Chapter 11 Tuesday, November 15th

Dormitory for Ancient Chinese Language Master's Students, Handong University.

Several students were tapping away at their keyboards, entering information on their laptops, occasionally stopping to search for various materials online.

To the uninitiated, it would seem as if they were writing theses.

But in reality, they were the first creators of "Useful App," and were currently completing the tasks assigned by their tutor.

Each of these master's students was responsible for a portion of the content, mainly poems, lyrics, songs, classical Chinese prose, etc. After uploading the basic content to the "Useful App" entries, they would be responsible for summarizing and organizing existing research results and knowledge, and improving the entries.

"Useful App" had a special backend template, and these creators only needed to fill it in according to the template. The content filled in would be reviewed by higher-level creators, generally doctoral students or young lecturers, and after the review, it would be displayed according to the template.

These master's students usually logged into encyclopedia websites or CNKI, but the biggest feature of "Useful App" compared to these two websites was that its structural planning was more scientific.

Although the architecture of "Useful App" was somewhat similar to that of encyclopedia websites, in addition to the different content, there were also great differences in the details of the user experience.

In short, "Useful App" was trying to do subtraction and layering.

General encyclopedia websites would display most of the information about the same entry on the same page. On the one hand, it looked too cluttered, and on the other hand, the content was not layered and could not adapt to individual needs.

For example, some people only wanted the most basic information, while others needed detailed analysis of a certain word or sentence. Encyclopedia websites were difficult to cater to these two extreme needs.

"Useful App" was actually a multi-layered structure. The first layer was the most core and essential analysis of a certain entry; the second layer was some classified analysis of this entry; the third layer was specific analysis and research on a certain word; the fourth layer was the source of these contents, cited papers, etc.; and the fifth layer was various issues derived from this entry.

The layers were expressed by various page turns or pop-up windows, fully taking care of users' usage habits.

For users, they could accurately and quickly find the part of the content they needed most without having to browse various unnecessary information.

Currently, the basic functions of the "Useful App" for ancient poetry and classical Chinese sections had already been developed. In addition to fixing various bugs, the main task was to rely on the creators to continuously update the content.

This was a relatively boring job, but these students did not find it hard.

On the one hand, this was their major, and sorting out these contents was equivalent to consolidating their professional knowledge; on the other hand, this was also considered a job, which could well subsidize the daily expenses of these poor students.

One master's student had just finished today's work and stretched his back on the chair.

"Lao Li, have you completed today's task?"

"Almost."

"What do you mean almost? Don't fool around. Last time you quoted the wrong paper, and we were all warned by the tutor. Professor Kong Zhemin is in charge of this matter. If you dare to mess it up, don't even think about graduating smoothly!"

"Don't worry, I was negligent last time. Now I check several times every time I write content, and I won't make that kind of low-level mistake again."

"But I'm wondering, what is Tenda trying to achieve by paying us to do this kind of thing? Although it is said that it will be charged, it probably won't make any money, right?"

"Who knows, maybe they plan to sell it to some education groups? At least it will be very useful for primary and middle school students to use this 'Useful App' to check poetry in the future."

"But the problem is that you can also check it with QianDu, and it's free; textbooks and teaching aids also have explanations of these poems."

"You can't say that. The content checked by QianDu is too messy and difficult to identify. As for the content in textbooks and tutoring books, it is obviously not as comprehensive as ours. I think, Useful App will probably just burn money in the early stage, and not many people will pay for it. But when there is more and more content on it, there will definitely be more people paying for it."

"At our current speed, I highly suspect that we can make a profit in ten years..."

These students also had their own opinions on "Useful App." Many people were not optimistic about its success at all. They were just constantly creating and enriching the content on it during their spare time because Tenda gave subsidies.

Many people were even prepared for Tenda to abandon this project at any time, with a mentality of "earn as long as you can."

One student asked doubtfully, "Hey, I've always had a question. Functions such as 'synonymous poem lines', 'antonym poem lines', and 'rhyming poem lines' don't seem to be displayed on the 'Useful App.' So what's the use of doing this?"

The so-called "synonymous poem lines," "antonym poem lines," and "rhyming poem lines" are actually establishing connections between some similar, opposite, or similar rhythmic poem lines or poems.

When entering a poem, you can freely add its synonymous poem lines, antonym poem lines, rhyming poem lines, and other content to establish connections between different poems or lines.

This content is also included in the workload, and the weight is not low. After sorting out a poem, you can search the Internet, identify it, and then fill in the relevant poem lines in the backend.

However, the strange thing is that this connection is not displayed in the "Useful App," which makes everyone a little puzzled.

"I don't understand. It's a waste to make this function and not display it, isn't it?"

"Who knows, maybe the front-end display of this function is still under development? Do it well in the backend first, and it can be displayed directly when the front-end function is completed?"

"Maybe."

The students didn't pay much attention and continued to bury themselves in the creation on the backend.

...

Otu Technology.

Yu Ping'an had just arrived when he was invited to the reception room by Chang You.

"Wait a moment."

After Chang You left for a moment, he came back with an otto phone.

"It just so happens that you are here today to connect some work on the Useful App database. Now that you're here, why don't you experience how the first version of the Aeeis intelligent assistant works."

"Our researchers have been a little obsessed with it during this period of time. At this time, we need a complete outsider to give some opinions from a more objective point of view."

As Chang You said, he handed the phone to Yu Ping'an.

Yu Ping'an was originally here today to connect with Chang You's side because the data of Useful App would be directly linked to Aeeis's intelligent database. There were many design details that required the two people in charge to meet and make a decision.

As a result, after arriving, Chang You grabbed him to be a guinea pig to experience the initial version of Aeeis.

Although Yu Ping'an was not very interested in these things, he still reached out to take the phone and seriously experienced it.

There was an unwritten rule within Tenda Group that when various departments encountered the need for mutual cooperation with other departments, they must cooperate unconditionally and without reservation. All department heads were habitually abiding by and practicing this rule.

As for when this tacit rule was formed?

Most people couldn't say for sure.

However, the source of this unspoken rule can probably be traced back to President Pei: On the one hand, President Pei attached great importance to the linkage and cooperation of various departments; on the other hand, there was no pressure of kpi competition between all department heads. Everyone was working for President Pei, and everyone's salary was about the same. The bonus did not depend on profitability but on reputation, so there was no such thing as departmentalism as in some large companies.

Yu Ping'an noticed that this otto e1 phone seemed to have some changes compared to the phones on the market. The most direct change was the phone's operating system.

Originally, the otto phone's operating system was more inclined to the native Android, with a simple and clean interface, but it also gave people a feeling of being too simple.

But this version of the operating system had richer content. Various system UI animations became more smooth and natural, with more details; many options were also added to the system settings, which could better explore some new functions of the Android system; the icon of the camera system was changed, and after clicking in, you would find that there were some new functions, such as photo optimization algorithms, new filters, and so on.

In addition, the functions of the Aeeis intelligent assistant were also integrated into this system. You could call up the voice assistant by long-pressing the power button or directly saying Aeeis to the phone.

Yu Ping'an didn't know much about the details of Aeeis intelligent assistant.

He only knew that this intelligent assistant also directly used the latest artificial intelligence research results of Xunke Technology, and was similar to the intelligent assistants, smart speakers and other products launched by other manufacturers in terms of underlying technology. The only difference might only lie in some detailed adjustments.

In addition, Chang You said that this was a "refined and easy-going intelligent system" that would add some venomous attributes and the ability to compose poems.

But Yu Ping'an didn't take it too seriously. Since the underlying technology was all from Xunke Technology, the difference between this voice assistant and other voice assistants should not be very big, let alone this was only the first version.

Yu Ping'an said to the phone: "Aeeis."

After a crisp "beep" sound, a dark gray mask appeared on the phone screen, covering the content of the original screen. A wave symbol with some science fiction colors appeared on the upper part of the screen.

The main part below this wave symbol was a display area for information, and there was another smaller wave symbol at the bottom.

The large wave symbol with science fiction colors on the upper part of the screen was the body of Aeeis. It would only jump according to the notes when Aeeis answered. When Aeeis did not answer, it would have some other dynamics, such as rolling in a wave shape or rotating regularly, which was used to express Aeeis's current mood and state;

The small wave symbol collected external voices and would jump as Yu Ping'an spoke.

The entire page was very simple, without extra text information.

Yu Ping'an had also used some other voice assistants, which often displayed a lot of text on the page, including frequently asked questions, etc. But Aeeis's interface seemed more tidy and clean, in line with ottoos's consistent style.

Yu Ping'an had a good first impression of Aeeis.