Chapter 369: Different reactions

Chapter 369: Different reactions

Chapter 369: Different reactions
at the same time.

Major Internet companies were also somewhat caught off guard by the AI ​​restrictions just introduced by the Asian Federation.

Obviously, before the introduction of the new law, these Internet companies were not invited and did not participate in it, so they did not know about the restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Dozens of medium and large Internet companies within the Asian Union are also anxiously studying the new law.

The parent company of the Note platform.

This Beijing-based Internet giant was also caught off guard, and apparently they did not receive any relevant news.

Qiao Zhengwei, who had just taken over as president of the parent company of the Yinfo platform two years ago, had a rather solemn expression on his face.

Deng Liande, the head of the company's legal department, raised his glasses and said, "Mr. Qiao, according to our legal department's research, the introduction of this new law will greatly restrict our research and development in artificial intelligence."

"How serious is it?" Qiao Zhengwei asked.

Deng Liande flipped through his notebook and gave a brief report on the content he had summarized more than an hour ago:

"The first point is the issue of supervision. In the future, all institutions involved in artificial intelligence research must report to the regulatory authorities and unconditionally accept comprehensive monitoring and management, including providing R&D ideas, program source code, and conducting security testing."

Deng Liande, who was dry-mouthed, paused for a moment to give everyone present time to understand. After a while, he continued:
"The second point is about supporting facilities. In the future, institutions that conduct research on artificial intelligence will not be able to access the public network. At the same time, modern communication equipment must be prevented from entering the research site, and artificial intelligence must be prevented from entering the Internet."

Everyone looked at each other.

“Third, research institutions on artificial intelligence in areas such as human behavior and simulated emotions must be subject to stricter monitoring.”

"Fourth, it is strictly forbidden to use artificial intelligence to control weapons. We must prevent artificial intelligence from controlling means of production, production tools, armed forces, etc."

Next, Deng Liande continued to talk about six restrictions.

After hearing this, everyone present not only looked very unhappy, but also felt helpless, because judging from the introduction of the new law this time, it was obviously not a request for their opinions, but an order for compulsory execution.

If they have any ideas, the consequence that awaits the Note platform and themselves is iron fist sanctions.

Qiao Zhengwei looked at Dr. Li Zige, the head of the company's artificial intelligence research department: "Dr. Li, what do you think?"

"Oh! What can we do? We can only accept the reality!" Li Zige's expression was full of bitterness and helplessness.

Another vice president in charge of operating the live broadcast business reminded with a twinkling look in his eyes: "Boss Qiao, in fact, the new law does not have any direct negative impact on us, and it is not just for us, but all companies within the consortium must comply with it."

"Yes, our company can actually accept this." Another vice president in charge of e-commerce business also echoed this view.

“But the company has invested so much…” The person in charge of the artificial intelligence business was a little indignant.

But it was useless for him to be angry. What's more, the parent company of the Note platform was not just engaged in artificial intelligence, and the interests of various departments and business units were also different. He found it difficult to accept, but the heads of other departments thought it was no big deal.

Qiao Zhengwei glanced at the expressions of everyone present. He was naturally aware of the internal strife on the Note platform, but as a professional manager, he did not have the ability to solve this problem, nor did he intend to solve it.

After a while, he slowly said: "Let's wait and see for a while. If other companies don't react, then we will follow the rules! That's it! Adjourn the meeting..."

...

The reactions of these Internet companies in the Asian consortium are similar to that of the parent company of the Note platform.

All of them chose to wait and see, and no one wanted to be the first to take action.

After all, the Asian Federation is much stronger than the former Seris. In the past, it had to consider the influence of America and the European Union, but now it only needs to consider internal issues, and naturally does not need to make too many compromises with these companies.

Now if a company says it wants to move to America, the Asian Union will take direct action instead of trying to appease it.

After all, as the most powerful force in the world, its productivity is almost three times that of all other forces in the world combined. A mere enterprise has no right to force the Asian Union to compromise.

Many large Internet companies within the consortium have now been restricted and suppressed several times.

For example, false advertising, providing traffic diversion services for illegal websites, deliberately allowing the spread of rumors, charging fees in violation of regulations, and deliberately setting up non-interoperable software content are the main contents of those major rectifications.

Small Internet companies can now get a breathing space because these several Internet rectification actions have provided them with a relatively good space for development.

For example, the Fantasy World platform under the Hailufeng Group was developed during this period.

For example, the number of professional e-commerce platforms above a certain scale has increased from less than ten to 87.

The so-called above-scale refers to e-commerce platforms with more than 1000 million registered users.

In fact, the strength of e-commerce platforms is no longer as strong as before.

This situation is still the fault of Jiang Miao and Hailufeng Group.

For example, Pinxixi and Hailufeng specialty stores, which focus on agricultural products, now maintain a large number of registered users. However, the transaction volume on the two major agricultural products e-commerce platforms shows a gradual downward trend.

The fundamental reason for this is the rapid expansion of indoor farms and indoor breeding farms, which has made it increasingly uneconomical to purchase agricultural products from other places.

The Hailufeng franchise store can still rely on its first-mover advantage to set up indoor farms and breeding farms in various cities, but Pinxixi is really miserable.

After all, Pinduoduo does not have its own farm, nor does it have the technology of Hailufeng Group. It is just a simple e-commerce platform. Faced with the indoor farms and local fresh food supermarkets that have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, Pinduoduo was caught off guard.

Now Pinxixi has to undergo a comprehensive transformation and build indoor farms and self-operated fresh food supermarkets in various cities.

In fact, e-commerce platforms such as Taobao are doing the same thing now.

If we don’t do this, the online sales business of vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, milk and other products will become smaller and smaller.

This trend forces all e-commerce platforms to move from virtual to real, otherwise they will die.

After all, locally produced vegetables and fruits definitely have the lowest transportation costs, the best freshness, the lowest logistics losses, and the shortest delivery time.

After indoor farms break the regional and climate restrictions on agricultural products, the cost advantages of e-commerce platforms will be suppressed. This is an inevitable result.

The Hailufeng Group doesn't care. After all, the group has a large number of patented technologies and huge economic agricultural product production. Even if the e-commerce business is not profitable, it will not affect the profitability of the Hailufeng Group.

But other e-commerce platforms are in big trouble.

...

If the Internet companies within the Asian Union are collectively silent at this time, the public is discussing this matter heatedly online.

The Internet companies in the North Atlantic Union, on the one hand, ridiculed the Asian Union for stifling the creativity of enterprises, and on the other hand, continued to plan the development of artificial intelligence. However, the Internet companies in the North Atlantic Union are far behind the Asian Union in research on artificial intelligence.

The reason why this happens.

The reason is that America had previously used a backdoor to destroy high-end equipment of semiconductor companies in South Korea and Dayuan Island.

In retaliation, the Asian Union also launched a comprehensive ban on European and American semiconductor technology.

After the two sides hurt each other in the semiconductor industry, the Asian Consortium had new technologies to replace them, so the current chip process has reached 3 nanometers.

The semiconductor technology of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has regressed to 14 nanometers in chip manufacturing process.

That’s right, the semiconductor technology in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has now regressed to 14 nanometers, and there is only one company that masters the 14 nanometer process, and that is Intel.

It seems that this development is a bit beyond the expectations of many people.

But this is actually an inevitable result of the post-globalization era.

In the past, individual countries did not master the entire industrial chain and production technology. They had to obtain technology and parts through global division of labor in order to produce complete and advanced products.

Now the global system is broken.

The world was divided into three parts: the Asian Commonwealth, the North Atlantic Commonwealth, and the Southern Alliance.

The North Atlantic Consortium is actually incomplete in terms of semiconductor technology, especially without the three core semiconductor blocks of South Korea, Japan, and Dayuan Island, their semiconductor industry has rapidly degenerated.

Even though the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is now supporting its own semiconductor companies, due to the collapse of the global market and the disappearance of external competition, semiconductor companies such as Intel and Texas Instruments have become even less enterprising.

After all, I can monopolize the internal market and cannot enter the external market, so why should I spend so much time researching new technologies?
It is because of this situation that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's semiconductor industry has now regressed to the 14-nanometer process.

The degradation of semiconductor manufacturing processes has also caused chip performance to stagnate.

This in turn affected the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Internet companies, especially the artificial intelligence industry, which required high-performance chips, and its development speed naturally slowed down.

Therefore, when intermediate artificial intelligence appeared within the Asian Union, the North Atlantic Union was still lingering at the primary artificial intelligence stage.

This time, the Asian Union announced strict control over the development of artificial intelligence. From the perspective of Internet companies in the North Atlantic Union, this is a great opportunity for them to overtake others.

Google headquarters in America.

Greer Morgan, the new CEO of Google, looks at a report from the Office of International Business Intelligence and Analysis.

Across from him was Kate Brown, head of the company’s artificial intelligence business.

Grayer raised his head and looked at Kate, who was also reading the report, with a somewhat uncertain look: "Kate, what suggestions do you have for the Asian Federation's bill to restrict artificial intelligence?"

"Mr. President, we don't need to worry too much. After all, the North Atlantic Federation's artificial intelligence lags behind the Asian Federation. Even if there are problems, they will have them first. Therefore, we will continue with the previous development arrangements."

"Are you sure?" Grayer asked with a hint of doubt.

Kate naturally didn't want the business she was responsible for to be cut off, so she replied confidently: "Yes, I promise, our technology has not yet reached the intermediate level of artificial intelligence, so the possibility of artificial intelligence getting out of control is very small."

"In that case, we will continue to develop artificial intelligence according to the previous arrangements, but you still need to pay more attention to the risk of artificial intelligence getting out of control." Grayer finally reminded seriously.

Kate remained calm and assured: "I promise, there will be no problem."

Grell was skeptical about Kate's assurance. He said with a serious face, "Although I agree to continue developing artificial intelligence, you still have to prepare! This Thursday, hold a public technical exchange meeting to show investors and the consortium that our technology is safe and there is no risk of it getting out of control."

"OK, I will definitely convince the investors."

Other Internet companies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have performed similarly.

They use their Internet hegemony in the North Atlantic Union to manipulate public opinion and throw mud at the Asian Union.

On the other side, everyone showed off their skills.

Some companies hold technical exchange meetings.

Some companies post videos and announcements online.

There are also companies that allow everyone to test their own artificial intelligence.

These companies all hope to use public opinion to eliminate the public's doubts about artificial intelligence and avoid affecting the company's stock prices.

Of course, they also made some preparations in advance and started using hedge funds to short their own stocks and reap the profits first.

The responses of these companies did not gain public recognition in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but instead sparked further discussion. Many people felt that the words of these companies could not be trusted at all.

After all, as the core part of the North Atlantic Union, America has always been known to the world as an inhuman being.

Especially those within America, they are even more distrustful of what these companies say.

On the contrary, the explanations given by these companies had the opposite effect, making people feel that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was covering up some facts.

There were already anti-AI groups within the North Atlantic Union. Under the influence of this trend, the power of anti-AI groups expanded rapidly, and cases of planning attacks on Internet companies began to emerge.

Moreover, America, the European Union, and Russia within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have shown different attitudes towards the control of artificial intelligence, which further promotes the development and growth of anti-artificial intelligence groups.

In fact, it is no wonder that ordinary people in Europe and the United States are wary of, disgusted with, and hostile to artificial intelligence.

On the one hand, in various European and American movies for a long time, the impression of artificial intelligence is often that of a negative villain.

Whether it is the Red Queen and the White Queen in the "Resident Evil" series; or Skynet in the "Terminator" series; or the Matrix in "The Matrix".

In these movies, the roles of artificial intelligence are all negative.

On the other hand, ordinary people in Europe and the United States are very clear about one thing, that is, artificial intelligence cannot bring benefits to ordinary people.

Now they can still be used as blood bags, organ donors, and cattle and horses. Once artificial intelligence technology develops further, their utilization value will be even lower.

This is also the underlying psychological factor that makes them subconsciously oppose artificial intelligence.

(End of this chapter)