Human Algorithm

He believes that everything in the world has an optimal solution: work can be quantified, feelings can be calculated, and life is just a system waiting to be optimized. Until the company introduced AI, the code, documents and experience he compiled by himself became the basis for his layoff. After losing his job, in order to repay his mortgage and maintain his last bit of dignity, Zhou Qiming put on a riding suit and started delivering food in the city. He used programs to predict orders and AI to plan routes, and soon became the site's "order king". But the algorithm can calculate the fastest way, but it cannot calculate why a person stopped in the rain; it can record whether the order is on time, but it cannot record whose suffering the rider passes by. From writing code to delivering food, from designing the system to being dominated by the system, Zhou Qiming finally began to understand: For the really important things in life, there is often no data and no optimal solution.