My Age of Investment

   Chapter 1289 Autonomous Driving Project

   "We and YouTube are now jointly developing a system for intelligently recognizing pictures and videos.

  After the research and development is completed, it will be used to identify and ban hate, racial discrimination, blood, pornography/violence and other pictures and videos that violate the laws and regulations of various countries published on the YouTube platform. "

   Learning that Xia Jingxing came to inspect the work, Wu Enda and Li Feifei, as the director and vice president of the Fuxing Industry (US) Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, personally led the big boss to visit various laboratories.

   The group chatted while walking.

  Xia Jingxing said with a smile: "It's been hard for you all this time, illegal videos have always been a problem for YouTube.

  Because of this stuff, YouTube is often criticized by all walks of life, and it is about to be described as a website that spreads cancer. "

  Wu Enda said with a smile: "Youtube has hundreds of millions of people from dozens of countries accessing and uploading videos every month. The management of such a large-scale platform is really a headache.

  Only relying on manual review of video, it is difficult to achieve efficient review, and it will also cause a lot of labor costs.

   has an auditing system with high recognition accuracy, which can save a lot of trouble for oil pipelines.

   However, the accuracy of AI recognition at this stage is difficult to reach the level that does not rely on manual review at all.

   For a long time in the future, AI and manual review will still be needed together, with AI as the main and manual as the supplement. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "I understand that artificial intelligence can also make mistakes and discriminate normal videos as prohibited videos."

   Wu Enda nodded and said: "To completely solve this problem, we need to continue to train our algorithm model to make its recognition more accurate.

  How to train artificial intelligence? We need more labeled data. "

Li Feifei added: "I developed an ImageNet database before and downloaded 1 billion pictures. In order to find people to label these pictures, I used Amazon's crowdsourcing service platform AMT, but a few years later, only only Annotated millions of images."

  Xia Jingxing nodded slightly, Amazon AMT, also known as AI Futukang.

   As the name suggests, this is a platform for taking online orders for part-time jobs, and the most important task is to label data.

How to mark   ? It's very simple, sit in front of the computer, manually input and classify the data, distinguish whether there is a "dog" in a photo, and identify whether the "bass" in the sentence is a bass or a bass.

   You can earn 3 cents for every picture and voice you mark.

   It seems that they earn very little, but they add up. In India, where the IT outsourcing business is developed, many housewives have turned this part-time job into a full-time job, working 8 hours a day and earning $700 a month.

   It sounds like it's not bad, but it's actually more tedious than factory screwing.

   But after all, it is a part-time job, and no one is standing by to supervise it. You can do whatever you want. It is a relatively free job.

  Xia Jingxing asked: "How many photos are marked in the FXNet database we developed?"

  Wu Enda sighed, "It's just over a million copies, because there are so many people who can't find this job, and there are too few active users on Amazon AMT, and many people don't do it when they do it."

  Xia Jingxing frowned, "It's too little. Annotated data is the feed of artificial intelligence. We must quickly find a way to increase the number of annotations."

   Speaking of this, Xia Jingxing suddenly moved in his heart and blurted out, "Hey, can we consider introducing this industry to China?

   Earning four or five thousand yuan a month should still attract some people to be data labelers. "

  Xia Jingxing thought of a lot of things at once, Xige can set up an outbound call center in his hometown, and he can also set up a data labeling center in his hometown!

   Find a group of women with a certain cultural foundation, and they can take up jobs after training, and they can also work at home, which is equivalent to subsidizing the family.

  Xia Jingxing shared his thoughts to Wu Enda and Li Feifei.

   Li Feifei's hometown is also in Rongcheng, and this is to provide jobs for women. She was very interested in this matter and immediately put forward a lot of suggestions.

  Wu Enda put forward a different opinion: "Choose the crowdsourcing model, it is estimated that the annotator can only annotate some simple pictures.

   Video annotation and 3D annotation are a bit complicated, and each frame needs to be labeled with data.

   Especially the autonomous driving you mentioned, Darren, the amount of data is terrifying when you think about it. "

  Xia Jingxing remembered that some professional data labeling companies emerged in the past life, and their main service targets were autonomous driving technology companies.

  In order to complete some high-quality and difficult annotations, those data annotation companies have been researching small tools for efficient data annotation.

   "We can develop auxiliary annotation tools to segment images and videos. Annotators only need to tick each object box, or choose green or red."

   Wu Enda's eyes suddenly lit up, "This is a good way, otherwise an image can be labeled with hundreds of thousands of sets of data, which can torture people to death."

  Xia Jingxing smiled, this was not something he came up with, but a small method summarised and designed by those data labelling companies in the previous life.

   As we all know, the more data labels, the more feeding, the more accurate the artificial intelligence fed.

   Cars with automatic driving mode turned on need to drive in complex urban road conditions, which puts forward higher technical requirements for artificial intelligence and computer vision.

  The surrounding cars, roads, signs, etc., all need to be labeled by the data annotator countless times, and then a large amount of data is collected together, and finally, a self-driving car that can safely drive on the road can be cultivated.

   However, autonomous driving is a development process that is gradually becoming mature and accurate. Before that, it is estimated that various rollover incidents are indispensable.

  If a car owner is unlucky, in the automatic driving mode, he encounters a road condition scene that is not recorded in the automatic driving database.

   "Speaking of autonomous driving, when are you going to start developing this project, Darren?"

   Wu Enda stopped, and Li Feifei also stood by and looked at Xia Jingxing with interest.

   "Next year, let's do this job well first."

   Wu Enda shook his head and said with a smile: "I heard in school that Sebastian Thrun and a group of people are working on a secret project in Mountain View.

   They modified six Toyota Prius and one Audi TT, and installed a bracket on the roof of each car, which was equipped with a mechanical rotating lidar that could scan the body in a 360-degree direction.

  The rear of the roof is also equipped with a GPS antenna, which can assist the vehicle in positioning.

  4 millimeter-wave radars are installed on the front and rear bumpers of the vehicle and on both sides of the front of the vehicle. The front radar is mainly used to detect distance and speed..."

  Xia Jingxing frowned slightly. Sebastian Thrun is also a professor at Stanford University and the founder of Google X Lab.

  If he guessed correctly, the project the other party is in charge of is Waymo, Google's self-driving brand.

   "How do you understand so clearly?"

  Xia Jingxing was suddenly curious, Wu Enda's description was vivid, as if he had actually seen those prototype cars.

   "Haha, because I've seen them!"

   Wu Enda revealed the answer with a smile: "Tron invited me to visit their prototype car some time ago, and also invited me to join their team."

  Dug people dug up my head?

   Now, Xia Jingxing has a deeper opinion on Page.

   Of course, he doesn’t remember the fact that he almost hollowed out Google China.

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Wu Enda and wondered what the other party meant by saying this? Are you going to leave?

   He was about to speak when Wu Enda took the lead: "But I have already rejected them. Although their project is cool, I think it is not bad to rejuvenate the industry. We can definitely develop a more intelligent autonomous driving technology than them."

  Xia Jingxing finally understood, Wu Enda wanted to do automatic driving.

   He thought for a moment, now that Google has officially ended, it seems that he really can't wait any longer.

  Tesla's current main energy is on the mass production of the Model S, and it has no time to take into account the research and development of autonomous driving.

   Even if Tesla develops related technologies in the future, it will choose to use it for its own use instead of opening it to the outside world.

   Fuxing Industry wants to build a full-stack service provider for autonomous driving, and will export related software and hardware technologies to automakers in the future.

   Of course, if no friend dares to use it because of the revival of the car, it will be like Tesla for personal use.

  Xia Jingxing glanced at Li Feifei, and the research and development of the image and video recognition system could be handed over to the leader of the other party.

  Domestic, Shen Xiangyang is still developing mobile assistants, that is, voice recognition technology. In the future, this technology can also be installed on tablets, cars, smart speakers and other devices.

   Let Wu Enda start autonomous driving, and it will not affect the research and development progress of other projects.

   Anyway, there is no shortage of money now, and you will be done with riveting.

  The reason why Google X Labs is so awesome is because it is easy to spend money, and they are working on any brainless projects.

   Of course, if a project is successful, it has foresight.

   "Okay, Andrew (Wu Enda's English name), you recruit the team as soon as possible, and we have officially put the research and development of autonomous driving on the agenda. If you need anything, you can report it directly to Lin Bing, and he will fully cooperate with you."

   Seeing that Xia Jingxing was so decisive and agreed to set up the autonomous driving project, Wu Enda was very happy, and kept saying that he would not live up to the company's expectations.

  Xia Jingxing actually wanted to bring such an important project as autonomous driving back to China, but Wu Enda was born in London and grew up in Hong Kong and Singapore when he was a teenager.

   However, Xia Jingxing quickly remembered that Wu Enda had joined Baidu as the chief scientist in his previous life and participated in the development of Baidu Brain. Shouldn't he resist working in the mainland?

   Worried that something might go wrong, Xia Jingxing hurriedly attacked again.

   "Andrew, have you been to the mainland?"

   "Of course I've been there. The mainland has developed rapidly in recent years. Every time I go, I feel a new city."

   "If the company sends you back to the mainland to work for a few years in the future, would you like it?"

"no problem."

   Wu Enda did not hesitate at all, and agreed very readily.

   Upon seeing this, Xia Jingxing felt relieved immediately. After all, if Wu Enda was to take on the burden of autopilot, then he would be the core person. If something changed in the middle, it would be very troublesome and would drag down the progress of research and development.

  Xia Jingxing explained one more sentence: "Our headquarters is always in the mainland, and it is easier to obtain data there."

   Wu Enda smiled, "Daren, I understand all this, everything is up to your arrangement."

   (end of this chapter)