In a video conference with Wang Huaijun, president of China Education Company, Zhao Yi put forward his idea of using high-end robots for school teaching.
There is no problem at all for high-end robots to be used for basic teaching, and there is no problem for them to be used for practical teaching at the undergraduate level.
As for teaching at the graduate level, it depends on the teaching level of the school. If they are all groundbreaking experiments, high-end robots will need to occupy a lot of intermediate artificial intelligence resources.
With so many colleges and universities across the country, undergraduate enrollment has been greatly expanded. There will inevitably be many more students at the graduate level than before, and the computing power consumption for intermediate artificial intelligence will not be small.
At present, the main source of computing power for intermediate artificial intelligence is super photon computers. Although a lot of junior artificial intelligence has also been deployed to share the pressure, intermediate artificial intelligence is obviously better for original things.
Therefore, at the meeting, he only proposed the possibility of using high-end robots at the undergraduate level and below, including at the undergraduate level, but did not propose the use of high-end robots at the graduate level.
Because he is not sure how much computing power of intermediate artificial intelligence will be consumed. The computing power of intermediate artificial intelligence has many other uses, and the possibility of expanding the computing power is not very high at present.
His home is so big, and there are only so many places that can be used to expand computing power, so he is quite concerned about the consumption of computing power, and he will save whatever he can.
Of course, this is not the main reason. Since he plans to come up with a super optical computer, Xuantian Technology Company can completely build super optical computer bases across the country to expand computing power.
The main reason is that this will lead to collective opposition from college teachers, because in addition to their basic salary, their income is closely related to the number of teaching courses.
Using high-end robots instead will seriously affect their interests, and the postgraduate stage is a research and innovation learning stage. Learning with robots is obviously not as good as learning with real teachers.
He is laying out an overall picture, which is about the showdown between artificial intelligence and human innovation. If the students are all taught by artificial intelligence, it will be even more difficult to surpass nature.
The reason why you don't have to worry about these at the undergraduate level is that the undergraduate level is mainly based on professional theoretical study, supplemented by practical skills, and there is not much of a problem.
Regarding the learning of the existing scientific theoretical system, whether it is taught by a real teacher or artificial intelligence, there is actually not much difference. It is even slightly better because artificial intelligence has better memory and accuracy.
As for the practical courses at the undergraduate level, they are relatively simple. They mainly focus on replicating world-famous experiments and transform students' thinking from pure theoretical learning to possessing certain experimental hands-on abilities.
Only by doing enough basic experiments can students accumulate experimental abilities. Apart from pure profit-making innovation, modern scientific innovation is inseparable from experiments.
Therefore, these basic experiments do not actually have many innovations. They just lead students to recreate historical experiments to further consolidate the theoretical knowledge students have learned, deepen their understanding of theoretical knowledge, and avoid falling into a state of boring reading.
As for the compulsory education stage, it is mainly to make up for the shortage of teachers in various schools for courses other than cultural courses, and at the same time assist the schools in their management work. After all, in terms of patience, robots are definitely the best.
According to Zhao Yi's estimate, even if intelligent teachers are used to study non-literary courses in the compulsory education stage, tens of millions of high-end robots will be needed, which is a huge number.
The expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities is also in progress. As long as high school students still care about learning, there is no insurmountable difficulty in obtaining the required scores based on their IQ.
Therefore, based on a 100% admission rate, the number of undergraduates who pass the college entrance examination is expected to be around 20 million each year. The number of middle school students in four-year undergraduate programs is approximately 80 million.
This is calculated based on the maximum number. Since high-end robots do not need to rest and can basically achieve continuous teaching work, the ratio can be expanded to a teacher-student ratio of 1:30.
Because there are a large number of other teachers, the ratio of teachers to students for such high-end model robots is already very high, which is the most generous data ratio.
If configured according to this ratio, the number of high-end robots required would be as high as 2.7 million, and the two combined would be about 12.7 million.
Even if calculated at a cost of 50,000 yuan, Xuantian Technology Company needs to invest as much as 635 billion yuan, which is a huge consumption of funds for Xuantian Technology Company.
But even with such pressure, Zhao Yi thinks it is worth it. After all, this is very conducive to the development of my country's education and can completely solve the problem of the shortage of teachers in our country.
At the same time, it can also put more pressure on teachers in major universities, making them more need to delve into their own academic fields, hoping to surpass artificial intelligence in ability so that their status will not be replaced.
Wang Huaijun was actually very shocked by his idea. The use of artificial intelligence for theoretical teaching at undergraduate level and below was already a very bold innovation.
As a result, the boss proposed using robots to replace the teaching of experimental courses and non-cultural courses. This idea is even more bold. He is not sure whether it will be recognized by major universities.
Because after all, the influence of Chinese education companies on colleges and universities is not as great as imagined. If it were not for the teacher tension caused by the current expansion of college enrollment, artificial intelligence has to be involved in theoretical teaching. It is estimated that whether it can be implemented is still a problem.
No one can tell whether the move to promote the introduction of robots into colleges and universities will cause a greater backlash, because doing so will indeed affect the interests of all teachers and students in colleges and universities.
Especially for many people who want to work in colleges and universities, this obviously blocks the way for many people, and the opposition is not even limited to schools.
However, Wang Huaijun did not reject this idea outright. Instead, he thought that he could give it a try and promote it first in schools with a shortage of teachers to see the effect. Moreover, these schools are often ranked lower and do not have so much burden.
If after the results of the annual national college teaching evaluation come out, robot teaching results are leading, then there will be much less resistance to expanding the scope of promotion, or at least they will not be overly criticized.
As for teaching in the compulsory education stage, Chinese education companies have a much greater say, as long as the rights and interests of teachers in the compulsory education stage are guaranteed and the graduation allocation of current normal school students is not stopped.
There should not be many people who oppose it. The shortage of teachers for non-cultural courses in our country is an obvious problem, and it takes a long time to train sufficiently competent teachers.
Therefore, the current focus is on solving problems, and the introduction of robot teachers does not mean that it will crowd out the positions of other teachers. The number of courses can be expanded to increase the number of positions.
In fact, Chinese education companies do not offer many non-cultural courses in the compulsory education stage. The main reason is the lack of qualified teachers, and the teaching quality does not meet his expectations.
So no matter what, the pressure from all aspects should be minimal. As long as the Chinese education company handles it properly, the problem will not be big and parents will definitely be more supportive.
The goal he set for Chinese education companies is not to allow any training institutions outside of schools to exist. This is not a ban from an administrative order, but it must be able to compete with off-campus training institutions.
Therefore, there will definitely be more and more courses set up in the compulsory education stage in the future, because they need to keep up with changes in social needs so that students can have better choices in school.
As for the funding issue, the Chinese education company does not need to spend a large amount of money immediately, because they also rent from Xuantian Technology Company, and they only need to pay the rent according to the teacher's salary.
In other words, Chinese education companies have instantly recruited tens of millions of teachers, but this has indeed increased the burden on Chinese education companies. Even based on the average social salary, an additional 300 billion yuan will be consumed every year.
With the increase in the size of the domestic economy, fiscal revenue has also increased significantly. The amount of funds allocated to the education system has reached 2 trillion yuan, but for Chinese education companies, it is only enough.
The biggest drain here is the huge increase in investment in colleges and universities. It even owes 500 billion yuan in loans to Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which needs to be repaid slowly, and there is not much money left on hand.
As for the better conditions that have been provided to students in compulsory education, it is impossible to reduce them now, because everyone has adapted to them, and reducing them will face great pressure from public opinion.
Therefore, this money still needs to find another stable source. As for lowering the rent of robots, it is currently impossible for Xuantian Technology Company, which does not mean that they need this high profit.
It is because we are afraid that in the current environment, the cost of robots is too low, which will seriously squeeze social jobs. At least with the current method of profit distribution, this is inappropriate. It can only be higher, never lower.
Even if the education field is a public welfare field, the rent is the same as teachers' salaries. As for how to use the rent collected, there is currently no clear statement.
Like the situation in the corporate world, since it will cause employees to leave their jobs, a large amount of funds need to be used to pay the resigned employees, and the remaining rent is Xuantian Technology Company's income.
As for the education field, it is not suitable to do this at present, because they do not charge excessive fees. If they are returned to Chinese education companies based on the average salary of teachers, then Xuantian Technology Company will not make any money.
Moreover, this is to replace the vacant position, and it does not cause teachers to leave their posts. It is still very different from the corporate field, and it is naturally handled in a different way.
At least for now, Xuantian Technology Company still cares about these interests, because they themselves need to bear a lot of costs. If they cannot obtain sufficient profits, they will not be able to continue operating.
However, in view of the special nature of the education field, Xuantian Technology Company can wait until Xuantian Technology Company earns back its investment costs, and then return part of the rent to Chinese education companies in an appropriate proportion to reduce its own profitability.
In this way, Chinese education companies can use the returned funds to recruit more teachers and prevent college normal students from becoming unemployed after graduation. As for stopping training normal students, he thinks it is inappropriate.
Although the training of normal students can be appropriately reduced in the future, it must not be stopped. As mentioned before, if a problem arises and someone is needed to solve it, at least there must be enough teachers to support the teaching of cultural courses.
Therefore, as time goes by in the future, it is likely that a large number of teachers will also be out of work, receiving leave subsidies from the education system, and then they will need to carry out a certain number of hours of practical teaching every year. Don't lose their professional abilities.
Regarding the settlement of this money, the problem can only be solved by China Medical Company and China Pharmaceutical Company. As for the money of the pension company, he dare not touch it and cannot touch it.
Because there are still some differences in the nature of Chinese medical companies and Chinese pension companies, Chinese medical companies only need to ensure that people can enjoy free medical services.
He can play a great role in this regard. He has great confidence in ensuring that medical services can be carried out smoothly even if there is a shortage of funds. It belongs to a technical field, so he is not very afraid.
However, the functions of China Pension Company are not problems that can be solved by technology, so he has never misappropriated the funds of China Pension Company. Even if it is difficult, he will only use funds from China Pharmaceutical Company to support it.
As my country's financial scale gradually increases, the income of Chinese medical companies will naturally increase. If they are not used to subsidize Chinese education companies, they have actually achieved financial balance.
This is also the result of Chinese medical companies investing more money to improve the medical environment when they have abundant funds. Otherwise, they would be able to achieve profits by relying solely on domestic operations.
This is also what he requested. No matter whether the domestic welfare medical service operation is making a profit or losing money, funds will not be used for other purposes.
If he makes money, he invests it in improving the medical service environment. If he loses money, he has to use funds to make up for the loopholes. Of course, he generally does not need to make up for this shortfall, because Chinese medical companies also have medical aesthetics business and overseas medical business.
Now these two areas have become purely profitable businesses for Chinese medical companies. In fact, overseas medical income has not changed much. It seems to have peaked, and the insurance scale is about 1.5 trillion yuan.
After deducting insurance commissions, Chinese medical companies can basically get about 400 billion yuan in revenue, and the remaining trillions of yuan belong to Chinese pharmaceutical companies.
China Medical Company is a welfare enterprise, so it does not have to pay tax. China Pharmaceutical Company is currently in a tax holiday, so it does not have to pay tax.
The medical aesthetics business of Chinese medical companies has also developed greatly. The main business is mainly from domestic business. With the increase of people's income, the demand for medical aesthetics services has also increased significantly.
In the past, many medical aesthetic services only provided small-scale treatments. Because people were relatively unfamiliar with it and did not dare to undergo major surgeries, the average consumption was still very low.
However, the medical aesthetic services of Chinese medical companies have obviously gradually gained recognition from the Chinese people, the average consumption power has also been greatly improved, and the number of participants has reached record highs.
Including some businesses that are not included in free medical services, as well as overseas businesses that are not covered by insurance, the total adds up to more than 250 billion yuan in revenue for Chinese medical companies.
In other words, the additional income of Chinese medical companies last year was as high as 650 billion yuan, which has deducted the cost of medical machinery, so the income was as high as 600 billion yuan.
As for the income of Chinese pharmaceutical companies, it is even higher. Last year, all income added up to 2.5 trillion yuan. With the funds left by the domestic finance for Chinese medical companies, Chinese pharmaceutical companies did not see much increase in income.
Because it is impossible for medicines to raise prices significantly due to increased finances, this part of the revenue is basically retained by Chinese medical companies, and the revenue from drugs and medical devices within the scope of overseas medical insurance business has basically not grown much.
The fastest growing revenue is from their various functional medicines. In addition, medical beauty-related equipment and medicines are also their main growth areas.
Because Chinese pharmaceutical companies have solved many people's unspeakable secrets, foreign people are more indulgent than before. Therefore, the use of drugs is increasing, and the income of Chinese pharmaceutical companies is also getting higher and higher.
As for their newly increased revenue from vaccines and other businesses, they actually don’t make much money. Domestic use is also provided at very low prices, so they don’t make much money.
Moreover, due to the large-scale use of body immunity drugs in China, the demand for vaccination is actually not large. It is just that people are afraid that some people do not use body immunity drugs, resulting in fish slipping through the net, so they are still used in younger age groups.
Because Chinese education companies force students to drink milk during the compulsory education stage, there is basically no need to worry about immunity issues at this stage.
Since the profits of Chinese medical companies can bear the additional costs of Chinese education companies, Chinese pharmaceutical companies do not need to spend money to support them.
Therefore, Zhao Yi asked Chinese medical companies to use their profits to support Chinese education companies at the meeting. This perfectly solved the shortage of funds caused by Chinese education companies renting a large number of robot teachers.
Most of the profits of China Pharmaceuticals are left to China Housing Corporation. Now China Housing Corporation's debt ratio is not low, and it needs to spend a large amount of money to pay off its debts at the end of each year.
At the end of last year, after the debts of China Housing Corporation were repaid, the debt ratio still remained at 12%. In other words, the operating profits of its other industries were not enough to help China Housing Corporation repay its debts.
The only thing that reassures him is that China Housing Corporation has finally begun to see returns from such a high investment, and the investment peak will only be in the past two or three years, after which it will decline rapidly.
Because in two or three years, the planned urbanization construction plan will be basically completed. What will follow is basically the reconstruction of the old city and further improvement of urban construction, and the investment scale will be much smaller than now.
At that time, their own operating profits will be able to cover these costs, and there will even be a large surplus, which can be used to repay their remaining debts, without the need for brother companies to use their own profits to support them.
According to his calculations, China Housing Corporation's annual income will reach more than 5 trillion yuan in the future, relying on residential rentals, commercial real estate rentals and urban service income.
Residential rental income needs to follow government guidance and is closely linked to the average income of residents. However, commercial real estate rental income is completely commercial, and urban service income also follows the market.
In a meeting with China Housing Corporation, Qin Hongqi proposed the idea of building a subway, mainly because the city government wanted to hand over this business to China Housing Corporation.
The cost of subway construction is much higher than that of high-speed rail. The cost of domestic high-speed rail per kilometer is now about 30 million yuan, which is already relatively high. However, the cost of subway construction may be as high as 300 million yuan per kilometer on average.
This puts great pressure on the government. For example, in a big city with a population of tens of millions, the demand for subway lines is not low. In the previous life, the capital city with a population of more than 20 million had a subway mileage of more than 1,000 kilometers.
Although the current population of the capital is not that large, and there will not be so many people in future plans, the urban construction area will not shrink too much because the per capita environmental comfort is much better than in the previous life.
In the previous life, a large proportion of the so-called more than 20 million people in the capital were migrant workers, and a large proportion of these people lived in groups and rented houses, so it was able to accommodate such a large population.
Therefore, although the population may be only over 10 million, the urban construction area will not be reduced much, which means that the mileage of subway construction will not be reduced much.
Even if the capital's economy is already very developed, the pressure on the government to spend an additional 300 billion yuan to build urban railways is still very high, unless it is through loans.
However, the loan requires interest repayment. The subway itself is a public service in the city, and the charges cannot be too high, otherwise the number of passengers will decrease. Especially when the number of private cars increases significantly, everyone will count the cost.
This is why subway operations in previous lives were basically at a loss and required government funds to subsidize them. In fact, these are not the main problems.
The main problem is that there is less possibility of building slowly as in the previous life, because urbanization is developing too fast, and it is urgent to solve urban traffic problems.
Therefore, they hope to speed up the progress of urban rail construction, but they do not want to put a lot of pressure on the government itself. After all, the concept of the government borrowing money to survive is not yet that strong.
Moreover, a relatively high proportion of fiscal funds are now invested in the welfare field. Most governments need to live on a tight budget and do not have land finance to provide them with large amounts of funds.
Nowadays, most of the revenue of local governments comes from taxation. Taxation comes from the development of urban industry and commerce, and the development of urban industry and commerce is directly related to the public services provided by the city.
The city government cannot spare much money to invest in such a huge project, and their borrowing capacity is not as great as in previous generations, so their first thought is to hand over this matter to commercial enterprises.
Currently, there are not many companies that can afford such a huge investment scale. Only companies under Zhao Yi can operate such a huge project.
Among his companies, China Housing Corporation is the most suitable. China Housing Corporation itself is an enterprise dedicated to the field of urban services and has enough scale to complete such a huge investment scale.
After hearing what Qin Hongqi said, he agreed without any hesitation. He had already had this idea when the urbanization construction plan was proposed, but the urban railway construction was not urgent at that time, so he did not mention it.
However, when formulating the urban planning blueprint, he has already asked China Housing Corporation to fully consider this factor. In the future, urban railways will need to provide more than half of the city's personnel transportation services.
As for whether it can be afforded, he thinks there is not much of a problem. Urban railway construction is not accomplished overnight and the construction period is relatively long, which can alleviate the financial pressure of China Housing Corporation in the past two years.
As long as this peak period of financial pressure is passed, the pressure on Chinese housing companies will be greatly reduced, and revenue will show an upward trend. There is not much problem in undertaking such a project. (End of chapter)