Chapter 169 Hot Events

At the current stage, the average amount of data generated in the human world every day reaches about one trillion GB. These data may be a photo, a movie, a piece of music, a piece of email, a text message, a voice message, and so on.

In this information age, human beings have truly become digital individuals. The Internet has truly become one of the most important infrastructures.

The Global Internet Information Monitoring Center was established based on this reality. Its purpose is to ensure the orderly operation of the Internet and protect it.

Its responsibilities are many and complex, and they overlap with almost every government department. For example, collecting illegal and criminal information, monitoring changes in certain data, etc.

Monitoring changes in public opinion is of course one of its responsibilities.

At this moment, Lu Ming came here and met with a supervisor named Ma.

He is one of the heads of the public opinion monitoring department of the Internet Information Monitoring Center.

When Lu Ming showed his ID, Manager Ma's attitude became more enthusiastic.

It's rare to see someone like Lu Ming, who is as young as Lu Ming, already have such a high-level security sergeant.

"Chief Lu, hello, hello."

After greeting him warmly, Lu Ming was taken to his office by Manager Ma.

After explaining his intention, Manager Ma immediately agreed and made arrangements immediately.

Not long after, a young man with disheveled hair and glasses walked in.

"This is a technical engineer from the AI ​​department. Xiao Li, please cooperate with Chief Lu and screen out the information Chief Lu needs and give it to him."

"yes."

"AI department?"

Lu Ming was slightly confused.

Seeing that Lu Ming didn't know much about this, the engineer known as Xiao Li explained: "Public opinion monitoring is impossible to accomplish by relying on manpower alone. There are currently billions of active Internet users in the world, and millions of people are generated every day. There is a huge amount of information, and in a chaotic state, every trivial matter may develop into a major public opinion by chance.

Based on this, we developed and trained an AI system that monitors the entire Internet at all times and initially screens out things that have the potential to become hot events. Well, this step can filter out up to 99.9999% of the alternatives.

Judging from past data, its error rate is very low. Even if the first step is wrong, it can make timely adjustments based on subsequent development. Overall, the hit rate can be considered to be 100%.

After that, depending on the different nature of the incident, we can make the next decision, whether to ignore it and let it develop, to add fuel to the flames, or to reduce the heat. No matter which way we do it is very convenient.

This system can also intelligently analyze whether there are other forces secretly promoting a certain event to achieve any purpose. If it is a normal commercial promotion, then ignore it. If there is any dark plot, it will be handed over to our public security department for handling. "

This engineer named Xiao Li is obviously a technical geek. When it comes to his own field, he immediately talks endlessly and becomes eloquent. Manager Ma felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, and wanted to stop him, but saw that Lu Ming was also listening attentively, so he had to endure it.

"sharp."

After listening to Engineer Li's explanation, Lu Ming admired him wholeheartedly. Immediately, he had another doubt: "The Internet generates so much data every day, even if there are only 0.0001% of events, the number should be a lot. What should we do with these things?"

Engineer Li scratched his head in embarrassment, with a little dandruff falling in the wind: "There is no way, our AI is not a real person after all, and its intelligence is limited. For the rest, we can only rely on manual review and attention. ”

Manager Ma smiled dryly and said: "The manual review department has the largest number of people in the public opinion monitoring department. Okay, let's not talk about this, Xiao Li, I will leave this matter to you. You must do it well."

"no problem."

Manager Ma left in a hurry. Engineer Li invited: "Chief Lu, you can come to our public opinion monitoring hall and take a look."

"Don't be so polite, just call me Lu Ming."

The two of them arrived at the upper floor together. Xiao Li pushed open a door, and immediately, a huge room like a large cinema came into view.

On this side of the hall are rows of office seats, divided into hundreds of small areas, with seven or eight people occupying each area. People were either staring at the computer screen and typing on the keyboard quickly, or discussing something with each other.

At the end of the hall, there is a giant screen that is larger than the curtain of a movie theater. A huge world map is displayed above, with countless data flashing rapidly in the corners of the map, and countless red dots flashing in different parts of the map.

Some of the red dots are large and some are small, and their flashing frequencies are also different. Among them, Lu Ming saw the biggest red dot at a glance.

"what is that?"

Xiao Li looked at his smart watch and said angrily: "Celebrity A and celebrity B officially announced their relationship, celebrity C publicly claimed that celebrity B had always abandoned her, and celebrity A retorted, claiming that celebrity C's best friend stabbed her in the back, and celebrity B He also claimed that his original intentions were the same..."

"Stop, stop, stop."

Lu Ming felt that his head was being messed up by this complicated relationship, and he quickly stopped Xiao Li: "That's it? Is it so hot?"

Xiao Li said bitterly: "No. Current monitoring shows that more than 100 million people have expressed their opinions on this matter. There are more than 10,000 hot topics about this matter on major forums, blogs, and social software. On average, tens of billions of GB of data related to this matter are generated every day..."

Lu Ming was speechless: "Here, you are full after eating, right?"

"Isn't that right? People who eat melon are eating melon until they are full..."

At the current stage, this incident overwhelmingly occupies the top of the list of hot spots in public opinion. Lu Ming browsed through the other hot spots and saw things like a certain star's birthday party and a certain star who made a small cut with his finger during a filming scene and was rushed to the hospital. On the way, he only had red circles under his eyes but no tears. , praised as a strong man and a model of the new era...

"So many resources are wasted on this kind of thing."

Lu Ming felt a little regretful at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was the normal state of society.

Ordinary people can waste their energy on this kind of thing, which at least proves that their current life is pretty good.

If you can't even survive, no one will bother to invest a little energy in this kind of thing.

Isn't this the source of motivation for myself and my teammates to fight?

After roughly understanding the work process of the Internet Information Monitoring Center, under the leadership of Xiao Li, Lu Ming came to a special conference room, where several people were already waiting here.

"This is Sergeant Lu from the Public Security Bureau. There are some things that require our cooperation. Director Ma ordered me to take charge of this matter."

Xiao Li made some introductions and looked at Lu Ming: "What are the information screening criteria?"

Lu Ming first asked hello, and then spoke out several screening criteria that had been prepared.

“First, it can be more clearly confirmed that there was no human intention, or there is a relatively clear way to exclude the suspicion of human intention.

Second, it has the potential to become, or has become a hot event. According to your grading standards, well... it's probably at level three or above.

Third, the relevant scientific fields or engineering fields belong to science and engineering, not literature and history.

Well, if you're not sure, let me take a look. "

After discussing for a while, several people understood what they needed to do and dispersed.

Among them, Xiao Li is responsible for adding screening rules to AI and completing the preliminary screening. Thereafter, incidents with high suspicion will be further manually screened by several other people. If it is still uncertain, it will be reported to Lu Ming, who will complete the final confirmation.

After setting this set of procedures, follow-up work will begin immediately.

Lu Ming originally thought that it might take some time before any news that met the standards would be reported to him, but unexpectedly, the first message was sent before nightfall that day.

"When a man passed the glass door of XX shopping mall, the glass door suddenly burst, causing multiple injuries to the man's body. He has been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The security department has cordoned off the scene and begun investigation."

Along with this message, there is also an animated picture. So Lu Ming saw a man walking his own way without provoking anyone. When he passed a glass door, the door suddenly exploded. The man was miserable.

"This news is not widely circulated yet, but it has the potential to become a hot topic."

A staff member explained to Lu Ming: "In daily life, it is very common to pass by a glass door, which means that every ordinary person is likely to suffer an accident such as a glass door exploding. This will lead to The public has a strong sense of empathy and empathy for this, and will pay attention to it. When there are more people, a hot news will be formed."

Without professional testing, Lu Ming had basically guessed several possible reasons why the glass door exploded. It is nothing more than poor quality of glass, excessive pressure on the door frame causing uneven stress, alternating hot and cold expansion and contraction, or previous accidental damage.

This kind of thing is most likely a pure accident. The glass manufacturing industry it involves also belongs to science and engineering rather than literature and history.

In these respects, the message undoubtedly meets the criteria.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment and made a decision.

If you have any doubts for the time being, continue to observe and see if it can become a real hot event in the future.

Whether an event becomes a hot event depends on many decisive factors.

The Internet world is also a place full of chaos, full of all kinds of randomness. Some people will accidentally become popular because of an accident, and some people will try their best but still fail to become popular. Various situations may occur.

This incident only has the potential to become a hot event, but it has not actually become a hot event.

Lu Ming did not inform Zhang Dingshan and others about this matter. Because he didn't think that the secret organization would predict this incident.

This matter is too "small" after all. Judging from the usual style of that secret organization, it doesn't seem like it would pay attention to such a trivial matter.

Shortly thereafter, another message passed the screening.

The wall of a certain building fell off, and a piece of the wall happened to hit a stroller downstairs, seriously injuring a baby who is currently being rescued in the hospital.

This incident has greater potential to become a hot topic. Various indicators also indicate that the various data of this incident will reach its peak in about a few hours.

This is also understandable. After all, cute babies are the most tender beings that touch people's hearts. The falling off of walls is often associated with things like shoddy projects, which can also arouse people's anger. Combining the two, it is not surprising that this matter has become a hot topic.

But again, this incident is still a bit too "small".

Lu Ming finally decided to continue to pay attention and did not report it.

Then came the third incident.

A fire broke out in a machinery factory and three people have been confirmed dead. A large number of firefighters are at the scene for rescue and disaster relief. Many people on the Internet are paying attention to this matter.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment and finally decided to rule out the matter.

This incident is not a small one, and there is a certain possibility of random accidents. But strictly speaking, a fire is most likely due to operating errors or aging equipment. In other words, it is closely related to people.

And being closely related to people means that it is almost non-existent, or it is difficult to completely exclude the human factor.

Involving human intervention will greatly reduce the effectiveness of predictions.

After the third time, it was the fourth time...

The intensive reporting of information continued late into the night.

For several hours in a row, Lu Ming has been checking the information, making a decision to rule out suspicion or continue to pay attention if there is any doubt, and then there is a second message. Sometimes the reading is slow, and there is even a backlog of information.

This made Lu Ming's head run at high speed all the time.

After finally getting an opening, Lu Ming raised his head in confusion and looked at the night sky outside the window.

"Is the end of the world coming?"

At this moment, he had such a strong doubt in his mind.

Why are there so many things in this world? Either there was a disaster here, or there was a fire there, someone died here, or there was a car accident there. Why was there no time to calm down?

If the end of the world wasn't coming, how could it be so chaotic?

That's it, it was finally reported to me after layers of review. The number of things that had been filtered out before was even greater.

But the night sky is still quiet at this moment. The neon lights outside the window are peaceful.

Lu Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Xiao Li walked over, and the bags under his eyes seemed to be more obvious: "Chief Lu, please rest first. There are endless things to see, and there will always be new things."

"good."

Lu Ming sighed.

Although it was late at night, it was daytime in the other hemisphere. The frequency of occurrence of various things will not decrease.

Lu Ming had to go and rest. After waking up, it’s another busy day. Repeat this until three days later.

I'll take a day off tomorrow and continue updating normally the day after tomorrow.

It is really difficult to write this kind of article. There are too many things to think about. I have been stuck on the article recently and I have to set aside a day to think about it...

Also, please continue to support me. The results are really dismal and I am in tears.