The end of technology.

USA, California, Cupertino, Apple headquarters.

It's past closing time, but Tim Cook is still in his office.

That's when he finally found time to have a face-to-face conversation with Bill Stacio, the technical lead on the company's Siri project.A series of meetings today made him a little tired, but what made him even more tired was the many feedbacks he had received.

This also made Tim Cook choose the most direct way when he had this conversation.

"Bill, I took the time to read the report on Siri this morning. To be honest, if it is compared with the technology displayed by Youwei Group at the press conference, it is not very optimistic."

Bill Stacio's expression looked a little nervous. In fact, communicating with Tim Cook alone like this is a sense of oppression.

It is not the same as the image in front of the screen. In his daily work, the Apple CEO seldom puts on an amiable smile. Most of the time he is extremely serious and serious, even a little unkind.

"It's really not optimistic. In fact, when I watched the last 10 minutes of Youwei's press conference in the morning, I just felt incredible. And not only Siri can't reach this level, if the technology displayed is real , At least in the mode of autonomous dialogue with artificial intelligence, Youwei Group has come to the forefront of the world. Now we don't know whether Youwei's smartphone assistant has the same performance for other languages. If the answer is yes, it will State a terrible fact - they really have a technology ahead of our time."

Bill Stacio said very cautiously.

There is no way, the technology gap is really too big, so big that no one can pat their chests to assure the CEO that this technology is only mediocre.

"Oh? Tell me carefully." Tim Cook asked without changing his expression.

"Currently, we need to let the machine understand the meaning of every sentence, which is based on a lot of training. This involves a problem, the voice is not common. So whenever we need to let Siri master one more language, we need to A large number of engineers are needed for this training. For example, if we want to make Japanese and Japanese language recognition more accurate, we need a large number of Japanese and Japanese engineers. If we want the French to love our products more, we need engineers who are proficient in French. These engineers help We train, tune Siri's voice capabilities, and enrich our voice database."

"This is the most common practice, and it is also the common training method for machine speech semantic recognition in the world. We are doing our best to enable Siri to understand more languages ​​and respond correctly to the instructions issued by users. Although this is indeed very difficult Difficult. But the specific performance of Youwei Group's intelligent voice technology has surpassed ours. That voice assistant didn't stand out."

"In other words, it took Youwei Group a month to improve the speech semantic recognition function, which was originally technically similar to or even worse than Siri, to the current level. This shows that Youwei Group has abandoned the conventional training mode we are familiar with. Through another technical method that we don't know yet, we can train the machine's speech and semantic technology, and achieve the current effect without making any changes to the hardware."

"With all due respect, this is a dimensionality reduction attack at the technical level. It is not only our Siri that is being hit, but all colleagues who are doing research in related fields. At the same time, this technology can be used in a very wide range, especially for building ecological As far as the industry is concerned, an artificial intelligence program that can understand instructions almost perfectly is a subversion of the ecology of machine intelligence products. More pessimistically, I can't see hope of surpassing this technology in at least ten years. This is not simply referring to The semantic recognition ability that has been demonstrated is a technology that can train the intelligent voice system to this level within a month."

Having said that, Bill Stacio spread his hands, and Tim Cook's office fell silent.

Until Tim Cook finally raised his hand and waved, saying: "Okay, I probably understand, you can go to rest first."

Bill Stacio stood up, nodded at Tim Cook, and walked out of the office.

In his view, this is clearly a non-war crime.

Tim Cook's eyes fell on his mobile phone...

He decided to wait for Green Moon to call him back.

……

Inside the Youwei flagship store in Heping Square in Beijing.

Xu Yongmin and Tang Xiaohui have been brought to the service desk by the staff.

The engineer in the store handed over the two Youwei M10 pros that had been prepared to the two, and then told them to authorize the mobile phone.

This is the benefit of the lucky ones. When one person is making a call experience, the other person can always experience the mobile phone with the highest configuration in the M10 series.

Soon Xu Yongmin and Tang Xiaohui had entered their real-name information, authorized them completely, and activated all the functions of the intelligent voice system.

Xu Wenmin also checked the phone specifically, and made sure that it was a phone that had just undergone a system restore. Everything was factory-configured, and only WIFI was connected at the same time. There was only a phone card that had just been removed from his phone inserted in the card slot.

All in all, it's a really normal-looking phone.

"Now you can choose to log in to WeChat, or enter a number in the address book. It is best to choose friends who don't mind talking to artificial intelligence voice assistants." The product engineer of the store suggested.

While Tang Xiaohui was still hesitating, Xu Yongmin had already made his decision.

He chose a colleague with a good relationship in the company. The two chatted on WeChat last night, and both were skeptical about this promising press conference.

Xu Yongmin believed that the other party didn't mind feeling the call.

So soon he entered his colleague's name and mobile phone number in the address book and saved it.

"OK, then it's up to you to test the assistant's ability to call first. After you follow the instructions to activate the voice assistant, first think about what the voice assistant will say after dialing the phone. For example, it is similar to helping you ask a friend to Meet at a specific place at a specific time, so that it can automatically make a call directly according to your request and convey the information. If the conditions you give are too vague, it will ask you for more specific information before making a call .In addition, during the call, if your voice intervenes, the voice assistant service will automatically exit and switch to a normal call."

The engineer patiently explained.

Looking at the earnest and patient look of the engineer of Youwei store, Xu Yongmin felt that there must be a crazy relationship between him and the engineer today.

Now it seems that there is a high probability that he will be the one who is crazy.

Because now he saw that everyone was very serious, especially at this time, there were already countless conversations in his ears.

Really, over there in the test area, ten mobile phones are chatting enthusiastically with the users who test them.

Obviously, 90.00% of the users who came to experience the M10 mobile phone came for the smart voice assistant. At this time, they were chatting awkwardly with the voice assistant, and he could even hear someone happily playing brain teasers with the M10.

The intelligent voice assistant of the M10 seems to be thinking faster than him...

Well, calming down, after activating the voice assistant according to the instructions, Xu Wenmin also issued an instruction to the M10 in his hand: "Xiaoyi, call Yan Haojie in the address book for me, and tell him that I am in Youwei Peace Square The flagship store asked you to call him."

"Okay, master, but are you sure you only need to convey this information? Xiaoyi can also help you ask him out for dinner, shopping, or watching a movie together."

Xu Wenmin suddenly felt that this artificial intelligence was actually not as smart as he imagined. Why did the two men want to watch a movie together?

But thinking of the phone, he couldn't tell the other party's gender, especially when he thought of the first time he saw the name Yan Haojie, he suspected it was a woman, and he couldn't help but feel the hairs stand on end.

"Ahem, you don't need these, but it would be best if you can convince him that you are really the voice assistant in your phone."

"Xiao Yi understands. Now help the master to call Yan Haojie."

Afterwards, Xu Wenmin saw with his own eyes that the mobile phone began to automatically dial the same as the screen in yesterday's press conference. The phone connected after five rings, and then a lazy voice came from the phone: "Hey, old Xu, what's the matter?" Disturbing people's dreams so early?"

"Hello, Mr. Yan Haojie, I am Xiaoyi, the intelligent assistant of M10. I am sorry to disturb your rest. Can you accept that our next call will be recorded? Because I want the owner to check it at any time. !"

"Ah? Damn...what the hell? Old Xu...are you kidding me?"

Xu Wenmin raised his head and looked around, and sure enough, most of the eyes in the store were on the service desk...

The effect of this mobile phone is really excellent.

"I'm really not joking. If you can't accept talking to Xiaoyi, then I can only hang up, dear."

"Pfft... well, I agree."

"Thank you for supporting Xiaoyi's work! The situation is like this. My master just ordered me to call you to inform you that he is doing a very interesting thing for the flagship store in Peace Square. He asked me to give If you call, let me convince you that this call is really made by Xiaoyi."

"Ah? Fuck, Old Xu, are you by the side? Can you hear my voice?"

Seeing that many people had turned on their phones and started recording videos, Xu Wenmin finally couldn't help it anymore, and said, "Nonsense, of course I can hear it, can you please stop yelling."

Sure enough, the mobile phone showed that the smart call had exited, and the two parties entered a normal call state.

"Fuck, did the phone call just now?"

"It's true."

"The sound is pretty nice...how about you bring me one? I'll transfer the money to you on WeChat first."

"You think beautifully! There is no existing machine in the flagship store, so we can only try it... Let alone, this technology will automatically exit the smart voice call mode after the owner speaks, and it is meaningless now!" Xu Wenmin said very unhappy.

To be honest, he really wanted to hear what golden sentences this mobile assistant could come up with.It's a pity that the skin is still a little thinner, and I couldn't hold on until the end without opening my mouth.

"what?"

Hearing the unexpected voice on the other side, Xu Wenmin hung up the phone directly.

Then turn off the card directly...

Sure enough, the test actually needs to choose the right object.

Tang Xiaohui next to him smiled happily.

……

When Xu Wenmin walked out of the flagship store of Youwei Group, he was a little bit lost.

Faith was shattered.

He probably understood why the previous batch of users were so nostalgic. In fact, he also wanted to experience the conversation function with Xiaoyi for a few minutes.Especially when learning that the name of the voice assistant can be set by yourself.Xiaoyi is just the initial setting name.

This made Xu Wenmin a little upset, why didn't he say it in advance?

However, I quickly realized that if these people were notified in advance, someone would definitely change the smart voice assistant to a different name, and then the workload of the staff would be heavy.

There were hundreds of people lined up outside...

Of course, today was not completely fruitless. Before walking out of the store, Xu Wenmin had already booked two machines with full payment directly from Tang Xiaohui.

In fact, Xu Wenmin wanted to reserve two, but unfortunately each user can only reserve one.

Compared with Xu Wenmin's faith being shattered, Tang Xiaohui looked elated.

"Did you see? Did I say it earlier? Sometimes, the more expert you are, the less you understand people's height. Understand?"

Xu Wenmin glared at this guy, too lazy to say anything...

But obviously Tang Xiaohui didn't care, he was happily holding his mobile phone, and after a while, he started yelling again: "Fuck, look, there is a video about testing Xiaoyi in Youwei's flagship store on station B The screen has already started. Let me go, the clerk just now was not joking, and someone really asked Xiaoyi to call to confess his love... Poof, wait, it seems that this is not the flagship store of Heping Square. Such a talented person There is more than one person?"

Xu Wenmin immediately took out his mobile phone. Sure enough, countless netizens with clear ideas on station B have already played Xiaoyi to death...

……

Huaxia, Yanbei Sports University.

Chen Yonggang finally chose to talk to Ge Linyue.

For the principal, after all, it is still difficult to refuse the kindness sent to his door.

There are not many colleges and universities that Huaxia can establish a relationship with a big company like Apple, and there are even fewer colleges and universities that can directly guarantee that Apple Huaxia will admit a certain number of outstanding graduates every year in the form of a contract.

How to put it, it sounds like these are nothing.

But you must know that the recruiting teachers of the University of Physical Education cannot be compared with the recruiting teachers of other well-known 985 universities in China.How rich is the experience of digging good students!If these contracts can be signed at this time, there will be more stories to tell when the recruiting teachers of the Sports University will go all over the country to grab outstanding science students next year...

After all, Guang Ningzi is too thin to be a leader.

More stories are extremely necessary for body size.

For example: "Come to the University of Physical Education. Every year, Youwei Group and Apple will come to our school to recruit outstanding graduates. And those who can get special scholarships from Youwei and Apple will be given priority in admission!"

In this way, the two of them talked about having lunch very friendly.

"Mr. Ge, it's almost time for dinner, how about going to have a light meal together?"

"Can I call classmate Ning Zi together?" After talking for several hours, Ge Linyue mentioned Ning Zi's name for the first time.

"I'm afraid it won't work. He never goes out to eat with us. To tell you the truth, the last time President Huaqing came, he didn't give face. But Ning Zi can spare some time to meet guests between [-] and [-] noon every day. , we can sit with him after dinner." Chen Yonggang replied.

"Huh?" Ge Linyue looked at Chen Yonggang in surprise.

Chen Yonggang smiled even more happily: "This is the same reason why you choose to meet me first when you come to the University. If you want to meet the most important person, there are quite a lot of rules, and sometimes I find it annoying!"

……

Fortunately, Chen Yonggang is still very trustworthy.

After a simple Chinese meal, he brought Ge Linyue to visit Ning Zi.

The general manager of Apple Greater China finally met a real person.

After briefly introducing Apple's idea of ​​cooperating with the University, this young genius did not disappoint Ge Linyue, leaving her speechless as soon as she opened her mouth.

"I think if Apple really wants to cooperate with the University, it should invest in building a chip research center."

"Chip Research Center?"

"Yes, we can try to research a new chip configuration. Not only for Apple's A-series adaptation, but also try to bypass the current mainstream chip product patents for new configuration chips."

Ge Linyue hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "So if Apple is really willing to invest in building a chip research center for the University, does the patent belong to Apple?"

Ning Zi didn't say anything, but took a deep look at Ge Linyue.

The general manager of Apple Greater China could read the meaning in his eyes: "You think so beautifully!"

As for Chen Yonggang who was accompanying him, his eyes began to blink frequently...

In the past, he could more or less keep up with Ning Zi's rhythm.

But since Ning Zi made this request to Ge Linyue, he felt that he really couldn't keep up...

Heh, researching new configuration chips?

Is this a question that the president of a sports university should consider? !

Chapter 105

In Ning Zi's room, the three of them fell silent at the same time.

Especially Ge Linyue, she had a lot of rehearsals about the topics discussed after meeting Ning Zi, but she still didn't expect to hear such a suggestion from Ning Zi.

Investing in a chip research center at the University?