Digital Kingdom

The New Year's Eve of 2015 passed quietly. With the disclosure of the artificial intelligence algorithm of the Digital Group, the major Internet giants have made new moves.

In the era of artificial intelligence, voice interaction is the most important entry point.

Just like the operating system of the PC era, the portal site of the Internet era, the social software of the social network era, and the APP of the mobile network era.

Digital Group took the lead in launching Smart Speakers, covering home, office, portable, and in-vehicle scenarios, striving to dominate in the era of artificial intelligence.

Naturally, other giants will not be willing to give up the market. Although they have just obtained the underlying algorithms of the Digital Group, they can't wait to release new product previews.

After all, time waits for no one. As of the end of January 2016, the sales volume of Digital Group's smart speakers has accumulated more than 10 million. If you don't face the difficulties, it is likely to be completely abandoned.

Industry giants such as Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook have all begun to compete for the smart speaker market.

Amazon launched Echo, Google launched Google Home, Facebook launched Portal, and Apple launched Homepod.

They all rely on their own superior scenes, prepare to be late and challenge Xiaozhi's dominance.

With years of accumulation, design, brand, technology, etc., there may not be a battle in the field of smart speakers.

After all, products are products and technology is technology.

Every popular electronic consumer product on the market is usually the one that understands the user best, not the most technologically advanced one.

Relying on their own judgments, the major companies have already made relevant plans. Even without Xiaozhi as a spoiler, they will launch their own products in one to two years.

Now it's just moving the time forward.

In the year when Xiaozhi went public, popular voice introductory scenes appeared one after another, such as Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, Microsoft's Cortana, and Apple's Siri.

Because the light was blocked by Xiaozhi, it did not attract public attention.However, the evaluation in the industry is not low.

If there is no such black swan as Xiaozhi, the winner will be born in several houses.

The reason why a giant is a giant is that it has a layout in all aspects and has almost no obvious shortcomings.

The market value of more than one trillion is not caused by the Internet bubble, nor is it a nonsense figure with the touch of a lip.

Behind each company is an ecosystem, which controls the upstream and downstream industrial chain, and there are dozens or hundreds of companies with interest.

The giants are waving huge sums of money, making various investments in the future, generally casting nets.

Acquiring various innovative companies from the outside and increasing their own R&D investment inward.

Take the semiconductor industry as an example. From 2015 to 2020, the domestic semiconductor industry plans to invest 65 billion U.S. dollars, and the average annual investment is 13 billion.

And Intel’s R&D investment is more than 13 billion US dollars.

The investment is huge, one can imagine.

If the huge amount of funds is smashed, a hot spot and an industry can be created out of thin air, not to mention the layout of the future on the existing basis.

It can even be further said that they have led the future technological trends.

Since artificial intelligence is a hot spot, voice interaction technology will not be missed by everyone.

Without the investment of major giants and consistent publicity, artificial intelligence would not have become a hot spot so quickly.

Although major companies have launched smart speakers this time, it was a bit hasty, but it should not be considered that they have insufficient technical strength and no competitive pressure.

Every Internet giant has grown up with a lot of blood, and will not smash its own signs.

Since smart speakers are declared to be on the market, they will not come up with a pile of rubbish to fool people. There will always be merits, and then it will be a hundred boxes of hegemony.

If we add the domestic giants such as Ali, Tencent, Baidu and a series of start-up companies, the market competition will become fierce.

As the most direct application of voice interaction technology, smart speakers are in a critical position. They can become companion robots, and can control smart homes. Even slightly ambitious companies will not miss it.

The reason why voice interaction is important is that it is regarded as the next outlet. Its core value can be attributed to free hands, faster results and interesting experiences, on which trillion-level companies can be born.

So, artificial intelligence-voice interaction-smart speakers-various applications, this is a line.

You know, when the machine cannot reach the level of human intelligence, we have to adapt to the machine and communicate with it in a way that the machine can understand.

However, when machines gradually have the ability to understand humans, of course we should return to the most effective and natural communication method for ourselves, that is, voice.

Language is a great evolutionary product possessed by mankind, which greatly improves the efficiency and complexity of our collaboration.

The reason why human beings have become the most powerful species on earth lies in their ability to collaborate. The evolutionary process of human beings is the process of continuous improvement of the ability of coordination. Language has been promoting the continuous improvement of human coordination.

Human-computer interaction-voice interaction is particularly important.

Therefore, Xiaozhi speakers can detonate the entire market in one fell swoop and open a new era of artificial intelligence.

Apple's Siri has always wanted to do general artificial intelligence, but unfortunately there is no progress. Xiaozhi's breakthrough makes people see the light, and this is the key point.

In the future, technology will adapt to our human habits more and more. Voice interaction is such a technology that can be embedded in various scenarios.

Once voice interaction is popularized, human-computer interaction will become the most common way and will bring about tremendous changes to everything.

Therefore, it is very important, no one, no company, dare to ignore, dare to let go.

The Hundred Box War is just a prelude, and the subsequent struggle will become more and more fierce. No one is willing to give up the future. Without a life and death struggle, there can be no winner.

Zhao Ziming was fearless about this. Although he disclosed his algorithm and cultivated his opponents himself, he also exchanged a lot, and each got his own way.

Since everyone wants to meet the Digital Group on this, it will naturally not be polite.

Appropriate competition can bring progress. Zhao Ziming has never underestimated the wisdom of everyone. Although black technology is in hand, he has not denied the role of human beings.

Even if the algorithm is not disclosed, humans can make a breakthrough.

Today, Zhao Ziming has rarely used the power of small news directly, but regarded it as an optimization tool to greatly reduce other applications.

This is an inevitable choice as a superior person, and will not pin all hopes on things that cannot be controlled.

The small news is nothing more than a tool for him.

To some extent, Xiaozhi can be counted as the first universal intelligence developed by humans.

Since it is launched, it will inevitably face various challenges.

Without the test of competition, it is impossible to establish an invincible image in the hearts of consumers.

Xiaozhi can only build his reputation after fighting, defeating every challenger, and maintaining a record of constant victories.

It remains to be seen who will be the winner.

The battle for the entrance to the era of artificial intelligence is about to begin.