The development of science and technology has made artificial intelligence a cutting-edge technology in the information age. Whether it’s Google’s AlphaGo or IBM’s Watson, they both show the incredible potential of artificial intelligence. If there is a technology that can subvert human society in the next 10 years, it is artificial intelligence.
Recently, Goldman Sachs released a report on "Artificial Intelligence" to explore the development and ecosystem of artificial intelligence. First, the report defines what artificial intelligence is: Artificial intelligence is the science and engineering of creating intelligent machines, learnable computing programs, and problem solving that require human intelligence. It includes natural language processing and translation, visual perception, pattern recognition, but the number and complexity of applications is growing rapidly.
In fact, the current main leaders of artificial intelligence are some international giants, such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, etc. These technology giants have been researching artificial intelligence for more than ten years, and some of their research results have been commercially applied. At the same time, we see that large domestic companies, such as BAT, are vigorously promoting artificial intelligence research and development.
In the Goldman Sachs report, there is also a section dedicated to elaborating on the development of artificial intelligence in China. According to research by IResearch, China's AI market size will grow from 1.2 billion in 2015 to 9.1 billion. Among them, nearly 1.4 billion funds flowed into the artificial intelligence market in 2015, with a year-on-year growth rate of 76.
In terms of government policies, the China Development and Reform Commission and relevant departments released a three-year implementation plan for the Internet and artificial intelligence on May 18, 2016.
The plan identifies six specific aspects to support the development of artificial intelligence, including funding, system standardization, intellectual property protection, human resources development, international cooperation and implementation arrangements. The plan establishes the goal of establishing infrastructure, innovation platforms, industrial systems, innovative service systems and AI-based industrial standardization by 2018.
At present, China has taken action: Judging from the data of journal articles mentioning "deep learning" or "deep neural network", China has surpassed the United States. China’s AI research capabilities are equally impressive, with world-leading speech and image recognition technology.