November 21, 2012 - At today's 2024 World Internet ConferenceDuring the Wuzhen Summit.ZhihuYuan Zhou, Founder, Chairman and CEO, talks about the AI SearchThe difficulty of the moment.
Zhou Yuan said, "I think one of the difficulties is what I just said.Essentially consumers are not fully accustomed to. But just now I also said that this speed could be very fast. If we rewind back to maybe 12 years, that's when WeChat came out with voice, we would have thought at the time that people all over the street were holding this phone, not holding the phone like this, people would have thought it was strange, right? How can someone talk like this? But in fact, the time of not adapting is not that long, maybe after half a year to a year everyone has adapted. On the flip side what we see is the convenience of it because you don't have to go to type, you can have a conversation or leave a message by voice."
the difficulty of AI search today," he said.In fact, it doesn't go far enough on the scenario side of thingsthat don't fully address the user's pain points or some of their immediate categories."
Zhou Yuan also believes that AI search as a whole is still in arelatively early stageThe number of people who use it and the scenarios it can cover, both domestically and globally, are still at a relatively early stage. Even the word, he himself does not think it is completely clear to depict what the product can do:
The more obvious point is that we are comparing AI search with traditional search. But even the things that traditional search can do, if we think more deeply and completely, you will find that it can solve the problem, in today's view is still very rich and complete. Traditional search engine can not only look at the search engine, but the search engine and the indexed web pages and services should be looked at together. People are in the search engine search quickly after leaving, and then went to another site, this site has services and information, and then added together, a consumer to complete a want to complete the overall task.
Today AI search has greatly improved the efficiency of users in making queries, and the efficiency improvement is very obvious. But you have to take the very long tail of personalization for each person, whether it's querying for content or completing the service he wants to do, and do it all in a much better way, theMore upgrades on the product side are needed next. But I believe that with AI powering it, it should be able to do a much better job than before!.