Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

After careful consideration, Professor Kong asked: "Can it be understood that it is a common and easy to understand scientific material for ordinary people? ”

Yu Ping An nodded: “Yes, that's understandable. ”

“We use the Internet to reach more people and provide more efficient retrieval. ”

“At the same time, efforts are being made in the area of content codification: neither too deep, nor too professional for ordinary people to understand, nor too hollow, vulgar and nutritious. ”

“That's why I came to see you, hoping to invite you out. ”

“You are not only a big bull in the industry, you are also a professor that is loved by students, but you also have a wealth of experience writing materials, and it is absolutely unmissable to have you come to grips with these contents. ”

Professor Kong Zhemin had a little surprise on his face.

“Sounds like a great thing for Lee in Chiaki. ”

“But it seems to be a very large project. ”

“Courses in Chinese only, such as ancient literature, modern literature, foreign literature, etc., have a large number of monographs, even if they are organized, simplified and made into encyclopedias, with more content than imagined. ”

“Moreover, the expandable content of the Q&A section is unlimited, which is not something that can be accomplished in 10 or 8 years. ”

“I usually bring graduate students, I'm afraid I don't have that much time. ”

“If it's a lot of people trying to do this, do you want to pay, how do you cover the costs… Have you considered these questions? ”

Yu Ping An was ready to quickly explain: “Don't worry, we've already considered these issues. ”

“This project was decided by our Tenda Group General Pei to mobilize all the resources of the entire group to protect the flight. ”

“I also asked the question of Pei's total workload, and Pei's general answer was that the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, followed by now. Because it's a huge project, it can't be dragged down, it can't be done. ”

“Initially, even if the content is incomplete, as long as the information is useful, it can attract users. ”

“You don't have to worry about people. You are equivalent to the head of this area of expertise, with only integrated and supreme supervision, and we invite some young scholars, professors and outstanding graduate students to participate in these projects, each with a different division of labour. ”

“We will fully protect the intellectual property rights of the creator, while forming a legal team to combat the phenomenon of cleansing and copying, and defend the rights of the creator. ”

“Creators are paid accordingly on a monthly basis based on star ratings and workload. ”

“As for the distribution of rewards, all members of 'Useful APP' have to pay to view, based on usage time and number of views. With this revenue, we will draw 10% as operating costs, of which 90% will be returned to the creator proportionally. ”

“Of course, given that there were not enough paid members in the previous period, we would provide a guaranteed reward for all creators, with a subsidy of $2,000 for anything over 10,000 words approved that month. ”

Professor Kong Zhemin stunned: “Will this subsidy not change with word count? ”

Yu Ping An nodded his head: “Yes. ”

“Because this is streamlined knowledge, slight irrigation may occur if remuneration is linked to word count. ”

“This subsidy is just a basic life support that allows the creator to work in the beginning. ”

“Of course, it's not about encouraging big pots of rice and mixing up. ”

“Once you have enough members on the Useful APP, your earnings will certainly increase, and we will determine the earnings weight for each division and each creator according to a more complex set of algorithms, including: creator star rating, number of views to write or modify content, initial creation of new entries, number and proportion of content likes, etc., and calculate the earnings share for each forum and each creator. ”

“It is this piece of income that is motivating. ”

Professor Kong Zhemin nodded slightly: “That makes sense. ”

Domestic professors should be considered one of the largest income variances, but more than 90 per cent of professors do not have much additional income other than wages and basic performance.

Lecturers at Handong University earn less than 100,000 per year, and associate professors earn less than 130,000 per year.

In particular, some professors specializing in literature are quite poor.

Though the $2,000 subsidy is modest, it is more attractive to produce 10,000 words per month for useful APPs. After all, it is not as difficult as writing a thesis, mainly by collating existing knowledge.

Moreover, the content must be reviewed in order to be effective, without unrestricted irrigation and without the phenomenon of "spending money on garbage”.

Professor Kong Zhemin thought about it carefully: “President Yu, Tenda Group I can trust, and all aspects of the conditions are sincere. ”

“And it's a good thing that I've been educating for the rest of my life, and I'd be happy to do whatever science I can on the Internet. ”

“But I want to ask...”

“Isn't it hard for your company to make money doing this project? Is this some kind of public goods project or some kind of new business model? ”

Professor Kong's eyes were puzzled.

Indeed, conditions are good in all respects.

But the problem is that these conditions seem to be too good, good for content creators, good for users, only not good for the company.

It's a huge loss, isn't it?

Even if it's a public good and raises the profile of the company, it's an efficiency story, right?

The current "useful APP” has a long cycle, a lot of money burning, and slow results. It won't have much influence until it's really productive. What's the picture?

Even in the best case scenario, after a few years or even a decade of fire, who can think about something that long?

That's why Professor Kong was confused. I always thought it was a little strange.

Yu Ping An was silent for a moment and said: “Old Kong, I also asked President Pei about this question. ”

“President Pei said that there are things that need to be done. ”

“He wants to create a piece of junk-free dirt for the Internet. ”

Professor Kong Zhemin nodded in silence for a moment: "Yes, I agree. ”

“This… money doesn't matter, success doesn't matter. ”

“The significance of this is important in itself. ”

Yu Ping An couldn't help but glance: “Thank you very much, Kong Lao! With you, a lot of things will be easier! ”

Kong Zhemin smiled: “Don't thank me, I should thank you. There are really not many companies like Tenda that have a strong sense of social responsibility. ”

“President Pei is an unusual entrepreneur. ”

Yu Ping An couldn't help but feel sorry for himself. Indeed, President Bai's personal charm is really too powerful!

I can clearly feel it. President Pei's words are very touching for Kong Lao.

Big men like him have long been in a state of uncontested success, teaching and doing research every day, and if he is not interested in things, please don't move the money.

But that's what President Pei said, please move Kong Lao!

Professor Kong Zhemin's participation not only added a big man to the literary section of the useful APP, but also ensured the professionalism and quality of the various content. More importantly, the next time the APP is used to expand to other areas, it will be convenient to invite more bulls.

When all kinds of big men from different fields come together, it creates a clustering effect, with more and more quality content, more and more good producers, and naturally more users.

You can say it's a good start!

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Wednesday, 26 October.

OTTO Technology.

The AEEIS development team is intensely developing.

Current AI assistant technology, simply divided into front-end and back-end sections.

The front-end aspect is mainly speech recognition and speech synthesis technology, which converts the user's spoken language into text, and then converts the returned text results into speech output.

The background side, on the other hand, handles user requests with a program and returns the most matching results.

Overall, AI assistants on mobile phones are currently responsible for four dimensions: device control and system functionality calls, third-party application support, dialogue and intelligence levels, and skills learning capabilities.

The initial technology of AI assistants is provided by Technologies, and all manufacturers are only updating and optimizing on this basis.

But whether a smart assistant works or not depends on how well the manufacturer optimizes in these four dimensions.

Chang 'an decided to focus all his energies on both system function calling and dialogue and intellectual level during this R&D cycle.

While third-party application support and skills learning capabilities are also important, the two do more, and perhaps only some users have similar needs, so prioritize a little back.

The so-called system function call is the user's ability to control the phone system with voice.

For example, when a user says "weather," the smart assistant automatically displays the weather page on the screen and speaks out information about tomorrow's weather conditions and temperature changes.

Similarly, calculators, calendars, memos, phone calls, texting and other content can be controlled by a smart assistant, which brings some convenience to the user.

Conversation with intelligence is how the smart assistant reacts when the user asks some more personalized questions.

For example, ask “who your dad is," some smart assistants will answer, "My dad is a product manager at Development," and some AI assistants will answer, "a group of smart people who dare to innovate."

Strictly speaking, this doesn't really make much sense, but it does make AEEIS more recognizable.

Because AEEIS is an artificial intelligence with no emotions, as requested by General Pei, AEEIS employs a mechanical sound with no emotions when all the other voice assistants use an anatomical voice.

Now that we have a "human face", we have to stand and cooperate in other areas.

Customize these personalizations to match the character and sound of AEEIS to make this product look very complete.

Previously, the day after the finalization of the name AEEIS, director Zhu Xiaozhi found a constant friend who wanted to ask for an AI name and used it in movies and games.

The two departments had already cooperated in "A Good Tomorrow", and this time naturally came to mind. Chang Yu told Zhu Xiaozhi what was being done by AEEIS. Zhu Xiaozhi happily agreed, and got the name in the movies and games.

Why not use the heat of the movie or game to promote AEEIS?

Chang 'an came out of the conference room and just finished some key features with a few key members.

After a sip of tea, Changyou discovered that the head of the department had refreshed several messages in a small group built privately, one of which was Yu Ping An's.

This group is not used to chat about irrigation, but any departmental moves will be briefly shared here.

Yu Ping An: “‘Useful APP’ successfully invited Professor Kong Zhemin! ”

Chang 'an put the teacup down and had to be curious.

Useful app?

What's that?