With the gradual improvement of information infrastructure, artificial intelligence has accelerated its landing and entered an application explosion period, and major countries in the world have seized this vent. Following the release of the development plan for a new generation of artificial intelligence in July last year, China recently released the Three-year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (20 18-2020) (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan), clearly proposing to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence with the real economy and accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power and a network power.
Grasping artificial intelligence is to grasp the focus of the new round of information technology revolution. In the new round of technological and industrial revolution that the world is experiencing, China, which strives for high-quality development through technological innovation, is gradually moving from "following" to "following" or even "leading" in some fields. ...
Create new kinetic energy for the transformation and upgrading of the real economy
China's artificial intelligence has developed rapidly, and great achievements have been made in both research and application. According to the data, from 2007 to 20 16, China's papers in the field of artificial intelligence accounted for nearly 20% of the world, and the number of invention patents granted was the second in the world. In the past two years, the number of new artificial intelligence enterprises in China has exceeded the total number of enterprises in the previous year 10, and a number of leading backbone enterprises have accelerated their growth and accelerated their technology to the sea.
"I see the historic moment that artificial intelligence is experiencing, that is, it has stepped out of the laboratory and entered the stage of industrial application." Li Feifei, a famous expert from China in the field of global artificial intelligence, said in an interview with the media.
The birth of artificial intelligence is mainly driven by business needs, especially the needs of the Internet. Although its penetration into traditional industries is unprecedented in breadth and depth, it is also facing the problem of realizing industrial development. In this regard, China has clearly put forward a three-step strategic goal for the development of artificial intelligence. The first step is to synchronize the overall technology and application with the world advanced level by 2020, and promote the artificial intelligence industry to become a new important economic growth point. The application of artificial intelligence technology has become a new way to improve people's livelihood and provided an important driving force for the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.
"Accelerating industrialization and application is the focus of the development of artificial intelligence," said the head of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Because of this, the action plan released this time clearly puts forward that it is necessary to promote the industrialization and integrated application of a new generation of artificial intelligence technology with the deep integration of information technology and manufacturing technology as the main line.
For the development in the next three years, the Action Plan proposes to focus on developing high-end intelligent products, consolidate the core foundation, improve the level of intelligent manufacturing, improve the public support system, give play to the guiding role of policies, and promote the combination of Industry-University-Research and users. Its purpose is to further deepen the integration of artificial intelligence and real economy by building a good industrial ecology, thus initially forming a complete industrial chain from basic support, core technology to upper application, and ultimately helping the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.
Research shows that for every increase of 10% in digitalization, the per capita GDP will increase by 0.5% to 0.62%. Relying on the digital revolution, a number of new growth points have been cultivated in the fields of industrial robots, drones, intelligent and healthy old-age care, and the consumption and production markets have shown strong growth momentum. Experts said that artificial intelligence, as the new engine of China's economic power transformation, will provide a new perspective for the transformation and upgrading of various industries, especially the real economy, and create new kinetic energy.
Release the new dividend of industrial technology intelligent revolution
The emergence of unmanned driving subverts the mode of transportation; The retail industry that introduces big data has become more "smart" and "considerate"; Stepping into the "cloud" manufacturing industry, achieving refined management and personalized customization ... Information technology has facilitated people's lives, created new models and new formats, and injected more vitality into economic development.
It can be seen that different from the past, this wave of artificial intelligence is accompanied by the practical application of life and work, which is the natural result of scientific and technological progress and embedded in a very wide range of life scenes. Some scientists even think that "we may be the first generation to live with artificial intelligence".
"Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on every industry and even everyone's life." Li Deyi, president of China Artificial Intelligence Society and academician of China Academy of Engineering, said. He introduced that in the next three years, China will carry out integrated innovation in six key industries, including manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, finance, commerce and home furnishing, in accordance with the principles of "system layout, key breakthroughs, collaborative innovation and openness and order".
In fact, the integration of artificial intelligence and traditional industries is far more than these six industries, such as energy, tourism, medical care and so on. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China will support qualified regions to give full play to their resource advantages, cultivate a number of leading enterprises in artificial intelligence, explore the construction of artificial intelligence industrial clusters, set up key laboratories, encourage industries to reasonably open data, and promote the breakthrough development of artificial intelligence industry.
Intelligent networked cars, intelligent service robots, medical image aided diagnosis systems, video image recognition systems ... In recent years, China's artificial intelligence application technology has made rapid progress, and the intelligent economy and intelligent society have achieved remarkable results. Artificial intelligence technology represented by image recognition, object tracking and unmanned driving has been industrialized in many industries. The intelligent revolution of industrial technology has enabled more and more people to enjoy the development dividends in more and more fields.
Help China surpass the miracle of economic development.
The organic combination of accumulated technical ability, data resources, huge application demand and open market environment constitutes the advantages of China's artificial intelligence development, which makes China stand on the same starting line with developed countries in this round of competition. But this can only show that we have a standing advantage, and we must also see the new challenges we face.
Yang Fangchun, executive vice president of the Society of Artificial Intelligence, believes that at present, the development of artificial intelligence in China still lags behind that in developed countries in terms of basic theory, chips, systems, ecology, software and hardware, project layout, and even infrastructure, policies and regulations, and standard systems.
The change of ideas is the first. Yang Fangchun said that the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence first needs a change of concept, which can pave the way for the application of artificial intelligence in policy, ethics and law. For example, there are problems that legal policies lag behind the practice of artificial intelligence technology in medical diagnosis and driverless driving, and the taxi and retail industries may face subversive changes brought about by artificial intelligence. "These problems need to be prepared to ensure the healthy development of a new generation of artificial intelligence." He said.
Everything is established in advance, and it is abolished if it is not foreseen. Experts said that for traditional enterprises, we must actively look for application scenarios of artificial intelligence technology and actively build an industrial value chain with technology as the link.
Considering that traditional enterprises need a lot of investment to develop and apply artificial intelligence independently, and there is a risk of failure. Industry insiders suggest that traditional industries should rely on various platform-based enterprises as the leader of application construction to promote the opening and enjoyment of their technologies, resources and services, thus promoting the landing of artificial intelligence technology in traditional industries.
Of course, in the application of artificial intelligence industry led by government, scientific research institutions and platform enterprises, we should be good at using market means to balance the relationship between society and enterprises and prevent platform enterprises from monopolizing by using technological advantages. Only in this way, can we really give full play to the engine advantage of artificial intelligence power change and realize the new transcendence of China's economic development miracle.