After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 188 Thirty million units, the production capacity of the entire life cycle of the product was sold out in one hour!
"In a moment, our interview will be broadcast live, with a duration of about 45 minutes." Hao Cheng followed Kang Hui's footsteps and listened to his introduction.

"Huh? It's actually a live broadcast?" Hao Cheng asked in confusion: "Shouldn't interviews be recorded?"

Hao Cheng followed Kang Hui to the temporary studio they had built in the office area of the gymnasium.

Kang Hui smiled and shook his head: "Other people's interviews can be recorded, but for you, I think it's better to broadcast it live. Otherwise, if you edit and schedule today's recording, I'm afraid that by the time it's broadcast, your next blockbuster product will be released.

"If that's the case, then there's no time limit. Come, this way..."

Hao Cheng followed Kang Hui to the makeshift studio they had built in the office area of the gymnasium, and responded to him: "Haha, if we really do this for a month or two, we might actually produce some heavyweight product."

Hao Cheng was not stingy in revealing more information. Two months later, there would be a lot of important equipment. The EUV lithography machine would definitely be offline by then. As for the carbon-silicon fusion chip, the mass production is expected to be half a year. However, two months later, the chipset customized for Xiaosha should also be available.

Xiaosha has changed to a body that is more suitable for him, and Mo Shu's abilities will probably be further enhanced.

……

It is true when you think about it. If an interview is delayed for two months before being broadcast, it will become old news.

Kang Hui pushed open the door of the studio, and Hao Cheng saw two familiar figures - Sa Beining and Nigmat.

"Two funny people?"

The interview was not a one-on-one one, and these two people were present. Hao Cheng knew immediately that this interview could be less formal, and could even say something a little more out of the ordinary - if it was just Kang Hui alone, well, one look at his face would show that he was quite serious.

"Hahaha, I caught him alive." Sa Beining was originally very serious, but when he heard that Hao Cheng was actually joking with them, he immediately suppressed a smirk: "Mr. Hao, hello!"

"Teacher Sa, I grew up watching your show, and now I'm seeing you in person!"

Hao Cheng also stretched out his hand, and Sa Beining held it tightly and refused to let go: "Excuse me, how old are you?"

"I am a real post-90s, born in 1992."

"Unlike you, you are an old hand. Mr. Hao, born in the 83s, hello. I was born in , and my name is Nigmat."

"Hello there!"

……

As time was running out, Hao Cheng exchanged a few words with the two people and then sat down one by one.

"Welcome Mr. Hao to today's live broadcast room. The live broadcast will start in ten minutes." Kang Hui spoke first.

"Don't I have a script?" Hao Cheng looked around. Shouldn't he prepare the questions in advance? Was he really going to improvise on the spot?

"Script? Do you still need that?" Sa Beining laughed and said, "Let me ask Mr. Hao in advance, are there any taboos that cannot be asked?"

"You dare to broadcast it, but there is something I dare not say?" Hao Cheng was surprised.

Ten minutes passed in a flash as several people chatted. After a brief opening statement, Sa Beining was the first to raise a thought-provoking question:

"Mr. Hao, we all know that Xiaosha is now the strongest AI in the world. I won't ask about Xiaosha today, but will give you a challenge:
“Can you explain to ordinary people like us in a way that everyone can understand how AI thinks? In the long run, will AI develop independent consciousness and thus escape human control?”

"I'll answer the first question," Hao Cheng nodded, "and if you understand the first question, you won't have any doubts about the second question."

"First, I'll say a word, 'ji', which means foundation," Hao Cheng said, "each of you make three words for me."

"Basic? Basic, foundation, root." Sa Beining said the first three.

"Foundation, genes, cornerstone." Kang Hui blurted out.

"Benchmark, fund, basis point." Nigmat thought for a while and finally said these three words.

"Think about it, how do you form words?" Hao Cheng said: "When you say this word, you probably know what it means, right? This is thinking.

"But AI is different. AI can also form these words, but how does it form them?" Hao Cheng explained in a simple and clear way:
"To put it simply, it's because the text data we feed it, the word 'ji', often appears together with words that can form words with 'ji', such as 'ben', 'chu', 'ye', etc., which means the probability is relatively high.

"So, when it encounters the word "base", it will calculate what the previous word is most likely to be, and what the next word is most likely to be. After forming a word, the same principle is used to find characters and words with higher probability through calculations to form sentences and paragraphs.

"Is AI thinking? No! It is just calculating the most probable word. Remember, this is the essence of AI now.

“As for the effects we see, they are the result of deep training and learning through reward or punishment mechanisms after millions of calculations, which is a more complicated process.

“For example, the initial model might output something like this: [Basically, you can go to the company to get morphine again.] Doesn’t that make sense?
"It's just that these words often appear together, so they will be combined like this. If it's not right, then punish it and reduce its weight, just like taming an animal. If it does it right, give it a reward, a piece of bone, and if it does it wrong, hit it with a stick.

"After millions of trainings, the AI effect we have now will be achieved. Therefore, we have the solution of Li Da Fei Zhuan, which is that the more graphics cards there are, the greater the computing power, the longer the training time, and the stronger the model capability.

“It looks magical and it knows a lot, but in fact, the essence is calculation and probability. Of course, we now have some models with some unique algorithms that can reduce the number of training times and the amount of data, and thus achieve higher results at a lower cost, such as DeepSeek.

“But the essence has not changed, it’s still calculation and probability.

"This is also the reason why AI has hallucinations. For example, if you ask it a legal question, it will make up its own law. Let me give you a simple example: you ask it what the punishment is for not giving way to pedestrians?

"It may reply to you: the maximum penalty is imprisonment of not less than 15 years but not more than 20 years, and in serious cases, life imprisonment or death penalty.

"That's because it doesn't really understand that all these things are combined together with probability."

"So that's how it is!" Sa Beining nodded his head. "I was wondering why some AIs would make up stories. So that's the logic. I understand. Do you understand, Xiaoni?"

"I understand too," Nigmat said:
"So, I can answer your second question: Will AI develop independent consciousness? Will it be out of human control? Let's calculate the probability. If it goes crazy, I say it's impossible!"

“Indeed, AI is not thinking at all.”

Kang Hui replied at the right time: "However, from what I heard from Mr. Hao, the situation you are talking about does not include Xiaosha. Is Xiaosha in the same situation? Is Xiaosha thinking?"

Not only Kang Hui, but also Sa Beining, Nigmat, and all the viewers who are watching the live broadcast are concerned about this issue.

"Xiaosha..." Hao Cheng paused for a moment: "For the elimination of AI illusions and the problem of nonsense, each model has its own way of dealing with it. And Xiaosha uses the knowledge mapping logic to deal with it. This mapping is also a calculation.

"Compared to traditional AI, which is essentially probabilistic computing logic and has no idea what the words and sentences it composes mean, Xiaosha has its own unique logic that allows its output to be combined with knowledge and phenomena. "Does this combination count as understanding? I think it barely counts. So does this count as thinking? I personally think it doesn't, at least it's not exactly the same as human thinking."

"I actually understood it!" Sa Beining exclaimed: "I actually understood it!"

"Yeah!" Kang Hui and Xiao Ni also nodded.

"But, if we say that, won't it be a leak?" Sa Beining asked puzzledly: "I understand everything. Will it provide direction for Huheng? I know that they have been trying to develop their own Xiaosha."

Sa Beining's words touched many people's hearts. America dreamed of creating her own Xiaosha - in this situation, only an AI of the same level as Xiaosha could lead them to turn the tide and turn defeat into victory.

No other means will work!

"But this sentence gave America an idea. Could Mr. Hao be talking nonsense?" Many people have such concerns because they all understood it!

However, Nigmaty spoke like a venomous snake: "Is there any need to worry about this? If you, Xiao Sa, can understand it, then it is definitely useless!"

"What Nige said..." Hao Ben originally wanted to say that it made sense, but then he thought it was inappropriate, so he explained:
"The concept of mapping is actually nonsense: using a certain method, based on specific rules, to establish a special connection between events. It means that two things are related. What is the relationship? A certain relationship!

"For professionals, this is really nonsense. They definitely know there is a relationship, but how to establish this relationship is the core of solving the problem. There is no possibility of leakage."

Hao Cheng smiled. As for the saying "he said it without even saying it", that was out of the question. Because if he could say it without even saying it, it would mean that it was child's play for Hao Cheng and he didn't care about it at all.

But in fact, he had only just touched the door.

"So that's it," a group of netizens also followed suit, feeling relieved: "It turns out to be nonsense. It does help us understand what Xiaosha is, but it's impossible to make it!"

Kang Hui also raised the next question at the right time: "Mr. Hao, what direction will AI take next?"

"Human-machine circle." Hao Cheng blurted out four words.

"how to say?"

"A single AI can actually do very limited things," Hao Cheng said.
“Only by combining all these factors, can we develop a more powerful AI and make it work better for us.

"For example, when Xiaosha was just an APP, what could it do? At that time, it obtained information by relying on people to input it, and it gave you suggestions based on what you said. But is it possible that the information you said was biased?

"So what about now? Xiaosha has various sensors. The source of its information has gradually become three-dimensional, from your written language to your body, movements, and even in the future, various wearable terminals, your detailed body information, etc. It can obtain it.

“For machines, sensors on the production line are also collecting various environmental or equipment data.

"What about the growth process? The current data alone is not enough. For example, if we want to analyze a person's personality, what a person is suitable for, and a person's career plan, then Xiaosha needs long-term tracking data and then participate in his growth process in all aspects.

"At this point, think about it, isn't there a lot that AI can do? Our children's version of Xiaosha, as well as the boundless system including Xiaosha 2.0, are now on this path.

"Eventually, AI will have a single decision-making recommendation tool and grow into a comprehensive, all-round intelligent individual that even understands you better than you do and understands industrial production lines better than industrial production lines do."

"It's powerful just thinking about it." Kang Hui nodded:
"At this point, we already have a very clear understanding of AI and know how to use it. So, there is one last question I would like to ask: are there really only benefits and no costs?
"As you said at the press conference, as long as we can speak, we can use Xiaosha. As long as we can use Xiaosha, we will not be eliminated.

"And after listening to your explanation just now, even if we can't speak, sensors and various wearable terminals will speak for us. There is no threshold at all for using Xiaosha?"

"The progress of history is unstoppable, and some people will indeed become the price to pay." Hao Cheng smiled and said, "Just find someone with more blood to resist. The price is theirs, and the result is ours."

"Ah?" Kang Hui never expected that Hao Cheng's answer would be like this. He thought that using America to resist damage was a joke from netizens.

"Of course, this is a joke." said Hao Cheng.

Well, it was really a joke. Even if it wasn't a joke, it would at most be a transition. The most fundamental thing was -

Hao Cheng said: "As productivity increases, the value of output must also increase. Of this increase, Baiju Technology itself takes very little, so where does this value go?
"If you understand this question, you will understand why the technological changes we are undergoing will not come at a high cost."

At the end, Hao Cheng added: "During the first technological revolution, why did the workers destroy the spinning mills? That's because the advanced machines were not theirs, and they could not benefit from them. They could only pay the price!"

"But Xiaosha, it belongs to each and every one of us." Kang Hui turned around and turned to the camera: "This is what Baiju Technology has brought to us and transferred to us.

"Okay, audience friends, that's it for today's special interview. Goodbye!"

……

The live broadcast is over, the countdown is one and a half minutes, and at six o'clock, the pre-sale of the large model robot for children's cognitive assistance will officially begin.

Countless parents have already filled in their children’s information, and looking at the 90-second countdown, they have to compete with each other in terms of hand speed.

"I don't accept it. Why can only those under 12 years old buy it? I'm 32 years old. What have I done to offend anyone?"

"If you don't agree, stay away. You are a 32-year-old veteran. How can you compare with the future flowers of the motherland?"

"But why is it that the product is bound to the purchase and cannot be sold second-hand? Is this reasonable? Is it legal? Is there any justice in this world? The store is bullying the customers!"

"Get out of here! That's how it should be, to prevent scalpers. Otherwise, if Baiju Technology sells it for a few thousand yuan, scalpers will dare to sell it for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan or even more. They dare to make more money than Baiju Technology."

"Why are you telling him so much? This thing must be a scalper!"

……

“Countdown 9, 8, 7, … 3, 2, 1 — buy now!”

"I got it, number 18794, I can pick it up tomorrow!"

"It's over. I already have 280 million people here, but I can't get it until the Lantern Festival. What a rip-off!"

For a while, the entire internet was posting numbers, and in just ten minutes, the highest number had reached over six million! It was simply terrifying!
One hour later, Hao Cheng had just left the live broadcast room and had not even returned home when the 30 millionth user was created.

"What did you say? Half a year's worth of goods were sold in one hour? All production capacity was sold out?"

Hao Cheng knew that this thing would be very popular, but he didn't expect it to be so popular. The entire life cycle production capacity was sold out in just one hour!

(End of this chapter)