Chapter 223 AI Super God: In front of the boss, I'm like a rookie!
February 12th, the day before the new semester at Xuyuan College started.
Students returning to school dragging their suitcases walked along Xuelin Road. The cold wind of early spring made the leaves of the sycamore trees rustle. The early cherry blossoms by the Pearl Lake were so dense and compact that they looked like a crimson cloud from a distance.
A silver Bentley drove slowly from the direction of the teachers' apartments, passed the stadium and the library, and finally drove away towards the east gate.
"It seems to be Senior Chen Yansen!"
"Take away the word 'seem'! Besides the principal and the dean, he is the only one in our school who can drive a private car into the school."
"Oh, by the way, I heard that Orange Technology is recruiting voice data annotators, and the hourly wage is 10 yuan per hour. Unfortunately, my Mandarin only passed the second-class B level, which does not meet the second-class A requirements."
"Are there many vacancies? I have a Mandarin Level 1B certificate and would like to try."
"Brother, who says you have to be a top-level Mandarin speaker? As long as you have strong dialect dictation skills, you can still get the job."
Five or six students looked at Bentley's receding back and started talking about him.
At this time, a freshman came over and asked curiously: "Excuse me, senior, where can I sign up? I also want to find a part-time job."
"Orange Technology's official website. First, go to the user profile and fill in your student ID number from Xuyuan before you can see the registration section." One of them answered.
"Thank you, senior." The freshman thanked him repeatedly.
Before Chen Yansen came to Xuyuan, most students in Xuyuan had part-time jobs as librarians and cafeteria cleaners. Not only were the salaries low, but the competition was also extremely fierce.
Often, all positions are taken up in the first week of freshman reporting.
The rest of the people can only work as network administrators, deliver clothes to laundries, and distribute flyers in the city. The daily wage is usually only 30-40 yuan, and they have to work themselves to death.
But since the emergence of Orange Technology and Pinbei, college students who want to earn some living expenses can at least find a part-time job as an online customer service representative, sit in an air-conditioned office, and get free fruits, snacks and tea every day, and easily deposit 100 yuan into their accounts.
Because of this, Chen Yansen felt quite at peace living in the school.
Firstly, many people want to work at Orange Technology or Pinbei Mall after graduation, and Chen Yansen is their future boss, so no one dares to disturb him; secondly, everyone often runs into him on campus, and after seeing him so often, the novelty has worn off.
The other side.
Chen Yansen came to Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, parked the car, and walked into Building 9.
"Good morning, boss!" the tall, youthful and beautiful girl at the front desk called out sweetly.
Chen Yansen nodded slightly and walked towards the elevator.
"Good morning, boss!" Zhou Chuangxi was standing in the elevator. Just as he was about to press the door-closing button, he saw his big boss coming towards him, so he quickly pressed the door-opening button again.
"Good morning, Lao Zhou! By the way, has the iFlytek voice database been synced in?"
Chen Yansen responded and asked casually.
Before speech analysis is officially launched, a large amount of speech data must be collected. Through precise manual annotation and combined with deep learning algorithms, more advanced acoustic and language models can be developed.
This will improve the accuracy of speech recognition! Generally speaking, there are four ways to obtain voice data: first, user-authorized collection; second, professional recording collection, mainly in a paid model; third, free and public voice data, covering multiple languages, dialects and different voice scenarios; fourth, data sharing.
Chen Yansen chose the fourth mode of cooperation. With the help of Tao Jingwen, Orange Technology established cooperation with iFLYTEK. The data generated by Orange mobile phone users using the voice function will be shared by both parties.
Orange Technology saved a lot of money and time, and iFLYTEK was able to take the opportunity to enrich its own voice database.
"Boss, it's done, but about 30% of the voice data has not been manually labeled, so it can only be considered raw data."
Zhou Chuangxi laughed dryly and replied quickly.
After only two weeks on the job, he had already gotten used to the way Chen Yansen addressed him.
As a top student in the junior class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a PhD in electronic engineering from UIUC, he is primarily proficient in computer vision, image processing and speech recognition technologies.
In his opinion, Chen Yan calling him Lao Zhou made it seem more intimate.
At the beginning, the two of them only had a brief chat for half an hour through video interview. Zhou Chuangxi then made up his mind to return to China to join Orange Technology and build an AI voice large model software.
"The HR department is helping you recruit data labelers. Daniel Povey from Microsoft will also join the company next week. Orange Technology's artificial intelligence laboratory will be handed over to the two of you. I hope to see the product go online soon."
Chen Yansen patted Zhou Chuangxi on the shoulder and reminded him.
One of them is 20 years old and the other is 31 years old, but Zhou Chuangxi, a PhD in electronic engineering from UIUC, behaves like a humble student in front of Chen Yansen.
The core reason is: on the one hand, Chen Yansen gave too much, a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan, plus 100,000 stock options of Orange Technology, which was paid in four years. If there were achievements in the middle, there would be additional equity rewards. The annual salary exceeded 4 million yuan.
On the other hand, when he learned that the system framework of Yuxi was independently written by Chen Yansen, he was shocked. After checking the code language, he developed admiration for his new boss.
He knew that with Chen Yansen's computer programming skills, he would become a super star in the field of AI speech recognition even in the Beacon Country.
Therefore, Zhou Chuangxi took the opportunity of working to find Chen Yansen to discuss the optimization direction of the voice model.
These days, he was reminded of his experience studying at UIUC.
"Daniel Povey?" Zhou Chuangxi asked subconsciously after hearing the name of his new colleague.
"You know him?" Chen Yansen asked in surprise.
At this time, Daniel was not well-known in the field of AI. The Kaldi speech recognition tool he was responsible for developing was still in its early stages of development. His most glamorous title was just a senior engineer at Microsoft Research.
"He gave an open class at UIUC and I was very impressed by him. He has great achievements in speech recognition technology."
Zhou Chuangxi praised generously.
"Yes, it's him!" Chen Yansen said with a smile.
"Boss, isn't he a professor at Johns Hopkins University?" Zhou Chuangxi asked puzzledly.
"I told him that Orange Technology's artificial intelligence laboratory will build a computing cluster with PB-level storage and 600 GPUs, and the total computing power will reach 15 PetaFLOPS."
Chen Yansen shrugged and told the truth the main reason why Daniel was willing to join Orange Technology.
15 PetaFLOPS means that 150 trillion floating-point operations can be completed per second.
Of course, he also relied on his super strong mental power like a 'succubus'. With just a few words, he managed to get the future top R&D engineer in the AI world on the phone.
Seven years later, Facebook offered him the position of chief scientist and an annual salary of one million US dollars, but he rejected it outright.
Chen Yansen only offered the other party a monthly salary of 22,000 US dollars, and Daniel happily agreed.
The 15 PetaFLOPS server was really tempting! You know, at that time, the total computing power of the speech processing center at Johns Hopkins University was barely 0.5 PetaFLOPS.
"Boss, are you serious?" Zhou Chuangxi swallowed and confirmed in disbelief.
"How can this be true or false? I asked someone to calculate it, and the cost is only 300 million yuan."
Chen Yansen smiled and shook his head, not caring.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door slowly opened!
Zhou Chuangxi hurriedly chased after him: "Boss, this is 15 PetaFLOPS of computing power. The Titan supercomputer in the Lighthouse Country is only 17.6 PetaFLOPS."
Chen Yansen smiled faintly.
I sighed inwardly, and couldn't help but marvel at the rapid iteration speed of computer computing power.
Thirteen years later, NVIDIA launched an AI supercomputer called Project DIGITS, which can provide 1 PetaFLOPS of floating-point operations per second and is priced at only 21,999 yuan.
In 2012, if you wanted to build a computer server with the same computing power, the purchase price of the hardware equipment alone would be close to 30 million yuan, not counting electricity and maintenance costs.
Zhou Chuangxi widened his eyes and opened his mouth slightly. He finally understood why Daniel, a British guy, was willing to come to China.
The server with 15 PetaFLOPS computing power alone can attract a large number of computer PhDs from Ivy League and Peking University and Tsinghua University.
There are actually quite a few laboratories with super high computing power in the Beacon Country, but with Zhou Chuangxi and Daniel's industry influence, even if they get in, they can only be a stepping stone for others at most. It is not as comfortable as joining Orange Technology and taking full responsibility for a project.
"Mr. Zhou, the hardware needed to build the computing server will arrive this week. You decide on the location of the computer room. In addition, China Telecom has set up a 4G experience point in the Science and Technology Park, so you don't have to worry about network problems."
Chen Yansen added one more sentence before entering the office.
"Okay, boss. I'll get back to work then." Zhou Chuangxi walked to his workstation with a smile on his face.
As we walked, we were amazed at Chen Yansen's strength in the local area.
After all, this was 2012, and the three major operators had not even obtained 4G licenses, but Orange Technology was able to enjoy the 4G network in advance.
Chen Yansen pushed the door open, sat down on the soft chair, and turned on the computer.
Compared with Sweden, Norway, Korea and the Lighthouse Country, China's 4G network is still in the exploration and construction stage in the commercial field.
He first checked the business status of Pinbei, Orange Technology, Kuapao and Yunsu, and after finding that there were no problems, he slowly browsed the news.
'On February 11, the country's first 4G experience point was opened to Hangzhou citizens, with an average download speed of 30 megabits...'
Chen Yansen sneered. China’s first 4G site was clearly in Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park.
But this thing was specially approved for him by Xu Zhenhui and Zhao Maolin, so he can use it but cannot tell anyone.
"Vipshop submitted its IPO application to the Securities Association of the United States yesterday, and it is estimated to raise 125 million U.S. dollars."
"The battle of thousands of group-based online shopping platforms is tense! Lashou, Nuomi, and Meituan are the three major players, while Dianping, Wowotuan, and QQtuan are hot on their heels!"
"Walmart announced that it has increased its stake in Yihaodian to 51% and has officially taken over Yihaodian!"
"Ma Liyun and Wang Jianlin made a 100 million bet. Can e-commerce occupy 50% of the retail market?"
"The food delivery war is on! Ele.me is no match for the newcomer, and only 60% of the market share in Shanghai remains!"
Chen Yansen took a casual glance and felt that the Internet environment in 2012 was much more favorable than that more than ten years later.
A bunch of vertical e-commerce websites that he had never heard of could easily raise tens of millions of dollars in financing.
This is truly an era of carnival for entrepreneurs!
As long as you dare to think and can brag, venture capitalists will really pay for it!
Just like Zhang Yiming's ByteDance, which had no idea about its existence, it received 5 million in financing with just a PPT.
at the same time.
Ali is busy upgrading its B2C business and using Zhifubao to expand payment scenarios; Qiandu is busy optimizing its search engine algorithm and trying to add recommendations for nearby businesses, restaurants and entertainment in Qiandu Maps to divert traffic to group buying websites, thereby earning advertising fees and commissions; Penguin is busy increasing its WeChat promotion efforts, fighting against its own QQ, and announcing that the total number of users has exceeded 100 million! Chen Yansen quietly recruited two AI technical experts from the Lighthouse Country and started the research and development of the voice model.
(End of this chapter)
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