Money Likes Me Too - Chapter 62



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Episode 62.

Han Jang-su doubted his ears.

“Are you going to London?”

Going is not a problem.

The problem is that the destination is Alphamind. It’s a meeting with Damien Hassabis to promote a new artificial intelligence project.

I heard everything from Yoo Jae-hong. I was worried.

“What’s the problem?”

“No, that’s not it, but still, at this point in time, a new project is a bit.”

It was like this when I first set up Cocoa Alexis.

The results weren’t bad, though.

Kotok, which was desperate to maintain a 1% market share, began to make progress in the United States. This was thanks to its nanosecond confirmation function. Word of mouth spread widely in Silicon Valley, and the number of users increased rapidly. It was an unexpected windfall.

‘That was just luck.’

Han Jang-soo shook his head with great effort.

Things are different now than they were then.

Cocoa Bank has now entered the race to finalize its preliminary license application. It has even been hung up at the Financial Plus headquarters. Overtime is common. Meanwhile, Cloud has broken ground on its second center. The hardships are really just beginning.

Hantri and Onbit go without saying.

What about Baedal’s Nation? It recently entered the US delivery market and is growing rapidly together with Kotok.

This is all work.

It means that there are more than one or two projects that Cocoa is leading. It is difficult to even finish them because the resources are too much.

Kang Si-hyeon was at peace.

“I’ll go and listen to Damien’s proposal first.”

Han Jang-soo knew that those words were synonymous with saying he would just do it.

“If you keep doing this and decide to advance into Europe······.”

“Advancing into Europe?”

Oops, that was a mistake. I covered my mouth. I said something wrong.

“I hadn’t thought of that, but thank you for the great idea, Director Han.”

Han Jang-soo was angry at himself. He went over to Yu Jae-hong, who was watching the fire across the river next to the painter. He cursed with his eyes.

‘You’re going to love it, right?’

‘of course.’

Yoo Jae-hong also answered with his eyes.

“It looks like they are preparing a new project with help.”

Lee Jong-seok intervened to save Han Jang-soo.

“Help?”

“CEO Hong Jeong-tae told me on-site the day before yesterday that he would try to compete properly with Naver Webtoon again.”

“That’s good news. Are you still preparing?”

“That’s right. Please wait a moment. I think I’ll report formally to the CEO soon.”

Han Jang-su’s ears perked up.

Yes. Even if it costs a little more, it is better to do business domestically. I was grateful for Lee Jong-suk’s assistance. I wanted to prevent him from going to London at all costs.

“I totally agree, sir.”

But Kang Si-hyeon’s answer was far beyond his expectations.

“Then let’s talk about that after we go to London and come back. After all, GANs are pictures, and comics are pictures, right? Let’s do both. If we do them well, won’t they create synergy?”

‘Oh, this isn’t it.’

It wasn’t the answer he wanted. A look of disappointment appeared on Han Jang-soo’s face.

“Please contact President Gil Jun-gyu.”

“yes?”

“Mr. Gil should also accompany me on this business trip. Tell him to prepare so that he can study ways to combine the content business and the artificial intelligence project.”

It went one step further.

‘Let’s give up. It’ll be easier then.’

Lee Jong-suk shook his head as he spoke with his eyes.

‘Webtoons and artificial intelligence······.’

I don’t know for sure.

If you run the webtoon business and the AI ​​project separately, you will have to spend money on each. It is a shame. However, if you pursue both at the same time, you can spend more money.

That’s all I know.

How?

This is a matter for the experts to decide.

At that moment, a manager spoke in a desperate voice.

“Sir, do you know why Nokia had no choice but to sell its mobile division to Microsoft?”

That’s unexpected.

“Why did you do that?”

“In a situation where Google Android and Apple were dominating the mobile OS market, we tried to create our own OS, MeeGo.”

“Shall we make one too?”

“That’s not what I meant. Listen carefully.”

He continued, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

“It would have been fine if I had stopped there. But then I made another big mistake in 2011. I gave up on MeeGo and went back to Windows Phone, not Android.”

That was the point.

If you pivot right away after failing once, you can recover. But if you don’t give up and make a second mistake, it’s hard to stop. That’s what it was.

What’s that story?

‘In the end, it means that you have to do both (and you’ll fail).’

Suddenly, I felt grateful to Director Han. Even though he is ticklish, he helps me spend money more than anyone else. He even suggested the idea of ​​advancing into Europe. Now, he doesn’t even spare words of encouragement.

It’s just as he said.

There is no way we can’t become the second Nokia. Now, even the executives are of one mind.

This time I was really confident. Damn confident.

“Can you think about it one more time?”

One of the managers kept pushing me to the end. But I knew his true intentions. I expressed my deep gratitude to him in my heart.

“No.”

I cut it firmly with all my heart.

* * *

So we headed to London.

“Mr. Kang!”

Damien greeted me warmly.

“Isn’t it too much to send your subordinates fifteen times while leaving your friends in London?”

“I’m sorry. Haha.”

“Come in quickly. It’s been a while, Mr. Yoo. How have you been?”

I’ve been to London often, but this is my first time at the Alphamind office.

“This way.”

Went inside.

At first glance, it looks like a messy landscape like a Palo Alto garage. But when you look closely, you get the tension of being at the forefront of AI technology. It is truly a mysterious space.

He guided us to the innermost table.

“This is the seat where Google’s Eric Schumpeter and Microsoft’s CEO Natia Sadella sat. Please have a seat.”

At those words, Yoo Jae-hong’s eyes widened in surprise. He took out his phone. His hands were busy taking pictures. If I left him alone, he would carve my name into it. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I snickered.

“Stop being so country and sit down.”

“Oh, yes, sir.”

Damien added after seeing the sight.

“Oh, and the chair that Mr. Yoo is sitting in is the chair that Tim sat in. You know Tim? Tim Cook of Apple.”

Yoo Jae-hong’s expression was truly something to behold. Regardless, Damien put down the tray. There was steaming black tea.

‘It’s England after all.’

Despite the commotion, the employees remained motionless. They were just absorbed in their own work. They paid no attention even as the commotion passed.

Damian asked.

“Are you satisfied with the performance of Alpha Redit?”

“Of course. It was very good.”

“I don’t usually talk about things like this, but our team had a hard time this time.”

He recalled.

“In order to meet Mr. Kang’s complex order, we had to fine-tune the design options to be more lenient on the subjects of evaluation. But then again, this is a matter of money. The loan evaluation itself had to be accurate, so it cost a lot of extra money.”

Was that so?

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If I had known this would happen, I would have made the order more complicated. That was a mistake.

Isn’t that the same with coffee?

The more paid options you add, the higher the price and the more delicious it becomes. The same goes for projects. The more options you add, the better the results will be, but the cost will also increase.

Why did I only realize the truth now? But it’s too late to regret it.

“Damian?”

“yes?”

“Do you have any plans to make another model?”

He waved his hand at my words.

“Okay. We have a lot of work to do. One of my friends is collaborating with NHCS (the National Healthcare Service in the UK), and another one is at Google Research three days a week. It’s too much work and I don’t want to do it anymore.”

It was disappointing.

“Then let me tell you about my friend.”

Getting to the point. Yes, I almost forgot why I came here.

“I wanted to make an appointment with Professor Joshua Benji, but he just returned to Toronto. He has a research lab there. Instead, I’d like to introduce you to one of my students. He’s a friend of mine. In fact, the GANs project is his, so it might be better for Mr. Kang.”

“okay.”

“But there is a bit of a problem.”

His explanation continued.

“My friend has a very free spirit. He wants to work from home. His goal is to stay in the UK no matter what. MS will have a hard time adjusting to that. Not to mention Seongsam, which has a vertical organizational culture. He also turned down the US AI Open Scout, which Musk invested in, because it was too much trouble to go there.”

He added that his friend had complained to him, saying, “I wouldn’t mind going to Mars, as opposed to Earth, as long as I can work without having to commute.”

I’m good. I nodded.

If you give me a lot of money, I won’t have to go to work for even a second, not to mention flexible working hours.

At that time, Yoo Jae-hong opened his mouth.

“Is your friend’s name Ian? Ian Fletcher?”

“Oh, so you know Mr. Yoo.”

Damien smiled.

“That’s right. The technology that André René of Microsoft praised as ‘the most amazing research in the history of deep learning’ is the research result of Ian Fletcher that I’m going to introduce to you.”

Yoo Jae-hong was amazed.

I was also amazed. I don’t know what it is, but it feels amazing.

If you have great skills, you will probably get a pretty high salary when you hire them. Suddenly, my mouth started watering. Even though the black tea and biscuits in front of me were so tasteless.

“So when will we meet?”

Damian asked.

“We don’t mind today either. That’s why we came here. But I just want you to decide the meeting place.”

“where······.”

“[Gordon Ramsay], this is a place I always come to when I come to London.”

I was hungry because of the food I hadn’t even touched. He asked.

“You didn’t make a reservation, did you?”

“Reservation?” I answered proudly.

“Gordon is my friend.”

Just like Ian is your friend, I thought to myself.

“If Ian wants to, he can work freely in London and eat Gordon’s amazing scrambled eggs whenever he wants. That is, if he works with us.”

Damien couldn’t close his mouth in surprise.

“Ian would like that.”

It was the words he finally spoke after searching for something to say. He picked up his phone. He pressed the call button.

He told Ian Fletcher, who answered the phone.

“Ian, I think I’ve found the right place for you.”

He was sincere.

* * *

When Gil Jun-gyu landed at London Heathrow Airport, it was already evening. He hurriedly caught a taxi.

“Russell Square please.”

I called Alphamind’s office address.

‘I hope it’s not too late.’

I wanted to live up to Kang Si-hyeon’s expectations.

He was the one who chose him as the CEO of the company just by listening to Hong Jeong-tae. He was also one of the few owners who sympathized with his vision that the food of the future is content.

‘A way to combine the content industry and artificial intelligence.’

I racked my brain with my staff until dawn the day before the business trip, but we couldn’t come up with a particularly good plan.

‘It’s not a game like AlphaDuk, and in the world of creation, there are too many possibilities.’

‘That’s right. No matter how powerful AI is, it’s still a computer. It won’t be able to surpass humans.’

This opinion was the prevailing opinion.

He also largely agreed. No matter how good AI is, can it draw pictures for people? He was negative. He thought that creativity is clearly a uniquely human domain.

But there is no way that Representative Kang would have called himself that in vain.

There’s definitely something here.

‘What is that?’

The car was running with all these things in its hands: anticipation, burden, and pounding heart.

After a few minutes, the taxi slowly stopped.

It is a famous landmark in London with many old buildings. But he is not a tourist. He did not have time to leisurely admire it.

‘Let’s see. The address is······.’

I went up the stairs and made a phone call.

– Oh, is this Mr. Gil? I’ll open the door for you.

Tiring.

The door opened with a sound.

When I came inside, there were still many people working. It was a place far from old-fashioned. There were many computers and it was as bright as day.

“This way.”

Kang Si-hyeon raised his hand toward him.

I briefly greeted Gil Jun-gyu, who was approaching me while looking around.

“This is Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Hassabis. Please introduce yourselves as well. The newcomer is Mr. Jun-gyu Gil.”

After a brief greeting, he immediately pointed to the monitor.

“Look at this. What do you think?”

Fletcher was just showing me his GANs system. He came at the right time. There was a picture on the screen.

“You drew it well. But why is this drawing suddenly······.”

“Right? This is a drawing made by Ian’s AI. The quality is a bit bad, but doesn’t it look like it was drawn by a human?”

“yes?”

“Look at this. What if you press the Generate button?”

The picture was replaced with another picture. Gil Jun-gyu’s eyes grew wide.

“This is a picture drawn by AI through learning. Just input a description and it will draw the picture you want at any time.”

“Is that lie true?”

“Of course.”

Fletcher nodded. Even though he couldn’t understand Korean, he seemed to know what he was saying just by looking at his expression.

“Mr. Gil, I will give you some homework from now on.”

I continued.

“Create an AI lab with Mr. Ian Fletcher here. It’s a European subsidiary of Cocoa. The goal is three years. The investment is from KSH. There’s only one condition. Mr. Fletcher has to be the head of the European subsidiary.”

One director’s prediction of advancing into Europe has come true.

I could hear his voice shouting, ‘That won’t do.’

“And the webtoon business.”

“······yes.”

Gil Jun-gyu answered with a guilty expression.

“Please proceed. There is no need to report. I just confirmed it. The goal is to secure as many writers as possible. Instead······.”

“yes?”

“I will set a condition that the author provides the company with the dataset needed to train GANs. I don’t care how much money is needed. Data is the oil of the future. Please help us act as an oil field in the future. Do you understand what I mean?”

This is the so-called Nokia strategy.

I was once again grateful to Director Han. With his advice, I was able to establish a European corporation and spend money.

“Then, shall we get up?”

I said.

“Mr. Gil is here, so we should go eat dinner.”

Fletcher’s mouth watered at those words.

‘Where will we go next?’ was written on his face. He was content with his new job, Cocoa.

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