In China, a virtual robot has been named CEO of NetDragon, one of the world’s best-known video game developers. The company is certain that in the future all companies will also be managed by artificial intelligences.
Ms. Tang Yu, a robot to help make decisions
China is already used to replacing influencers with humanoid robots, which are easier to control. After TV presenters and social media stars, it’s now the turn of CEOs. This is the initiative taken by the company NetDragon Websoft, which has designed a robot called Ms. Tang Yu, responsible for helping decision-making in the daily operations of the company, and providing a risk management system. more efficient. It will also be used as a real-time data center and analysis tool for the consultancy. The company hopes that unlike a human, this robot will also be able to provide a fair working environment for employees.
Artificial intelligence is taking hold in managerial practices
Some companies, such as Canon, already entrust the management of certain supervision tasks to algorithms, in particular facial recognition algorithms which require smiles: in order to show their enthusiasm for participating in a meeting or planning appointments, employees always have to smile at the camera. Other companies use artificial intelligence to measure employees’ lunch break time, measure their productivity or even geolocate them outside the office.
Strategic Growth in the Metaverse
NetDragon, for its part, is convinced that in the future all companies will be managed by artificial intelligence. By choosing to take the plunge now, the company hopes to make a gradual transition into an ecosystem where employees and managers in charge of their organization will interact in a virtual world. According to the company, this choice is part of a transformation strategy based on the metaverse: “Going forward, we will continue to develop the algorithms behind Ms. Tang Yu to build an open, interactive and highly transparent management model as we gradually transform into a metaverse-based working community, which will allow us to attract a much broader base of talent from around the world and will position us to achieve more ambitious goals”said Dr. Dejian Liu, founder of the company.
NetDragon Company Marketing Stunt
As with the disappointing launch of Xiaomi’s humanoid robot inspired by Tesla’s CyberOne robot, it could just be a mere marketing stunt by the company to get people talking about it without the features of such artificial intelligence really being there. efficient. NetDragon, according to its own press release, is “one of the most respected and well-known online game developers in China”, which has also expanded into the online training sector in recent years with international ambitions. Its goal is to create the world’s largest online training community.