Jing Conan Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Hachi AI. At Hachi AI, we believe that AI can do much more than serve as assistants; they can be our friends. Our goal is to build Large Language Models (LLMs) that interact with you just like real friends, providing joy and companionship.
Jing is a domain expert and pioneer in the LLM space.
From early 2022 to 2024, Jing co-founded and served as the founding CTO of Storytell.ai, a startup focused on using LLMs to turn unstructured data into actionable insights. He founded Storytell.ai based on his unique insight that LLMs have the innate ability to help humans distill signals from noise through conversations, a concept later popularized by ChatGPT.
From 2019 to 2022, he was a founding member and Head of Science & ML at Intellimize, a B2B SaaS startup that dynamically personalized websites for each unique visitor in real time (acquired by Webflow). At Intellimize, he also led efforts to use generative AI to create marketing campaigns.
From early 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Google Brain, where he applied reinforcement learning-based approaches to align humans and LLMs, as well as other deep learning models. His inventions have been integrated into various Google products, significantly improving core systems like YouTube and Google Ads.
Prior to Google Brain, he worked at Google Ads between 2014 and 2017, where he drove 20+ modeling launches that bring Google more than $200M in revenue annually.
He obtained a Ph.D. degree from Boston University (advisor: Yannis Paschalidis) and B.E. degree from Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.
He has good knowledge of mathematical modeling. He received a prize of Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2009, and the second prize in the Chinese Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2009. He has extensive experience in research and open-source development. He was a participant of Google Summer of Code 2012 and a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2013, both for the Honeynet Project. He was a finalist for Microsoft Young Fellow in 2009.
Last Saturday, I attended the Sloan Asia Business Conference. Here is a brief summary of the conference.
The opening remark was given by Yasheng Huang, who is a faculty at MIT Sloan school of management. He just had a controversial talk about the development of India and China recently in TED2011 held in Edinburgh. In the talk, he attributed the success of China compared with India to the Human Capital—Better Literacy Ratio, Higher Life Expectation and less systematic discrimination of women. He also points that it is not fair to compare with India with China, which is a superstar in terms of economic development. Actually the performance of India actually is quite impressive among the emerging countries, while the slow movement of political reform in China may potentially hinder the economic growth in the future. The link of the talk is: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/yasheng_huang.html
Lenovo Chief Marketing Officer. David Roman
As the chief marketing officer of Lenovo Corporation, David Roman introduced the global campaign named “For Those Who Do” that aims to promote the visibility of of the “Lenovo” brand outside China.
Despite the sluggish PC-market worldwide, Lenovo maintains 2-digits growth in the past several quarters and jumped to 2nd largest PC Maker, passing Acer and Dellconsecutively. But an embarrassing fact is the although the compony is a household brand in China, few people in western world know it in spite of its ThinkPad Series.
It is actually a common problem for many Chinese companies–so called the invisible Giants. Few Westerners know Baidu, SinoPec, ICPC, yet they are actually real mammoths even in western standard.
Now Lenovo’s focus is its ThinkPad Series, which formerly belonged the IBM. The deal was unbelievable then, since IBM PC department was triple the size of Lenovo at that time in terms of revenue.
It took Lenovo several years to learn how to be an international company. Now it seems that it has learnt the trick. In terms of my personal experience in United States, Lenovo is the most well-knowned Chinese Brand in United States. There is still a long way for other Chinese brands to go in United States.
SVP Finance & CFO of Global e-Commerce and Global Sourcing. Andreas Schulmeyer
This is the keynote I like most. The reason I favor this keynotes towards others is that it contains a lot of data rather than objective opinions. One figure is the comparison of the total population and GDP of China and United States. The left figure is for population and the right figure is for GDP. I guess the y axis is the GDP per capica. An interesting phenomenon is that the US’s value is also low in 1960s. The data actually needs to be validated.
Customer relationship Online and offline. There are five most components in culstomer Relatinship..
1. Social Network 2. Content 3. User Experience of Online Shopping 4. Brand Name 5 Search Engine.
Another interesting figure is the growth of US and China’s retail section.
Yuan Wang
Yuan wang, a high-level official in Chinese Development Bank and a consutant of world bank, gave a keynote about Chinese Economic situation. Her talk was a little bit boring. As a representation of new-generation Chinese policy maker, Wang reflected the impression of Chinese officials on westerners–well-educated, with international view yet still have bureaucratic ways of doing things. Most of the new Chinese policy makers,especially in economic field, receive well education. Some of them have western background and can speak pretty good English. However, different with their counterparts in Western Countries, Chinese policy makers always give people a feeling of commanding. Maybe it is caused by the booming Chinese Economy. All the investors worldwide want to go to China for new opportunities, and as the door-keeper of this huge market, the Chinese economic policy makers take it granted for the decisive power they have to let foreigner go or not.
Allan Kwan
Allan Kwan is a partner of Oak Investment. Now he focus the Investment on Northern Asia region, mostly in in Internet and food & beverage Industry. Before joining the Oak Investment, he worked in Motorola and Yahoo! consecutively. In Yahoo,
he took charge of the acquisition of 3721 founded Hongyi Zhou, which turned out to be a disaster, and the investment of Alibaba. What interests me is that his original major was mechanical engineering. His trace is quite typical and a lot of Chinese Students follow this way. Go to U.S for a Engineering Degree and then switch to financial field. He is a quite nice guy and gave two keynotes. In the second keynote, he noted the case study of LianLian Pay, one company he has invested in China. He used this case to illustrate the difference between business in China and that in America.The biz model of Lianlian pay is to construct the selling network of pre-paied card in China. Different with U.S, all the phone bills are charged using pre-paied card–user use to buy a pre-paid charging card and use the password in the card to charge their account. Lianlian pay construct the selling networks by setting partnership with thousands of grceries and convience store around China.
九点到十一点大家会开始选择自己的团队。每个团队需要在两天内完成一份商业计划，一个产品的原型，并在周日的demo大会上面做demo。来的人被分为三类，Tech People, Biz People and Design People, 注册的时候你需要选择自己的类别，然后去寻找合适的团队。
我开始想加入一个做吉他教学器的团队，他们的产品是一组夹在吉他上面的LED灯，通过LED灯的闪烁来显示你应该談那一首曲子。无奈他们只需要硬件方向的人，我对此又一窍不通。最后我加入了一个杂志出售的团队。团队的主题是Itune for Articles. Itune将现有的专辑打散，使得用户可以单独购买一首歌曲，从而开发了音乐市场的长尾。这个团队要做的就是将杂志打散成为一篇篇文章，然后放在网站或者移动应用商店上面出售，从而发掘杂志市场的长尾。
我们主要都是Biz Team在讲，但是因为时间有限，Biz Team将我的Simulation Result那一部分略过呢。等到问答环节的时候正好一个judge问我们的产品相对与Competitior来说有什么优势，我就接过来说了一下我的recommedation System和仿真的结果。demo完毕了之后还有个social的晚餐会。因为我得回去看第二天的Homework的due，所以我就没参加直接回去呢。最后我们团队获得了The most comerical potential 和 the 2nd place at the technology use.
波士顿地区的科技创业公司大多比较传统，大多是生物制药和机械物流。不过这次看到了绝大多数都还是Web或者App相关的，可见互联网，和移动互联网之火热。美国风险投资和技术创业最多的两个地区就是加州和波士顿。从Tec Transfer Center这样的学校组织到像Boston Startup Weekend的社会活动，这边确实有很多接触到这些信息的机会，也使得很多的人被鼓动到从事这个行业。为什么Microsoft，Akarmai和Facebook能够发轫与波士顿，很大程度和这边的环境是有关系。
我是Mac OS Snow Leopead. 前两天升级到lion。因为升级完成了，/Developer/ 目录的东西都还在，所以我直接将/Developer/usr/bin 加到path里面了，然后就可以在系统命令行里面使用gcc了，开始我觉得这样就可以了，不需要重新安装xcode。事实证明不是的。 昨天在使用mvim的时候发现Taglist无法使用了。查看了一下，应该是Excuberant Ctags 没有安装。于是到网上去下了一个ctags的源代码进行编译。但是不停的报如下的错误
Darwin 11.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 checking whether to install link to etags… no checking whether to install readtags object file… no checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log’ for more details. Jing-Wangs-MacBook-Pro:ctags-5.8 jingwang$ cd .. Jing-Wangs-MacBook-Pro:Apps jingwang$ ls
但是进度条总是一点变化都没有，等一两个小时也是这样。后来重启试了几次也还是这样。 不知到Mac App Store出了什么问题。于是到网上去BT下载了一个Xcode4.2 http://www.osxtoy.com/?p=733 安装完毕之后再编译ctags，错误发生变化 Darwin 11.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 checking whether to install link to etags… yes checking whether to install readtags object file… no checking for gcc… gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc /opt/local/lib) works… no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
我去查看/opt发现里面是空的，于是我手动创建了/opt/local/lib 目录。这时错误信息又发生了变化gcc error: can’t map file, errno=22 or the case of the missing space
Aardvark is a trial of social search. The basic idea is to find the best person you can ask instead of the best webpages. Aardvark is a very good idea, but after being acquired by Google in 2010, it seems that the team gave up this service–there was no change at all for the whole year.
The essence of of Aardvark is to help people to find the right person to ask the question. However, in Aardvark, people are hidden behind the algorithm. There is little interaction between the one who asks the question and the one who answers. It just make people feel cold and stiffly. That’s the reason why it fails.
Aardvark works like wiki. The contribution of members is the key factor that whether the community is sustainable or not. If there is no interaction between humans, how can then feel the sense of accomplishment? Who wants to work for machines without pennies? Don’t be stupid.
At the same, Quora emerged as a giant in the Q&A field. In Quora, people are pushed to the front, facing directly with humans instead of machines. Although the search in Quora is still about topic, not people. It is in the right direction. Give people more incentives by promoting interaction and acknowledgement.
After Page enrolled as CEO, Google has cut off a lot of programs, including the famous Google Lab. Google need to be more focused to win in the social war with Facebook, and all the distractions need to be cleared away, including Aardvark.
Of course, it’s reasonable for the benefits of Google. My point is that if you really want to make your idea reality, just don’t sell yourself to a big company. It makes no sense to expect big company to make your idea reality. I don’t means they will surely not, but just don’t keep high expectation on that since they have more “important” things to do. Also don’t expect you can make your idea reality within a big company, you are forced to do more “important” things under that environment.
刘易阳成在离婚，王微败在离婚，结果不同，但是本质都是一样的，都是另一半带来了拖累，只不过童佳倩是无心，杨蕾则是有意。刘易阳用九年的时间明白一个道理，细节打败爱情；王微用六年的时间也明白一个道理，婚姻打败事业。曾经的爱情和甜蜜到头来带来的却是伤害，不禁令人唏嘘，刘易阳走出来了，王微你呢？ Jing Conan Wang
Jing Conan Wang 