Cheetah Mobile Fu Sheng: Training large models is like refining elixir. Only those who dare to invest money can make ChatGPT.

The 2024 China Enterprise Future Stars Annual Conference will be held in Shanghai from July 26th to 28th.
On July 27, Fu Sheng, chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile and chairman of Orion Star, gave a speech saying that ChatGPT is not a victory of technology, but a victory of technological belief.
He said that the great thing about ChatGPT is that it changes the route of learning. OpenAI believes that as long as there is enough language data, OpenAI will suddenly understand the language and speak like a child.
Unlike large companies such as Google and Baidu, OpenAI believes that intelligence can be generated as long as it makes the next prediction. The former believes that intelligence can be accomplished through the understanding of rules and language.
Fu Sheng said that because he does not know the core principles of ChatGPT development, OpenAI\’s development model is very difficult. The most difficult thing is that it costs tens of millions of dollars for each trial. Try again and adjust after the trial.
Therefore, Fu Sheng bluntly said that the battle between hundreds of models today is not about the difficulty of technology, but about the difficulty of technical belief.
He believes that training a large model is like refining elixir. When you start practicing, you don\’t know how it will work. You must continue until the final results come out. Only if you really dare to believe and invest money can you really make ChatGPT.
On the other hand, OpenAI’s path is not the only correct one.
Fu Sheng said frankly that new branches and possibilities will emerge in the process of technological development. When OpenAI is unparalleled in large-parameter models, more and more open source communities for small-parameter models began to appear.
Fu Sheng pointed out that civilian models that solve specialized problems have relatively low requirements for technology and financial resources. Today’s open source camp is doing just that (civilian models). It uses cheaper computing power and smaller parameter quantities. Achieve better results in a certain field.
Recently, after the US Apple released iOS 18, Apple\’s stock price rose. Fu Sheng pointed out that this is the first time in the history of Apple that it did not release any hardware products. Instead, it released a concept conference.
Fu Sheng explained that Apple has re-upgraded the concept of Siri. After the upgrade, Siri became an assistant for Apple users. Apple used ChatGPT technology for interaction.
Historically, robots have revolved around people. All terminals will be reshaped.
Fu Sheng said that in the future, Siri will be the most important interaction window between people and mobile phones. This interaction is based on Siri\’s prediction of the user. For example, Siri will say: Your mother asked to come to the airport tomorrow. Remember to pick her up.
This is the assistant way. It was hard to imagine before.