Machine Zone Chief Executive Officer Gabe Leydon: Artificial Intelligence Creates a Really Smart City, How Robots Control New Zealand's National Public Transportation System


Machin e Zone is a company that utilizes artificial intelligence technology to provide real-time data flow management and analysis services. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company's RTplatform real-time infrastructure can connect millions of players in mobile games. Currently, MZ supports games such as "Game of War: Fire Age" and "Mobile Strike". ,and many more. However, in addition to mobile games, the artificial intelligence technology developed by Machine Zone can also be applied to other industries.

At the just-convened MobileBeat 2016 conference, the company's chief executive, Gabe Leydon, introduced real-time smart robots running on the RTplatform infrastructure that can operate public transportation systems throughout New Zealand. Artificial intelligence robots not only track taxis, bus buses, trains, traffic, parking, and everything else related to transportation networks; they also allow users to access data in real time, for example, to help people predict when the next bus will be available. Arrivals.

At present, this intelligent robot system is being tested in New Zealand's Hong Kong-style city of Auckland. Leydon also presented the progress report of the system test at this conference. In fact, the vast majority of smart robots currently solve the "little problems", especially since the launch of the robot platform by Facebook in April this year, Silicon Valley will be blowing the wind of the robot.

However, artificial intelligence robots developed by Leydon can operate throughout the country. He said:

Intelligent robots based on RTplatform can not only support transportation management, but also support many other industry operations. The future direction of robots is to interact with all data, not just to obtain single user data, robots make decisions. Must be based on all relevant data information involved. You are communicating with a networked computer. That is, each time you talk to billions of computers, artificial intelligence robots will be able to make decisions in real time.

For the past three years, the Mobile Games “War Games: Fire Age” supported by Machine Zone has been ranked top in the app store, which has also allowed them to develop into a company with hundreds of employees and the ability to build real-time artificial intelligence. Big technology company. At present, the artificial intelligence technology developed by Machine Zone supports the real-time translation of game internal information into the languages ​​of 32 different countries, allowing millions of players worldwide to participate in the game without any (communicative) obstacles.

According to Leydon, on the company's RTplatform platform, more than 300 million messages per second are handled in a single channel, and the amount of information exchanged in New Zealand is less than 1% of the total. He said:

Our command and control center is now officially operational, and mobile App applications covering all New Zealand traffic will be commissioned in the coming months. Inside the control center, the operators responsible for directing the traffic will be "brained" because they have never had such rapid data analysis and feedback experience.

Once New Zealand citizens download the App, they can participate in data collection. The control center can understand how long each person will wait for feedback from the robot, machine learning will gradually increase over time, and people will receive information feedback faster and faster.

Thanks to cloud technology, billions of interactive connections can happen simultaneously. In fact, the application of artificial intelligence robotics technology to New Zealand’s transportation sector is a “beautiful accident”. In a tour, Leydon noticed that there is no open application programming interface (API) in New Zealand's public transportation system. So he asked whether the New Zealand government could allow him to build a control center to help the country's transportation system operate more efficiently. After approval, Machine Zone launched Auckland Citybot, an artificial intelligence robot pilot project in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city. They spent a year tracking 3,000 bus buses in Auckland and analyzed 2 million people. (including the use of local residents and tourists).

Under real-time conditions, Leydon presented New Zealand government officials with information on 600 bus buses and about 4,000 passengers that are currently operating in Auckland City, of which about 15% are not on the right route. He pointed to a bus displayed on the platform and said that the car was driving on the highway and had deviated a few miles from the correct route. At this point, the transportation department should quickly call the driver and tell him how to find the right path. In fact, the use of intelligent robots can help the government save a lot of costs. It is learned that the New Zealand government receives a large number of complaints every day to request refunds of taxes on public transport because a large number of bus buses will take the wrong route and bring them to the public. Big inconvenience.


Machine Zone's real-time infrastructure platform tracks New Zealand's transportation network

In order to better demonstrate the application of intelligent robots to government officials, Leydon specially developed a data analysis page, which can display real-time bus information on the city map, including how many bus buses are in transit and how many people are waiting for the bus. and many more. The entire process is very transparent. For example, government officials can see which bus buses are taking the wrong route (see the picture above. The bus marked with a red dot on the front is a bus that deviates from the correct route). With smart robots, government officials can see the results of data analysis at a glance and then be able to implement remedial measures more decisively.


Not only that, Leydon also launched a mobile app for passengers, Auckland Citybot (see above), to help them better manage their time. On this app, passengers can see when the bus arrives. Once the car is late, the app still sends a notification reminder. It can be said that no modern urban public transport system can do this.

The AI ​​technology platform developed by Machine Zone (now known as RTplatform) has two main parts that make it ideal for running this very complex system:

First, real-time data analysis capabilities. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence technology, RTplatform can create millions of individual tracking activities, each of which can be searched at any time - this is something traditional technology vendors can't do, because general database searches will always appear A certain delay (sometimes up to several seconds) is reached, and robots built by Machine Zone on the RTplatform platform can answer user-submitted query requests within a few milliseconds.

Second, powerful scalability. Machine Zone's pilot project in Auckland used less than 1% of RTplatform computing power. The artificial intelligence technology developed by MZ was able to process hundreds of millions of interactive messages in one second. In contrast, the New York Stock Exchange can process up to 8 million messages a second.

Based on the RTplatform platform, the Oakland government can build an artificial intelligence layer to help them make decisions in real time based on feedback. For example, suppose that in the event of a crisis, the government can turn all traffic lights to red; if the city of Oakland is to host large-scale events, then all parking lots around one mile of the activity center can be closed and no cars allowed.

In addition to providing intelligent services in the transportation infrastructure, RTplatform can also be used in many other industry sectors. They have open application interfaces and many companies (even private companies) can apply the system. For example, like real-time data on public transport systems, information on driving and sharing services such as Uber and Lyft can be displayed directly to consumers. Similarly, retail stores, restaurants, flight information, these can be integrated into the RTplatform.

Although Silicon Valley is talking about "smart bots," few people are concerned about how to build a software layer to make robots work more efficiently and effectively. Take the use of intelligent robots in New Zealand's transportation system, Machine Zone actually did three things:

First, developed an "information layer" that can connect all devices;

Second, to provide the "artificial intelligence layer" of management software for government agencies and enterprises;

Third, for every ordinary person to provide user-friendly App application software services.

The use of RTplatform in other areas may have disruptive effects such as search. The current Google search architecture (mostly) is based on crawling and indexing static web pages. But people expect more real-time data, which is why information spreads faster in many instant messaging applications such as Twitter, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and WeChat. Google must rebuild its own search architecture to meet people’s need for real-time information search.

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