certain entry; the second layer was some classification analysis of the entry; the third layer was specific analysis and research of a certain word; the fourth layer was the source of these contents, cited papers, and so on; the fifth layer was the various problems derived from this entry.
The levels were expressed in various ways of turning pages or pop-up windows, fully taking into account the user's habits.
For users, they could accurately and quickly find the part of the content they needed the most without having to look through all kinds of unnecessary information.
At present, the 'Useful App' was used for ancient poetry and classical Chinese sections. The basic functions had long been developed. In addition to fixing various bugs, the current work was mainly to rely on the creators to constantly update the content.
This was a relatively boring job, but to these students, it was not hard.
On one hand, this was their profession, and organizing these contents was equivalent to consolidating their professional knowledge. On the other hand, this was also considered a job, and it could be a good way to subsidize the daily expenses of these poor students.
A master's student had just finished his work for the day. He leaned back in his chair and stretched.
"Old Li, have you completed today's mission?"
"It's almost time."
"What do you mean by 'almost'? Don't try to fool me. Last time, you quoted the wrong thesis, and even we were warned by our supervisor. Professor Kong Zhemin is in charge of this matter. If you dare to make trouble, don't even think about graduating! "
"Don't worry, I was careless last time. Now, every time I write something, I check it several times. I won't make that kind of low-level mistake again."
"However, I'm puzzled. Why did Tengda give us money to make something like this? Although there's a fee, I don't think it's going to be profitable, right? "
"Who knows? Maybe they are planning to sell it to some educational groups? At least in the future, primary and secondary school students will be able to use this' Useful App 'to check poems. "
"However, the problem is that they can be checked with Qiandu, and it's free. There are also explanations of these poems in textbooks and teaching aids."
"You can't say that. The content found by Qiandu is too messy, and it's difficult to screen. As for the content in textbooks and reference books, it's obviously not as comprehensive as ours. I think that the Useful App will probably burn money in the initial stage, and not many people will pay. However, as there's more and more content on it, more people will definitely pay. "
"At our current speed, I highly doubt that we will be able to make a profit in ten years …"
These students also had their own views on the 'Useful App'. Many people were not optimistic that it would succeed at all. It was only because Tengda was subsidizing it that they used their spare time to create and enrich the content on it.
Many people were even prepared that Tengda might give up on this project at any time. They had the mentality of 'earn as much as you can'.
A student was puzzled. "Sigh, I've always had a question. 'Synonymous poems', 'antonym poems', 'rhyming poems', and other functions don't seem to be displayed on the 'Useful App'. What's the use of doing this? "
The so-called 'synonymous poems', 'antonym poems', and 'rhyming poems' were actually to establish a connection between some poems or poems with similar meanings, opposite meanings, and similar rhythms.
Every time a poem was recorded, one could freely add its synonymous poems, antonym poems, rhyming poems, and other content to establish a connection between different poems or poems.
These contents would also be included in the workload, and the weight was not low. After sorting out a poem, one could search it online, screen it, and then fill in the relevant poems in the background.
However, it was strange that this connection would not be displayed in the 'Useful App', which made everyone a little confused.
"I don't understand. Isn't it a waste to not display this function?"
"Who knows? Maybe the front desk display of this function is still under development? It's done in the background first, and when the front desk function is completed, it can be displayed directly? "
"Maybe."
The students did not care too much and continued to write in the background.
…
Otto Technologies …
Yu Pingan was brought to the reception room by Chang You as soon as he arrived.
"Wait a moment."
A moment after Chang You left, he came over with an Otto cell phone.
"It just so happens that you're here to do some work on the Useful App database today. Since you're here, you can also experience the functions of the first version of the AEEIS smart assistant.
"Our researchers have been working on it a little too much during this period. At this time, we need a complete outsider to give us some opinions from a more objective perspective."
As Chang You spoke, he handed the cell phone to Yu Pingan.
Yu Pingan was supposed to work with Chang You today because the data of the Useful App would be directly linked to the AEEIS smart database. There were many design details that needed the two of them in charge to make a decision.
In the end, he was caught by Chang You as a guinea pig to experience the initial version of AEEIS.
Yu Pingan might not be very interested in these, but he still reached out to take the cell phone and experience it seriously.
There was an unwritten rule in Tengda Corporation that the various departments had to cooperate unconditionally and unreservedly when there was a need for other departments to cooperate with each other. All department heads habitually followed and practiced this rule.
As for when did these unspoken rules come into being?
Most people could not say for sure.
However, the source of this unwritten rule could probably be traced back to Boss Pei: on one hand, Boss Pei attached great importance to the cooperation of the various departments; on the other hand, there was no pressure of competition between the department heads. Everyone worked for Boss Pei. Everyone's salary was not much different, and bonuses did not depend on profits but on reputation. Thus, there would not be sectarian bias between the various departments like some large companies.
Yu Pingan noticed that the OTTO
The E1 cell phone seemed to be different from the cell phones sold on the market. The most obvious difference was the cell phone's operating system.
Originally, the operating system of the Otto cell phone was more inclined to the original Android. The interface was simple and clean, but it also gave people a simple and crude feeling.
However, this version of the operating system had richer content. The UI animations of the various systems had become smoother and more natural with many more details. There were also many more options in the system settings that could better dig into some of the new functions of the Android system. The icon of the camera system had been changed. After clicking on it, one would find some new functions inside, such as optimization algorithms for taking pictures, new filters, and so on.
In addition, this system had also integrated the function of the AEEIS smart assistant. Long press the power button or say AEEIS directly into the cell phone to summon the voice assistant.
Yu Pingan did not know much about the details of the AEEIS smart assistant.
He only knew that this smart assistant also directly used the latest artificial intelligence research results of Xunke Technologies. It was similar to the smart assistants, smart speakers, and other products launched by other manufacturers in terms of underlying technology. The only difference might be in some details of the adjustments.
In addition, Chang You said that this was an 'elegant and easy-going smart system'. It would add some venomous attributes and poetry functions.
However, Yu Pingan did not take it too seriously. Since the underlying technology was all from Xunke Technologies, this voice assistant should not be very different from other voice assistants. What's more, this was only the first version.
Yu Pingan said to the cell phone, "AEEIS."
After a crisp beep, a dark gray mask appeared on the cell phone screen, covering the original content of the screen. Some sci-fi wavy symbols appeared at the top of the screen.
The main part of the wavy symbol was a display area for information, and there was another smaller wavy symbol at the bottom.
The sci-fi wavy symbol at the top of the screen was the main body of AEEIS. It would only jump according to the notes when AEEIS answered. When AEEIS did not answer, it would have some other dynamics, such as rolling in waves or rotating regularly. This was used to express AEEIS 'current mood and state;
The small wavy symbol collected the voice of the outside world and would jump as Yu Pingan spoke.
The entire page was very simple and did not have any extra text information.
Yu Pingan had used other voice assistants before. They would often display a lot of text on the page, including common questions and so on. However, the interface of AEEIS was cleaner and cleaner.
The consistent style of OTTO OS was uniform.
Yu Pingan's first impression of AEEIS was good.
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