News apps in the United States are not like in China, and their main channels for obtaining news are social networks, according to statistics, about 65% of people get the latest news through social networks. This is also the reason why Facebook is powerful, it not only includes QQ space but also all the features of Toutiao. In addition, Twitter is also a great channel for people to get news and information. Therefore, there is basically no strong news app in the U.S. market, and due to the difference in copyright protection, it is difficult to replicate Toutiao's development strategy in China.

Yahoo has two news apps, one portal and the other aggregator, and the sources of news are also different, Yahoo is mainly its own reporters, and Toutiao mainly cooperates with world-renowned media for copyright, and also provides content distribution and subscription services. To this end, Zhou Shi simply let Huaxia's Toutiao operate independently. You must know that the development of Toutiao's content relies on small and medium-sized creator groups, not large media groups. What he wants to promote is to break the hegemony of journalism and break the existing monopoly, not to maintain the existing order. It's just that Yahoo's funds are not enough to fully expand in several areas, and he can only wait for the time to come.

However, he didn't bother with the matter for long, not because he found a solution, but because Yahoo had a new achievement: On August 25, without instilling any information about the cat's morphology, Yahoo researchers randomly selected 20,000 images from more than 10 million YouTube video thumbnails and hundreds of millions of Flickr images for the "Yahoo Brain" to memorize. Interestingly, after getting acquainted with the photos, "Yahoo Brain" constructed a vague concept of a cat on its own. Of course, to build this "brain", Yahoo created a massive neural network machine learning system, using 16,000 processors to create a neural network with more than 1 billion connections. Subsequently, the Yahoo Brain team published a paper on the recognition of cats by machines, which shocked the whole world and opened the prelude to the transformation of an era.

Yahoo Brain currently has more than 30 team members, and there are many fields of research, such as distributed systems and parallel computing, machine intelligence, algorithms and theories, etc., and Cat recognition is just one of the breakthroughs in one of the fields. Yahoo has invested a lot in this, but it's undoubtedly worth it.

Google Brain is missing several key talents because of Zhou Shi's intervention, such as Ng Enda and Hinton, one of the three giants of deep learning, plus the degree of attention is different, and the allocation of personnel and resources is different. The first and the second are not the same, and it is not surprising that Yahoo Brain may become a mecca for AI research because of this.

Zhou Shi didn't specifically ask them to let Yahoo Brain recognize cats, but history still reacted like this, which is really a bit surprising.

Yahoo's stock price, which was a little weak just now, immediately regained its enthusiasm and rushed up like a chicken. Although Yahoo Brain has not created any value for Yahoo, it has incomparable imagination, and it is naturally expected by investors to bear the burden of Yahoo's revival. Unfortunately, the role of artificial intelligence is far from as big as they think, and it is impossible to solve many practical problems for the time being. At least it has little effect on Yahoo's search intelligence, and the level of artificial intelligence is equivalent to the ability of humans to be 1~2 years old.

Different from the one-sided praise of foreign countries, the evaluation of this in China is somewhat polarized: 16,000 computers, one billion "neural networks" can create an artificial intelligence that can recognize cats, is it true that you can be capricious if you have money?

Some people who are worried about the country and the people are just such nonsense, always letting a single Chinese represent the entire Chinese group, always wanting to expand personal responsibilities and obligations indefinitely, but infinitely shrinking rights, clamoring to sacrifice themselves for others and their families for the country, and this kind of garbage does not know how to be released and bitten people. If people all over the world don't have the ability to distinguish and don't know that a Chinese person can't represent the Chinese group, shouldn't they educate those foreigners who don't distinguish between right and wrong?

"This is the first step of humanity from scratch in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is a great achievement. "There are also Chinese people who say this, there will be no less knowledgeable, that is, it is often not these people who have the right to speak.

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has great promises, and even now, it can also act on natural language processing and speech recognition, such as machine translation, virtual personal assistants, computer vision, such as face recognition, intelligent security, and expert systems, such as unmanned driving, weather forecasting, intelligent transportation......

The fledgling Yahoo brain is still a child, so naturally it can't do so many things, but when the child grows up, Yahoo now has enough data resources and the cloth industry bureau to let it evolve and grow.

Artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data are complementary and indispensable, and this truth is not difficult to understand. The growth of artificial intelligence requires a large amount of data for exercise, and the accumulation of big data uses cloud computing. A big data company has accumulated a large amount of data and will use some artificial intelligence algorithms to provide some services, and an artificial intelligence company cannot do without the support of a big data platform.

It seems to be a little detouring, but it doesn't matter, as long as you know that the three are often integrated together, artificial intelligence is the product of the combination of program algorithms and big data, and cloud computing is the algorithm part of the program, and the Internet of Things is part of the root system of collecting big data.

Yahoo's three cores are also adjusted for this reason, although cloud computing started late, but the adoption of open source architecture should be able to bridge a certain gap. Why Amazon, Microsoft and Google are all developing artificial intelligence and cloud computing is not because they already have enough user data (privacy protection is a fart, there is no evidence to prove it anyway), and these businesses complement each other, and not doing it is a huge waste of resources, how do you say they will choose!

These Internet companies in the previous life were so powerful that people were scared, and perhaps one day, when the public and the government can no longer ignore this sense of insecurity, their artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing businesses will be spun off, just like when Da Mo and Xiao Mo were spun off. However, Microsoft's Windows and office software have not been successfully spun off, and the specific results will be unpredictable, but he believes that the organization of human society itself has a strong ability to adjust, and under the guidance of various policies, this kind of large company may not be able to maintain long-term strength.

The Yahoo brain could be the starting point for Yahoo's power, or it could be the starting point for Yahoo to decline again, and the only thing that is certain is that it is the starting point of artificial intelligence.

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