Tuesday, November 15th.

Handong University's dormitory for master's students in ancient Chinese.

Several students are tapping on keyboards, typing on their laptops, and stopping every now and then to look up information on the Internet.

If it's someone who doesn't know, they think they're writing a paper.

But in fact, they are the first creators of the "useful APP", and they are completing the tasks assigned by their mentors at this time.

Each of these master's students is responsible for a part of the content, mainly poems, lyrics, songs, ancient texts, etc., and after uploading the basic content to the entry of the "useful APP", these people will be responsible for summarizing and sorting out the existing research results and knowledge, and improving the entry.

"Useful APP" has a special background template, and these creators only need to fill in according to the template. The content will be reviewed by a higher-level creator, usually a doctoral student or a young lecturer, and it will be displayed according to the template after the review is completed.

These master's students usually log on to the encyclopedia website or CNKI, but compared with these two websites, the biggest feature of the "useful APP" is that the structural planning is more scientific.

Although the structure of the "useful APP" is somewhat similar to the encyclopedia website, in addition to the difference in content, there are also great differences in the details of use.

To put it simply, "useful APP" is trying to do subtraction and layering.

The general encyclopedia website will display most of the information of the same entry on the same page, on the one hand, it is too cluttered, and on the other hand, the content has no hierarchy and cannot adapt to the needs of personalization.

For example, some people only want the most basic information, while others need a detailed analysis of a certain word or a sentence, which are both extreme needs that are difficult for encyclopedia websites to take care of.

"Useful APP" is actually a multi-layered structure, the first layer is the core and essence of a certain entry; The second layer is some classification analysis of this entry; The third level is the analysis and research of a specific word; The fourth layer is the source of these contents, cited papers, etc.; The fifth layer is the various problems that arise from this entry.

The levels are expressed in a variety of ways such as page turning or pop-up windows, fully taking care of the user's usage habits.

For users, they can accurately and quickly find the part of the content they need most, without having to look through all kinds of unwanted information.

At present, the "useful APP" is used for the section of ancient poetry and classical Chinese, and the basic functions have long been developed, and the current work is mainly based on the creators to constantly update the content in addition to fixing various bugs.

It's a relatively boring job, but it's not hard for these students.

On the one hand, this is their specialty, and when they organize these contents, they are also consolidating their professional knowledge; On the other hand, it is also a job that can well subsidize the daily expenses of these poor students.

A master's student had just finished his work for the day, leaning back in his chair and stretching.

"Lao Li, is the mission completed today?"

"Almost."

"What do you mean by almost, don't be fooled, last time you cited the wrong paper, and you were warned by your supervisor even with you. This matter is led by Professor Kong Zhemin, and if you dare to make a fuss, you are afraid that you will not want to graduate successfully! ”

"Don't worry, I was negligent last time, and now I check it several times every time I write something, and I won't make that kind of low-level mistake again."

"But I wonder, what is Tengda trying to pay us to make this kind of thing? Although it is said that there is a fee, most of the time it will not make money, right? ”

"Who knows, maybe it's going to be sold to some education group? At least in the future, it will be very easy for primary and secondary school students to use this 'useful app' to look up poems. ”

"But the problem is that you can check it with a thousand degrees, and it's free; Textbooks and supplementary books also have explanations of these poems. ”

"You can't say that. The content found out by Qiandu is too messy and difficult to identify. As for the content in the textbooks and tutorials, it is obviously not as comprehensive as ours. I think it's a pure burn in the early days of useful apps, and few people will pay. But when the above content increases, there will definitely be more people who pay. ”

"At our current rate, I highly doubt that we will be able to make a profit in ten years......"

These students also have their own opinions on the "useful APP", and many people are not optimistic about its success at all, only because Tengda gives subsidies, so they use their spare time to create and enrich the above content.

Even many people are ready to give up this project at any time, and there is a mentality of "making money for as long as you can".

One student wondered, "Well, I've always had a question. 'Synonymous verses', 'antonym verses', 'rhyme verses' and other functions don't seem to be displayed on the 'Useful APP', so what's the use of doing this? ”

The so-called "synonymous verses", "antonymous verses", and "rhyming verses" are actually to establish connections between some poems or poems with similar meanings, opposite meanings, and similar rhymes.

Each time you enter a poem, you can freely add its synonymous verses, antonym verses, rhyming verses, etc., to establish connections between different poems or verses.

These are also included in the workload and are weighted well. After sorting out a poem, you can go to the Internet to search for it, screen it, and then fill in the relevant verses in the background.

It's just strange that this connection is not shown in the "useful APP", which makes everyone a little confused.

"I don't understand, it's a waste to make this function, but don't show it?"

"Who knows, maybe the foreground display of this feature is still in development? Do it in the background first, and then display it directly after the frontend function is completed? ”

"Maybe."

The students didn't pay much attention to it and continued to work in the background.

……

Outu Technology.

As soon as Yu Ping'an arrived, he was given to the reception room by Chang You.

"Wait a minute."

After Chang You left for a while, he came over with an OTTO mobile phone.

"It just so happens that today you came to dock some work on the useful APP database, and you have come to feel the function of the first version of the AEEIS intelligent assistant by the way."

"Our researchers have done a bit of a good job of doing it during this time, and at this time, we need a complete outsider to give some opinions from a more objective point of view."

Chang You said, handing the phone to Yu Ping'an.

Yu Ping'an was supposed to work with Chang You's side today, because the data of the useful APP will be directly linked to the AEEIS intelligent database, and there are many design details that need to be decided by the two persons in charge.

After the results came, I was caught by my friends as a guinea pig to experience the initial version of AEEAIS.

Although Yu Ping'an was not very interested in these, he still reached out and took the mobile phone and experienced it seriously.

There is an unwritten rule within Tengda Group, that is, when each department encounters the need for mutual cooperation with other departments, it must cooperate unconditionally and unreservedly, and all department heads are accustomed to abide by and practice this rule.

As for when did this conventional unspoken rule come to be?

Most people don't know clearly.

However, the source of this unspoken rule can probably be traced back to Mr. Pei: on the one hand, Mr. Pei attaches great importance to the linkage and cooperation of various departments; On the other hand, there is no pressure of KPI competition between all department heads, everyone is doing things for Mr. Pei, everyone's salary is about the same, and bonuses do not depend on profitability but on word of mouth, so there will not be a portal between departments like some large companies.

Yu Ping'an noticed that this OTTO E1 mobile phone seems to have some changes from the mobile phones on the market, the most intuitive is the operating system of the mobile phone.

Originally, the operating system of OTTO mobile phones was more inclined to the native Eldraine, with a simple and clean interface, but it would also give people a feeling of being too simple.

However, this version of the operating system is richer in content, and the UI animations of various systems have become smoother, more natural, and more detailed; There are also a number of options added to the system settings to better explore some of the new features of the Eldraine system; The icon of the camera system has been changed, and after clicking in, you will find that there are some new features inside, such as optimization algorithms for taking photos, new filters, and so on.

In addition, this system also integrates the function of AEEIS intelligent assistant, long press the power button or directly say AEEIS to the mobile phone can call out the voice assistant.

For the AEEIS intelligent assistant, Yu Ping'an doesn't know many details.

He only knows that this intelligent assistant also directly uses the latest artificial intelligence research results of Xunke Technology, and the intelligent assistant launched by other manufacturers, smart speakers and other products are similar in the underlying technology, and the only difference may only lie in the adjustment of some details.

In addition, Chang You said that this is an "elegant and easy-going intelligent system", which will add some poisonous tongue attributes, as well as the function of poetry.

But Yu Ping'an didn't take it too seriously, since the underlying technology is all used by Xunke Technology, the difference between this voice assistant and other voice assistants should not be very big, not to mention that this is the first version.

Yu Ping'an said into his phone: "AEEIS." ”

After a crisp prompt sound, a dark gray mask appeared on the mobile phone screen, covering the content of the original picture, and some sci-fi wavy symbols appeared at the top of the screen.

The main part below this tilde is a piece of information display, and at the bottom there is another smaller tilde.

The big squiggler with a sci-fi color at the top of the screen is the body of AEEAIS, and it will only jump according to the note when AEEIS answers, and when AEEIS does not answer, it will have some other dynamics, such as rolling in waves, or rotating regularly, which is used to express AEEAIS's current mood and state;

The small wave charm is to collect the voice of the outside world, and it will beat with Yu Ping'an's speech.

The whole page is very concise and there is no superfluous text information.

Yu Ping'an has also used some other voice assistants, which tend to display a lot of text on the page, including common questions and so on. However, the interface of AEEIS is relatively neat and clean, which is consistent with the consistent style of otto os.

Yu Ping'an's first impression of AEEIS was good.