Not long after the Young Entrepreneurs Conference, news of some young start-ups was hung on Weibo headlines.

The moral standard of society as a whole is rising, but there are still many refined egoists, some of whom are capable, and who use some of their means in business.

There have been countless cases of fraud since ancient times, and now some people have brought fraud to the technology and business circles.

Weibo headlines were the first to expose a pseudo-AI star company registered in the United States and the United Kingdom

The company, based in Los Angeles and London, has long claimed to have largely automated adaptive development of mobile apps using AI technology.

Relying on this story, it has received more than 100 million US dollars (about 300 million yuan in Chinese dollars) in investment, and its investors also include the DeepCore fund of Dongying's famous venture capital Masayoshi Son, which focuses on investing in the field of AI intelligence.

Star will now also make some external investments, of course, most of them rely on technology to screen out fruitful enterprises or entrepreneurs for investment.

This gradually hot company also attracted the attention of the Star Investment Department, but after careful preliminary investigation, it was found that there were a lot of cats.

Then there were headlines on Weibo: How many companies are doing artificial things in the name of AI?

After careful investigation, the Star Investment Department found that AI was not used in the real business development, but programmers from India pretending to be AI.

Using people to pretend to be AI, earning (cheating) more than 100 million US dollars, and the concept has already aroused enthusiasm, as if this is the next starry sky or Google or Apple......

Founded two years ago, at the height of the smartphone concept, Nokia seemed to be alive and well, and Nokia still accounted for half of the market that year when you only counted the number of mobile phone sales.

But in the mobile phones sold by Nokia that year, feature phones accounted for 95% of the share, and at that time, if you compare sales and profits, Starry Sky has ranked second, and Apple, which ranks first, is only slightly ahead of Starry Sky.

At that time, the operating system of smartphones did not distinguish between winners and losers, Star OS had not yet evolved into Star Cloud, Microsoft joined hands with Nokia to build a WP platform, Symbian still survived, iOS Blackberry Android, etc., all had the ambition to dominate the market.

At that time, it was claimed to build a platform that would bring together AI, a team of designers, and a team of developers to build digital products that could be customized to each platform.

Last year, the first AI platform product, BuiderV1, was launched.

According to the official introduction, using Builder, you don't need to have any technology, as long as you have an idea, you can create a new mobile APP project, which can be quickly converted into an app on any intelligent platform through AI, the speed is 2 times that of the current manual development process, and the cost is only 13.

He said that with the help of the built-in human-assisted ainatasha, the development of mobile apps on various platforms can be automated.

It only takes about an hour to help customers complete 80 mobile app development tasks on various platforms from scratch.

This technology and story are certainly promising, and have aroused the interest of many venture capital institutions.

At the beginning of Star OS, even if it started with this, it copied a large number of applications without copyright disputes on the Symbian platform and converted them into its own applications, so that the platform quickly occupied the market, which can be regarded as the greatest credit for the launch of the Star Smart Terminal.

This technology is also applicable to other companies that have ambitions to enter the intelligent terminal operating system, such as Microsoft, which commissioned the platform to develop a lot of APPs at that time.

In November last year, a total of US$100 million (about 300 million Chinese dollars) was raised in Series A investment, which was one of the largest Series A funding rounds among startups as of last year.

The investors are Lakestar, a venture capital firm based in Zurich, JungleVentures in Singapore, and Deepcore, a subsidiary of SoftBank.

The company's founder, Sahindevduggal, said in a statement:

With it, everyone can realize new ideas without learning to code.

Just before being exposed by Weibo headlines, they also made an announcement on their official website that their AI platform has been able to build a part of an APP60 just by relying on requirements, but the rest is done by humans, but the specific details involve trade secrets, and they refuse to elaborate.

But now, this "AI bridge" between inspiration and products has been revealed to have no AI, only artificial.

Weibo specially sent reporters to interview several former and current employees of this company, according to the insider, AI is not used to assemble the code at all, and behind it is actually engineers from India who are doing most of the work.

It wasn't until after receiving the financing that I started to develop the technology needed to build automated applications, and it didn't take much time before I could actually use AI.

Before Weibo was exposed, it was actually sued at the beginning of this year, accusing it of exaggerating its AI strength in order to obtain investment.

The prosecutor is either an outsider or its former chief commercial officer, Robert Holdheim, who, according to Holdheim, told investors that 80 years of AI tool development had been completed, but in reality, barely started.

Even under this model, the company has earned tens of millions of dollars this year, more than half of which came from the United States.

At the beginning of the year, Microsoft held a windowsphone8 developer conference conference in San Francisco, USA, and released a new mobile operating system windowsphone8.

It was announced that due to the fundamental change in the kernel of the operating system, the previous Windows Phone 7.5 system mobile phones could not be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, but they could be upgraded to Windows Phone 7.8 system, and the operation experience of the system was similar to that of Windows Phone 8 system.

Then most of the initial applications of the windowsphone8 system were completed by this company, and at this time I have to say that the Indian coders are indeed powerful and cheap.

At the end of the year, it also said that the company will achieve more than $50 million in revenue next year, and expects the contribution of American companies to reach more than 75%, saying that it will form an alliance with Microsoft, Apple and Google to deal with the threat of the starry sky.

After a series of news about the company broke out on the Starry Sky Weibo, the party said that they "know very well what they are doing" and stressed that the technology used by the company is precisely "human-assisted AI".

However, SoftBank, Microsoft and other cooperative companies or investors did not respond, in fact, it is not an isolated case.

Looking at the entire AI industry, there are a lot of involved, and Weibo released a report in a follow-up report saying that there are about 40 startups about AI intelligence in Europe, all of which are fake AI companies.

In the report, it is pointed out that after technical screening, through manual verification, these companies have no evidence to show that they use AI intelligence, in fact, this is also related to the market, many startups as long as they are labeled with AI, attract 1550 more funds.

These so-called AI intelligence start-ups, like that, their signature AI intelligence only exists in the product introduction in the demo in the paper.

Why? Because it's too skinny to land, it's too hard.

Even companies like Google and Microsoft are actually experiencing this situation.

The New York Times once reported that Google's AI that can automatically make phone calls tested in the Android system, and Duplex, which was praised for passing the Turing test, has a real person behind the disguise.

3 out of 4 successful restaurant bookings made with duplex originated from the people behind duplex.

Previously, there was a human call center behind the call aiduplex, which Google had never disclosed before.

Even all along, Google's posture has been to catch up with the stars, to take the lead in fully AI intelligence, to achieve full automation, and to completely eliminate the need for humans.

It's just that in the previous official announcement, it was mentioned that machines can complete most tasks autonomously, and identify situations that they can't handle, and then let humans handle them.

The barrier to entry is high, and in fact Google is still using human calls to help get data to train AI.

There are die-hard Google supporters who believe that it is wise for Google to introduce Duplex so cautiously and not aggressively.

But the contrast between the cool demo and the embarrassing reality is undoubtedly a slap in the face.

For intelligent AI projects, it is undoubtedly the starry sky that set off this round of craze, from sports to competitive projects, to intelligent robots, and finally launched a super individual mecha, at that time, the cool and ultimately absolutely high sales of those intelligent mecha attracted countless enterprises.

It's just that there is no predecessor in this field of intelligent AI, so in the process of chasing the starry sky, various companies are also frequent.

For example, StarSkyRobotics, a self-driving freight company in the United States, has the same core goal as all driverless companies, which is committed to making trucks self-driving.

In February, the company drove unmanned trucks onto the roads of Florida, USA, completing a seven-mile unmanned journey.

Since its establishment, this company, like the one in India, has also obtained tens of millions of dollars of investment funds from investors such as Ybinatorsamaltman, and it is also a potential company in terms of investors and financing amounts.

But after investigation, everyone found that the company, which has been established for almost 2 years, has only 3 unmanned trucks and 36 ordinary trucks.

Half of the company's employees are dedicated to operating a human-driver-driven trucking service that has been in operation for nearly two years and has delivered more than 2,200 shipments to customers.

Of course, the company claims that it needs data for testing because it needs a feedback from the regular truck business.

After being exposed, the CEO of this company stood up and said:

Without a human-driver-driven trucking business, Starsky would never have had an operational or profitable unmanned trucking business.

Of course, this kind of talk actually deceives those investors who are stupid and have a lot of money.

The benefits brought by AI intelligence cannot be ignored, and it can also bring about changes, but this technical difficulty can be called difficult.

If it weren't for Yang Yi leading the team, Starry Sky would have the current technical strength, team and enterprise scale, and I am afraid that it will take three or five years to have the initial technology under high investment.

As now, the initial maturity of autonomous driving assistance and driving assistance work, etc., is simply impossible to achieve without more than ten years of continuous investment.

Yang Yi has advanced the progress of some science and technology projects by at least ten years out of thin air, in fact, in reality, no company will invest most of its profits in research and development.

However, after the success of Star's technology-based business model, now, landing delivery and revenue, and even profitability, are becoming the best proof of the value of technology.

Imagine AI intelligence, although it is full of many scams, but the vision is still beautiful, although the reality is unprecedented, but the industry has also begun to enter a period of integration.

On the one hand, from the valuation market value to the commercialization ability, AI intelligence-related companies are undergoing unprecedented tests, with value being revalued, industry rationality returning, business model testing, in short, everything revalued.

On the other hand, the boundaries of the inherent pattern began to waver; There are boundaries between companies, visual startups cut into voice and chips, chip companies increase software and algorithms, voice interaction companies enter the visual field, the core is still AI, but there is no longer a fixed soil, and the boundaries are constantly being reshaped.

In the most competitive field, the first phase of the war has even ended, and the new AI forces that were once brilliant are now clearly hierarchical, and even some companies are no longer able to participate in the next stage of competition.

There are also boundaries between industries and industries, technology companies have achieved offline landing through AI technology, and scene companies are also blessing AI tackling technology, all saying that AI intelligence is the future, but among the new dividends, the largest dividend has been eaten, but the remaining is also a considerable share.

A new era is also coming, and companies that can continue to grow their technological capabilities and convert them into business value will have the future.

For the starry sky, it actually has a future, and various irreplaceable technologies have firmly grasped the dividends of the future.

Of course, this is in the absence of major changes in the world, although the world situation is relatively calm, the two blocs are extremely restrained, and even if the United States is unwilling, it only dares to use some small means through cannon fodder.

As the SCO members go all out into space, Yang Yi, as the chief engineer, oversees the assigned work of the project teams and provides technical support.

At the level of ordinary people, most of them are indifferent to this, and many people may not know where Sulawesi is or what the space elevator is about.

This is just like the sudden advent of smart phones, no one would have imagined that people's entertainment methods would change so quickly, and the traditional media giants in the past would soon be surpassed by the new media forces.

It's only been a few years, and TV has become a secondary form of entertainment, with apps in smartphones taking up more than half of the entertainment and leisure time of ordinary people.

This is an innovation brought about by technology, which will be swept by every corner of the world with the help of Apple sounding the horn and pushing from the stars to the peak.

In practice, there have been many companies that have begun to compete for the part of the market that Xiaomi occupies after seeing that there is no hope of competing for the high-end market of smart terminals.