Hardcore crisis

After coming up with this idea, Lu Yuan immediately modified it according to his own idea. He first adjusted the voice assistant's voice and deliberately modulated it to a younger girlish state. Of course, not everyone likes this kind of voice, so there are still You can turn off the "Coco" option, replace it with a calmer male voice, and support custom naming.

However, having a good idea does not mean that you have to do it all at once. A successful businessman will never be stupid enough to sell all the good things at once. Instead, he must learn from Intel and Apple. Every time he squeezes out toothpaste, Come up with something new, or even just add a new color scheme, and it will be enough for the world to pay for it.

The idea of ​​​​virtual idols can be expanded with the development of subsequent technologies. For example, it can design a real appearance, face users with an actual image, and can also add many new features, etc. If this could be done, just expanding the content and updating the version at will would be a big gimmick.

If we develop further in the end, when artificial intelligence and hardware technology mature, everyone in society will be able to customize their own butler, partner, friend, etc. This selling point is really too great.

It took Lu Yuan a whole day to debug "Coco". It was really difficult to decide what kind of sound to set "Coco" to.

In terms of his preference, he naturally chooses a soft and cute tone, but considering that it is market-oriented, he cannot use personal preference as a benchmark, but consider the bottom line that is acceptable to many users. For this reason, after a day of debugging, he adjusted the voice of "Coco" into a fresh, crisp and lively girlish voice. This kind of tone only needs to be heard once, and it can be heard by people of any age. It is easy to accept, and the sound will not be too sticky and produce a cloying taste.

"Sonny, it seems we have to put some restrictions..."

After he finished most of the work, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shook his head when he heard "Coco"'s anthropomorphic answer.

All programmers and engineers in this world want their products to get better and better, but Lu Yuan, at this time, actually had the idea that they must be restricted.

That's right, Lu Yuan really didn't expect that with the current hardware level, this basic AI would still perform so well after being flashed into an ordinary mobile phone. To be honest, there is no problem in passing the Turing test at this level. . If developers hadn't known that "Coco" was just an artificial intelligence, it would have been difficult for an ordinary person to test it against a computer, and it would have been difficult to know that the opponent was actually an AI.

It is true that "Coco" still has some shortcomings. Ordinary people cannot recognize her as an AI when tested without knowing it. However, if you inform the computer in advance that there is an AI mixed in, and observe carefully after careful comparison, you can still find traces. However, this is shocking enough. Lu Yuan estimates that even products from IBM's top artificial intelligence laboratory are still two to three years behind the technical level of "Coco".

With the current hardware technology, "Coco" has reached a point where there is no progress with the support of new software algorithms. The most is functional improvement. This is very detrimental to future product launch plans. The best way is to weaken it. "Coco"'s level of intelligence.

"The first step requires promotion... but also testing of many samples."

After selecting the twenty most popular mobile phones currently on the market and creating corresponding optimized flash packages, Lu Yuan began to think about how to promote them.

Different from APP, the flashing package is larger and more complicated. The one-click flashing does not mean that most users are willing to flash the phone. Especially MIUI and Flyme, which occupy most of the market, have complete functions themselves, and users are more willing to flash the phone. It is impossible to be willing to try an unfamiliar flash package.

If you are so stupid and upload the flash package to various application flash markets and software, you may not have many people try it after waiting for several months.

"You might consider looking for him."

After pondering for a moment, Lu Yuan gave up several promotion ideas and chose another method.

After all, he has been working in the electronic product evaluation industry for two years. He has been exposed to many people in this industry. In addition to his boss, there is actually another person who has a larger fan base than his boss with his down-to-earth evaluation method. .

Before this person established a studio, Lu Yuan had contacted him a few times on the Internet. The two parties were barely friends. If he asked this person to do the evaluation, as soon as it was released on the Internet, the advertising effect would be better than what he had thought before. The method is much better.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan looked for his contact information, opened his chat window, and sent a message "Are you there?"

In the past, when Lu Yuan sent a message, he would reply very quickly, almost within a few seconds. But now that this person has established his own studio, he is obviously much busier than before. After sending a message, it took half an hour. See response.

Lu Yuan was not in a hurry, and he was not finished with his work. By the time the window vibrated and the message came back, more than an hour had passed.

"Here, is something wrong?"

"I need your help with something."

Lu Yuan was standing in the distance using a welding machine for welding work. After hearing the sound coming from the Bluetooth headset, he answered casually.

As soon as he answered, the voice was immediately transmitted to the computer, converted into text, and then automatically sent to the other party.

"What's up?"

The other party was silent for a minute before asking.

"I recently started a project with my friends and made some flash packages. I want you to test them."

"Flash package?"

The other party was obviously a little surprised and immediately asked: "What are the characteristics?"

He spoke more directly. Lu Yuan was not an important friend of his, but he didn't have so much nonsense. Since he wanted his help, he went straight to the point.

"A few friends and I are mainly studying artificial intelligence. We have made some achievements recently, so we made a voice assistant and transplanted it to a mobile phone for testing..."

"Why don't you do it yourself?"

"I already resigned."

“Does the voice assistant need to deliberately create a flash package?”

“Different from the functions of current voice assistants on the market, some functions cannot rely on the APP and must be implemented at the system level.”

When he said this, he obviously got a little interested. Logically speaking, although he was engaged in electronic product evaluation, in the final analysis, apart from the hardware aspect, the most important thing in the evaluation of electronic products is the system software. A good electronic product, no matter how powerful the hardware performance is, without system software that is optimized and matched with it, is a waste, and no one will want it if you give it away.

In this case, it is not impossible to test this flash package. The other party was silent for a while and said: "What kind of test do you want?"

"Can I go on video?"

"You are very confident."

Lu Yuan understood why the other party said that. A studio that has achieved this level is no longer alone in the past, testing products at will. It is necessary to select products. If it is a product without value, it will never be used. Maybe a video test.

Therefore, as soon as Lu Yuan mentioned the video, the other party immediately felt that Lu Yuan was very confident.

"It took my partner and I more than two years to successfully create this product. I think it is still valuable enough to be featured in the last video."

When Lu Yuan opened his mouth, he was talking nonsense. A week's work turned into the fruit of two years spent by an unfounded team.

But I have to say that this lie is still very heavy. I heard that it took two years of hard work. No matter how much I don't care about it, the other party has to put some thought into it.

"Okay, I'll test it when I have time. If it's really worth putting in the video, I won't ask for your advertising fee."

The other party replied humorously, and then said: "You can pass the thing to me, or give me a download address."

"Okay, please."

Lu Yuan turned off his earphones and shouted to the side: "Sonny, give him the address."

A sentence with no beginning and no end. This is not a natural language that "Coco" can understand. Only Sonny, who has been monitoring all traffic data, knows what is going on.