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The door was pushed open.

Seeing the person coming, Ye Chen's eyes lit up.

He smiled and asked the other person to sit down.

The visitor was a young teacher and the director of the artificial intelligence major.

He can be said to be the youngest professional director in the entire Xingchen Academy, at only thirty years old.

But his resume is exceptionally impressive.

"Why is Director Li here?"

Ye Chen also came to the sofa and asked with a smile.

"I'm here to thank the president for his support for our artificial intelligence major."

"The campus teaching big data system was originally just a summer homework I assigned to students, asking them to imagine how artificial intelligence big data and schools can work together."

"I didn't expect that you, the president, would allocate 1 billion yuan to our artificial intelligence major after learning about it, allowing us to make bold attempts in the next few years."

Director Li also answered quite politely.

Ye Chen shook his head: "It's nothing. What I value most in the entire college is the major of artificial intelligence."

"After all, technology continues to advance, and artificial intelligence is becoming more and more important."

“We need talent in this area.”

"On the other hand, I am also very interested in this campus big data system. If it is really implemented, it will definitely be of great benefit to the college itself and its affiliated colleges."

"Of course we need to train them well. Besides, this little money is nothing. I've seen that foreign countries invest tens of billions or even hundreds of billions in artificial intelligence research. So if we need money later, just ask..."

Ye Chen's words were extremely sincere.

Ye Chen has always been optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence.

After all, judging from the current trend, the global population growth rate has been slowing down.

The main force of global fertility now is still the economically backward countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The population of any developed country or country where life is slightly better is decreasing.

The problem of the decreasing number of young people is very serious.

Some low-end, strenuous jobs will gradually be abandoned.

For example, it is very difficult to find people for occupations such as caregivers who take care of disabled elderly people.

In this situation.

Many developed countries have chosen to relax immigration and allow immigrants to do these low-end jobs.

But Ye Chen was a little resistant to this.

After all, China is a traditional non-immigrant country, not an immigration country like the United States.

As one of them, Ye Chen really doesn't like people of all skin colors shouting that he is Chinese.

This scene is extremely awkward just thinking about it.

In Ye Chen's view, artificial intelligence is the only way to solve this problem.

Although most of the current artificial intelligence is mentally retarded.

But in Ye Chen's opinion, as long as it continues to develop, one day it will be able to develop into a robot like the one in science fiction movies.

It’s not that they don’t need to be as awesome as the robots in the Terminator.

But if you can cook, wash clothes, climb stairs and communicate with people like a normal person, that's enough.

Robots can take care of the increasing number of elderly people in the aging population.

It’s even less stressful as there’s no need to worry about the elderly being abused by bad caregivers.

Robots can also take care of ordinary households.

When parents go to work, the children are left to the care of robots and they play with them.

Robots can also replace low-end workers to do some low-value-added assembly line work.

This is the most important use of artificial intelligence in Ye Chen’s eyes.

Although we are still far from this step now.

But as long as you start doing it, you will succeed one day.

Under such circumstances, Ye Chen would naturally spare no effort in investing.

Although Ye Chen told the director of each major that it was the major he valued most.

But judging from the current majors of Star Academy.

The major of artificial intelligence is really what Ye Chen values ​​the most and looks forward to the most.

If money is needed, Ye Chen will not be stingy at all.

……

Director Li was particularly happy because he didn't expect that his principal would attach so much importance to the artificial intelligence major.

But I also felt a little pressure, so I quickly said, "Principal, big data campus is a long-term project, and many of the technologies involved are difficult."

"For example, judging students' moods and states based on the comparison of their facial expressions and behavioral trajectories is quite difficult."

“There are also various auxiliary functions for teaching, which are still in the conceptual stage.”

“Students are not yet capable of handling this.”

“So it will probably take at least a year before we see initial results.”

Ye Chen was obviously not in a hurry.

He waved his hands to indicate that everything was fine.

Director Li talked about another matter, which was the reason for his visit: "Principal, although the students are not yet capable of handling the campus big data system."

"But the students had a pretty cool new idea that they wanted to implement."

"I took a look at the idea and thought it was good. The students should be able to accomplish it if they work hard, so I came to the principal to ask for some investment."

Hearing this, Ye Chen raised his eyebrows and showed an interested look: "What project?"

Director Li immediately replied: "Smart transportation project!"

smart transportation?
Ye Chen raised his eyebrows and thought for a while: "Smart traffic lights?" Ye Chen had heard of the concept of smart traffic lights.

In the past, traffic lights were set at fixed times.

The red light and green light are set to maintain traffic order.

But this obviously cannot meet the needs of modern transportation.

After all, some intersections have many cars, some have few cars, at some intersections 80% of the cars turn right, and at some intersections almost all vehicles go straight.

But no matter whether there are cars at the intersection or not, the traffic lights will still change according to the program settings.

This causes blockage.

Smart traffic lights can use cameras to determine the condition of vehicles at intersections.

There is a lot of traffic on this road, and less traffic on that road.

Then give priority to this lane and extend the green light time for this lane, and extend the red light time for the other lane.

This will allow more vehicles to pass through the intersection more quickly.

However, as far as Ye Chen knows, some cities seem to have already launched such projects.

It's not a new technology.

Teacher Li knew what his principal was thinking, so he smiled and said, "Principal, smart transportation is indeed smart traffic lights."

“But the smart transportation projects that students will be working on are more than that.”

"Today's smart traffic light systems only focus on one intersection, rather than the overall situation. Although there are advantages, there are also many disadvantages."

"For example, if the traffic lights are not linked, the traffic may be allowed to pass quickly at this intersection, but the next intersection may become more congested."

“And the students’ smart traffic light system is going to link up all the traffic lights in the city.”

"By constantly observing the traffic flow, we can better control the traffic flow in the entire city."

"For example, when driving in the city, the most annoying thing is waiting for traffic lights, especially in crowded areas where there is a traffic light every few hundred meters. Driving in such places is really annoying."

"If the students' smart traffic light system is successful, it can calculate for each wave of traffic and plan the overall traffic light changes according to their speed and quantity, so that vehicles encounter fewer red lights."

"Try to achieve non-stop, smooth driving as much as possible."

"But that's obviously not possible, after all, there are too many cars."

"But through the overall planning of the intelligent transportation system, we can reduce the number of red lights encountered by vehicles, reduce waiting time during the journey, and increase the average speed."

“A journey that once took 20 minutes to drive may now take only 15 minutes under the control of an intelligent transportation system.”

"..."

Ye Chen's eyes lit up as he listened to Teacher Li's introduction. He felt that this intelligent transportation system was quite interesting.

If it can be done.

The benefits are endless.

If nothing else, reduced driving time for cars will lead to lower exhaust pollution.

At the same time, fuel consumption will be reduced.

One or two cars may not matter, but what if all cars reduce fuel consumption?

For countries that need to import oil, this will definitely reduce the import volume.

This is more effective than promoting National V or National VI.

And vehicles completing trips faster means fewer cars on the streets.

It can effectively alleviate congestion.

There is no longer a need for so many traffic police to direct traffic during rush hour.

Car owners save time and fuel.

And cities also reduce pollution and reduce traffic congestion costs.

This new technology seems to be very promising.

……

Director Li saw that Ye Chen was interested, and immediately continued to introduce: "According to the students' ideas about the intelligent transportation system, this project will be able to do more than just direct traffic."

"We can also obtain more traffic data through traffic flow, passenger flow analysis, and driver destination analysis, and make recommendations on how to improve traffic flow."

"For example, an extra right-turn lane could be installed in a certain place to ease congestion."

"For example, in a certain place, the flow of people is too large, and cars and pedestrians have to wait too long. It would be best to build an overpass to disperse the flow of people."

"These tasks used to require a lot of manual research."

"Traffic police and researchers need to watch from morning till night, and it is difficult to conduct a comprehensive analysis."

"But the intelligent transportation system can easily analyze the city's traffic data to summarize when the city has the most cars, when there are a lot of cars at a certain intersection, when it is most likely to be congested, and why this happens. Ultimately, a more detailed improvement plan can be drawn up."

"These opinions and reports, once effectively used by local transportation bureaus, can help alleviate urban traffic congestion."

Director Li's more comprehensive introduction made Ye Chen feel more interesting.

And it feels useful too.

After all, traffic jams are definitely the main problem in modern large cities.

For example, in Tianhai City, the number of cars has reached 1.5 million.

Can there be no traffic jam?
Cities like the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital will only get more congested.

And if there were a transportation system that was omniscient and omnipotent.

From a God's perspective, we regulate the traffic flow throughout the city and make the city's arteries more unobstructed.

That means absolutely huge.

It can significantly improve residents' life satisfaction.

After all, there are so many benefits of smoother traffic.

As long as our students can develop an intelligent transportation system and its effectiveness is proven.

Any big city would be very interested in this... (End of this chapter)