Chapter 808 Yelpbus Project

In the penultimate round of the Premier League, Liverpool once again defeated their local rivals, and Zhou Shi left the team to return to Yahoo's European headquarters in Dublin.

"Let's experience the train in the UK!" Zhou Shi is very interested in the most common mode of travel in the UK, and besides, a team in Yelp here came up with an idea to solve the problem of travel in Europe, and he is very interested.

"One of them is in the island of Great Britain and the other is in Ireland, and they haven't built a bridge or an undersea tunnel, so they ......," Chen Wen said

"In this case, then let's take a train back to London and a plane to Dublin!" Zhou Shi, his purpose is not to travel, but to experience.

The train network in the UK is very different from that in China, first of all, most of the train network is privately owned, with more than 20 private railway companies operating together, each with its own online ticketing and service system, and the types of train tickets are also different. The second is that the management is chaotic, the equipment is old, and the debts are heavy, and if you want to say that there is no corruption problem in this, only some two hundred and five will believe it.

The pricing of train tickets in the UK is also interesting, it is flexible pricing, divided into holidays, peak and off-peak hours, match days/concerts, early purchases, etc., and if it is a long distance, it will be much cheaper to transfer in the middle than not to transfer......

From Liverpool to London, buses are cheaper than trains, and trains are cheaper than planes. Zhou Shi made a train and showed off his proximity to the people. Chatting with other passengers on the train, arriving in London and queuing up for something to eat at a fast food restaurant outside, and then being photographed...... Well, this is Bill's routine, and Zhou Shi can also play it.

"Billionaires line up on the street to buy burgers!"

"Liverpool boss eats fast food on the streets of London!"

"An ordinary Chinese tycoon!"

"British food conquers the rich of China!"

The news of Zhou Shi's dinner soon appeared on social networks, overpowering the accusation that he was not doing his job. You must know that these days, many media in Europe and the United States are saying that Zhou Shi is not doing things well, traveling everywhere, and is sorry for the salary paid by Yahoo.

"Do you have anything to explain about netizens' opinions?" Zhou Shi was interviewed by a BBC reporter in London.

"I didn't do anything wrong, why should I explain?"

"So you're traveling in China, India, and watching football in the UK for work, or are you on vacation?"

"I don't know what you mean by asking, although there is no obligation, but I can still make a description of my recent work: Yahoo's business in Huaxia is in trouble because of the cooperation with Alibaba, we need to start again, starting from scratch, as a Huaxia person, is there any problem for me to help Yahoo develop its own business in Huaxia?

If the European and American Chinese markets are the present, then the Indian market is obviously the future, and I hope to be able to cultivate a group of local Indian talents there to prepare for the future of Yahoo......

I came to England or Europe for the development of Yahoo and Yelp, but also to let artificial intelligence help us solve the social problems of this complex market. The complexity of the EU market is far greater than that of the United States, and various costs remain high, which greatly reduces the sense of gain for the general population. This is different from Huaxia, which has no money, the EU has money, but it has wasted a lot, and the United States is much better in this regard.

For example, train fares in the UK continue to rise, but the user experience is getting worse and worse, and there has been no solution, why? There are also a large number of long-distance buses that are cheap, but the user group is continuing to decline, the scale of these long-distance bus enterprises is generally not very large, and the cost of information transformation alone is very high; there are many such and such problems that are difficult to solve, but now it is different, the more complex social problems ...... this way, the better artificial intelligence is, I want to try to use Yahoo Brain to solve some relatively simple problems, this is the purpose of my coming to Europe "Zhou Shi

The "......" reporter was dumbfounded, and originally wanted to embarrass Zhou Shi, but he didn't expect him to play a wave of advertisements.

"Is Yahoo Brain Really Amazing?"

"I don't understand, Yahoo is different from Google, they are crazy scientists, and even studied such awesome technology as teleportation, Yahoo is committed to using technology to make our world a better place! Everything we do is to improve our living environment, not to pursue some extreme technology!" Zhou Shi

"You don't understand?"

"But I know Yahoo Brain, what are the dangers of artificial intelligence, what can be done, we will limit its development!" Zhou Shi

"So Yahoo won't develop top-notch technology, and Yahoo Brain can't compare to Google Brain?"

"Yahoo doesn't study technology that is unethical, and at the same time wants to lead the world's technological development trends, and we hope that the development of technology can be regulated by ethics. I don't know about Google Brain, or I don't know about Yahoo Brain, but one thing is certain, we will use morality to restrain the development of Yahoo Brain, artificial intelligence, and will not indulge those harmful ......" Zhou Shi pulled some fake big empty things, big things, but people can't refute it, and by the way, hit Google, and at the same time deviate from the topic.

So the interview shifted to the relationship between technology and ethics......

Zhou Shi came to Dublin and officially established Yelp Mobility Services Group, which is engaged in various online booking services, whether it is plane tickets, train tickets or bus tickets. The direction of development is to use artificial intelligence to plan travel solutions and provide various options such as the cheapest, fastest and most comfortable.

"Germany has recently opened up the bus market, and there is no conflict between restricting them and train lines, and it is necessary for us to start our bus service from Germany.

In my plan, the company does not own any buses or drivers, but only focuses on technology, ticketing, customer service, sales promotion, and building an operational network, and provides services through cooperation with various local bus companies. Driven by the development of network data, we can also launch dynamically priced bus ticketing, similar to the ticketing strategy of airlines, driven by the development of network data......

Our way of making money is to share the sales revenue with the bus company......" Joshua Qiao, the project leader of one of Yahoo's projects in Europe, talked eloquently in front of Zhou Shi, where there is talent, it depends on whether they have room to play!

"Very good, this project will be handed over to Joshua to be in charge!" Zhou Shi confirmed the matter at the meeting. Through information transformation, Yahoo is exploring a set of management experience suitable for its own overseas companies, trying to form a balance between authorization and monitoring. The project, called Yelpbus, is one such attempt.