In 2017, if you want to ask the biggest change in the technology circle, the answer is difficult to jump out of the word "artificial intelligence."
Whether it is Xunfei’s emergence during the two sessions this year, Baidu’s ability to open AI and release “L4 level unmanned vehicles next year†is a rhetoric; whether it is Tencent’s release of AI medical imaging product Tencent, or Alibaba’s ET city brain The smart applications behind the “stealth†cities are all related to artificial intelligence.
As the market continues to pay strong attention to the field of artificial intelligence, policy dividends from the national level are also coming. In March 2017, artificial intelligence was first written into the work report of the Chinese government. In July, the State Council issued the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Planâ€, proposing ideas for the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence in China in 2030; in December, “Promoting a new generation†The Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry announced that it will focus on four key tasks of artificial intelligence in the next three years, involving 17 products such as intelligent networked vehicles, intelligent service robots, intelligent drones, and medical image-assisted diagnostic systems. field.
However, for the general public, this year, in addition to several smart speakers to choose from on the e-commerce platform, the life around you seems to be still the same: the car still needs manual operation, even faster by voice switching navigation. When it comes to the route, it is still inevitable. The tide-like patients invaded into the top three hospitals in the first-tier cities, and only hoped to have a conversation with the experts. Urban traffic under the control of intelligent brains has become more smooth? “There is not much feeling.†Several interviewed drivers and passengers told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter.
If artificial intelligence is really the future, how far is this future?
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According to PricewaterhouseCoopers data, by 2030, artificial intelligence will contribute $15.7 trillion to the world economy's GDP, surpassing the current economic aggregate between China and India; by 2035, artificial intelligence is expected to boost world labor productivity. The increase was 40%, which boosted global GDP by 14%.
In the process of the rapid evolution of the AI ​​economy to the above-mentioned time nodes, China has its own ideas. In November, the Ministry of Science and Technology and a number of ministries and commissions announced the first batch of national new generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform list: relying on Baidu, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent and Keda Xunfei to build autopilot, urban brain, medical imaging, intelligent voice four related open Innovation platform.
“The establishment of a national-level artificial intelligence open innovation platform is guided by the direction of the national strategy.†In an exclusive interview with the 21st Century Business Herald reporter, Li Jingmei, head of Alibaba ET City Brain, said, “This is by no means a local government. A single point of cooperation means that in the future, domestic research institutions and companies can participate in the innovation of the urban brain."
As a national enterprise brain innovation platform, Alibaba Cloud has already landed the ET city brain in Hangzhou since last October. In just one year, the brain of ET City took over the traffic lights at 128 intersections in Hangzhou. The total transit time on the roads in the pilot area was reduced by 15.3%. The time for the backbone travel in Hangzhou was 4.6 minutes. Artificial intelligence handled traffic accidents. The accuracy rate reached 92.3%.
“The current ET city brain has entered Hangzhou, Suzhou, Macao and other cities, and the scene is mainly focused on transportation.†Li Jingmei told 21st Century Business Herald, “The brain of ET City can realize the intelligent perception and treatment of urban events, targeted. Conduct social governance, use signal lights to ease traffic congestion and intelligent dispatch of operating vehicles."
Compared with the urban brain that has just started intelligent transportation, the development of intelligent voice is more mature. Whether it is this year's hot smart speaker or the evolving smart home product, it is equipped with or tries to carry intelligent voice interaction. .
According to the data provided by Keda Xunfei to 21st Century Business Herald, as of November 2017, the cumulative number of terminals of Xunfei Open Platform has reached 1.5 billion, and the daily average number of interactions has reached 4 billion. Liu Qingfeng, chairman of Keda Xunfei, said in an interview with the 21st Century Business Herald that voice will be an important entry point in the era of Internet of Everything and a threshold for truly making machines smart.
“In terms of technology transformation into applications, HKUST is flying in various industries.†A person from the University of Science and Technology told the 21st Century Business Herald that the current field of science and technology includes smart education, smart city, smart medical care, smart car. , Judicial, intelligent customer service, smart home and other fields, trying to integrate intelligent voice with the industry.
If the penetration of smart voice applications is more like “smooth and silentâ€, the news of the driverless industry has always been “stunnedâ€. Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the Baidu World Congress in 2017 that Baidu’s Apollo open platform will mass produce China’s first driverless micro-cycle bus “Apolon†​​in 2018, mainly in automobile towns, parks, scenic spots, The machine tastes the restricted area such as the city-level unmanned experimental area to realize L4 automatic driving.