Not to mention that Procter & Gamble has launched a consolidation movement among domestic chemical companies, which has made the domestic daily chemical industry turbulent and made every practitioner in the daily chemical industry feel the excitement of the great era.
Zhao Yi still stayed at home and was busy with his own affairs at home. After more than a month, the intelligent translation expert has studied all the digital books of Tianwen University.
After Zhao Yi's test, it was found that the translation accuracy rate reached more than 99.9%, which is much higher than the accuracy rate of ordinary manual translation. It is fully capable of translating scientific works.
Moreover, due to previous training of intelligent teachers, Zhao Yi has also accumulated basic cultural materials that can be studied by intelligent translation experts this time, and the effect is much higher than that of ordinary translation.
There are two types of translation of works. One is straightforward translation, which only translates the meaning of foreign language materials clearly, but does not mention literary talent.
This kind of translation is better in scientific works, but it is really unflattering in literary works.
Translation experts have reached the second level, that is, they can not only translate and understand the meaning of foreign languages, but also use the characteristics of Chinese. The translated articles are also quite astonishing and highly readable.
This is what primary artificial intelligence should look like. When Zhao Yi specifically asked an intelligent translation expert to translate the play "Shakespeare", the translation expert translated several different styles of translations for Zhao Yi, including one in pure Chinese.
This made Zhao Yi admire him for a while. If he did it by himself, although he could achieve such an effect, it would never be so efficient. This is the terrible thing about primary artificial intelligence. It has capabilities that are incomparable to human power. Advantage.
To be honest, if Zhao Yi lets junior artificial intelligence learn programming, all the R&D personnel in Fanxing Software Company will face unemployment. Junior artificial intelligence definitely has such strength and efficiency.
This is also the reason why Zhao Yi doesn't want others to know that he has real artificial intelligence here. It is really very important. If others find out, it is estimated that people all over the world will have trouble sleeping and eating.
For example, combined with high-precision mechanical devices and automation equipment, the use of rudimentary artificial intelligence can definitely lay off 99% of the world's industrial production workers.
If scientific simulation algorithms are used, even rudimentary artificial intelligence can replace part of the primary research work, leaving those at the bottom of scientific research facing unemployment.
There are still many application fields like this, so even if Zhao Yi has his current status, he does not dare to release elementary artificial intelligence rashly. Even he cannot predict the consequences of this.
Now that the intelligent translation experts are ready, Zhao Yi asked the law firm to help handle the relevant procedures for Tianwen Publishing House. Although this company has the same name as Tianwen University, it is not related.
Then there is the recruitment of employees for Tianwen Publishing House. Most of the employees are still printing factory workers, and the rest are some publishers and administrative staff.
It is relatively easy to recruit these employees. It is rare to recruit translation experts. Although the translation accuracy of artificial intelligence exceeds the level of human translation, it does not mean that human translation talents are not needed.
The first is that human translators are needed to handle the last step for intelligent translation experts and try to make the translated works more accurate.
The second reason is that intelligent translation experts cannot perceive the current social environment and cannot avoid some sensitive issues. This aspect requires manual translation experts to grasp.
It seems that the requirements for human translation experts are not very high. In fact, this is not the case. You must know that the translation accuracy of intelligent translation experts is already very high. If you want to find flaws, you must require higher levels of human translation experts. .
Otherwise, the problem will not be found at all, and the result will be that there is no problem, so Zhao Yi needs to find those real translators.
Domestic translators are all well-known in the academic world. It would be very difficult to hire full-time translators.
But Zhao Yi's request was very simple. He just asked them to work part-time to help review the works translated by intelligent translation experts.
This kind of work is relatively simple. If their work efficiency is high, they can review a translated book in a few days without delaying their normal work and life at all.
It’s just that Zhao Yi is worried that their work efficiency cannot keep up with the translation speed of intelligent translation experts, so they need to find as many talents in this field as possible, otherwise things will be delayed.
Zhao Yi asked the human resources company to recruit ordinary talents, while Zhao Yi needed to visit the translators in person. There was no way, they really couldn't just hire them with money, they had to have some sincerity. OK.
Fortunately, Zhao Yi's reputation is not bad, everyone gives him face, and because he is young, the old guys are willing to help the juniors.
So on May 10, 1985, Tianwen Publishing House was established. In addition to helping publish and distribute original works, its main business is still the translation of scientific works, and of course other types of books.
This company, which Zhao Yi had high hopes for, was one of the ten items of scientific planning. When it was established, it was not as lively as Zhao Yi's other companies. Even the government departments did not pay much attention to it.
After all, the book publishing industry is not a new industry, nor is it a great high-tech industry, and it cannot create high economic value. Everyone regards it as Zhao Yi's hobby, and it is enough to know that there is such a thing.
It's just that they don't know that the technological content of this publishing company is really quite high. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has the highest technology in the world today.
After all, an intelligent translation expert alone is enough to kill 99% of the world's high technologies.
Of course, the intelligent translation experts will not be deployed at Tianwen Bookstore's office, but will be placed on Zhao Yi's exclusive intelligent supercomputer located in Polaris Company.
Even the president of Astronomical Publishing House, Du Jiachun, only knew that the company would use the translation software produced by Fanxing Software Company to translate foreign works. As for what this translation software was like, they did not know.
Their main job is to select high-quality works from all over the world and then hand them over to intelligent translation experts for translation. The greater workload is still in finding high-quality works.
If he wants to find high-level scientific and technical information, what better place than those top scientific journals, so Du Jiachun's first step is to cooperate with the world's top scientific journals and win their translation contracts.
These top scientific journals are actually profit-making organizations. This behavior of Tianwen Publishing House will to some extent affect their original sales. In addition, Tianwen Publishing House is not well-known, so the cooperation will definitely not be particularly smooth.
The condition that Tianwen Bookstore later offered was that it would only translate into Chinese and not into other languages. This condition made it easier for them to accept, because their sales volume in Greater China was not very high.
There are not many people who can read foreign languages, and they also need to understand the principles described in them. The number of people is even smaller, so it will not have a big impact on their actual sales, but it can expand the influence of their newspapers.
At the same time, Tianwenshe will also provide a buyout fee for Chinese character translation. Although it is not very high, it is basically similar to their current sales in the Greater China region, which increases their profit level.
With such favorable conditions, Tianwen Publishing House has collected almost all international scientific journals. After finishing this task, the next step is to cooperate with scientists around the world, especially those who like to publish books.
Buy the copyright as much as possible from them, so that Tianwen Publishing House can not only earn money for translation, but also money for publishing and distributing the original version.
However, this is relatively difficult, mainly because Tianwen Publishing House is not well-known. Of course, it is also related to the fact that Tianwen Publishing House’s current global distribution channels are not perfect.
Book authors hope that their books will sell as much as possible, which will not only expand their popularity, but also obtain high financial returns.
Therefore, Tianwen Publishing House still needs to increase its efforts to improve global distribution channels, and the best way to quickly achieve this goal is to acquire existing book publishing and distributors.
After going round and round, the matter turned to Qing Ning Entertainment Company. Zhao Yi personally called Qian Zhiyuan and asked them what the outcome of the acquisition was.
Fortunately, Lime Entertainment Company did not gain nothing. During this period, it completed the acquisition of Random House. This company mainly publishes popular literature and is more in line with the needs of Lime Entertainment Company.
But to be honest, it doesn’t quite meet the requirements of Tianwen Bookstore. Tianwen Bookstore’s main publishing direction is science and technology books. Although other categories are also operated, they are not operated as the main goal.
But something is better than nothing, and the main purpose of Tianwen Bookstore is their distribution channels and popularity. It is much easier to find others to cooperate with this sign.
Before Qing Ning Entertainment acquired Random House, it was transferred to Tianwen Bookstore by Zhao Yichuan. Qing Ning Entertainment seemed to have suffered a big loss.
Fortunately, the big boss also took their emotions into consideration, gave them a large bonus, and transferred the task of acquiring companies in the global publishing industry to Tianwen Publishing House, allowing Qing Ning Entertainment to focus on their own duties. Work.
Although Qing Ning Entertainment also wanted to take the opportunity to expand its business scope, since the big boss said so, they had no choice but to transfer their publishing and distribution business to Tianwen Publishing House.
It has no impact on their copyright purchase. Anyway, they are all under the same boss, so communication will be much simpler, and there will be no big difference from it being in my own hands.
Cooperation with well-known scientists cannot be accomplished in a short time. This is a long-term task, so the Astronomical Observatory still needs to make good use of the resources it has already obtained.
Therefore, the main task of Tianwen Publishing House at this stage is to translate the acquired scientific journals and magazines and the books from Random House.
However, the construction of domestic distribution channels is also very important at present. In addition to cooperating with state-owned distribution channels, Tianwen Publishing House also needs to build its own distribution channels.
I don’t know if I saw that Random House was acquired like this, so Tianwen Bookstore became bolder, and actually submitted a plan to Zhao Yi, which was to build Tianwen Books in all cities and counties across the country. pavilion.
Zhao Yi, who received the plan, couldn't help but touch his forehead and smile bitterly. To achieve this goal, more than 5,000 libraries need to be built across the country.
Based on the average investment amount of 10 million yuan per library, the total investment requires 50 billion yuan, which includes investment in fixed assets, that is, land and construction funds, and investment in books.
To be honest, this business is not very cost-effective, because fewer and fewer people will read physical books in the future, and you won’t be able to make much money by relying on book sales and reading membership systems.
In the future, only these lands and houses may be valuable. This cannot be said to be a tragedy, but it is the need of the development of the times.
Just like ancient writings were transferred from bamboo slips to paper recordings, now it is just a matter of transferring the writings from paper to electronic devices.
It’s just that it’s still unknown whether such a huge physical library built by then can continue to operate, but overall it should not be a loss, at least the increase in the value of the fixed assets inside will be enough to recover the cost.
It's just that such a rate of appreciation is not worth mentioning in Zhao Yi's opinion. If he invests so much money casually, he will get much more income in the future.
However, the social benefits cannot be ignored. Zhao Yi previously only planned to add libraries and libraries to the campus in order to cultivate students' reading habits and scientific interests.
Just by doing this, the scope of benefits is still limited. People in society mainly obtain relevant knowledge by buying books or borrowing books.
So from this point of view, Tianwen Publishing House's plan is still worth implementing. More importantly, Tianwen Publishing House can control the distribution channels of books. This is much more important in Tianwen Publishing House's view.
In the end, Zhao Yi thought about it and agreed to the plan of Tianwen Publishing House. Moreover, Zhao Yi was more radical. He did not plan the layout according to any ten-year deadline and just fully blossomed.
As long as Tianwen Publishing House can manage it, they will be allowed to make the greatest efforts to achieve this goal, and Zhao Yi will provide them with sufficient funds.
The main reason why Zhao Yi is so cheerful is that Zhao Yi still has some money on hand that he has no place to use. This plan will help him spend money, and the social benefits brought by this plan are also important to him.
Another reason is that the current land is too cheap, no different from picking it up for free, and the construction of the library is also a bit of a public welfare, and it has greater advantages than ordinary commercial development in acquiring land.
In other words, if this plan is implemented now, with the same money, larger land and more building area can be obtained. If the library cannot continue to operate in the future, it can rely on these fixed assets to recover a lot of funds.
After Tianwen Bookstore received Zhao Yi's approval, they were simply ecstatic. The reason why they submitted this plan was just tentative. If Zhao Yi disagreed, they would have nothing to do and they would not be able to cooperate with Xinhua Bookstore.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yi actually approved their plan and asked them to set up their own distribution channels. So after they received approval, they began to form relevant teams and look for suitable places across the country to build their own libraries.
Before they could inspect various parts of the country, Zhao Yi called and asked them to contact Shangtong Trading Company. They had a very thorough study of the actual situation across the country, and even the local political and economic ecology was clear.
Because what Shangtong Trading Company is doing now is similar to Tianwen Bookstore building its own library, that is, building shopping malls and shopping centers across the country.
When doing business, of course, you need to thoroughly study the actual local situation in advance. Otherwise, if you invest hastily, you will make yourself uncomfortable, and the money invested will be wasted.
Tianwen Bookstore contacted Shangtong Trading Company and explained the situation. The trading company gave them detailed analysis information without saying anything.
With this information, the follow-up work of Tianwen Bookstore will be much smoother. Even the phone numbers of politicians in various places are listed one by one. Tianwen Bookstore only needs to click on the picture to find out.
Building a nationwide self-owned distribution channel is not something that can be accomplished overnight. It will take at least one or two years to complete, so they still need to find more partners.
At the same time, their translation work also needs to be carried out intensively. First, they need to digitize the physical books. Only in this way can they use intelligent translation experts.
Fortunately, there is specialized equipment for this work, that is, the scanning equipment provided by Polaris Company. You only need to scan the physical book, and the text and pictures on it will be transferred to the computer in digital form.
Then, through unique editing software, books in picture format can be converted into editable text format. Even the pictures inside can be edited and extracted, which is quite convenient.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for Tianwen University to digitize dozens or millions of books in such a short period of time by relying on manual input.
When Tianwen Publishing House rearranged the digitized scientific journals and sent them to intelligent translation experts for translation, even the on-site staff felt it was unreliable. They could only follow what they were told to do. That’s all.
The result was of course a slap in the face. Less than ten minutes after the transmission, the translation results were transmitted back. After they downloaded the translated books, they read them carefully.
After reading the entire translated book with a critical eye, they found no problems, so they picked up the original text and compared it carefully, but found no problems.
If there is a problem, it is that the translation is much more literary and artistic than imagined, and is very suitable for Chinese people's reading habits. It turns out that scientific works can also be translated so beautifully, which they did not expect.
Not only that, the translated information also compiles additional information on the knowledge points involved in the article. By reading the additional information, it is easier to understand the knowledge in the article and greatly lowers the reading threshold.
The reason why the intelligent translation expert has this function is thanks to the book digitization of Tianwen University, which makes the intelligent translation expert already a knowledgeable scholar.
It not only mechanically translates the original text, but also supplements pre-knowledge points based on the knowledge points in the original text. This is not a general association algorithm, but an intelligent translation expert who really understands the meaning of the article.
Moreover, it provides supplementary knowledge, and it is not a mechanical excerpt from other books, but uses its own language to tell it in more understandable words, so that people can understand it at a glance.
It is precisely because junior artificial intelligence can really understand what others mean that Zhao Yi developed it and used it in the national education system. Otherwise, it would just be a mechanical translation and would not be able to teach students clearly.
In addition to having no consciousness of its own and weak creative ability, in other aspects, primary artificial intelligence is definitely not even a bit better than humans. (End of chapter)