Three days after the live broadcast between Cafferty and Meng Fanqi, this matter is still relatively hot in the United States.
Mainly because CNN uses emotional methods to involve too many elements that the American people care about.
What about privacy, politics, rights, etc.
The American public now labels Meng Fanqi as an outspoken AI technology madman, with mixed reviews.
There was a certain misunderstanding here, but Meng Fanqi didn't care and wasn't prepared to explain anything.
Most people were watching and curious about this matter, but a few people seemed extremely excited.
The most active person among them, Meng Fanqi, never thought that he would be Schmidt, the former CEO of Google.
As the former head of Google, the Silicon Valley giant, Schmidt has no shortage of money or connections.
What is more regrettable is that one of his personal interests has never been satisfied.
That is to make a national-level TV show.
Since his retirement, Schmidt has come up with the idea of doing a talk show or talk show several times.
He once roped in the famous producer McGuirk to cooperate, hoping to become the host of a CNN talk show.
But it is a pity that CNN insiders evaluated the content of his recorded program as "a complete disaster."
Another time before, in a certain program, Schmidt said: "If people are not satisfied with the Google Street View service publishing their photos on the Internet, then move away."
Such imprudent remarks made major television networks in the United States reluctant to choose Schmidt as host.
Schmidt has spent more than two years trying to enter the television industry since 2011, but he still hasn't made any splash.
However, Meng Fanqi's incident seems to be a turning point for Schmidt's TV industry.
The generative technologies and algorithm publishers that are at the forefront today are all related to Google.
As for Google, people with sufficient intelligence in this regard, such as Jeff, Hinton and the two founders, are unwilling to come forward for interviews.
As a result, Schmidt became the only option.
"Hello, Mr. Schmidt. We are honored to have a conversation with you today to talk about Google's latest technological breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence. First of all, I would like to ask you what you think of these technological breakthroughs."
"The FaceGAN network is an extremely exciting development. Research on this technology has great potential and can be used to understand facial images more deeply and generate more realistic virtual images. Even in the future, we can analyze multiple facial features. image adaptation”
Schmidt worked hard for his TV dream and prepared some relevant technical vocabulary and concepts thoroughly.
After chatting about some related content, the host directly brought the topic to the person who proposed the technology, Meng Fanqi.
"So, please describe, Mr. Schmidt. What kind of person is Meng?"
"He is a complete genius. Although I have not had a direct conversation with him in real life, I can say that his talent goes far beyond image-related fields."
"Oh? Is it convenient to reveal it to us?" The host became more energetic after hearing this. "What specific aspects do you mean?"
We talked too much about boring routine stuff before, but now we finally talk about some serious stuff.
“There are currently more than 2,000 billionaires in the world. They can be said to be the elite among the elite. They are making money at an astonishing speed.
Although the number of wealth is much greater now than in the past, it is still not an easy task to make a billion dollars. "
Schmidt did not answer the question directly, after all, this involves Google's core revenue business.
He made a twist and did not specify the specific technical direction and content. He only hinted that Meng Fanqi's technical achievements had exceeded one billion U.S. dollars.
The word billion means one billion. Billionaires do not necessarily have to earn a billion. Many people worth hundreds of millions can also call themselves this.
But Schmidt did not use the term billionaire, but rather hinted that Meng Fanqi had amassed more than one billion U.S. dollars.
"Holy Shit! Do you want to say that Meng Fanqi has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars with his technology?" The host couldn't sit still on the spot. FaceGAN is obviously not a technology that can generate sky-high revenue at this stage. In this way, it seems that Meng Fanqi The value currently displayed to the public is just the tip of the iceberg.
"There are some things I can't say too much about. What I can reveal is that the global billion-dollar club will welcome the youngest member in history and the fastest to reach this standard."
Schmidt still left a lot of room for information. For example, he did not disclose very specific figures, nor did he disclose the time it took for Meng Fanqi to receive these profits.
If not, the level of shock would have been increased by several levels.
Many people may not have an idea of such a large amount of money, which is why in the past life there were often many crazy people who were still studying, saying that their favorite games easily generated tens of billions of dollars in revenue.
In fact, let alone one billion U.S. dollars, even 100 million U.S. dollars in cash is already something that stands out among the rest in the United States.
Faced with Meng Fanqi's technological breakthroughs, Google can't just come up with so much cash to share it with him at any time. Instead, it needs to use other forms of equity, assets, etc.
There are only about 500 real billionaires in the United States.
In countries like the UK and RB, there are only about 30-50 people with assets worth over one billion.
Even in weaker and smaller countries, even countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are famous for their wealthy families, only have less than double digits worth over one billion US dollars.
In this way, the host suddenly understood why Meng Fanqi seemed so arrogant when dealing with those malicious comments on Twitter.
"If I had made one billion in my early 20s, why the hell wouldn't I be a hundred times better than him? I would just ride on the head of these idiots!"
Not only are the numbers staggering, but the speed Schmidt hinted at in about a year is also astonishing.
Bill Gates, the well-known Internet giant in the United States, spent more than ten years. The two founders of Google, Brin and Page, lived together for seven or eight years. With the rapid rise of Facebook, it took Zuckerberg about four years to cross this threshold.
Although there is an inflation factor in it, and the current billion is not as valuable as it was back then, this speed is by no means a joke.
Schmidt used this controversy and popularity to get rid of his TV addiction, but Meng Fanqi felt unhappy about it.
As the saying goes, wealth should not be exposed, not to mention this so-called hundreds of millions of dollars. It will take at least a quarter before you get it.
Even before the money was received, it was used as a bragging point on national TV. This made Meng Fanqi, who wanted to keep a low profile financially, in vain.
But at this time, Meng Fanqi had no time to feel any emotions.
The response to generative technology has been unprecedented, and its safety issues have been overemphasized to such an extent.
This is the perfect time to release your own face detection algorithm.
If the generative content you publish can be completely detected by this new algorithm, the so-called crisis will be solved and most of it will be resolved.
