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From Lunar Dust to Space Cockroaches: The Strange Auction Histories of Artifacts from the Moon’s Surface
At present, there are only three countries in the world that sample and return extraterrestrial celestial bodies, and they all sample from the moon. gram). Strictly speaking, these costly collected samples are not allowed to be circulated to the market, but on May 26, 2022, the “Apollo 11 Experimental Lunar Soil” listed on the official website of the RR Auction House in the United States weighed about 40 mg, and the estimated price 1 gram for 10 million dollars. It is unimaginable that a bag of remaining moon dust was auctioned at a price of 1.8 million US dollars in 2017, and then in 2022, five moon dust collected…
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What to Expect from Xiaomi’s Entry into the Electric Vehicle Market
On August 24, it was reported in the market that Xiaomi has obtained the approval from relevant departments to produce electric vehicles (EV), which means that the mass production and launch in 2024 that Xiaomi has been emphasizing has already met the basic conditions. The reporter asked Xiaomi about this, but the company continued to remain silent and made it clear to the reporter that it “does not respond.” Before the release of this news, there are still many developments that have been paid attention to by the market in recent days. Including Xiaomi’s registration and filing of the “xiaomiev.com” website domain name, and the recent recruitment of workers by…
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How Jobs Predicted the Future of Computers and How it Relates to AI Today
A few days ago, a friend forwarded me a video of Jobs being interviewed in 1981. This video has not been broadcast before, it was only “excavated” in 2021, and relatively few people have watched it. Jobs said in it that, just like the invention and popularization of electric motors, as the cost drops and the threshold for use is lowered, personal computers (PCs) will start from very expensive application scenarios such as scientific research, industry, and military, and gradually enter small and medium-sized enterprises. Personal workers and other commercial scenarios, and then enter thousands of households. He compared the PC to a bicycle. Just like the flexibility and freedom…
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Deciphering Kissinger’s Visit to China: The Looming AI Cold War Between the Two superpowers
Why did Kissinger drag his hundred-year-old body all the way to China? There are many analyzes and speculations on the Chinese Internet, but there is one topic that has never been noticed in China, and that is the topic of artificial intelligence. At the end of the press release on Wang Yi’s meeting with Kissinger, there is such an inconspicuous sentence: “ The two sides also discussed issues such as Ukraine and artificial intelligence . ” The issue of artificial intelligence is just hidden in the press release. I believe that the problems mentioned in the press release must not be trivial. This is a very difficult thing to understand.…
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Lei Jun at 54: The Ever-Active Founder Leading Xiaomi’s Quest for Growth
Lei Jun, the 54-year-old founder of Xiaomi, is still full of energy. On the evening of August 14th, Lei Jun held his fourth annual speech at the Beijing National Convention Center. The theme of the speech was “Growth”. The setbacks and thinking faced by Xiaomi in the process of high-end in the past three years. The keynote speech of more than an hour, plus the follow-up new product launch conference of more than an hour, Lei Jun finished the speech by himself, from 7:00 p.m. long record. According to industry rumors, this time Lei Jun’s speech, the PPT alone made 480 pages, except for a few minutes of rest between…
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The Real Threat of AI: How Generative Models Are Destroying the Middle Class
I read two articles recently, which are really frightening. One is the ChatGPT replacement employment report made by the National Development Institute of Peking University and Zhaopin Recruitment. The conclusion of the report is that the large language model headed by ChatGPT will replace most white-collar and knowledge-based jobs. Another article is an article published by the data emperor Chen Qin in Caixin. He analyzed 1,639 occupations in China and found that the occupation with the highest replacement rate by generative AI is translation, followed by insurance underwriters and playwrights. More than 90% of the work content of this profession can be replaced by AI. Secondly, occupations related to art,…
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AI and the Art of Warfare: How Military Applications of AI are Revolutionizing Combat
War, War never changes. This is a famous line in the role-playing game “Fallout” series, “War, war will never change.” Since the dawn of humanity, we have pursued with greatest passion the most efficient means of destroying other humans. Engels had a prophecy: “Once technological progress can be used for military purposes and has been used for military purposes, they will immediately almost forcefully, and often against the commander’s will, cause changes or even revolutions in the way of fighting.” As one of the most important technological breakthroughs of this era, AI cannot escape this curse. Today, more than two months have passed since the big AI discussion triggered by…
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The Rise of Japan’s Agricultural Cooperatives: A Rural Consortium Model
Apart from the contingency of historical development, the inevitability of commercial culture cannot be ignored in the formation of the consortium system of the Japanese Agricultural Association. In fact, the trinity of “industry, business and integration” is the universal value of the East Asian economic model. In recent years, the research on the Japanese Agricultural Association has gradually attracted domestic attention and attention, but most of them still regard its development process, organization, function and experience as the research focus. In fact, with the formation of a complete system including local organizations and national organizations, the agricultural cooperative organizations in the traditional sense have gradually become “consortia”. This “rural consortium”…
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The Rise of Knowledge-Based Companies in China’s Economic Development
At different stages of economic development, there are always some star companies rising. BYD, Ningde Times, and Huawei are currently dazzling star companies. Their industries and products are different, but one thing is the same, that is, they are all typical knowledge-based companies. Knowledge-based companies are high-end human capital-intensive enterprises based on clusters of scientists. Knowledge leadership has become the core advantage and growth momentum of enterprises. The knowledge-based company is an important symbol of the development of the present era, and it is also an inevitable requirement of the development of the era. Times make heroes. Economic development is intrinsically linked to the transformative growth of business organizations. Since…
