I can extract side effects.

Chapter 542 With the software, the hardware keeps up

The outstanding performance of Sanqing's diagnostic AI naturally affected the hearts of technology giants, and they entered the game one after another, triggering a new round of AI upgrades.

When ChatGPT appeared before, there were rumors that domestic technology companies were developing similar projects. After the announcement of Tianyan, these companies could no longer sit still.

Soon, a number of AI products came out in China, including Ali, Byte, Xunfei, Shangtang, Wanwei and other companies, all of which launched their own new products, which made people dazzled and overwhelmed.

This wave of AI products is exploding, and every minute a new model flashes to the face. Netizens do nothing all day long, just squatting on these AI summits.

While experiencing AI medical treatment, they surfed the Internet intensively, discussing the experience of using AI from various companies and how AI can change the world.

"My God, as soon as Mr. Ma returned to China to supervise the war, Ali took out a new AI 'Tongwen', and with a big wave of his hand, all products in the series must be connected to AI."

"Will Taobao's customer service be AI in the future? Thinking about it, I still have some expectations."

"Great, with AI, the mentally handicapped Taobao customer service can finally speak human language."

"Hopefully it's better than Wen Xin's artificial mental retardation."

"Stop arguing, everyone is equally bad. I tested both of them, and it didn't get any better."

"Hey, I tested it, and it has all the functions, but it's flashy, and it's so-so in use, highlighting the level of a primary school student."

"Don't even mention that the update of artificial intelligence is fast. A month ago, I was complaining that Wenxin was too bad. As a result, after the iteration of the version, the quality of the answer has improved a lot, which is impressive. I believe that if we continue to iterate, sooner or later we will be able to Catch up on ChatGpt."

"Okay, okay, when Ali's family barrels are connected to AI, DingTalk will be able to automatically check in and write ppt automatically in the future. In terms of landing, it is really ahead of the giant, and maybe it will overtake on a detour."

"No matter what, it is always a good thing to do it earlier. Even if it is temporarily inferior, AI can continue to improve and become bigger and stronger."

"Oh, how do they compare with Little Mei?"

As soon as the words came out, the netizens fell silent.

After a while, someone replied: "Brother, without such a bully, can 2D fight with 3D?"

"That's right, when discussing domestic AI in the future, don't include Sanqing. Xiaomei is Xiaomei, and others are others. What does a chat robot fight with a real person? That is the only one."

"Hey, you said it would be great if Sanqing let go of other functions. A young man with a good body like me has nothing wrong with it. It's not a problem to see Xiaomei every day. I really want to talk to her about other things. of."

"Are you serious about this chat?"

"Please, don't you have parents and family members? You can ask Xiaomei to see a doctor for them. It's very clever, and you can tell what's wrong at a glance."

"My parents are more fashionable than me, and they have already used it, and I don't need to teach it at all."

"Xiaomei's function is too powerful. If it is released, most of us will lose their jobs."

"Don't worry about this. Mr. Wei seems to be only focusing on medical treatment, and has no other ideas for the time being. As far as I know, a certain industry leader approached Mr. Wei after the press conference, seeking cooperation, and wanted to introduce Xiaomei to his own products. Come up, but was ruthlessly rejected by Mr. Wei."

"There is such a thing, why refuse?"

"After the popularization of AI, how many people will lose their jobs? The water is deep. It's obvious that Mr. Wei doesn't want to get involved, he just wants to treat diseases and save people with peace of mind."

"It's not something he wants to do. Don't you know what the capitalists think? For example, our company is really outrageous. It even directly uses Xiaomei to identify whether employees are really sick or pretending to be sick. In the past, every Every time someone asks for sick leave, the company will approve it if the time is short, but now the leader has to use Xiaomei to remotely confirm the health of the employee before he can approve the leave."

"I'll go, your company is awesome, the boss's brain is really clever."

"It's normal. Originally, you can only take sick leave when you are sick. It's wrong for you to pretend to be sick and ask for leave. The boss couldn't tell the difference before. Now that you can, it will naturally make up for this loophole."

"What is this? Our company's personnel are very good. We directly assess the physical condition of people during the interview. Wow, I found a single person who came to the interview in maternity clothes and refused decisively. The leader will be very happy when he finds out, saying that it will be an interview in the future." All with AI."

"Is this compliant? Can the interviewer agree?"

"If you want this job, you have to agree. Besides, it's reasonable for companies to require interviewees to be in good health."

"It used to be a physical examination at the time of employment, and you can't break the contract if you find out that you are pregnant. Now you have a physical examination during the interview. If you haven't been admitted, you can't break the contract. It belongs to defeating magic with technology."

"Hiss, thousands of words are gathered into one sentence, awesome!"

"When it comes to how to use tools, it depends on the capitalists. If you don't accept it, you can't."

"I guess Sanqing didn't expect companies to use it like this. It can only be said that the tool is a good tool, but the final result can only be determined by the person who uses it."

"Isn't there a less underworld usage?"

"Yes, our migrant workers are now using it to remotely monitor the health of the elderly at home. It is very useful. This is Xiaomei's real use."

"Think about the good. Other companies use it to monitor employees, and you can also use it to check your girlfriend's body. If there is any infectious disease, genetic disease, or dirty disease, you can see it. Why don't you get out of the hospital?" Has the fire pit been rescued?"

"Hey, it's true. I think it can replace the premarital examination in the future. I won't be afraid that the doctor will hide it from me anymore."

"Will this violate other people's privacy? Does it require the consent of others?"

"That's for sure, you can't secretly take pictures while someone is asleep."

"This won't work. You can't see a doctor with your eyes closed. You have to stare at the camera and slap your face for 30 seconds. The other party must agree, otherwise you can't do this."

"I can rest assured that."

"Upstairs, I smell a bit of gossip. How about it? You have stories and I have wine. Let the brothers have fun by telling them."

"...I'll just ask casually."

"Outside the number, outside the number, are you interested in AI, grandly introduce our AI knowledge group, as long as 699/person, it is currently the highest threshold, the best service AI-related community, in addition to high-intensity update GPT related content, You can also receive a one-month personal account for free, and exchange ideas on using AI to improve productivity with 2000+ elites from all walks of life, many of whom have already used AI to make real money..."

"Fuck off selling lessons~"

Netizens cursed in unison.

******
Kunming, Sanqing Headquarters.

Xiang Gaofei wiped the sweat from his forehead, and reported to Wei Kanghui: "Mr. Wei, in order to further meet the server demand, the number of GPUs we use has increased to 3. The current inventory is used up, and it is expected to continue to be used. This number will exceed 5."

Wei Kang said in surprise: "The demand for GPU is so large? I bought 3 before, and I thought it was enough."

Xiang Gaofei said with a bitter face: "There are still some calculation deviations between the theory and the actual use. Originally, if it was a chat robot like ChatGPT, this number should be enough."

"However, I never expected that the AI ​​would turn out to be a 3D real person like Xiaomei, so the computing power expenditure has greatly increased, and she is too popular. If the number of times was not limited, the server would have crashed long ago."

"That's it," Wei Kang suddenly realized, "I really didn't think about this, so you can buy some GPUs and come back."

Xiang Gaofei shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "That profiteer, Lao Huang, is really too much. The market price of A100 has been fired from 6 to 9, and there is still no market for it. The main reason is that AI is booming now, and all companies are paying attention. Launching its own AI, there is a huge demand for GPU, which makes the A100 a scarce commodity, and the price naturally goes up."

"Fortunately, we made preparations a few years in advance and bought enough for the current demand. Otherwise, we would have no way to deal with it."

"GPUs are currently out of stock everywhere in the market, and even if the agents have them, they are reluctant to sell them. I estimate that if this continues, the price will soon exceed 10."

Wei Kang couldn't help frowning: "I remember when I bought it a few years ago, it was only [-] to [-] or [-]. We bought a lot, and the price was quite favorable. I didn't expect it to become like this now."

"It won't work like this. Artificial intelligence is a new trend now. The demand for high-end graphics cards is skyrocketing, and the price will only become more expensive in the future."

He sighed, waved his hand and said, "If it doesn't work, we can only reduce the number of user experiences per day, from three times to one. Anyway, this demand is not high-frequency, and ordinary people don't look for Xiaomei every day. see a doctor."

Xiang Gaofei nodded: "Understood, this should last for a few more months. I heard that in order to meet the surging demand of domestic customers, Lao Huang has already placed a super urgent order, greatly advancing the delivery date and compressing it to 2- 3 months, and our orders are expected to be delivered in April and May."

Wei Kang praised: "Yes. Let's do it this way. If it doesn't work, the Pangu Research Institute also has 2 yuan, and I can temporarily transfer some for your use."

The GPU of Pangu Research Institute is the higher-end H100, which is mainly used by Anmei. The application scenarios are in drug development, biochemical simulation, deep learning, and internal cloud services.

Generally speaking, these are Sanqing’s private information, and the existing computing power is sufficient. Even if there is additional redundancy, there is not much that can be embezzled.

If it doesn't work, we can only suffer for the users, and wait until the new graphics card arrives in the spring.

The A100 is a dedicated GPU for data centers. There is currently no large-scale alternative solution on the market. To train AI large models, it is highly dependent on GPU chips. The lack of chips will lead to insufficient computing power and cannot handle huge models and data volumes.

The end result is that AI has an IQ gap.

AI with a high IQ is a terrifying gold-swallowing behemoth. It can only spend money on hardware purchases and model training.

Such costs cannot be borne by any company, and there are very few domestic companies with capital reserves, strategic choices, and actual capabilities.

OpenAI was able to make ChatGPT, which was backed by huge funds and computing power, and it has achieved results. The funder is confident that it will continue to spend tens of billions of dollars.

Sanqing would not be able to afford such a high cost if it were not supported by the high-profit main business of medical care.

In terms of hardware, the purchase cost of 100 A8s alone is as high as [-] million, which is just the ticket for general-purpose AI.

ChatGPT spent at least 3 A100 to have the current IQ.

As for the cost of model training, a complete AI big data model training costs more than 5 million yuan. If the algorithm model is to be accurate enough, multiple rounds of model training must be carried out. After 10 rounds, the cost will be as high as 5 million yuan.

In addition, AI large models also require a series of tasks such as data collection and manual labeling, which will cost a lot of money to pile up.

Coupled with the daily operation, model tuning, resource consumption such as network bandwidth and electricity in the later stage, it will be an astronomical figure.

Before and after, a high-IQ general-purpose AI has an investment scale of tens of billions.

At present, only the Sanqing family owns tens of thousands of A100/H100 chips in China, and invested huge sums of money in this area to create this freak of Xiaomei.

Enterprises with cloud services such as Qiandu, Ali, and Penguin logically also have tickets to the AI ​​track, but their business has been losing money, and most of the GPUs they use are low-end and mid-range chips.

If you rush into battle, the AI ​​IQ you make will naturally have a gap.

This is also the main reason why Qiandu's Wenxin AI has a low IQ.

ChatGPT seems to be a simple chat robot, but it is a powerful AI computing power, a muscle display of AI large model and generative AI in the consumer market.

And Xiaomei, an unremarkable leather dummy, is also the embodiment of Sanqing's great achievements in the field of medical diagnosis after years of hard training, and finally penetrated the two veins of Ren and Du.

Since the first anti-cancer drug, Sanqing has invested heavily in AI pharmaceuticals, coupled with the early deployment of the Longtu app and the development of monitoring equipment, it has accumulated a large amount of medical data of patients.

The data and algorithms are available, and the only large-scale manual labeling in China has been done. More than five big data model trainings have finally yielded fruitful results.

The so-called thick accumulation, but that's all.

Wei Kang looks back on the past, looking at the footprints along the way, he can only lament that he did not go wrong, and the long-term strategic layout and massive investment finally paid off.

It's just that the software is there, and the hardware has to keep up.

Wei Kang watched Gao Fei leave and immediately called Lu Tingfeng.

"Old Lu, come here, I have something to tell you."

When Lu Tingfeng hurried over, he couldn't help smiling.

"Old Lu, why are you so impatient, you can't even catch your breath."

Lu Tingfeng quickly forced a smile: "Then President Wei called, how can I make you wait? Of course I can come here as quickly as possible."

"Don't be so anxious in the future, I can afford to wait." Wei Kang couldn't help but shook his head, first told about the success of diagnosing AI, and then asked.

"Old Lu, what do you think about in vitro diagnostic equipment?"

"In vitro diagnosis?" Lu Tingfeng was stunned for a moment, feeling that the boss's mind was jumping a little bit, and couldn't help trying to figure out the boss's intentions.

Does the boss want to enter the in vitro diagnostic market?Then I have to talk to the boss.

He calmed down, organized his words, and said slowly: "Mr. Wei, in vitro diagnosis is mainly a product that detects human blood, body fluids, tissues, etc. to obtain clinical diagnosis information, and then judges the disease or the patient's body function. The market is very broad."

"Currently, 80% of clinical diagnostic information comes from in vitro diagnosis, which is the most important tool and weapon of laboratory medicine."

"Domestic in vitro diagnostics are mainly concentrated in three major fields, biochemical diagnostic reagents, immunodiagnostic reagents, and hematological diagnostics. The first two together account for 3% of the market share."

"Our products include portable biochemical detectors, and fully automatic digital biochemical detectors have also been approved and are under development..."

Wei Kang interrupted him and said, "Pause your automatic biochemical instrument for a while, I have a new idea."

"By the way, you should have an impression of a telephone booth, right?"

Lu Tingfeng froze for a moment again, and was a little at a loss by the boss's jumping thinking: "I have...a little impression."

"Or an ATM machine may be more appropriate. That's right. I was thinking that there are many in vitro diagnostic equipment in the hospital, but there are only a few commonly used ones. They are nothing more than biochemical, immune, and blood tests."

Wei Kang pondered and said, the more he talked, the more excited he became: "Then, is there a possibility that all these detectors can be combined into one fully automatic device, and then made into a phone booth or an ATM machine."

"Anyone, as long as they walk in, can do various tests and get the test results automatically, which is very convenient."

Lu Tingfeng's eyes straightened when he heard this, this was a scene he had never imagined.

(End of this chapter)