Ai/Focus interviews | New technology %20 New infrastructure! Artificial intelligence opens up endless possibilities

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a concept that dates back to the 1950s and has been around for more than 60 years. However, in recent years, with the rapid development of Internet, cloud computing, big data and other technologies, ARTIFICIAL intelligence has experienced explosive growth and various application scenarios have gradually been enriched. Ai technologies such as intelligent voice interaction, human-machine collaboration, face recognition, image retrieval and machine translation have penetrated into all aspects of social life, including communication, transportation, finance, medical care, agriculture and government services. Today, artificial intelligence has been included in the construction of new infrastructure in China, why? How is the development of artificial intelligence in China?

Created by artificial intelligence technology, virtual people can listen and speak just like real people. As a buzzword, "artificial intelligence" has been mentioned more and more frequently in recent years. Some previously imagined scenarios have become reality thanks to artificial intelligence.

The word "artificial intelligence" sounds familiar to everyone, but when it comes to what artificial intelligence is, most people may not be able to explain it clearly. So what exactly is artificial intelligence?

What is artificial intelligence?

Wu Ji, professor at Tsinghua University and member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence: The concept of "artificial intelligence" is difficult to explain completely. The earliest idea is to make computers do things that only human beings can do, but machines cannot do. People are very smart, so we call such a discipline "artificial intelligence". But in fact, the concept of "artificial intelligence", including its connotation, its extension, has been evolving over the years.

To put it simply, ARTIFICIAL intelligence is a branch of computer science, a method of computing based on digitalization. In any industry, when the digital foundation has a certain level, the application of the machine can be intelligent transformation, so that the machine can learn human wisdom, like people to make intelligent response, this is artificial intelligence.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly, and many application scenarios of artificial intelligence have appeared more and more around us.

Iflytek research Institute of The University of Science and Technology recently released a research result - barrier-free intelligent communication technology, using this technology, when people have online calls, different languages can achieve synchronous text translation, making communication completely barrier-free.

Another smart feature of the technology is the ability to push relevant services in real time based on the conversation. For example, when the conversation talks about a football game, it can also send a video of the game.

In fact, artificial intelligence can not only become a right-hand man in our life, but also widely used in the field of industrial production. Ai is also used in power inspection at the 220 kV Jinxiu substation in Hefei, Anhui Province. In the past, ultrasonic inspection of power grid lines required installation of special sensors, which was time-consuming and difficult to image. Now the acoustic imager using artificial intelligence technology can detect ultrasonic waves anytime and anywhere and form voice patterns synchronically, and then make accurate judgment through the data analysis of voice patterns.

In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in many fields such as communication, transportation, finance and medical treatment in China. Now many countries around the world have put artificial intelligence into the national strategic layout, and China is no exception. Starting from 2020, artificial intelligence has been included in the category of national new infrastructure.

Why is AI included in new infrastructure?

Wu Ji, tsinghua University professor and academic committee member of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence: Why is it a new infrastructure in itself? In fact, it will become a social infrastructure, now The habit of Chinese people to go out without wallets. For example, in some cases, it is very troublesome to run out of power for our mobile phones, and we may not even be able to enter the building now. Therefore, in fact, our lives have been completely penetrated by digital infrastructure and intelligent infrastructure, and have become inseparable from our lives.

With more and more artificial intelligence penetrating into all aspects of our production and life, the operation efficiency of the whole society is also greatly improved, and the inevitable trend in the future is that artificial intelligence will have a wider and deeper impact on our production and life.

Wu Ji, Tsinghua University professor and member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence: What is the future? Everything we do is calculated, for example, we brush face into the customs, it is to compare the face and id card information you get is not the same, it is in the calculation. Computing is the foundation. We have digital and intelligent capabilities, so it's going to permeate all industries and become the new infrastructure.

How did artificial intelligence develop from scratch?

How has artificial intelligence developed?

Since the birth of the concept of artificial intelligence in the middle of the 20th century, the development of global artificial intelligence has experienced three waves and two valleys. The main reason for the development is the lack of computer performance and data loss.

In the past, China's economic and technological development level is not high, China's ARTIFICIAL intelligence research started late, and the development path is not smooth, encountered many setbacks and challenges. Only in recent years, the rapid development of The Internet, cloud computing, big data and other technologies in China has brought digital transformation to traditional industries, and the application of ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been expanding.

In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has received widespread attention from the country and society. Driven by both policy and technology, the application of artificial intelligence in China has developed rapidly. Many applications that were once almost impossible have become a reality, and driverless cars are one of them.

At present, the world's first internet-connected cloud-controlled high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone has been built in Beijing Yizhuang. Recently the reporter came here to experience a.

In the experience process, the reporter felt that the unmanned vehicle is very smooth whether straight or turn, and can independently avoid motor vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles, but also accurately judge whether it should overtake and execute safely. There are many types of driverless vehicles in the demonstration area. Buses, logistics vehicles, test vehicles and various operation vehicles can be seen everywhere, and passengers can ride them from time to time.

As the extension and application of artificial intelligence technology in automobile industry and traffic field, unmanned driving has been widely concerned in recent years. At present, China has more than 40 companies studying high-level unmanned driving, and road tests have been carried out in more than 30 cities across the country.

The future of artificial intelligence?

At present, China's ARTIFICIAL intelligence industry, driven by policies and the market, has embarked on a road of rapid development, expanding the industrial scale and improving the industrial chain.

Wu Ji, a professor at Tsinghua University and a member of the Academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, said that China lags behind developed countries in traditional industrial capabilities, but that backwardness actually gives us an impetus to develop next-generation technologies. In recent years, our country in the aspect of artificial intelligence, actually benefit from our such a pressing social need and benefit from our such a large amount of data in the population is convenient, we in the application of artificial intelligence technology, especially the iterative optimization, we are have a certain advantage, but in some places have their own characteristics.

At present, China's AI development basically keeps pace with the world's advanced level, leading the world in the fields of machine translation, unmanned driving, speech recognition and synthesis, and forming a relatively comprehensive and standardized AI technical standards and service system. In the future, the combination of ARTIFICIAL intelligence with 5G, big data and other new infrastructure fields will drive the rapid development of many industries and lay a foundation for the digital and intelligent transformation of many fields.

Wu Ji, a professor at Tsinghua University and a member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, said: Artificial intelligence technology can be used in any field, and this will fundamentally change the operating efficiency of our entire human society. The embedding of artificial intelligence in the future is likely to be invisible, and if you think it works, it will become more and more unconscious and embedded in every aspect of your social life.

With the penetration of artificial intelligence in various fields, the social demand for relevant talents is also increasing. Now, many colleges and universities have set up artificial intelligence-related majors, and the talent pool of the artificial intelligence industry is constantly enriched. In the future, the development prospect of Artificial intelligence in China is broad and promising.

Wu Ji, professor at Tsinghua University and member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence: Artificial intelligence technology, whether it is some academic papers published by the academic circle or some of our artificial intelligence in new applications, is good, but we should not be satisfied with this step only. If we make some pioneering, groundbreaking contributions to these problems that the world recognizes, then I think we can be even more proud to say that we are truly an AI power.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation led by ARTIFICIAL intelligence is in the ascendant, and ARTIFICIAL intelligence is exerting a significant and far-reaching influence on economic development, social progress and global governance. It can be assumed that artificial intelligence, which can simulate human consciousness and thinking process, will become the carrier of human intelligence in the future. Because of this, many countries in the world are rushing from the aspect of national strategic deployment of the development of artificial intelligence, China is also a new generation of artificial intelligence as promote upgrading of the leaping development of science and technology, industry, the overall productivity become the driving force, give full play to the advantages of huge amounts of data and rich application scenario, strengthen the core technology, accelerate the construction of the new infrastructure, We will promote the deep integration of ARTIFICIAL intelligence and the real economy, and promote the innovative development of ARTIFICIAL intelligence.