"I was born in 1978, to this year is 40 years old, is also the same age of reform and opening up. Quite thankful for such a big era background, let himself become a witness, participant, and beneficiary of the rapid development of the Internet." In the premiere of Anhui TV's high-end economic figure interview program "Character", Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan opened his own "wise words moment" with these words.

The program is co-produced by Anhui TV, People's Video, Global People Magazine, and Begonia.

Talking about the history of Sogou's struggle to open up a bright road out of a darkness

In December 2008, Wang Xiaochuan led Sogou to successfully launch the first version of the browser in front of Baidu, "Tiger's Mouth". If a company tends to carry the temperament of the founder, then Wang Xiaochuan and Sogou's temperament is "tough" - they have been in a gray blazed a bright road.

The program "Character" has two doors back in time for Wang Xiaochuan, the first of which leads to the office where Sogou's browser was being developed. After the conflict of ideas with Zhang Chaoyang led to a low point in his life, he decided to develop the browser in secret, and eventually, under great pressure, he used the input method, browser and search to form a "three-stage rocket model" to promote Sogou, making it the second most profitable company after Baidu. Sogou became the second profitable Chinese search engine company after Baidu.

Sogou Input Method has always been Wang Xiaochuan's proudest achievement. 1994, the central leadership of the inspection of Chengdu seventh grade, raised a small question of how many words a minute can be typed. Behind this seemingly simple question lies a deep expectation for the transmission of information in Chinese characters, which also triggered Wang Xiaochuan's thinking about changing the Chinese character input method. Sogou Input Method's improvement of Chinese typing speed has directly increased social productivity, and Sogou's insistence on technological innovation and user experience has led the input method industry. Sogou Input Method's thesaurus and skin innovations have been a projection of today's concepts of big data, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing, and behind them are the great efforts made by Wang Xiaochuan and Sogou to refine their products.

Talking about AI, embracing the artificial intelligence era with a positive mindset

In 2017, Sogou went public, and Wang Xiaochuan's focus shifted to the artificial intelligence industry. Combing through Sogou's actions in the direction of AI intelligent hardware in the past two years, we can see that Sogou's layout of AI intelligent hardware is very clear and focused, focusing on language, and Sogou's AI strategy of "language as the core" is in the same vein, and the ultimate goal is to facilitate the life of users and make expression and access to information more simple. In the program, host Lu Yiming and Wang Xiaochuan tried Sogou's intelligent translator together, and Wang Xiaochuan was all smiles after getting a 99-point evaluation from Lu Yiming.

For the question of whether AI will subvert human life in the future, as an avid fan of artificial intelligence, Wang Xiaochuan said, "I don't think AI will subvert our traditional way of life anytime soon, because there is no technology today that can enable machines to produce such a stronger learning ability. Even if the machine is more capable, it is still as an auxiliary for people." In the face of artificial intelligence, we can neither be presumptuous, thinking that machines are too powerful and will subvert people; nor can we be presumptuous, refusing to accept the changes that artificial intelligence brings to us.

Talking about the meaning of life, the era of diversity, I hope that we seek truth, goodness and beauty

The Internet has changed China, more than 20 years Wang Xiaochuan witnessed and participated in the whole process. Now that he has passed the age of confusion, he recalled the history, think about the future, said that in this big era, to find their own meaning of life. The first is the meaning of survival, a decent job, a social recognition; the second is in addition to work to seek truth and beauty, to read to think, to perceive the greatness of human civilization; and finally is to seek the good, and strive to make a contribution to society, the country, and even mankind, and strive to harvest their own happiness.