Mogic considers

Compression of intelligence at the social level.

As computers and the Internet have become more widespread, we are able to look at information in more and more detail.

For simplicity's sake, let's take the example of an advertisement.

In the past, when we placed an ad in a magazine, we could somehow guess who would see it based on circulation and readership, and we somehow received more inquiries and orders.

When this goes online, the number of times the ad is displayed, its location, the number of clicks, and from the click to the purchase are displayed as exact numbers.

In some cases, we even know what the user was doing with the mouse.

This is great enough, but recently the scope of what we can know has expanded even further.

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Apparently, the evolution of technology increases the dimension of observation, and I will start with a quote from the text that mentions it.

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The Life Nobody Knows: Assembly Theory Reveals Life and Its Origins
Sarah Imari Walker (Author), Jun Mizutani (Translator)
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Later, when human society invented the microscope and telescope, more complex ways of "seeing" evolved.

Microscopes made it possible to see into the previously unknown microscopic world, leading to various discoveries ranging from living cells to elementary particles.

Telescopes made it possible to see farther into space, and satellites orbiting other planets and planets orbiting other stars were discovered.

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In this sense, our technology is a nearby filter, so to speak, through which we evolve to see reality in new ways.

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Thus, in the broadest possible sense, technology is the knowledge (information selected over time) that makes possible the existence of something that could not originally exist, and the application of that knowledge.

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One of the most widely discussed of the technologies currently emerging on the planet is artificial intelligence.

It is often argued that artificial intelligence is insubstantial and even out of the evolutionary stream.

But the technologies we are developing today - large-scale language models, computer vision, automated devices - are not divorced from the biosphere that created them.

It is nothing less than a new capacity of life realized again in a new substrate.

And with it, intelligent life on a new scale, a planetary scale, is about to emerge.

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Artificial intelligence, which is being developed, is another important piece because it can process data on a large enough scale to see objects as deep in time as we do.

In this sense, artificial intelligence is another technology of perception.

Compress the vast amount of data that describes us as a collective (like a society) into a length and timescale that individual humans can understand and interact with.

In doing so, it allows us to observe ourselves for the first time in a fundamental and more abstract way.

Some people marginalize ChatGPT not because it is human-level intelligence (as has been argued here and there), but because it compresses social-level intelligence to the human scale.
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I wanted to convey the nuance well, and the quote is long.

This is the part that concerns me the most

'It's not human-level intelligence, it's social-level intelligence compressed onto a human scale.'

What this means is that the essential way to deal with artificial intelligence is "not" an extension of daily conversations and meetings.

In other words, I think that the empirically acquired technique of conversing one-on-one or discussing with several people does not fully raise the dimension of observation.

Sensibly speaking, you need tension (and from the perspective of artificial intelligence, many attention heads and layers) to have an instantaneous ba-ba-ba conversation with the entire society that has been accumulated so far.

And since a huge amount of information is delivered in a folded format, the world has become a convenient but also frightening place to live in.

Upside and Downside

Developing cloud services as a product is easy to agree upon internally.

There is not much reason to object to this, since it will result in sales and profits if a contract is signed.

If there is, it is only to ask what they are going to do if they don't sell.

On the other hand, internal business systems are surprisingly difficult to develop, even though they are the foundation that supports cloud services.

Perhaps this is because, unlike commodities, it is difficult to relate each workflow directly to profit and loss.

Many people ask whether systemizing their operations will be profitable or wasteful, or whether it will require too much time and effort to maintain.

But the truth is that it is precisely what we don't know sensibly that we should try to estimate once how important it is.

As an example, let's take a small slice of the cloud services business.

Register inquiries, reply to inquiries, receive consultations, provide quotes, sign contracts, send invoices, confirm payments, perform accounting procedures, and analyze data.

I will include the approximate time it will take for these.

Per case
Register an inquiry: 5 minutes
Reply to inquiry: 5 minutes
Receive a consultation: 15 min.
Provide a quotation: 15 minutes
Sending and signing a contract: 30 minutes
Create and send invoice: 10 minutes
Confirming payment: 10 minutes
Perform accounting: 15 minutes
Analyze data: 15 minutes
Total time: 2 hours

and then expand the number of cases.

20 hours for 10 cases
200 hours for 100 cases
2,000 hours for 1,000 cases

and can be simply derived.

If the value of one hour is considered low, say 5,000 yen, 10 cases are worth 100,000 yen, 100 cases are worth 1,000,000 yen, and 1,000 cases are worth 10,000,000 yen.

If this were a per month figure, it would float between 100,000 yen and 10 million yen in perpetuity.

In other words, it is considered more reliable and sustainable to improve the efficiency of business systems than to cover them from the accumulation of sales.

Moreover, this calculation is cut out as a part, so the operations are really connected to each other and can be a multiplier effect.

In business flavor, the assumption is that the upside effect is unlimited and the downside impact is only the development cost incurred (actually, there is an opportunity loss, but it is exempted).

To put it in everyday terms, "If it works, it's very effective; if it doesn't, you just lost the time and effort you put into it.

If you believe that you can make a business system, then you can make a business system.

First, create a small business system and measure the actual time spent floating.

On schedule, below schedule, or above schedule?

If it wasn't on schedule, why was it off?

We will just keep on making and changing things for generations, and when the day comes that everyone finds it useful, we will do it.

Summer app development, strange gossip

Whenever it begins to rain, summer application development begins.

For those who don't know, Mogic makes experimental free apps three or four times a year on a short-term basis.

A New Year's greeting app to celebrate the New Year, an April Fool's Day app full of jokes, an in-house entertainment app to come up with, and finally, a summer vacation app to work on now.

New Year's Eve App】 https://microtech.mogic.jp/category/01002000
Other Entertainment】 https://microtech.mogic.jp/category/01005000
Seasonal Apps】 https://microtech.mogic.jp/category/01001000

In past years, we would gather interns to get started, but this time we decided to make a special effort to do it with just our employees.

This is because there has been some strange gossip among employees over the past few years.

It always happens when I put out my empty plastic bottles and can bottles at a collection point a short distance away.

He says he is often stopped by strangers along the way.

It was also a bizarre situation that is rarely seen.

As one person put it, "An old woman who had started to shake her hair out of her head was questioning me very hard."

As one person put it, "The kids kept following me around laughing and praising me."

As one person put it, "I saw someone walking backwards in front of me and we had perfect eye contact."

It is hard to believe that this is the case.

This must be the work of a demon or something unseen!

When we were so excited, we were suddenly led to create an application for a summer evening that would recreate our experience.

The release date is unknown because we are about to develop the application and it will probably not work out and be liveried in the end as usual.

This is the first application (supposedly) that allows 3D operation from a web browser, so please look forward to it.