Digital Kingdom

"On January 22nd, the 2017 Information Security Conference, which will be held by the Institute of Future of Life Research in February this year, will bring many hot topics, including machine learning, IoT security, cloud security and many other core topics.

It is said that the selected companies this year will become the vane of safety innovation technology this year. In the next round of acquisition boom, these selected companies will become the targets of big companies vying to buy.A total of 87 companies have applied to participate in this innovation sandbox competition..."

Fan Yang turned off the computer casually, checked the time, and prepared to go out.

Since the establishment of the Institute for the Future of Life, the investment of various countries in artificial intelligence seems to have entered an arms race.Today this country sets up a cyber force, and tomorrow that country passes the Ai support bill. Big countries spend a lot of money, and small countries form alliances. You chase me, it’s so lively.

No one wants to be abandoned by the tide of the times.

As the birthplace of artificial intelligence, the mainland naturally also moves frequently, constantly holding various competitions, forums, and conferences, hoping to continue to maintain the status of one superpower.

As an outsider, Fan Yang can feel the breath of the great era.

However, just like most ordinary people, they can only accept passively. When the tide of the times is surging, people in all walks of life and all countries will be affected.

He can do very little, blindly, passively, or trapped, and move forward.

This is the fate of an ordinary person!

No choice, hard to struggle, only accept.

However, for Fan Yang, as an ordinary office worker, he never thought too far. Although vaguely aware of the change, he did not know what to do.

Go out and get on the bus, go to your girlfriend's house, and attend the annual family gathering.Fan Yang's status has risen sharply since he showed his power in Lao Zhang's family last time. Not to mention that his relationship has been settled. His girlfriend's family has treated him like a son.

Speaking of it, although Lao Zhang's family is not a big family, there are quite a few relatives, men and women, old and young, and ten or twenty people who are relatives. It took Fan Yang a long time to barely remember.

However, it was his girlfriend's aunt who made a deep impression. She smiled, her brows seemed to be filled with sadness, which made people feel uncomfortable at first glance.

"What happened to Qing Aunt's house? Why do you look sad?" Fan Yang asked his girlfriend Yuanyuan while going to the toilet.

My girlfriend looked around and whispered, "My cousin passed away unfortunately three years ago. My aunt has been immersed in grief, unable to extricate herself, but now it’s better, she can go out, she stayed at home for over a year. My body is not good."

Fan Yang felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the words, and sighed: "Hey, the sorrow and the change."

His girlfriend was holding his hand: "The cousin is our family's pistachio. Everyone is very sad about her passing away. When you eat, be careful and don't presume this on the aunt."

Fan Yang: "Don't worry."

After the dinner, the atmosphere has always been very happy. Fan Yang was reminded by his girlfriend, and he would unconsciously focus on Qing Aunt.

The young aunt may be afraid of affecting everyone's mood. She has always been smiling, but she always looks out of place. She may have been told in advance. Everyone pretended not to see it, and did not deliberately comfort or care.

Although Fan Yang felt uncomfortable in his heart, he was helpless. Everyone had to experience birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, and it was sooner or later.

of course.Outsiders can never feel the pain in it.

I thought it was a simple gathering, but I didn't expect Qinggu to find it during the break.

"Xiaoyang, you are a college student, you have a lot of knowledge, and Auntie wants to ask you something, do you have a lot of trouble", the old man is recovering well, his face is ruddy, his voice is loud, and he tells his son-in-law.

"Good dad," Fan Yang quickly agreed, turning his head to face Qing aunt, "Aunty, let's go and talk, there is clean."

Qing Aunt nodded.

The two walked to the corner to the side, Qing Gu was silent for a long time, and when Fan Yang couldn't help but say something, she finally spoke:

"Xiaoyang, now that AI technology is so advanced, can you make your child an AI and stay with you forever?"

Fan Yang opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

He also couldn't pretend to be ignorant and ask "why", but he didn't know how to comfort the other party.

Just listen to Qing Gu continue to say:

"I also thought about starting a new life, but I couldn't do it at all. Every time I close my eyes, Sisi's voice and smile will appear in front of my eyes. For ten years, I have been used to her noise and laughter. The sound, even the soft hair, and the figure playing in the water on the beach, always linger in front of my eyes. For me, the awkward crying face is also a kind of relief and solidity."

"Aunt..." Fan Yang wanted to persuade him.

"Now I can only keep pouring my daughter's photos and videos on my mobile phone. That is the last link between me and Sisi," Qing Aunt said directly.

It doesn't seem to care that someone listens, someone speaks, and someone pays attention.

Fan Yang was silent.

"After my daughter is gone, I often go to the cafe to sit and sit all day long, ordering two cups of American food, which is our common taste," the other party said, teardrops down.

Fan Yang hurriedly took a tissue and handed it to her, sweating on his forehead anxiously, at a loss. Fortunately, the figure of his girlfriend appeared at this time, and he finally solved the problem.

"Auntie, don't be sad, I believe Sisi is not willing to see you like this", Yuanyuan hugged Auntie to persuade her.

Aunt Qing resisted the tears and squeezed out a smile: My Sisi, I really like watching clouds.After she left, I saw the cloud and couldn't help but waved to the sky... After recovering, I felt like a mad woman. On a sunny day, I would look at the clouds in the sky and wonder if the child was lying on the cloud. Go up; when it is cloudy, will the child be afraid of thunder..."

Fan Yang was speechless. All he could do was listen. Maybe he was afraid of being annoying. The aunt quickly held back his emotions. "I listened to people all day long. Artificial intelligence technology is very advanced. I wonder if I can create a virtual reality. people?"

Although Fan Yang felt that the other party was a bit whimsical, he couldn't bear to persuade him to create a virtual person, not to mention technically impossible. For the aunt, what is this, a substitute or...

"What do you say, husband," Yuanyuan also looked at him hopefully.

Women never think too much, they are only moved by some surface.

"I don't know this well," Fan Yanggang regretted when he said it.

Qing Gu's eyes became dim and even a little dead, and she couldn't help but continue: "But we can try."

"How to try?"

"Ask the customer service first." Fan Yang took out his mobile phone, opened the "Digital Group" app, and logged in to his account. As a VIP member of HoloLens (telemedicine system), he has many permissions.

"Auntie, it's up to you. This is the artificial intelligence customer service of the Digital Group. If this can be done, just ask it."

Fan Yang clicked on the dialog box and was about to say something. After thinking about it, he handed the phone out.

Since it is necessary to do it, natural selection is the best. Although Ali, Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com are all deploying artificial intelligence, when it comes to the world's number one, there is only one, and that is the digital group.

Even if he is not an industry insider, he already knew the strength of the other party.

Qing Gu picked up the phone, thought about it, and started typing:

"Hello there."

"Hello there."

"There is a very important request that needs your help."

"Please say."

Qinggu calmed down her excitement and began to organize the language:

"My daughter has passed away, but I miss her very much. Can you use her image to make a software that interacts with me? I see the current applications of AI in human-computer interaction and real robots."

"Sorry, please wait a moment, I need authorization to reply to you."

"okay, thank you."

It may be that artificial intelligence has not encountered such problems, and it is rare to give a "wait-authorize" option. You must know that usually, there are few problems that can stump it.

Qing Gu put down the phone and couldn't help feeling nervous, her heartbeat speeding up, and she was afraid of getting a disappointed reply.

Fan Yang persuaded him, "Auntie, don't worry, the technology of Digital Group is very powerful, and it will definitely help you realize your wishes."

After hearing the words, Aunt Qing reluctantly smiled, and said nothing.

The three of them were speechless and waited quietly.

Zhao Ziming saw the "Ai Human Creation Project" passed by the smart terminal, and he was a little hesitant for a while.

From a technical point of view, with the support of sufficient corpus data and algorithms, through the current speech synthesis technology, it is not difficult to "copy" a virtual person.

Although the available corpus is insufficient, there are not many voice materials left by Sisi during his lifetime, and most of the videos he can provide are videos recorded with smart phones, most of which are in noisy environments.After all, no one will put themselves in a fully digital environment ahead of time.

However, for the digital group, to achieve artificial synthesis, it does not need to provide a large amount of training materials for the algorithm. The Blue Brain Lab has already implemented "FewShot Learning" (FewShot Learning), which can use less data , Learn more powerful skills.

The current method of machine learning mainly uses a large amount of data for training.For example, to develop an intelligent speech recognition system, at least 10 hours of speech material must be used to train artificial intelligence. In other words, the larger the amount of training material and data and the longer it takes, the better the effect of machine learning. Obviously, this is the mainstream of global machine learning.

However, this is obviously not the most efficient way to learn.

The Blue Brain Lab found that, in fact, only finding the right method, even with small-scale data, can obtain valuable results.For example, to train an image recognition system, there is no need to take hundreds of millions of pictures as training materials, and only 1,000 pictures can achieve the expected results, which greatly saves time and cost, and is also compatible with other countries and companies. Technology opened the gap.

"Small-sample learning", as the secret weapon of the digital group, has long been demonstrated by experiments, and it is just right when applied to Sisi.

What Zhao Ziming is worried about is the cognitive worry about the "AI daughter".When a mother asks a question, can the "AI daughter" answer the question based on her daughter's cognitive level and values? In this regard, it is more technically difficult.

Now the existing voice assistants on the market, such as Siri and Tmall Genie, when the input language exceeds the understanding range of AI, its setting is to search the network for the closest answer for feedback, which is very uncontrollable. Sex.

The Smart Speakers introduced by Blue Brain use two methods of "Self-supervised Learning" and "EstablishCausalRelationshipsbetweenEvents", allowing artificial intelligence to master the laws of operation of things. Learn to establish a causal relationship, and be able to make self-judgment when encountering problems that are not possible.

If you want to make an "AI daughter" for this mother, there will inevitably be random responses, which may offend her and her family in some cases.

For artificial intelligence, there is no sense of morality of its own. Maybe you ask it a very common question, and it will give the answer to destroy the three views.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Ziming decided to agree to this matter. On the one hand, it was to satisfy the mother’s emotional needs. On the other hand, he also used to experiment with the market. After all, the country is too big and the population is too large. , If they can give them a little psychological comfort, it can be regarded as a little thing Zhao Ziming has done.

For the digital group, this is also a big change, which is equivalent to the difference between general and special. The previous artificial intelligence was basically created for a certain industry. Now it focuses on a certain person, focuses on emotional needs, and technology. This is not a problem, but the impact it brings is far-reaching.

The evolutionary direction he set for Fuxi's intelligence is "pure rationality", and the "ai daughter" will naturally not change this principle, just to test the emotional operation mode under the control of "pure rationality".

On this basis, Zhao Ziming is also very curious about how far the "ai daughter" can grow and whether she can show the same cognition as ordinary people.

The aunt who was waiting anxiously felt the phone shook, and hurriedly picked it up to look.

"Hello mother, I have been authorized to meet your requirements."

"thank you so much."

"This is what I should do."

"What do I need to do?"

"Do everything possible to provide all materials about your daughter, including but not limited to photos, videos, text, social accounts, online browsing permissions, etc."

Qing Gu calmed down her excitement, "Okay, okay, do you want to provide some memoirs I wrote?"

"Yes, all relevant records including relatives and friends can be used as reference."

"Got it."

"Because some privacy rights require your authorization, please sign the relevant agreement at the Digital Building, No.169 Tianshan Road, Changning District, Shanghai recently."

"okay, thank you."

"This is what I should do."

Qing Gu raised her head, with tears of excitement in her eyes, Fan Yang deliberately warned a few words, but at this time, he also knew that it was a bit awful.

Girlfriend Yuanyuan was very excited to hold Qinggu, "I have a lot of Sisi information here, I will ask everyone later, we will find her all."

"it is good."