Chapter 17 Surgery Siemens

If you want to say that the most powerful giants in the basic electrical field on the earth, Siemens counts one, General Electric counts one, and other competitors are all small fish and shrimp in front of these two. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

ABB Schneider or something, after all, there is not enough coffee position.

As a large group with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, even if Siemens is in the difficult window period of the European debt crisis, it is impossible to talk about equity cooperation with "small fish and shrimp" like Hatsune Group.

Therefore, what Hatsune pursues is nothing more than some technical exchanges and patent cooperation. What's more, Hatsune didn't have much desire to talk about equity swaps.

For example, ask Siemens to buy some high-precision industrial robots, technical support and authorization. In addition, the two companies will cooperate to develop "convenient programming industrial robots for the production of customized versions of Porsche in the future".

For these fields, Gu Mojie's heart is like a mirror.

In the field of traditional industrial robots, Hatsune Intelligence has no accumulation at all, and it is impossible to get it.

However, in the field of "industrial robots that are convenient for programming and suitable for small-batch customized production", Hatsune Intelligence can rely on the algorithm advantages and artificial intelligence basic advantages of Hatsune to achieve corner overtaking. borrowed Siemens' superior patents and technology authorization, and engaged in its own "customized intelligence".

The essence of this routine is similar to that of the previous time in Stuttgart.

We don't know how to do car, so we just don't do it. It's a big deal, I provide i, you provide car. Moving to the field of PLC, a reason.

Modern industrial society is inherently more and more subdivided.

Elon Marcos is engaged in Tesla, Space-X, and a lot of core technologies are counting on suppliers. He just needs to make sure that there are no problems with authorization and that the total integration of the system is done.

Hatsune Intelligence's future stall is getting bigger and bigger, and it is necessary to take this road - Hatsune and Google can only focus on "i".

As soon as he arrived in Munich City, Gu Mojie explained his idea to Fei Liluo, and also emailed Lei Jun and Gu Yongjiang to the negotiators who played the front station.

"What is the concept of this 'easy to reprogram customized industrial robot'?"

After all, the comprehension of the liberal arts girl Fei Liluo has a limit, and she can still get it when she talks about cars with Mo Jie, but this time she is directly blind when she talks about industrial robots. Just a few concepts, I can't be confused.

Gu Mojie didn't open his mouth to explain, but Lu Wenjun, who was learning programming, first explained it with a familiar way:

"I know what Ajie means, he should want to develop industrial robots that can easily and quickly change work tasks and processes at any time without PLC language programming. In the past two years, the American company Rethink-Robotics has been working hard based on this idea, and I heard that they will come up with initial results in a year or two. ”

Fei Liluo tilted her head and thought about it, and asked: "Then what are the advantages of this new thing compared with the current industrial robots?" Is it possible to process more precise processes? ”

Lu Wenjun said: "There is no difference in accuracy, and the current generation of industrial robots from Siemens has done a good enough job in accuracy." However, the current industrial robot, before setting the process flow, at least a senior PLC program engineer spends more than 20 hours to program the operating parameters of the robot. Together with the commissioning of other production lines, it takes a week to start a new production line.

After the production line is opened, there is no need for much maintenance, and the robot automatically runs the assembly line to produce 1,000 or 10,000 new cars...... So as long as the amount is large, the initial programming and commissioning costs are spread evenly over each vehicle, and it is nothing.

However, in the future, the high-end consumer industry may pursue private customized products. Elon Marcos wants to rely on customization to make a mark on Tesla's high-end cars - he knows that Tesla's brand is too new to compete with old luxury cars such as Rambo, Ferra and Porsche. So he played the high-tech card, advertising that 'Tesla's cars can be the same for each car, and each car is not the same'. In this way, those customers who buy cars only for distraction and only to pretend to be forced will be attracted by Tesla.

And if Tesla wants to achieve the 'small batch N batch' mode, relying on the current industrial robot technology, its PLC reprogramming cost will be too high. Originally, it may cost tens of thousands of dollars to find technical support from PLC engineers from industrial robot suppliers. After commissioning once, 10,000 vehicles will be produced, and each vehicle will be evenly divided into a few dollars for commissioning.

If the output of one commissioning is reduced to 100 units, the production line commissioning cost will be evenly distributed to each vehicle is several hundred dollars. If one is produced, theoretically, the tens of thousands of program debugging fees will be spread over the car.

Therefore, the combination of artificial intelligence and industrial robots in the future is at this breakthrough point - we do not pursue artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of robots, but only seek artificial intelligence to reduce the cost of reprogramming robots. It is best to use uneducated workers, through motion capture technology and force feedback, and repeat the operation a few times to teach the robot what to do. Instead of hiring a PLC engineer to write dozens of hours of code for each adjustment process. ”

After such a detailed analysis, Fei Liluo finally understood it thoroughly: "I understand, it is equivalent to movable type printing, and it is not the pursuit of printing more beautifully than engraving printing." However, when you want to print other content after one page is printed, the cost of reformatting is lower. ”

"That's right, that's what it means." Gu Mojie, who had been quietly listening to the girls learning from each other, praised Fei Liluo out loud.

was commended, but Felilo's mood did not improve. It seems that a heavy question comes to mind:

"Alas, I originally thought that what AI eliminated was jobs such as bank/business hall tellers, assembly line workers, and store salesmen. I didn't expect that artificial intelligence would even start to eliminate the jobs of programmers, which is really terrible. I don't know when the profession of lawyers will be wiped out. ”

Gu Mojie comfortingly stroked Fei Liluo's black straight straight, smiled and cheered her up: "Don't worry, programmers and lawyers cannot be completely eliminated, but in the next 20 years, under the condition of completing the existing workload, the number of programmers will be reduced by two-thirds and the number of lawyers will be reduced by eighty, which can still be expected - and it is very likely that after the cost goes down, the demand will explode, and the total workload to be programmed in the future may be ten times that of the current one." In this way, even if only one-third of the unit workload is completed by programmers; The total number of programmers is likely to remain three times as high as it is today.

As for the basic lawyers who help analyze the file data, organize the case file materials, and write the leaders' opinions into professional lawyers' letters, their work can be eliminated by the big data retrieval system and the robot of intelligent writing of formatted texts. However, lawyers who really know how to mediate and negotiate with humans and master high-level wisdom still have work to do.

The same is true for programmers, programmers in PLC languages, microcontroller languages, and CNC machine operators who can only 'translate instructions', will definitely be eliminated by artificial intelligence. Regardless of their title of 'programmer', they are still 'low-level translators', and they are not creative: the essence of their work is to translate 'human language' into a language that machines can recognize. ”

Artificial intelligence will not be classified by human industry to eliminate human jobs. They will only be measured by the only criterion of "whether they are creative or not", impartial, without the slightest emotion, and kill the jobs of hundreds of millions of people.

What about a lawyer who can only check information and make forms, and who has the name of a lawyer?

What about a PLC engineer who can only translate programming languages, but is actually equivalent to an 'operator', in the name of a programmer?

What about a foreign language translation that only translates articles at a glance?

All of them are in the list of extermination.

This is not a value judgment, and it does not mean that anyone "wants AI to do this".

In fact, even those "butchers" who invented this kind of intelligence with their own hands and killed their posts do not want this to happen, nor do they think it is a good thing.

This is a factual judgment.

Whether anyone wants to or not, this thing, based on the way of heaven, is bound to happen.

Gu Mojie, Larry Page, or Steve Jobs are just pawns in the heavens.

"Alas, it's terrible to think about, but may God be on our side."

Feliro dragged her hands and looked out the window in a daze. Not to mention Quan Baoer, who is more technologically ignorant than her, was also frightened by these words, so she could only hug Feliro to keep warm.

Only Lu Wenjun can understand all this, perhaps she has already been very mentally prepared. The four years of computer science of Qianjiang University were not in vain.

"Don't pray that God is on our side - it's us on God's side. We're going with the flow. ”

Gu Mojie's last sentence has an awe-inspiring domineering aura of "the way of heaven is in me".

With this domineering, the negotiations with the Siemens family have completed all the preparations.

A new technology cooperation that will set off countless bloody storms in the future has kicked off.

……

Hatsune offers the "i" and Siemens offers the "robotics". By the way, the two sides will cooperate in battery technology and charging electrode technology.

Under the leadership of Lei Jun, the "future intelligent hardware master", he ran so smoothly that he talked about Siemens' long-term authorization, patent exchange, and long-term layout.

Those who should buy patents directly will buy patents, and those that should be mutually licensed are unambiguous as long as the price is reasonable.

As for those technologies that Hatsune Intelligence has already seen its future potential, and Siemens is not as knowledgeable about artificial intelligence as Hatsune Intelligence, so that it is temporarily undervalued, it was secretly taken away by Hatsune in the form of entrainment and packaging.

For example, when you want to buy a bullish technology worth hundreds of millions of euros, pretend to inadvertently bundle two small technologies that come with a ride and look inconspicuous at the moment. And after those technologies are in Hatsune's hands, they often go through a series of linkage layouts, and they will reflect extraordinary value.

And Siemens, which does not have a deep understanding of artificial intelligence, will obviously make all kinds of small mistakes in the evaluation, and take away some small interests from the first tone of the immortal jump - who makes the industry in which Siemens is located more transparent? All their technology, how much is it worth, Hatsune can ask from General Electric.

And how much is the real value of the thing after it is in the hands of Hatsune Smart, and Siemens can't know the real price by consulting Google.

Hatsune's technical negotiation team stayed in Munich until mid-May, and finally laid out all the basic technologies of "artificial intelligence industrial robots" needed for Hatsune Intelligence's establishment of "intelligent Porsche custom factories" in China in the future. As long as Hatsune returns to Japan and makes up the "i" part by himself, he can make up the world's most powerful intelligent car customization factory within 2 years.

This technical cooperation has cost nearly 1.5 billion euros in real money. Siemens' core technology authorization is really not cheap.

But after evaluating Gu Mojie and all the senior management of the group, they all believe that the money is well spent.

If it weren't for the European debt crisis, the cost of obtaining these mandates would have been two or three percent higher.

In order to reward Lei Jun for his cooperation and negotiation in the field of Porsche, Siemens and a series of intelligent hardware in the future, Gu Mojie rewarded the team with tens of millions of euros in total. There are also various additional benefits, including those negotiators who have just been poached from Li Shufu's Geely Group, and they have not been pulled down.

Hatsune is a harmonious atmosphere, and everyone is excited.

……

On May 12th, the negotiations had just come to an end, and Gu Mojie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and prepared to play in Germany for the last few days, buy and buy things for a while, and then return to China.

As for the EOS company in Hamburg, he himself can go or not.

At this moment, a small piece of news made him feel a little depressed for a while, and it also slightly disrupted his schedule.

A few days ago, he also called Fu Lao, vice president of Boeing, and talked about his request for the modification of the Boeing 787 special plane. Mr. Fu was very righteous and asked him to confirm the details through an official telegram and forward them to the technical department of Boeing.

According to the meaning of the communication at that time, around the Chinese New Year next year, he will be able to get the "Air Force One" version of the Boeing 787 prototype.

As a result, on the 12th, he received a notice from the Fu family.

It's a little bad news that is a little sudden.

On May 11, 2010, Fu Luren suffered a heart attack at his home in Maryland and died suddenly at the age of 75 when he was taken to the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland.

Although it can't be talked about a deep friendship, after all, it is a friend who has forgotten the year. Gu Mojie was in a low mood, so he asked his subordinates to send a message of condolence and express the ceremony.

As for the funeral, considering that Germany flew 5,000 kilometers to the east coast of the United States, Gu Mojie took two days to accompany him to Washington. As usual, he drove his Bombardier and went back the next day.

"Life is so impermanent, when we talked a few days ago, I felt that he was in good physical condition, and if he didn't, it was gone."

On the plane back to Munich from Washington, Gu Mojie was so old and emotional.

Fei Liluo also agreed with self-deprecation: "No way, medicine is becoming more and more developed, and most of the diseases that can survive in the hospital can be delayed." As long as the rich are willing to put down their capital and go to the life support system, they will not be a problem for a year and a half. If you want to be neat, you can only count on heart disease and cerebral hemorrhage. ”

"Well, I was shocked by what you said, I have to eat two slices of celery seeds, blueberry slices or something when I go back."

Fei Liluo coquettishly replied: "I go back to China and smoke smog every day, and no matter how much blueberry slices I eat, it's useless." It's better to find a quiet place and work remotely. Alas, in fact, I really miss Qiantang when I was a child, and there was no PM2.5 at all. ”

The two chatted, the plane had landed, and when they came out of Munich Airport again, Gu Mojie had a whim:

"How about we buy a holiday castle in the Alps? In the future, I will come to live for a few months every summer, so as not to turn on the air conditioner in Qiantang so hot, which is unhealthy. ”

"Well, there are not many Germans but many castles. Just buy one and give it a makeover. ”

Anyway, if you have money, you can dream of being bigger. With this thought, Gu Mojie disdained to make a fuss, and was ready to do it in one step.

"Otherwise, do you think we can ask the Bavarian state government to buy Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle?"

"That's not for sale, right? Let's get one ourselves, why humiliate others. (To be continued.) )