Song Bo Jun was under a lot of pressure recently.
Especially since he had been the technical director of Xing Hai Technologies' "Intelligent Robot" for a month, he felt the pressure on his shoulders increasing.
He was a well-known AI expert in the country. He used to be the leader of the "Intelligent Speech Recognition" project team in Baidu. He helped develop the "Xiao Du" robot with the highest level of intelligence in the country. In the field of intelligent speech recognition, he was confident that he was one of the best in the world.
Last month, he left Baidu and joined Xing Hai Technologies. One of the reasons was that there were countless AI experts in Baidu. At the age of 36, he was only in the position of a middle-level technical staff. There were still many big shots above him. He could not fully display his talents.
The second reason was that Gao Ting Yan, the HR manager of Xing Hai Technologies, agreed to give him an annual salary of $8 million after consulting her boss.
Of course, Song Bo Jun would not admit that he joined Xing Hai Technologies for the money. He wanted to achieve a higher value in life.
But after taking over the "Intelligent Learning Machine" project, he immediately realized that his annual salary of nearly $10 million was a hot potato.
He was in a difficult position.
This project was much more difficult than he had imagined.
There were at least three major technical difficulties placed in front of him.
First, intelligent speech recognition.
It must be able to quickly and accurately analyze the meaning of the user's words. The error rate must be less than one in ten thousand.
This was Song Bo Jun's area of expertise. The speech recognition program that he led could currently control the error rate to less than one in a thousand. One in ten thousand was a little difficult, but it was not impossible with some effort.
Second, intelligent learning program.
What this program needed to do was to be able to learn independently like a human, from 1 + 1 in elementary school to calculus in university, from the simple three laws of mechanics to the complex quantum physics. It needed to learn and master all the knowledge.
Similar technology would be the AlphaGo developed by DeepMind. But this intelligent program was only used in the field of Go. It used technologies such as deep learning, neural networks, Monte Carlo tree search, and so on. It could carry out crazy self-play and self-training. In just a few days, it could become a godly player in the field of Go.
After the launch of AlphaGo, it defeated the world Go champion, Li Shishi, with a score of 4: 1, and defeated the Z country's Go genius, Ke Jie, with a score of 3: 0. Against human Go players, AlphaGo was invincible, crushing them all the way. It made it impossible for humans to win the war between humans and machines.
Now, the intelligent learning program that Xing Hai Technologies wanted to create could be like AlphaGo. In the field of learning, it could learn on its own like crazy and master the massive amount of knowledge.
In the end, it would grow into an omniscient and omnipotent super program.
After seeing such a need.
Song Bojun was dumbfounded.
"This is simply … wishful thinking."
"Go is Go. It's just a single piece of knowledge. However, Chief Chen wants to create an intelligent learning program that includes all 'knowledge.' It's equivalent to being all-rounded. The difficulty level has been raised by several levels. How can it be done?"
If AlphaGo's learning ability was 1, then his ability would be 2. With 1, it would not be difficult to realize 2. With 2, it would not be difficult to realize infinity. This was what the Taoists said, "The Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, and Three begets all things." With "One," everything would be easy.
Song Bojun smiled bitterly and helplessly. "AlphaGo is the most advanced intelligent learning program overseas. Although there are teams in our country that have created similar products, there is still a gap between them and the most advanced level. As for Xing Hai Technologies, our foundation is completely zero. How can we achieve" Three begets all things "in one go? Let's first acquire an artificial intelligence team and do some research on 1."
Chen Jin accepted his suggestion. He got his men to spend 20 million to fully acquire an artificial intelligence studio called "Apex."
However, he did not cancel the requirement to implement the intelligent learning program. This program was the core competitiveness of the "Intelligent Learning Machine." It must be implemented.
Third, the intelligent video generation technology.
This was related to the intelligent learning program. When the user of the learning machine asked a question, as long as the question could be answered, the intelligent video generation program would package and integrate the relevant text, pictures, and video materials together. It would automatically generate an explanatory video, automatically add a voice-over, and combine it into a video.
However, Song Bojun felt that the difficulty of this technology was actually lower than the second one. As far as he knew, Ali Corporation had developed a picture generation technology to handle the huge demand for pictures during the Double 11 shopping festival. It could generate hundreds of thousands of pictures in one second, saving a lot of work for graphic designers.
Making a video was much more complicated than making a picture. However, the video itself was made up of a large number of pictures. With the addition of a robot voice-over, it was actually not that difficult.
As long as he was given enough time, he could bring people to realize this technology.
Intelligent voice recognition was also not a problem for him.
Only the second one, the "intelligent learning program," he felt that it was really, really difficult. It was so difficult that he had no clue where to start.
He even recognized his own limitations. In his heart, he wanted to retreat.
"Looks like … I'm not a big shot. President Chen is the same. His ideas are not bad, but he's technically illiterate. He doesn't understand the technology at all. This is giving me a big headache.
How about I quit after a month? Let President Chen find someone better. This is a project. I really can't handle it. There are not many people in the country who can do it. I'd better not occupy this position and delay the progress of the project. "
Song Bojun thought of resigning.
That afternoon.
Just when Song Bojun was absent-minded and lost in his thoughts, President Chen called him over. He took out a golden USB flash drive from his pocket and placed it in front of him.
Song Bojun was puzzled. "President Chen, what is this?"
Chen Jin said, "The technical information of the intelligent learning program."
"Is … is this for real?"
Song Bojun was in disbelief. "Where did you get it from? Is it useful? Is it useful? How did you get it? "
"Of course it's useful. I spent a lot of money to buy it! Also, this flash drive is encrypted. I'll tell you the password later. After the information is copied, the flash drive will automatically destroy itself. The copied information can only be copied once. After that, it will be read-only. You have to make good use of this information, "Chen Jin said.
The technical information was 16 gigabytes in size. It had been compiled by AI Nuwa in five minutes using her powerful computing power. Although the content was abstruse, it was easy to understand. It had fully considered the usage context of Easterners, so it was easier for people to learn and master.
"Bought it with money? Such powerful technology can be bought with money? "
"Don't ask too much. If you can't solve the technical problems, why did I ask you to work on the intelligent learning machine project? It's normal to encounter difficulties, but don't back down. I'll help you solve them. I won't put all the pressure on you. "
"Yes, you're right, President Chen."
Song Bojun took the flash drive. He felt a little ashamed. His tolerance was still too low. He hadn't even started. How could he say that he couldn't do it? Although President Chen was young, his level was much higher than Song Bojun's.
He copied the information from the flash drive to his computer and skimmed through a few pages of technical documents.
His eyes flickered with disbelief.
What appeared on his face was a kind of fanatical and crazy surprise.
It's doable. It's totally doable!
…
Back home.
He planned to go back to his room to rest for a while.
"Son, I have something to discuss with you."
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