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Chapter 344 Please, vote!

"Brother-in-law!"

Zhuang Zicheng has the best relationship with Yang Huan, and he calls brother-in-law affectionately as soon as he enters the door.

Although you are engaged, you are not married yet?

Isn't it too early to call brother-in-law now?

Yang Huan thought it was funny when he heard it, this kid must have come to ask for money.

Otherwise, why is the mouth so sweet?

"Master Huan!"

Compared with Zhuang Zicheng's enthusiasm, Palmer Larch seemed more restrained.

The two of them didn't look tired at all like flying from China to London after staying up all night, but they looked very energetic.

Sun Yue and Zhao Yuanfang also followed them and walked in, and they all shouted "Master Huan" in unison.

"Come on, let me introduce you!"

Yang Huan introduced Jamis Hassabis with a smile.

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch are here for Jamis Hassabis.

Zhao Yuanfang is Yang Huan's investment consultant. She has been to London before and has contacted Jamis Hassabis several times.

It was precisely because of the review by Zhao Yuanfang and Kesh Harris that Jamis Hassabis was able to meet Yang Huan.

Otherwise, he would have been directly brushed off.

"Jemis, would you please talk to us about your research first?" Zhao Yuanfang said.

Jamis Hassabis smiled slightly, took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, and handed them one by one to Yang Huan and the others, each with one copy.

This document lists the research results of him and several of his companions.

"As you all know, during my time at the University of London, I mainly studied the human brain, with a focus on the hippocampus!"

"I found that people with amnesia have a hard time planning for the future because their hippocampus is damaged. In the past, we usually think that the hippocampus is only related to memory, but it is obviously not."

"Importantly, the hippocampus is critical for orientation, memory retrieval, and imagination of future events!"

"One of my colleagues did a study that proved that London taxi drivers have bigger hippocampi than normal people!"

Jamis Hassabis' words attracted the attention of everyone present, except Long Wu who was secretly playing games in the corner.

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch looked at the documents in their hands very intently.

The hippocampus can determine a person's sense of direction, which is crucial for their research on virtual reality headsets.

Because it may be the key to solving the dizziness after wearing a virtual reality headset!
"I would like to ask, Dr. Hassabis, artificial intelligence algorithms are very popular, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, etc. They are researching this aspect. What advantages do you think your research has?"

Yang Huan was most concerned about this question, so he asked directly.

Hassabis nodded at him.

"This is not a fighting arena. The more people invest in this research, the more helpful it is for us, because when more people invest in this research, the more we can broaden our thinking. I think this is a good thing!"

After hearing this, everyone nodded in approval.

"In addition, I want to say that this is a very, very large system. No one person, or any institution, can research all of it. Many other so-called artificial intelligence algorithms actually rely on programmers to pre-program codes, and then use the codes to perform calculations. I don't think this is artificial intelligence."

"Then what do you do?" Zhuang Zicheng asked immediately.

Hassabis appeared calm and calm, without any tension.

"I am doing research on the human brain, especially the hippocampus. I will study how the hippocampus stores and analyzes our memories, and how it affects our imagination of the future, so my idea is to study how brain cells interact."

"I hope to develop a set of algorithms that imitate the working mode of the human brain, just like the hippocampus. On the one hand, memory is stored and analyzed, which is the data like a vast ocean on our Internet. On the other hand, by storing and analyzing these data, the algorithm can develop its own imagination of future events and be accurate!"

Everyone present was surprised, including Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch.

This is indeed very interesting research.

The affirmation of Hassabis' research from authoritative scientific journals proves that his research on the hippocampus is worthy of recognition.

Then he wants to develop such a set of algorithms through the research of the hippocampus, which is also very promising.

Everyone's next step is traceable and is affected by memory.

Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as artificial intelligence, because it is just a set of algorithms in its bones, without human consciousness.

But if it is possible to accurately predict the future based on memory, as Hassabis said, it will be a revolutionary innovation.

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch were already full of excitement when they heard this.

Both of them looked at Yang Huan in unison, their eyes seemed to say, please, vote, Master Huan!
Yang Huan remained calm and looked at Zhao Yuanfang, who understood.

"Dr. Hassabis, frankly, you have outlined a very interesting prospect and future, but we are also very interested to know, how do you plan to organize your research team?"

Jamis Hassabis still didn't show any panic.

He seems to be a person who seems to have a certain chance of winning in everything.

Perhaps, people with a high IQ to a certain level will give people this feeling.

"It depends on the wishes of the investors. In my conception, my team should be divided into two parts. One is to engage in the most basic research, to keep in-depth research, and to constantly improve this set of algorithms."

"The other part is engaged in applied research, which is to transform our basic research results into practical applications."

Hassabis's remarks reveal that he is indeed a smart man.

At least he knows how to find a balance between scientific research and practical application.

Investors, of course, want to see the benefits.

Unprofitable business, who will do it?
"As for the size of the team, I currently only have three people, all of whom are professional researchers in related fields, but if I have enough funds, I hope to start with about 30 people, and then gradually expand. It is estimated that by the end of the year, the number will reach 150 people, of which 70.00% are engaged in basic research, and the rest are applied research."

Yang Huan and others didn't expect that he even thought about this.

"Can we recruit so many researchers?" Yang Huan asked with concern.

Hassabis nodded confidently, "Yes, even if the conditions are right, I can poach people from research institutes of big companies such as Microsoft, Google, and IBM!"

The research strength of Microsoft and IBM is world-renowned, and all of them are experts and scholars who are awesome.

If you want to poach people from here, you can't do it with money.

Perhaps because he was worried about being misunderstood and bragging, Hassabis explained again.

"In fact, Microsoft, Google and IBM have all approached me, and many people in their research institutes are interested in my research."

"Then why didn't you go?" Sun Yue asked curiously.

Hassabis thought about it this time, but quickly replied, "I don't like joining a big company. I want to have the power of independent research. When I go to a big company such as Microsoft, they will definitely require our research to serve their products first."

Yang Huan was delighted when he heard it, "We will definitely ask you to provide services for our products first, isn't it the same?"

Hassabis smiled and said nothing, faintly revealing a meaning.

Your scale is too small compared to Microsoft, Google and IBM.

You know!
"Can I ask you a question?" Zhuang Zicheng finally couldn't bear it and asked.

"Excuse me!" Hassabis had already noticed Zhuang Zicheng.

"We are researching a virtual reality helmet, but we found that after wearing this wearable device for a long time, the head will feel dizzy. Is there a way to solve it?"

Hassabis thought for a while and shook his head, "No way."

This made both Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch regret.

"The reason why you get dizzy is because vision tells your brain that you are moving at a high speed, but at the same time, your body tells your brain that you are not moving at all, so your brain gets dizzy, which is the same as motion sickness and seasickness!"

"If you want to solve it completely, there is really no way, unless you don't wear it, but maybe you can find a way to relieve the dizziness."

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch looked at each other, and both felt that what Hassabis said was very to the point.

They have also invested a lot of research energy in this area, but they have not been able to make effective progress.

Before they acquired a start-up company in the United States, they paid over [-] million US dollars for this.

But the effect is also very obvious.

The company has a series of patents, the most interesting of which is digital light field technology.

Many virtual reality and augmented reality technologies now focus on the front and cannot move after wearing glasses, so the eye muscles are extremely prone to fatigue and dizziness.

However, this digital light field technology directly imitates the real light field information of the real world, and projects it into the eyes, so that the eyes can rotate and focus at will, and achieve full depth of view at any angle and distance, just like seeing the real world.

This has basically solved the eyestrain problem.

But there is still no way to completely eradicate the dizziness problem!
Perhaps, this is a problem that cannot be solved!
"By the way, Dr. Hassabis, we are still studying gesture control and voice control recently. Is there any way to accumulate user data through your set of algorithms to make the control more accurate, and even more precise?"

This time Hassabis nodded almost without hesitation, "Yes!"

Then he added, "And, it's not difficult!"

This immediately excited Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch.

The best ways to interact with wearables are gestures and voice, but accuracy is an issue.

If the device can learn by itself and become more and more accurate according to the user's habits, it is definitely exciting news and will solve this big problem!

The current research direction of Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch is no longer virtual reality or augmented reality.

Both of these technologies are owned by WeChat Research Institute, and they are being fused together to form a brand new technology.

In addition, the research and development of wearable devices has not fallen behind.

For the brick-sized body of the previous virtual reality helmet, Yang Huan was very, very unimpressed.

After acquiring several companies, it has become possible to become smaller and thinner.

And Yang Huan was not in a hurry, and continued to spend money on research and the introduction of experts. He would not launch the product until the software and hardware were both mature.

Why did the Apple mobile phone achieve revolutionary success?

Not only because they sell mobile phones, but also because they have a complete supporting ecosystem.

It is this combination of software and hardware that has allowed Apple to achieve great success, and it has also prevented followers such as Android and Microsoft from catching up with them, let alone surpassing them!
Therefore, Yang Huan's request to Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch is to continue to refine, to continue to study and improve!

Anyway, there is still a lot of time, don't worry, take your time!
This meeting ends here. In fact, there is no need to say more about the superfluous words.

Yang Huan had already voted for Hassabis' project.

So, soon, Yang Huan stood up and expressed his opinion.

The old rule is to ask money for money, and for people to give.

Hassabis demanded that the institute be in London, and he agreed!

He also agreed to the initial R&D funding of 1000 million pounds!
Even in terms of personnel recruitment and project development, Hassabis demanded a high degree of autonomy, and Yang Huan agreed!

Anyway, Yang Huan himself doesn't understand anything, how can an outsider lead an insider?

It's better to let them go and toss, and just take care of the money yourself!
Yang Huan is notoriously possessive, but now it's rare for him to delegate power so generously.

Therefore, Zhuang Zicheng, Sun Yue, Zhao Yuanfang and others were all a little surprised.

Could it be that Master Huan is so optimistic about this project?

(End of this chapter)