December 24, 2028, New York.

The long-awaited cold snap has hit the university, and it has been raining for three whole days, transforming the world's financial center into a fairy tale world surrounded by skyscrapers.

Everything you see is white, except for the streets of Wall Street.

In order to allow the nobles' cars to pass smoothly, the city department has already arranged for workers to clean up the entire street over and over again. There are only a few streets in New York City that can receive such treatment, and most of the roads are also covered with snow.

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Especially parts of North Brooklyn and Queens.

While the Fifth Avenue was crowded with people, and countless people wearing expensive down jackets were smiling and holding up their mobile phones to take pictures of the romantic snow scene, the heavily armed medical staff in the Brooklyn park were treating homeless people who had been frozen to the point of stiffness.

The Han corpse was stuffed into a body bag.

Human joy has been isolated by neighborhoods in this city and has been inaccessible for a long time.

This is probably one of the charms of metropolitan cities. The more glamorous the part is on display, the less visible the hidden part is.

A 70-story modern building stands on the corner of Park Avenue 47 and 48 Street in Midtown Manhattan.

This is not Wall Street, but it is the headquarters of the world's second largest investment bank, ****.

Compared with nearby office buildings that are generally over 70 years old, ****'s global headquarters appears outstanding and heroic.

But that's just what it looks like.

This building, which once housed more than 15,000 employees, has been more than half rented out.

It’s not that this century-old investment bank has suffered losses over the years and can no longer afford the maintenance costs of the building, but that today with the popularization of strong artificial intelligence, some investment banking departments that do not need to deal directly with people no longer need as many manpower as they once did.

For example, the optimization decision-making model made by artificial intelligence two years ago has far exceeded the efforts of human actuaries.

For humans, actuaries are a profession that has developed with the development of mathematics, statistics, risk, and probability. Actuaries have extremely high requirements. They need to have high mathematical and statistical talents, be knowledgeable, and have a good understanding of society.

Average life expectancy, medical care, accidents, weather, and war all have a more accurate judgment and assessment.

But obviously artificial intelligence has more advantages in these aspects, especially when similar algorithms become popular in this industry.

In the past, the main reason why actuaries could not be popularized was because of cost issues, but China's Yuxin Technology has solved this problem. Through the analysis of big data, strong artificial intelligence has produced risk models with incredibly high accuracy. And the required cost has been

It has dropped to an unbelievable level, so the position of actuary, which once could earn an annual salary of one million, disappeared unknowingly.

Instead, there is a position dedicated to data communication with artificial intelligence, big data modeling engineer.

The focus of their work is to help artificial intelligence filter out more effective data and block invalid data. In this way, quantum computing power can be saved and the company can save costs.

It is conceivable that this kind of position can save money than an actuary, and the salary is much lower, which can save more costs for the company.

Therefore, large-scale investment banks, insurance institutions, etc. are now beginning to employ more artificial intelligence instead of humans. If the government had not forcibly ordered certain human jobs to be guaranteed in certain positions, many positions may have been completely replaced by artificial intelligence.

replace.

Now even doctors' income is not as high as before.

The direct consequence is that the unemployment rate in the entire United States has now reached an extremely dangerous level. According to the latest weekly report from the Department of Labor, the number of federal unemployment benefits applications last week has reached an estimate of 270,000 jobs that employers will cut again after Christmas.

The only industries that have not been affected for the time being are probably the leisure and hotel service industries, as well as the tourism industry. According to research reports, people still prefer to enjoy the services of real people, rather than so-called robots with human-like intelligence.

This has led to the fact that the situation in the service industry that requires lower cultural literacy is not too bad at present, but in some higher-end industries, the unemployment rate has increased significantly.

Such as actuaries, programmers, doctors, etc...

This sudden attack on the middle class of society has put countless decent middle-class families in trouble, but it is obvious that the government still does not know how to solve this predicament.

According to data from some international statistical organizations, a large number of former middle class people around the world are beginning to flock to China because that country is said to be more friendly to them. As the new world technology center, there are opportunities everywhere...

However, China has always maintained a low profile and caution, and still implements a strict nationality review policy, which has caused countless people to complain.

Therefore, in numerous competitions, Chinese nationality has become the most difficult nationality in the world to obtain, bar none.

In addition, more and more countries have begun to grant visa-free treatment to Chinese passport holders, especially a year ago when China and the European Union officially signed the "Semiconductor Joint Development Cooperation Agreement" and the "Global Virtual Tourism Technology Sightseeing Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement"

, the European Union as a whole took the lead in granting visa-free access to China, and other countries around the world followed suit...

Since then, the Chinese passport has become one of the most cost-effective passports in the world, further enhancing the appeal of Chinese nationality.

Of course, the most important thing is that it is said that you can make money by playing the game "The Eighth Continent" in China, and you make money through the official website. Not only that, it is said that the money you make can even far exceed the local minimum wage standard, which is not even possible.

It's a decent life, but at least I can have enough food and clothing.

This once caused protests, because after experiencing a short-term withdrawal discount, most players from other countries could not make money.

Those who can make money from games are definitely veterans who are proficient in the game.

For example, it is really difficult for the laid-off middle class to make money from games. Many people even can’t help but spend money in games. After all, who doesn’t want to have fun playing games? Especially this game is really

With a good understanding of people's hearts, the tasks designed for each person are based on their usual hobbies. Moreover, you can also get discounts on some related network software when you spend money in the game, which seems to be quite worthwhile.

Adding insult to injury.

In short, all the above directly caused Christmas in the Federation to become a bit deserted this year.

Even though Christmas Eve is approaching, there are still countless people working in the **** headquarters building.

This was a scene that would have been unimaginable in previous years.

But there is no other way. I am lucky enough to still have the opportunity to work in this building. Damn artificial intelligence can work 24 hours a day and never needs a break. It is such a technology that makes the road for countless people narrower and narrower.

, but humans still have no way to deal with it.

It’s not just the lower-level employees who have to work hard.

In fact, Jamie Dimon, the current CEO of ****, is also busy today, entertaining guests.

The guest is Glynn Trueman, a recent Wall Street venture capital investor, a financial elite who once almost reached the pinnacle of his life in ****.

He once conquered this building through his own efforts, and at the same time fell directly to the lowest point in his life because of his greed, but now he has risen again and is sitting in Jamie Dimon's office with a higher profile.

"It's very windy and snowy this year!" Jamie Dimon said with emotion.

"Yes, New York has not seen such heavy snow for a long time. In my memory, the last time it snowed so heavily was nine years ago." Green Trueman echoed, but he seemed to mean something.

Because in December nine years ago, he was taken away from the headquarters building of the Communist Party of China.

But it's not this building, it's the old building.

Jamie Dimon smiled and did not continue to explore this issue in depth because there was no need.

It's also very easy to get into trouble.

Although strictly speaking, *** did nothing wrong in that incident nine years ago, it is obviously inappropriate to talk about it now.

"By the way, I heard that China has now fully implemented the driverless system. There are almost no human-driven vehicles in the city. I really don't know what it is like." Jamie Dimon sighed.

"Actually, it's no different. I just went to China last month. The driverless system only improves traffic efficiency, but it's really worth a visit. After the streets there have been renovated, all the cars are really in good order.

, neat and uniform, like marching in a queue. Then again, the reason why Chinese people can promote autonomous driving so quickly is because the infrastructure construction is advancing very fast. China's overall 6G network coverage has reached 90%

Six or more, you have to know that this covers the entire territory."

"That's a very large area of ​​more than 9.6 million square kilometers. Now except for a few uninhabited areas, the signal has basically achieved full coverage, and even achieved full signal coverage within China's territorial waters. I

Thinking about the next step, maybe China will launch an unmanned offshore cruise ship."

Green Trueman politely described what he had seen and heard in China a while ago.

The whole world knows the close relationship between Trueman and Yuxin Technology, so there is no need to hide anything.

"It's a pity that our 6G coverage is less than 30%." Jamie Dimon nodded and agreed.

Yes, when it comes to the speed of infrastructure construction, although the Federation has tried its best to promote it, the efficiency is still far from being comparable to that of China.

"If China's drone array technology is introduced, New York can actually achieve perfect full coverage of 6G signals within half a year, but unfortunately the introduction of this technology was vetoed by Congress." Green Trueman shrugged and said disdainfully.

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This happened last year.

China has quickly laid out the entire Skynet system and 6G infrastructure in all cities in China by using drones equipped with cameras and base stations. Therefore, China’s 6G base station layout presents a combination of fixed base stations and aerial mobile base stations, which can quickly be deployed in all cities in China.

The layout of 6G base stations has been completed in all cities.

The result is that China has now basically perfected the first step in realizing the Internet of Everything.

For example, the first smart makeup mirror was released.

This is a 6G smart home product developed by Weihua. The system still uses the Xin system, but it is the Magic Mirror version of the Xin system specially optimized by Changxiang Technology.

After this kind of makeup mirror is connected to the Internet, when a person uses it, the mirror can automatically plan more than ten makeup methods for the owner, directly teach the owner how to apply makeup step by step through the mirror, and even directly help the owner outline the eyebrow shape, mouth shape, etc. wait.

Moreover, at each step, recommended tools will be given, and it also has the function of recommending cosmetics and skin care products. It can recommend suitable products according to the owner's skin type.

As for other functions, it can directly simulate the appearance after makeup for selection, connect with the mobile phone to make calls, video chat with people through this smart makeup mirror, and discuss makeup with each other, etc.

When this kind of cosmetic mirror was first launched, it caused a sensation in the entire market.

When Huaxia was launched, the official price was 1,999 yuan. It was sold out almost as soon as it was put on the shelves. Many people waited overnight for the product to be released but couldn't get it at all. The scalper market even fetched nearly 10,000 yuan at one time, but it was still hard to find a single shot.

Of course, this situation also proves that men’s spending power is indeed not comparable to that of women.

Probably learning from the less aggressive pricing strategy in China, this smart mirror called Magic Mirror 1.0 was priced at 1,688 euros and 1,766 US dollars respectively when it was launched in Europe and the United States, and it is still a hot seller.

Of course, there are still some differences between the domestic version and the foreign version.
To be continued...