Xueba's computing system

Chapter 258 Musk’s conspiracy?
Lin Yuan fell into a state of loss because as he became rich he became less free.

Originally it was just for the welfare of the food delivery industry practitioners, but Lin Yuan got into trouble because of it. He now feels like he has been put on the table and cannot get off.

He has become a thorn in the side of foreign capital, so he must cling to the thigh of his own country's authorities, otherwise his personal safety will be in jeopardy.

But after clinging to the authorities, he became worried that he would be more and more involved in troubles.

Lin Yuan really wanted to know how long his protected status would last. He even asked Musk this question, and the other party’s answer was: Unless Lin Yuan compensates the losses to that group of people.

Fill?

That's hundreds of billions of US dollars. Although it's just the market value, the market value of Tesla stocks in Lin Yuan's hands is only about 1 billion US dollars.

Musk finally gave him a suggestion: join in. Since there is no way to avoid it, just become one of them and become a real chess player. There are still rules among chess players.

Lin Yuan asked back, "Didn't your boss almost get shot in the head before?"

Musk said indifferently, "Once you become a chess player, the cost of dealing with you will be much higher, and you will be much safer. And I can introduce my security team to you."

Lin Yuan understood what Musk meant. The other party still wanted him to join his team and work with him.

Musk even said several times that he could find a position for Lin Yuan in the efficiency department under his charge, such as a special assistant to the minister. This means that he could bring Lin Yuan into the politics of the Eagle Country.

Lin Yuan realized that Musk was not joking, but Lin Yuan obviously had no such intention. He was not even interested in joining the political arena of his own country, let alone going to the other side of the ocean to engage in politics.

But Musk repeatedly persuaded them, "We have many opportunities here. Technology is the future of mankind, and only here can we find the fastest way to transform technology into power."

Lin Yuan thought about it carefully and found that what Musk said was not wrong.

The other side of the strait is really a paradise for the strong. Every technological revolution will give birth to a group of new elites. Then the new elites can use their influence and Mane in their hands to influence the political direction of the Eagle Country through fan-style elections.

But Lin Yuan still refused. He even joked with Musk, "I don't want to visit Auschwitz one day..."

What Lin Yuan was referring to was of course Musk's previous visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp. To anyone with a discerning eye, this was obviously not a simple anti-war activity, but a statement, a statement to certain groups.

Therefore, even Musk has to compromise at certain times, and Lin Yuan instinctively sensed the complexity of the deep state on the other side.

Musk just said: Everything takes a process. More than a decade ago, the old boy at Mar-a-Lago was begging for cooperation with some big businessmen in Dragon Country, but now, some of them are disgraced, and some have become the president of the world's number one superpower.

Lin Yuan didn't want to go deeper into the topic, so he turned to talk about OpenAI's future layout.

Musk immediately introduced it to Lin Yuan excitedly, "OpenAI finally has a chance to return to the open. Damn, it's almost out of my control. The devil Gates only knows how to sell software licenses, and his brain is still living in the last century.

I told him that we must open source, and guess what he said, he said we can tolerate piracy. Tolerating piracy can still gain market share.

Come on! AI is not an operating system. An operating system may seem complex, but its functionality is actually very simple, so a large company can manage it as long as it has enough people. But AI is a general tool, a general tool for the future. How can we expect such a thing... In the words of your Dragon Country, we cannot expect to develop a car behind closed doors. "

Lin Yuan quite understands the other party, because AI is a general tool, then the question is, because of its universality, AI must be adapted to various industries and various usage scenarios. Simply put, AI is a tool for the future, and the ultimate value of the tool lies in its use. So the final question becomes: how can the tool be used correctly?

At present, AI language models are most commonly used in natural language processing, machine translation, content creation, medical care, finance, law, etc. In short, they are scenarios involving text information conversion, as well as information retrieval and analysis.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these scenarios involve so many large industries, and under these large industries there are many different application scenarios. How can we expect one company to cover all these scenarios?

Therefore, Musk's strategy is very simple - build a general platform, open to the world, lower the entry threshold of AI language models, and then let more people and organizations participate, thereby expanding the scope of application of this AI platform. It is equivalent to using openness to absorb the power of the world to contribute to the open platform of OpenAI.

Originally, everything was developing in this way, but after former technology companies such as Big Data and now de facto old money joined in, everything changed.

Analyzing from Musk's original words, Gates' idea is obviously path-dependent, occupying the market by condoning piracy, which was a successful path in the PC software era.

But the world has changed a long time ago, and piracy has indeed helped PC software occupy the market. To this day, various large-scale basic software and industrial software from Eagle Country still firmly occupy the top market, and their position is still unshakable.

But again, what AI needs is openness, and the moat of the AI language model is ease of use and adaptability.

At a time when AI technology is evolving so rapidly, Musk does not think that the United States can still lead in global competition in terms of R&D efficiency, so the right path is to take advantage of the world’s power with an open attitude. And this will also earn a good reputation for openness and tolerance.

As for the question of profitability, that will come naturally. Profits in the AI field are really like the logic that the flowers will attract the butterflies.

Musk originally wanted to quit OpenAI and start a new business, but Lin Yuan’s open source move has given him hope again.

After Lin Yuan forced open source, it did cause immediate losses to OpenAI. Of course, this is what Gates and others think of as losses. Musk can take over the mess in the name of reducing losses, and then he can find a reason - anyway, it has been open sourced and cannot be recovered, we might as well go back to open and say that we acquiesced to Lin Yuan's open source.

Musk's logic is simple: since the algorithm has been open sourced, why not just create an open source branch for the food delivery algorithm, and use the slogan of "benefiting the world" to promote the open source development of this branch, then gain reputation and regain confidence in the stock market, and the stock price will naturally rise.

Lin Yuan agrees with Musk's logic.

If the open source battle of the takeaway algorithm branch is successful, then Musk can promote the successful experience and push OpenAI back to its original intention - return to the original intention when it was founded, and become truly open, rather than the closedAI that is being criticized now.

Lin Yuan suddenly felt that he seemed to have done something for Musk that the other party wanted to do but did not dare to do.

Musk obviously wanted to open source OpenAI, but he obviously couldn't do that because he couldn't do whatever he wanted. No wonder he supported Lin Yuan's open source move.

Suddenly, Lin Yuan realized something - Musk wouldn't deliberately encourage him to open source.

Because Lin Yuan believed that with Musk's experience, he must have known how big an impact the open source of Tesla's food delivery would have. So why didn't the other party warn him in advance? He didn't even give him a reminder.

If you are a good friend, even if you think what the other person is doing is right, when this matter will cause great trouble, shouldn't you remind him/her?

In fact, Musk supported Lin Yuan's open source from the beginning to the end without giving Lin Yuan any warning in advance.

Lin Yuan couldn't help but come up with a guess - Musk wanted to force him to open source. He might just be used as a pawn by the other party.

(End of this chapter)