The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 434 Systems and Ethics

Mr. Ma was not surprised to hear Luo Ming ask this question, mainly because Timmy Studio of the IEG business group has a lot of cooperation with Zhuoguang Technology.

Most of the heroes in the "Honor of Kings" that Timi is currently producing were created by Luo Ming.

At first, Luo Ming used the excuse that he only played mid in lol and therefore had a special liking for mage heroes to avoid helping with hero design.

After some exchange of interests, Luo Ming continued to help complete the design.

With this relationship, Luo Ming only needs to be a little careful to find out the follow-up plans of the ieg work group.

Not to mention that Penguin and Zhuoguang Technology have reached a deeper cooperation, and now Zhuoguang Technology can also use the relevant publicity channels of the ieg game group.

Then the work plan of IEG Studio is no secret to Zhanguang Technology.

Thinking of this, Mr. Ma nodded and admitted: "Penguin will indeed launch many new mobile games this year."

"I know that the mobile game market is so huge and so lucrative that Mr. Ma will definitely not miss it. So can Mr. Ma tell us what games will be launched this year?"

Mr. Ma smiled when he heard this. He knew that Luo Ming took the initiative to tell him to promote his company's mobile games.

Although Penguin doesn't need to promote in such occasions, Luo Ming took the initiative to help pass the message, and Mr. Ma would not miss it, so Mr. Ma talked about some game plans of the IEG business group.

"Honor of Kings" and "King of Glory" are naturally the top priorities and were specifically mentioned by Mr. Ma.

When the interview started to advertise, Teacher Sa knew that it was almost over for today.

After Mr. Sa asked two more questions, he announced the end of the interview.

Mr. Ma did not stay in Luo Ming's place for long. After a few polite words, Mr. Ma and Mr. Liu turned around and left.

Teacher Sa also went to interview other people.

"Erming, I'm going to talk to people from other companies. Do you want to come?" Rong Mu asked.

"Let's go! Together."

"Mr. Luo?" Before Luo Ming could finish his words, a familiar voice sounded behind him.

Luo Ming turned around and saw that it was Mr. Lei from Dami.

"Rong Mu, go by yourself! I'll talk to Mr. Lei."

Rong Mu nodded and turned to leave.

"Mr. Lei didn't expect you to come to this Internet conference in person."

"I just happened to be in Shanghai and came here by chance." Mr. Lei said as he sat down.

"Is Mr. Lei in Shanghai recently?"

"Well, talk to several car companies in South Korea about technology transfer."

"Mr. Lei wants to build a car like this?" Luo Ming asked tentatively.

"I have this idea."

“Why look for a South Korean car company?”

Upon hearing this, Mr. Lei smiled and asked, "Has Mr. Luo ever worked or lived in the Empire?"

Luo Ming shook his head.

"Is that so? Then let me start from the beginning! 2002 was the year when South Korean cars officially entered our country.

At that time, the domestic automobile market was dominated by German-Japanese joint ventures, but these cars were not cheap. Let me give you an example so you can understand. The Honda Fit, which was considered very affordable in the capital at the time, sold for about 10 yuan.

This figure does not seem expensive and is about the same as it is now, but the purchasing power at that time was very different from now.

2002 yuan in 10 could buy a house of nearly square meters in the third ring road area of ​​the capital.

In the past decade or so, China's GDP has increased tenfold, and housing prices have also increased tenfold, especially in first-tier cities and central urban areas.

Mr. Luo, if you use the housing price as a base for comparison, then the difficulty of buying a Fit back then is equivalent to buying a Porsche 911 today. "

After listening to Mr. Lei's words, Luo Ming was a little surprised. It really sounded outrageous.

The current price of a square meter of housing in the third ring road of the capital is estimated to be 7 to 8 yuan. A 20-square-meter house is not equivalent to a Porsche 911.

"Then, Mr. Lei, were cars in South Korea very cheap at that time?" Luo Ming asked.

“It’s very cheap. When South Korean cars came in in 2002, the Kia Maxima was 3 cheaper than the Fit, which was equivalent to one or two years’ salary for many people at that time.

More importantly, this car was equipped with automatic transmission at the time. Many people could afford automatic transmission for the first time because of the South Korean cars, and I was one of them.

Moreover, South Korea has done a very good job in promoting its own local culture.

In 2004, when Liu Xiang won the 110-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics, Kia immediately signed him as a spokesperson. With the help of Liu Xiang's fame, South Korean cars suddenly became the representative of high-end and low-priced cars, and became a popular model in China.

At that time, in order to attract investment, the capital also gave Hyundai Motor a lot of preferential policies and generous financial support. Many taxi companies in the capital also started using Hyundai.

There is a popular saying on the Internet now that all high-selling cars will eventually become online-hailing cars. It was the same back then, too, they all ended up as taxis.

When I was working in the capital, I happened to catch the most interesting time for taxis in the capital. At that time, taxis in the capital were divided into three grades.

The starting price of the lowest-end Xiali is RMB 1.21 per kilometer, the Elantra is RMB 1.61 per kilometer, and the high-end Hyundai Sonata is RMB 2.

At that time, both Xiali and Fukang were in the process of being eliminated, but many people would choose Xiali because it was the cheapest. The Elantra at RMB 1.6 was also good and was relatively competitive. Fukang was the worst. Its model was as old as Xiali, but it was a bit expensive and not much more comfortable, so few people chose it.

The most popular choice was the two-yuan South Korean taxi, which shows how widespread the South Korean cars were at the time. The key point was that South Korean cars were of good quality and rarely had problems when driving, which won the favor of the mainstream market. "

Luo Ming found it quite interesting to listen to Mr. Lei, a veteran in the business world, talk about these things, and Luo Ming was also happy to be Mr. Lei's supporting actor.

"Then Mr. Lei, would you choose to ask South Korea to buy some patents because South Korea's cars sell well and have an excellent reputation?" Luo Ming asked.

"There are reasons for this, but more importantly, South Korean cars are starting to lose popularity in China, and some of them are ready to abandon the domestic market. Some of their technologies are cheap enough to buy now, which can save a lot of money."

In the past, South Korean cars did gradually withdraw from the Chinese market.

But Luo Ming didn't know why South Korea's automobile industry withdrew, so he asked with great interest, "Boss Lei, why did South Korea's automobile industry go downhill?"

"The decline of South Korean cars was actually doomed from the beginning. At that time, South Korean car owners focused on cost-effectiveness. A large number of successful cases seemed to have given South Koreans an illusion that if they wanted to dominate the Chinese market, they had to rely on cheapness."

Luo Ming's expression turned strange when he heard this: "Boss Lei, are they reducing the configuration for the Chinese market?"

"Mr. Luo is right. They made an extremely wrong decision to prepare a special edition model for Huaxia, reduce the configuration, and continue to compete on price."

Luo Ming's mouth twitched. Should I say that he is indeed from South Korea? The way of doing business is the same.

Luo Ming remembered that the egg yolk pie from a South Korean restaurant he used to eat had done something similar. While they used real cocoa butter abroad, they used a cocoa butter substitute in China. He didn't expect that South Korean cars would also do this.

"Another reason is that our country has begun to gradually promote new energy vehicles, and the relevant policies for South Korea's automobiles are not as relaxed as they were a few years ago."

"So Mr. Lei wants to build a new energy vehicle, right?"

"Yes, but no matter what kind of car it is, there are always patents that are universal."

"Understood!"

After the two chatted for a while, Mr. Lei changed the subject and said, "Mr. Luo, you are working in big data, so you should be familiar with AI, right?"

Luo Ming nodded.

"I have a question for you."

"I don't deserve your advice, Mr. Lei, just speak frankly!" Luo Ming knew that people like Mr. Lei would not come here to chat casually, and he must have come with a purpose.

"Boss Luo, I want to ask about the priority of AI."

Luo Ming understood immediately: "Boss Lei wants to ask who should be protected first when an accident occurs while the car is driving automatically, right?"

"Yes, Mr. Luo, what do you think about this issue?"

Luo Ming was silent. He didn't know how to answer for a moment. The main reason was that the issue of priority had been debated for many years and he had seen similar debates in his previous life.

Imagine that a car is in autonomous driving mode and suddenly loses control. There is a row of about 20 elementary school students in front of it and rivers on both sides of the road. What choice should the artificial intelligence or autonomous driving system in the car make?

Based on normal human values, we would definitely protect the students and drive the car into the river.

Many people working on the development of autonomous driving systems also think so.

But in fact, the setting of the autonomous driving system is to prioritize the protection of the car owner.

If the protection of the car owner is not a priority, who would buy such a car? In any case, Luo Ming would not buy a car that does not put the safety of the owner's life first.

But if we choose to protect car owners, then once a similar situation occurs, it will definitely be a huge public crisis.

In addition, there is actually another situation. When a car encounters an emergency, the artificial intelligence installed in the car needs to know which position has priority, so that the system will choose the collision position.

In other words, we need to first choose who the system should protect first after a car accident.

If this is the case, after buying a car equipped with mature autonomous driving, the person sitting in the passenger seat may be abandoned by the system if something happens to him.

And priorities cannot be abandoned, because a system, in any case, has a primary and a secondary distinction.

The distinction between primary and secondary is very important for the system. Without the distinction between primary and secondary, the system will not know how to handle the situation, which will cause greater damage.

In fact, there are many similar ethical, legal, and moral issues. When people are driving a car, they don’t need to consider this because the driver himself doesn’t know, but the system must input it in advance.

(End of this chapter)