057：

Lin Shu refers to the south and north respectively, referring to two university-affiliated research institutes, two leading figures in the field of speech recognition who later became very famous.

Southern University of Science and Technology and Yan University are both in the top positions in China in terms of research in this field, but those who have really made achievements in this field later may be a little difficult to say whether they have graduated or not. However, if Lin Shu is not mistaken, both sides have made some achievements in this regard a long time ago, but the technology at this time still has many flaws, and it is not yet famous, mixed with all kinds of information, and it is not valued or appreciated.

The one from Nanke is called Zhou Fan, and his later specialization lies in the development of intelligent partners. He has done a particularly good job in language recognition and intelligent speech, and has developed a smart machine that is famous for its realistic tone and vivid personality, and has dominated the international machine qì companion market for many years. Bai Chiwen's research direction is public service, and the speech recognition system he developed was later used in public service, telephone self-service, mobile interactive games and other fields.

If you talk about the technical level, it is actually difficult to evaluate the two, and it can only be said that although the emphasis is different, it is also the leader of speech recognition technology.

Ju Mingfeng pondered for a long time and said: "Zhou Fan's strength lies in the personality simulation of electronic intelligent life language, while Bai Chiwen's strength lies in the application of numerical induction and derivative technologies such as image recognition and logical judgment. In fact, we can both use their expertise in the future, so there's no need to worry about which one to dig. No matter which one we dig up, we will make money, and if we can dig both of them, then we will make a lot of money. Let's try to connect with each other, which one can be dug up, and if both can be dug up, I would like to see what kind of sparks these two can create together. ”

Lin Shu listened, but felt that what Ju Mingfeng said was very reasonable, so he replied: "Then dig up the corners on both sides." ”

Whether it is Zhou Fan or Bai Chiwen, they are still fledgling and little-known little people, it should not be difficult to poach, and the success rate is still quite high.

However, Ju Mingfeng thought for a while, and said: "But even if you say that, even the current research of these two should not be in-depth, right?" Can you really use this technology in a game or two? How are you going to use it? ”

"I'm not so anxious." Lin Shu replied, "I only plan to add a voice-activated control mode to the ARPG (action/real-time role-playing game) in the future. It's similar to the voice-activated function of some current electronic devices, but I plan to use this feature in the game, so that the player can choose to use the keyboard controller or voice control. For example, when shouting interface commands or skill commands, the game can recognize it autonomously and then issue commands...... That's probably what it looks like. ”

After Ju Mingfeng listened, he immediately understood what kind of function Lin Shu wanted.

Years later, this voice-activated setup was almost standard for virtual real games. At that time, games were basically played without a keyboard, mouse, or controller, but either using nerve connections, pupil scanning, and voice control...... Ju Mingfeng found that Lin Shu really had a clear purpose, and he was moving towards virtual online games step by step.

Because Lin Shu's current plan does not need to be set up separately in the company, it could have been done without Zheng Fangcheng, Du Sitong and others. But for various reasons, he still gathered a few people for a small meeting.

In this meeting, Lin Shu first talked about his plans for the future, including the company's future development direction, the allocation of capital flow in the future, and the consideration of the specific positioning of the new engine.

Although the new engine is still only on paper, the genre still needs to be positioned. Because only by determining the genre of the subject matter in advance, Lin Shu can decide on the design scheme of the AI that will be used in the game system in the future.

For example, if you go in the direction of magic, science fiction, or ancient style, then the AI system designed by Lin Shu needs to expand knowledge in different directions, as well as learn different language styles and dialogue methods. If you don't set up a good positioning at the beginning, the subsequent development will be very troublesome, and it is easy to do useless work.

After Lin Shu raised this point, everyone did not immediately express their opinions, and seemed to be considering their rhetoric.

After a long silence, Zheng Fangcheng asked, "Boss, do you plan to adapt a ready-made novel, or do you want to create your own background and write a plot?" ”

Lin Shu replied, "It's all right." It mainly depends on which method is more cost-effective, and whether there is a ready-made story suitable for adaptation. ”

"If you want to change it to an ARPG, I think the novels of the men's website are more suitable. Recently, fantasy or cultivation novels have been quite popular, and many works have a relatively complete world view. The disadvantage is that the homogeneity of most similar works is relatively high, so the setting is also relatively similar. But making a game is another way to create, so there shouldn't be a problem with that. ”

Several people immediately discussed the works that were suitable for adaptation into games, and Lin Shu also said some of his thoughts on the new engine. Bai Miao argued with Zheng Fangcheng again as a routine job, and the two of them each fought for their favorite works, and the excited Cheng Dù made Lin Shu almost think that this girl would rush into Zheng Fangcheng's office in the next second and fight with each other's real people.

He had to forcibly stop the two barrels of charcoal.

The situation finally calmed down, and before Lin Shu could speak, he received a book list from Du Sitong.

"I don't know what you want, but these are my long-time favorite works, and I've already highlighted them for game adaptations—all of them are novels with big backgrounds and strong stories," she says. If Lin Shu needs it, I can give you a brief description of the content and main selling points of each part, and then you can see if it is suitable for use as an adaptation. ”

Just this methodical attitude made Lin Shu feel that Du Sitong had a sense of calmness.

Bai Miao and Zheng Fangcheng didn't expect this, Zheng Fangcheng reflected on his behavior just now, Bai Miao was annoyed for a while, and both of them finally diverted their attention.

Du Sitong introduced the list of books one by one, in a clear and concise way but with vivid words. Bai Miao was still struggling with what novel she would introduce later, but when she listened to it, she was attracted by Du Sitong's narration.

By the time Du Sitong had finished introducing everything, more than half of the works in it had already been on Bai Miao's to-be-read list—the remaining half had already been read by her.

Lin Shu listened very carefully, and even found that there were works in it that he had also read later. He listened and listened, but he was really interested in some of the works introduced by Du Sitong, so he asked in further detail about the specific details - such as what is the level setting, whether there is a more in-depth portrayal of the supporting characters or group portraits, whether there are explosions or accidents in the plot, etc.

After Du Sitong answered them one by one, Lin Shu picked a few of them, and decided to take the time to read the original work in the future, and then decide whether to choose which of them to obtain authorization.

After a few days like this, Lin Shu didn't go to the Nine Heavens anymore, but read all the selected novels seriously. He doesn't just like Bai Miao, Zheng Fangcheng or Du Sitong who just like a work with a pure attitude, he also examines the story as he reads, considering which elements can be used, which elements are highlights, and which twists will seem stiff and abrupt in the game, making it difficult for people to adapt to it.

I read them one by one in this way, read them one by one, and in the end, Lin Shu's favorite thing is a "Legend of the Mandate of Heaven".

The setting is unique and innovative, the background construction is grand and historical, and the characters are all kinds of beings, vivid and unobtrusive. The only problem is that this is a popular work of the boundary Chinese network under the name of Kuaishu Group in recent years, and the price is definitely not low.

Sure enough, after the official of Boundary Chinese Network proposed the intention to purchase copyright, the number of replies from the other party was very unacceptable.

What followed was a variety of tense negotiations, and Zheng Fangcheng had to go to the headquarters of Binhai Kuaishu Group every few days. Fortunately, Huxi and Binhai are not far away, so it is relatively convenient to negotiate.

But even so, the negotiation process was somewhat difficult.

Kuaishu itself does not pay attention to the impact of future technology, and it is completely an attitude of whether you like to buy or not to buy it. They were confident enough to have a great advantage in this negotiation. In contrast, future technology pales in comparison - after all, there is a big gap between the other party in terms of capital, influence and scale.

But Zheng Fangcheng was not discouraged by this. can be valued by Cui Wenxin, Zheng Fangben is naturally a young talent with outstanding ability. In addition to being deflated every time he is in front of Du Sitong and Bai Miao, he himself is very good in terms of mentality and ability, and his ambition is also high.

During this period of the future game, Zheng Fangcheng has almost been brainwashed by Lin Shu and the atmosphere of the entire company - or it can be said that he can be moved. He has realized the value and future of Lin Shu's game engine and platform system. Therefore, even if the physical conditions are weak, Zheng Fangcheng is still full of confidence in his own conditions.

Successful negotiation in a state of complete superiority is not considered ability, and the real ability should be to dominate the situation and achieve the expected negotiation effect in the case of disadvantage.

Zheng Fangcheng has done a good job in this regard.

He always stepped on a patient pace, gradually and quickly grinding down the contract clauses step by step, doing his best to make every concession in the negotiation in exchange for the others.

In this way, it was not until the end of August that the terms of the entire contract were finally basically confirmed.

058：

Regardless of the time Zheng Fangcheng spent on negotiations throughout August, Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng almost began to devote their energy to the research and development of basic AI programs.

This R&D process is more complicated. Although the two of them have not done similar projects before, they are certainly not as hands-on as they are at this time. Moreover, at that time, the relevant technology was quite mature, and there was no need to rebuild from the basics, and naturally there was a suitable program model for them to choose freely.

However, no matter how troublesome this process is, it is impossible to be sad that some relevant research groups are currently developing and building from scratch. Compared with many siege lions and researchers who are working hard to do research, Lin Shu and Ju Mingfeng, who are simply reconstructing and sorting out the relevant procedures according to the original knowledge system, can be said to have taken a big advantage.

The AI program that was finally made was temporarily named Tianqing Niang by the two and hung on the homepage of the platform. Lin Shu asked Bai Miao to specially set and customize an image for him, which is a dynamic picture with a variety of expression effects.

The image of Tianqing Niang is a sunny day doll with black hair and a red skirt and a short double ponytail, and the image is lively and pleasing. At present, there are not many functions, and there is no voice, but it can be completely capable of simple text conversations and answer some of the user's more superficial or common questions.

Of course, the main function is still to sell cuteness.

At this time, such i- (intelligent machine qì person) dialogue programs are quite common in foreign countries, but such programs are still relatively rare in China. Earlier, some banks were equipped with service-oriented smart machines with similar functions, which also caused heated discussions on onlookers and Weibo.

Although the appearance of Tianqing Niang did not reach the kind of Cheng dù that caused a topic, at least it attracted enthusiastic onlookers. Many players don't play anymore, and they gather on the homepage of the platform every day to line up to tease Tianqing Niang.

Tianqing Niang's character is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, a little natural, with a little tsundere, and no one can carry it. Lin Shu also added the emotion xù settings and favorability settings in the original engine system, and at the same time bound the user information to Tianqing Niang's database.

In this case, Tianqing Niang's attitude and tone will be different when she sees the player for the first time, the second time she sees the player, and when she sees the player for a long time, and when she sees the player every day. At the same time, she will keep track of the number of times she changes in each conversation, such as a user ID that constantly tries to provoke her and make her difficult during a chat, and she will reply with a tsundere tone every time she has a conversation. A user ID that teaches her something new every time she appears will be honored by her.

And after each conversation, the chat messages that Tianqingniang's program can't handle by itself will be submitted to Lin Shu's hands for sorting out and integration. After that, if there is a second conversation, new dialogue content will appear due to the expansion of the information base.

Artificial intelligence like this is completely curious for players, and even many people have registered accounts on the future platform because they are curious about Tianqing Niang's storage.

The official website is a little more lively than before because of the existence of the weather mother, and it has gathered more popularity, which can be regarded as what Lin Shu expected. However, what he didn't expect was that this kind of excitement even affected his next poaching operation.

Through the roundabout investigation, Lin Shu quickly learned about Zhou Fan and Bai Chiwen's current situation. Zhou Fan has graduated from Nanke and is currently working as a siege lion in a network technology company. He did do research on speech recognition during his university years, mainly used for speech-to-text input, that is, after dictation, the software converts the conversation or recording into a text record, because this kind of technology has been achieved by many companies at this time, so in the end his technical achievements were only sold for tens of thousands.

However, Lin Shu studied the voice conference recording software made by Zhou Fan's technical achievements, and found that its accuracy was significantly higher than that of similar software, and there should still be some private know-how in it.

And Bai Chiwen is just a student who has just entered the last year of college. He is very famous in the School of Information Technology of Yan University, and is famous for his sunny and handsome appearance and personality. When Lin Shu contacted him, he hadn't even decided on the company for the internship, and it was said that he had applied for a number of large companies and was brushed off. Although Bai Chiwen of the small company does not dislike it, he dislikes that their salary is too low and is currently struggling.

The process of these two people digging up their hands was so easy that Lin Shu felt that it was unreal.

Bai Chiwen won't talk about it, it's so easy that it's outrageous. He only asked about the salary, the prices in Huxi City, and whether there were many snacks. When Lin Shu expressed his affirmation, he said without saying a word that he would come over as soon as possible, and he didn't even ask about the specific company.

His attention seemed to be all about money and food.

In contrast, Zhou Fan is much more reliable.

After receiving the news, he first asked Lin Shu about his identity and situation, and when he heard the name Xingze, Zhou Fan immediately asked: "Is it Xingze of the original game platform?" ”

The fact that the other party knew about Lin Shu's company did not surprise Lin Shu too much, after all, the entire platform is very popular now, and a large number of new users register and buy games every day. Although their company is not big, it is already a lot of fame, and there are countless followers, so it is not surprising that Zhou Fan is paying attention.

He affirmed Zhou Fan's problem.

Zhou Fan asked again: "If you want to hire me, what kind of work do you need me to do?" Does it have anything to do with that AI chat program on your platform? ”

Lin Shu replied: "It can be said that it has a relationship, or it can be said that it doesn't matter." I would like to invite you to come to our company to do research on speech recognition - we want to use speech recognition technology in the second engine in the future, together with Tianqing Niang. ”

Zhou Fan was surprised: "...... You're going to make a second game engine? ”

Lin Shu said: "At present, it is only in the project approval stage. ”

But I heard Zhou Fan say: "The work on my side is still ongoing, and it may take about a month to deal with all the handover work." If I can, I'll go to Huxi after September 25th...... Can you help me find an apartment with a suitable rent? ”

This is obviously already decided. Lin Shu didn't expect Zhou Fan to be so easy to talk like this, it was just that the other party had already made a decision before he finished speaking.

Zhou Fan saw that he didn't reply for a while, thinking that he was embarrassed to find an apartment, and asked, "I don't have high requirements, as long as the house can be lived." I really can't find one close to the place of work, as long as the transportation is convenient. ”

Lin Shu understood that the other party had misunderstood his silence, so he said, "No, there is nothing wrong with the apartment." There are still a lot of suitable housing near the office building, which is originally a high-tech zone, and there are jobs all over the country. I'm just curious, you didn't even ask about the treatment, and you agreed so readily? ”

Zhou Fan listened, was silent for a long time, and asked, "...... So what do you say about the treatment? ”

Lin Shu talked about the treatment that had been planned before. After hearing this, Zhou Fan said, "The treatment is good." I think so, so what's the problem? ”

Lin Shu was so embarrassed that he couldn't do it. Obviously, Zhou Fan didn't even ask about the treatment when he agreed before, but now their position seems to be reversed, and it seems that he is the one who hesitates.

Lin Shu felt that their positions seemed to be a little wrong.

Zhou Fan thought about it, understood the problem, and asked, "I'm too happy?" Actually, I'm currently working on a web game program, and the treatment isn't bad, but I personally don't like it very much. The nature of the current page games is similar, and there is no technical content. Although the company must have made a lot of money, it was not good for me, and most importantly, there was no future for me. ”

"I've been thinking about changing jobs recently, and you've asked me to do research on speech recognition, so I don't think there's any reason why I shouldn't agree."

"And, I'm bullish on your company."

People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places. Zhou Fan's reasons are really sufficient, especially the last one. Lin Shu's previous experience made him know that Zhou Fan was an ambitious person, so it was actually normal for him to make such a choice.

At least it's much more normal than Bai Chiwen's strange focus.

Lin Shu accepted his reason, but his mentality was still a little erratic, and he felt a sense of unreality. In other words, he finally felt the gap between time and space and reality.

More than a decade later, the company is still in full swing. The big man who has achieved fame more than ten years later, but at this time, he is still struggling with the food and clothing line, and he is a rookie who worries about the distance between food, clothing, flowers and ideals every day.

Time...... It's that amazing.

And in this distance of time, there is only one person who crosses the time at both ends, but he has never wavered, nor is he confused.

When Lin Shu talked to Ju Mingfeng later, he couldn't help but ask, "Mingfeng...... Speaking of which, you suddenly went back to when you were a child, and you didn't have any special feelings, didn't you? ”

He is also a handsome and rich man with a successful career, and suddenly returned to the pre-liberation period overnight, to go back to elementary school, do summer homework, and be admonished by his father like a bear child.

Ju Mingfeng was inexplicable and asked, "For example, ......?" ”

For example, wouldn't you be reluctant to give up the status, wealth and fame you have already gained?

Although such a question popped up in his mind, what Lin Shu said in the end was: "For example, will you be reluctant to ...... your parents?"

Then Lin Shu found out that his question had a language problem.

Ju Mingfeng rolled his eyes: "...... You're talking as if I would be orphaned if I had a new childhood. But when he finished speaking, he straightened his demeanor and said, "But I know what you want to ask." You just want to ask, after twenty years of our accidental death, in the face of the tragedy that my parents may encounter in the face of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man, I am not sorry; I came back here with you, and I want to be an oppressed class (disciplined child) for nearly ten years again, do you regret it? ”

Lin Shu suddenly lost his voice for a second.

That's right, that's what he meant. It's just that Ju Mingfeng's rhetorical question was too straightforward and sharp, which made him feel that it was difficult to bear.

But I heard Ju Ming Fengyun say lightly: "It's certain that you're sorry." Although I was not obedient since I was a child, my dad probably thought more than once about stuffing it back into my mother's belly to give birth again, but I didn't even say goodbye and left suddenly, they must have been very sad. But I don't regret it. ”

Lin Shu froze in front of the computer in shock.

I only heard Ju Mingfeng continue: "Because no matter what, in the end, you are the person I choose to spend this life with." Whether it's my parents or other people, maybe some people are really important, and I want to give them back if I can, but they are not the ones I can spend my life with. So for this matter, even if I feel guilty about my parents, I will not regret it. ”

"Because I'm a selfish person."