Chapter 355: Friends to Friends, Business to Business

Xu Teng has made hundreds of speeches over the years, but this one in Kansas City is the most special, he spent a full 7 years, with countless financial resources and manpower to create Dr. Lu, the first show to the global technology community, as well as all science fiction lovers, all news readers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Dr.Lu!

This wave of news quickly covered the world and became the most concerned hot news in the world.

Artificial intelligence itself is not very magical, its core is still a program, no matter how powerful it is, it is just a program system, but it has added more humanized judgment choices, and behind these choices is still the program.

Dr. Lu's awesomeness lies in the fact that it has countless resources and funds, and thousands of programmers who are constantly improving its program modules every day.

At the same time, it has a supercomputing-level computing center, has the most powerful cloud computing and database, can cover the entire network, in Jianghuai Province, in Shanghai, a derivative of its has begun to help with traffic statistics to assist the work of the public security department.

Its numerous sub-editions assist the operations of various industrial groups, serve different corporate executives, and collect and analyze data in the healthcare industry, the construction industry, the real estate industry, and the network industry.

In the online world, every product of Huateng Company, whether it is free or charged, Xu Teng can get all the feedback from customers in the first time.

Dr. Lu's self-learning function is not very strong, but its data analysis and statistical skills are indeed superb, it can chat with hundreds of thousands of people online at the same time, provide medical consulting services, provide medical advice based on feedback and medical testing data, and tell customers how much money is needed and how to make reasonable use of medical insurance.

It can provide legal advice to others, as well as more trivia, whether you want to build a building or buy a car, you can talk to it and let it help you analyze the best options.

For example, if you want to know the most cost-effective SUV right now, the most cost-effective SUV, the highest-rated model, and the model that is the best-selling model today, it can tell you.

It can have different names, as long as you buy related services, related products, it will always be by your side with your favorite sound, graphics.

It can do a lot of things, and even play games with you, as long as you register an account in several games owned by Huateng, it can play games with you within the scope of the game system - which means that you have to spend twice as much, and it can't help you hang up and the like, because game companies also want to make money.

It can help you get a job, pay your bills, find the right doctor, search for a better job, and even help you with your personal taxes.

Basically, it allows you to make better use of the online world and make you look cooler in the online world.

If you are a girl, Dr. Lu can be a good brother, if you are a boy, Dr. Lu can be a good girl, so what, if you are a guy, Dr. Lu can also be a handsome guy.

In a city like Jiangzhou, where WIFI is ubiquitous, Dr. Lu is basically with you 24 hours a day, on your smartphone, on your computer, on your tablet, on your smart watch, and in your car.

Through Wi-Fi, through the latest products of China Electric Group, it can be connected to all home appliances and manage your air conditioner, your rice cooker, your water heater, your TV, your washing machine, and your refrigerator at any time.

If you tell it that you have a grass carp in the freezer compartment of the fridge, it can tell you how to cook.

All of this, in fact, is the result of all the data being shared by all customers, and every second, it's adding new information to its database, and if you wake up late, it can tell you how many people you get up later than others.

Xu Teng temporarily decided to use the Hugo Award ceremony to officially launch Tencent Group's artificial intelligence services, so that Tencent Group can be further upgraded from a network service provider and a social networking company to an intelligent information service provider.

This is a major transformation after Tencent Group divested the hardware industry, Tencent does not need to build cars, mobile phones, computers, and TVs...... The entire Huateng system has a complete ecosystem.

In fact, no matter whether you buy AI services or not, as long as you have an account with Tencent Group, whether it is QQ or WeChat, you are actually enjoying AI services.

This means that every QQ and WeChat customer has the opportunity to upgrade and enjoy more AI services, and if you want to maximize this service, the annual fee of 300 yuan covers all aspects, and you will have to use the products and services provided by the Huayin consortium more extensively.

For example, the medical services of Boan Group, the electronic products of Huateng Electronics Group, the home appliances of Shenzhou Electric Group, the automobiles of Huateng Automobile Company, and the banks and insurance companies under the Huayin Consortium...... Because it's all a giant platform out of the box.

Boom.

On August 15, 2010, the stock prices of most of Huateng's subordinate industrial groups were soaring, and the stock prices of Tencent Technology Network Group were continuously rising, which was not far from the status of the world's largest technology company.

Xu Teng's net worth is naturally ...... I'm sorry, I have thrown off the second place in the world's rich list too much, too much, and it has developed from 2.5 times to 3.5 times.

At least during this time in the United States, Xu Teng basically enjoyed the treatment of the vice state, and there were 2 meetings with the president alone, and the shareholding of Tencent Group in Facebook was also successfully increased from 1/3 to 40%.

His main goal in coming to the United States is to receive the award, meet with old friends, increase his Facebook shareholding, and have nothing else to do, and will return to China soon.

The day before he was due to fly back home, President Obama's chief policy adviser to the White House, Peter Rouse, made an appointment in the afternoon and quietly arrived at the hotel to visit him.

This Petersenlaw was a very important ally and subordinate of Obama in his political career, and when Obama first ran for state legislature, the former journalist of mixed Japanese and American descent became Obama's secretary and adviser.

Xu Teng's relationship with this person is still good, and he often contacts, especially in the past two years, many of Xu Teng's personal contacts with President Obama have been carried out by this person.

Therefore, Petersenlaw came to visit Xu Teng, basically on behalf of Obama.

This must be seen, not to mention that Xu Teng has been staying at the Hyatt Regency Bay Hotel in Fremont, Silicon Valley for the past few days, and the other party is also across most of the United States.

As usual, accompanied by a Secret Service agent, Petersenlaw quietly arrived at Xu Teng's residence and met him in the sea-view suite where Xu Teng was temporarily staying.

Although the raunchy chief policy adviser of the White House has Japanese blood in his veins, Xu Teng's contacts with him in recent years have been surprisingly smooth, and many international views are quite similar.

Of course, their correspondence is strictly confidential and at a high level, and confidential issues are never discussed.

The two shook hands and exchanged a few pleasantries, and Petersenlaw cut to the chase very directly, asking Xu Teng if he knew about the industrial policies of the Chinese authorities, which was a bit of a secret suspicion, because Xu Teng must be more aware of these problems.

"Most of the information I know, you can find in public reports, basically emphasizes industrial upgrading and the control of backward production capacity, strengthens new energy and financial supervision, and prevents a Chinese-style financial bubble crisis. Xu Teng thought about it, and decided to break some news with Pissenlaw, "In terms of foreign investment, there is still more emphasis on energy and commodities, which is not very public information, but I believe that you are basically clear." ”

"We do know something, and in my personal judgment, the Chinese government always knows very well what it needs to do, and it always does it, and that's what surprises me, and that's probably what confuses me the most about Chinese politics. Bissenlaw scratched his head, took the teacup from Xu Teng's hand, drank the authentic Weizhou black tea, also thought about it, and was very cautious, "Xu, you are a friend of Mr. President, and also my old friend, So, I want to ask you a ...... Perhaps only those of you who have access to China's top leadership and local government leaders will be able to understand the question of whether you know why China's rulers are always able to do the right thing. ”

"Rouse, this question is not a smart question, what is wrong with the United States, what is wrong with China, everyone who knows anything about politics and economics is generally very clear. Of course, the Chinese rulers are well aware of where China's problems are, and in the same way, I believe that you and Mr. President also know where the problems of the United States are, and the real problem is how the rulers on both sides will solve the problems. Xu Teng was not sure that President Petersenlaw and Obama knew about the problems of the United States, he was just saying it politely.

"And that's the second question I'm going to ask, from your point of view, why have China's rulers been able to carry out more effective reforms and continue to make China grow and progress over the past three decades?"

"This problem is not very complicated, you Americans always say that China is not a democratic country, this is actually a very hypocritical statement, China is a typical closed democracy and consultative democracy country, democracy first exists between various political forces, before each decision of the government is introduced, there must be a long-term game, so many decisions have to go through a lot of discussion before the introduction of the decision, to ensure that all parties can accept it, will be officially launched. Xu Teng thought for a while and decided to put it more simply, "I'll give you a simple example, if President Obama first talks with the team that implements the reform, the staff at the grassroots level, and the parties who have suffered and benefited, and also with the party and the Republican Party, and finally reaches an agreement that is agreed by all parties." In this case, everyone knows that this is the best plan he can get, and everyone will cherish the reform plan and promote it together. ”

"This is deliberative democracy, and at the same time, China's top ruling leaders have strong political energy, which is also a kind of concentration of power, and the secret of China's policy lies in the clever combination of deliberative democracy and centralization, which can check each other and ensure the stability of the system in making major decisions. Therefore, when the Chinese government wants to promote a reform, as long as it reaches an agreement with all parties, rather than simply suppressing the minority party, it will generally get the support of all parties, and the process of promoting reform will inevitably be smoother. ”

Xu Teng actually didn't understand very much, why Petersenlaw suddenly remembered to ask these questions, but he still tried to answer them clearly, which can be regarded as a small contribution to the mutual understanding between China and the United States.

"Thank you for your answer, but I have a third question, and that's where the president needs some advice, as an investment professional with a special understanding of the global economy, how do you think the United States can recover our economy faster and better?"

"If you're wondering how the U.S. economy can get back healthy and stay number one in the world for a long time, I think this question should be left to my assistant. Xu Teng got up, returned to his desk, and turned his laptop around, the LCD screen facing Petersenlaw.

On the screen of the computer are layers of yellow-green wheat waves, which means that the artificial intelligence "Dr. Lu" is in an active state.

"Dr. Lu, you can answer this question!" Xu Teng handed the question to Dr. Lu, if it was really up to him to answer, he estimated that he would not be very convincing.

"BOSS, according to available data and the Asia-Pacific Economic Institute's global economic structure model, by 2016, the total debt of the U.S. federal government will exceed 19 trillion, more than the total GDP of the United States that year, by 2020, the annual fiscal deficit of the U.S. federal government will exceed $600 billion, and in 2024, this figure will reach $800 billion. At that time, 92% of the U.S. federal government's budget will automatically have to be spent on the promised spending. According to structural model estimates, the United States needs to reduce military spending by 70% this year, take the initiative to ease the contradictions with major enemy countries, withdraw from 210 of the 374 overseas military bases, reduce the scale of naval and strategic nuclear weapons, expand spending in infrastructure and education, shrink spending in social welfare, and let the dollar depreciate moderately by 40% for a long time, and it is expected that a preliminary fiscal balance can be achieved in 2020. The fiscal policy remains unchanged and is expected to reduce the national debt to 70% of GDP by 2027, falling within the safety curve. ”

Dr. Lu is very serious about arithmetic and very serious in answering.

This answer will definitely make 90% of Americans rise up, and it will definitely make 90% of the US military soldiers smash Dr. Lu.

"I think this plan ...... May not be feasible. Rather than hesitantly, Piessen-Rouse rejected the offer, because it was 100% political suicide, and whoever did it would be the next Kennedy, the next Nixon. He couldn't help but ask Xu Teng, "This is the artificial intelligence you developed?"

"Yes. Xu Teng nodded, did not deny it, and asked Petersenlaw, "Do you know how much time it takes me to complete the data content that my assistant counts and calculates in 1 second?"

"How many months?" said Petersenlaw, a figure that he thought was exaggerated.

"40 years!" Xu Teng really thinks that the high school math of this presidential policy adviser is fed to the dog, or the basic education level of science and engineering in the United States is too poor, "This is one of the deepest impressions that American politicians and technocrats give me, my assistant can complete 2000 trillion operations per second......!"

Xu Teng didn't finish speaking.

Pissen-Rouse already felt completely unreasonable, pointed to the Huateng laptop on the desk, and asked Xu Teng, "Just rely on this computer?"

"Of course not this computer, you're a policy advisor to the President of the United States, and you should always keep up to date with the latest information on the technology industry. Dr. Lu has the world's second largest supercomputing center, which can be connected through the network, and at the same time juxtaposes all of the company's databases and cloud computing systems, which can decompose a large number of calculations to idle servers. Of course, even if it is a question like the one you raised, with the help of enough economic models and professional calculation modules, it will take several hours to complete the calculation, and the reason why it can answer you in one second is because we have done the calculation of your question a few months ago through cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Economic Research Institute and more than 40 international investment banks around the world. ”

What Xu Teng said was a bit complicated, but it was enough to shatter the confidence of Pissenlaw, "So, I can honestly say that the U.S. economy is now facing a super complex problem. If you follow Dr. Lu's calculations to solve the problem, whoever you solve will be politically suicidal, and you will not be able to do it at all, and if you don't, the United States will be crushed by the debt crisis sooner or later. In fact, if the United States' social security debts and related guarantee debts are all superimposed, the current size of the United States' national debt is close to 80 trillion, according to the current economic growth rate and structure, in 2030, the United States will be crushed by various debt crises, you can use ultra-loose monetary policy to continue to delay the arrival of this crisis, the price paid is that the total national debt continues to explode, and eventually one day, the credit of the dollar will collapse. ”

All of this is very true, and he believes that the U.S. government has hired better economists to make predictions, and the statistics will not differ much from the final conclusion.

This is a fundamentally unsolvable mess, and for the Obama and Obama administrations, it is impossible for them to cut military spending, abandon a large number of overseas military bases and large military forces, and restore the country's economic competitiveness through a slow and orderly long-term depreciation of the dollar.

Fiscally, the Obama administration has no way to cut military spending and other unnecessary spending, or to expand investment in education and infrastructure, and in terms of monetary policy, it is completely powerless to promote the long-term depreciation of the dollar.

In this case, the Obama government can really do only one thing, absorb cheap illegal immigrants, enhance economic competitiveness with cheap labor, and maintain "steady" GDP growth.

At the same time, through the social security contributions of new immigrants, the long-term deficit of the national social security fund payment will be compensated.

The result of this will ultimately destroy the proportion of the population in the United States, and at the same time, cheap labor will crowd out the market space of low-end white labor, causing internal divisions.

In short, the two most correct choices for the U.S. government are absolutely not to do, which is very different from the situation in the United States during the Nixon era in the late Vietnam War, when the entire country was firmly tied up and completely ossified by the military-industrial complex and Wall Street.

All this, Xu Teng also knew in his heart that he just deliberately wanted to see Bissen's reaction, but the result was as he expected, and there was no way at all.

It's like having cancer, the most correct way is to undergo chemotherapy and surgery, cut out the focus of cancer cells, and slowly kill other cancer cells, which will indeed make you very painful and weak in a short time, but this is the only way to keep you alive.

The United States cannot accept this plan, and vainly tries to solve the problem by replenishing blood every day, and the blood type is still different from its own, it was originally blood type A, but it can only be supplemented with blood type B, and it was originally a society dominated by Europeans, and it has to be made up for a society dominated by Latinos.

This is not the kind of Latino in Spain and Italy, but the Latino in Mexico and Honduras.

According to this scenario, by 2024, the U.S. federal government will increase its annual debt to $800 billion, and by then, 92% of the U.S. federal government's budget will automatically be used for hard spending, including government employee salaries, benefits, social welfare security, education and health insurance spending, infrastructure maintenance, and huge debt interest.

The $700 billion or $800 billion in annual military spending is entirely borrowed, and 80 percent of these military expenditures are actually directly used for the maintenance of thousands of military bases and for the maintenance of existing military forces.

If you want to buy new equipment, you can, continue to expand your debt and continue to borrow money to buy equipment.

When China's GDP is 1.5 times that of the United States, and the annual military expenditure of $400 billion is against the heart and throat of the United States, how much military spending will the United States have to borrow a year to maintain its size and dignity?

Therefore, for China, it is simple, as long as you maintain a benign increase in military spending, and keep stimulating you to increase military spending, you don't have to go to war, anyway, you will have to finish sooner or later.

If China doesn't fire the first shot anyway, it will force you to increase its military spending, and I will add one dollar to the military spending, forcing you to increase one and a half yuan.

If I get six aircraft carrier fleet groups, you will have to support your ten aircraft carrier fleet groups alive and dead, and I will build 300 J-20s, and if you don't fire a single shot, you will have to build 800 F35s sooner or later, because you are going to play a positional offensive posture, and I am counterattacking at home.

I have six aircraft carrier groups, and if you don't have ten, you can't stop me, and to put it mildly, you have to build 20 aircraft carrier fleet groups to stop me.

My military industry is all state-owned units, and all the money I earn is the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets, and in the end I have too many debts, I can sell state-owned assets to maintain financial health, your military industry is a wolf-like capitalist, greed is nature, how much blood do you have to suck from your body?

You don't want to be the boss of the world, then you just hold on until you rot.

The game between China and the United States is this situation, and there is no way to fire the first shot anyway, so let's see who is dragged down first.

For the United States, the greatest hope is for Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and India to jump out and fight with China first, and find an opportunity to plunge China into a similar war in Afghanistan.

This is the only chance for the United States to turn around.

Or rather, this is already the last hope of the United States, and if such a thing happens, then God bless the United States.

The possibility exists.

For example, Xu Teng's Huayin consortium and several other state-owned enterprises have too many interests in Angola and basically monopolize Angola resource extraction and infrastructure investment.

That's the risk.

For Xu Teng, it is very important for him to invest in the United States, maintain his contacts and influence in the United States, and prevent the United States from making such bad moves and threatening his investment, because the scale of the new investment in Africa by the Bank of China Consortium alone every year has exceeded the new investment of the entire United States in Africa.

This afternoon, Petersenlaw, a White House policy adviser, chatted with Xu Teng a lot in Xu Teng's guest room, and finally wanted to use his personal connections to get Xu Teng to lobby the central government to expand imports of American agricultural products, and hoped that Xu Teng would participate in this kind of investment and import American agricultural products.

Yes.

Xu Teng agreed very happily, but there are conditions, his political energy is still very strong, but if you want to ask him to make a move, the White House has to come up with the benefits of real money to make a deal with him.

Obama has just been in office for two years and wants to consider re-election, and he wants to grab the Republican Party's votes, yes, no problem, isn't it the export of agricultural products, isn't it the problem of genetically modified soybeans, isn't it just to let Xu Teng organize some Chinese companies and invest in some manufacturing in the United States.

These are all minor problems for Xu Teng, it's easy, you exchange things.

Friends to friends, business to business!(To be continued.) )