Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 419 This Child is Not Human

Xu Shenxue attaches great importance to virtual devices.

On the one hand, Xu Shenxue believes that this kind of virtual device will become an important hardware device in the future, gradually moving from the current expensive large-scale equipment to personal consumer products. When the hardware cost is reduced, there will be enough ecological content.

A unique virtual game market may be formed in the future... Of course, simply making money from virtual games is not Xu Shenxue's goal. He personally wants to play virtual games, but that doesn't mean he will attach much importance to the gaming field.

Virtual games are also games... Let alone games, even many other Internet businesses are just ordinary businesses in Xu Shenxue's business segment.

What he pays more attention to is the virtual device itself!

This is just like in the era of mobile Internet. Xu Shenxue’s business focus is not the many network services in the mobile Internet, but providing the core hardware of the mobile Internet: smart phones!
In Xu Shenxue's view, the relationship between future virtual communities or games and virtual devices is the same as the relationship between mobile Internet and smart phones.

The former is just the ecological application of the latter!
The latter type of hardware products is what Xu Shenxue values ​​the most!

Because behind this kind of hardware product are a series of electronic consumer and semiconductor industries, the real industry is what can truly promote technological progress, create a large number of jobs, and embody social responsibility.

Moreover, by creating a hardware device for a virtual space/game, in addition to the profit from the hardware device itself, you can also charge channel fees for the virtual community/game products in the application ecosystem... just like the channel fees in current mobile app stores.

Wow, you can imagine how big this market is!
By then, all virtual ecosystem application vendors around the world will have to work for themselves...

Although current virtual devices are not mature enough, are expensive and cannot be quickly commercialized and promoted on a large scale, Xu Shenxue believes that there is a promising future.

If all goes well, Zhiyun Group may have a core business comparable to smartphones in the future, with revenue of hundreds of billions of dollars or even larger, and drive the rapid development of a series of upstream and downstream industrial chains... just like the current smart terminal business.

With such expectations, Xu Shenxue summoned Qu Xuewen, the executive vice president in charge of the virtual device business, as well as the project director of the virtual device project team, the project chief designer, and several core engineers the next day.

At the meeting, Xu Shenxue first listened in detail to the project team's future technological development direction for virtual devices... These professional technicians naturally knew that their boss was a liberal arts graduate, so when making their reports, they tried to use simple and straightforward words to describe their future technological routes.

After listening to it, Xu Shenxue realized that in addition to some research and development directions in the hardware field, the technical staff of the project team talked about various models most frequently.

In particular, they call it the 'human movement big data model'... This big data model is actually what is called artificial intelligence, AI, which means the same thing.

According to their description, it is precisely because of the personal body motion big data model that the equipment can collect people's movements in real time, and then mobilize the universal treadmill's tray to make targeted adjustments to the direction and strength of movement.

When the user lifts his foot, the system captures the user's movement posture from a large number of sensors, analyzes and makes decisions through a large model of human motion data, and then mobilizes the hardware equipment for adaptation.

This is why there are so many sensors in this equipment, and why an entire GPU server is needed to provide computing power.

Without so many sensors, it would be impossible to collect such detailed data, and without this GPU server, it would be impossible to process such a huge amount of data.

To put it simply, the principle of this equipment is very simple: collect sensor data, analyze and organize the data through artificial intelligence, and then make decisions and mobilize the omnidirectional treadmill motion module to adapt.

Therefore, the most core technology in the entire system is artificial intelligence.

Hearing this, Xu Shenxue couldn't help but sigh, everything is now considered artificial intelligence... But that's not right, to be precise, it's not actually artificial intelligence, at least it's different from the artificial intelligence in science fiction novels.

To be more precise, it is a big data model!
These big data models used on many hardware devices in Zhiyun Group are actually very different from the artificial intelligence that people traditionally think of, and are even very different from the generative AI that the outside world is familiar with today.

From the perspective of technical difficulty, the ultra-large-scale generative AI developed by Zhiyun Group, namely Yun AI, is technically just a very superficial application of Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence technology.

The real good stuff in the field of artificial intelligence has never been announced by Zhiyun Group to the public...

For example, the group's own use has shown extremely good results after preliminary tests, and it has now begun to secretly promote and apply the "scientific research assisted artificial intelligence system" in many core projects within the group.

For example, the AI ​​fighter system and AI battlefield system in secret projects.

Even the robot AI system in the Zhiyun robot... people only know the name and can see the robot, but no one knows what the robot artificial intelligence inside is like.

Many domestic and foreign companies and research institutions are trying to crack some of Zhiyun Group's hardware equipment or software, hoping to imitate and copy Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence technology.

But basically no success!

For example, Yun AI, there is no way to study this thing... The APP installed on the user terminal is actually just an AI call entrance, not Yun AI itself.

As for Yunn AI's artificial intelligence itself, it is actually a very large big data model that requires a GPU server array to maintain its operation.

The artificial intelligence on Hailan cars and Zhiyun robots does actually encapsulate the body of artificial intelligence inside the hardware, but it is directly encapsulated in the chip and encrypted directly at the hardware level, and there are various anti-leakage measures.

For example, the core part of the body, which is the storage chip that encapsulates the AI ​​body, is directly sealed and has internal detection sensors. Once forced disassembly from the outside is detected, it will directly activate the self-destruct program... and directly burn the chip.

Even if someone extracts the storage chip encapsulating the AI ​​intact, as long as you power it on, it will start self-checking as soon as it starts up. Once it detects that it has separated from the body, it will immediately start self-destruction.

The transistors in the chip have turned into a paste, so there is no point in cracking it.

Zhiyun Group has devoted almost all of its technical resources to protecting its artificial intelligence technology and preventing leaks. However, to date, no organization or enterprise has been able to crack Zhiyun Group's protection of its artificial intelligence technology and obtain the core code of Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence.

Otherwise, artificial intelligence technology would have been everywhere long ago!
After all, with the power and wide application of artificial intelligence technology, Zhiyun Group has already been at the forefront and has launched a large number of commercial products based on it, greatly enhancing Zhiyun Group's market competitiveness.

Many other large technology companies want it too!

Unfortunately, they were unable to crack Zhiyun Group’s artificial intelligence technology, and their own research was not very good... Fortunately, in the first half of the year, Zhiyun Group open-sourced several artificial intelligence models, including generative AI models, robot general AI models and other models.

Now, people all over the world are using these open source models provided by Zhiyun Group to conduct corresponding research and development, and even for commercial applications.

Although the artificial intelligence open sourced by Zhiyun Group is still in a relatively early stage in terms of technology... this is relative to Zhiyun Group itself. For other companies, these open source data models are much stronger than those they develop themselves.

Therefore, many companies, and even Google, have begun to study and use these open source data models, on the one hand for commercial applications, and on the other hand for reference technology, and then integrate them into their own artificial intelligence technology.

These open source models have led to a wave of discussion on artificial intelligence this year, which in turn has boosted Zhiyun Group’s computing chip sales!
It is hard to say whether these companies that use open source models can make money, but Zhiyun Group will definitely make a lot of money!

Otherwise, the people at Zhiyun Group wouldn't be so kind as to provide you with open source artificial intelligence... even if it's just an early and backward big data model.

The basic idea is: You can take the artificial intelligence, but remember to buy my chips... What, you don’t want to buy chips?

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Artificial intelligence technology is currently the most core technology in Zhiyun Group, and has actually brought huge revenue and profits.

At the same time, its wide applicability has also led to many R&D projects in Zhiyun Group using artificial intelligence technology to a greater or lesser extent, especially in hardware development projects.

Many things seem to have nothing to do with artificial intelligence, but artificial intelligence can really be used and achieve good results. Today's virtual device system is a typical example... At first glance, it seems to be just a hardware device, but in fact it is an artificial intelligence application device.

Strictly speaking, the most basic and core technical principles of this set of virtual devices are not fundamentally different from those of Zhiyun robots. They are all applications of artificial intelligence technology, but the application directions are different.

This situation also made Xu Shenxue quite sad and even feel fortunate.

Fortunately, I started working on artificial intelligence many years ago. The huge investments accumulated over the years finally led to continuous technological breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence, which were then fed back into many hardware equipment and R&D projects.

Artificial intelligence itself does not seem to be profitable, especially generative AI. Yun AI of Zhiyun Group has made a lot of progress, but in reality it just barely breaks even.

However, in other fields, the application of artificial intelligence can greatly improve product performance and market competitiveness, and ultimately bring in revenue and profits.

Zhiyun Robotics and Hailan Automobile are both typical applications of artificial intelligence technology!

There are also some applications of artificial intelligence technology that are unknown to outsiders, such as AI fighter jets, AI battlefield command systems, AI swarms and other military applications.

Then there is the "scientific research assisted artificial intelligence system" used by Zhiyun Group for its own use.

This system is a core research and development project of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. Its purpose is very simple, which is to utilize the powerful underlying artificial intelligence technology advantages of Zhiyun Group, feed it with massive training data from various scientific research and development fields, and finally train an artificial intelligence system that can assist R&D personnel in research and development: thereby saving R&D costs and improving R&D efficiency!

Because there are so many R&D projects in Zhiyun Group and the funding expenditure is also very huge... If there is such a scientific research support system, then the cost of a large number of R&D projects can be reduced, more R&D funds can be saved, and then used for more R&D projects.

To put it bluntly, at the beginning, Zhiyun Group's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute developed this scientific research assistance system just to save money...

In the early days, the system was still imperfect and could only be used in some fields. In fact, the earliest user was not Zhiyun Group itself, but the life sciences of Galaxy Life... They who were engaged in biology needed this kind of scientific research support system more.

Then Zhiyun Group itself began to gradually apply it in some material research and development fields, and its main application scenario was the "Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute" in Guangcheng.

Subsequently, as the scientific research auxiliary system became more and more perfect, especially the core algorithm had undergone more than ten iterations, and more and more scientific research data were collected and fed.

The scientific research-assisted artificial intelligence system developed by Zhiyun Group is already quite complete and can be used in many fields such as biology and materials.

Not only can it save a lot of complicated and repetitive scientific research activities for R&D projects, but more importantly, it can also conduct comprehensive reasoning and analysis based on the R&D activities of countless scientists in the past, and collect almost all of the most cutting-edge scientific knowledge of mankind, and then make predictions for reference by R&D personnel.

The research and development of MMK34 materials is based on this approach. Yu Taihe and his team provided various basic data, and then the scientific research-assisted artificial intelligence system conducted analysis and reasoning, and then provided numerous possible technical routes.

The project team then conducts more detailed analysis and calculations on these technical routes, and finally carries out actual tests.

In this process, the scientific research-assisted artificial intelligence system played an important role... It's not about how smart it is or how creative it is, but because its knowledge reserves are too strong... When Zhiyun Group trained this system, it input almost all of humanity's current scientific knowledge into it, and then also input the research and development data of its various scientific research projects over the years.

This means that although this system does not have any creativity, it has the world's largest knowledge base and the richest R&D experience... It can then analyze the project and finally give recommendations.

This is equivalent to giving a scientist an almost omnipotent scientific research assistant... This is not just as simple as improving scientific research efficiency, it also allows scientists to identify and fill in the gaps... After all, no matter how awesome a scientist is, his brain capacity is limited, and what his brain can remember and know is far less than this scientific research assistance system that brings together almost all of humanity's knowledge systems.

Scientists with top-notch creativity who can light a lamp in the dark, combined with this scientific research system, can carry out research and development smoothly.

However, it is not so easy to set up this kind of scientific research support system... Although the core algorithms are becoming more and more powerful, no matter how powerful the algorithms are, they still need to be fed with data and trained.

This is also the reason why it could only be used on a large scale in the fields of biology and materials, and was rarely used in other fields... The data collection was not enough, and the program had not been trained yet.

Xu Shenxue also pays close attention to this important project.

A discussion meeting on the virtual device project was held, during which the future development direction of the virtual device was listened to. The project team was promised to increase investment, increase R&D funds, and increase the number of R&D personnel.

At the same time, I asked them to first produce a batch of experimental models based on this prototype, and then contact Yihai Technology to ask them to modify their 3A shooting game and make a separate simulated non-public version, which I could use later.

After the meeting, Xu Shenxue went to the "Artificial Intelligence Research Institute" next door in the afternoon.

The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute is one of the R&D institutions with the highest R&D priority in Zhiyun Group, and is directly on par with the S series mobile phone project.

The building where the research institute is located is a separate building with very strict security. Its internal network is not connected to the public network or even the group's internal network. They have their own exclusive internal network.

This is all kept secret!

A group of people outside are keeping an eye on Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence technology, and almost everyone in the industry knows that the core institution for Zhiyun Group's artificial intelligence technology research and development is the 'Zhiyun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute'.

However, Zhiyun Group never discloses the situation of this organization, so the outside world knows that there is such an organization, but few people know the details of this organization.

After Xu Shenxue entered the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, he took a quick look under the guidance of the person in charge. To be honest, there was nothing interesting to see... There was no hardware to see. All he could see were some mathematical formulas, codes and the like.

After working in the high-tech industry for so many years, Xu Shenxue has learned some knowledge of science and engineering, and has some experience in contact with and learning various things such as mathematics and coding.

But the things the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute showed him... made him doubt his own IQ every time.

In particular, the current chief scientist, Professor Lin Andong, enthusiastically introduced his latest research to Xu Shenxue, and excitedly told Xu Shenxue about his current research on the large touch screen display on the wall!
Then Xu Shenxue looked at the entire screen of the monitor, which was filled with various letters and strings of characters, but there were not even a few numbers... and he fell silent.

There are only a few numbers. You say this is mathematics? It doesn't seem like it...

When Lin Andong was introducing, all kinds of professional terms came flooding in like a tide, which made Xu Shenxue feel overwhelmed... Not to mention listening to them together, even if what Lin Andong said was broken down into individual words, he couldn't understand most of it.

He glanced at Yang Guoyun, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and asked with his eyes: "What did he say?"

Yang Guoyun also had a helpless expression on his face, as if saying: Don’t ask me, I don’t understand either!
When Lin Anton became more and more engaged in his talk, as if he didn't care about the people present, Yang Guoyun took two steps closer and said in a low voice: "Professor Lin's research is too cutting-edge now. Now no one in the entire institute can understand what he is saying... Now in the field of mathematics in China, the only one who can still communicate with him to a certain extent is Professor Wang Yaobin from the Materials Institute in Fairy Mountain."

Xu Shenxue looked up again at Lin Andong, who was talking to himself in front of him as if he had forgotten about him and the others, and suddenly he sighed: This guy is not a human being!

Yang Guoyun also glanced at Lin Anton. Seeing that he was still immersed in his explanation and ignored them, he whispered to Xu Shenxue, "Even the top mathematicians in the country in the mathematics department next door can't understand Professor Lin's research now. Professor Lin's more than ten papers can't even be reviewed by anyone. To be honest, if it weren't for his detailed explanation, we wouldn't even be able to prove whether his research results are right or wrong just by relying on the papers!"

At this time, Xu Shenxue suddenly discovered that Lin Andong suddenly stopped, then stared at the various strings on the big screen in front of him and began to ponder!

Xu Shenxue waited for a few minutes but the other party didn't speak again. At this time, Academician Yang Guoyun from the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute next to him quietly walked to Xu Shenxue and pointed outside.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Shenxue and others walked quietly to the door, while Professor Lin Andong was still contemplating the various weird drawings on the big screen, and had no idea that Xu Shenxue and others had left.

After leaving, Yang Guoyuan said, "In the past six months, our Professor Lin has often been like this. He often gets distracted and loses his mind in deep thought!"

"Everyone said that he had entered a state of enlightenment. Three months ago, after a meditation, he came up with our fifteenth core algorithm iteration, so we usually try to avoid disturbing him at this time!"

Xu Shenxue looked back at Professor Lin Andong, who was deep in thought facing the screen. "Please be sure to provide good logistical support for Professor Lin's work and life."

Then he said to the security chief behind him, "Raise Professor Lin's security level again. His security benefits will be the same as mine, with no upper budget limit!"

(End of this chapter)