Chapter 365 Unstoppable

Chapter 365 Unstoppable

Chapter 365 Unstoppable
Western New District, Sydney, Australia.

Gao Wen, who was waiting for a reply to his resume, finally saw sunny weather on the third day after arriving in Australia.

He brought his little daughter to the No. 1 Primary School in Xixin District.

Principal's office.

Principal Li Haoran took a look at the information submitted by the other party, then raised his glasses and looked at Gao Wen and his daughter, and asked with a smile:

"Mr. Gao Wen, there is no problem with your daughter's admission application, but what mode should Gina choose?"

"Mode?" Gao Wen Fan looked confused.

Before he came, he heard from his wife Jenny that anyone of appropriate age could apply to attend any public school in Xixin District, and the teaching quality was similar, so he chose the No. 1 Primary School.

Now that he heard that he had to choose a mode, he was confused for a moment and asked quickly: "Principal Li, what modes are there? What are the differences between the modes?"

Li Haoran patiently introduced: "Currently, there are three main models of compulsory education in Australia, namely full-time training, general education, and direct access to doctoral studies."

"Full-time training usually starts from junior high school and then goes all the way to junior college. It belongs to the professional training of skilled workers. This is usually carried out in cooperation with enterprises..."

"General education is the old general education model, which is the same from elementary school to high school, and then students can choose their majors during the unified college entrance examination."

"If you go directly to postgraduate study, you can choose your major from high school and study directly to the doctoral stage. Of course, if you feel that you are not capable enough, you can also choose to graduate with a master's degree."

After listening to the introduction, Gao Wen frowned and said, "Is there three choices: junior high school, high school, and college? But what if the child is too young and his parents interfere with his choice? In addition, I think most parents will choose to go straight to a doctorate, right?"

“Hehe…” Li Haoran smiled, “Because starting this year, the graduation model of the Asian Union and Australia is no longer a unilateral matter of the school.”

"What?" Gao Wen seemed to have thought of something.

"We don't mind any student slacking off in school, nor do we mind whether they can graduate or not. To graduate, they must pass a unified exam. If they cannot meet the standards, they can remain a student for life, or choose to drop out."

"Wait a minute, President Li, I have a question. Do master's and doctoral graduates also have to take exams?"

Li Haoran nodded: "Of course, after all, writing a paper is too troublesome. It is more convenient to take an exam directly. Graduate students can write papers now, but all journals only include valuable papers. Those watery papers are not included and are not used as reference standards for graduation."

"But if we do this, will college students no longer have to write papers?"

"No, no, on the contrary, papers will be more important in the future because we are improving the value of papers. With high-value papers under our name, they can be directly absorbed by large companies and research institutions."

"I see..." Gao Wen understood the purpose of this design.

In other words, from now on, all schools in the Asian Union and Australia will adopt a model of lenient admission and strict graduation.

Li Haoran said another thing: "This is also the reason why all schools in Xixin District are available for selection. It doesn't matter which school your child chooses. The results of the graduation exam will be the value of the diploma. The school of graduation is irrelevant."

"Now, according to graduation results, it can be divided into SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, F, a total of nine levels, F is passing, and if you fail, you will not be issued a graduation certificate, or you can choose to drop out of school or stay in school."

"If someone never graduates, and education is now compulsory, should the school allow the student to continue studying forever?"

Li Haoran said indifferently, "Why not? Rather than letting them enter society with unqualified knowledge, it is better to let them die in school."

When Gao Wen heard this, he also felt sad about the future of the children.

At the same time, he also figured out some of the circumstances of this education reform.

It is obvious that the Asian Union has planned to comprehensively weaken the influence of top universities and change the graduation model from school-only to grades-only.

No matter which school you study in, as long as you get an SSS level score in the unified examination, your diploma will directly indicate that you are an SSS level graduate.

In this context, school does become unimportant.

Gao Wen could even imagine that future master's and doctoral graduation exams would become increasingly difficult.

In fact, he has already realized the deeper intention of this change, which is to force some students to develop in the direction of vocational technicians. At the same time, through strict screening, some unqualified college students will be trapped in the university stage, reducing the scale of college graduates and extending the graduation time of college students.

Because as time goes by, ordinary college students really cannot adapt to the current development of the times.

why would you say so?

The answer is that ordinary college students are neither able to achieve low-level nor high-level goals. Due to the relaxed graduation model, many ordinary college students are actually just muddling through their college years and have very poor levels of professional knowledge.

Therefore, now you can not only upgrade from a junior college to a bachelor's degree, but also downgrade from a bachelor's degree to a junior college.

Anyway, public schools are not afraid of you studying for a lifetime. If you go to college and feel that you cannot graduate, you can consider changing your major or mode and study other majors, or simply go to a vocational college.

After all, even if the diploma from an ordinary university reaches S level, it may not be as useful as an SSS level diploma from a vocational college.

Moreover, universities now allow students to work part-time while studying, or continue studying at an advanced age.

As for continuing your studies at an advanced age, the school will not refuse you even if you are in your fifties or sixties, and will not consider your previous academic level. As long as you pass the unified graduation examination, you will still be issued a graduation certificate.

You don't even have to repeat your studies at university. As long as you think your professional level is sufficient to pass the graduation exam, you can directly sign up for the graduation exam.

However, for those who take the graduation examination directly, the graduation school column on their graduation certificate will be marked as: social practice type.

Through this change, the various previous gilded practices of attending prestigious universities can be effectively suppressed.

Even if you are very rich and can use money to get admitted to a top university, it will be useless if you cannot pass the unified graduation or get relatively good grades.

It's like an A-level graduate from China University of Political Science and Law and an A-level graduate from an ordinary university. For the same major, there is no obvious difference between the two.

Of course, PBC University has a large amount of scientific research funds and teaching staff, which may actually have a certain impact on university papers.

But now the situation has also undergone obvious changes. It is not that the scientific research funding of China Guangfa University has decreased, but that the scientific research funding of other schools has increased.

At the same time, the deep ties between supervisors and college students in the past have gradually been dismantled. College students can now apply for scientific research projects, and the funding is no longer determined by the school and supervisors, but is centrally managed and distributed by the Asian Commonwealth University Research Foundation.

In fact, most students do not need to carry out scientific research projects at the master's level.

Even if a master's student wants to conduct scientific research, the standards for applying for funds and the strictness of the review are relatively high, and scientific research foundations will certainly not give money to students casually.

Now the main policy is to have a lenient entrance and strict graduation. If you want to get a good graduation result, you can only keep taking exams.

At the same time, for some exam geniuses, they can also skip grades by taking exams. In this case, this is now allowed.

Even if one is only eleven or twelve years old, as long as he or she can pass the doctoral graduation examination, the Asian Union's China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center will also record his or her results.

After thinking for a moment, Gao Wen asked again: "Principal Li, I have a question. It should be the same in elementary school, right?"

"Yes, all three modes are the same in elementary school. The reason I told you this is mainly to prepare you mentally. After all, Gina will enter the sixth grade of elementary school this year, which means she will face her first choice next year."

"What majors are there in full-time training?" Gao Wen asked.

"You can check it online at the Asian Federation's Australian Special Region Education Information Network."

Gao Wen nodded: "Okay, I will think about it carefully."

"Ask your children more about their ideas. In fact, it's not bad to study full-time training. My youngest son is studying this and he chose the major of AI painter."

"AI painter? After graduating from this major, do you want to be a painter?"

"Mr. Gao Wen may not be aware of the current AI technology, or even the great development of AI. Traditional painters are now in decline. Traditional painters are not as good as traditional novelists!" Although Li Haoran is almost fifty years old, he is still very knowledgeable about various new technologies.

Gao Wen looked puzzled: "I don't quite understand this development."

"AI can write stories, but the traces of AI are too obvious in the stories written by AI, especially in medium and long novels, where AI's performance is even less than satisfactory." Li Haoran himself has used AI to write novels, but after the content exceeded a few thousand words, it began to become incoherent.

"I can understand that."

"But painters are different. Traditional painters often create paintings with single-scene content, which is too easy for current AI, especially professional AI painters. They can lock some skeleton content, generate a large number of them, and then select the appropriate picture from them."

Gao Wen thought about it for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong with Li Haoran's analysis.

Li Haoran talked to Gao Wen based on what he knew: "Nowadays, many novelists can switch to become screenwriters, and use AI technology to synthesize a large number of comics, animations, movies, etc., but it is very difficult for painters to switch to become screenwriters and novelists."

"Technological progress is indeed constantly changing society and life!" Gao Wen also couldn't help but sigh that things in the world are impermanent.

He actually discovered that when he was surfing the Internet these days, he saw a lot of beautifully made comics, animations, movies, etc.

Li Haoran smiled and shook his head. While refilling Gao Wen's cup of tea, he said, "The times have not only eliminated traditional painters and cartoonists, but also traditional celebrity actors."

"Celebrity actor?" Gao Wen nodded slightly.

This is indeed a trend of the times that is almost difficult to reverse.

Even many cultural and entertainment companies that have a large number of real-life celebrity resources are unable to resist the impact of the tide of the times.

Because real-life stars are too expensive, very difficult to control and manage, and are prone to the risk of collapse.

Virtual stars do not have the above risks.

Virtual celebrities do not need to rest, eat, drink, defecate or urinate, do not need to get married or have children, have no physiological needs, do not need to be paid for their work, do not talk nonsense, and will not have the stain of being kept by someone.

Nowadays, many small entertainment companies use patented virtual stars to mass-produce various movies, TV series, and even hold concerts. By launching a large amount of low-cost content, they are able to achieve big gains with small investment.

As long as a small portion of the content becomes popular in a year, the company can make money.

If it is the traditional model, even the more advanced Korean trainee model in Asia, its overall cost is relatively high, and there are various risks.

For example, the real-life idol stars in South Korea are mostly playthings of the chaebols. They only look glamorous in front of the camera, but are depraved behind the scenes.

There is no such problem with virtual idols. After all, no matter how rich and powerful a person is, he cannot have a PY transaction with a virtual idol, right? There is no way to secretly control a virtual idol.

As long as small companies can develop one or two popular virtual idols, they can reap the benefits.

The major social platforms, video platforms, and Internet giants do not want content to be monopolized by large entertainment companies, so they will more or less support small and medium-sized enterprises that create content.

For example, the Fantasy World platform under the Hailufeng Group has approximately 859 million related content creators, 37 studios and 1.8 companies in the Asian Union and Australia.

This is a very large group.

The decline of traditional idol stars and traditional cultural entertainment companies is an inevitable microcosm of the technological advancement of the current era.

The traditional stars' salaries of millions or tens of millions have also been shattered by the tide of technology.

After all, no matter how strong the appeal of real-life stars is, they cannot withstand the impact of hundreds of virtual idols.

Especially now that AI technology is becoming more and more advanced, the realism of many virtual idols on the Internet is almost the same as that of real people. In addition, virtual idols can demonstrate very comprehensive abilities through programs, which is a hundred times better than those young idols who only have expressionless acting skills.

Instead, the screenwriters, producers, authors and the like who used to work behind the scenes became the big winners of the Platinum Age.

A story, with the support of various advanced technologies, is like a jadeite stone, being carved by an all-round AI engraving machine that combines the skills of jade carvers from all over the world.

This can turn a story worth only 3 points into a story worth 5 points through careful crafting.

For example, many of the stories of traditional Japanese cartoonists would only be considered mediocre if placed in the Seres online literature circle.

So why do Japanese comics have such a huge influence?
The answer is that comics are more intuitive, while novels still rely on readers to imagine the pictures, so in terms of direct content influence between the two, novels are naturally at a disadvantage.

But what if novel authors can use AI to create comics? Then the advantages of Japanese cartoonists will disappear.

What's more, the brain wave reading equipment projects of several laboratories have made great progress this year. It is estimated that within two or three years, more practical brain wave working equipment will be born.

At that time, content creators don’t need to write at all. They can directly output the brain images to the device through brain wave working equipment.

For content creators, this is a powerful tool that frees their hands.

The trend of the times is unstoppable at this moment.

(End of this chapter)