Chinese account for more than 70% of the population in the Lion City. If you only speak Chinese, you will have no problem living in the Lion City.

The R&D director of Kechuang Biotech's R&D Center in Lion City is Li Wanqing. He is a third-generation Chinese and holds a PhD in brain-computer connection from Nanyang Technological University. He has previously worked at Neuralink for more than two years.

Neuralink is a company founded by Musk. It has been deeply involved in the field of brain-computer connection. Before Li Wanqing left, preliminary products had been manufactured in the laboratory.

The outside world may think that brain-computer connection is a concept that has only become popular in recent years, but in fact, the concept of brain-computer connection was proposed as early as the 1950s.

Li Wanqing is inconsistent with Neuralink's overall philosophy. Neuralink's main research direction has always been invasive brain-computer interfaces.

The invasive method is to implant a chip into the gray matter of the brain to obtain the neural signals generated by your brain. Li Wanqing advocates the non-invasive method. He has always believed that invasive brain-computer connections have many hidden dangers.

Due to a conflict of ideas, Li Wanqing returned to the Lion City after leaving Neuralink. He had previously worked as an assistant professor at Nanyang Polytechnic.

Later, Li Wanqing was recruited by Kechuang Biotech and served as the R&D director at Kechuang Biotechnology.

Li Wanqing was very happy after coming to Kechuang Biotech, because Kechuang Biotechnology's research philosophy in the direction of brain-computer interfaces has always been the same as his, and it has always been developing in a non-invasive direction.

Moreover, Kechuang Biotechnology has gone very far in non-invasive technology, which can be said to be further than any company he knows of on the market.

The first major task he took over after joining the company was to optimize the brain-computer real-time monitoring device along the route planned by Zheng Li.

As a third-generation Chinese, Li Wanqing's way of thinking has been very Westernized. In his mind, monitoring work status involves invading other people's privacy.

Therefore, before conducting research, he applied to have a detailed chat with Zheng Li.

"Mr. Zheng, I think this is an infringement of personal human rights and also involves infringement of other people's privacy. Do we have to do research in this area?"

Zheng Li asked back: "Do you think technology is good or bad?"

Li Wanqing replied: "Technology is neutral. Its quality depends on how people use it. However, technology has a bias since its birth. The technology we are studying now has a high probability of developing in a bad direction."

Li Wanqing believed that this was a conceptual game and contest, and he did not want to follow Zheng Li's wishes.

Zheng Li nodded: "Technology is not good or bad. Technology is neutral. The development of any technology will have its advantages and disadvantages."

Zheng Li is proficient in the history of science and technology of Blue Star: "For example, the invention at the beginning of the first industrial revolution, the Jenny spinning machine."

"With its birth, the spinning capacity has been increased eight times compared to the old spinning wheel. It sounds wonderful, right?"

"But what followed was that workers during the Industrial Revolution worked up to fifteen or six hours. Before the Industrial Revolution, self-employed textile industry practitioners did not have to work such long hours."

"So technology is neutral. From your perspective, you only see the infringement of personal rights by brain-computer real-time monitoring."

"But in addition to infringing on individual rights, it also brings fairness. The results of everyone's work are reflected in a more equitable way. This is the benefit it brings."

Li Wanqing was not so easily persuaded: "As far as I know, China's major Internet company is 996. With a brain-computer monitoring device, working intensively for ten hours is really no different from exchanging one's life for money."

Zheng Li explained: "From a technical point of view, it is possible to do this, but in reality it is impossible to do it this way."

"The plan proposed by companies such as Goosechang, Ali, and Rice is to implement a nine-to-five two-day-a-week mechanism, and then use brain-computer real-time monitoring to monitor everyone's work efficiency and working status."

"The working status of employees is calculated every month, and the same positions are eliminated at the end. In order to avoid unlimited involution, a strict system of leaving get off work on time is implemented."

"You are not even required to devote yourself to it from nine o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon. You just need to be more serious than others."

If compulsory get off work is not implemented, it will be unbearable for everyone who will only become inflamed.

"And with the brain-computer monitoring device, instead of you saying how much work you have done or how much work you have done, the system will show you how long your effective working hours are. In fact, in addition to what you think is exploitation, the essence is fairness."

Li Wanqing could barely accept Zheng Li's explanation: "But I still feel it's not good."

Zheng Li asked: "Do you think this technology is difficult to implement?"

Li Wanqing shook his head and said: "No."

Zheng Li continued: "Then if we don't do it, won't other companies be able to discover it? They won't be able to come up with this algorithm?"

After thinking about it, Li Wanqing replied: "If it really develops in this direction, it will take up to a year to develop it based on Neuralink's technical strength."

Zheng Li: "So even if we don't do it, other companies will do it. We can also work hard to control the technology within a certain range and form a benign mechanism."

"And the brain-computer real-time monitoring device actually has a wide range of application scenarios, and companies using it to monitor employees' working status is only a very small use scenario."

"We can monitor fatigue driving by changing the algorithm, let the freight driver wear it, and alert him when he has brain wave signals of fatigue driving."

"It can be developed in the direction of polygraph and applied in criminal investigation."

"Technology is neutral, and real-time brain-computer monitoring is just one algorithm of brain-computer connection."

The algorithm analyzes the neural signals reflected by the device and analyzes the seriousness of its work.

The analyzed state is in the form of a percentage, such as 90% serious working state, because a person cannot be 100% devoted to work, and he will definitely have distracting thoughts in his subconscious.

The design concept of DingTalk Technology does not require you to work 100% for eight hours. It only requires you to work longer than others' actual working hours.

After listening to it, Li Wanqing felt that Zheng Li's words made sense, but he still had some obstacles in his heart.

Because he can't accept that he has to wear this thing to work, he still understands the principle of not doing to others what you don't want others to do to you.

But he couldn't resist. Zheng Li's explanation could barely convince him that being the R&D director of Kechuang Biotech's Lion City R&D Center was also a rare opportunity for Li Wanqing. It was impossible for him to resign for this reason.

After spending time with Zheng Li, he was shocked by Zheng Li's keen sense of scientific research.

In his long study career, Li Wanqing has met many people who are better than himself, but like Zheng Li, if you ask him a question at any time, he can easily answer it and tell you what ideas you should use to solve the problem. He is still the first person.
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