Chapter 282 Artificial Intelligence Simulating Human Thinking

A Malaysian company talks about disrupting the online shopping industry. If any other Malaysian company said this, they would be ridiculed for overestimating their capabilities.

But Alpha will not. As the only world-class Internet company in Malaysia and even outside of China and America, Alpha’s strength has been fully proven in the past in subverting the search engine industry.

Google's market share was cut in half, forcing it to transform into an artificial intelligence company. During this period, it launched an imperfect artificial intelligence search engine, but because the experience was far inferior to the new Bing based on Hornbill technology, they not only failed to regain their own market share, but were also once again voted with no confidence by capital.

Capital does not believe that Google can change in a short period of time and reverse its current decline in the search engine field. Google's market value has evaporated by more than one-third and it is considered to be the next Yahoo.

Baidu was forced to invest all its assets in autonomous driving, hoping to gain a foothold in the new era through autonomous driving. Baidu's market share in China is even worse. From a broad search engine perspective, Baidu's market share is less than 20%.

With more and more young people, the frequency of PC usage is getting lower and lower, and Baidu's market share will only get smaller and smaller.

As the direct driving force behind the stranglehold on the two major technology giants of China and America, Alpha Technology's remarks have really made the market nervous.

After the report came out, Alibaba's stock price plummeted 8% and Amazon's stock price fell 5 points. On the contrary, the stock prices of Microsoft and Tencent, core partners of Alpha Technology, soared.

The market believes that Alpha's global expansion will also be halted due to political factors, and their business development outside Southeast Asia can only be carried out through cooperation with Microsoft and Tencent.

Take Tencent as an example. It has already taken over Baidu's market share. If it can take over Alibaba's market share with the help of Alpha, the original BAT will be unified and integrated by T.

"Mr. Oraz, welcome. In the past year, the cooperation between Tencent and Alpha Technology has been very pleasant. With the help of Alpha Technology, Tencent's Hornbill AI has developed rapidly and has become an application with over 50 million installations." Mark, a Tencent executive whose power is second only to Pony, was in high spirits.

The BBC report has attracted global attention. Public opinion is that Alpha Technologies is about to start a "war" in a new field. Not long after overturning the table of search engines, it is preparing to overturn the table of online shopping.

The investment field related to online shopping is in a bloody situation, and everyone is scrambling to escape.

Opportunities always arise in such turmoil. Tencent originally wanted to talk to Alpha Technology, but unexpectedly, Oraz took the initiative to come to them first.

This made Mark overjoyed.

Tencent attaches great importance to the cooperation with Alpha Technology. Just for Alpha Technology, they have set up a branch in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, with dozens of people there responsible for matters related to the cooperation with Alpha Technology.

“Of course, Hornbill is a groundbreaking product that incorporates the latest technology from Alfa.

This kind of cooperation is not enough, we hope to reach further cooperation with Tencent and cooperate on the next generation of Hornbill." Oraz said.

In a sense, Oraz's position is a puppet. Compared with the past, his life is much better now, not to mention the sense of accomplishment brought by being the CEO of Alpha Technology and wandering among various executives and entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, which greatly satisfies his spiritual world.

Materially speaking, both the salary and the hidden benefits brought by the position are enough for him to live a comfortable life.

Therefore, he not only did not dislike being a puppet, but even enjoyed it a bit.

Is there any job that requires less brainpower than being a puppet?
"Tencent is very willing, but who do you mean by the next generation of Hornbill?" Mark almost said it was a deal.

"Mark, do you know how artificial intelligence is applied in online shopping?" Oraz did not answer directly, but changed the subject.

Mark thought for a moment and said, “I kind of know.

To put it bluntly, the current application of artificial intelligence in the field of online shopping is more like a kind of data analysis.

They mainly help online shopping platforms collect data from buyers and sellers to make more accurate business decisions and optimize user experience.

It includes pricing optimization, user experience optimization, user type segmentation, smart logistics and warehousing, sales and demand forecasting and many other aspects.

But no matter what aspect, its essence is data analysis.”

“Yes, but this is the last generation of AI. The next generation of AI will directly help users make choices.

In the next generation Hornbill that is being tested internally by Alpha Technology, it will help you complete your order based on your needs.

For example, if you say you need headphones, it will automatically help you choose the right headphones based on your past purchase history.

If your past consumption level corresponds to a monthly salary of 3,000, Hornbill will automatically help you match merchants, place orders, make payments, and fill in delivery addresses.

You only need to put forward your demands. From past ideas, demands, screening, comparison, user evaluation to ordering, the entire chain is shortened to making demands and receiving goods.

Mark, I can give you an account for the beta version of Hornbill. You can try it, but you have to enable the corresponding permissions for it.

I think you should have two mobile phones. Even if you don’t, it’s not difficult to buy another one. You can use two phones at the same time to shop with Hornbill through traditional methods.

After you compare, we can talk again. "

After hearing this, Mark quickly contacted his secretary and asked him to find him an unopened Android phone. He then installed the beta version of Hornbill and logged in using the token given to him by Oraz.

"Well, Mark, this is going to be a new experience," Oraz said.

Of course, it was impossible for Mark to experience this thing himself. Instead, after meeting with Oraz, he urgently called all the executives in Tencent who were responsible for local life to a meeting and gave them a brief introduction of the situation.

“I think what AlphaTech is trying to do is to kill online shopping, which is superficial. In essence, it is still replacing human thinking.

Shopping is a relatively complex part of human thinking activities, which involves judging whether something is suitable for oneself, comparing prices, judging the authenticity and quality of the desired items from many reviews, and making decisions. The entire decision-making chain is very long and complex.

Even for humans, their needs are the same, but some subtle differences, such as whether they see product A or product B first, will lead to different decisions.

I don't think artificial intelligence can replace humans in completing this series of complex activities.

No, to be more precise, even if artificial intelligence can replace humans, how can we convince users during the promotion process that the decisions made by artificial intelligence are better than those made by themselves?

I think that’s almost impossible to do.”

“I don’t agree with David.

However, I think David's conclusion is correct, but the path to derive the conclusion is wrong.

It is indeed difficult for artificial intelligence to replace humans in shopping, but it is definitely not because artificial intelligence cannot make more accurate decisions.

Because this is an unfalsifiable proposition, how do you judge who makes better decisions, you or artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence can do this by automatically comparing prices across the entire Internet, and the price you buy will definitely be the lowest.

Even if it is not the lowest price, you can still make a comparison from the perspectives of product quality, praise rate, etc., unless the decision made by artificial intelligence is not the optimal solution in any aspect.

This is impossible. Coupled with Tencent's propaganda and the Chinese people's innate admiration for high technology, it would be easier for them to believe that artificial intelligence can help them make more accurate decisions than themselves than what David just said.

I think the problem here is that shopping is a pleasure for many people and everyone enjoys it. Using artificial intelligence to help them place orders is equivalent to depriving them of that pleasure.

So Hornbill can occupy a certain market share, but it is only a part of the people who don’t like shopping.

It is difficult for it to completely eliminate Taobao, JD.com or Pinduoduo like a search engine.

That’s not realistic.”

"I think what you two said makes sense, but before we discuss this, Mr. Ren, shouldn't we first take a look at what the next generation of Hornbill will look like?"

Mark nodded: “Then let’s take a look first.”

He projected the interface of the Android phone onto the screen, and everyone stared at it intently, curious about what Alpha Technology could achieve.

"Please buy me a piece of clothing for the season." After completing a series of authorizations, Mark said to Hornbill's dialog box.

"Okay." A message popped up in the dialog box.

Five minutes later, "The order has been placed, the details are as follows."

Mark clicked on it and saw that he had indeed ordered a navy blue slim-fit tennis shirt from Ralph Lauren in his size.

"Do you need to purchase pants or other accessories?" Hornbill followed with this sentence.

"I've been craving snacks lately."

"Do you want to eat it right away, or do you want to eat it within two days, or do you have no requirements on time?"

"Please buy these three for me separately."

This time it took a little longer. Five minutes later, the order appeared on the mobile phone. The immediate one was durian from a nearby fruit store, which would be delivered to the door within half an hour. The one that would be delivered within two days was Maxim's mooncakes from Hong Kong, and the one that did not require time was rabbit head from Shudu.

Mark was silent for a moment and then said, “If I were to choose by myself, I would probably have to think for a long time before I would buy these.

The level of intelligence displayed by Hornbill is already very high.

Especially the rabbit head. I actually only bought it once in my Pinduoduo account, two years ago, but I can still find it. "

After that, Mark opened Pinduoduo, Ele.me and JD.com respectively to prove that the three orders came from these three platforms.

He said with emotion: "For this reason alone, Hornbill is very valuable and can help countless people with decision-making difficulties solve their problems.

I also found something very interesting. Just now when I said I wanted to eat something, it was just for testing. But after it helped me place the order, I looked at it and felt that I really wanted to eat it.

This technology is horrible.”

"I'm a little interested in commercial space flight recently. Can you please recommend some books to me?"

"Ok."

The order was placed quickly, and when he took a closer look, he found that what Hornbill bought for him were internal research materials of CICC: "Commercial Spaceflight: Who Can Become China's SpaceX" and "The Development History of Light Armor Spaceflight". The latter one was also internal material, which was internal material of China Aerospace.

“Why did you buy these two books for me?”

"Because China's and even the world's commercial spaceflight can be divided into three stages.

The first stage was before the birth of SpaceX. Although there were many commercial aerospace companies, they were more hype than reality and had no commercially valuable outputs in their long careers.

The second stage is after the birth of Space and before the birth of light armor aerospace. During this stage, SpaceX created and absorbed a large number of commercial aerospace needs, allowing commercial aerospace to move from concept to reality.

The third stage is after the birth of light armor aerospace. At this stage, mankind has stepped on the threshold of space commercialization and is very close to large-scale utilization of space resources.

So if you want to understand commercial spaceflight, you only need to understand these two companies.”

Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment.

Mark didn't test it again. He felt that this was enough and there was no point in testing it again.

“Boss, this is amazing because obviously in the past Hornbill was just doing search crawler integration for you, and now it’s starting to output thought content.

It was an amazing transformation, if I didn’t know it was AI I would totally think it was a real person talking to me.

I think one thing we need to make clear here is that if Alpha and others can do it, everyone can enjoy this level of artificial intelligence.

In other words, this level of artificial intelligence only requires a small amount of computing power. Even if the number of users grows to tens of millions or hundreds of millions, Alpha Technology can meet the needs. In other words, only a small number of users of the beta version can meet the needs.

This is very important.

Secondly, after watching the entire presentation, I also think that for Alpha, subverting online shopping is secondary. Training their artificial intelligence and further pushing the limits of artificial intelligence simulation of human thinking are more important goals.

Why didn't we find them, but they came to us first?

Because this can only be promoted on a large scale in China, it is impossible to promote it in other places.

Data security alone can block it. Just think about how much sensitive data is involved.

It captures users' shopping data, residential addresses, basic information, etc., all cross-platform data, and it even requires payment for software authorization.

If it were Europe or America, it would be impossible for Alpha to do this. They can only do this in China.

Chinese users also lack sensitivity to data security and are willing to sacrifice data security for convenience.

They came to us as a last resort.

To be honest, it may not be a good 'business' for us."

(End of this chapter)