Chapter 283 The Terrifying Alpha
Everyone was surprised by the capabilities of the new generation of Hornbill.
Because artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in the past few years, from AlphaGo in the first year to ChatGPT in the past few years, these two time points respectively mark the arrival of the artificial intelligence era and the commercial implementation of artificial intelligence.
But they are essentially more about data integration and display. Hornbill just goes a step further on this basis and makes optimizations that are more in line with the needs of search engine user groups.
The energy displayed by this generation of Hornbill is already simulating human thinking.
It is of course difficult to train artificial intelligence to this level, but it is possible for many companies, including Goose Factory, to put in some effort.
The executives at Goose Factory have been exposed to information related to artificial intelligence in recent years. After watching the demonstration of the new generation Hornbill, everyone has a lot of ideas in their hearts, what technology should be used for simulation, and what kind of simulation should be used. Data is used to feed the model and so on.
Many people have even thought of more than one method. With the resources of Goose Factory, multiple routes can be taken together, and then a relatively suitable route can be tried out.
What everyone cannot achieve is the balance of computing power.
The same application, whether it is million-level, tens-of-million-level or billion-level, has completely different requirements for computing power scheduling and involves completely different costs.
After Hornbill became popular around the world, Internet companies including Google tried to make similar products. Openai also launched an artificial intelligence search engine called SecretGPT.
These products, without exception, cannot solve two problems. The first is that it is prone to errors in AI self-interpretation. For example, if you want to know the local weather in the next five days, AI will find five for you. After weather, the second is speed.
Users who have used ChatGPT products know very well that this type of application answers questions word by word. The search engine can generate a full page of content within 0.42 seconds, while GPT may take half a second. minute.
If this kind of speed is used to compare with search engines, it will be unbearable for users.
So even though Hornbill has been around for a year and has dealt a fatal blow to Google and Baidu, there is still no product on the market that can compete with it.
The fundamental reason is that these two points cannot be solved.
For the same reason, Tencent can also make similar products, but Hornbill only takes half a minute. Not only does Tencent have to use more computing power, but the response speed may also be slower.
“I think everyone is just making their own conjectures. What we really need to do now is to figure out what Samad wants and what his purpose is.
Standing From my perspective, I think the next generation of Hornbill has gone a step further, from chatting with people through ChatGPT, to the various AI girlfriends that have been born in the past two years to meet human virtual social needs, and then to driverless cars.
< br>Artificial intelligence is entering every aspect of our lives, but products like Hornbill that directly help you think should be the first.
Whether it's GPT or Kimi, these things can help you write articles and code, but these are questions you ask after thinking about them, and they give you feedback.
Hornbill helps you think about your needs and directly feeds back the results without any human involvement.
To be honest, I think for Alpha, it is not important whether the product itself is profitable or not. What is important is that he can make the model fit the curve of human thinking in the process, so that AI can truly do it. Think like a human being.
Of course there is another possibility, that is, Alpha hopes to develop into a unique monopoly form.
Because everyone mainly focuses on domestic things, because I am also responsible for some things of Shopee, and I am the director of Shopee.
So I know exactly what Alpha has done in Malaysia in the past. ”
Shopee is an e-commerce company similar to Lazada. Tencent invests in Shopee and invests in Lazada.
Tencent held the largest share of 40% of Shopee in the past, and will gradually start from 2023 Retreat.
“Alfa is leveraging its technological leadership in artificial intelligence to help Johor Bahru’s manufacturing industry rapidly undergo intelligent transformation.
Goods are inseparable from production, sales and transportation.
Alpha used to intervene in production through artificial intelligence, and now it is involved in sales.
As for the transportation level, there are a large number of companies doing driverless driving. Alpha does not need to do it by itself. It only needs to acquire one at the right time. With Alpha’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence, there is a high probability that it can be done with the help of acquisitions. Make it driverless.
Then they do it all at the same time, production, sales and transportation.
All enterprises and consumers in the entire chain need to rely on this ecosystem.
Based on the ambition shown by Samad and Alpha, I think it is nothing more than these two possibilities. ”
"I think we must cooperate with Alpha, and we must mobilize all Tencent's efforts and use all our resources to promote this project.
Alpha is too far away from us, and Douyin is too close to us."
Starting from the challenges faced within Tencent, this executive gave a new perspective and raised the expectations of all Tencent executives present. Those who originally lowered their heads and turned their pens stopped.
He went on to say:
“Everyone knows one statistic, that is, Douyin has long surpassed Tencent in occupying users’ time. One Douyin exceeds all Tencent’s products combined. .
In the past, they have frequently entered the local life of live streaming and short video selling, similar to Meituan and Dianping.
These all create a large source of profit for Douyin, and at the same time make Douyin bloggers profitable, further promoting Douyin's content ecology.
The new generation of Hornbill can fundamentally kill Douyin.
Of course I know that people will say that Hornbill does not have the fun of shopping. I just want to say that users’ habits can be cultivated. Before Luckin, most Chinese people did not drink coffee.
Not to mention that the new generation of Hornbill is essentially a better product, which can help users save time, reduce purchasing desire, and downgrade consumption.
In this era of consumption downgrade, if you want to buy cost-effective products, it is better to let AI help you buy them directly. In this way, after you are unable to enjoy the fun of shopping, the frequency of purchases will be reduced, and the consumption downgrade will be more thorough.
We start with the male group first, from the perspective of futurity and trouble-free, let them accept it, and then make it a popular lifestyle and let women accept it.
Once Douyin loses the revenue from its products, their ecosystem will not only be ruined, but will at least dry up to the level of 2018. We will regain the initiative. ”
For Tencent, Douyin is their biggest enemy now.
Tencent can coexist peacefully with Alibaba, but it is a life-and-death enemy with Douyin. Douyin has the ability to counterattack from short videos Chat software possibilities
After all the executives spoke one after another, Mark suddenly felt a sense of expectation, looking forward to seeing the future of Alpha Technology:
“Okay, I know everyone’s opinions. I think there is no doubt about cooperation, even if it is only for a small number of people. , this will be a unique e-commerce platform.
It will be very helpful for Tencent to expand its business territory and fight against competitors.
Not to mention the data accumulated in it. Tencent is also of great significance.
Alpha can simulate human thinking, and Tencent's artificial intelligence team can also use accumulated data to do the same thing.
We also need to develop Tencent’s own artificial intelligence that can think. "
He did not mention whether they could jointly develop this key technology. No need to ask, you know that Alpha cannot open it to them, even if Tencent is an investor in Alpha.
"Whether it is cooperation Model or something else, I think we can all discuss it. I think it is okay to give some of the benefits to the other party in the good cooperative relationship in the past.
It's just important to understand the purpose of Alpha Technology.
Sam, get ready. I will go with you to inspect Southeast Asia later. "Mark said that Sam is the Tencent executive who just spoke and is also a director of Shopee.
Although Chen Yuanguang did not interfere with Alpha's actions, he pays attention to it every day.
As a person who has witnessed the future with his own eyes The man who rules the world with artificial intelligence knows very well what kind of behemoth Alpha will be if it is allowed to develop.
Although the Alpha he develops using future technology has an upper limit, it is theoretically impossible to develop it into an artificial intelligence with its own thoughts. Smart.
But what if?
Alphas in future time and space can all be born by accident. What if Malaysian Alphas embark on the road of evolution and miss the one-in-a-million possibility?
So Chen Yuanguang is very concerned about Alpha's every move.
After seeing Alpha sending Oraz to Pengcheng to negotiate with Tencent, hoping to cooperate with Pengcheng around the next generation of Hornbill, he still felt a little shuddering.
After Oraz went to Pengcheng, he would soon transfer to America to discuss cooperation with Microsoft.
That’s right, Alpha plans to launch this new shopping-based artificial intelligence on a global scale at one time.
"Why do you want to cooperate with Tencent? Shouldn't it be better to start with Southeast Asia first, and then talk about cooperation with Tencent and Microsoft separately after building a certain momentum?" Chen Yuanguang asked.
“Short-term benefits are not important. Opening up the Amerikan and Chinese markets through the new generation of Hornbill will be of great benefit to Alfa’s development in Malaysia.”
“Let’s talk about it carefully. ”
“It is true that we have a high status in Malaysia now, but this status is based on national pride. We need to strive for higher prestige and greater reputation, for us. When we stand for election as a person, we cannot win the support of most people.
Pride cannot help us do this. Only actual interests can help us do this.
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With Hornbill, we can unknowingly expand the global market share of goods produced in Southeast Asia.
Under Hornbill’s proactive guidance, I am confident of increasing the export share of Malaysian goods by 20%. If more manufacturing industries are moved to Malaysia in the future, this share will continue to increase.
Taking five years as a time point, I think that after five years, most people in Malaysia will not be able to bear the life without Alpha Technology. ”
The strategic purpose shown by Alpha is too clear. For them, money is just a number. A few percentage points more or less is not important at all.
The important thing is that as an artificial intelligence , to stand in the public eye and run for office, first of all, will it be legally restricted? Secondly, since Malaysia is still essentially a monarchy, will it be restricted?
These are all unknowns, and you can solve some of them by killing, but you can't solve all of them by killing.
Alfa means tying most people to their own community of interests. There is nothing inherently wrong with this approach.
“What will you do in the five years after launching the new generation of Hornbill?”
“Vigorously introduce manufacturing and seize the market of traditional e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, Amazon, and Pinduoduo. share, promote commodity exports in Malaysia and even Southeast Asia, and introduce more investors to allow Hornbill to operate smoothly on a global scale."
Chen Yuanguang said nothing more, because in his opinion, even if it was him personally. It's hard to do better.
"What an incredible product. It overturned my previous understanding of what artificial intelligence can do in the field of online shopping.
I always thought that artificial intelligence can only be used as an auxiliary tool at the data analysis level. I never thought about it. , Artificial intelligence can think on behalf of humans." Mark looked shocked.
This is a bit pretentious.
To be shocked, I was already shocked by the one-day test yesterday. It was completely a performance in the field of business and social networking.
Oraz nodded: "We are also surprised.
From a technical perspective, this is difficult. From a product perspective, this is also a very radical choice.
We have had in-depth discussions internally, and everyone is skeptical that the transition from talking to artificial intelligence to artificial intelligence thinking instead of humans is a bit too radical.
Whether the user can accept it.
We also discussed with our boss whether we should make milder products.
For example, users make demands, and then Hornbill gives them a suggestion.
I suggest you buy whatever you want and let him make the jump.
If the user accepts it, a paid version will be launched at that time, and Hornbill will directly purchase the paid version for him.
This progressive approach may be easier for consumers to accept.
But the boss thinks it should be done in one step. ”
Samad still needed a translator when he met Mark for the first time, but now he can speak Chinese more fluently.
After all, he traveled back and forth to China all year round, and with the special training from a Chinese teacher, he made rapid progress in Chinese.
“I agree with Mr. Samad’s point of view that consumer habits can be cultivated.
If it is just a conversation recommendation, users will feel that we are advertising.
On the contrary, there will be resistance, and they will think that you are helping merchants promote their products in this way.
If you directly help them buy, they will only think that future technology will subvert their previous understanding. .
On the contrary, it is easier for consumers to accept. "Mark said.
They conducted a questionnaire survey within Tencent yesterday afternoon to investigate how much everyone accepts artificial intelligence to help them shop.
If we just talk about Tencent internally, everyone The acceptance level is very high, and the general reaction is that the daily work is hard enough, and it is very convenient to have someone to help with shopping, even if it is just online shopping.
Of course, this sample is too extreme and cannot be used as a conclusion, but it can be done. Explain a certain problem.
“Yes, for Alpha Technology, we hope that artificial intelligence can help everyone do more things.
However, there are still some problems, and we hope to get help from Tencent. ”
(End of this chapter)