As soon as Luo Ming said this, Tong Mingwei and Wang Hongyu both fell silent.
Luo Ming was dumbfounded.
He didn’t want the conversation to die!
He had clearly wanted everyone to happily chat about technology. How did bringing up that example make the whole office go quiet?
Chen Sichu, standing off to the side, covered her face.
How had she never noticed that Sister Wen had a talent for killing the mood?
The company’s crown prince clearly wanted to hear Sister Wen say something nice about that AI stuff.
But Sister Wen went ahead and dumped a bucket of cold water on him.
As for Director Wang, he already didn’t think much of this AI. Now that Sister Wen had said all that, wouldn’t he like it even less?
At this point, Chen Sichu was a little confused. She suspected that Sister Wen never really wanted to talk with them in the first place, and had only come because she couldn’t refuse. Was the next step going to be finding some excuse to slip away?
Thinking of this, Chen Sichu secretly started packing up her things.
Meanwhile, Luo Ming felt he needed to quickly salvage the situation, otherwise how could the conversation continue?
The AI industry is divided into many directions—for example, the vision direction and the natural language direction—and also into generative models, discriminative models, and so on.
Before Luo Ming transmigrated, the leaders in this technology were China and the United States.
China was stronger in the vision direction and in B2B.
In the natural language direction, the US was stronger in most B2C areas.
This actually reveals the different development directions of the two countries when it comes to AI.
In 2023, the world’s strongest intelligent voice assistant was Tesla’s in-car voice assistant, followed by iPhone’s Siri, and only then Xiaomi’s Xiao Ai.
Whether it was Tesla’s in-car intelligent voice assistant or iPhone’s Siri, both mainly served offline industries like cars and phones.
But China’s AI was mostly used in various apps. For example, Taobao and Douyin—these two apps were the greatest embodiment of China’s online AI technology.
But whether it was Tesla’s AI or Douyin’s AI, both demonstrated the same thing: companies with strong AI technology definitely have massive amounts of data supporting them.
In other words, developing AI is inseparable from the support of big data.
The reason domestic AI could catch up from behind and surpass the US in many areas is that there were simply too many big data samples in China. With so many samples available, even force-feeding them would produce something.
The US naturally also had ways of collecting big data, such as AI drawing and ChatGPT.
At this thought, Luo Ming’s eyes lit up. He had it! He knew how to keep the conversation going.
“Ahem!” Luo Ming cleared his throat and began bluffing: “Mr. Tong, you said earlier that AI is the next big opportunity in the internet sector. I quite agree with that view. But if you want to take off, standing in the right place alone isn’t enough—you also need tools. The tool that can make AI take off is big data.”
When they heard the term “big data,” both Wang Hongyu and Tong Mingwei became interested.
For Wang Hongyu to serve as the technical director of an entertainment company worth 5 billion yuan, he definitely had real skills.
Tong Mingwei could be considered Wang Hongyu’s personally taught disciple, and there was even a sense that the student had surpassed the teacher.
So both of them had some understanding of big data, and they also knew that some domestic universities and internet giants were researching big data algorithms.
“Miss Lin, you also know about big data?” Wang Hongyu asked curiously.
“I don’t know much. Everything I know comes from my friend—the President Luo you met yesterday, Director Wang. He told me.
President Luo’s company currently focuses mainly on making games, but they also have plans to develop AI. President Luo also has a very interesting idea.”
“What idea?”
“President Luo wants to create a chatbot program.”
“A chatbot? Interesting. Miss Lin, could you explain in more detail?” Tong Mingwei pressed.
“Of course. President Luo’s idea is to use the Transformer neural network architecture to build a model that processes sequence data.
Then, by feeding it large amounts of data, the model would gain language understanding and text generation capabilities.
In the end, the model would be able to hold conversations by understanding and learning human language, and could even interact based on the context of the chat, truly chatting and communicating like a human.”
“Holy crap! This President Luo is a real genius!” As soon as Luo Ming finished speaking, Wang Hongyu couldn’t help but curse.
Tong Mingwei also looked fully in agreement. He felt that if this program could really be made, it would quickly sweep the globe and might even become a tool that changed the ecosystems of multiple industries.
“Damn, Mingwei, I suddenly don’t want to work for your dad anymore. I want to quit and go do this. I have a feeling this program will definitely take off!”
Tong Mingwei was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up: “Brother Wang, you’re absolutely right. But you should still stay at the company honestly! The company can’t do without you. As for me, I’m going to pursue my dream.
Miss Lin, please, you must tell me how to contact President Luo. I want to go find him. I believe he is my Bole!”
“Huh?” Luo Ming was completely stunned.
He… he had talked the crown prince of Huayue Entertainment into wanting to resign?
Besides, he was just bluffing. He hadn’t planned on actually making ChatGPT!
“No—no way! Mr. Tong, if you leave, I’m done for. If your dad finds out—”
“Don’t worry, he won’t find out. I run away from home all the time. When I get back today, I’ll pick a fight with him, then go through the process of running away from home.”
Luo Ming’s mouth twitched. This was truly hilarious filial piety.
“Miss Lin, please give me President Luo’s contact information!”
“Uh, how about you wait a few days? I’ll talk to him first?”
“Miss Lin, you’re not trying to stall for time and then run off to tattle to Sister Shan, are you?”
Luo Ming’s expression froze as he thought: “Damn, I’ve been seen through!”
At a time like this, Luo Ming naturally couldn’t show weakness. He gave an awkward laugh and said, “Hehehe! How… how could that be! We’re all fellow travelers on the same path. How could I betray my fellow daoist?
It’s just that his company is still in its early stages, and the scale isn’t large either. Employees plus management, even counting the cleaning lady, add up to fewer than 20 people. With a big shot like you going over there, there might not be room for you!”
“What big shot? I’m just an ambitious young man chasing his dream. Besides, isn’t President Luo’s company making games right now? I heard from Brother Wang that the game President Luo’s company made is really fun.
I think President Luo wants to use games to accumulate funds and then start this project, right? My technical skills aren’t bad either. I can make games together with the company’s people, and when President Luo has accumulated enough funds and starts developing big data and AI, I’ll be able to join right in from the very beginning.”
Tong Mingwei had said it to that extent, and Luo Ming really couldn’t refuse anymore.
But right now, he truly couldn’t let Tong Mingwei go over there. Lin Shuwen and Sister Shan had flown back to Bingzhou. If Lin Shuwen had to face Tong Mingwei now, wouldn’t that be 100% exposed?
Thinking of this, Luo Ming sighed and said, “Mr. Tong, Luo Ming has recently been discussing big data algorithm cooperation with Fudan University’s big data research group. He’s not at the company for now. Wait until he gets back before you go over.”
