That's right.
The learning machine.
The product that Chen Jin had envisioned was outdated, low-class, and looked down upon: the learning machine.
It was called the "Little Star learning machine."
In the testing room of the R&D factory.
The learning machine engineering machine placed in front of Chen Jin was about the size of a 10-inch iPad. Its body was 9.8mm thick, and its gross weight was 1kg. It was quite cumbersome. Of course, the mass-produced version would be designed to reduce its weight and reduce its thickness.
The technical director, Song Bo Jun, demonstrated and explained the functions of the Little Star learning machine.
"We've implemented all the functions that you wanted us to implement.
The first function, textbook knowledge learning.
We've recorded all the knowledge points from primary 1 to 6 and stored them in the learning machine. The data volume is about 16 GB.
Also, the video learning resources that you gave us last time – more than 20,000 videos. All of them are stored in the cloud server. When they need to watch them, the students can download them to their local computer or watch them with their data.
The second function, voice answering function.
As you said, as long as there are questions that primary school students don't understand, they can ask the intelligent robot, Little Star, and Little Star will be able to answer them. It can even answer questions that are beyond the scope of primary school students.
"For example, to questions such as' why does the sun shine ',' why do stars twinkle ',' why is the moon round ', and so on, Little Star can give scientific and interesting answers to satisfy their exuberant curiosity.
The third function, homework guidance function.
Now, we can say that as long as the knowledge points are not beyond the syllabus, there is nothing that the Little Star learning machine can't do except for writing Chinese and English essays and making sentences!
As long as the camera of the Little Star learning machine is turned on and scans the test papers and homework, it can provide the steps and answers to the questions in five to ten seconds.
"Last month, we did a stress test. We put all 5,000 Olympian Math problems that could be found on the market in front of the Little Star learning machine and let it solve them. In the end, in less than a day, all 5,000 Olympian Math problems were solved. On average,
"Among these Olympiad math questions, Little Star got 4,976 correct. 18 questions were found to be problematic. The meaning of the questions was unclear, and 6 questions had more than two answers. However, we think that there are problems with some Olympiad math questions, but Little Star's answers were all correct.
"Little Star's accuracy is 100%!"
"Elementary school knowledge, no matter how ever-changing it is, will never be a problem for the Little Star learning machine!"
"The only problem we're worried about is that this homework guidance function will be seen as cheating by some teachers and being lazy by parents. In order to avoid this misunderstanding, we've added a 'challenge mode' to this function. In this mode, Little Star will only give the thought of how to solve the problem, and the students will follow the thought and hold the electronic pen to write the answer on the answer board. Then, it will give the next thought of how to solve the problem and guide the students to solve the problem themselves."
"The 'Challenge Mode' is usually controlled by the parents."
"Fourthly, in order to make the students love learning more and record their growth, we have added the 'scholar ranking' function."
"When using the Little Star learning machine, for every half an hour of learning time accumulated, Learning Points will increase by 1 point."
"There will be a small test every week and a big test every month. Those who do well in the tests will have their learning points increased by 10 to 30 points."
"The number of learning points can roughly reflect the progress of a student. It can also be used to create a list to check the ranking of your friends."
"Of course, students can also reject the 'Academic Ability Test' and not pursue an increase in learning points."
"Fifthly, we've added some puzzle games. In the process of playing games, we can train the brain and thinking …"
"Sixthly, we've added life lessons, civilized etiquette education, and law education … These will be completed by the parents."
"As well as other functions, we've implemented all of them that are necessary!"
"President Chen, I feel that our Little Star learning machine is a great success. We can introduce it to the market now!"
Song Bo Jun said excitedly. His face was glowing.
Chen Jin nodded his head.
He had invested a lot of energy into the "Intelligent Learning Machine" project. It was 10 times more important than the "Wa-wah" robot.
Not only did he come here three or four days a week.
He had also brought along countless technical information.
For example, the USB flash drive that had downloaded the "Intelligent Learning Machine."
For example, the 20 thousand videos explaining knowledge points that Song Bo Jun had mentioned and the 5 terabytes worth of information after packaging were all given to him by the artificial intelligence Nuwa.
For example, among the 8000 terabytes of precious data accumulated on the company's supercomputer, 3000 terabytes were the core data obtained by running for two minutes on Alice's "Sakura."
When these data were uploaded to the TC9000, the intelligence of the Intelligent Learning Machine had increased by 10 times!
The knowledge that it had mastered had also evolved to the level of a "middle school student" and was advancing towards the level of a "high school student."
In addition, the "Intelligent Language Programming" and "Intelligent Video Generation Technology" had also achieved rapid breakthroughs with the help of some technical information provided by Chen Jin.
It could be said that without the information provided by Chen Jin, the Little Star learning machine would not have been produced in two or three years, much less eight months.
He also did not need to move the supercomputer from the Base of Operations to Earth. He only needed to copy the running data to Earth to speed up the progress of the project here.
The research and development costs were also greatly reduced. Originally, it would have cost at least tens of billions of dollars to produce an intelligent learning machine. Chen Jin only spent slightly more than 5 billion to produce an engineering machine that met the required performance standards.
"Great!"
Chen Jin put down the engineering machine in his hand and said, "Our Little Star First Generation learning machine is officially finalized. We can start mass production soon!"
A technician squeezed his head over and asked, "President Chen, how many units do you think we should place an OEM order for?"
Chen Jin looked at him and asked, "Oh, what do you think?"
He said excitedly, "There are about 30 million primary school students in the country. We can place an order of 15 million!"
Chen Jin shook his head. "The hardware configuration of the Little Star First Generation is average. It can only meet the requirements of primary school students. Middle school and high school students are not able to use it unless the high-performance AI chip is successfully developed. But that will take a few months … Place an order of 5 million. The Little Star First Generation is just a transitional product."
Speaking of chips, the CPU used in the Little Star First Generation was based on the plan provided by Teng Xun Corporation. Its performance was average, but it was completely sufficient. Its advantage was that it was cheap and stable. Chen Jin had already placed an order of 5 million units for it to be manufactured using the 28-nanometer process technology from Zhong Xin International.
The AI chip used in the Little Star First Generation was the "Star Brain 1" jointly developed by Xing Hai Technologies and Cold Five Technologies at a cost of 500 million. It was the size of a fingernail and could perform 50 billion intelligent calculations per second. Its performance was relatively weak. If it encountered a question that was above the level of a junior high school student, it would need at least 30 seconds to give the correct answer.
This was definitely not enough. It would only be barely enough if it could reach 500 billion cycles per second.
The "Star Brain 2" that was currently under development had a surface area the size of a beer bottle cap. Its peak intelligent computing power was 750 billion times per second. It was truly an AI chip that could be used.
Therefore, Chen Jin also placed an order for 5 million "Star Brain 1" chips. Using Zhong Xin International's 14-nanometer process technology, they had recently started mass production.
Lastly, he found a factory called "Great Wall Electronics" to do the manufacturing for him. This factory was controlled by the state and had strong technical capabilities. Chen Jin gave the order for five million intelligent learning machines to this company.
Why not cooperate with Ling Feng Jing Mi?
Wang Quan Long made a phone call and asked this question.
"Does your Ling Feng Jing Mi have the production capacity? You can't even produce enough Wa-wah robots, right? The order for the learning machine can only be given to other companies. "
Chen Jin said.
"Chief Chen, you should have told me earlier. If you had given me some consideration in advance, I would have built another factory. Sigh!"
Wang Quan Long was very disappointed. The OEM order of a few million dollars was given to someone else just like that. He was heartbroken. Although the profitability of an OEM factory was not as good as that of a small company like Bi Long Technologies, he was in the OEM business. He liked the feeling of assembling countless parts into a product. He had loved doing this since he was young.
His dream was to make his Ling Feng Jing Mi into an OEM giant like the Futu Kang.
However, he did not expect that due to insufficient production capacity, the order of a few million dollars had passed him by.
Chen Jin comforted him. "Chief Wang, as long as your Ling Feng Jing Mi's production capacity is expanded, I still have other orders for you. You can finish what you have on hand first and finish the Wa-wah robots. We will cooperate again in the future."
Wang Quan Long recovered and said, "Chief Chen, I was rude. I was a little greedy. Don't worry, I promise to continue to do a good job in the robot OEM business."
After thinking about it carefully just now, he suddenly realized that Chief Chen did not inform him. It was probably because of the idea of "not putting all your eggs in the same basket." This was a normal business consideration. He was too stubborn and seemed a little tactless.
"It's okay. There will be more opportunities for us to cooperate in the future."
…
Starting from the 10th of March.
The official account of Xing Hai Technologies continuously posted a few Weibo posts that used extremely exaggerated and horrifying words.
"From now on, everyone will be a top student. Everyone will be a genius. Every child will be the pillar of the country. Moms will no longer have to worry about your studies."
"The educational landscape of the Z nation will undergo earth-shattering changes because of this product."
"There is no question that it cannot solve!"
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