Artificial intelligence has quickly "fallen" from a "cold" concept to the world: from speech recognition, smart shopping to driverless driving...artificial intelligence has entered more and more fields and entered people's lives.
My country has issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" and regards it as a new engine for strategic technological and economic development in the future. What changes will artificial intelligence bring to people's production and life? Is it true that "no one" is better than "someone" here in the future?
Artificial intelligence applications are "emerging"
At the recently held 2017 Baidu World Conference, Baidu released the world's first human-vehicle AI interaction system. Embedding artificial intelligence technology into vehicle systems can realize functions such as human-vehicle dialogue, fatigue monitoring, and AR navigation, making travel easier and safer. Baidu founder Robin Li said that Baidu has cooperated with FAW, King Long and other car companies to promote the implementation of relevant technologies.
In addition, artificial intelligence applications are expanding to more fields. For example, in retail, traditional supermarkets and shops are "transformed" through the digitization and intelligence of products, scenes, and consumers. Not long ago, unmanned supermarkets opened in Hangzhou, Shanghai and other places. Consumers can make their own purchases and pay with one click, and stores can also intelligently adjust the variety and placement of goods to serve consumers more accurately and connect with manufacturers.
The manufacturing industry is no exception. Relying on artificial intelligence data processing, image sensing, intelligent control and other technologies, more and more unmanned factories have been born, and production efficiency has been greatly improved. Industrial processes are also undergoing changes, and flexible production and precise supply are being realized.
“Artificial intelligence is like ‘electricity in the new era’, and the changes it brings are comparable to the industrial revolution.” Robin Li believes that the industry has reached a critical point of explosion.
Luo Wen, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, defined artificial intelligence as the core driving force of a new round of industrial transformation, believing that it will reconstruct production, distribution, exchange, consumption and other links, give birth to new products and new business formats, and profoundly change people's lives. production, lifestyle and thinking patterns. "We must speed up the in-depth application of artificial intelligence, cultivate and expand industries, and inject new momentum into economic development."
my country is expected to achieve "lead"
The concept of artificial intelligence was not proposed by our country, but it was early The technical reserves and perfect data and network environment lay the foundation for the development of artificial intelligence in our country. The rapid transformation and integration capabilities and application innovation also make our country at the forefront of the world in research, development and application.
Luo Wen believes that my country is the world leader in speech recognition, visual recognition and other fields, and is expected to seize the opportunity of the new technological revolution and achieve "leadership".
Demand from the application side is also driving the artificial intelligence industry to continue to mature. For example, image recognition applications are based on users' needs for image search.
Robin Li said that four years ago, Baidu used artificial intelligence technology to implement "image search" based on user needs, which also started with image recognition.
The rise of outbound travel has accelerated the implementation of intelligent translation, huge travel demand has promoted the development of autonomous driving, and facial recognition meets more security requirements... The huge market space and production and life needs have forced the application to accelerate the implementation. Statistics show that my country ranks second in the world in terms of the number of invention patents granted in the field of artificial intelligence. Intelligent monitoring, biometric identification, and driverless driving have gradually entered practical applications, and a number of leading enterprises have accelerated their growth.
Li Beiguang, deputy director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said. Our country has proposed that by 2020, the overall technology and application of artificial intelligence will be synchronized with the world's advanced level, and the competitiveness of the artificial intelligence industry will enter the first phalanx in the world. By 2025, the artificial intelligence industry will enter the high end of the global value chain.
It is necessary to "make up for the lessons" while "running"
my country's artificial intelligence industry is developing rapidly, but it must also "make up for the lessons" while "running" to make the industry move more steadily and further .
Luo Wen believes that although it has taken the lead in some fields, there is still a gap between my country's overall development level of artificial intelligence and developed countries, and there is a lack of major original achievements. In basic theory, core algorithms and key equipment, There are still gaps in high-end chips and other aspects, and an ecosystem and industrial chain with international influence have not yet been formed.
Experts believe that on the one hand, it is necessary to build an open and collaborative artificial intelligence technology innovation system, strengthen key technical breakthroughs, and increase the source supply of artificial intelligence innovation.
On the other hand, it is necessary to cultivate a high-end and efficient smart economy, focus on people's livelihood needs and hot topics such as education, medical care, and elderly care, accelerate innovative applications, promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence and various industrial fields, actively cultivate emerging business forms, deploy high-end industrial chains, and comprehensively Improve quality and efficiency.
The development of cutting-edge technologies sometimes involves issues such as policy norms and scientific ethics, and artificial intelligence is no exception. For example, if an accident occurs during driverless driving, the system will make a decision to protect pedestrians or drivers; robots are more personalized, and whether they can conduct safety supervision, etc., all need to set up a framework at the moral and ethical level and lay a legal foundation.
In industrial development, standards come first. Luo Wen said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will strengthen research on the artificial intelligence standard framework system and gradually establish and improve technical standards for artificial intelligence basic integrity, interconnection, industry applications, network security, and privacy protection. Promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence through pilots and demonstrations.
China is at the forefront of artificial intelligence!