Recently, Ali Dharma Academy summarized the top 10 cutting-edge technologies that are most worthy of attention in 2022, which are: AI for Science, co-evolution of large and small models, silicon optical chips, green energy AI, flexible perception robots, high-precision medical navigation, full-area privacy computing, star-earth computing, cloud-network-terminal convergence, and XR Internet.
What are these top 10 tech trends?
Trend 1 AI for Science
Artificial Intelligence is becoming a new productivity tool for scientists, giving rise to a new paradigm for scientific research
Summary Experimental and theoretical science have been the two foundational paradigms of the scientific community for hundreds of years, and AI is giving rise to a new paradigm of scientific research. Machine learning can handle massive amounts of multidimensional and multimodal data, solve complex scientific problems, and lead scientific exploration into new and previously inaccessible areas. Artificial intelligence will not only accelerate the research process, but also help discover new scientific laws. It is expected that in the next three years, AI will be commonly used in applied sciences and start to become a productive tool for scientists in some basic sciences.
Trend 2: Synergistic evolution of large and small models
The large model parameter race has entered a cool-down period, and large and small models will evolve synergistically in the cloud side end
The outline of the mega pre-training model is the breakthrough exploration from the weak AI to the general AI, and it solves the problem of fragmentation of the traditional deep learning applications. Deep learning application fragmentation problem, but performance and energy consumption increase disproportionate to the efficiency of the problem limits the parameter scale to continue to expand. AI research will go from a large model parameter race to the co-evolution of large and small models, the large model to the side, the end of the small model output model capabilities, the small model is responsible for the actual reasoning and implementation, while the small model to the large model feedback algorithms and implementation of the effectiveness of the large model, so that the large model of the ability to continue to strengthen the formation of the organic cycle of the intelligence system.
Trend 3 Silicon Optical Chips
Optical Fusion combines the advantages of photons and electrons to break through Moore's Law
Summary The development of electronic chips is approaching the limits of Moore's Law, and it is difficult to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for data throughput in high performance computing. Silicon optical chips use photons instead of electrons to transmit information, can carry more information and transmit over longer distances, and have the advantages of high computational density and low energy consumption. With the outbreak of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, silicon optical chip ushered in the rapid iteration of technology and the rapid development of the industry chain. It is expected that in the next three years, silicon-on-optical chips will carry the majority of large-scale data centers within the high-speed information transmission.
Trend 4 Green Energy AI
Artificial Intelligence to help large-scale green energy consumption, the realization of the multi-energy complementary power system
Summary of the wind power, photovoltaic and other green energy in recent years the rapid development of, but also brought about the difficult grid, low rate of consumption and other issues, and even the emergence of "abandoned wind". The phenomenon of "abandoned wind", "abandoned light" and other phenomena. The core reason is that green energy exists volatility, randomness, anti-peaking and other characteristics, large-scale grid integration may affect the safe and stable operation of the grid. The application of artificial intelligence technology will effectively enhance the ability of the grid and other energy systems to consume diversified power sources and coordinate multiple energy sources, become the technical support for improving energy utilization and stability, and promote the process of carbon neutrality. It is expected that in the next three years, AI technology will help the power system to realize large-scale green energy consumption and the safe, efficient and stable operation of the power system.
Trend 5 Flexible Perception Robots
Robots will be both flexible and human-like perception, and can be adaptive to complete a variety of tasks
Summary Traditional robots rely on pre-programming, and are limited to structured scenarios such as large-scale production lines. In recent years, flexible robots combined with flexible electronics, force perception and control, artificial intelligence technology, access to force perception, vision, sound and other perceptual capabilities, to cope with multi-task versatility and adaptability to respond to changes in the environment has increased dramatically. Robots will move from large-scale, standardized production lines to small-scale, non-standardized scenarios. It is expected that in the next five years, flexible perception robots will gradually replace the traditional industrial robots, become the main equipment on the production line, and in the field of service robotics began to scale application.
Trend 6: High-precision medical navigation
Artificial Intelligence and Precision Medical Integration, helping to improve diagnosis and treatment precision and efficiency
SummaryThe traditional medical treatment relies on the experience of the doctor as if it were an artificial way to find the road, and the effect is uneven. The deep integration of artificial intelligence and precision medicine, the organic combination of expert experience and new auxiliary diagnostic technology will become a high-precision navigation system for clinical medicine, providing automatic guidance for doctors, helping to make faster and more accurate medical decisions, and realizing the quantifiable, calculable, predictable, and preventable prevention and treatment of major diseases. It is expected that in the next three years, human-centered precision medicine will become the main direction, artificial intelligence will be fully penetrated in all aspects of disease prevention and diagnosis, and become a high-precision navigation synergy of disease prevention and diagnosis.
Trend 7: Full-domain privacy computing
Cracking the dilemma of data protection and circulation, privacy computing towards full-domain data protection
Summary Data security protection and data circulation is the dilemma of the digital era, and the way to crack it is privacy computing. In the past, constrained by performance bottlenecks, lack of technical trust, and non-uniform standards, privacy computing can only be applied to a small number of data scenarios. With the convergence and development of dedicated chips, encryption algorithms, white-boxing, data trust and other technologies, privacy computing is expected to cross over to the protection of massive data, and the data source will be extended to the whole domain, stimulating new productivity in the digital era. It is expected that in the next three years, the full-domain privacy computing technology will have new breakthroughs in performance and interpretability, or there will be a data trust organization to provide privacy computing-based data **** enjoyment services.
Trend 8: Satellite-Earth Computing
Satellite and ground-based integrated communications and computing for comprehensive digitization of air, space, and sea
Overview of digitization services based on terrestrial networks and computation is limited to densely populated areas, and no-man's-land, such as deep space, the oceans, and deserts, is still a service gap. The service is not yet available in deep space, oceans, deserts and other uninhabited areas. High and low orbit satellite communications and ground mobile communications will be seamlessly connected to form an integrated three-dimensional network of air, space and sea. As the calculation moves with the network, star-earth computing will integrate satellite systems, air networks, ground communications and cloud computing, becoming an emerging computing architecture and expanding the space for digital services. It is expected that in the next three years, the number of low-orbit satellites will usher in explosive growth, and satellites and their ground systems will become new computing nodes.
Trend 9: Cloud-Network-Terminal Convergence
Cloud-Network-Terminal Convergence to Form a New Computing System, Giving Birth to New Species on the Cloud
The development of the outline of new network technology will drive cloud computing towards a cloud-network-terminal convergence of a new computing system, and realize the specialized division of labor between the cloud-network-terminal: the cloud will be used as the brain, responsible for centralized computing and global data. The cloud will be responsible for centralized computing and global data processing; the network as a connection, will be a variety of network forms through the cloud fusion, the formation of low-latency, wide coverage of a network; end as the interactive interface, presenting a variety of forms, can provide thin, long-lasting, immersive extreme experience. Cloud-network-end convergence will promote the birth of new applications such as high-precision industrial simulation, real-time industrial quality inspection, and virtual-reality fusion space. It is expected that in the next two years, there will be a large number of new applications running in the new computing system of cloud-network-end convergence.
Trend 10 XR Internet
XR glasses will become an important interactive interface, driving the development of the next generation of the Internet
Summary With the development of end-to-end cloud collaborative computing, network communications, digital twins, and other technologies, the immersive experience of the XR (the future of the virtual reality) Internet will meet an explosive period. The XR (Future Virtual Reality) Internet will meet the explosive period. Glasses are expected to become the new human-computer interaction interface, promoting the formation of the XR Internet, different from the flat Internet, giving rise to a new industrial ecology from components, equipment, operating systems to applications.XR Internet will reshape the shape of the digital applications, changing the entertainment, social, work, shopping, education, medical and other scenes of interaction. It is expected that in the next three years, a new generation of XR glasses with a shape and weight close to that of ordinary glasses will be produced, becoming the key entrance to the next generation of the Internet.
In addition to AI for Science, silicon optical chips, these 10 cutting-edge technologies also include the rapid development of flexible sensory robots, XR Internet and other technologies.
Many people were impressed by Atlas, the robot from Boston Dynamics.
The field of robotics is changing. Traditional robots rely on pre-programming and can generally only be used for specific tasks in structured scenarios such as large production lines. But in the past few years, combining flexible electronics, force sensing and control, and artificial intelligence technologies, robots are gaining the ability to sense force, vision, sound, and other perceptual capabilities, with a dramatic increase in versatility and resilience.
In other words, robots are expected to become versatile in the future, able to handle a variety of tasks, and be able to improvise. This will increase the popularity of robots.
It is expected that in the next five years, flexible perception robots will gradually replace the traditional industrial robots, become the main equipment on the production line, and in the field of service robotics began to scale application.
The Dharma Institute also predicts that new network technologies will drive cloud-network-end convergence into a new computing architecture. The cloud will serve as the brain and the end as the interactive interface, focusing on the user experience.
The future terminal will not be limited to PCs and cell phones. Any ordinary device, even just a screen, can have a super brain, and computing basically happens in the cloud.
This trend will drive the accelerated arrival of the XR Internet centered on immersive experiences.
According to Dharma Institute, it is expected that in the next three years, a new generation of XR glasses, with a shape and weight close to that of ordinary glasses, will be produced, becoming a key entry point for the next generation of the Internet.