Do you know “ABCD”?

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Hi Steven, I heard of the news of ChatGPT recently. Knowing that it’s related to artificial intelligence (AI), I’m so surprised of its innovative capability.

The application of new technology will truly disrupt our work and life in the coming three years.

Really? I’m not aware of its impact. I think I should quickly pick up new knowledge about different technologies.

Did you browse through different demonstrations about the reply and speed of ChatGPT via online?

Yes, I found that the display of result based on the questions asked was incredible. They’re detailed with qualitied output.

The speed of completing different tasks is also impressive. The bot’s response is just within several seconds.

It’s a big help to me if I can get the useful information instantly. There is no need for me to search for different sources and read different articles.

Right. For answering questions of existing knowledge, summarizing content and generating content for some topics, ChatGPT can definitely raise your efficiency.

By the way, do you know “ABCD”? If you would like to enrich your knowledge of emerging technologies, I guessed that you should have come across these terms.

“ABCD”? Let me think about it.

They’re the hot elements for innovation and have been widely discussed.

Sorry, what are they standing for?

I don’t think you’ve no idea of it. How come?

Is “B” standing for big data?

Not exactly. “B” stands for blockchain.

Can you let me know their full meaning?

Sure. For “ABCD”, the first letter stands for artificial intelligence. “B” stands for blockchain. “C” stands for cloud computing. “D” stands for big data.

It’s not bad that I’ve mentioned big data.

You should be able to guess artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is one of the examples of adopting artificial intelligence technology covering machine learning.

Cool. It’s a smart brain that can understand human languages and communicate in a way that is similar to normal human conversation.

ChatGPT is actually a machine consisting of AI algorithms that can learn and improve the accuracy over time.

The beauty of AI is to automate procedure and complete the tasks with high degree of accuracy intelligently. In the future, taxi or truck drivers will be replaced because autonomous driving is able to support the same function or service. Once the route of starting and ending point is entered, the fastest route can be set for avoiding traffic jam.

Customer service representatives of different industries will also be replaced because chatbot is able to provide correct, consistent and intelligent reply. Even for medical industry, surgical robot with AI capability can achieve brilliant performance in terms of precision and safety.

For the second letter “B”, I guessed that bitcoin was something related to blockchain. Correct?

Yes. There are so many different applications for blockchain due to its transparency and trackability.

In banking industry, the process of submitting international payment, mortgage and trade finance application will all be benefited by using blockchain technology in terms of lower cost, higher efficiency and simplifying operational procedure.

Hey, I know that NFT, namely Non-Fungible Token, is also using blockchain technology.

Next, “C” is cloud computing. Nowadays, it’s common that more companies rent servers, storage and databases from the third-party companies offering cloud services.

Digitalization is also the trend of business development. By adopting cloud services, business can purchase on demand services rather than building in-house technology infrastructure. It can help lowering cost while raising security level and increasing flexibility when expanding infrastructure is required.

That’s right. I can’t see any reason why companies set up their own servers placing at their offices now.

The last one is “D” i.e., big data. Data is always the important asset of every company.

The use of data for performing analysis can help digging out the insights and defining strategy of business development. What’s the meaning of “big”? In the past, data may include customers’ transaction record only.

Nowadays, data can be collected from different social media platforms and mobile devices. The data becomes “big” because the volumes are large with different formats including text, audio and video running in 24 hours per day.

Facing the challenge of an ocean data, it’s a complicated issue.

Hence, companies require the big data solution to provide them insights for solving existing problem. Hey, are you clear of the importance and implication of “ABCD” now?

Yes. In order not to lag behind the technologies, I think I should keep a close eye on the relevant news.

You can subscribe some of the technology channels that introduce latest applications of these core technologies.

Sure. Got it and I’ll do so.

A very good start and please keep it up! We should embrace technology because it’s impacting our daily life. Talk to you next time.

WITH CHINESE SCRIPT

嗨，史蒂文，我最近聽說ChatGPT的消息，知道是與人工智能（AI）有關，我很驚訝它的創新能力。

未來三年，新技術的應用將真正顛覆我們的工作和生活。

真的嗎？我不知道它的影響，我應該要迅速掌握有關不同科技的新知識。

您是否通過網上瀏覽過關於ChatGPT不同演示的反應和速度？

是的，我發現所提出問題而顯示的結果真令人難以置信，內容確是詳細及高質的。

完成不同任務的速度也令人印象深刻，機械人的回應僅需幾秒鐘。

如我能立即得到有用的資訊，那對我有很大的幫助，我不需要搜索不同的來源並閱讀不同的文章。

正確，對於已有知識的答疑、內容的總結和一些話題的內容生成，ChatGPT絕對可以提高您的效率。

順便問一下，您知道“ABCD”嗎？如果您想豐富您對新興技術的了解，我猜您應該接觸過這些術語。

“A B C D”？讓我想想。

它們是創新的熱門元素及已被廣泛討論。

對不起，它們代表什麼？

我不認為您不知道它，怎麼會？

“B”代表大數據嗎？

不完全是，“B”代表區塊鏈。

您能告訴我它們的全部含義嗎？

當然可以，對於“ABCD”，第一個字母代表人工智能，“B”代表區塊鏈，“C”代表云計算，“D”代表大數據。

我提到大數據還不錯。

您應該能猜到人工智能，ChatGPT是採用涵蓋機器學習的人工智能技術的例子之一。

很酷的，它是一個聰明的大腦，可以理解人類語言並以類似於正常人類對話的方式進行交流。

ChatGPT實際上是一台由AI算法組成的機器，可以隨著時間的學習和提高準確性。

人工智能的美妙之處在於自動化程序並智能地高度準確地完成任務，未來，出租車或卡車司機將被取代，因為自動駕駛能夠支持相同的功能或服務，輸入起點和終點的路線後，可以設置最快的路線無人駕駛，以避免堵車。

不同行業的客戶服務代表也將被更換，因為聊天機器人能夠提供正確、一致和智能的回覆，即使是醫療行業，具備AI能力的手術機器人在精準度和安全性方面也能有不俗的表現。

對於第二個字母“B”，我猜是和區塊鏈有關的比特幣，正確的？

是的，由於其透明度和可追踪性，區塊鏈有許多不同的應用。

在銀行業，提交國際支付、按揭和貿易融資申請的過程都將受益於區塊鏈技術的使用，成本更低，效率更高，操作流程更簡單。

嘿嘿，我知道NFT，即Non-Fungible Token，也在用區塊鏈技術。

接著，“C”是雲計算，如今，越來越多的公司普遍從提供雲服務的第三方公司租用伺服器、存儲和數據庫。

數字化也是企業發展的趨勢，通過採用雲服務，企業可以按需要購買服務，而不是構建內部技術基礎設施，當需要擴展基礎架構時，可以幫助降低成本，同時提高安全和靈活性。

正確的，我看不出有什麼理由公司須於他們的辦公室設置自己的伺服器。

最後一個是“D”，即大數據，數據始終是每個公司的重要的資產。

使用數據進行分析有助於挖掘洞察力和定義業務發展戰略，“大”是什麼意思？過去，數據可能只包括客戶的交易記錄。

如今，可以從不同的社交媒體平台和移動設備收集數據，數據之所以“大”，是因為容量大及有不同的格式，包括：文字、音頻及視頻等，24小時不間斷運行。

面對海量數據的挑戰，這是一個複雜的問題。

因此，公司需要大數據解決方案來為他們提供解決現有問題的見解。嘿，你現在清楚“ABCD”的重要性和含義嗎？

是的，為了不落後於科技，我想我應該密切地關注相關新聞。

您可以訂閱一些介紹這些核心技術最新應用的科技頻道。

當然可以，知道了，我會這樣做的。

一個很好的開始，請繼續保持下去！我們應該擁抱科技，因它正在影響我們的日常生活。下次再說吧。