Xueba's computing system

Chapter 241 A Difficult Decision 1
With the implementation of the "AI Administrator" algorithm, although Musk still has complete trust in Lin Yuan, he lets him do everything.

However, Lin Yuan and Musk have a gentleman's agreement: Lin Yuan uses Tesla's name to clean up the food delivery industry and realize his ambitions. But in the process, Lin Yuan must attribute all the profits and reputation of AI applications to Musk.

At first, Lin Yuan thought that this initiative was completely fine, and Musk also generously promised that all profits from Tesla's food delivery would belong to Lin Yuan.

However, Lin Yuan still lacks the foresight of a business tycoon. After all, he is only a young man in his twenties.

His experience made him think that an investment of hundreds of millions of US dollars was already a remarkable thing, but now he finally realized that for Musk, this amount of money was nothing.

Perhaps Musk viewed Lin Yuan's venture as a common venture investment from the beginning to the end, and he may have other intentions. Musk may just be willing to spend some money to accompany Lin Yuan because he admires him.

However, this time, the venture capital made a fortune in Lin Yuan's hands.

Faced with the questions from the person in charge of the Songhu Cyberspace Administration, Lin Yuan finally had to think about the question that he had been avoiding deep in his mind - according to the gentleman's agreement beforehand, the ownership of the AI administrator algorithm belongs to Musk.

Lin Yuan had previously focused his attention on cleaning up the food delivery industry. He did not expect that the most attention now is not the transformation of the food delivery industry, but the AI algorithm itself that has led to the transformation of the food delivery industry.

Lin Yuan was just a lumberjack who sold wood, but now people were more interested in the axe in his hand.

This naturally made Lin Yuan feel at a loss for words, but the more troublesome thing was how to answer the question from Director Xia in front of him - whether Lin Yuan had any control over the AI administrator algorithm.

In fact, if Lin Yuan was a little more shameless, he could give a very confident answer - he does have complete control over this algorithm.

Because the algorithm was created by Lin Yuan through the computing system, if he didn't want to provide it, no one could take it away. Even if the code deployed on the Tesla core server was copied by someone, without Lin Yuan's adaptation, this algorithm could not be used outside the food delivery industry.

What attracts the world's attention to this algorithm is its application beyond the food delivery industry.

Therefore, Lin Yuan actually has complete control over this algorithm.

However, he had a gentleman's agreement with Musk in advance.

The worst part is that when they made the agreement, Musk was too excited and agreed to help him without asking any questions. Lin Yuan was too embarrassed to work out too many details of the cooperation with him, which led to the current awkward situation.

In the end, does the AI administrator algorithm specifically used in the food delivery industry belong to Musk, or does the AI administrator algorithm itself belong to Musk?

Lin Yuan didn't want to deceive himself. He actually knew very well that with Musk's wealth, he would not care about the trivial things in the food delivery industry. What he cared about was of course the AI administrator algorithm that was derived from the food delivery industry.

Therefore, Lin Yuan actually did something really fucked up. Just like when he was admitted to graduate school, he still had to rub the admission letter by hand. Now, he just did something fucked up at a much higher level, worth several hundred million US dollars.

Just like a famous writer who sold the copyright of his work at a low price, he promised the ownership of the AI administrator algorithm without thinking, and he promised it before the algorithm was developed.

This is really embarrassing.

Lin Yuan cleared his throat and retracted his thoughts. "To be honest, the ownership of this algorithm is indeed not in my hands."

Director Xia on the other side quickly asked, "Do you mean that the intellectual property rights of the algorithm do not belong to you?"

"Not really. This is very complicated. The main reason is that I wanted Tesla to help me, so I..."

"Senior, what you mean is that in order to get Tesla's venture capital, you promised a lot of things, including but not only the intellectual property rights of this algorithm. Is that right?" Zhang Yan interrupted Lin Yuan. This made Lin Yuan a little surprised, because she knew all the details about the algorithm, and Lin Yuan did not hide anything from Zhang Yan. Then why did Zhang Yan ask this question even though she knew it? Obviously, the intellectual property rights of the algorithm were not explicitly given to Musk, it was just a verbal gentleman's agreement from Lin Yuan.

But Lin Yuan, based on the tacit understanding he had with Zhang Yan for a long time, simply followed his words and said, "Yes, you are right."

Director Xia frowned upon hearing this. "That's what we're worried about. Mr. Lin, let me be honest with you. Last year, the state issued a document that controlled the export of some high-tech products, including software algorithm products. This document is public and anyone can check it.

Therefore, DY's algorithm has always been subject to export control.

However, if the intellectual property rights of your algorithm are in the hands of overseas capital, it will be difficult for us to control it.

As for the habits of foreign capital, I think Mr. Lin has more say than I do. "

Director Xia's implication is: Lin Yuan works at Tesla and should understand the bloodthirstiness of overseas capital better than anyone else.

Director Xia continued, "The senior leaders above are very eager to use AI to promote the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, so as to give full play to our advantages as a major manufacturing country, and at the same time promote the development of domestic AI software and hardware. We originally thought this was a good opportunity.

But if the issue of intellectual property rights cannot be sorted out, then nothing can be done.

We want to have full control over the algorithm. We don’t want to control the source code of the algorithm, nor do we want to rely on the algorithm’s benefits, but we want to control the implementation process of the algorithm. High-tech things are at best tools. Once the tools are not controlled, they are bound to cause trouble. Especially high-tech tools, which may cause disasters. ”

Lin Yuan understood what the other party meant. In one sentence: the algorithm is out of control in the hands of foreign capital. In order to avoid being controlled by others, the authorities dare not try to implement it.

All of a sudden, the AI administrator algorithm has reached a new level and has been tied to the manufacturing upgrade of Longguo.

Lin Yuan was very conflicted.

Logically, he should be backstabbing Musk for the country at this moment.

However, no matter how much of an asshole Musk was and how many leeks he cut, he had never been an asshole to Lin Yuan.

If a person does not love his friends, how can he love the world?

Moreover, this algorithm is not a matter of life and death for Longguo at the moment, but more of an economic issue.

Lin Yuan really wants to help his country develop its economy, but he doesn't want to stab his friends in the back for this.

Most importantly, Lin Yuan asked himself: If Musk had wanted to sign an agreement with him regarding the intellectual property rights of the algorithm, he would have signed it without hesitation.

In other words, although the agreement on intellectual property rights has not been signed yet, it has already been signed in Lin Yuan's mind.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate for too long. He had imagined the worst-case scenario - even if he had a falling out with Musk in the future, he could not deny his agreement just because a paper document was missing.

This kind of emotion is a bit saintly, but Lin Yuan, who came from a low-income family, doesn't like to betray others' trust in him. That would make his conscience restless.

Therefore, Lin Yuan decided to find another way.

(End of this chapter)