Chapter 704 It Still Depends on Mr. Pei's Personal Charm! (Ask for a Monthly Pass!)

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

Yu Pingan nodded: "Yes, it can be understood in this way."

"We use the Internet to allow more people to see these contents and provide more efficient retrieval methods."

"At the same time, in terms of content compilation, strive to achieve: it is neither too esoteric and professional so that ordinary people can't understand it, nor is it too empty, vulgar and unnutritious."

"That's why I came to visit and hope to invite you out of the mountain."

"You are not only a big star in the industry, but also a professor who is loved by students, and you have rich experience in writing textbooks. With you to check these contents, it is absolutely foolproof."

Professor Kong Zhemin had a little surprise on his face.

"It sounds like a great thing that will benefit thousands of years."

"However, this appears to be a very large undertaking."

"Only the various courses of the Chinese major, such as ancient literature, modern literature, foreign literature, etc., have a large number of monographs. Even if they are compiled and simplified into an encyclopedia, the content is beyond imagination."

"What's more, the expandable content of the question-and-answer section is unlimited. This is not something that can be accomplished in ten or eight years."

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

"If a lot of people work together to do this, whether to pay for it, how to bear the cost...have you considered these issues, Mr. Yu?"

Yu Ping'an had been prepared for a long time, and hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, Mr. Kong, we have already considered these issues."

"This project was decided by President Pei of our Tenda Group, and we can mobilize all the resources of the entire group company to escort it."

"I also asked Mr. Pei about the workload. Mr. Pei's answer was: the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now. Because it is a huge project, it cannot be delayed. If you keep procrastinating, you won’t be able to do anything.”

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

"You don't have to worry about manpower. You are equivalent to the general manager of this professional field, and you only do overall planning and the highest supervision. We will also invite some young scholars, professors, and excellent graduate students to participate in these projects. Different division of labor."

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

"Creators get paid monthly based on star ratings and workload."

"As for the distribution method of remuneration, all members of 'Useful APP' need to pay to browse, and the fee is charged according to the usage time and number of views. We will take 10% of this income as operating costs, and 90% of it will be based on The proportion goes back to the creator."

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

Professor Kong Zhemin was stunned for a moment: "Will this subsidy change with the number of words?"

Yu Pingan nodded: "Yes."

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

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

"Of course, this is not to encourage eating big pots and dawdling."

"When there are enough members on the 'Useful APP', the income will definitely increase. We will determine the income weight of each department and each creator according to a set of relatively complex algorithms, including: Creator Star Calculate the revenue share for each section and each creator based on the level, page views of the written or modified content, the first creation of a new entry, the number of likes and proportions of the content, etc.

"This part of the income is incentivized."

Professor Kong Zhemin nodded slightly: "It's quite reasonable."

Domestic professors should be regarded as one of the groups with the largest income variance, but more than 90% of the professors do not have much extra income other than salary and basic performance.

Lecturers at Handong University earn less than 100,000 a year, and associate professors earn less than 130,000 a year.

Especially some professors of liberal arts majors who concentrate on doing academics are quite poor.

Although the subsidy of 2,000 yuan is not much, you can get it as long as you produce 10,000 words for useful apps every month, which is quite attractive. After all, it is not as difficult as writing a thesis. It is mainly to sort out existing knowledge.

Moreover, the content must pass the review to be considered effective, and there will be no unlimited watering, and the phenomenon of "spending money to buy garbage" will not appear.

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

"Moreover, this is a good thing that will benefit the future. I have been in education all my life. If I can do some science popularization on the Internet within my ability, I would be very happy."

"But I want to ask..."

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

Professor Kong's eyes were full of confusion.

Indeed, conditions in all aspects are quite good.

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 10% for operating expenses, isn't that a big loss?

Even if it is doing public welfare and increasing the popularity of the company, it must pay attention to efficiency, right?

The current "useful APP" takes a long time to make, burns a lot of money, and has slow results. It won't have much influence before it really has results. What is the plan?

Even if it is considered in the best case, if it becomes popular in a few years or even ten years, who can think about such a long-term thing?

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

Yu Pingan was silent for a moment, and said, "Mr. Kong, I also asked Mr. Pei this question."

"Mr. Pei said that there are some things that must be done by someone."

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

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

"This matter...it doesn't matter if it's money or not, and it doesn't matter whether it's successful or not."

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

Yu Ping'an couldn't help but brighten his eyes: "Thank you very much, Mr. Kong! With you here, many things will be easier to handle!"

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

"Boss Pei is really an unusual entrepreneur."

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

It can be clearly felt that Mr. Pei's words moved Mr. Kong very much.

A big guy like him has long been in a state of indifference to the world. He has achieved great success, teaches classes and does research every day. If it is something he is not interested in, he will not spend money to hire it.

But Mr. Pei's words moved Mr. Kong!

The joining of Professor Kong Zhemin not only adds a big boss to the literature section of the useful APP, but also guarantees the professionalism and quality of various contents. More importantly, when the useful APP expands to other fields , it is convenient to invite more big cows.

When all kinds of bigwigs in different fields gather together, a cluster effect will be formed. There will be 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 26.

OTTO Technology.

The development team of AEEIS is intensively developing it.

The current artificial intelligence 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 results into speech output.

The background aspect is to use the program to process the user's request and return the most matching result.

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

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

But whether the smart assistant is good or not depends on how well the manufacturer has optimized these four dimensions.

Changyou decided that in this research and development cycle, he would focus all his energy on the two aspects of system function calling, dialogue and intelligence level.

Although third-party application support and skill learning capabilities are also very important, these two have a lot to do, and only some users may have similar needs, so the priority is a little lower.

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

For example, if the user says "weather", the smart assistant will automatically display the weather page on the screen, and read out information such as tomorrow's weather conditions and temperature changes by voice.

Similarly, calculators, calendars, memos, phone calls, text messages, etc., can all be controlled by smart assistants, which will bring certain convenience to users.

The level of dialogue and intelligence is how the smart assistant will respond when the user asks some more personalized questions.

For example, if you also 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 point does not have much practical significance, but it will make AEEIS more recognizable.

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

Now that the "personal design" has been established, it has to stand firm and cooperate well in other aspects.

Only by doing these personalized customizations well and matching the personality and voice of AEEIS can the product be seen to be highly completed.

Before, on the second day after finalizing the name AEEIS, Director Zhu Xiaoce approached Chang You, wanting to solicit an artificial intelligence name, which happened to be used in movies and games.

The two departments had cooperated as early as in "A Better Tomorrow", and this time they naturally thought of going together. Chang You told Zhu Xiaoce about the work on AEEIS, and Zhu Xiaoce readily agreed, and the name was also used in the film and in game.

At that time, you can still use the popularity of movies or games to promote AEEIS, why not do it?

Chang You came out of the meeting room. He had just finished checking some key functions with several key members.

After taking a sip of tea, Chang You found that several messages had been refreshed in the small group privately established by the head of the department, one of which was posted by Yu Pingan.

This group is not for chatting and watering, but for each department to share any trends here.

Yu Pingan: "'Useful APP' successfully invited Professor Kong Zhemin!"

Chang You put down the teacup, feeling a little curious.

Useful APP?

what is that?

I have something to go out tomorrow, it may be very late to update, I wish you all a happy May Day in advance~