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Ning Wei was very moved by Tim Cook's elegance. He was probably a friend, so Ning Wei also acted very directly.

"Haha, Tim, this is a good thing. Tomorrow our March Smart Awards will announce the list of winners. In mid-March next year, well, the initial schedule is March 12, and the awards ceremony will be broadcast live to the world. Thinking of our We have a cooperative relationship with each other, so we specially invite you to attend this award ceremony.”

"Next March? Wait a moment. Let me check the schedule first. Are there any important events planned for that time... Well, it seems there are not yet, but there will be an important meeting in Europe on March 8th next year. , it has been determined that I must attend, I hope this meeting will not last too long, if the problem can be solved in two days, I should be able to make time."

"Oh? March 8th? This is indeed a bit unsafe. Why don't you tell me why the meeting time was set so coincidentally? I'll try to see if I can change the time of this meeting. To be honest, although I am My reputation may not be very good in the United States, but I still have a good reputation in Europe, and I have a lot of friends, some of whom I can still talk to."

"Well...it was a meeting about the latest revision of the General Data Protection Regulation, and I was invited to give some speeches. Ning, it's a coincidence that this revision of the GDPR can be said to be the result of the official belief that the emergence of strong artificial intelligence has brought about Some technical changes require changes. Huawei will also participate in this meeting. At this meeting, it will be determined whether strong artificial intelligence devices can obtain users' private data at a legal level, or whether we should hand over the data to a person who can think about it. machines to manage. The final discussion results will be directly related to our future product planning and the future development behavior standards of those developers."

…

Ning Wei really didn't expect to invite Tim Cook to attend the awards ceremony in March next year. It was quite interesting to hear such news, because he had never thought about this issue himself.

"What do you mean?"

"If machines can better serve humans, then why not? It was originally a discussion that was too late to eat, so I decided to be invited to speak at the conference. The focus of this topic should be how to ensure that people's privacy data is stored in Under the strong intelligent management mechanism, how to ensure that this information is not leaked through legislation, rather than whether machine consciousness should serve humans. The former is the legal issue that truly adapts to the times, and the latter is a necessary step in the development of science and technology. "

"Haha, Tim, I think we can become very good friends, because I think so too. But in fact, they all know this, but there are still too many people who dare not face the development of the times, or they They are unwilling to invest all their intellectual property rights into the platform. If the March Intelligent Platform is in their hands, the topic of the meeting must be how to effectively protect private data from being leaked through machine consciousness."

"Maybe, then..."

"Don't worry, Tim, if you really want to come to our award ceremony, I believe you will have time by then. After all, you can't keep speaking at the meeting. Don't you think that when you finish expressing your opinions, if you continue Is it a waste of time to stay there? Of course, it’s a little hard work to get to China from Europe.”

"Okay, Ning, I'll ask the secretary to help me arrange the time."

"Thank you very much, Tim Cook. When I come to Beijing this time, I will treat you to a barbecue. Believe me, the place where I treat you will taste... you will definitely not be able to taste it in the United States."

"I'll keep looking forward to it!"

…

After hanging up the phone, Ning Wei thought about it carefully.

Although he did not consider privacy issues, Huawei should actually have considered this issue.

To ensure that smart applications can bring changes to people's lives, they need to obtain some extremely private content, such as voice service content, such as machine chat assistance software on new smartphones. First, they need to obtain permission to read private content. , to be able to provide services.

This is just like if Ning wants March to manage his Weibo, he must first give him the permission to read the content in the comment area. To let March manage WeChat, he also needs to give March the permission to read the content of WeChat.

Technically speaking, artificial intelligence is restricted by extremely strict programming language and will not leak any user's private content. Even if machines are given the power to chat autonomously, these programs will completely avoid privacy leaks during the chat process.

To be honest, artificial intelligence is definitely much more reliable than humans when it comes to keeping secrets. If legislation is really passed to protect privacy, all privacy will only be stored in the artificial intelligence database, and it will basically be impossible to leak it unless the person responsible for managing the artificial intelligence data platform is found.

After having a clear understanding, Ning Wei didn't plan to ask about it anymore.

If the final result of the discussion on this issue is to restrict the control of privacy by machines, it is obviously not a technical matter. Whether Huawei or Apple are definitely more motivated to solve this problem, there is no need for him to worry too much.

He even hopes that the final revision of the regulations will force Apple to be more aggressive.

In this way, it is impossible to say that his previous imagination will come true.

Apple and Huawei have in-depth cooperation, especially Apple's removal of Apple Mall barriers for Huawei products. Together, with the strongest intelligent management platform, they can jointly carve up more than 90% of the world's high-end product market and 8% of the world's high-end product market. Ten mid- to low-end markets.

This data is not a conclusion drawn by Ning Wei. Once the capabilities of artificial intelligence are fully activated, the user experience will be improved exponentially. Who doesn’t want their necessary communication equipment to be able to do all the preparations before doing something?

So after just going over the topics of this meeting in his mind, Ning Wei put the matter aside. Again, he doesn't intend to interfere with business matters.

Opening his phone's address book, he decided to make the second call to Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook. This boss has never been to China, so Ning Wei thought he could try to invite him.

The main reason is that Ning Wei feels that the private content of many users on Facebook is not flooded on the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg needs to thank him for this. He could have made money exploiting a vulnerability in the main architecture of Facebook's program, but he gave up.

Especially after Facebook changed its name to meta and showed its ambitions for the metaverse, there is a basis for cooperation between the two parties.

Adhering to the principle of putting the easy things first and then the difficult ones, we have greater confidence in inviting this otaku living in the United States to attend the award ceremony.

What makes Ning Wei happy is that he still hasn't been blocked.

"Mr. Zuckerberg, this is Ning Wei."

"Actually, I know..."

"This call is to inform you of the good news, Mr. Zuckerberg, that you have been selected as a special guest at the first global awards ceremony of the March Intelligence Awards. This award ceremony will be held on March 12 next year. It is held by China, so can you take time to attend this award ceremony?"

"Well……"

"You can follow your heart, Mr. Zuckerberg. We have relatively few interactions. It should be said that we have never met. You may not know me very well, but in fact, I admire the kind of people who dare to say no to life. For example Not everyone has the courage to drop out of school after being admitted to Harvard and change their lives through entrepreneurship and still achieve success. If you do what Bill Gates did, you will still face a more complicated situation than Bill's era. Really, in comparison, you are even greater than Bill. So I really hope you can come to this ceremony and we can have a good chat."

"After all, although Facebook's name is changed to meta, it does not represent the future era of the metaverse. Facebook is still the overlord of Internet social networking. Perhaps in the future, in the virtual space opened up by technology, people will be more accustomed to using another metaverse that can be used Alternative social software that can log in with a universal account and share virtual online life, such as Bishu? Or Eyeshu? This is very possible, Mr. Zuckerberg, what do you think?"

Mark Zuckerberg probably didn't expect to hear such a message when he picked up the phone. He obviously hesitated for a long time before the voice came from the other side.

"I remember that you were not interested in the grand project of the Metaverse, and you even claimed that it would not be possible within ten years?"

Ning Wei quickly replied: "Yes, but in fact, what I said is very clear, that is, if I am not interested in this matter, of course it will be impossible within ten years. In fact, I am indeed not very interested, The main reason is that I am very busy. Designing a new architecture of CPU and a universal operating system requires too much energy. I have other arrangements, but now I also have some new ideas, such as re-planning the operating system in the future to be more suitable for virtualization. "

These words made Mark Zuckerberg silent for a longer time. It took him a long time to organize his words and said: "If I understand correctly, you mean that if you want, you can make the Metaverse in a short time." Do we have the foundation for operation, or can we say that we have established the framework for the early metaverse?”

"Yes, that's probably what I meant." Ning Wei replied firmly.

"With all due respect, Ning, do you know how many relevant technical personnel are working on this project in my company? They are all very creative people and very smart. They are quick to accept any new things and they are all ready. Working hard for the same goal, we have even achieved a lot of results. So do you really think you are better than all these people combined?"

Mark Zuckerberg asked seriously and began to speak faster.

"Mark, tell me, in meta, how many people are working on your most basic software architecture every day? Are there more programmers than those who are working on the metaverse?"

"Sorry, I think the exact composition of the researchers is a secret."

"Okay, okay, it doesn't matter if you don't tell me, but you can't deny that Meta Company has so many outstanding talents, but no one discovered that there were fatal loopholes in the software they developed... However, I discovered it. ”

"this……"

"And to be honest, Mark, I really don't care how many people in your company are studying the Metaverse. It actually has nothing to do with me. But what I want to remind you is that before you proposed the Metaverse, the global research on artificial intelligence There are more scientists from IBM, Google, Microsoft...including you of course, and many laboratories in many schools have similar projects. But IMHO, the result of the work of so many people is that as long as the products are brought into The word "intelligence" can actually be replaced with "mentally retarded". It wasn't until March that I started teaching people on the Internet how to redefine intelligence. So when doing research on this matter, do you really think there are more people on one side than on the other? Is Bian stronger?"

"..."

"Okay, I'm not going to waste my words anymore, Mark. I invite you again to come to China to attend our awards ceremony. If you refuse, I won't invite you. It's too tiring, so are you willing to come?"

"Maybe I just have time in those days..."

"Then welcome, Mark. After you come, I can have a good chat with you about the various elements of the metaverse. Some of my research results may be useful. By the way, I hate people who are dishonest. , if someone cheated on me, God knows what I would do."

"..."

…

"Mr. Gelsinger, long time no see. How are you doing?"

"To be honest, it's not that great. I'm in a meeting and we need to find solutions to some underlying problems..."

"Thank you very much, Pat, for taking the time to answer my call during the meeting. I'll keep the story short. I hope to invite you to our March Awards Ceremony on March 12 next year."

"March 12 next year? Sorry, Ning, I may be very busy in March. In addition to the company's board of directors, there are also some important forums that I need to attend. In addition, important internal board of directors meetings within the company will also be held in March... "

"Oh, that's such a shame. I thought we could use this meeting to discuss possible cooperation. Pat, I know you don't like me very much, but it doesn't matter, I also like to hold grudges. And guess what? , I am not a businessman yet, and I don’t care much about business gains and losses. If you can’t come, I will still invite the lady from AMD to attend this award ceremony. Maybe we can also reach a package cooperation plan..."

"Ning, are you threatening?"

"Threat? No, Pat, I am just stating a fact. Once you have been in contact with me for a long time, you will know that I never threaten people, but predict. For example, in the future, our technology may not be able to obtain a certain market, but I don’t mind benefiting a third party who has a common dissatisfaction. Maybe I will share the detailed technical information of 3D silicon through silicon with Intel’s friends, including the instruction set we have designed. In this case, maybe we We can share the world's high-end general semiconductor market with our allies. Until one day when Intel loses a large amount of market share and resumes its review, the content of our chat today will be announced to the outside world. Of course, it can also be written in my autobiography. At that time, everyone You will know, oh, it turns out that Intel’s decline started when you refused a well-intentioned invitation..."

"Haha, you also said that is the future, right? Neither I nor Intel will ever be afraid of any future challenges!"

"Oh, Pat, your words reminded me that the future alone seems not enough. Maybe I can hold a special press conference to once again announce to the outside world some undiscovered vulnerabilities of the Core series CPUs, and then praise Intel friends by the way. Although the manufacturer’s products use the same instruction set architecture, the underlying design is far more secure than your products?”

After saying that, before the other party could speak, Ning Wei began to deny himself again: "No, it can't be like this, it doesn't comply with the established rules. How about this? I'll wait until February and report a 0day to you through the official channels you provided." I will give you a month to fix the vulnerability and give you one month to fix it. If you cannot fix it within the time limit, I can just announce on the night of the award ceremony that you don’t care about the hardware vulnerability, and then report the details of the vulnerability to the third party. In this way everything will be smooth. It complies with the regulations. Then by the way, I would like to praise your friend's products, no matter how good their performance is, at least they can beat yours in terms of safety, and then add my thoughts about the future, what do you think?"

Pat Gelsinger didn't seem to know how to answer this. After a long silence, he asked: "Ning, aren't you afraid that I will publish the content of our chat?"

"Haha, Pat, you really know how to joke. Does publishing this do you any good? It's not convenient for you to take it out of context. After all, I still have the full version here. If the full version is announced, everyone will only be more interested in your products. Distrust, as for me... it really doesn't matter. Anyway, my reputation in your country is not very good. And I don't mind if this reputation continues to decline, so what should I be afraid of? As long as I don't violate China The law is enough, don’t you think?”

The silence on the other side was longer this time, making Ning Wei too lazy to wait.

"Okay, why don't we meet again, Mr. Gelsinger, I sincerely invite you to come to the capital of China as a special guest to attend the March Intelligence Award Ceremony to be held next March. Can you spare some time from your busy schedule? Time to come? Before you, Tim, Mark, Arvind... they have all accepted my sincere invitation and have confirmed that they will attend this feast."

"Maybe...well, will you send me a formal invitation?"

"Of course, if necessary."

"Well, it suddenly occurred to me that maybe the board meeting can be postponed to late March. Thank you very much for your invitation, Ning, for giving me the opportunity to witness this event that is destined to be unparalleled in the scientific community."

"You're welcome, Pat. I would like to thank you very much for coming to this award ceremony."