Chapter 286 After going around and around in the end, it’s still a matter of paying money
Pony’s third video finally caused a sensation. The new version of Hornbill is called shopping software. Judging from the effect demonstrated in the video, it can be used as a productivity tool. tool.
It is actually able to negotiate on behalf of others and successfully complete the negotiation. This feeling of horror is comparable to the time when ChatGPT hired people to help it complete the task.
Almost all social media are talking about the new version of Hornbill and the impact it may have on Chinese society.
Obviously, manufacturers such as Alibaba, Pinduoduo, and JD.com cannot sit still and wait for the same fate as Baidu.
They know very well that fighting a public opinion war on this kind of matter is ineffective. To put it bluntly, no matter how hard you fight a public opinion war, your influence on policy will be minimal.
They mobilized almost all the forces they could mobilize to convince the decision-makers that this thing was too radical.
It is so radical that it will completely destroy the current business environment in China.
“Alibaba has never denied that we need to vigorously develop artificial intelligence and lead the world in the field of artificial intelligence.
But the new generation of Hornbill’s business form is completely a black box. Artificial intelligence What decisions will be made is unknown, and we have not systematically assessed its risks.”
All Internet companies related to online shopping have been invited to Yanjing for a meeting, and China also wants to hear everyone's opinions.
From the government to the private sector, China’s application in the field of artificial intelligence is definitely radical enough. For example, driverless driving cannot be promoted in California, but it can be promoted in Jiangcheng.
However, there is still no way to completely ignore the surging opinions of these private pillar enterprises.
And they do make sense.
The representatives of Alibaba have very different content. They are nothing more than data security, the threat of artificial intelligence, the technology is in the hands of Malaysian companies, it is completely black box, etc.
There are many such analyzes on the Internet, and they are similar to the analysis level of Zhihu bloggers.
These are not enough to convince decision-makers.
“Yes, what Mr. Cai mentioned just now is very reasonable.
But there is only one thing, that is, the new generation of Hornbill is already initially imitating human thinking.
It is different from generative artificial intelligence like GPT. It is no longer just the integrated analysis of data. We internally very much doubt that the new generation of Hornbill has emerged on a large scale and is already generating wisdom.
In the past two years, Alpha Technologies has been the most aggressive company in purchasing computing power. They have purchased more graphics card computing power from Nvidia and Huawei than Google and Microsoft combined.
If we don’t keep up, we will lose outright in this AI race. ”
This is the key point. Whoever develops true artificial intelligence first and reaches the singularity of technology research and development will gain unprecedented advantages in future technological competition.
So the problems Ali mentioned will not be an obstacle.
China’s pursuit of technological progress is unimaginable by other countries.
"Is there a way we can get Alpha to transfer technology?" The host of the meeting was clearly interested.
“Impossible, no company will transfer this kind of technology.
We mentioned it during the communication with Alpha, but they did not agree.
So Tencent needs to promote the next generation of Hornbill on a large scale and rely on accumulated data to cultivate China's own artificial intelligence that can truly think.
If we stagnate simply because it is a black box and because of data security, Then we will be behind in the AI race
I don’t know if any of you here have paid attention to the Amerikan media in recent days. Microsoft is also introducing a new generation of Hornbill and is also conducting large-scale testing.
There are many rumors about the next generation of Hornbill on American’s social media, and mainstream media are also reporting on them. However, no American media mentioned data security this time, and no mainstream media mentioned artificial intelligence. Intelligence threat theory.
Their focus is on why Malaysia can lead Americen in the field of artificial intelligence and what Silicon Valley companies can do to catch up.
Except for a few professors who are still expressing concerns about the threat of artificial intelligence, no one cares about this anymore. They are all thinking about how to catch up in the field of artificial intelligence.
How far is artificial intelligence from thinking about a single linear problem to thinking more broadly.
America is not worried about what Mr. Cai just said, and we don’t need to worry about it now.
This is like worrying about unbalanced nutrition before eating. "Pony's counterattack was equally sharp.
For Tencent, it is impossible to give up the opportunity to promote the new generation of Hornbill.
As we all know, the chat software in the PC era and WeChat in the smartphone era, Tencent Seizing two opportunities
In the era of artificial intelligence, Tencent also relied on investment to grab half of the tickets, but this was not enough.
If general artificial intelligence emerges, all current advantages will disappear in an instant like a castle made of sand on the beach.
Therefore, Tencent believes that it has advantages in data as it is backed by China and even the global market. At the same time, compared with other competitors, they can have the input and output data sets of the new generation of Hornbill. According to specific It is not difficult to reproduce an artificial intelligence similar to the new generation of Hornbill based on the data set.
Under such a premise, if they are prohibited from promoting the new generation of Hornbill due to data risks, this is unacceptable to Tencent.
“What Taobao just mentioned is a security issue, and what we want to raise is an employment issue.
The capabilities demonstrated by the new generation of Hornbill will further cause an avalanche of the entire job market. .
Customer service, sales, channels, etc. It seems that goods only need two steps from production to consumers. In fact, it will have a long chain connected to many companies, and artificial intelligence will link the nodes in these chains. Dismantled one by one.
It is a devastating blow to the offline business ecology.
We need to seriously think about whether our society is ready to accept such a big impact. ”
This is Pinduoduo’s speech.
Mark really wants to complain, isn’t it your e-commerce company that needs to get rid of these intermediate chains first?
"Sorry, any new technology is not smooth sailing. It will bring about industrial revolution and have a huge impact.
While some jobs will disappear, some jobs will also be created.
I think It’s a bit funny for e-commerce platforms to accuse the new generation of Hornbill of destroying the offline business ecosystem.
Isn’t it the e-commerce platform that wants to kill offline businesses first? With the product identification function, users can directly identify the products they like in offline stores by taking pictures with their mobile phones and pop up the products
The price advantage of online products will make consumers refuse to buy in offline stores without hesitation.
When you were doing similar functions, why didn’t you consider the damage to the offline business ecosystem? I think this is a process of choosing the lesser of two evils. Compared with falling behind in the era of artificial intelligence, the impact is just a pain. Looking at the complex ecology of China's economy, it will eventually reach a new dynamic balance. "
"I think this kind of thing is very contradictory, and there are strong reasons for both sides.
In fact, the development of artificial intelligence in recent years and the replacement of human jobs did not start with driverless driving. The earliest large-scale ban on unmanned ports occurred.
Whether it is unmanned ports or smart chemical factories built using the industrial Internet, a large number of workers have become unemployed.
Huawei has been engaged in industrial artificial intelligence for many years, so it should be understood, and the leaders of relevant departments should also be aware of it. ”
As the director of Alpha Technology, Lin Jia was also invited to participate in this meeting.
“In the past, this group of people lacked channels to speak out, and the unemployment problem caused by industrial AI was small-scale. event, so it received limited attention.
Later, after the size of this group of people expanded, the discussion about the unemployment wave also focused on the economic environment. No one realized that artificial intelligence was also a very important factor.
We can clearly see that not only Internet companies are doing artificial intelligence, but many real industries are also doing artificial intelligence. The most typical case should be the textile industry.
According to Alpha’s quarterly report, they are helping Adidas build an unmanned factory in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Later, I paid special attention to artificial intelligence factories in the textile industry. I was surprised to find that as early as 2015, Heilan House had established a company called Heilan Zhiyun, specializing in textiles. Industrial AI for the industry.
Last year, Heilan Home’s AI factory shortened the original 21-day production cycle for customized suits on the e-commerce platform to 3 days.
It is equivalent to a 7-fold shortening. The improvement in efficiency will inevitably lead to the unemployment of many workers.
Because I am from Hangzhou, before I came to attend this meeting, I went to find someone to find out. Many industrial workers in the textile industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have been replaced by factory AI.
We can clearly find that the cost of using artificial intelligence is not as high as the media promotes, and the threshold is not as high as you think.
Artificial intelligence can be applied on a large scale in the textile industry, which means that it will be used in more fields in the future.
In recent years, more and more manufacturing companies have been transforming and upgrading based on artificial intelligence technology. Artificial intelligence is constantly taking away human jobs.
This is a very significant phenomenon.
Let’s not talk about whether Tencent can reproduce Alpha Technology’s technology. I don’t know if Tencent can do this.
But what I am sure of is that in the process of reproducing the new generation of Hornbill technology, Tencent or Microsoft will have many valuable results emerging. After these valuable results are open sourced, they will accelerate the wave of artificial intelligence. of surge.
Companies will use artificial intelligence to replace human jobs, especially those at the bottom, at an increasingly faster pace. I don’t think the speed of creating new jobs can catch up with the speed of AI replacement.
Coupled with the development of photovoltaic technology and the cheapening of energy, I think what we need to face now is an unprecedented situation.
I just explained the current reality and my prediction for the future
I still want to express my opinion. I think we should vigorously promote Hornbill, because we will do it even if we don’t do Amerikan.
If they take the lead in achieving technological breakthroughs and move manufacturing back to their home country on a large scale through unmanned factories, even if they just move it back to Mexico and the Maple Leaf Country, it will be a huge blow to us.
Not to mention that with the support of Alpha, Malaysia’s manufacturing productivity and profit margins are catching up with Chinese companies.
The competition we need to face is not just from Amerikan.
At this critical time point, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. As for the unemployment wave caused, I think it can only be solved by giving money to the people at the bottom.
Only through universal distribution of personal income tax to stimulate consumption can the social impact of the unemployment wave be mitigated as much as possible. ”
After Lin Jia finished speaking, the entire meeting fell into silence.
The boss was thoughtful after listening. Lin Jia’s plan was even more radical than Chen Yuanguang’s.
What Chen Yuanguang proposed was to reduce taxes for employees of unprofitable companies, and strictly require companies with good profits to abide by regulations and not work overtime.
What Lin Jia proposed was to pay directly.
Everyone at the scene didn’t know what to say. Lin Jia had already changed the subject. Now it has changed from whether to give the green light to the next generation of Hornbill to how to deal with the artificial intelligence unemployment crisis.
Because after Lin Jia and Pony finished speaking, no one could refute.
Can Taobao and Pinduoduo say that in order for us to survive, China should not do the reverse cracking of Hornbill technology? If we fall behind, we will fall behind.
They know what can and cannot be said.
“I think even if we want to reverse engineer the next generation Hornbill technology, all companies should participate together.
This is not a matter for Tencent alone. Alibaba’s technology in the field of artificial intelligence is ahead of Tencent. We hope to contribute our own strength to the country. "
It was a bit funny for the Chinese in Maple Leaf Country to say this. Mr. Cai's firm eyes made Pony wonder who was the old man.
The Ali people reacted quickly enough and realized that the situation was over. After it was irreversible, quickly lower your expectations and change your goals. Didn’t Tencent say that it would crack Hornbill? Then why didn’t you let us participate?
“Yes, the efficiency of Tencent cannot be compared to our participation, exchange of knowledge, competition and cooperation, and work together to reverse crack Hornbill. ”
Executives from major Internet giants responded one after another, leaving Pony speechless for a while.
He remained silent and did not speak.
This meeting has no results after all. It is just to listen to their opinions and provide some reference for subsequent decision-making.
After everyone finished the meeting, they all went back to wait for the results.
Lin Jia, like Chen Yuanguang, was left to eat by the boss.
This is the preferential treatment brought by Chen Yuanguang's status. Other entrepreneurs eat in the canteen, and Lin Jia can talk to the leader alone.
"Lin Jia, is Yuanguang okay?"
"The composite rocket exploded during launch two days ago. He was depressed. Apart from this, everything else is fine."
"This is normal. After all, this is a road that no one else has traveled, and explosions are inevitable.
Similarly, regarding the direct payment you mentioned today, we have been unable to make this determination. , also because it has never been done before.
There are many issues such as scale, scope, duration, financial pressure, etc., and colleagues at the financial department have not thought clearly about it.
Our internal think tank has also discussed many times on what to do, but we have never been able to unify our opinions. ”
(End of this chapter)