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"At the end of last year, I proposed to reorganize the overseas business department and establish three regional companies at the same time. The purpose is to enhance our ability to invest and acquire overseas." Zhang Shuo added.

"understand!"

Lin Zhengdong nodded, but also felt a lot of pressure.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Zhao, how are the preparations of the three regional companies going?" After listening to Lin Zhengdong's report, Zhang Shuo looked at Zhao Mingchuan, President of the Overseas Business Department and President of Asia.

"Is such that."

Zhao Mingchuan didn't panic, and reported: "Sunshine Holdings has completed the relevant renaming and filing work, and it is also the first among the three regional companies to get on the right track and put it into use."

This is normal.

The focus of Sprout's overseas development has always been on the Southeast Asian market, and Sunlight Holdings was also the carrier of Sprout's overseas business department before.

Basically a seamless switch.

For the overseas employees of Sunshine Holdings, it is nothing more than changing the name of their company and changing the nameplate. Other than that, there are basically no other changes.

Including personnel adjustments.

Because Zhao Mingchuan, the president of Sprout's overseas business department, will still serve as the president of Asia.

"The Prussian company and the New York company have also completed the relevant registration and filing matters, and have also leased the new headquarters building."

"The next step is to use the framework of the headquarters as a hub to integrate the resources of these two regions."

Compared with Xiangjiang Company, the establishment of Prussia Company and New York Company is obviously much more complicated, and the internal integration and running-in alone are enough to make people feel dizzy.

I'm afraid it will take some time to get on the right track.

"Do you have any clues about the candidates for the person in charge of the two companies?" Zhang Shuo asked with concern.

As the saying goes, a snake can't do without a head.

Whether it is the Prussian company or the New York company, if they want to truly form a fighting force, the internal adjustment is still secondary. The key is to choose a suitable and excellent president.

Then it is up to the new president to complete the follow-up matters.

"Yes."

Zhao Mingchuan nodded and said, "In the past two months, with the support of Director Wu, we have had several rounds of contacts with overseas headhunting companies. Basically, four to six candidates have been identified."

The next step is to invite them to Germination headquarters, and the big boss Zhang Shuo will personally interview them.

"very good!"

Only then did Zhang Shuo feel relieved, but he suddenly missed the prestige item "Headhunting Card" that the system rewarded from time to time, so that he could accurately find suitable talents.

It's a pity that since the prestige reached the full level, there is no more.

The system is still pretty stingy.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Shuo looked at Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist who had not spoken much, and asked with a smile, "Did you read the news yesterday? AlphaGo developed by Gu Ge defeated Li Shishi."

"Looked."

Tan Yunsong smiled and nodded, "It's wonderful!!!"

Board games have always been regarded as the touchstone of top human intelligence.

The confrontation between artificial intelligence and human chess players has been staged. Previously, computer programs have defeated humans in games such as three-game chess, checkers and chess.

In the history before the Go man-machine battle, the most famous man-machine battle was the chess match between Kasparov, the world chess champion, and the chess artificial intelligence program "Deep Blue".

In 97, the chess artificial intelligence defeated the top human for the first time, and in 06, the human defeated the top chess artificial intelligence for the last time.

Since then, chess, the top human intellectual game in European and American traditions, has suffered a crushing defeat in front of computers.

Go has become the last piece of high ground in the human intelligence game.Go AI has struggled for a long time, and the top AI cannot even beat slightly stronger amateur players.

This also seems reasonable.

Because if artificial intelligence enumerates all situations violently, the number of changes that Go needs to calculate far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe that has been observed.

This huge number is enough to discourage any brute force.

And humans can skip brute force with some hard-to-replicate algorithm and see the essence of the chessboard at a glance.

later--

Artificial intelligence researchers resorted to the ultimate killer - "deep learning".

Deep learning is a popular subject in the field of artificial intelligence, which can complete very complex tasks such as handwriting recognition, facial recognition, driving autonomous vehicles, natural language processing, recognizing voices, and analyzing bioinformatics data.

AlphaGo is developed based on the research and development of deep learning technology.

In order to test the level of Alpha Go, Gu Ge challenged the Go world champion and top Goryeo player Ri Sedol in March 16.

Ri Sedol accepts the challenge.

As a result, Alpha swept Li Shidol with a score of 4:1 and won the final victory, which then sparked massive discussions on the Internet about whether Go is dead or not.

And there is no doubt that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is the ultimate beneficiary of this man-machine war.

Before the Go man-machine war, artificial intelligence was still so cloudy to ordinary people.After the war, people have learned through various reports that artificial intelligence has penetrated into everyone's work and life.

Intelligent services will quickly connect to catering, travel, tourism, movies, education, medical care and other life service areas, covering users' food, housing, transportation and play.

In the future, artificial intelligence is completely comparable to a full-time human secretary.

The biggest victory of AlphaGo is to create a global science popularization for artificial intelligence, which also represents the declaration of high-tech enterprises' "ambition" for artificial intelligence technology.

In the past, artificial intelligence was just an intelligent exploration that existed in the laboratory; while in the future of science and technology, artificial intelligence will be the foundation and a powerful driving force for the development of business and society.

This human-machine battle also made Guge famous and established its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence in one fell swoop, and was even praised by many media as "the light of human technology".

Various praises followed.

"I'm curious, how did Alpha win?" Zhang Shuo asked humbly.

"Is such that."

As a top scientist in the field of artificial intelligence in the world, Tan Yunsong is naturally concerned about Alpha, explaining: "The traditional artificial intelligence method is to build all possible moves into a search tree, but this method is not applicable to Go. .”

"Alpha combines advanced search trees with deep neural networks that pass a chessboard description through 12 processing layers containing millions of neural-like connections."

"In the game, Alpha has two brains, one neural network 'decision network' is responsible for choosing the next move, and the other neural network 'value network' is to predict the winner of the game."

"In layman's terms, one brain is used to make decisions about how to move, and the other brain is used to predict the final winner of the game."

"Before this, in order to train Alpha, Guge completed a lot of deep learning and consolidation learning in advance, and even used the cloud platform to complete a lot of research work."

"On the other hand, Li Shishi, this is the first time he has played against a machine. He can't study the opponent's chess record and chess style first like playing against a human. All he can do is play against himself."

But even under such circumstances, Li Shishi still moved back a round through a stroke of magic.

From this we can see——

Although artificial intelligence is very powerful, it is by no means as magical as some media touted it.

It is also impossible to really kill Go!

"So it is."

Zhang Shuo basically understood that he had dabbled in the knowledge of artificial intelligence, and then asked the last question: "How does this Alpha compare with our Xingling?"

Xingling is the artificial intelligence that Fertile Research Institute has been secretly developing.

"If it's just in the field of Go, then Xing Ling is definitely not as good as Alpha. But when it comes to the real level of artificial intelligence, it's really hard to say because there is no comparison." Tan Yunsong replied cautiously.

AlphaGo is specially trained for man-machine battles, so naturally there is no comparison.

"Then let me put it another way, can you get a glimpse of Gu Ge's research and development progress in the field of artificial intelligence from the level of AlphaGo, is it ahead of us, or not?" Zhang Shuo did not give up.

Without it, artificial intelligence represents a budding future.

To some extent, Xingling, the secret weapon, is the biggest "national tide light" that Germination has been planning for a long time.

Once it comes out, it will reshape the development wave of the entire era.

It is the Dinghaishenzhen of the next outlet.

"Judging from the level of AlphaGo, it should be half a catty." Until this moment, Tan Yunsong showed a little bit of his self-confidence and pride in the field of artificial intelligence.

Chapter 518 Xingling is born, and good news of sprouting is frequent!

"Since there are no equals, shouldn't it be time for our Xing Ling to leave the laboratory?"

Zhang Shuo was full of expectations.

"Chairman, what do you mean that we also develop an artificial intelligence program similar to AlphaGo, attracting attention, and showing our achievements in the field of artificial intelligence to the outside world?" Tan Yunsong hesitated a little.

Obviously, I don't agree with Alpha's way of getting out of the circle.

Artificial intelligence like AlphaGo is indeed a good choice if it is used to popularize the concept of artificial intelligence to the public, but it is almost meaningless if it is really used in the professional field.

Gimmicks outweigh utility.

"Of course not!" Zhang Shuo shook his head with a smile. He has no habit of picking up the wisdom of others. "Xing Ling walked out of the laboratory not to make a sensation, but to put it into a serious application."

"For example, can Xing Ling participate in the administrative management of Germination?"

Reducing the number of administrative staff and reducing administrative expenses has always been what Zhang Shuo is trying to promote, but administrative affairs are equally complicated, and someone must do them.

No matter how compressed, there is always a limit.

If artificial intelligence can be introduced into the administrative management system, there may be a "dimension reduction strike" effect, which will truly reduce administrative expenses.

"The simplest thing, like the check-in in the human resources management system, can the entire system be connected to the Internet, and Xingling will complete the recording, screening and data analysis work?"

This is the most basic job, but it takes up a lot of labor resources.

"A little deeper, such as performance appraisal, etc., can we also introduce Xingling to conduct personal portraits? As an auxiliary, to assist human resources in conducting performance appraisals."

"That's a good idea." Tan Yunsong's eyes brightened.

"right?"

Zhang Shuo looked at the executives present, "Everyone can speak freely and think about what role Xingling can play in corporate management now, including in the future."

"I don't know if Xingling can replace the role of a stock trader in the future? If it can, it will not only save labor costs, but the key is to be more efficient and accurate." Luo Changan, the new vice president, was the first to speak.

"This should be fine."

As the developer of Xingling, Tan Yunsong is naturally the most qualified person to answer.

"In terms of logistics procurement, can we also introduce sporadic participation? For example, through big data analysis, we can track the demand and consumption of office supplies such as paper." Jiang Yue continued to speak.

"For another example, let Xingling arrange the application and use of conference rooms, official vehicles, etc."

"As long as the relevant permissions are released, there is no problem."

Tan Yunsong nodded with a smile, and then added: "In fact, the above applications can only be regarded as the superficiality of Xingling, and they haven't even triggered Xingling's core ability."

This confidence.

"Combined with big data, Xing Ling can not only participate in the administrative affairs of the group, but also participate in business-level affairs as long as he has the relevant authority and conducts a certain amount of in-depth learning."

"For example, keep track of various market factors such as industry dynamics, raw material price fluctuations, and stock market fluctuations, integrate relevant data, and provide information support for decision makers."

"Like an upgraded version of the wheat grain supplier management system?" Gu Mingzhang interjected with a smile.

"That's right!"

Tan Yunsong nodded approvingly, "The real strength of Xingling is that it can be used as an information integration center to integrate various subsystems such as human resources, finance, procurement, supplier system, sales, and R&D, and integrate fragmented, scattered, and huge systems. Data and information are integrated to form a synergistic effect."

"Then provide the most powerful information support for the business decision-making of the enterprise."

"At the same time, as an information integrator, Xingling will also play the role of information output."

"the simplest--"

"For example, according to the subsidy of information inquiry authority, employees are selectively provided with open information inquiry services, from the most basic company rules and regulations, financial systems, company announcements, organizational structure, personnel adjustments, etc., to supplier lists, From partner contact information to higher-level business opportunity confidentiality and so on.”

"All can quickly realize one-to-one inquiry and consulting services."

"That is to say, in the future, Xingling will play the role of budding manager, replacing human beings, handling basic bottom-level affairs for the group, and can it do better and better than human beings?"

Zhang Shuo also understood a little bit, it was very sci-fi.

"That's about it." Tan Yunsong nodded, "As for the positioning of Xingling, whether it is a manager or a supporting role, it depends on the group's positioning of Xingling."

The implication is that as much authority is given to Xingling, it can do as much.

"Of course it's best to be a manager."