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The May Day holiday is coming, have you decided on your travel plans?
If you don't know where to go, you can ask bean buns and you may be able to get the answer you want.
▲Doubao provides May Day travel suggestions
This is an AI intelligent assistant developed by ByteDance, which can obtain the latest information through real-time networking, provide inspiration and answer questions through voice, dialogue and other interactions, and also provide agents such as writing, translation, and oral chat.
With the rapid development of large model capabilities, AI as a productivity tool has brought new quality productivity to students and workers in search, creation, life and other scenarios, and there are hundreds of self-developed large models and mainstream AI applications on the market.
Among them, Doubao has become the top new AI application by virtue of its powerful model capabilities, as well as its completely free, clean interface and no ads, and topped the list in the efficiency category of the App Store (as of the time of writing).
▲ Bean Bao ranked first in the efficiency category of the App Store (as of writing time)
How easy is Doubao to use?What are the advantages of traditional search and other AI applications?What scenarios can it be used in?After getting started, Zhidong seems to have found the secret of Doubao's love.
1. Instant search, copywriting, learning, work and life can all be handed over to Doubao
First of all, open the APP, the main function interface of the bean bag is divided into three columns: dialogue, discovery, and creation, with white background and blue as the main tone, and the overall UI design is very simple and clean.
On the conversation page, you can talk to bean bags or agents, the discovery page is used to search for various agents, and the creation page can create exclusive agents through natural language. After entering the conversation page, Doubao will also provide some reference questions, and the agent creation page will also provide setting examples, which greatly reduces the threshold and difficulty of getting started.
▲ The main page of bean bags
Since it is the first place in the efficiency list, let's select some scenarios to improve efficiency to experience bean bags. The topic of AI search "revolution" traditional search engines has been very hot recently, let's first try how effective the real-time search of bean bags is.
1. Get real-time information, and search information is no longer interfered with by advertising
As a conversational AI application, Doubao can be used as a search engine based on networking and information integration functions like ChatGPT, and users do not need to distinguish the authenticity of information and find valuable search results by themselves.
Since it is Douyin's own software, let's first take a look at how well Doubao understands Douyin's hot stalks (Doge).
I asked Doubao "What is the meme that I slept at 5:20?", and he explained exactly where the meme came from and why it has become popular recently. At the top of the answer, Doubao also intimately gave relevant videos and web links, which can be viewed directly in the software.
▲ Doubao explains the hot stalk of Douyin
Let's try social hotspots again. Recently, the Huawei P70 series went on sale, and I would like to know what specific models there are. Doubao accurately gave the launch time and series of models, and detailed information such as the color, configuration, and price of each model.
▲ Bean bag combing science and technology hot news
In addition to obtaining real-time information, we often use search engines to retrieve information, but we often need to identify and sort out valid information by ourselves. For example, I wanted to know what the main characters were in Dream of Red Mansions, and Doubao quickly sorted out the characters and their personalities for me.
▲ Doubao combs the main characters of "Dream of Red Mansions".
After answering, Doubao provided me with a few extended questions for me to choose from, so I asked, "What is the main plot of "Dream of Red Mansions"?" After summarizing the background, main line and main theme of the story, Doubao briefly described the main storyline.
▲ Doubao combs the main plot of "Dream of Red Mansions".
The ad-free nature of beanbags has always been a problem with medical inquiries in traditional search engines, which sometimes show unreliable hospital advertisements, inaccurate descriptions of illnesses, or exaggerated diagnoses.
I described my symptoms to her, asked about possible causes, and Beanbao gave a variety of possible causes of these symptoms and suggested what I could do to clarify the cause.
▲ Bean bags for medical inquiries
2. Workers and student party artifacts, typing code, writing and writing can do everything
In addition to AI search, AI office is also a major direction for the implementation of large models. As a main instrumental AI application, Doubao's ability to perform in work and study scenarios is also worth looking forward to.
First, try the copywriting scenario that migrant workers can't hide: the company needs to promote a generative AI summit and help me write a Xiaohongshu-style copy.
The beginning sentence of the copywriting generated by the bean bag is "family", and "sweet potato flavor" immediately rushed out of the screen. The rich emojis (emojis), colloquial words, and style of writing that emphasizes personal experience are very in line with the tone of the Xiaohongshu platform, and at the same time, the specific content of the copywriting also meets my requirements.
▲ Doubao writes the copy of Xiaohongshu
In the science and engineering scenario, Doubao can also generate code, read technical papers, etc., and here is the snake code I asked her to generate a Python:
▲ Bean bag generates snake code
After giving the complete code, Doubao decodes the functions implemented by each part of this string of code.
▲ Bean bag explains the functions of each part of the code
As a technology journalist, you will inevitably have to face cutting-edge technical papers in your daily writing, and most of them are mainly in English, and it will take a certain amount of time to distill the key information.
I sent Beanbag a classic paper on the mechanics of attention and asked her to help me see what's there. Doubao first refined the topic of the paper and the technical difficulties of implementation, and then interpreted the content of each part of the text in detail.
▲ Bean bag reading English papers
For the student party, making a detailed plan before preparing for the exam can get twice the result with half the effort. For example, with the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) approaching in three months, I asked how I would prepare for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
According to the phased goals of each month, Doubao breaks down in detail what should be learned to achieve the goals, and provides suggestions for the duration of study each day.
▲ Bean bag to make a preparation plan
In terms of English ability, in addition to reading English literature, English writing is also an unavoidable scenario.
I found an English 6 essay topic and asked Doubao to write a sample essay for me. Seeing this familiar three-paragraph essay of "total score", I felt like I was back in college.
▲ Bean Bao writes an English level 6 essay
3. Become a little assistant in life and teach you fitness and cooking
Work is not the whole of life, in daily life, travel, fitness, food, etc. are also common scenes.
For example, summer is coming, and I asked Bean Bao to help me create a fat loss plan. She started from the two aspects of diet and exercise, and provided a detailed breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes and exercise suggestions.
▲ Bean bag to develop a fat loss plan
What should I do if I have a diet plan and can't do it? You can also ask for bean bags. However, I wanted to eat something more delicious than a fitness meal, so I asked Doubao to teach me how to make Macau's famous dish of baked Portuguese chicken.
The bean bun details the ingredients that need to be prepared, the cooking steps, and if the text is not intuitive enough, I can also click on the video link at the top to learn.
▲Bean bag teaching cooking
In the search scenario, Doubao has the advantages of no ads, fast response, etc., and automatically refines and summarizes key information, eliminating the workload of self-combing. In some time-sensitive Q&A, the time of the event will be clarified and the original link will be given, so that I can accurately trace the source of the information.
In the creation scenario, Doubao can accurately understand the needs of users, provide the ability required for various scenarios from work to study, and can cover from Chinese and English writing to code generation, which is quite a feeling of "knowing astronomy and geography". At the same time, the file upload function is convenient for entering long text, which is more in line with the physique of migrant workers.
In life, bean bags can also be transformed into little assistants, whether it is making fitness plans or providing cooking guidance, it can provide professional advice and guidance to help users better manage their lives.
On the whole, the performance of doubao in improving the efficiency of work and life is indeed remarkable, and it is well-deserved to be able to fight its way out of the encirclement and win the first place among the efficiency tools.
Second, productivity tools have become a landing trend, and bytes are rushing to seize mobile AI applications
It has been a year and a half since ChatGPT became popular all over the world, and the large model has been "rolled" out in terms of performance, and even the title of GPT-4's "most powerful model" was taken away by Claude 3. At the landing level, there is still a lack of new phenomenal AI applications.
The market has expectations for the implementation of large model capabilities in the application layer, especially for productivity tools such as AI search and AI creation.
According to the Top 100 Consumer-grade Generative AI Applications report released by venture capital firm a16z in March this year, on the mobile side, Microsoft Edge browser and Bing search occupy two of the top five products in terms of monthly active users, and productivity tools in categories such as general assistant and content generation account for 26% and 22% respectively in the mobile list.
▲Top 50 mobile AI applications (source: a16z)
Mobile AI applications are fast becoming the forefront of productivity tools, and a16z's statistics reflect not only the potential of large models for search and content generation, but also the need for efficient, intelligent tools.
In this context, domestic AI manufacturers such as ByteDance, with their years of experience in Internet product development and insight into user needs, are actively exploring diversified application scenarios of AI technology, promoting the innovation and development of domestic AI applications, and bringing users a richer and more personalized experience.
Conclusion: "APP factory" shot, and domestic AI applications have appeared as an all-round dark horse
How to commercialize large models has always been a difficult problem for AI manufacturers at home and abroad. Through its product methodology accumulated in the Internet era, Byte is laying out AI applications in an all-round way, bringing the capabilities of "APP factory" into the era of large models.
Doubao has been highly recognized by the market for its solid underlying AI technology and high-quality user experience. As more enterprises begin to "roll" AI applications, we look forward to experiencing more innovative and easy-to-use AI products in the future.