Rewrite the Technological Landscape

"Boss Meng."

"Mr. Zhang, I heard that you have made a major breakthrough in technology?"

"Yes." Zhang Shuxin nodded with a smile and gestured to a man beside him.

When Meng Qian saw the man's appearance clearly, he was startled, "Mr. Li?"

Li Yanhong smiled and shook hands with Meng Qian, "Mr. Meng, long time no see."

"Two.?"

"We have fallen in love with Baidu these years." Zhang Shuxin explained, "Mr. Meng may not know that there is a joke in the Yanjing IT circle, which is about job-hopping from Baidu to Yinghaiwei and from Yinghaiwei to Yinghaiwei. People in Baidu will be surprised to find that all new colleagues are old acquaintances.

In the past two years, Google's search engine has developed very fast. By last month, the global market share of Google search reached 66%.

So I discussed this matter with Mr. Li. In fact, in terms of technology itself, we don’t think we are much worse than Google. The main reason is the natural advantages of American companies. After a comprehensive analysis of the products of our two companies Finally, we decided to perform an integration. "

Now they think that Google's 66% market share is awesome, but they don't know that Google's market share in 2009 was 85%.

And it is Ying Haiwei and Baidu who took away the 19% market share from Google in this life.

Baidu had almost no overseas market in 2009, but it also has a certain overseas market in this life. This is the benefit of healthy competition. If you have a strong opponent, you will either kill yourself, or pull yourself together to make progress , Bai Du almost died in the first two years, but Li Yanhong put all his chips on artificial intelligence in the first two years, and he really brought him back to life.

"Our idea is to make a core breakthrough in technology, put pressure on Google from the product itself, and put our energy to compete with each other to promote the development of overseas brand power. As Mr. Meng has always said, overseas markets are so Huge, why do we always stare at the domestic market.

What's more, we now have the ship of Dafeng Group to board, so the layout should be bigger.

So this press conference will not only introduce our latest search engine technology, but also announce that we will merge with Baidu. "

This sentence was said by Zhang Shuxin, and Zhang Shuxin gave Meng Qian a look when he said it. Meng Qian understood in his heart that Ying Haiwei was relatively dominant in this merger. Meng Qian did not ask in person, but more Focus on the technology itself, "So what is the specific situation of your technological breakthrough."

Li Yanhong said, "Boss Meng helped Ying Haiwei to promote the development of the next generation search engine, right?"

"Well, the biggest problem with current search engines is that they can't understand user needs, and there's no way to judge what the real information users are looking for in the keywords they input. A key to the breakthrough of search engines."

"Actually, Baidu also thinks so. With the cooperation with Ying Haiwei this time, we have finally successfully developed an algorithm with a certain understanding of user needs, which means that we have successfully advanced the search engine to the next stage. The era of user needs."

"What logic did you use to achieve it?"

"Four points, the first is the analysis of the user's behavior trajectory, using the query words sent by the user in the past and the corresponding click records, historical information, etc. to process and analyze, so as to try to understand the real needs of the user at this moment.

The second is big data analysis at the macro level. For example, if there are any popular events today, when the user's keywords are related to this popular event, this popular event will be pushed first.

Coupled with the user's personalized analysis in a larger range, for example, the user has always liked a certain celebrity, and today's popular events are related to this celebrity, then the output results at this time will most likely meet the user's search needs. "

The last is the user's social information, which changes the past search engine ranking algorithm from page relevance and links to information such as members and friends' recommendation degrees. "

Meng Qian's expression suddenly became serious, "The algorithm logic itself is indeed fine, but there is a very important issue here is user privacy."

As a reborn, Meng Qian is too aware of the importance of user privacy. In the future, this will become a natural obstacle on the road to the development of artificial intelligence. However, it cannot be said that users are at fault. Privacy cannot be violated at will.

Zhang Shuxin and Li Yanhong looked at each other, and then Li Yanhong said, "In the Internet age, user information will inevitably be stored on the platform. There is no way to avoid this."

"But we are now going to use the user's privacy, which is no longer simply a matter of information storage."

"According to the "Privacy Law", this is also legal. First, we will never disclose user privacy. Second, we will never read user privacy artificially. We just hand over the information to the algorithm, and the final technical output is for better users. Product experience is not designed to violate user privacy at all.”

"I understand, and both of you understand, but users don't necessarily understand. When a user finds out that my behavior track is used by an algorithm and gives me a personalized push, the user doesn't necessarily feel that this is technological progress, and he will only have objections. Concerns about invasion of privacy, that's one.

Second, we can guarantee that user privacy will not be violated. What about other companies? Especially some startups? Can they guarantee it? A lot of things are like a rat droppings spoiling a pot of porridge. Today, several unknown apps sell user information, and some users will definitely think that all Internet companies are selling user information. "

"But... isn't this hindering the development of technology?"

Meng Qian shook his head, "This is an inevitable problem in the process of technological development, and as a leading company, we should establish a rule that is more acceptable to users while promoting technological development. It is our duty."

Zhang Shuxin immediately asked, "Meng always has an idea?"

"I can only talk about personal suggestions, which are not necessarily mature. I want to solve this problem from two aspects. The first is to promote legislation. The privacy issue in the cloud-connected era will definitely become a point of contradiction between technology and users. Since we Having identified the development trend of this technology, then we should go to the government to discuss the legislation of this technology.

Increase the protection of user privacy and increase the punishment for companies that violate user privacy. First, try to regulate the market as much as possible from a legal perspective. Concerns about consequences Give up some wrong ideas, on the one hand, it also builds legal confidence for users.

The second is the user authorization grading system. Every user has a different view on this matter. There must be users who feel that my privacy has been violated even if my privacy is violated. I don't think it matters to users, so we simply divide the authorization for different users.

If the user agrees to authorize, we will bring you the corresponding technology. If the user does not agree to authorize, then the corresponding technology will not be experienced, but we can at least keep the user's most basic use, and don't engage in the kind of non-authorization. Rogue routine.

We only do grading. Different authorization gradings correspond to different technical gradings, and the technology is clearly stated in the user authorization guidelines. If we want to use artificial intelligence technology, we must hand over your information to the algorithm, which is impossible. , if you can't accept it, then we don't need it.

Make things clear, divide the levels clearly, improve the law, and give users enough room to choose. If users are still making trouble there, there is really no need to deal with them. We will do everything we need to do. Well, if you really have a clear conscience, you can better promote the healthy development of technology. "

"But legislation may not be easy. We have never been a country that advocates heavy punishment." Zhang Shuxin subconsciously said.

"Come on step by step, let's do our own thing first."

"I think Mr. Meng's ideas are very forward-looking. I just thought about it. User privacy will indeed become a very critical thing in the era of cloud and intelligence." Li Yanhong agreed after thinking about it.

Zhang Shuxin naturally had no objection, and the three of them reached a unified opinion on this issue.

Afterwards, we spent some time exchanging technology, and went to dinner together in the evening.

Seeing that the next generation of search engines might be born in the hands of Ying Haiwei and Bai Du, Zhang Shuxin was very excited today, and took Meng Qian and Li Yanhong to have a good drink.

After drinking, he was about to go back to the room to rest. At the elevator entrance, Zhang Shuxin suddenly grabbed Meng Qian's arm and asked, "Sister, didn't you let me down?"

Meng Qian suddenly woke up from the wine, and after a few seconds of silence, he gave a thumbs up, "My sister is awesome!"

I feel that Shen Jiawen’s statement in yesterday’s chapter about greater ability and greater responsibility has misunderstood some friends, because it will take a few more chapters to explain it, so I have to talk about it in this chapter first. Shen Jiawen is not telling Meng Qian not to take responsibility , but in the face of the crazy suppression of the United States and the special development stage of Dafeng Group, Meng Qian fell into a dead end. I wrote this paragraph specifically, hoping to write more deeply about the growth of the protagonist. After all, the protagonist was just a technical expert in his previous life. , this life has developed to this position, and it should be normal to lack enough psychological maturity to face such achievements perfectly (at least I think so), (the protagonist is now caught in the trap of wanting to do everything well. Everything is taken care of, everyone is taken care of, and one person carries the heavy burden) Considering that the protagonist will take on greater responsibilities in the future, he needs to correct his emotions at this special stage and get out of the horns. So I say that because when Meng Qian went to one extreme, she deliberately used the other extreme to pull him, because Shen Jiawen knew him well and knew the easiest way to pull him back, because the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Big itself is a statement that lacks prefix conditions (it will be written in specific chapters in a few days). This is probably the case, not to let Meng Qian not take responsibility. Maybe I want to use more thought-provoking words in this paragraph. I deliberately left space for thinking, but I forgot that this is a web article, and thinking space in web articles will become a controversial point, and it can be regarded as a creative mistake, so I will explain it.