Although Baidu tried his best to promote it, this direction is destined to be a relatively niche field, and it is unlikely to be as popular as entertainment news.
Even if Robin Li's press conference on Friday can provide such a breakthrough result, the popularity and attention are completely incomparable to the AlphaGo Go incident.
However, at this moment, the target group of Baidu propaganda is not the ordinary melon-eating masses, but corporate executives and new entrepreneurs with vision and foresight.
For those who are interested, this publicity is completely sufficient.
The sound of this size was already deafening to their ears.
For example, Google has already extended an olive branch to Meng Fanqi.
Google has basically published papers at all previous top conferences, so there will always be people attending. However, among the people attending this conference, four of them were people who did not originally plan to participate.
They are the three members of Hinton's team and Jeff, Google's number one technical guru.
It's a bit funny to say that at this time last year, Jeff was still in the process of game negotiations with Hinton and his two students Alex and Ilya, but now they are on the same front.
It stands to reason that it is enough for Jeff and Hinton to negotiate this time. Jeff is responsible for the company aspect, and Hinton is responsible for the specific academic and professional aspects.
It's just that Hinton's health has been poor, and he insisted on coming this time. The two students were really worried.
When negotiating with Google and Baidu in Lake Tahoe last year, the situation was actually a bit bad. At that time, the air in Lake Tahoe was thin and cold and dry. Hinton often fell ill in that climate, but he did not want to be taken over by several major technology companies. People in the company see themselves as "old and frail".
This affects both the image and the outcome of the negotiation.
In order to prevent himself from getting sick, he thought of a way: put the mattress between the two beds. He also found some long and strong supports like ironing boards and added them between the two beds, and then took a few Soak the towel and cover it, and he sleeps in such a "tent" at night to ensure that there is enough moist air.
At that time, Yu Kai was originally responsible for negotiating the bid for Baidu, but after the price exceeded 24 million US dollars, Yu Kai's authority was not enough, and another Baidu executive took over the work.
Yu Kairen was in Lake Tahoe, but was unable to participate and was very anxious.
Yu Kai had nothing to do, so he would visit Hinton's room from time to time to learn a little about the direction of the auction. But what he didn't know was that his occasional visits also caused some panic in room 731.
Hinton didn't want others to see his unique humidification chamber, so every time before Yu Kai arrived, Hinton had to ask his two students, Alex and Ilya, to quickly put the humidification tent into place. Demolish it and restore the room to its original state,
In this company of only three people, Hinton joked: "This is the job of two vice presidents."
There is also an interesting anecdote in this process, that is, when Yu Kai left Hinton's room one time, he actually forgot his bag in the room.
According to what Meng Fanqi later learned from the interview, Hinton and the two students claimed, “They knew there might be some information in it, which might tell them how much Baidu was willing to pay. But they knew it was wrong, so they didn’t do it. .”
Meng Fanqi was skeptical about this.
Speaking of which, during the negotiations last year, what was even more dazzling was Alex, who named AlexNet. After all, this network and algorithm are the key to opening the door to the deep learning era.
But in fact, what was even more dazzling later was another student of Hinton, Ilya, the chief technology officer of OpenAI.
The GPT series, which continued to dominate the screen in 2022-23 and revolutionized the production methods of hundreds of millions of people, are all products under his direct leadership.
Of course, he is not yet a chief technology officer with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars. At this moment, he is just a Google researcher under Teacher Hinton who has just joined the company for a few months. He is basically the same position as Meng Fanqi is about to join.
In terms of income, I'm afraid it will be much less. After all, the three-person team has produced results, and the instructor is a long-famous AI godfather, so the cake will have to be divided a lot.
The Hinton team was acquired with a one-time buyout for a total price of US$44 million, which was distributed to two students. It was estimated to be a one-time income of about ~12 million US dollars.
After acquisition employment, the salary will not be too high.
Meng Fanqi will definitely not be satisfied with acquisition-style profits. He knows very well that every time he proposes something, it will become a classic paradigm in the future. Only sharing contracts can satisfy his appetite.
In the early morning, as soon as it dawned, Meng Fanqi had already woken up, thinking about these negotiations-related matters. While trying to recall the relevant information, I nervously looked up some specialized English vocabulary.
Although in his previous life, he had made great progress in English from taking the postgraduate English exam to intensively reading various AI papers, and his spoken English was still fairly fluent. But when it comes to very professional matters such as business negotiations and formal contracts, he is still quite reluctant.
"The time is too fast, and I really miscalculated this time." Meng Fanqi sighed secretly in his heart. He thought that he would have no obstacles in reading technical papers, and his English level should be completely sufficient.
It wasn't until I woke up with nothing to do and dug out some business contracts that I had downloaded for reference that I realized that I had completely overestimated myself.
"When we settle down next year, we really need to hire a lawyer and an investment consultant. Only professional people can do professional things to save our worries." Meng Fanqi shook his head.
"Alienation is transfer, prejudice is harm, and negligence is fault." While Meng Fanqi was anxiously searching for unfamiliar vocabulary in this area, he only heard Han Ci's voice coming from behind. “Many legal terms have specific meanings, and you have to look them up on your own to learn them.”
Meng Fanqi looked back and realized that Han Ci in the back seat had woken up at some point. He stood up and was lying on the back of the chair to see what he was doing. "How come you are so familiar with this legal English vocabulary?"
At this moment, I realized that Meng Fanqi was actually far inferior to Han Ci in such fields, and I felt very good. "It's not very familiar. It's still far from a professional level, but it's much better than a three-legged cat like you who just improvises."
Meng Fanqi, who was still sharpening his skills before the battle, didn't know that at this moment, Google was much more nervous than he was.
"What's going on over there at Baidu?" When he woke up in the morning, Jeff quickly noticed the promotional video released by Baidu last night. In the field of AI, there are not many technology giants that directly compete with Google at this stage, so Jeff is very concerned about whiteness, Microsoft and Facebook.
After watching the video content for a while, Jeff didn't pay too much attention. He had the same view as some professional netizens on the Internet. He felt that Baidu just used some unfair comparison methods.
But during breakfast, Alex's words made him suddenly alert, "That Meng's school seems to be quite close to the Baidu headquarters."
