The last selling point of Aqua color and Beene is the virtual personal companion I milk Alpersnalpanin, referred to as P).

On the surface, the functions claimed by Bee P: scheduling, voice query, voice chat, voice assistant application can also do the same, and it feels like putting a layer of AAAR avatar on the latter).

But in reality, the two ideas are completely different. The difference between them is as huge as that of a pack horse and a pet dog.

Voice assistants are tools that interact with voices, and the goal is to replace finger operations to complete tasks such as launching apps, querying information, setting alarms, etc., and chatting or something is just a side hustle.

The virtual companion is a multi-functional companion robot, which is mainly engaged in chatting and providing emotional comfort, and other jobs are part-time.

The reason why it is designed this way is because people are always more rational than emotional, and if they are not good to use, they will easily discard it if they are not satisfied, while the attitude towards their partners is the opposite, and rationality often gives way to sensibility. In reality, a disabled pet dog can usually be raised for a good death, while the old, weak and sick pack horse often ends up killing and eating meat.

Because AI-related technology is not perfect, the experience of using voice assistants is always full of various flaws, and many people uninstall it after a simple attempt, and their fate is the same as that of a pack horse that has been eliminated and killed.

The same happened to Bee's Ichyu assistant, but it was better. After further investigation, the product team found that the main reason for the pride was the likable cartoon character and the obvious personality setting. Although some people choose to uninstall because they hate the "Tsundere Lady" character, the overall benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Because of this discovery, the team made up their minds to further anthropomorphize the second-generation product, and then there was the Bee P, which was officially launched today.

In addition to the function of voice assistant, Bee also combines artificial intelligence self-learning with simulated cultivation elements, thus giving AI new characteristics that can grow and change.

Of course, these growths and changes are actually simulated, because the current technology can't achieve them. And this is also a good thing, because no one knows whether such an AI will become Skynet and Matrix, or All-E and Machine Lovers after it really appears.

Even though it's just an simulation, there's not a lot of technology involved.

Not to mention the emotional interaction, voice synthesis, and image evolution contained in it, just allowing the self-setting of the P name is not something that other companies can easily do.

On the surface, this is just a matter of changing a few characters, but in practice, it involves the voice wake-up mode of the system. The fixed name can be specially optimized for software and hardware, which can not only quickly respond to user calls, but also not waste too much power on voice monitoring, as for some users, they feel that the default wake-up language is stiff and rigid, but it is not so much.

The bee was able to do this thanks to the new brain1 chip on both phones.

As the second-generation artificial intelligence chip developed by Bee, the biggest change in the Brain series is the introduction of FPGA modules.

FPGAs, also known as field-programmable gate arrays, are characterized by hardware programmability, which allows specific functions to be defined according to requirements after power-up. Its role in the bee brain chip is mainly to memorize the user's voice characteristics, which can be used not only for voiceprint to unlock the mobile phone, but also for voice wake-up of P.

As long as the device's battery is working properly, this "memory" is permanent. Even if the power is off, "amnesia" can be loaded after restarting.

When FPGAs were first invented, they were often used to assist in the development of private integrated circuits, and it was possible to verify the usability of new designs by burning FPGAs without actually tape-out. As for the actual mass production products, they are rarely used, because they are slow and large-scale, and the economy is not as good as that of professional ones when used on a large scale.

The large and small chips on the mobile phone are all kinds of special chips with different functions.

With the advancement of semiconductor manufacturing technology, the performance of FPGA has been significantly improved, and it is no longer as weak as before, so that it can replace some A private people.

The first to suffer are those low-cost miniature specialty chips.

Because of the low price and thin margins, such chips are usually slow to update and cannot keep up with the rapid development of smartphones. Some manufacturers can't wait, and they are trying to use micro FPGAs on mobile phones, smart bracelets and other products, but they have not yet formed a trend.

Then the GPU is at risk.

Although FPGAs are not as good as GPUs, they are also good at parallel computing, but they have the advantages of lower power consumption and the ability to customize functional structures for specific algorithms, which is considered the future of cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, and has amazing development potential.

Similarly, because the FPGA is controlled by the HL hardware description language, it is very difficult to get started, resulting in only large companies such as Microsoft and Google Du Niang can play around, and most companies are still using traditional x86 servers.

Inel, the leader of the X86 camp, spent more than $10 billion to acquire Alera, the world's second-largest FPGA manufacturer, and launched the XEN server PU that integrates FPGA functions, hoping to further consolidate its dominance in the data center market.

According to their plan, the next step is to integrate FPGAs into a low-power PU to add new weapons to the Internet of Things field.

As a big reader of papers, bees naturally noticed the FPGA boom in recent years and followed up on it.

Because of the long-term lack of attention, this market was occupied by four American companies: Xilinx, Alera, Laie, and IR Color I, and thousands of patents were erected early to form a strong barrier. Even giants like Inel can only get involved by buying Alera in a big way.

Although Atletico Madrid is interested in this area, they do not plan to buy a company to play as well, and his choice is to start anew.

In fact, it is not difficult to design an autonomous system, and anyone with experience can do it, the question is whether it is worth it.

The reason why the development of domestic PU and domestic systems is difficult is because they are not recognized and supported by the industrial chain. For bees, the new AI system only needs to meet the needs of their own use, which makes it much easier at once. What's more, they also have Atletico Madrid as a helper.

For Atletico Madrid, the hardest thing in the world is innovation, because he is still an ordinary person at heart. But if you renovate it, the difficulty will be much lower, because he has the e7u cheat.

FPGAs have been around for 30 years, and early patents have expired. Therefore, time is on his side, and many design ideas that were unrealistic and uneconomical back then may not be useless today. He can redesign the architecture, language, and tools that suit his own use based on his research and understanding of old technologies.

And he is not alone, the research system of bees can also provide a lot of help, and then the results of the brain series of chips have been successfully produced.

In addition to the 1 for mobile phones, high-performance and professional versions for PC consoles and servers have also been designed, and prototypes will be ready by the end of the year at the earliest.

It stands to reason that the addition of brain1 and the self-learning system will greatly enhance the performance of voice assistants, and it can completely eat opponents with strength. However, Atletico ultimately decided to launch a virtual companion because the latter has significantly greater commercial value.

Voice assistants are just a diversion tool for search engines, and ultimately they have to rely on search ad bidding rankings to monetize, while virtual companions can support themselves by selling clothes, hairstyles, and voice packs. and then cooperate with film and television games to develop a linkage and get out of the peripherals, and it is not too easy to make money.

It's not that Atletico is in the eye of money, but in his opinion, the profit ratio allocation can stimulate the project team to rejuvenate and go on for a long time. If the R&D team of a public institution is concerned, it may disdain these and would rather compete for the above special funding, but the AI team of Bee has no scruples in this regard, because they have served games and social networking from the beginning, and the 200,000 virtual chatters of Honey Chat and the countless machine players of Bee online games are the early practice of Bee AI.

According to the fashionable parlance, this is determined by the company's DNA. No matter how much you disguise yourself as a social network, a search engine, or a mobile phone, you still can't change the inertial thinking of making games.

Of course, these commercial things will not be slowly unfolded until later, and those who are interested are only seeing a hint now.

In the viewing restaurant on the edge of the Pujiang River, with the end of the close-up live broadcast, the voices of people are boiling again.

Taking off the headset and putting it on the table, Yuan Yang couldn't help but nodded.

Just as "not getting up" is the standard for good wine, not being easy to get dizzy and uncomfortable is also the standard for good R, and bees did it today.

There is actually some discomfort, but it has been suppressed to the point that it is small enough. Take him and the guests around him as an example, after nearly an hour of live broadcast, everyone was still able to communicate and chat with great interest, and no one had closed their eyes and frowned with uncomfortable faces.

It's only natural to think about it, if someone is dizzy and nauseous at an event organized by him, Atletico's expression will be wonderful.

This feeling,Probably only Bill Gates can experience,More than ten years ago, Gates demonstrated the new features of ins98 in public,As a result, the system hung up the blue screen,But this scene was also broadcast live,Related videos are still circulating on the Internet。

This press conference also opened a large-scale 2+R live broadcast, netizens can not only watch the 2 regular live broadcast through the cooperation platform, but also watch the four-way R signal through the official platform. Of course, the clarity and frame rate are definitely not as good as what Yuan Yang and they saw, after all, the latter has the advantage of being close to the water.

If there is a real accident, even if the signal is blocked in time, Atletico and the bees will not be laughed at for a while. However, this time it was uneventful, and the bees' adventure was naturally very rewarding.

Thinking of this, Yuan Yang suddenly said to himself: "I understand!

In his opinion, the protagonists of today's conference are not only the two new mobile phones, but also the R live broadcast solution of Bee.

Judging from the selection of the location of the press conference, R live broadcast is the real protagonist.

It doesn't matter where the mobile phone conference is held, as long as you are willing to contract the travel expenses, even if you go to outer space, there will still be a lot of media rushing to report it.

The main venue of the yacht on the river and the sub-venue of the viewing restaurant are obviously demonstrating the rapid layout of the system. The live broadcast location is located in Shanghai, which happens to cover the densely populated and well-equipped East China region, ensuring the best cost-effectiveness ratio, which can be described as full of calculations.

took out his mobile phone and was about to write down his thoughts just now, but Yuan Yang saw the screen flash twice, and the honey chat icon and message number appeared on it at the same time.

In addition to acting as a screen backlight in a low-light environment, the newly introduced supplementary light source of the fourth-generation butterfly screen also robbed the job bowl of the breathing lamp, which made BP7's "forehead" one less opening and became more flat and concise, which is a good design that kills two birds with one stone.

Unlocking the screen, I saw Wang Shan's avatar jump out, and at the same time threw a sentence "Yes, this is really a bee." ”

Yuan Yang knew that this product was talking about the artificial intelligence assistant who needed to hatch eggs, so he typed and replied: "Of course, after all, it is the company that is the best at making games in the mobile phone circle." ”

"In fact, their artificial intelligence technology is still good, such as the voice accuracy of the bee input method is very good, and the Yiqiu voice engine is also very good. and the mobile phone system is also very good," Wang Shan on the other side of the network excused the bees.

Of course, Yuan Yang knows that the current voice input method is quite mature, and if he thinks carefully and pronounces clearly, the accuracy can be very high. But he feels that there is still a long way to go from practicality, after all, in daily life, few people will get used to talking and writing drafts.

And using the voice function in public can also seem a little silly. In order not to let others look at him with the eyes of the second goods, he has always typed obediently in public, and the speed of bee pinyin is not slow.

When he asked why the other party said this, Lao Wang's reply was: "I am on the second floor of the yacht at this time, and I am trying out the voice input method of Bee No. 1, and I feel that it is more than ten times better than before." ”

The corners of his mouth hooked up an arc, and Yuan Yang asked, "You just blow it!" Now the recognition rate is already very high, how can you increase it tenfold?"

"Do you understand logarithms, do you know decibels?"

"Okay, I'm stupid, I'm wrong. Let's talk about the situation over there, we want to get on the boat and have to wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!"

Immediately after the press conference, the trial event promised by Atletico took place. The guests finally saw the long-awaited machine and immediately pounced on it to play.