Although Li Rui has a strong memory, he doesn't remember everything.

Qiandu proposed the allinai strategy in his previous life and also launched a criticized Wenxin Yiyan after the popularity of artificial intelligence technology. However, few people know that Qiandu is actually one of the earliest large Internet companies in China and even the world to get involved in artificial intelligence. It even entered the market earlier than Microsoft and Tesla, which many people know.

As early as two years ago, Qiandu had proposed artificial intelligence projects at the financial report meeting, and was constantly recruiting relevant talents and acquiring some related companies in related fields, hoping to reshape Qiandu into a company with artificial intelligence as its core technology, rather than a simple Internet service provider.

Li Rui only knew that openai had chatted with chatgpt, and used stablediffusion to make pictures. He was quite interested when he heard it.

Seeing that Li Rui was interested, Robin became more interested. After chatting for a few words, he said, "It just so happened that Yu Kai was also in the company, so he asked him to come and chat with you."

Soon, Yu Kai, the head of Qiandu Multimedia Department, walked into the office and after seeing Li Rui, he said excitedly: "Mr. Li, I am a loyal user of Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse has done a very good job!"

Li Rui accepted the praise with a thick face and said in his heart: Big dragon, big dragon, I'm sorry...

Yu Kai is a top student who graduated from Jinling University. He was very interested in neural network technology during his university years. Later, he went to Munich University in Tetram to pursue a doctorate degree. After graduation, he worked at Microsoft, Siemens and Nec.

This year, Yu Kai just accepted Robin's invitation to join Qiandu's newly established multimedia department as the head. This department mainly conducts technical research and development of facial-based Internet and mobile Internet in fields such as voice, image, and audio. Among them, the technologies such as facial recognition, natural picture OCR and visual search are the basic research of artificial intelligence that will be popular in the future!

The three of them sat down and chatted carefully.

Robin has great longing and expectations for artificial intelligence. Yu Kai is a big shot in this area, while Li Rui understands the trend and is very interested in it. The three of them naturally talked about it.

As he talked about Yu Kai's facial recognition, Li Rui suddenly said: "I actually invested in a company that conducted research in this area, called Xiashang Technology, and the person in charge is Professor Tang Xiaoou. I wonder if Mr. Yu has heard of it."

Yu Kai widened his eyes: "Mr. Li joined Xia Shang? It's amazing!"

Robin was also surprised: "Have you voted for Xia Shang?"

Li Rui nodded and said, "I learned by chance that Professor Tang Xiaoou's team was conducting research on deep visual learning. I lacked funds at the beginning, so I invested some money."

Yu Kai said, "Professor Tang is a great figure in deep visual learning. His ideas and technology are very admirable. Last year, I visited Professor Tang in Hong Kong Island and had a long talk with him. I admire his ideas and technology very much. But I don't know that Xia Shang was actually invested by Mr. Li."

Robin also said: "Qiandu has also been in contact with Professor Tang's team and has an intention to invest, but Professor Tang said he has found an investment, and it turns out it is you!"

Li Rui smiled and changed the topic: "How is the research results of Professor Hinton just mentioned compared to Professor Tang?"

"It's different. Professor Tang focuses on deep learning in vision, and Hinton's research can be said to have opened up the depth of the entire field of deep learning, allowing people to see the infinite potential it has!" Yu Kai said excitedly.

Li Rui said: "Since that's the case, does it mean that artificial intelligence will be applied to the civilian field soon?"

Yu Kai smiled awkwardly and said, "It may not be possible for the time being. It is not that the technology is not good, but that the cost is too high. A while ago, the neural network trained by Google's brain project has been able to automatically recognize cat images. This is a major breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. However... the training modules they use are composed of more than a thousand computers, and it costs about one million magnesium... This cost is too high."

Li Rui nodded to express his understanding.

It’s not that the technology is not up to standard, but that the cost-effectiveness is not good enough.

For example, if the function of identifying cat pictures is performed using a neural network, it requires one million magnesium to form a computer network for training. If you hire a real person to identify it, it may only cost a few thousand yuan per month...ωωw..net

Technology can attract capital, and capital can promote technology, but in essence, the two are completely different. Technical personnel only need to consider whether technology can be realized, while capital must consider whether technology meets the requirements of capital profit-seeking.

Although many capitals have noticed the importance and development potential of artificial intelligence technology, at least in this era, the technical level is far from meeting the requirements of capital.

However, large companies such as Qiandu have resolutely invested in the research and development of artificial intelligence, hoping to seize the initiative.

Li Rui didn't want to intervene in the field of artificial intelligence so early, but after listening to Yu Kai's introduction, he changed his mind. He thought for a while and said, "Robin, since you admire Hinton so much, have you considered investing?"

"What, are you interested?" Robin asked.

Li Rui said: "Although I don't particularly understand these technologies, I think the future of artificial intelligence is a trend, so I'm wondering whether Qiandu and Xingrui should cooperate?"

Robin said, "That's great!"

The more they talked, the more speculative they became, and soon they finalized a cooperation plan. Qiandu and Xingrui jointly invested in an artificial intelligence company. Qiandu holds 51% of the shares and Xingrui holds 49% of the shares, attracting top talents in the world and conducting artificial intelligence research with neural network deep learning as the main direction.

The first thing that happened after the company was to dig Sington.

Yu Kai said: "Professor Hinton and I met a long time ago when we attended an academic seminar in Maple Leaf Country and have been contacting each other via email. When he won the first prize some time ago, I also sent an email to express my congratulations and discussed some issues about his research direction. Given that we have a good personal relationship, I can invite him."

"This matter is left to you." Robin said happily, "As long as he is willing to come to Huaguo for research, he can give him the best salary."

"I will try my best, but Hinton is a special person." Yu Kai showed a hint of embarrassment.

Hinton, known as the "Godfather of Deep Learning" ten years later, can be seen from this title how much influence he has on this industry.

However, people only know Hinton's great contribution to the field of artificial intelligence, but they don't know that he is a person who cannot sit down!

Yu Kai expressed his expression of emotion and said, "Professor Hinton... is a cursed person. He told me that he was injured when he was a teenager. He suffered from very serious lumbar disc disease, which made him unable to sit down. As long as he sat down, he would be at risk of lumbar disc slippage. Once he slipped, he would have to rest in bed for several weeks. If it was serious, he would even be at risk of paralysis!"

This was the first time Li Rui heard about this, and asked in surprise: "I can't sit down? Then how can he live?"

Yu Kai said: "When we attended the meeting, he was always standing. Every time he took a car, he could only lie in his seat, because the plane required passengers to keep sitting, and he could not take commercial airplanes. All long-distance trips took trains, so he rarely left Toronto unless necessary..."
Chapter completed!