China is the most active country in the field of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is a new technology science that studies and develops the theories, methods, technologies and application systems that simulate, extend and expand human intelligence. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science, which tries to understand the nature of intelligence and produce a new intelligent machine that can respond in a way similar to human intelligence. The research in this field includes robot, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and expert system.
It can be seen from the statistical data of Tsinghua University China Science and Technology Policy Research Center that major countries in the world attach great importance to basic research in the field of artificial intelligence. During the 20 years from 1997 to 20 17, the total number of papers in the field of artificial intelligence in China ranked first in the world, with a number of nearly 400,000, nearly 4.2 more than that in the second-ranked United States.
According to WIPO statistics, in 20 18, the number of artificial intelligence patents in China, the United States and Japan accounted for 75% of the total number of artificial intelligence patents in the world. China leads in the number of patents, with the United States and Japan accounting for 37%, making it the world's leading country in the number of patent applications for artificial intelligence.
The number of artificial intelligence enterprises in China is second only to that in the United States.
At present, the number of artificial intelligence enterprises in China and the United States accounts for 60% of the global total. According to the data of China ICT Institute, as of the end of June 20 18, the number of artificial intelligence enterprises in the United States was 2,039, ranking first in the world; China ranks second with 1040 enterprises.
In the basic layer, algorithm layer, technology layer and application layer of artificial intelligence, a number of powerful artificial intelligence enterprises have emerged in China. For example, in the field of chips, there are companies such as Huawei Hisilicon and Cambrian Technology; Algorithms and comprehensive fields include Baidu, Tencent and Ali; There are enterprises such as Baidu and Iflytek in the field of intelligent voice; In the field of computer vision, there are enterprises such as Shangtang Technology and Defiance Technology. More and more high-tech enterprises are widely involved in the field of artificial intelligence. So far, China has initially established a complete industrial chain of artificial intelligence.
In the past six years, the amount of financing in the field of artificial intelligence in China has increased nearly 30 times.
China's investment in artificial intelligence is active and growing rapidly. From 20 13 to 20 18, the financing amount increased by nearly 3 1 times in six years. From 20 13 to the first half of 20 18, China's accumulated financing amount in the field of artificial intelligence accounted for 60% of the world, surpassing 29% of the United States and ranking first in the world.
Development Trend of Artificial Intelligence Industry in China
Intelligent internet of things. In the past, networked devices were naturally smart products such as personal computers, mobile phones and smart speakers. Next, artificial intelligence enterprises represented by Lenovo will make refrigerators, air conditioners at home, machine tools in factories, automobiles, aircraft engines, X-ray machines and CT machines in hospitals become intelligent devices with real-time online and human interaction capabilities by embedding intelligent modules, chips or protocols. ?
Transformation from traditional IT to intelligent infrastructure. The intelligence of IT infrastructure is an essential infrastructure for all walks of life to realize intelligent transformation. In the traditional data center, the architecture of server, storage and network is separated. Every time an application needs to be made, enterprises need to buy servers, storage and network equipment separately, which is very inefficient and the utilization rate of hardware equipment is less than 10%. Intelligent infrastructure is an IT infrastructure built with software-defined convergence and hyper-convergence technologies.
Automated machine learning will be more prominent. One trend that fundamentally changes machine learning solutions is AutoML. It will enable business analysts and developers to develop machine learning models that can solve complex scenarios without typical training on machine learning models, and business analysts can focus on business problems instead of getting lost in workflows.
The above data comes from the Analysis Report on Market Foresight and Investment Strategic Planning of Artificial Intelligence Industry in China issued by Foresight Industry Research Institute.