It was the end of August.
The summer vacation was about to end and the new school term was about to begin.
Almost two months had passed since the release of the Little Star Second Gen learning machine.
During this period, the Great Wall Electronics OEM factory responsible for the production of the Little Star Second Gen was operating at full capacity. On average, it assembled and shipped off 200,000 Little Star Second Gen units every day.
That was 12 million units in two months.
60% of them went to the Ministry of Education, which took 7.2 million units.
The remaining 40% went to Xing Hai Technologies, which took 4.8 million units. Through the Star Web model, the batch of Little Star Second Gen in Xing Hai Technologies' hands was quickly sold to primary school, middle school, and high school students. The total number of these students was close to 200 million. Countless of them came from well-to-do families. Hence, once the supply appeared on the Star Web model, it was sold out almost instantly.
After all, the parents did not lack that bit of money. The students also wanted to use the intelligent learning machine as soon as possible to improve their grades. This created a situation where the supply could not meet the demand.
Due to the high demand, some of the lower-level agents offended another parent by selling the learning machine to one parent. They were intimidated, insulted, and even threatened by the parents. Two agents were even beaten up by their parents. There were also dozens of agents who gave up on becoming agents due to the immense mental pressure.
Of course, Xing Hai Technologies had to protect the rights and interests of the lower-level agents. They blacklisted many parents. Every day, a few agents who could not withstand the temptation and sold at a higher price would be fired. The audit system was getting stricter and stricter.
Fortunately, school was about to start. The millions of Little Star Second Gen units in the hands of the Ministry of Education would all be released into the market. This would reduce the sales pressure on Xing Hai Technologies.
What was the Ministry of Education doing in the past two months?
Zhou Qingfeng, the technical team leader sent by Xing Hai Technologies to the Ministry of Education to build a second server, migrate the complete data over, and be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the system, reported, "The Ministry of Education has organized a group of experts. They are researching a new knowledge point system and are preparing to build a new knowledge tree."
"They are not using the original knowledge tree system of the Little Star learning machine?"
The knowledge tree that he took out had undergone more than 200 years of optimization and improvement on Haierfa. It was extremely mature and scientific. There was almost no room for improvement.
"There's no need for that. The experts feel that the knowledge tree of the Little Star learning machine is too rough. There are a lot of illogical parts. They want to make improvements and come up with a better plan … Oh my, Mr. Chen, you have no idea. Those bunch of experts are like this today and the next. The programmers that the company sent overseas are being tormented to the point where they complain incessantly. All of them want to apply to return to the company. The knowledge tree has been modified into a mess by those experts. President Chen, I don't want to stay here anymore. "
Zhou Qingfeng complained.
Chen Jin's forehead was full of sweat. Experts … the bricks of bricks!
The reputation of the Little Star learning machine might be ruined by them.
"School will start in a few days, and those experts still haven't come to a conclusion? If we don't confirm the Tree of Knowledge, millions of learning machines will be piled up in the Ministry of Education, and we'll have to bear the burden of supply. "
"It was confirmed yesterday. The experts said that we'll make version 1.0 to test the effect. If the effect is good, we'll promote it first. If the effect is average, we'll continue to improve and make version 2.0 or 3.0. The experts are very confident that the Ministry of Education's version of Little Star Second Gen will be much better than the original version by Xing Hai Technologies. They are very disdainful of us, saying that we're a technology company, how would we know about education … President Chen, please let me go back to Shang Hai, I can't stand those experts anymore!"
Chen Jin was sweating profusely!
He had no choice but to comfort Zhou Qingfeng. "Just bear with it for a while longer. Whatever the experts say, just do it. Don't talk back and argue with them! We'll do as they say first. Also, we have to differentiate the Ministry of Education's version of Little Star Second Gen from the original version. Don't mix them up, and don't let the consumers misunderstand that this is a product of the same organization. We are us, and the Ministry of Education is the Ministry of Education. "
"I know, President Chen. You mentioned this to me last month. Don't worry, the Ministry of Education's version of Little Star Second Gen has the logo of the Ministry of Education on the back of the machine. After the machine is turned on, there will be a custom-made opening animation by the Ministry of Education. The style of the main interface is also different. The differentiation is done very well. Many of the requirements for differentiation were suggested by those experts.
From Zhou Qingfeng's tone, one could tell that he was extremely speechless.
"Good, that's good."
Chen Jin nodded repeatedly.
He came to a conclusion: the batch of Little Star Second Gen that was sent to the Ministry of Education would probably be scrapped.
Even if it was not scrapped, the effects of the learning aids used by the students would be much worse than the original version. He was almost 100% sure of this!
Previously, he was still worried that the Ministry of Education's version of Little Star Second Gen would affect his sales if it was sold too cheaply. Now, he was relieved.
With the help of his stupid opponent, he was not worried that the original Little Star Second Gen would not sell well even if it was 10 times more expensive than the Ministry of Education's version.
What he was afraid of was that it would be exactly the same.
Of course, even if it was exactly the same, Chen Jin would not dig a hole for himself. He had already thought of a countermeasure.
He let the technical team led by Song Bo Jun spend more than two months to add a brand new expansion function to the Little Star Second Gen learning machine.
Human Question and Answer Service!
Song Bo Jun introduced, "President Chen, you are right. The Little Star learning machine is intelligent. It can basically answer all the questions related to learning using voice. However, the answers it gives are a bunch of messy words, pictures, and related videos. The voice that comes with it is also based on the information that it has found. On the surface, it seems intelligent, but in fact, it is a little retarded.
For example, the question that primary school students love to ask, 'Why is the sun so hot in summer?', it gives a total of three answers, including 18 pictures and 6 videos. Other than the answer given by '10,000 Whys' that is easier to understand, the other answers are beyond the comprehension of primary school students. Therefore, we have to filter the answers and only keep the most suitable ones.
But there are thousands of questions raised by students. If we have to manually filter the answers to every question, we simply do not have enough manpower.
Therefore, the new 'Human Question and Answer Service' added to the Little Star learning machine can solve this problem very well.
The mechanism of this service to answer students' questions is as follows: Our back-end database will collect the questions asked by students and rank them by frequency. The questions that are asked the most by students will be ranked at the top, and the questions that are asked the least will be ranked at the bottom.
After that, we will announce the ranking of these questions, provide relevant information on the answers, and publicly solicit answers from the public.
Respondents from the public can record videos of their answers based on the information we provide and upload them to Xing Hai Technologies' 'Knowledge Videos' platform. It is recommended that the length of each submission be no more than five minutes. The content must be interesting and able to answer the students' doubts.
This way, when students ask similar questions again, they can directly jump to the knowledge videos submitted by the respondents and answer their doubts.
Those who record the submission videos can be teachers, professors, experts in various fields, or even the most ordinary people. As long as they are interested in answering the questions raised by the students, they can record the knowledge videos and submit them to us.
In order to encourage the contributors to submit their videos, they will provide a certain amount of financial incentives. For example, if a student watches the video, the contributor can earn 0.1 dollars. If the student watches the video 10 million times, the contributor can earn 1 million dollars.
In this way, the students who ask the questions will have their doubts answered; the contributors who record the knowledge videos will receive financial incentives. Hence, they will be motivated to record more high-quality videos. This cycle will continue. In the end, all the questions raised by the students will be answered by the manually recorded videos.
This alleviates the dissatisfaction of those whose interests were harmed after the launch of the Little Star learning machine. This is because they can switch to serving the Little Star learning machine and record professional knowledge videos. Moreover, the earlier they come in, the better it is. The earlier they come in, the more they can grab the right to answer high-frequency questions and reap the financial rewards of a large number of clicks. Even if many years have passed, as long as there are students who ask the questions, they will be able to receive a steady stream of income.
President Chen, the human question and answer service that you designed, on one hand, makes up for the shortcomings of the Little Star learning machine and improves the students' question and answer experience. On the other hand, it also alleviates the conflict and allows some educators to see the hope of profit. You are killing many birds with one stone. This is a genius design! "
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