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"Dad, you've heard of reinsurance companies, right?" Ryan asked.
"Of course I've heard of that. Isn't a reinsurance company a company that provides insurance for insurance companies?" his father said.
A reinsurance company, as the name suggested, was a company that provided insurance services to insurance companies.
To put it simply, whenever an insurance company had a piece of business it didn't want to or couldn't fully underwrite on its own, whether because of high risk or policy regulations, it could go to a reinsurance company and take out another layer of insurance on top.
Then the premiums would be split among everyone, and if a payout came due, they'd pay out together.
For instance, in a situation like the cancellation of the Olympics, the organizers would have bought the corresponding insurance, and the insurance company wouldn't swallow the entire policy alone either. It would pull in a reinsurance company.
That way, once something like an Olympic cancellation occurred, the insurance company that had paid out to the event organizers could go to the reinsurance company above it for money.
It was a nesting-doll style of operation.
Thinking of this, Ryan's father suddenly had some idea of what this re-search engine his son spoke of actually was.
"You're saying we build another search engine on top of the other search engines?" he asked hesitantly.
Ryan said, "It doesn't really count as a search engine. It's a results optimization program."
He unveiled the answer.
"We can make an AI that automatically searches the internet for material based on the user's needs, filters out the useless information, and then arranges and displays the useful information it's gathered."
"For instance, say I want to search online for Scrapper's performance data. I only need to give the AI a command, and it can automatically search the internet, exclude the great mass of irrelevant information turned up in the search, and at the same time integrate, arrange, and display the information I might need," Ryan said.
His father understood at once. This was a program that lay on top of other search engines and sucked their blood.
It wasn't a search engine. It was merely a porter for search engines.
Responsible only for hauling over the useful results the search engines dug up.
As long as a user used this program, then from then on, when they used a search engine, although they'd be using the search engine's results, what the user saw would be their program's page.
This was equivalent to knocking search engines from the primary page down to a secondary page.
Of course, a program like this had to guarantee that it could genuinely understand what content the user wanted to know about, and screen the content correctly.
"But would doing this carry any legal risk?" He was a bit worried. "And won't the various search engines push back?"
Ryan said, "There's no legal risk, and even if there were we could circumvent it in the program. In essence, this is only a program that crawls data and analyzes data."
"As for pushback from the various search engines, we can build it first and then release the news, and see how loudly they howl before deciding our next step."
"All right, then let's start with the AI's related training first."
"Just doing this re-search engine isn't enough. We also need to lay out positions in other fields."
"Go ahead." Ryan's father had already taken out pen and paper on his end, ready to take notes.
"Artificial intelligence can be put to use in a great many fields."
"In medicine, for instance, image recognition can let it rapidly identify the scans produced by various instruments, lightening doctors' workloads."
"Our photoacoustic imaging scanner will need technology in this area as well."
The photoacoustic imaging scanner reconstructed images of the body's interior based on photoacoustic signals, but the reconstructed images were extremely complex, and generally required artificial intelligence for recognition and analysis.
After all, that was an image containing every kind of physical information about a human being. Without using artificial intelligence, if a person looked at it by eye, a doctor could spend a whole day on the scans from a single patient.
His father added, "We've already got a similar project underway on that, in cooperation with the health authority."
Ever since Argus Image came into the world, no small number of people had recognized Argus's potential and come knocking to seek cooperation.
"Mm, that can lay a foundation. Later on we can train the capabilities I need."
Photoacoustic images and ordinary medical image recognition had different requirements.
"Beyond that, we also need to push into education."
"That translation software we released earlier, if it's combined with our voice recognition and synthesis capabilities and our natural language comprehension, could be made into an excellent spoken-language training software. Then you'd only need to talk to it to practice speaking a foreign language, and the market share certainly wouldn't be small."
"That's a good idea!"
Hearing this, Ryan's father's eyes lit up. As if he didn't know how profitable education software and education equipment were.
The three great drivers of consumption: women, children, and cats.
Those kids' smartwatches had only so much in the way of specs and functions, so on what grounds did they sell for more than the watches from famous brands like Apple?
Wasn't it precisely because they were professional kid-targeted products?
"Beyond that, we can also make intelligent security screening systems or management systems. Add facial recognition to Argus, automatically identify outside individuals entering a residential community or a school, connect to the police database, automatically detect strangers appearing within an area, and sound an alarm the moment a dangerous person like a wanted criminal is discovered."
Ryan's father recorded all of these ideas of Ryan's on paper, planning to find time to have the AI center start researching them.
"That's roughly all the ideas I have. Have the people in the product department discuss things more with the people at the research center. Our current technological accumulation really isn't small, and there's plenty of room to dig," Ryan said over the phone.
His father chuckled. "No problem. I'll arrange all of it. You can set your mind at ease."
Unlike Ryan's mother, his father didn't like to chatter on the phone, and the two of them soon hung up.
Looking at the paper on his desk, now covered in writing, Ryan's father made a call to summon Adrian Shaw, the product department manager.
This was a mature, steady middle-aged man in well-fitted clothes, his bearing like a reef by the sea.
Ever since Prism began making a name in the artificial intelligence field, the company's talent pool had developed rapidly too.
Although the prosthetics company had been high-tech before, it was, after all, too niche. Now a great many talented people had joined the company.
Adrian Shaw was one of them.
Ryan's father handed the paper in his hand to him, explaining the details of these several products carefully at the same time.
"You need to communicate well with Hargrove's side on these products, and get them made as soon as possible."
Adrian Shaw looked at the contents of the paper, a look of surprise appearing on his face, and hurriedly said, "I'll communicate with him right away."
"Beyond that, the two of you need to coordinate well on the issues between product and R&D, and produce a new product at the earliest possible date."
"I understand." Adrian Shaw nodded, understanding that this was a test Ryan's father was giving him as the newcomer.
On the other side.
After hanging up the phone, Ryan began his first experiment.
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