Chapter 345 Please, Vote!

"Brother-in-law!"

Zhuang Zicheng has the best relationship with Yang Huan, and calls his brother-in-law affectionately as soon as he enters the door.

Although they are engaged, but not yet married?

Is it too early to call brother-in-law now?

Yang Huan felt amused when he heard it, this kid must have come to ask for money.

Otherwise, why is the mouth so sweet?

"Master Huan!"

Compared to Zhuang Zicheng's enthusiasm, Palmer Larch seemed more restrained.

The two of them didn't look like the tiredness of staying up late and flying from China to London, but looked very energetic.

Sun Yue and Zhao Yuanfang also followed them and walked in, and they all called out Young Master Huan in unison.

"Come on, let me introduce you!"

Yang Huan introduced Demis Hassabis with a smile.

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch came for Demis Hassabis.

Zhao Yuanfang is Yang Huan's investment advisor. He has been to London before and has been in contact with Demis Hassabis several times.

It was because of the review by Zhao Yuanfang and Keish Harris that Demis Hassabis was able to meet Yang Huan.

Otherwise, he would have been directly brushed down long ago.

"Demis, please talk to us about your research first, okay?" Zhao Yuanfang said.

Demis Hassabis smiled slightly, took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, and handed them over to Yang Huan and others, one by one.

This document lists the research results of him and several of his colleagues.

"As you all know, during my time at the University of London, I mainly studied the human brain, with a focus on the hippocampus!"

"I've found that people with amnesia have a hard time planning for the future because their hippocampus is damaged, and in the past, we usually thought the hippocampus was only involved in memory, but obviously it's not."

"Importantly, the hippocampus is critical for orientation, memory retrieval, and imagining of future events!"

"A colleague of mine did a study showing that London taxi drivers have bigger hippocampi than normal people!"

Demis Hassabis' remarks attracted the attention of everyone present, except for Long Wu, who was secretly playing the game in the corner.

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch looked at the documents in their hands very intently.

The hippocampus is able to determine a person's sense of orientation, which is crucial for their study of virtual reality headsets.

Because it may become the key to solving dizziness after wearing a virtual reality headset!

"I want to ask, Dr. Hassabis, artificial intelligence algorithms are very hot, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, etc. In their research, what do you think is the advantage of your research? "

Yang Huan was most concerned about this question, so he asked directly.

Hassabis nodded at him.

"This is not a fighting arena of life and death. The more people invest in this research, the more helpful it is for us, because when more people invest in this research, the more we can broaden our thinking, I think It's a good thing!"

After everyone heard it,

They all nodded in approval.

"In addition, I want to say that this is a very, very large system, and no one person, or any organization, can research all of them. Many other so-called artificial intelligence algorithms are actually pre-programmed by programmers. Good code, and then computing through code, I don’t think this is artificial intelligence.”

"What about your approach?" Zhuang Zicheng immediately asked.

Hassabis looked very calm, very calm, without the slightest nervousness.

"I'm doing research on the human brain, especially the hippocampus, how exactly the hippocampus stores and analyzes our memories and how it affects our imagination of the future, so my idea is to study how brain cells interact. "

"I hope to develop a set of algorithms that imitate the working mode of the human brain, just like the hippocampus. With this data, the algorithm can develop its own imagination of future events and be precise!"

Everyone present was surprised, including Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch.

This is indeed very interesting research.

The affirmation of Hassabis' research from authoritative scientific journals proves that his research on the hippocampus is worthy of affirmation.

Then he wants to develop such a set of algorithms through research on the hippocampus, which is also very promising.

Everyone's next step is traceable and affected by memory.

Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as artificial intelligence, because it is only a set of algorithms in its bones, without human consciousness.

But if Hassabis said it can accurately predict the future based on memory, it will be a revolutionary innovation.

When Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch heard this, they were already full of excitement.

Both of them looked at Yang Huan in unison, and their eyes seemed to be saying, I beg you, vote, Young Master Huan!

Yang Huan remained calm and looked at Zhao Yuanfang, who understood.

"Dr Hassabis, frankly, you've outlined a very interesting prospect and future, but we'd also like to know how you plan to form your research team?"

Demis Hassabis still didn't look flustered.

He feels as if he is right, and he has the chance to win.

Perhaps, people with a high IQ to a certain level will give people this feeling.

"It depends on the willingness of investors. In my conception, my team should be divided into two parts. One is to engage in the most basic research, keep in-depth research, and constantly improve this set of algorithms."

"The other part is engaged in applied research, which is to translate our basic research results into practical applications."

Hassabis' remarks revealed that he is indeed a smart man.

At least he knows how to seek a balance between scientific research and practical application.

Investors, of course, want to see the benefits.

Unprofitable business, who does it?

"As for the size of the team, I currently only have three people, all of whom are professional researchers in related fields, but if I have sufficient funds, I hope to start with about 30 people, and then gradually expand. It is estimated that by the end of the year, the number of people It can reach 150 people, of which 75% are engaged in basic research and the rest are applied research."

Yang Huan and others did not expect that he even thought about this.

"Can you recruit so many researchers?" Yang Huan asked with concern.

Hassabis nodded confidently, "Yes, even if the conditions are right, I can poach people from the research institutes of big companies such as Microsoft, Google, and IBM!"

The research strength of Microsoft and IBM is world-famous, and all of them are experts and scholars.

If you want to poach people from here, you can't do it with money.

Perhaps because he was worried about being misunderstood and bragging, Hassabis explained again.

"Actually, Microsoft, Google and IBM have all approached me, and many people in their research institutes are interested in my research."

"Then why didn't you go?" Sun Yue asked curiously.

Hassabis thought about it this time, but quickly replied, "I don't like to join a big company, I want to have the power of independent research, but if I go to a big company such as Microsoft, they will definitely ask for our research. Serve their product first.”

Yang Huan was delighted when he heard it, "We will definitely ask you to provide services for our products first, aren't they all the same?"

Hassabis smiled without saying a word, faintly revealing a meaning.

Your size is too small compared to microsoft, google and ibm.

You know!

"Can I ask you a question?" Zhuang Zicheng couldn't help but asked.

"Excuse me!" Hassabis had already noticed Zhuang Zicheng.

"We are working on a virtual reality headset, but we found that after wearing this wearable device for a long time, the head will be dizzy. Is there a way to solve it?"

Hassabis shook his head after thinking for a moment, "No way."

This made Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch feel a little regretful.

"The reason why you get dizzy is because your vision tells your brain that you are moving at a high speed, but at the same time, your body tells your brain that you are not moving at all, so your brain is dizzy, which is similar to motion sickness and seasickness. A truth!"

"If you want to solve it completely, there is really no way, unless you don't wear it, but maybe you can find a way to relieve the dizziness."

Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch looked at each other and felt that Hassabis was very pertinent.

They have also invested a lot of research energy in this area, but have not been able to achieve effective progress.

Previously, they acquired a US start-up company and paid more than 100 million US dollars in funding.

But the effect is also very obvious.

The company holds a series of patents, the most interesting of which is digital light field technology.

Many virtual reality and augmented reality technologies now focus on the front and cannot move by wearing glasses, so the eye muscles are also extremely prone to fatigue and dizziness.

However, this digital light field technology directly imitates the real light field information of the real world, and projects it into the eyes, so that the eyes can rotate and focus at will, just like looking at the real world, and can achieve panoramic depth at any angle and distance.

This has basically solved the eye fatigue problem.

But there is still no way to completely eradicate the dizziness problem!

Perhaps, this is an unsolvable problem!

"By the way, Dr. Hassabis, we are still researching gesture control and voice control recently. Is there a way to accumulate user data through your algorithm to make the control more accurate and even more accurate? "

This time Hassabis nodded almost without hesitation, "Yes!"

Then he added, "And, it's not difficult!"

This immediately made Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch excited.

The best ways to interact with wearables are gestures and voice, but accuracy is an issue.

If the device can learn on its own and become more and more accurate according to the user's habits, that is absolutely exciting news and will solve this big problem!

At present, the research direction of Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Larch is no longer about virtual reality or augmented reality.

Wechat Research Institute owns these two technologies, and is integrating them together to form a brand new technology.

In addition, the research and development of wearable devices has not fallen behind.

Yang Huan was very, very uncomfortable with the size of a brick in the previous virtual reality helmet.

After acquiring several companies, it has become possible to be small and thin.

And Yang Huan is not in a hurry, he continues to burn money for research, and keeps taking money to introduce experts. He will launch the market only when both software and hardware are mature.

Why did the iPhone become a revolutionary success?

Not just because they sell phones, but because they have a whole complete ecosystem of companions.

It is this combination of software and hardware that has allowed Apple to achieve great success, and it has also prevented followers such as Android and Microsoft from catching up with them, let alone surpassing them!

Therefore, Yang Huan's request to Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Lachey is to continue to work hard and continue to research and improve!

Anyway, there is still a lot of time, don't worry, take your time!

This meeting is here, in fact, there is no need to say more.

Yang Huan has decided on Hassabis' project.

So, soon, Yang Huan stood up to express his position.

The old rule, ask for money, give money, and ask people to give.

Hassabis asked the institute to be in London and he agreed!

The initial 10 million pounds of research and development funds, he also agreed!

Even in personnel recruitment and project development, Hassabis asked for a high degree of autonomy, and Yang Huan agreed!

Anyway, Yang Huan himself doesn't know anything, how can a layman lead a layman?

It's better to let them go and toss them and take care of the money yourself!

Yang Huan is notoriously possessive, but it is rare to see such a generous delegation of power nowadays.

Therefore, Zhuang Zicheng, Sun Yue, Zhao Yuanfang and others were a little surprised.

Is Master Huan so optimistic about this project?

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