Chapter 443: Pessimistic Technology Theory

Liu Qing took three days off in total, so she left in a hurry.

Zhou Buqi met the other two people on the investigation list——Gu Zhuolun and Su Zifeng. According to some people, there is no possibility of them returning to China at all.

But always try.

Su Zifeng is a lady, a top scientist in the field of chips. If she is brought back to China, it will greatly improve the country's semiconductor industry.

But she only met Zhou Buqi in the office for three minutes, didn't speak a word of Chinese, and talked in English throughout, so she didn't mean to get in touch at all. She is of Taiwanese descent and has strong resistance. He also bluntly said that even if he returns to China, he will go to TSMC and has nothing to do with the mainland.

In contrast, Guzhuolun is a different situation.

"I will not go back to China, there is no chance there."

"No, the Internet in the motherland is developing very fast now."

Gu Zhuolun shook his head and said, "The Internet is the Internet, and high technology is high technology."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi looked suspicious.

Gu Zhuolun said lightly: "I go back to China every year, and I also care about the development of the country. Domestic Internet companies rely on people's vulgar tastes to make money, fake goods trading, gossip, and online flirting. What technology pursues is Human progress and future exploration, not retrogression and ignorance."

Zhou Buqi's face hurt a little when he said this.

He just participated in Twitter's financing.

Including his main friend network, which is actually not much different from Twitter. It is basically sharing "short messages", including short videos that will be born in the future. .

The so-called information cocoon room is to judge the user's personal preferences through big data algorithms, and then keep pushing him the content he likes and agrees with, constantly strengthening his inherent cognitive system, making it difficult for him to jump out The comfort zone becomes a "cocoon" wrapped in countless cocoon threads.

"Cocoon" will see whatever you show him; he will eat whatever you feed him; he will buy whatever you sell him...he will think that the cocoon he lives in is the whole world .

Zhou Buqi was silent for a long time, and said: "I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Not everyone has such a strong aggressiveness. Isn't it a good thing to help those who are not so motivated to comfort their hearts? At least it can relieve depression, Negative emotions such as irritability, pain, and loss."

"Um?"

Gu Zhuolun opened his eyes wide.

This topic is more popular in Silicon Valley, where people in China are busy making money, and basically do not discuss such philosophical categories. This point of view is rather sensitive.

Zhou Buqi sighed, "I really like a movie called "The World of Truman". Truman has the courage to go out, but how many Trumans are there in this world? Most people pursue It is a comfortable life, wives and children, and an ordinary life. Creating a value platform for Truman is a community of shared future for mankind. Similarly, making ordinary people live more comfortably is also a great cause. For dignity, Some people really choose euthanasia."

What he said was false.

Because he really didn't understand much, and he wasn't very politically correct. He had an elitist thinking that treated the general public as ants. He didn't dare to give the other party a chance to argue, so he smiled and said, "Mr. Gu must be Truman, and he is willing to open his eyes." Seeing the world, I am also willing."

"you?"

"Ziweixing Technology, Mr. Gu, haven't you heard of it?"

"I heard that, but I didn't see that Mr. Zhou had the intention to open that door at all."

What Gu Zhuolun said is not polite at all, the qualifications are there. He has a high status in Silicon Valley, and he became famous ten years ago. He is as famous as Yahoo founder Yang Zhiyuan, and he is an outstanding talent among Chinese.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Then you may not know that Ziweixing is working on a big project called..."

"Project Feitian? Distributed database?"

"you know?"

"The tone is not small."

Gu Zhuolun snorted coldly.

Zhou Buqi was a little displeased at being scolded, feeling that this buddy's EQ is not good enough, so he said flatly: "What's the best idea, Mr. Gu?"

Gu Zhuolun said: "The database has been born for decades, and now you are engaged in... Even if it is distributed, it is considered a relatively cutting-edge technology direction, so what? The database itself is a very mature industry. Do you have your distributed Database, what will change in this world?"

Zhou Buqi narrowed his eyes and said flatly: "I don't know what changes it will bring to the world. But I know that at least my country will no longer be stuck by developed countries in this field. Don't blame me With a small mind, I also have the idea of ​​changing the world and benefiting all mankind. But first, please let me benefit my country first."

Gu Zhuolun shook his head, his tone became much calmer, "I didn't mean that."

Zhou Buqi said: "What does Mr. Gu mean?"

"Technology can really change the world."

"I know……"

"No, you don't know!"

Gu Zhuolun interrupted him again, with a more serious tone, "It's only been two hundred years since the Industrial Revolution. How has the world changed drastically? Now is the era of information explosion. The total amount of information produced by all human beings this year is, It will be more than the sum of the information generated from the birth of human beings to the last year! This is exponential growth, and the effect brought about is that the world will change faster and faster."

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Mr. Gu's tone seems very pessimistic?"

Gu Zhuolun was silent for a while, and said slowly: "It's not pessimism, but awe."

"Appreciate further details?"

"The Internet in China basically uses a little bit of technical means to connect netizens with some low-level interests. What you said is also reasonable. Not everyone is a Truman, and more people pursue a comfortable and stable life. In this way The Internet means can indeed make their lives more comfortable, and the basic necessities of life can be solved with basic necessities of life.”

"Yes, like a cocoon room, comfortable and warm."

"Cocoon room?" Gu Zhuolun nodded, "This analogy is very vivid, but...the layers of cocoon threads woven by the Internet, from the inside, have a strong defense. From the outside, they are too weak. If the real technological tide comes, the cocoon room will be broken at the first touch."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "For example?"

Gu Zhuolun said: "Artificial intelligence!"

Zhou Buqi fell silent.

He doesn't understand much, but he knows that Elon Musk once expressed a very pessimistic view, calling on engineers to restrict the development of artificial intelligence, so as not to cause human tragedy.

This is divided into two factions, one is that artificial intelligence is man-made and can be controlled by humans; the other is that artificial intelligence possesses unimaginable wisdom, and as long as it grows up, it will break through the technological blockade of humans.

This is not an uncommon argument, and there are many such reflections in Hollywood movies.

Of course, Gu Zhuolun would not use the film's argument, and said seriously: "I am a student of automation, and I have been studying the field of artificial intelligence in the past few years. In recent years, many large automobile factories have been laying off workers, because the automobile production line has been fully automated. No more workers, Tesla, you know that?"

"Um."

"It's not a big deal, after all, it's relatively small. But if artificial intelligence develops, automated robot technology will become more and more mature, and sooner or later it will be applied to various industries. At that time, what do you think Huaxia should do? ?The biggest advantage of our rapid development in recent years is cheap labor. In order to pursue profits, Europe and the United States have moved their factories to China. If robots replace manpower, is it necessary for those factories to stay in China? How big will it be? Hurt? How many are unemployed, how many are starving, how many are homeless?"

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "Indeed, the development of domestic science and technology is imminent."

Gu Zhuolun said mockingly: "But those Internet companies are all building cocoon houses on the common people and treating them as their gods. How can they have any awe of future technology?"

Zhou Buqi said: "You can't be so pessimistic?"

Gu Zhuolun said: "I believe that I will die tomorrow, so I will put in all my efforts today."

Zhou Buqi was taken aback, feeling that this buddy was a bit fierce, and tentatively said: "In the world, artificial intelligence has just started, right? When Silicon Valley makes some achievements, they will realize it, and the country will also realize it." We will help promote the development of related industries.”

"You think so too?" Gu Zhuolun narrowed his eyes.

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "Artificial intelligence, I must do it. To be honest, we already have related plans internally. First, we will imitate Amazon's artificial intelligence training platform and build one."

This is half true.

The report is true, it was submitted by CTO Cheng Binghao, but it is not a proposal, nor a plan, it is just an introduction to the international cutting-edge technology trends. Tell Zhou Buqi what the big companies in Silicon Valley are doing, and let him have a judgment.

If you want to do artificial intelligence, you must first carry out intelligent training on the machine, which requires huge data, repeated testing and training. Amazon's platform is called MechanicalTurk, and all participants call themselves "Turkers." They log in to the platform every day, and then receive tasks, write codes, and complete intelligence tests.

This requires a huge expense. In addition to the R\u0026D, operation, and maintenance costs of the platform, it is also necessary to pay the "Turkers" wages.

With Ziweixing's strength, it is definitely impossible to do it now.

The most convenient way is to wait for Silicon Valley to do almost the same, and wait for them to open up relevant data with great kindness, or steal, buy, borrow, and directly apply it to their own artificial intelligence products.

This is the same as making a mobile phone or a computer. On the surface, it is our product, but in fact it is assembled, and the core components are all made by Meidi. People stuck their necks and just finished playing.

Gu Zhuolun said a metaphor: "It's like raising a child. Of course, it's best to raise it from birth. It's raised abroad until it's 18 years old. If it's adopted in China, it will be adopted as a son and continue to be raised. Is this son willing to accept a new father?"

Regarding this point, Zhou Buqi has a good attitude and said with a smile: "The initial development of artificial intelligence is inseparable from data. It is just that our Internet company can help us get more data by exploring those low-level interests. Accumulation far exceeds that of the United States. Data is equivalent to the food fed to the child of artificial intelligence. We have more food. Maybe our food is not as healthy as that of the United States, but we can raise more children, and we can always A few towering ones emerged."

Gu Zhuolun nodded lightly, then took a deep breath, "Are you really interested in artificial intelligence?"

"Very interesting." Zhou Buqi sighed, "But we may not be able to act in the past one or two years. You know, we are a new company."