My autobiography cannot be a tragedy

Chapter 438 The Rise of the Empire
"Hey! This voice intelligent assistant is too smart, isn't it?"

"That's right, when we haven't used Xiaodu and Little Love Elf?"

"Real hammer, this must be an 'artificial' intelligence."

"If you have the ability, call the customer service out!"

"Everyone understand, for the sake of the show effect, it's just a few questions prepared in advance to set off the atmosphere, what a big deal!"

"I'm done making a gimmick, the one who went up must be a dog's support, right?"

Listening to the discussion of the people below, the reporter in the car rolled his eyes.

Is it Gouto, he still doesn't know?

Looking at it just now, there is almost no delay in the reply. It is hard to imagine the speed at which the "manual customer service" in the background can compile the answer on the spot and then convert it into a robot voice reply.

It takes more than this time just to type these words, so the other party is not a tentacle monster, right?

This "Bajie"...is a bit evil...

Compared to everyone's attention being attracted by "Bajie", the faces of the three children are solemn.

Laymen, your focus is obviously wrong!
price!Price is the key!

"How much did the other party just say? 6.98w?" Xiaopeng looked at the two companions with a constipated expression.

"Is there a mistake? Can it be sold at this price? Even with the worst materials, the price will be lost to grandma's house, right?"

"The key is the auxiliary driving equipment, which is the big cost! Just one lidar is [-] to [-]!"

The three of them were confused and bewildered.

If the price of the other party can still make a gross profit, how low is the production cost of the whole vehicle?
You can't buy a lidar to send a car, right?
"Uh...you said...the other party probably took the technical route of Tesla, right?"

"How is it possible! Even we can't do it!"

As we all know, the current mainstream technical routes for vehicle assisted driving are camera vision, millimeter wave radar, and lidar.

Among them, the cost of lidar is the highest, the cost of millimeter-wave radar is only about one-tenth of that of lidar, and the cost of pure vision is the lowest.

Although the future autonomous driving technology must be "multi-sensor collaboration", for now, the simpler the sensor, the lower the cost, and the higher the algorithm and technical requirements, this is an unavoidable fact.

Tesla is based on "no lidar dependence", emphasizing that through the optimization of the algorithm, only the camera + millimeter-wave radar is used to achieve advanced assisted intelligent driving.

It doesn't need to know what the obstacle is, it only needs to know that the obstacle exists, and then it can perform the next step!
In terms of technical strength, it is very difficult for the visual solution to achieve L2 (Tesla level) automatic driving. Many domestic high-tech companies have tried, but they have not been successful.

For example, Baidu, which was the first to start researching autonomous driving, has been exploring the integration of lidar + vision for many years. It was not until 2017 that it began to explore pure vision technology.

It's not that pure vision is better than a lidar solution with greater safety redundancy, it's all because the cost factor is too high.

Compared with a 200-megapixel camera worth tens of dollars, compared with a lidar worth tens of thousands of yuan, isn’t the impetus for this technology research and development coming?

The three new forces of Xiaopeng and Tongtong are currently adopting the entry-level solution of lidar + high-precision map, so it is impossible for the price of the designed model to be lower than 15w.

However, the price above 15w can only achieve entry-level automatic driving, and has no competitive advantage in front of traditional fuel vehicles. This is the embarrassing situation that intelligent new energy vehicles are currently facing.

Technology and cost are the biggest factors for Tesla to rely on the edamame series to kill the world!
"Hehe! It seems that everyone has some doubts about the theme of our press conference today, so let's invite another guest to come on stage and experience our 'talking car'!"

At this time, Mr. Bao on the stage proposed to change the guest in the face of the questioning voice of "dog care".

"Come here, Gouto No. 2 is coming!"

"A play can't become real even if it's played several times!"

"That's right, substitutions are fine, but Mr. Bao can't appoint a candidate this time!"

"Yeah, who knows if he will be an actor again?"

"Why don't you let me come?"

Everyone looked at the standing figure in the front row in surprise.

That is none other than our children!
"Huh? Isn't that Mr. He?"

"That's right, I didn't expect him to come too. Those two beside him... aren't those two Mr. Li!"

Mr. Bao naturally recognized the three people in the front row. After all, there are only a handful of companies on this new energy vehicle track, and everyone basically sees them without looking up.

"Hehe! If Mr. He is willing to be a guest of this experience, that would be the best.

No one should think that He is always in collusion with me, right? "

"No, no! Mr. He, we can definitely trust him!"

Finally, there was a person whose status was recognized by everyone, who would never stand up as a dog, and all the reporters and guests naturally supported him.

"Thank you!"

Xiaopeng came to the stage, thanked him and took the microphone from the last "guest".

However, he didn't enter the driver's cab for the first time. Instead, he circled the "Santa Beans" twice...

"Two cameras front and rear, integrated ADAS early warning and internal and external driving recorder..."

After some careful observation, the little friend's face twitched a little.

This configuration...is not generally low, but too low...

As a car builder, he is naturally very familiar with the structure of new energy vehicles, and he can basically make a judgment at a glance.

But... Let alone the lidar, there is no trace of the installation of the millimeter-wave radar.

How did the other party achieve this automatic parking?
It can't be purely visual, can it?
He couldn't help but glanced at Boss Bao, his eyes were a little strange.

He didn't speak anymore, and just sat in the cab.

"Bajie, what is the processor-related configuration of this car?"

To everyone's surprise, the first question he asked was not to test the voice interaction intelligence at all, but to inquire about the car's configuration.

Many people in the field didn't understand why, but the two companions below nodded repeatedly.

Classmates, this is the key point!
[Hello, this car mainly uses Intel's chips as the key computing power support.

Including Intel Atom processor, Intel Movidius vision processor, Intel ALTAI wireless communication module.

In addition, it is also equipped with the MCU control chip of Renesas Electronics and the communication module of Ericsson. 】

That's it? !
Xiaopeng glanced at Boss Bao, and his eyes became even weirder.

This kind of rubbish configuration, also want to engage in assisted driving?Just kidding!
If this can be done, then the other party is not only using "pure vision", but also needs "low computing power" frankly!
The edamame series have to add a millimeter-wave radar and advanced chips...

This sixth...could it really be false propaganda at the press conference?

How about so many journalist friends!
Is it true that the country does not catch entrepreneurs?

"Hehe! I don't know, this kind of low computing power configuration can also complete the auxiliary driving function. How do you do it?"

[In automatic driving, 'automatic parking' is a low-complexity simple scene.

In addition, as you said, our computing configuration is not in the advanced category in the market, so this scene computing can only be completed at a low speed.

This makes up for the lack of hardware to a certain extent. 】

"Uh……"

Low speed makes up for low computing power. Logically, there seems to be nothing wrong with it, but it misses the point at all.

"So, this car has achieved the 'pure vision' automatic parking technology!"

Xiaopeng put more emphasis on the three words "pure vision".

Hearing this, how can everyone not understand that Xiaopeng is drunk and not interested in drinking, but is trying to find out the old background of other people's "automatic parking" by experiencing the "talking car"!
【Yes, your understanding is correct! 】

"Wow~" The audience immediately exclaimed.

Unexpectedly, this "smart voice assistant" actually admitted it on the spot!
"Ah!"

Considering that this is someone else's on-site press conference, Xiaopeng didn't sneer on the spot, but turned to look at Mr. Bao aside.

"Mr. Bao, do you also agree with your...'smart assistant''s point of view?"

"Uh……"

Boss Bao touched his nose.

At first, like you, I didn't agree with it, and felt that the other party was whimsical.

However, other people's technology has been pasted on your face, you can't admit it...

"Mr. He, I just said that this 'Tianxuan' system is not a product of our company, but a technical support provided by a strategic partner.

So for the technical details, I certainly don't understand as an expert like you.

How about...you continue to ask? "He pointed to the car.

The little friend twitched the corners of his mouth.

Ask a fart!
This is because the boss can't make it up anymore, so it can only be done by professionals, right?

good!I want to see what you can come up with!

"This... Bajie, can you tell me how you solved the obstacle detection and tracking algorithm in a complex parking environment with low computing power."

[Based on deep learning, combined with classic SSD and YOLO algorithm, but deeply optimized. 】

"Huh?" Xiaopeng didn't expect the other party to give such a professional answer.

"Then what specific optimizations have you made for SSD?" He asked again incredulously.

[The main optimization is the convolution part of VGG16, so that it can use the pre-trained VGG16 network weights, and perform transfer learning on other data sets to improve the versatility of the model.

After the actual measurement, it has a high detection speed and good detection effect on the single-shot object detection task.

The specific optimization process is:
$ L_{Cls}=\frac{1}{N}\sum^{N}_{i}L_{Cls, i}$...]

Classmate: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Listening to all kinds of mathematical symbols and formulas coming from the car speakers, everyone was dumbfounded.

Hello!I asked you what optimization you have done. You can just introduce it a little bit. There is no need to read out the technical details and optimization formula on the spot, right?
Does your company have no technical secrecy regulations?

This operation... Mencius didn't understand it, Confucius didn't understand it, and Lao Tzu didn't understand it either.

Many reporters directly lie in their hearts.

I just came to write a press release about "the last elegy of a certain new energy veteran car company". I didn't expect to participate in a "autonomous driving advanced technology conference"?
There is no psychological preparation at all!
But at this time, the little friends are thinking about...

Shall I take a cheat sheet and write it down first?

There is no way, this algorithm formula sounds more and more real...

"Stop, stop!" He yelled to stop.

The broadcast of "Mommy Mommy Boom", which was a mouthful of symbolic formulas, finally came to an abrupt end.

"Is it really okay for you to disclose the technical details like this?"

This shouldn't be some kind of "manual customer service"... Human customer service can't be like this!
[No problem, this technology belongs to the technical information that has just applied for a patent and is allowed to be disclosed.

Before long, everyone will be able to find the latest technical information on public websites.

Based on the principles of technology sharing and open source progress, developers don't mind opening this patent to everyone! 】

"Uh……"

These words...why do they sound familiar?

Actually, like Tesla, playing the set of public patents?
Many people in the audience were even moved.

But as an insider, Xiaopeng naturally knows the tricks in it.

In fact, open patents are not an accurate statement. To be precise, all patents are open.

The essence of a patent is to exchange disclosure for protection.

For core technologies, companies will not apply for patents for protection, such as the formula of Coca-Cola...

Tesla is not giving up the right to profit from the patent, but it is not pursuing the liability for infringement for the time being.

The Iron Man's original words were: "Tesla will not initiate a patent infringement lawsuit against anyone who wants to use Tesla's technology out of good faith."

These patents, many car manufacturers will not actually use them directly, but to research ideas, because...

The right to interpret "good faith" belongs to him!
Another more important reason is that in the early days of the popularization of new energy, under the pressure of traditional car companies, the cost of playing alone is too high.

So simply made the patents and standards public, and encircled all the bigwigs to play.

While making the cake bigger together, you can gain great prestige, and the key is to become a rule builder.

It is impossible to surpass if you have been imitating.

The result of mindless imitation of the forerunner is that the standard set by the forerunner must be followed, and the further behind, the more impossible it is to surpass the other party.

If there are more benefits to be gained from disclosing a patent than not disclosing it, why hide it?

"incredible……"

Looking at the sound wave representing "Bajie" on the car screen, Xiaopeng didn't know what to say for a while.

Should we be surprised that the other party seems to have a purely visual automatic parking solution first, or should we marvel at the other party's ambition...

but……

After chatting for a few simple words, he suddenly found that his attention had been diverted again.

Because... this "smart voice assistant" is really too smart...

"Cars that drive themselves" are certainly shocking, but this "talking car"...seems to be more interesting!
Several times, I forgot to say the awakening keyword "Bajie".

However, the other party seems to be able to actively judge whether he is giving instructions to him and replying based on the context...

Compared with double-click wake-up programs like "Xiaodu Xiaodu", this kind of smoother human-computer communication is simply unheard of!

Judging from the few conversations just now, this artificial intelligence can not only accurately recognize speech and perform in-depth semantic analysis, but also give the most accurate reply in a short period of time, and the error rate is actually zero...

What level of "language model" is this?
Compared with the other party, those in-vehicle smart assistants now have to be compared to scum!

He just woke up suddenly.

Mr. Bao's real trump card this time is just like the theme of this press conference...it is not "automatic parking" at all!
Of course, everyone in the audience also noticed this.

"Hey! It looks like this time it really isn't 'artificial'?"

"That's right, the speed of reply and the professionalism of the content don't seem like they were prepared in advance."

"No way, if there were such a smart voice assistant, those so-called smart speakers would have been eliminated long ago, right?"

"Shouldn't it be the same as this car, and it will also be the first launch?"

"Which company did Boss Bao say was the product?"

"Bai Yeji, I checked with Sky Eye just now, and it turned out to be a local company."

Xiaopeng didn't care about the discussion below. He is eager to know whether the other party is making a "dedicated smart assistant" specially for this press conference, or is it more versatile...

So, he decided to test the assistant's intelligence from other angles.

"Your name is Bajie? Why did you choose such a weird name, shouldn't it be called 'Xiaodou' or something?"

This problem obviously has nothing to do with the car.

[Of course I can't be called 'Xiaodou'. It's like, if someone came to stay at your house, would you let him take your surname? 】

"Uh...hahaha!"

Everyone reacted for two seconds, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"This metaphor... is absolutely perfect!"

"Borrowing? The products of Bai Yeji's family live in Idol Automobile, can't they have the surname 'Dou'!"

"Fuck, what kind of voice assistant is this? It can't be a real master! It can even use metaphors!"

Xiaopeng was also a little confused by this reply, but he soon came back to his senses.

He didn't believe that there really was such a capable artificial intelligence in this world!
"Okay, now suppose you are a salesperson, um...for example, facing the reporter friend who just wanted to buy a car but was short of money.

Now let you think of a promotional slogan, what words would you use to promote the sales of this car?

Note that this advertisement must be simple and clear, not too lengthy. "

His question was not only long, but also quite tricky.

Letting a robot sell is equivalent to role substitution.

It also needs to introduce the dialogue scene between it and the reporter just now, and refine and condense the final answer...

This is a test of the robot's memory model and logical language performance.

【Buy a car for my wife!Buying a car for my wife! 】

Unexpectedly, there was a burst of yelling from the stereo.

Everyone reacted for a long time, and the next moment...

"Hahaha! Buy a car for your wife? This operation is 666!"

"It's so fitting, hey!"

"He actually understands a pun. This guy's Chinese level is definitely higher than most ordinary people!"

"What do you mean, why didn't I understand?"

"That means you are one of those ordinary people..."

"It's unbelievable! Not only did it perfectly answer the question, but the salesmanship is also deceptive, which is the essence of modern marketing language!"

"I'm going... Is this really not the backstage GM answering?"

Yes, there is a big difference between "buy a car for your wife" and "buy a car for your wife".

Or how to say Chinese is profound and profound...

The reporter just said it was incredible.

"I bought it! I bought it! Don't rob me!"

"I want one too, Mr. Bao, is there any discount for the guests here?"

"No more offers, I'll pay in cash!"

"And I!"

"I……"

Boss Bao looked at the voices of wanting to place an order coming from below, and he was a little dazed.

I rely on!If I had known that this voice assistant could have this kind of effect with a single advertisement, why would I recruit sales?

"Bajie" will be launched another day, can the company's sales department be disbanded in place?
Among those present, only Xiaopeng and his two companions remained silent.

Muggle gone!
We were not even mentally prepared for this big competitor to pop up all of a sudden! ,

Regardless of whether this "Santa Doushi" wants to rely on this incredible voice assistant to create hot spots, or rely on automatic parking to attract attention, after this press conference, Aidou New Energy Vehicles will definitely rely on these two technologies to return to the competitive track .

They suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

There are edamame before this, and idols after...

Two beans are competing for supremacy, what is the way out for our new forces?
Forget about edamame, it is a foreign bean, backed by the strongest technological power.

Unexpectedly, a sixth child who had been hiding so deeply popped up among the domestic people, and gave himself and others a backstab!
Boss Bao, cook beans and burn the bean casserole, why is it too urgent to fry them together?

Originally, they wanted to visit a "time metabolism screen", but now...

Where is this "time metabolism screen"?
This is clearly "Rise of an Empire"...

(End of this chapter)