Chapter 3200 Ground Network

In the eyes of Li Yalin, an old detective with a strong sense of investigation, the strength of the AI ​​model is like the Monkey King's golden hoop and Poseidon's trident, an absolute super artifact.

Many times, criminal investigation relies either on experience and technology, or on the ability to acquire and retrieve information.

If you start tracking a suspect from city A, but once he leaves city A and the clues are cut off artificially, finding him will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, from an objective point of view, no matter how vast the ocean is that this needle merges into, it still exists objectively and has the possibility of being found.

The difficulty lies in who has the energy to conduct a blanket search of the entire ocean?

Now, Ai has this capability.

At the very least, this dedicated AI model in front of us already has this capability.

She has studied all the public content on the Internet, so in theory she also knows every person in the world who has a name and video information on the Internet.

As long as you provide her with enough video footage and give her some time, she will be able to compare every face that appears in the video and find the person you are looking for.

Hundreds or even tens of millions of faces can be recognized from tens of thousands of videos, and then a specific person can be found from these hundreds or even tens of millions of faces. If it relies on manual identification, it may take at least hundreds of people working continuously for several days or even dozens of days.

But for Ai, it may only take tens of minutes or even a few minutes.

The more Li Yalin thought about it, the more excited he became. He pulled Ye Chen to a deserted place and whispered, "Mr. Ye, if we can find a way to hack into the surveillance systems of major airports around the world and give the face of someone from the Poqing Society to AI for study, then whenever this person travels by plane in the future, we will be able to see through all his movements at the first time!"

Ye Chen asked him: "Is it possible to hack into the airport surveillance?"

Li Yalin thought for a moment and said, "It depends on the information protection capabilities of the country or the airport. Airport surveillance in small third world countries should be easy to hack into, but it should not be so easy in developed countries, especially those with developed Internet industries."

Then, Li Yalin added: "But I don't think it's impossible to achieve."

Ye Chen asked him: "Does Inspector Li have any good ideas?"

Li Yalin said: "Russian hackers are always very strong. We can try to find them to hack into surveillance cameras in various places. If we can't hack them, we can still collect data ourselves!"

"Collect it ourselves?" Ye Chen asked him, "Do you mean that we should go to the airport to set up surveillance equipment ourselves, or arrange for people to go to the airport to film it?"

Li Yalin shook his head and said in a low voice: "Use UGC big data!"

Ye Chen was confused: "UGC? What does it mean?"

Li Yalin explained: "It is user-generated content. For example, on your short video platform, hundreds of millions of users will post their own content on it, and even do live broadcasts on the platform. The data they generate is UGC. Just think about it, any airport or train station in the world with a slightly larger flow of people will have people taking photos and videos here. They will upload these photos and short videos to social platforms, and all this data will become public data. At each large airport, there are thousands or tens of thousands of people at the airport at the same time. These people will use their mobile phones to cross-shoot each other and then upload them to social platforms. As long as the person we want to find appears at the airport, there is a high probability that he or she will not be able to escape the cameras of other passengers at the airport."

Ye Chen nodded and said in agreement: "What Inspector Li said makes sense, but I always feel that the mesh of this channel is still a bit large. Perhaps 80% to 90% of the people in the airport will be photographed by others, but whether it will be uploaded to the social platform is another unknown. If 80% of people will upload it to the social platform, then 8864 will only cover 60% of the people, and 40% will be missed."

Li Yalin said: "That's true, but we can think of other ways to make up the other 40%."

At this moment, Lin Wan'er appeared beside the two of them and whispered, "Brother Ye Chen, can we acquire vending machine companies in countries around the world?"

"Vending machine?" Ye Chen frowned and asked subconsciously: "Xiao Wan, what do you mean?"

Lin Wan'er said, "Every airport in the world has vending machines, and there are more than one or two. Large airports even have dozens of them, selling almost everything from drinks to snacks to masks, eye masks and earplugs. If I were a company engaged in vending business, no matter what I sold, I would install monitoring equipment in my vending terminal for safety reasons to ensure the safety of my vending machine. If there is any problem, the cause can be discovered in time. The data from these monitoring devices must be uploaded to my own server in real time. As long as we have enough vending companies, it means that we have our own monitoring equipment in airports around the world. Moreover, vending machines are generally located on the roads that passengers must pass through, which is equivalent to our sentry posts at the throats of various airports."

"Genius!" Li Yalin blurted out excitedly, and then tried to lower his voice and said, "This method is great! It's like a Trojan horse infiltrated in major airports, which can lurk and monitor silently 24 hours a day. We operate the company's business normally, but just open a hidden data interface on the server, so that the AI ​​model can capture the surveillance video in the server in real time through the hidden interface, and everything is under control! If the vending machine business is well developed, the streets and alleys of major cities may even be covered by us. By that time, we will have our own Skynet, distributed in the streets and alleys all over the world!"

Ye Chen couldn't help but give Lin Wan'er a thumbs up and praised: "This idea is great, how did you come up with it?"

Lin Wan'er smiled and said, "Just now you said that you wanted to hack into the surveillance videos of major airports. I think this is definitely unrealistic, because there are so many airports in the world. Even if we can hack into every one of them, we don't know how long it will take to operate one by one. What's more, behind all commercial systems, there are very powerful service providers who are constantly upgrading and optimizing. It is their key work to constantly find and fill loopholes. It is very likely that the airport we hacked into last month will suddenly have its loopholes plugged after an upgrade one day. In this way, it is difficult for us to achieve comprehensive monitoring;"

Lin Wan'er continued, "Although the UGC that Inspector Li mentioned is very useful, we don't have the initiative. There are too many uncontrollable factors, so I think it's more reliable to build our own surveillance system. However, the airport is a public place with very high security boarding. The possibility of us installing surveillance openly is very small, so we simply use this disguised mode and the most inconspicuous method to put surveillance in the airport. After thinking about it, vending machines are the best solution I can think of."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "This plan is very feasible, and the disguise is very high. I have lived for almost 30 years. Whether I go to a vending machine to buy something or pass by a vending machine, I have never thought that the vending machine will not take my personal image. Almost no one will set up defenses against such things. As long as we operate it properly, this Skynet system can quietly blossom all over the world!"

Li Yalin reminded him, "Mr. Ye, if you want to achieve this, you must ensure that every company we acquire is operating normally. Except for the core technical personnel, no other employees can access this information. They themselves must not know what the company's motives are behind giving them this job."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will find a way to mobilize my connections and use a large number of shell companies to make acquisitions all over the world. China will be handled by the Su family, Europe will be handled by Helena, North America and South America will be handled by the Fei family, Japan, South Korea and other parts of Asia will be handled by the Ito family. Africa is not difficult either, we can give the old man of the Su family a chance to make a contribution. The old man happens to be a local landlord in Madagascar. As for Oceania, I can't think of an acquaintance for the time being, but it doesn't matter. If it doesn't work, I will send someone from the Wanlong Palace. When the time comes, the technical personnel of the acquired company will be provided by the An family, and all the background will leave an interface to connect here."

An Kaifeng saw the three of them running to a corner and whispering to each other for a long time. He came over curiously and whispered, "What are you talking about here? You are so engrossed."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Study a new business with great imagination."

An Kaifeng asked curiously: "What new business? Tell me about it."

Ye Chen said: "I want to monopolize all the vending machines in the world, and strive to own 80% of the world's vending machines in the future."

An Kaifeng was stunned for a moment, then said awkwardly, "Chen'er...what imagination is there in doing this business? Even if you were to operate vending machines all over the world, you wouldn't make more than a dozen or two billion dollars a year, and you might even lose money. This is just a small business, it can't be big, and the profit margin is very low. Equipment costs money, venues cost money, electricity costs money, and employee salaries are also indispensable. In addition, the equipment also wears out, and there are maintenance and replacement costs every year. In places with poor public security, you will also face the risk of losing both money and goods. You can only earn hard-earned money throughout the year."

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Second Uncle, let alone it can't make more than 10 or 20 billion US dollars a year, even if it doesn't make a penny a year, or even loses more than 10 or 20 billion US dollars, I will accept it."

An Kaifeng couldn't figure it out, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "My dear nephew, the money you make from selling a rejuvenation pill is more than Coca-Cola Group can make in decades, so why bother with vending machines?"

Li Yalin on the side couldn't help but said: "Skynet! Kaifeng! Skynet system!"

"Skynet? What does that mean?" An Kaifeng was even more confused. He looked at the three people blankly, not knowing what the three people were up to.

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Inspector Li, the cameras of other people's Skynet are installed at high places to monitor from above. Ours should be considered an underground network!"