Is it possible to make artificial intelligence technology exist like water, electricity and gas? The answer given by Huawei Cloud is yes.
Huawei predicts that the number of smart terminals will reach 40 billion by 2025. By then, the adoption rate of AI by global enterprises will reach 86%, and the utilization rate of enterprise data will be greatly increased to about 80%. Soon, an AI will penetrate into every aspect of life, and the reality in every corner of all walks of life will soon arrive.
When AI goes from the laboratory to the city, into the enterprise, into the streets and into everyone's home, it needs to become "high but not expensive". Huawei Cloud believes that the most important thing of the so-called "Pratt & Whitney AI" is to enable ordinary industry practitioners to use AI artificial intelligence technology to self-help combine digital technology with industry processes to form new intelligent connections. Smart connections will drive unprecedented large-scale innovation. The new business model and application based on intelligent connection will change the operation mode of enterprises and the consumption mode of products and services, promote the large-scale development of digital economy and eventually move towards intelligent economy.
20 18 In May, Huawei Cloud first proposed the concept of "inclusive AI" at China International Big Data Industry Expo. In the eyes of Huawei Cloud, AI should be a set of technology, a new general technology, not a simple independent product, nor a closed system. At the same time, AI should also become a basic productivity like electricity and the Internet. Through intelligent connection, the efficiency of many industries has been doubled. This is not only the starting point for Huawei Cloud to be an "inclusive AI", but also what AI should look like in the future.
With the proposal and practice of Huawei Cloud's "Pratt & Whitney AI" concept, AI technology began to slowly approach what it should be.
An example that shines into reality is the development of Huawei Cloud ei. This year, Huawei Cloud cooperated with Beijing Traffic Management Bureau to launch a pilot application of signal timing optimization using AI technology in Shangdi Third Street, Haidian. After deploying EI traffic agent solution, according to the evaluation report of the third party company (Beijing Century Qualcomm Technology Co., Ltd.), the average delay of this east-west road in Beijing decreased by 15.2%, and the average speed increased by 15%. Maybe white-collar workers who commute to Shangdi Third Street every day don't know what AI is, but they are curious about this less congested road.
Similarly, another less congested road also landed in Shenzhen. Shenzhen Traffic Police applied the EI agent of Huawei Cloud to urban traffic management, and adopted artificial intelligence technology at 9 intersections in Bantian, which increased the average speed by 17%, saved commuting time by 10 minute, and unconsciously saved a cup of morning tea.
20 18, China's "Pratt & Whitney AI" not only shines into the city, but also lands in the industrial and medical fields. Taking the industrial field as an example, the intelligent analysis of production data by EI industrial agent of Beijing Sanlian Rainbow Co., Ltd. successfully released the flexibility of production line, which enabled enterprises to better cope with the downstream personalized demand and effectively improved the matching rate of downstream demand by 28.5%. In the medical field, Huawei Cloud ei cooperated with Jinyu Medicine to make a breakthrough in the field of pathological monitoring of cervical cancer, with sensitivity (true positive rate) exceeding 99% and specificity (true negative rate) exceeding 80%.
In the past year, Huawei Cloud ei has tried more than 200 projects. In June and June, 10 released three EI agents, namely, transportation, industry and city, which is one of the schemes of "inclusive AI". And this is only the product of the initial stage of "Pratt & Whitney AI", which "just showed its sharp corner" in 20 18.
The difference between Huawei Cloud's "Pratt & Whitney AI" and other manufacturers in the industry is that it makes up for the huge gap between the development of AI technology and the landing of the industry in the process of moving towards a smart economy. How to make AI high but not expensive, so that all walks of life can "afford it, use it well and use it with confidence", how to connect various scenarios in various industries and make AI the base of intelligent economy? This requires that "Pratt & Whitney AI" is not only the Pratt & Whitney of software, but also the Pratt & Whitney of hardware and the Pratt & Whitney of engineering. Then, in this process, the cornerstone of talent and technology is inevitable.
At the 20 18 10 Yuehua Full Connection Conference, Huawei released a "full stack and full scene" AI solution, which showed another landing mode of Huawei Cloud "Pratt & Whitney AI", namely the reduction of AI development cost and threshold, which means that developers and practitioners in the industry can stand on the platform of Huawei Cloud and look at AI across the once high threshold. In the past, we looked to AI, and AI will be everywhere in the future.
Huawei Cloud's "full stack" is a full stack technology solution from the perspective of technical functions, including chips, chip enablement, training reasoning framework and application enablement; The so-called "full scenario" includes the deployment environment of public cloud, private cloud, various edge computing, Internet of Things industry terminals and consumer terminals. Among them, Huawei Cloud Full Scene AI is a software and hardware integration scheme, which is also the unique feature of Huawei Cloud Pratt & Whitney AI: it includes serialized AI IP and chips Ascend 9 10 (Huawei Ascend 9 100) and Ascend 3 10 (Huawei ascend 310) based on a unified and extensible architecture; Chip operator library and highly automated operator development tool CANN；; ; Cardiospore; Unified training and reasoning framework, supporting the independence and cooperation of end, edge and cloud; It also provides full process development services (ModelArts), layered API and application enablement of pre-integration scheme.
Specifically, for example, Huawei's self-developed AI chip Ascend series, based on the unified "Da Vinci" architecture, has the advantages of one-time development by operators, expansion of computing power, consistent development and debugging experience, smooth migration across scenarios, ultra-high bandwidth and extremely low latency, and scalable on-chip interconnection. Ascend series chips based on unified Da Vinci architecture can achieve the best performance at the lowest cost in any scenario. In terms of engineering, compared with other development platforms in the industry, ModelArts is a faster development platform for Pratt & Whitney AI, covering the whole process of AI development such as data labeling and preparation, model training, model optimization and model deployment, providing one-stop service for AI application development.
Relying on Huawei's 30 years of technology accumulation, in Huawei Cloud's view, AI is not high. Relying on Huawei Cloud's "full stack, full scene" AI solution, Huawei Cloud hopes that industry practitioners have the same platform and stand at the same height, so that AI will not be cumbersome in development, application and debugging scenarios. As of September 20 18, Huawei Cloud has provided 45 artificial intelligence services, covering 142 functions. In addition, the AI development platform ModelArts, the AI application development platform HiLens, the quantum computing simulator and programming framework HiQ, and the offline development kit Atlas200 consistent with the online experience have formed the universal ability of end-to-end engineering landing AI.
It is true that every industrial revolution is a process in which technology is transformed into productive forces, and it is also a process in which advanced technology is continuously extended to ordinary people, and the intelligent age is no exception. With the development of AI, all walks of life will touch artificial intelligence technology, and the landing of Huawei Cloud "Pratt & Whitney AI" will undoubtedly shorten this process. At least, the 20 18 Huawei cloud shows us that AI can be used in the streets. (Text/Ning Chuan)