Chapter 981 The richest man in the world
The successful performance of Deepmind's Alpha Dog in China has kept artificial intelligence in considerable popularity since last year. Some people say that last year should be the first year of artificial intelligence, Silicon Valley, Zhongguancun has risen a group of entrepreneurs, have invested in this field, so that last year because of the appearance of Shell Holense glasses and became very popular VRAR also stagnated.
Yahoo Brain, Alpha Dog, and Yahoo have always been at the forefront of artificial intelligence, although these two concepts have not brought much revenue growth to Yahoo. But the capital market gave a good response. Yahoo's share price has continued to rise, with little to no major correction, and its market capitalization has now exceeded $160 billion.
At this time, the new Forbes Global Rich Edition appeared, and Zhou Shi became the richest man in the world with a net worth of $103 billion.
"How can I have so much money?" Zhou Shi wondered, wanting to hand a lawyer's letter to Forbes.
"This is explained, because this time the equity ratio of Time Holdings was disclosed, Mr. Zhou holds 30% of the shares, plus the shares of Yahoo, Guoke, Odobie and Netflix, so there is a net worth of 103 billion US dollars...... "Chen Wen
"I didn't say that I would donate Time Holdings, and the shares of Odobie and Netflix will also be transferred because of this donation, why should they be added together?"
"It's not that it's not done yet!" Chen Wen
"100 billion dollars, this is 100 billion dollars!" Zhou Shi
Although he is not sure, he has the impression that the richest man with a net worth of 100 billion dollars should be a phenomenon that has never appeared in human history!
"Yes, Mr. Zhou has made history!" Chen Wen
"Hey, this is not what I want, when the time comes, I will say that I have donated 100 billion US dollars and have a net worth of 100 billion US dollars, this scene is too ......" Zhou Shi
Even if Time Holdings is burdened with a debt of $1 or 20 billion, it should not be a problem to have a valuation of $100 billion, and it should not be a problem for Zhou Shi's net worth to exceed $100 billion again in a few years.
"Isn't the legend of Mr. Zhou even more legendary?" Chen Wen
"...... "What you said makes sense, Zhou Shi doesn't know how to refute it."
Fortunately, the advertising money for Forbes is relatively sufficient, and the magazine has made some explanations for Zhou Shi's net worth.
"This may be the youngest richest man in the world, and the richest man in the shortest position of the richest man, not because there will be any problems with his assets, on the contrary, his companies have a lot of potential and room for growth. What made him lose his position as the richest man was not a failure, but a great success.
After Zhou Shi's long-term unremitting efforts, he finally persuaded investors and the imperial courts of various countries to donate Time Holdings, a world-renowned technology company, to his charitable trust, thus becoming a social enterprise wholly owned by a charitable fund, a social enterprise that takes the interests of all mankind as the core rather than the pursuit of maximizing commercial interests, and is responsible for shareholders.
This is a great attempt, an effort by a great entrepreneur to cope with a possible social crisis......"
"That's a good point!" Zhou Shi said with emotion as he looked at the magazine
"I don't think it's enough, Mr. Zhou has done more than they imagined!" Mayer walked in at this time, and several high-level executives also arrived in his office one after another.
In the face of the possible impact of artificial intelligence, many people remain optimistic, but many more remain pessimistic. Zhou Shi is obviously a pessimist, which is why he has this big donation that shocked the whole world. It is said that many international organizations are preparing to award him with awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. There are also some lesser-known awards from the United Nations.
Many of Zhou Shi's friends are pessimistic about the future, such as Musk, who has invested in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, and established a company Neuralink, whose purpose is to develop brain-implanted chip devices that can improve human mental capabilities. Maybe the direction he was aiming for was half-human and half-machine, but Zhou Shi didn't know what the future would be, so he chose a more conservative plan and let the elites of this world make their own choices!
In terms of the scale of investment, 10 Musks are not necessarily stronger than Time Holdings, but the vitality of startups and large companies is different. Even if the organizational structure of Time Holdings will be adjusted to adapt to the changes of the times, I am afraid it will be difficult to be stronger than a start-up company. But Zhou Shi's hope is that the energy of ideals and beliefs is strong enough, and he hopes that time can gather a group of idealists and someone can make contributions to the future of mankind!
Yahoo's top brass don't know if there are idealists, but whether they have or not, their attitude towards Zhou Shi has obviously become more respectful. If nothing else, Zhou Shi may be on the path to sanctification, a sage in the world!
"Don't say that, if I promote the development of artificial intelligence, I will naturally want to make up for possible crises and disasters!" Zhou Shi said modestly in the face of the praise of many people in Yahoo.
"Even if there is no Mr. Zhou, artificial intelligence will appear, Google is not behind Yahoo in this regard, and Deepmind will still exist!"
"This is the inevitability of the development of science and technology, not the responsibility of Mr. Zhou......"
"I don't say it's my responsibility, but when I can, why don't I do more things that are good for humanity? And the development of Yahoo AI will inevitably hurt the current social system. I can't turn a blind eye to this inevitable harm!"
These days, they've done a lot of discussions, starting with abandoning Yahoo's efforts in self-driving and letting Yelp work with Time and Fruit in turn. At the same time, Yahoo will make efforts in healthcare, law, education, translation, finance, etc.
Among them, Deepmind focuses on medical care, improving the success rate in the field of drug research and development through artificial intelligence technology, providing disease diagnosis assistance, medical image analysis, disease monitoring assistance and other applications to improve service efficiency in medical service institutions, Yahoo Financial Services focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in risk control, asset allocation, robo-advisory, etc., Yahoo Brain is responsible for other fields, as well as Toutiao's intelligent recommendation algorithm and big data research......
It can be said that Yahoo will increase its investment in artificial intelligence, which is one of Yahoo's most important transformations after the mobile Internet.
"Yes, we may put a lot of doctors, lawyers, and financial personnel out of work, and even if we don't do anything, other companies will do it, but it's just a matter of time!" Mayer
Although Mayer lacks a sense of the overall situation, his execution ability is very good, and he is a qualified second- and third-in-command!
"I hope to have the opportunity to serve the time in the future!" Mayer
"Yes, you are welcome to join the ......" Zhou Shibai Plated the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legendary Claw Book House" for free reading for the first time.