After careful consideration, Professor Kong Zhemin asked, "Can it be understood as an easy-to-understand popular science textbook for ordinary people?" ”

Yu Ping'an nodded: "Yes, it can be understood in this way." ”

"We use the Internet to make these contents available to more people and provide more efficient ways to retrieve them."

"At the same time, in terms of the compilation of content, we strive to achieve: it is not too esoteric and professional for ordinary people to understand, and it is not too empty, vulgar and unnutritious."

"That's why I'm here to visit, and I hope you can go out of the mountain."

"You're not only a great player in the industry, but you're also a professor who is loved by your students, and you have a lot of experience in writing textbooks, so it's absolutely foolproof to have you in check on these contents."

Professor Kong Zhemin had a little surprise on his face.

"Sounds like a good thing."

"However, it seems like a very large project."

"Just the various courses of Chinese majors, such as ancient literature, modern literature, foreign literature, etc., have a large number of monographs, even if they are sorted out and simplified into encyclopedias, the content is beyond imagination."

"What's more, the expandable content of the Q&A section is limitless, which is not something that can be done in ten or eight years."

"I usually have to take graduate students, so I'm afraid I don't have that much time."

"If a lot of people are working together to do this, should they be paid or not, and how will the cost be borne ...... Have you considered these questions? ”

Yu Ping'an had already prepared, and hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, Old Kong, we have already considered these problems. ”

"This project was decided by Mr. Pei of our Tengda Group, and all the resources of the entire group company can be mobilized to escort it."

I also asked Mr. Pei about his workload, and Mr. Pei's answer was: The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now. It is precisely because this is a huge project that it cannot be delayed, and if it is dragged on, nothing can be accomplished. ”

"Even if the content is incomplete in the initial stage, as long as the information in it is useful, it can attract users."

"When it comes to manpower, you don't have to worry. You are equivalent to the general director of this professional field, only doing the overall planning and highest supervision, and we will also invite some young scholars, professors, and outstanding graduate students to participate in these projects, each responsible for different divisions of labor. ”

"We will fully protect the intellectual property rights of creators, and at the same time set up a legal team to crack down on manuscript washing and plagiarism, and defend the rights of creators."

"Creators get paid monthly according to star ratings and workload."

"As for the distribution of remuneration, all members of the 'Useful App' need to pay to browse, and they are charged according to the time they use and the number of views. We will take 10% of this income as operating costs, and 90% of it will be returned to the creator in proportion. ”

"Of course, considering that there are not enough paid members in the early stage, we will provide a guaranteed remuneration for all creators, as long as the content approved by the review exceeds 10,000 words that month, you can get a subsidy of 2,000 yuan."

Professor Kong Zhemin was stunned for a moment: "This subsidy will not change with the change of the number of words?" ”

Yu Ping'an nodded: "Yes." ”

"Because this is condensed knowledge, if the remuneration is linked to the number of words, there may be a slight flooding."

"This subsidy is just a basic living guarantee, so that creators will not work in vain in the early stage."

"Of course, this is not to encourage eating big pots of rice and messing around."

"After there are enough members on the 'useful app', the income will definitely increase, and we will determine the income weight of each department and each creator according to a set of more complex algorithms, including: creator star rating, the number of views of written or modified content, the initial creation of new entries, the number and proportion of content likes, etc., and calculate the revenue share of each section and each creator."

"This part of the income is incentive."

Professor Kong Zhemin nodded slightly: "It's also very reasonable." ”

Professors in China should be considered one of the groups with the largest income variance, but more than ninety percent of professors do not have much additional income other than salary and basic performance.

The annual salary of lecturers at Handong University is less than 100,000 yuan, and the annual income of associate professors is less than 130,000 yuan.

In particular, some professors who concentrate on academics in liberal arts majors are quite poor.

Although the subsidy of 2,000 yuan is not much, it can be obtained as long as 10,000 words are produced for useful apps every month, which is still relatively attractive. After all, it's not as difficult as writing a thesis, it's just about sorting out your existing knowledge.

Moreover, the content must be reviewed for the content to be valid, and there will be no unlimited irrigation, so that there will be no phenomenon of "spending money to buy garbage".

Professor Kong Zhemin thought about it carefully: "Mr. Yu, I can trust Tengda Group, and the conditions in all aspects are also very sincere. ”

"Moreover, this is a good thing for the future, I have been doing education all my life, and if I can do some popular science on the Internet, I would be very happy."

"But I want to ask ......"

"It should be difficult for your company to make money doing this project, right? Is this some kind of public welfare project, or is it some kind of new business model? ”

Professor Kong's eyes were filled with confusion.

Indeed, the conditions are quite good in all aspects.

But the problem is that these conditions seem to be too good, good for content creators, good for users, but not good for the company.

Just leave one percent for operating expenses, isn't that a big loss?

Even if it is to do public welfare and enhance the popularity of the enterprise, then you have to pay attention to efficiency, right?

The current "useful app" has a long cycle to do, burns a lot of money, and has slow results, and it will not have much influence before it really bears fruit, so what's the point?

Even if you consider it according to the best-case scenario, after a few years or even more than ten years, who can think about such a long-term thing?

That's why Professor Kong was confused, and he always felt that this was a bit strange.

Yu Ping'an was silent for a moment and said, "Old Kong, I also asked Mr. Pei this question. ”

"Mr. Pei said that some things always have to be done."

"He wants to create a pure land for the Internet without garbage."

Professor Kong Zhemin was silent for a moment and nodded: "Yes, I agree." ”

"This is the ...... It doesn't matter if you don't have money, and it doesn't matter if you succeed or not. ”

"The significance of this matter itself is very important."

Yu Ping'an's eyes couldn't help but shine: "Thank you so much, Kong Lao!" With you, a lot of things are much easier! ”

Kong Zhemin smiled: "Don't thank me, I should thank you." There are really not many enterprises with a strong sense of social responsibility like Tengda. ”

"Mr. Pei is really an unusual entrepreneur."

Yu Ping'an couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, Mr. Pei's personal charm is really too strong!

can clearly feel that Mr. Pei's words moved Kong Lao very much.

A big guy like him has long been in a state of indisputability, and he has become famous, teaching and doing research every day, if it is something he is not interested in, please don't spend money.

But Mr. Pei's words made Kong Lao!

The addition of Professor Kong Zhemin not only makes the literature section of the useful app have one more big guy, and the professionalism and quality of various contents are guaranteed, but more importantly, when the useful app expands to other fields, it will be convenient to invite more big bulls.

When all kinds of bigwigs in different fields are gathered, a cluster effect will be formed, with more and more high-quality content, more and more excellent producers, and more and more users.

It can be said that it is a good start!

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Wednesday, October 26th.

OTTO Technology.

AEEIS's development team is working intensively on the project.

The current AI assistant technology is simply divided into two parts: front-end and back-end.

The front-end is mainly speech recognition and speech synthesis technology, which converts the user's spoken language into text, and then converts the returned text result into speech output.

The backend side uses the program to process the user's request and return the best matching result.

In general, the current artificial intelligence assistant on mobile phones is mainly responsible for four dimensions: device control and system function call, third-party application support, dialogue and intelligence level, and skill learning ability.

The initial technology of the AI assistant is provided by Xunke Technology, and various manufacturers are only updating and optimizing on this basis.

However, whether the intelligent assistant is good or not depends on the extent to which the manufacturer has optimized in these four dimensions.

Changyou decided to focus all his energy on the invocation of system functions and the level of dialogue and intelligence during this R&D cycle.

While third-party app support and skill-learning capabilities are also important, they add up to a lot of content and may only have similar needs from a subset of users, so they're a bit of a priority.

The so-called system function call is that the user controls the system function of the mobile phone with voice.

For example, when a user says "weather", the assistant will automatically display the weather page on the screen and read out tomorrow's weather conditions and temperature changes with their voice.

Similarly, calculators, calendars, memos, phone calls, text messages, and other content can be controlled by smart assistants, which will bring a certain amount of convenience to users.

Conversation and intelligence level is how the intelligent assistant responds when the user asks some more personalized questions.

For example, if you ask "who is your father", some intelligent assistants will answer "my father is the product manager of the development department", while some artificial intelligence assistants will answer "it is a group of smart people who dare to innovate".

Strictly speaking, this doesn't really mean much, but it will make AEEIS more recognizable.

Because according to Mr. Pei's requirements, Aeeis is an emotional artificial intelligence, so when other voice assistants all use anthropomorphic voices, Aeeis will use emotionless mechanical voices.

Since the "personality" is already there, it is necessary to stand up and cooperate in other aspects.

Do a good job of these personalized customizations, with the character and voice of AEEIS, in order to show that the completion of this product is very high.

Previously, the day after the name AEEIS was finalized, director Zhu Xiaoce found Chang You and wanted to ask for a name for artificial intelligence, which happened to be used in movies and games.

The two departments have cooperated as early as "Beautiful Tomorrow", and this time they naturally thought of going together, Chang You told Zhu Xiaoce what he was doing AEIS, and Zhu Xiaoce readily agreed, and took the name to the movies and games.

When the time comes, you can also use the popularity of movies or games to promote AEEIS, why not?

Chang You came out of the conference room, and he had just finished some key functions with a few key members.

After taking a sip of tea, Chang You found that several messages had been refreshed in the small group set up by the head of the department privately, one of which was sent by Yu Ping'an.

This group is not for chatting and irrigating, but what trends are in each department will be briefly shared here.

Yu Ping'an: "The 'useful app' successfully invited Professor Kong Zhemin!" ”

Chang You put down the teacup and couldn't help but be a little curious.

Useful app?

What is that?