Chapter 2 Upgrade
Xiaosha, whose full name is Quicksand between Fingerholes, is an APP developed by Hao Cheng himself.

Its earliest history can be traced back to when I first met Ning Hui:
“No matter what’s going on, or if you need advice or help, you can tell it.

“You can even make a wish with it, and Aladdin will come running to fulfill your wish.”

“Hehe, that running Aladdin isn’t you, is he?”

“You have to believe me, I will definitely not peek backstage.”

“I’d be foolish to believe you!”

……

It is filled with the youth and memories of two people. If the first glance in the crowd was love at first sight, then the coming and going of the “wishing bucket” was Xu Qing’s life choice.

The sand flows through my fingers, but when I look up I still see that person.

At that time, Zhifengliusha was just an APP similar to a diary, note, and life record.

It was not until the beginning of this year (2024) that ChatGPT and major language models suddenly became popular. Hao Cheng also tried to use open source code to train a language model, and combined this language model with Alibaba Cloud’s speech recognition capabilities and integrated it into the Zhifeng Liusha APP, which gave rise to today’s Xiaosha.

“Originally it was very retarded, just a half-witted one.”

Hao Cheng knows very well what level of language model he created by randomly practicing with an open source model. It is difficult to have a conversation. It is nothing more than identifying a batch of keyword commands and performing some operations. For example, recording this command means recording your words intactly into text.

But today, it actually reminded itself that it needed to be upgraded?
Hao Cheng, the developer, did nothing, but the software upgraded itself? And became smarter?
[Yes, Xiaosha’s energy tank is full and meets the growth conditions. ]

What is the energy tank?
Hao Cheng even found its description and acquisition record in “My” → “Help” → “Level” in the APP navigation bar.

[Users +2 (approved), Energy gained +2]

[Connect to Alibaba Cloud Voice Assistant, enrich functions, and gain energy +1]

[Record the Transformer algorithm minutes and gain energy +1]

“Huh? There’s also this?” After taking a look at the date, Hao Cheng nodded slightly: Later, he used the quicksand between his fingers as a work record.

[Record AI concept – AI training will eventually change from data-driven to knowledge-driven, gain energy +50, and obtain the key factors required for upgrading (ability direction)]

“Huh? Just now, a forming algorithm only had 1 energy value, but this concept with only one sentence is worth 50? And it’s a key factor?”

“Will AI training eventually shift from being data-driven to being knowledge-driven?” Hao Cheng silently read this sentence several times in his mind, extending its internal logic.

……

[User: 0004 logged in for ten consecutive days and gained +1 energy. The energy tank is full and can be used for Xiaosha’s growth nutrients! Do you want to consume 100 energy points for auxiliary upgrade? ]

“Upgrade!” Hao Cheng did not hesitate this time and gave the order directly.

[Consume 100 points of energy, the finger quicksand is upgrading, please wait.]

[Warning: Version upgrades require computing power support. The current server computing power cannot meet the version requirements. Please pay attention to upgrading the hardware configuration. ]

[Computing power requirement: 10TFLOPS/thousand concurrent (based on FP32), upgrade training process: minimum 10TFLOPS (takes fifteen minutes)! ]

The server that Zhifeng Liusha is currently using was bought by Hao Cheng at a cost of 99 yuan during a new user registration event held by a certain cloud server manufacturer, and the subscription is 99 yuan for three years.

It’s only 33 yuan a year. For this price, not to mention the GPU computing resources, even the CPU and bandwidth are shared.

It was OK for one person to play around with it before, but if one really wanted to provide AI-related services, it would definitely be difficult to do so.

“It requires computing power and cannot provide services out of thin air. It seems that this upgrade is also a process of AI training iteration, and it is not something created out of nothing.” Just treating it as a functional black box, Hao Cheng also silently made note of this point.

“As for the specific implementation and training methods…” Hao Cheng paused and said, “Let’s not worry about it for now. Let’s go out and upgrade the server first and see the actual capabilities first!”…

“Dad, eat jackfruit!”

The daughter, who had been staring at the bathroom door, saw Hao Cheng coming out, and ran over, taking a piece of jackfruit and stuffing it into Hao Cheng’s mouth.

Hao Cheng hugged him into his arms: “Yes, Zhenzhen, eat. Daddy can make a lot of money in the future, so you can eat as much as you want, okay?”

A four-year-old child wants to eat some fruit, not the stars in the sky. Money is really not something she should worry about at her age.

At this time, Hao Cheng’s mood was completely turned upside down, not just because of the APP upgrade. Even if there was nothing, he had gone through such difficult days. He didn’t believe that the current difficulties could stump him.

What’s more, the upgrade of this APP is in the direction of AI support, which is very popular now. Moreover, there are only more than 100 large models registered and filed in China.

This can be said to be a blue ocean. As long as you have some unique features, you will never have to worry about business.

“Really?” Xiao Zhenzhen was very excited again, waving her arms and legs, and even smearing jackfruit all over Hao Cheng’s face.

“Of course, but now why don’t you go to the bedroom and find mom? Daddy will take care of some work.”

“Okay! Zhenzhen is the most obedient!” Hao Cheng put little Zhenzhen down, and she ran to the bedroom: “Mom…”

Hao Cheng smiled and shook his head, then came to a place that was separated by half a balcony and was less than two square meters. It was considered a study room and it was also a small space that belonged to him alone.

I turned on my computer and logged into the cloud server product console. I quickly picked out a gn6v GPU computing server with a single NVIDIA V100 configuration from the service provider’s products.

Hao Cheng checked the computing power of NVIDIA V100, which is 32TFLOPS in FP14 calculation. According to the upgrade prompt, it can support 1400 users at the same time.

“Just give it a try. It’s enough. Let me buy it for a day and see!” A month’s purchase would cost more than three thousand yuan. When he was not completely sure what the effect would be, Hao Cheng first chose the 9.9 day trial.

[Server performance has been improved, training conditions have been met, it is being iterated, please wait…]

[The basic ability knowledge enhancement iteration of the large language model has been completed, and a professional ability enhancement is attached. Please choose the direction of professional ability evolution: 1. Sociology 2. Psychology 3. Language Arts 4. Literature 5. Legal Services…]

“Huh? There is also this?” After a little thought, Hao Cheng directly chose to enhance “legal services”. Things like social history, psychology, mathematics, etc. are completely impractical.

There is another factor that cannot be ignored, that is, Hao Cheng is currently in dispute with the company, and choosing legal services is a good way to test its so-called “professional capabilities”.

[Legal service has been selected, public information is being obtained… Training is in progress…]

Hao Cheng kept a close eye on the Labor Law, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Property Law, Arbitration Law, etc., even local regulations such as the Linzhou Arbitration Regulations, judicial documents network and other public information were quickly collected and quickly became high-quality data for enhancing professional capabilities.

【Professional capacity enhancement training has been completed. 】

After more than ten minutes, the training was finally completed, and it was finally time for it to show its skills.

Hao Cheng also directly described his experiences and encounters in the company in writing, and even provided relevant information such as labor contracts and work content according to Xiaosha’s requirements.

After some operations, Hao Cheng even felt that there was a person on the other side who was constantly analyzing the clues of the whole incident.

Until the end, Xiaosha gave the following suggestions:
[Combined with the actual situation of this case, the following suggestions are made: Grasp the company’s huge “handle”, use it reasonably and legally, and achieve the best result at the fastest speed and the lowest cost through negotiation. The details are as follows:]

“Haha, I’ve found some leverage over the company. I’d like to see how they proceed.”

Seeing this, Hao Cheng was really curious. It would be fine if an AI could combine the actual situation of the case, but it would also use “handle”. This…

——If it is AI of this level, then the expected imaginable space is too high.

(End of this chapter)