The number of applications from three China applicants, Baidu, China Academy of Sciences and Tencent, has increased rapidly in recent years, among which Baidu is the most eye-catching. Although it started late, the number of patent applications has rapidly surpassed that of other applicants, and it has been far ahead in the last two years.
From the international comparison, China's artificial intelligence development has entered the international leading group. China has been in a state of backwardness and catch-up in all previous industrial revolutions, and at the time of the rise of the fourth industrial revolution, China has been sitting on the first bus with other countries. In the field of artificial intelligence, China has entered the international leading group in technology development and market application, showing that China and the United States? Two people standing side by side? Competitive mode.
Judging from the development quality, the development of artificial intelligence in China is far from optimistic. China's advantages are mainly in application, but its strength in the core technical fields of artificial intelligence, such as hardware and algorithms, is still very weak, which makes the foundation for the development of artificial intelligence in China not solid enough. China lacks top talents in the development of artificial intelligence technology, and the gap with developed countries, especially the United States, is still very obvious.
An AI product recently launched by Baidu is called AI Studio. The concept is really good, and it has a lot of free computing power, but I don't know if it is because of profit difficulties, so the promotion is still not enough at present.
Baidu's next promising project, in addition to AI studio, is Apollo autopilot. In the "Technical Analysis Report of China Artificial Intelligence Patents" released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in June 20 18, most of the top 10 applicants in the field of autonomous driving in China are established automobile manufacturers such as Ford and Toyota. Baidu is not only the only Internet company on the list, but also has 694 patent applications, ranking first. However, autonomous driving does not dare to land in the world. After all, it is a matter of life and death. If it is not safe, it will not land.
If Baidu wants to get out of the predicament of not relying on those inferior advertisements to maintain profits, it still has to land more AI projects and grow like other companies.