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Chapter 1213 [Brain-computer terminal is the ultimate form of access to the virtual world]

The change in distribution is not difficult to understand. For example, for the film and television industry, as soon as the fifth-generation Wensheng video model comes out and is maturely commercialized, the income of actors will not be as high as it is now. This is inevitable.

It is absolutely impossible for a leading actor to receive tens of millions of yuan in salary for a movie. For some celebrity actors, it is more likely that they will authorize the copyright of their original image to the producers in the future.

To put it in a down-to-earth way, for example, if you want to set up a crew to shoot a film or TV work, you need to find a well-known celebrity to star in it, but you don't really need this celebrity to perform. He doesn't actually have to do anything, and there is no need to require him to have acting skills, because artificial intelligence can show his acting skills very well. The crew just wants to present it through his face, so the celebrity only needs to authorize his portrait rights.

You just show your face and provide an original image, but you don't provide anything or make any effort afterwards. Can you still get a salary of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions? Obviously, it is impossible.

Now famous superstars and celebrities may be able to get a very high market price by using their faces, and they are also hyping up the sentiment. But as time goes by, without the blessing of sentiment, it is no longer worth the price.

This is the change in industry distribution. The actors' pay will be reduced, and this money will be distributed to the behind-the-scenes production team. Originally, tens of millions of pay were concentrated on one actor, but in the future these tens of millions may be distributed to dozens or hundreds of behind-the-scenes production team members. This is obviously a more reasonable distribution method.

By the same token, with the advent of the era of artificial intelligence-generated videos, which will drive an explosion in the productivity of film and television content, it will certainly be difficult for a movie to earn tens of billions at the box office in the future. It will be extremely difficult to achieve exaggerated figures like "Avatar" that would gross more than 10 billion yuan in RMB.

Because the output of content is growing explosively, consumers simply cannot watch it all. Even if they watch it for free throughout their lifetime, they still cannot finish it. It is inevitable that the revenue from a single film or TV work will be diluted.

In other words, more people are involved in the distribution of this cake, and it is no longer concentrated in the hands of a minority group.

It is possible that a makeshift team of a dozen people can produce a film or TV work and put it on the Yixin video platform. In the end, after deducting all the costs, they can generate a profit of millions. This is completely incomparable to those blockbuster products that make profits of hundreds of millions or even millions of yuan. On average, each person can get tens of thousands of yuan, and they can be very satisfied.

Because, before, they couldn't even get through the threshold. Maybe they used to earn a few thousand yuan a month, but now they earn tens of thousands of yuan. It's a tenfold increase, so of course they are very happy.

Moreover, the production cycle is short, and more works can be produced in a year. It is also very good for each person to earn 200,000 or 300,000 yuan throughout the year. The most important thing is that you can do what you want and still have a good income. That kind of life and work status is completely different.

As for box office hits like "Avatar", it is not to say that they will not appear in the future AI literary video era, but it will be more difficult. If you want to have such a phenomenal super hit, it must be the result of the resonance of time, place and people. None of them can be missing.

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Fang Hong stayed at Matrix Quantum for more than half an hour, learned about many internal technical details and progress, and then left the company.

Breakthroughs in several key technical nodes for building the virtual world are imminent. Both software and hardware have reached technological breakthroughs at key nodes, which will bring unprecedented changes and reshaping to multiple industries and will profoundly change people's production and life.

This wave of enthusiasm driven by artificial intelligence will also greatly stimulate the boom in the capital market and the entrepreneurial market.

After leaving Matrix Quantum, Fang Hong did not return to Jingxinju Villa. Instead, he went to the headquarters of Xingyu Technology and had a face-to-face conversation with the company's head Qin Feng about the layout of the virtual world terminal device VR headset.

The terminal hardware business is basically handed over to Xingyu Technology. As a professional, the company has been accumulating experience since the beginning of smartphone terminal equipment, so it is definitely most appropriate to let Xingyu Technology do it, including the new energy vehicle business.

In Qin Feng's office.

"It is not very difficult for Xingyu Technology to make VR headsets in terms of hardware technology. No matter how difficult it is, it cannot be as difficult as researching and developing brain-computer interface terminals. The difficulty here is that the current content is too scarce, and there are too few consumption scenarios. When consumers buy a VR headset, they always have to ask themselves what they can do with it, right?" Qin Feng looked at Fang Hong and said.

His words revealed several important information. Xingyu Technology has the ability to produce VR headsets, and there is no technical threshold problem. But the problem is that it will most likely be a money-losing product, and sales will not show any impressive results. The current cooling of the VR craze is the best reflection of this. The key is that there is no content and the content has not kept up.

Fang Hong smiled and said, "The barrier of the content desert problem is about to be broken. I just spent some time at Matrix Quantum. Chen Yu's artificial intelligence has made rapid progress, and the hardware computing power chip is catching up one year faster than I expected. When Chen Yu launches the fifth-generation AI big model, the content level will usher in exponential explosive growth. Several core puzzle pieces of the virtual world are already in place, and your terminal head display equipment must follow up."

Then Fang Hong also told Qin Feng about what he had discussed with Chen Yu before. After listening, Qin Feng was quite surprised and said, "Chen Yu is really a good guy. He has made such rapid progress without making any noise."

Fang Hong smiled and said, "That's quite normal. The iteration speed of AI is increasing exponentially. The time period for iterative breakthroughs is getting shorter. The fourth generation breakthrough is estimated to be completed in eight or nine months at the latest, and half a year at the fastest. By the fifth generation, the iteration speed may be able to achieve a breakthrough within three months."

It took several years to advance from the first generation to the second generation, and only about a year to the third generation. The most terrifying thing about artificial intelligence is the speed of its technological iteration. When you first chat with it, you can tell at a glance that it is a crappy robot, but in the blink of an eye, when it communicates with you, you can't tell whether it is a real person or artificial intelligence.

Qin Feng suddenly smiled and said, "I'm not doing bad here either. The research team on brain-computer interface technology has also made some gratifying breakthroughs. It's not an exaggeration to say that they are milestones."

Fang Hong was very interested when he heard this: "Oh? To what extent?"

At this time, Qin Feng suddenly stood up and went to his desk. He rummaged through the folders for a while and found a document. He brought it over and handed it to Fang Hong, saying, "This is the latest experimental research report. It is highly confidential and has not been announced to the public yet."

Fang Hong took the document and opened it for a glance. Qin Feng, who sat down opposite him, said, "A week ago, the team finally received approval to conduct the first human experiment on brain-computer interface. The first subject recovered well the day after the operation. Preliminary results show that neuron spike detection is promising, but it will take time to evaluate safety and stability. The experiment will last for five years."

The ultimate terminal interface for the virtual world is still the brain-computer interface terminal, not the current VR headset. Strictly speaking, VR headsets can only be regarded as transitional products.

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(End of this chapter)