"brother-in-law" Zhuang Zicheng had the best relationship with Yang Huan, and they affectionately called him brother-in-law as soon as they walked in.
Although we are engaged, we are not married yet.
Isn’t it too early to call me brother-in-law now?
Yang Huan felt funny when he heard this.
This guy must be here to ask for money.
Otherwise, why would your mouth be so sweet?
"Master Huan" Compared to Zhuang Zicheng's enthusiasm, Palmeraci seemed more restrained.
The two of them didn't look tired at all after staying up all night to fly from China to London.
Instead, they looked very energetic.
Sun Yue and Zhao Yuanfang also followed them in and called out "Master Huan" in unison.
"Come, let me introduce you" Yang Huan introduced Jamis Hassabis with a smile.
Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Luckey came here for Demis Hassabis.
Zhao Yuanfang is Yang Huan's investment adviser.
She has gone to London before and had contact with Demis Hassabis several times.
It was precisely because of the review by Zhao Yuanfang and Cash Harris that Jamis Hassabis was able to meet Yang Huan.
Otherwise, he would have been kicked out long ago.
"Jamis, please talk to all of us about your research first, okay," Zhao Yuanfang said.
Demis Hassabis smiled slightly, took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, and handed them to Yang Huan and others one by one, one for each person.
This document lists the research results of him and several of his companions.
"As you all know, during my time at the University of London, I mainly studied the human brain, focusing on the hippocampus."
"I found that amnesia patients have difficulty planning for the future because their hippocampus is damaged, and in the past, we usually thought that the hippocampus was only related to memory, but it is obviously not the case."
"Importantly, the hippocampus is critical for sense of direction, memory retrieval, and imagining of future events."
"A colleague of mine did a study that proved that London taxi drivers have larger hippocampi than normal people."
Jamis Hassabis's words attracted the attention of everyone present, except Long Wu who was secretly playing the game in the corner.
Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Luckey looked at the documents in their hands very attentively.
The hippocampus determines a person's sense of direction, which plays a crucial role in their research on virtual reality headsets.
Because it may become the key to solving the problem of dizziness after wearing a virtual reality helmet "I want to ask, Dr.
Hassabis, artificial intelligence algorithms are very popular, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, ib, etc.
They are researching this aspect.
What do you think are the advantages of your research?"
Yang Huan was most concerned about this question, so he asked directly.
Hassabis nodded towards him.
"This is not a life-and-death arena.
The more people invest in this research, the more helpful it will be for us, because when more people invest in this research, the more we can broaden our thinking.
I think This is a good thing” After everyone listened, they all nodded in approval.
"In addition, what I want to say is that this is a very, very large system.
No one person or any institution can study it all.
Many other so-called artificial intelligence algorithms actually rely on programmers to pre-program Code, and then computing through code, I don’t think this is artificial intelligence.”
"What about your approach?"
Zhuang Zicheng asked immediately.
Hassabis looked very calm and calm, without the slightest bit of nervousness.
"I do research on the human brain, especially the hippocampus.
I will study how the hippocampus stores and analyzes our memories and how it affects our imagination of the future.
So my idea is to study how brain cells interact. " "I hope to develop a set of algorithms that imitate the working mode of the human brain, just like the hippocampus.
On the one hand, it stores and analyzes memory, which is the vast ocean of data on our Internet.
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On the other hand, through storage and analysis, With this data, the algorithm can develop its own imagination of future events and achieve it accurately.”
Everyone present was surprised, including Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Luckey.
This is indeed very interesting research.
The recognition of Hassabis's research from authoritative scientific magazines proves that his research on the hippocampus is worthy of recognition.
So it is very promising for him to develop such a set of algorithms through hippocampal research.
Everyone's next step can be traced, and they are all affected by memory.
Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as artificial intelligence, because at its core it is just a set of algorithms and has no human consciousness.
But if it is possible to accurately predict the future based on memory, as Hassabis said, it would be a revolutionary innovation.
When Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Lachey heard this, they were already filled with excitement.
Both of them looked at Yang Huan, their eyes seemed to be saying, please, vote, Master Huan.
Yang Huan remained calm and looked at Zhao Yuanfang, who understood.
"Dr.
Hassabis, frankly speaking, you have outlined a very interesting prospect and future, but we also want to know how you plan to build your research team."
Demis Hassabis still didn't look panicked at all.
He gives people the impression that he is sure of victory in everything.
Perhaps, people with a high IQ will give people this feeling.
"It depends on the wishes of the investors.
In my idea, my team should be divided into two parts.
One is to engage in the most basic research, continue to conduct in-depth research, and constantly improve this set of algorithms."
“The other part is engaged in applied research, which is to transform our basic research results into practical applications.”
These words of Hassabis revealed that he is indeed a smart man.
At least he knows how to find a balance between scientific research and practical application.
Investors, of course, want to see benefits.
Who can do a business that is not profitable?
"As for the size of the team, I currently only have three people, all of whom are professional researchers in related fields.
But if I have enough funds, I hope to start with about 30 people and then gradually expand.
It is expected that by the end of the year, the number of people will increase It can reach 150 people, 75% of whom are engaged in basic research, and the rest is applied research.”
Yang Huan and others did not expect that he had even thought about this.
"Can we recruit so many researchers?"
Yang Huan asked with concern.
Hassabis nodded confidently, "Yes, if the conditions are right, I can even recruit people from the research institutes of big companies such as Microsoft, Google and ib."
The research strength of Microsoft and ib is world-famous, and all of them are awesome experts and scholars.
If you want to poach people from here, you can't do it with money.
Perhaps because he was worried about being misunderstood for bragging, Hassabis explained again.
"In fact, Microsoft, Google and ib have all approached me, and many people in their research institutes are interested in my research."
"Then why didn't you go?"
Sun Yue asked curiously.
Hassabis thought about it this time, but quickly replied, "I don't like to join a big company.
I hope to have the power to do independent research.
If I go to a big company such as Microsoft, they will definitely ask for our research."
Serve their product first.”
Yang Huan was happy when he heard this, "We will definitely ask you to provide services for our products first, isn't it the same for everything?"
Hassabis smiled and said nothing, vaguely revealing a meaning.
Compared with Microsoft, Google and ib, your scale is too small. you know "Can I ask you a question?"
Zhuang Zicheng finally couldn't help it and asked.
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"Excuse me."
Hassabis had already noticed Zhuang Zicheng.
"We are studying a virtual reality helmet, but we found that after wearing this wearable device for a long time, you will feel dizzy.
Is there a way to solve it?"
Hassabis thought for a moment and then shook his head, "No way."
This made both Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Rage a little regretful.
"The reason why you feel dizzy is because your vision tells your brain that you are moving at high speed, but at the same time, your body tells your brain that you are not moving at all, so your brain becomes dizzy.
This is the same as motion sickness and seasickness. a truth" "If you want to completely solve it, there's really no way unless you don't wear it, but maybe you can find a way to alleviate the dizziness."
Zhuang Zicheng and Palmeraci looked at each other, and both felt that Hassabis's words were very pertinent.
They have also invested a lot of research energy in this area, but have never been able to make effective progress.
They previously acquired a start-up company in the United States and paid more than 100 million US dollars for it.
But the effect is also very obvious.
The company holds a series of patents, one of the most interesting being digital light field technology.
Many current virtual reality and augmented reality technologies use glasses to focus the eyes forward and prevent them from moving, so the eye muscles are extremely prone to fatigue and dizziness.
But this digital light field technology directly imitates the real light field information of the real world and projects it into the eyes, allowing the eyes to rotate and focus at will just like looking at the real world, and achieve panoramic depth at any angle and distance.
This has basically solved the eye fatigue problem.
However, there is still no way to completely eradicate the problem of dizziness.
Maybe this is an unsolvable problem "By the way, Dr.
Hassabis, we are still studying gesture control and voice control recently.
Is there any way to use your algorithm to accumulate user data and make the control more accurate, even more and more precise?"
This time Hassabis nodded without hesitation, "Yes" Then he added, "And it's not difficult."
This immediately made both Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Lucky excited.
The best way to interact with wearable devices is gestures and voice, but accuracy is a problem.
If the device can learn on its own and become more and more accurate based on the user's habits, that is definitely exciting news and will solve this big problem.
At present, the research direction of Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Luckey is no longer virtual reality or augmented reality.
WeChat Research Institute owns both of these two technologies and is fusing them together to form a brand new technology.
In addition, the research and development of wearable devices has not fallen behind.
Yang Huan was very, very indifferent to the size of the previous virtual reality helmet that was as big as a brick.
After acquiring several companies, it has become possible to become smaller and thinner.
And Yang Huan is not in a hurry.
He continues to spend money on research and introduce experts.
He will not launch the market until both the software and hardware are mature.
Why Apple’s mobile phone achieved revolutionary success Not just because they sell phones, but because they have an entire supporting ecosystem.
It is this combination of software and hardware that has allowed Apple to achieve great success, and it has also made it impossible for followers such as Android and Microsoft to catch up with them, let alone surpass them.
Therefore, Yang Huan’s request to Zhuang Zicheng and Palmer Lage is to continue to work carefully and continue to research and improve.
Anyway, there is still a lot of time, don’t rush, take your time At this point in the meeting, there is actually no need to say anything more.
Yang Huan is committed to this Hassabis project.
So, soon, Yang Huan stood up and expressed his stance.
The old rule is, if you want money, give money, if you want people, give people.
Hassabis demanded that the institute be in London, and he agreed He also agreed to the initial R&D funding of 10 million pounds.
Even in personnel recruitment and project research and development, Hassabis requested a high degree of autonomy, and Yang Huan agreed.
Anyway, Yang Huan himself doesn’t understand anything.
How can a layman lead an insider?
It's better to let them go and take care of the money yourself.
Yang Huan is famous for being possessive, but it is rare for him to be so generous in delegating power nowadays.
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It is rare.
Therefore, Zhuang Zicheng, Sun Yue, Zhao Yuanfang and others were a little surprised.
Could it be that Master Huan is so optimistic about this project: