Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 882: Chapter 457: The Hidden Investment Tycoon!_3

Zhao Yi had chosen several M Country tech stocks that in the past two years had at least nearly doubled in value, and one in particular, in less than a year, had even quadrupled.

Zhang Zhen could roughly estimate and knew that Zhao Yi’s "dollar net worth" was over seventy million.

And that was in dollars!

Not to mention domestically.

Nowadays, Yutu Robot Company, having expanded to a market valuation approaching three billion, with Zhao Yi as the largest shareholder holding more than twenty percent, was worth at least seven or eight hundred million yuan, even on a bad day.

So...

Zhao Yi was not just a world-recognized scientific research genius; he was also one of the very few who, in their early twenties, had amassed a fortune counted in ’billions’ solely from their own investments.

Such news, if released, would shock everyone.

Zhao Yi, on the other hand, was quite calm. He said indifferently, "Don’t talk about money; to me, it’s just a bunch of numbers."

"..."

Zhang Zhen felt a sudden urge to curse his mother; he subconsciously thought Zhao Yi did it on purpose, yet he couldn’t find any evidence.

Alright then!

One can only believe that a national treasure-level scientific research genius is more interested in scientific research than in money.

The press conference soon kicked off.

The first to take the stage was a division manager from the company. He began by explaining Yutu Robot Company to all attendees, covering the company’s business, development concepts, research and development directions, and so on, aiming to provide a basic introduction to those out of the loop.

Next, Yuan Zhongchen personally appeared onstage to announce that the R-os robotic operating system was officially completed. He further said that fundamental function codes and ports would be opened to robot developers and welcomed all developers to participate in building the system’s ecosystem and basic application functionalities.

He explained how they would open up.

’Shareism’ was the way forward; R-os possessed base functional code, with all operable applications built on it. Every application created by the developers was packaged, which could be uploaded to the main server or shared with other developers.

This feature mainly aimed to increase reusability.

For example, if one developer created an application, other developers wouldn’t need to replicate it; instead, they could just use it directly.

This effect was hard to demonstrate on computer operating systems, given their maturity and the complexity of their applications, but robot operating systems were a different story.

Robot programs currently on the market lacked uniform standards; code had to be rewritten for every new product—a time-consuming and largely pointless endeavor.

The Yutu Robot team had established a unified standard and built a comprehensive operating system based on core code.

In the future, robots could directly utilize the R-os operating system, taking advantage of its various functions. As more developers joined, the R-os system’s capabilities would grow more comprehensive, making installation and usage easier for corporate clients.

This was why investors favored Yutu Robot: setting technological standards, building foundational operating systems, and providing customized services represented the pinnacle of the tech chain’s pursuits, where the most money was to be made.

Yutu Robot catered to corporate users.

If in the future, they could ensure most robots and smart devices on the market used the R-os operating system, they would evolve into a top-tier company.

Of course.

Talking about becoming a major company was still premature, especially since there were a few similar companies in the country striving to set standards and offer technical services to corporate users. freeweɓnøvel.com

The R-os system had just launched and was still fraught with issues.

Yuan Zhongchen personally spoke for over forty minutes about the robot operating system. Then, he demonstrated the company’s product—a robot—to the live audience.

This robot was somewhat similar to Zhao Yi’s, moving on wheels and equipped with two sophisticated robotic arms, featuring dynamic distance recognition, color recognition, high-end autonomous obstacle avoidance, and more. But the robot had one very important new feature: voice interaction.

If we look a few years into the future, most electronic products will have voice interaction. Currently, though, it’s quite advanced, and due to limitations in algorithms and language, even the top tech companies can only achieve ’voice recognition’ or converting speech to text.

Getting this feature to work is easy; perfecting it is not.

Error rates are an issue.

Some companies have achieved voice recognition with error rates beyond twenty percent, rendering it virtually unusable, especially since many individuals do not have standard Mandarin pronunciation, which leads to astonishingly high error rates and utterly impractical technology.

The robot that Yutu Robot showed off performed rather well in voice interaction. While they couldn’t achieve extremely low error rates, they did better than most companies. The robot at the press conference displayed several sentences spoken by the presenting staff right on the ’screen on its face.’

This sparked heated discussion among the audience.

The demonstration then moved to the next test: attempting to make the robot understand human speech and its intended meaning, which in layman’s terms is ’capturing keywords’ to generate direct responses or search for answers online.

For instance, "Have you eaten?"

The robot responded, "I am a robot, I don’t need to eat like humans do."

Or, "Did you buy a train ticket?"

The robot immediately searched for content related to ’train tickets.’

And so on.

These basic voice interaction capabilities were still very advanced for the current stage, and even Zhao Yi felt some surprise, marveling at how fast times have changed.

Back when he first time-traveled, having a mobile phone was deemed highly advanced.

Now, they’ve reached voice interaction already?

"No way!"

"It’s the influence I brought!"

Zhao Yi quickly realized what was happening. Indeed, the pace of progress was fast, but the era was technically still in the 3G phase, and 3G had only just become widespread. Voice interaction technology seemed to have emerged prematurely.

The reason Yutu Robot’s team could develop so rapidly and present such high-end research outcomes was closely connected to the technology, source code, and development pathways he provided.

Even though he only occasionally paid attention, giving some advice on how to conduct research and which directions to take, his guidance was always ’the correct pathway.’ Any team with potential, following the ’correct pathway’ consistently, would undoubtedly develop at a terrifying speed.

Not taking detours is more important than raw ability!

Most research involves many detours before finding the right path to continue onward, only to encounter more detours. Progress is made slowly, bit by bit—sometimes even regressing when obstacles are met. Even with great capability, progress won’t be swift without the right path.

But even a ’turtle’, moving slowly and steadily, will emerge from a maze faster than a rabbit.

Thus, his guidance was crucial!