Chapter 510: Ticket to the Future

In China, because for a long time in the past, companies in special effects, art, animation, game development, etc. have mostly survived by doing OEM for foreign companies, so many related materials tend to be in the European, American, Japanese and Korean styles.

For example, the images of some monsters, such as evil dragons and demons, are mostly European and American in style, while some animation characters are often Japanese in style. In addition, there are costumes, weapons, props, and buildings, not to mention these.

From movies and TV series to animation and games, even works with Chinese themes have serious problems with internal cultural pollution.

Of course, this does not mean that all domestic special effects, games, movies, and animation departments are blindly worshipping foreign things, but the materials themselves are already there, and using them directly can not only save a lot of expenses, but also shorten the creation time.

Under the influence of the trend of making quick money in the industry, everyone naturally prefers to save time, effort and money, rather than going through the trouble of creating something in the authentic Chinese style.

However, those small businesses and creators can choose shortcuts due to financial costs and time issues. Cultural enterprises like Galaxy Group, which has already become the number one in the domestic industry, must shoulder greater responsibilities.

At this time, their company will work with the cultural department and the cultural relics department to establish a database based on Chinese traditional culture's cultural relics, ruins, buildings, clothing, accessories, geography, and even sacred information on demons, ghosts, immortals and Buddhas. This will undoubtedly play a role in correcting the source and reversing cultural pollution.

Of course, this digital information database is still in its infancy.

Several teams in charge of the project are all employees of Galaxy Group. Some of them need to travel around the country and cooperate with local cultural relics and cultural departments. Just like Ubisoft scanned Notre Dame de Paris, they will conduct 3D digital scans of our own cultural relics, ancient buildings, and ancient ruins.

In addition, at the headquarters in Shangjing, the remaining team members will also process and save the data sent back from all over the country. Some of the data information will also be sent to project teams like [Black Myth] to help them promote project development.

The various results of those projects will also be transmitted back to the "China Culture Digital Information Database" team at the same time to enrich the content and provide certain help to later generations.

At least in the content presented by the [Black Myth] project team, Wang Hao saw ancient buildings designed based on the Dule Temple in Jixian County, Tianjin and the Jade Emperor Temple in Jincheng, Shanxi.

There are also the Transformation of the Amitābha Buddha Sutra (Western Pure Land Transformation), the Avatamsaka Sutra Three Holy Ones, and the Hell Transformation based on the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Guanyin statue on Baoding Mountain, and the Xiaoxitian hanging sculpture in Xi County, Shanxi.

As well as the Kang Jinlong figure designed based on the clay sculptures of the Twenty-Eight Constellations completed by Liu Luan in the Yuan Dynasty.

These scenes, buildings, sculptures, and characters are entirely derived from traditional Chinese culture and are well-deserved artistic treasures and crystallizations of civilization.

And when they appear in the game, they will undoubtedly be endowed with more profound cultural attributes, allowing domestic players to see the various magnificent or exquisite ancient buildings and monuments of China without leaving home.

Even through it, there is an opportunity to make the world fascinated by the true Chinese culture.

"Yes, I am increasingly looking forward to your project. Video games are the ninth art. In this impetuous age that focuses on game operations and capital gains, it is undoubtedly a blessing for the Chinese game industry to have a group of creators like you who pursue excellence in creativity and extreme details.

We at Galaxy Group share your passion for Chinese culture and are therefore deeply involved in the field of film and television culture.

Now I am also very happy that I have like-minded pioneers in the gaming field.

I believe that this [Black Myth] series will definitely carry all of our expectations for Chinese games and is worth all our patience and waiting.

When the day comes when it becomes as mature and complete as our film industrialization system and the sci-fi movie universe, this stone monkey will surely be able to overcome difficulties and see the light, creating a brand new situation in the domestic game field."

Wow!
Wang Hao's speech brought tears to the eyes of the development team members who had worked overtime and devoted themselves to the development of the [Black Myth] series for a year.

The reason why they chose such a difficult route and chose not to see the mad rush along the way is, as Wang Hao said, to make Chinese games like the Monkey King.

The golden monkey rose to a great height, and Yuyu clarified Wan Liai.

The Chinese gaming industry really needs a work like "Black Monkey" to give gamers and peers in the industry a little shock.

“These are lovely people.”

Wang Hao said this on his way to the next project team after publicly announcing that the Black Myth team members would receive an extra month's year-end bonus to encourage them to keep working hard.

And within the Galaxy Group, there are many lovely and respectable employees like the Black Mythology team.

Afterwards, Wang Hao and the group company's senior executives successively inspected and encouraged the Jiaozi team responsible for the [Fengshen Animation Universe], the Tsui Hark team responsible for the [Shushan Movie Universe], the "Three-Body" team which was in the early preparation stage, and director Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall" team which had entered post-production.

And another secret weapons research and development team belonging to the Galaxy Group.

That is an artificial intelligence (AI) research institute jointly established by Galaxy Group, DJI, OPPO, and several computer science and graphics professors from well-known universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

The main research direction of the institute is artificial intelligence (AI) technology applied to graphics and video processing.

Of course, this research institute was established only not long ago. Although it has the past technological accumulation of several enterprises, as well as the technical talents of various companies and the scientific research team of Tsinghua University, they are still rookies in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. There is still a long way to go in the future, and it is unknown whether they can succeed.

But just like the steam engine in the steam age, the generator in the electrical age, and the computer and the Internet in the information age.

The future will inevitably be an intelligent era, and artificial intelligence (AI) will empower various industries and drive the continued progress of human society. At the same time, their society will also face a new round of reshuffle.

Wang Hao is very confident about this, especially about the future of AI. He has the memory of later generations, and knows that with the emergence of ChatGPT in 2022, the imagination about AI will instantly usher in a big explosion. Whether in China or abroad, AI has become the hottest word at that time. If Wang Hao and Galaxy Group have the ability to take this new era ticket, they will never give it up.

If the mobile Internet era and TikTok allow Galaxy Group to stand shoulder to shoulder with Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, then they who have taken the lead in the AI race may have a chance to surpass these three companies.

Moreover, after Wang Hao learned more about AI, he found that the research and development of this thing was not as difficult as he had imagined.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the technical field in which computer systems simulate human intelligent behavior.

Its core goal is to enable machines to learn, reason, make decisions and adapt to the environment, so as to complete complex tasks that usually require human intelligence to solve, and help expand the boundaries of human intelligence.

This requires intelligent entities to be able to listen (speech recognition, machine translation, etc.), see (image recognition, text recognition, etc.), speak (speech synthesis, human-computer dialogue, etc.), think (human-computer chess, expert systems, etc.), learn (knowledge representation, machine learning, etc.), and act (robots, self-driving cars, etc.).

In fact, most of the global technology companies are currently choosing different directions to conduct related artificial intelligence (AI) research.

Even the research on artificial intelligence (AI) started very early, and its initial stage can be traced back to 1943. That year, before the founding of New China, American neuroscientist Warren McCulloch and logician Waters Pitts proposed a mathematical model of neurons, which is also one of the cornerstones of modern artificial intelligence.

Then in 1950, Alan Mathison Turing proposed the famous "Turing Test" (testing whether a machine can exhibit intelligence indistinguishable from that of a human), and the idea of making machines intelligent began to enter people's vision. At the same time, this test has also become the core element of countless novels, movies, and TV series related to artificial intelligence.

之后有关于人工智能（AI）的理论随着计算机科学的进步，也是一直在飞速发展，历经了起步发展期（1943年—20世纪60年代）、反思发展期（20世纪70年代）、应用发展期（20世纪80年代）、平稳发展期（20世纪90年代—2010年），直到进入如今的人工智能（AI）蓬勃发展期。

In recent years, with the development of information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, the Internet, and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence technologies such as image classification, speech recognition, knowledge question and answer, human-computer chess, and unmanned driving have also achieved certain technological breakthroughs and may usher in a new wave of explosive growth at any time.

However, most of these technological breakthroughs are still in the laboratory stage and have little impact on people's lives. In addition, Wang Hao had not paid much attention to understanding this information before, so he thought that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) was still lagging behind.

In fact, last year, in 2015, Google open-sourced the TensorFlow framework, and in the same year Musk and others co-founded OpenAI.

It is a nonprofit research organization whose mission is to ensure that general artificial intelligence will benefit all of humanity.

Six years later, ChatGPT, which kicked off the AI boom, was created by this organization.

The AI research and development project led by Galaxy Group was officially launched in 2015. Although it is still in its early stages, it also involves many high-end talents from several major companies and universities, and its funding is also extremely sufficient.

The Galaxy Group has already prepared 500 million Chinese yuan for the project in advance, and even if there are no results in the next few years, the Galaxy Group will still invest more funds in it. They are ready for a protracted war.

Of course, in the course of the protracted war, Wang Hao, the time traveler, could provide some help.

Although he did not understand the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI), AI was so popular in the past that he also followed the trend and tried to understand and use it.

Coupled with the media propaganda at the time, even though he did not understand a lot of the knowledge, some of the key points were still kept in his mind thanks to his extraordinary memory.

Especially the DeepSeek software launched by the Huaxia team, and its related "data distillation technology", "reinforcement learning (RL) strategy", "large language model", "hybrid expert architecture", "GRPO algorithm", "inference model"...

Anyway, he took the opportunity of visiting this research institute to reveal everything he remembered that was related to artificial intelligence (AI), intentionally or unintentionally.

Although some of these ideas made the experts and professors in the institute laugh, some of his ideas proposed from the user's perspective also gave these experts and professors considerable inspiration.

Of course, this is just an inspiration. The research and development of science and technology is not that simple. There is no such thing as an idea that can lead to a major technological breakthrough. Many routes still require these scientific researchers to explore, study and try bit by bit.

Fortunately, Wang Hao is not in a hurry at the moment. He just needs to make good movies, run the company well, earn more money, and provide logistical support for the institute.

In this way, in the first half of January, Wang Hao visited and inspected more than a dozen key projects of Galaxy Group in the next few years.

Fortunately, most of these key projects are located in Beijing, so Wang Hao and his team were able to complete the mission in just half a month.

After inspecting the local projects, Wang Hao and others did not stop but began to inspect the remaining projects from near to far.

Their first stop after leaving Shangjing was the "Xingnong" green ecological farm located in the suburbs of LF city.

This is a new project managed by the Galaxy Group's [Asset Management Business Group]. Its main responsibility is to provide green and healthy vegetables, fruits, grains and oils to the Galaxy Shopping Plaza and the [Oriental Galaxy Cinema] canteen.

Food safety is a big issue, and as for the situation in China, how should we put it? We cannot say that it is very bad, after all, the situation abroad is not much better, but it is definitely not excellent either.

Therefore, Galaxy Shopping Plaza also learned from the experience of Pangdonglai and Sam's Club. While tightening the review of suppliers' products, it also set up its own farms and food processing plants to produce higher quality agricultural and sideline products.

As for whether there is a market for these green agricultural products and foods that may be more expensive, there is no need to worry.

Not to mention how popular Pang Donglai and Sam's will be among the middle class in the future, the huge number of employees of the Galaxy Group and its artists and directors alone can digest all the products of this farm.

After inspecting this green ecological farm, Wang Hao even worried that this one production base alone might not be able to meet the needs of the Galaxy Group in the future.

(End of this chapter)

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