Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2198 Shelf life of gimmicks
Zhou Shaoning heard what he meant, "You mean Rokid is just a fad?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Others don't know, we still don't know? This is a very immature product, and now it is far from mature artificial intelligence, especially voice intelligence. In the short term, Rokid, Whether it is Siri, it can rely on its freshness to gain a certain degree of popularity in the market. But after this freshness, in the final analysis, it still depends on the product to speak.”

Zhou Shaoning said: "I heard that Apple will increase investment in Siri's development?"

"Really?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Good news!"

Zhou Shaoning was slightly taken aback, "Good news?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Apple wants to increase investment in Siri, it can only show that even Apple has not understood this product. Now I am relieved. I only reached a verbal agreement with Li Zairong. I will definitely communicate with business executives, I am really worried that they will react and not cooperate."

Even Apple has misjudged this type of product, so it can be guaranteed.

Samsung will definitely be fooled!

Zhou Shaoning didn't quite understand, and said with a wry smile: "Is this product really not good?"

Zhou Buqi said very precisely: "The short-term popularity is actually speculation, but how can artificial intelligence be so easy? Do you know the nature of Rokid and Siri? This is general artificial intelligence, and it is voice-generated. This road It's a bottomless pit!"

Zhou Shaoning himself is also a scientist.

But the topic being discussed is so sophisticated that it is difficult for even the world's top artificial intelligence experts to make such a judgment.

The complexity of choosing a fork in the technical direction is far higher than that of commercial choices, and the probability of failure is higher.

After Rokid and Siri became popular all over the world, this kind of general-purpose voice AI assistant seems to have become a big investment outlet!

It's as if the era of artificial intelligence has come.

But that's not the case at all.

After a year or so, the industry suddenly realized.

I finally understand that a product like Siri is an unimaginably complex track.

Then, they shifted from general-purpose AI to the development of special-purpose AI.

For example, AI specialized in retouching, AI specialized in painting, AI specialized in script writing, AI specialized in document processing, etc.

It seems that Ziweiyun wants to develop server chips.

There is a choice, whether to make a general-purpose chip or a dedicated chip?

It is too difficult to make a general-purpose chip!

It is better to make a dedicated chip with a higher success rate and better performance.

In the field of artificial intelligence, general-purpose products are almost impossible.

It is relatively simple to do a specific field.

Since then, Apple has reduced the weight of the Siri product, and slowly Siri has become a dispensable tasteless product in the iPhone, and it is no longer as high-spirited as it was when it was first launched.

Even in the field of artificial intelligence all over the world, they have begun to resist general AI and only do research and development of special AI.

However, an engineer named Sam Altman was very unconvinced.

I want to fight against the whole world!
The entire industry is not optimistic about general-purpose AI, but he believes that general-purpose AI is the future, and he will definitely be able to produce a relatively mature general-purpose AI product that is truly commendable!

He was determined to make it happen.

However, after searching around, the Silicon Valley giants all refused, and no one was optimistic.

No way, then start your own business.

Trouble again.

After the project was established, he was so busy that he couldn't find an investor willing to pay to support him.With no other choice, he traveled across the ocean and came to China, hoping that domestic Internet entrepreneurs and industry elites would recognize his project.

It's a pity that no one in China recognizes him.

A lot of applications were sent out, all of which were rejected.

At the most critical moment, a savior jumped out and helped him.

That man is Elon Musk.

Musk is actually not very optimistic about this project. He is willing to give money, but it is not an investment, but a charity... He regards Sam's project as a public welfare product of artificial intelligence, and all of it is a donation.

Then, after Sam Altman got the money, he went to work.

A few years later, a popular global AI product appeared, which is the famous ChatGPT.

At this moment, the whole world suddenly woke up.

It turns out that general AI really works!
Major technology companies have quickly transformed themselves, and have begun to imitate ChatGPT to develop their own big language models.

The development of any industry is full of twists and turns.

Although Zhou Buqi is not very clear about the right and wrong of this, he is very clear about one thing, that is, the future development of Apple's Siri is very bad.

When Siri first launched, it was really blinding.

But it won't work in a few years.

In the final analysis, the ambition of this general-purpose AI voice assistant is too great.

However, the current artificial intelligence technology is far from being developed to that level, and there is still a long way to go to achieve the ideal level of AI voice assistants.

This is the advantage of Zhou Buqi.

Because from the current perspective, Rokid and Siri are the most popular AI products in the field of artificial intelligence in the world.As a result, almost all investments in the artificial intelligence industry revolve around imitating similar products such as Rokid and Siri.

This is a huge industry misjudgment.

Apple doesn't know, Samsung doesn't know.

Zhou Shaoning didn't know either.

But Zhou is not clear.

This provides him with a commercial operating space.

Zhou Shaoning couldn't figure out why Rokid couldn't do it anymore. He claimed to be a scientist, but he couldn't give an accurate judgment no matter what.A Zhou Buqi who doesn't know any technical skills, what does he know?
However, Zhou Shaoning didn't feel unconvinced.

The most important element of success in the commercial market is luck, or the entrepreneur's intuition... There is no reason to say that the whole world is not optimistic about him, he thinks it will work, and then he will actually make it.

In front of intuition, all principles, logic, policies, strategies, science and technology, and marketing strategies must all give way, just like a gamble.

The future of an enterprise is all bet on an entrepreneur's sense of smell.

So many successful people are more or less superstitious.

Regarding Rokid, Zhou Shaoning didn't understand Zhou Buqi's choice.

However, people are so sure, how can there be any reason at all?At least in the past few years, Boss Zhou has never missed the major decisions made!

"It should be the same this time, right?"

Such a voice sounded in Zhou Shaoning's mind, and he unconsciously developed a certain superstition towards Boss Zhou.

Sure enough, Zhou Buqi repeated his point of view the next moment, "After the popularity of Rokid passes and the market calms down, we will re-examine this product, and we will find problems. I wanted to put Rokid in the Aster series of mobile phones. In fact, it is to create a gimmick for this series of mobile phones, a gimmick that can beat the iPhone. A gimmick always has a shelf life.”

Zhou Shaoning's mentality is relatively peaceful.

If Boss Zhou's attitude on this matter is ambiguous and he cannot make up his mind, then he will definitely argue with reason and analyze it from his own professional point of view.

But now that Boss Zhou is so determined, there is no need to discuss it.

Discussion is a waste of time.

Just trust him unconditionally.

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "I understand what you mean. I have to sign a long-term contract with Samsung within the warranty period of Rokid. After the warranty period of Rokid expires, it will be too late for Samsung to repent. Paid a huge service charge."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, I told him that he can sign a contract for 3-5 years. I guess Li Zairong is now convening an overnight meeting with executives. I don't know how many years it will be signed. However, making money Still secondary."

"Oh?" Zhou Shaoning raised his eyebrows, "Is there any strategic value?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The global development of Samsung's mobile phones is unstoppable. Apple can't stop it, and Astar can't stop it. It is conceivable that in the next many years, Samsung will be the most popular in the field of Android phones. The main competitor. Samsung's mobile phone is a powerful promotion platform."

Zhou Shaoning's heart was shocked, and he vaguely understood something, "Rokid wants to use the mobile phone platforms of Samsung and Asda to occupy the Android side? To be on par with Apple's Siri?"

Zhou Buqi said a little speechlessly: "What's the tie? How can Apple's artificial intelligence level compare with Ziweixing? It's not shameful to be tied with Siri. The current Rokid is many times stronger than Siri." After a while, the gimmick of this universal voice assistant disappears, and Apple should react, and it will definitely reduce its investment in Siri. By then, the gap between Siri and Rokid will become wider and wider. They Not an opponent at all."

Zhou Shaoning understood what he meant, and took a deep breath, "Ziweixing will not lower its investment in Rokid, on the contrary, it will continue to increase its investment in this product!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "That's right."

"Then you don't like it?"

Zhou Shaoning felt that he was a bit contradictory.

Zhou Buqi said: "You may have misunderstood a little. The Rokid on Asda's mobile phone should be the voice version of Rokid to be precise, and the voice version of Rokid will also be authorized to Samsung. Don't forget, the real original version Rokid is actually a text version of the AI ​​assistant installed in Helo."

Can't even climb, just want to run?

If you want to do general artificial intelligence, you have to start with text.

After the writing has developed, it will be transferred to the pronunciation.

On the domestic computer chat software Helo, there is a "Rokid assistant", which is just like a normal friend in the friend list.

Users can chat with this little Rokid assistant, or ask him some simple questions.

Every interaction with Rokid is actually a training for it.

There was even a period of time when the Rokid project team set up a "customer service team" behind the scenes in order to improve the use effect of this product.

When users ask simple questions, the real AI is answering; if it is some senior users, Weibo big V, or some complicated questions, it may be answered by real people behind their backs.

Through this mode of external promotion, influence will be formed, and more people will actively participate in interacting with Rokid, and then continue to train it.

The voice version of Rokid is of course also available.

But that's too far.

First of all, the text version of the original version of Rokid must be trained, and this large language model must be polished.Then use the original Rokid as a benchmark to launch Rokid car version, Rokid voice version, RokidPro version, Rokidchat version and so on.

Artificial intelligence is a track that Ziweixing has determined to focus on early on, and it is the core technical pillar.

Even if it is a general AI, it will not give up!

(End of this chapter)