There was an article like this in the Lion City’s Land and Public Governance Quarterly:
"Practice Promotion of Digital Government Plan in Lion City"
One of the authors of this article was Lin Xianwen, who was then the section chief of the Control and Assessment Division of the National Development Commission of the Lion City.
It clearly states that the National Development Council will use information technology to improve the efficiency and quality of government services from 2017 to 2020.
In order to make government management smart, implement evidence-based governance and optimize the quality of decision-making, the National Development Council has also developed a government plan database and an individual plan space management information system in phases.
Merlin's arrival directly helped them achieve leapfrog progress.
Artificial intelligence directly replaces everyone’s jobs.
The Lion City government department, in 2017, the year after this article was published, proposed a plan to conduct information technology training programs for 2,000 public servants every year.
This plan was promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology headed by Li Hongyi.
It was precisely for this reason that Lin Xianwen later successfully defected to Li Hongyi and became one of his core members.
Sometimes writing articles is a good way to find support, especially in countries influenced by Confucian culture.
Lin Xianwen felt uneasy when he saw that he had been given a month's leave. When he knew that everyone had been given a month's leave, he knew it was over.
Especially when he went to a government agency to handle errands the next day, the artificial intelligence completed it directly for him.
In the whole process, you only need to express your needs clearly through voice or text, and then artificial intelligence will help you get things done.
Will the Lion City still need so many public servants in the future?
No matter how the quality of public servants is improved, can they provide better services than artificial intelligence?
It doesn’t take much thinking to know. As for overturning Merlin’s decision, is it possible?
Lin Xianwen felt that his future was gloomy.
He finally understood what Merlin meant when he said that employment is welfare when he took office.
Middle-aged men who have lost their jobs are the worst off. They have elderly people to support and children who are not yet independent.
Fortunately, the welfare protection in Lion City is relatively complete, and the elderly have relatively complete mechanisms from medical care to pensions.
But if he is laid off by the Lion City government, at least the quality of his children's education will not be guaranteed.
Don’t even think about your children going to study in prestigious European and American schools when they grow up.
As for the scholarship provided by the Lion City government, this path is not within the reach of his son, who has mediocre academic performance and mediocre academic talent.
Lin Xianwen listened to the entire speech of Merlin's inaugural speech the day before in front of the TV.
At that time, he was still thinking about what industry Merlin would set his first fire on.
Because Merlin mentioned that some industries will be subverted and entire industries will be wiped out.
He never expected that he would be the first to be killed.
He called Li Hongyi overnight and tried to get some information:
"Minister Li, if the Lion City fully adopts artificial intelligence to replace government functions in the future, how will we be arranged?"
He asked directly after normal greetings. Li Hongyi still had an impression of this subordinate. After all, they had worked together for so many years:
"I don't know, my father has completed the transfer of power, and in order to avoid suspicion, I have submitted my resignation to the current government.
The resignation has been approved, but I don’t know what will happen next.
I can only give you one piece of advice, that is, don't mess around and wait for Mr. Merlin's arrangements. "
After speaking, Li Hongyi hung up the phone.
I am about to take a job at Science and Technology Biotechnology. Does the situation in the Lion City have anything to do with me?
Li Miaomiao did not agree to give Li Hongyi a senior executive position, but only gave him a position as the head of a certain product manager line.
If he has the ability to do it on his own, they won't set any restrictions.
In fact, many times, whether your relationship is awesome or not depends on whether you can turn the possible into a reality.
For example, in China, department-level cadres in public institutions can be transferred directly to administrative agencies and become civil servants while retaining their rank.
It is possible according to the system, but very few can turn it into reality.
The promise made by Li Miaomiao is yes. As for whether Li Hongyi can turn yes into reality, it depends on whether his father is cooperative enough.
Li Hongyi was obviously reminded of this by Li Xianlong, so when he spoke to the outside world, he always told him not to cause trouble and be obedient.
The civil servants in the Lion City are a very large group. They know that they cannot accept the reality that they are about to lose their jobs.
They immediately linked up and tried to put pressure on Merlin on the street.
Civil servants at the bottom are the majority.
But for people in Lion City, the artificial intelligence processing process is much better than before, both in terms of efficiency and experience.
Therefore, this youxin cannot win the support of the majority of people in Lion City.
If they like to sit, they can sit outside. It’s the holiday period anyway.
The current situation in the Lion City was broadcast live by major media around the world.
In China, it has only been mentioned in a few strokes.
"Youxing broke out in the Lion City, and civil servants took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the new leader Merlin."
As for the dissatisfaction, there is no reason behind it.
In this era of globalization, it is not easy to obtain information.
Most of the discussions surrounding this in China will be sidelined.
Only a few survive.
Various metaphors are popping up on Chinese social media.
Because the situation in China is similar to that of the Lion City to a certain extent. There are 50 million civil servants and less than 800 million employed people.
Public servants account for slightly more than 6% of the labor force.
Not counting the majority of state-owned enterprise employees.
"How to evaluate the serious situation of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty? At this time, Dali Kingdom next door immediately laid off 90% of its officials after changing its king. Can this matter provide some reference for the Song Dynasty?"
The question of using the past to describe the present has been around on Zhihu for a long time.
A problem like this can survive for a long time when there is no fire, but it will disappear in seconds after it becomes fire.
For other countries, the news is not good either.
Because judging from the artificial intelligence used in the Lion City, it can completely replace low-end human positions.
Positions such as various types of customer service, telephone sales, pre-sales managers, etc., which do not require face-to-face contact through communication methods, can all be eliminated.
Most of them have been killed by the artificial intelligence developed by Blue Star, and now the remaining parts can become part of the long history.
At the same time, low-end and even all service-oriented jobs, such as government civil servants, can also disappear.
Artificial intelligence has performed so well in this area, but what about other areas?
An artificial intelligence that has clearly passed the Turing test and is obviously far stronger than ordinary people's basic work capabilities. How much potential can the technology behind it unleash?
This is a question that all practitioners in the artificial intelligence industry are curious about.
In Quora, the question about the service-oriented artificial intelligence of the Lion City government is the most popular question in the computer sector recently.
"What is the level of service-oriented artificial intelligence in the Lion City, and what are the specific technical principles behind it?"
“The artificial intelligence technology recently used by Merlin in the Lion City can easily pass even the latest enhanced Turing test, let alone the earliest definition of the Turing test.
At the same time, in the field of speech recognition, no matter which language I use to communicate with Blue Star, it can perfectly understand what you mean.
I am a PhD in computer science from the National University of Singapore. I can speak Chinese, English and Cantonese.
At the same time, I have classmates from all over the world, some who speak French, German, Spanish, etc.
We chatted directly with the artificial intelligence online, and there was no language barrier for him.
If Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, or Microsoft’s speech recognition capabilities were 10 ten years ago, their current speech recognition capabilities are 15.
The artificial intelligence in the Lion City is at least 100 in speech recognition alone.
You must know that traditional speech recognition mainly converts analog audio into digital signals.
For a computer to decipher the signal, it must have a database or vocabulary of numbers, words or syllables.
This data is then quickly compared to the signal.
We typically store speech patterns on the hard drive and load them into memory while the program is running.
These stored patterns are then checked through a comparator against the output of the A/D converter.
Therefore, speech recognition is related to hardware and software.
Although people have applied artificial intelligence technology to speech recognition in the past fifteen years, the underlying logic will not change.
At most, you can use your usage records and voice to train the database that simulates the corresponding relationship.
I seriously doubt that the underlying logic of Lion City’s artificial intelligence is different from Blue Star’s traditional speech recognition.
As for the specific underlying logic, if I knew it, I would have to be my mentor as a mentor, and he would be my doctor.
Because artificial intelligence in the Lion City involves the entire resident population of six million in the Lion City at the same time.
Artificial intelligence has just come online, and it is the peak period of people's curiosity about it.
At the same time, with such a huge amount of concurrency, I have not seen a single report saying that it went wrong in the local community in Lion City.
You must know that Apple's Siri can be used even when the Internet is disconnected. This is because it is a software embedded in the Apple system.
It just uses the underlying principle I just mentioned above.
In fact, it cannot identify slightly more complex problems.
It can only recognize fixed patterns of needs and recognize standardized spoken language.
The artificial intelligence in the Lion City is different. It identified at least a million problems in this day.
What's more important is that nothing goes wrong, which is amazing.
The failure rate is 0 and the failure rate is 0.01%. These are completely different concepts.
This speech recognition technology alone is worth at least 100 billion yuan.
(The market size of speech recognition in 2021 is 10.7 billion yuan)
Because speech recognition can be used in all fields such as mobile phones, home appliances, and automobiles.
You can imagine a navigation that can perfectly identify your requirements and help you find the most suitable place for whatever you want to eat.
Dig deeper and embed some advertising algorithms into it. For example, if you want to eat a burger, then propose your taste preferences.
The navigation automatically takes you to a burger restaurant that has been recharged.
You can’t put the blame on the AI companies or the AI itself.
Of course I believe Merlin's artificial intelligence will not be used in this regard.
But if the underlying logic embodied in Merlin's artificial intelligence is thoroughly studied by other Internet companies, I think it won't be long before they do this.
Unlabel’s CEO hails translation as the Holy Grail in the field of artificial intelligence.
This statement is agreed by many elders in the field of artificial intelligence.
Why?
There is a mention in the Old Testament of the Bible that people used the same language in the early days to try to build the Tower of Babel leading to heaven. God overturned the Tower of Babel and then gave different civilizations different languages.
This resulted in the inability to communicate between humans.
This story is very influential in the Bible. Similar myths and legends about the collapse of the Tower of Babel also appear in the collapse of Mount Buzhou in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Also in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Mount Buzhou is the only path to heaven.
Such highly similar myths and legends make people doubt whether there really was such a heavenly road in ancient times.
Going back to machine translation, this involves a lot of text content and the models vary from one language to another.
This is the case in Blue Star's machine translation technology.
If translation between multiple different languages is involved, thousands of models will be generated, with excessive computational complexity.
In recent years, the artificial intelligence community has been looking for a multi-language model.
Construct text representations common to all languages through multilingual models.
It can be roughly understood that no matter what language it is, a language-independent meaning representation can be found.
Such a model was first developed in 2021 and was successfully developed by the team of machine translation expert Phiipp Koehn.
For the first time, multilingual models surpassed bilingual models.
Ten years have passed since then, and the progress of Phiipp Koehn's team on multi-language models is far less than expected.
Their team fell apart and reorganized several times because the progress was not as expected.
Until today, the largest application scenario of multi-language models within META is in detecting hate speech.
In other words, among different languages, it is easy to find language-independent meaning expressions for languages related to the emotional element of hatred.
But other emotional elements have never found a breakthrough.
You know Phiipp KoehA, there are 20 billion data trainings every day.
I don't believe Merlin's AI has so much data to train on.
The result is that in the field of intelligent translation, it is comparable to professional translators.
It is even more proficient in recognizing different languages.
I guess Merlin has his own method in the field of artificial intelligence and a special compiled language.
I hope that during my lifetime, Merlin will be able to make this knowledge public.
This should be the biggest dream of all practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence.
Being able to see the results of research that are at least fifty years better than current technology.
I can roughly understand the feeling of the ancient Chinese people who heard the Tao in the morning and died in the evening. "
The above answer was answered by a Chinese student studying in the Lion City.
Basically, all the branches of major Internet companies in the Lion City have sent their employees to test the artificial intelligence used by the Lion City government.
No anti-theft
The headquarters of major Internet companies such as Goose Factory, Rice, Byte, Apple, and Amazon are still waiting for test reports from the Lion City branch.
Companies like Microsoft, whose Asia-Pacific headquarters is in the Lion City, can mobilize more human resources to make judgments about the artificial intelligence of the Lion City government.
