With the development of big data and other technologies, the application of artificial intelligence is remarkable. Some experts believe that it is the most important technology in the world in the past 20 years, and will become an important foundation for new industries such as industrial robots, drones and unmanned vehicles.
Artificial intelligence application outbreak
Reporters learned from Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Research Institute, Microsoft artificial intelligence robot "Ice" will soon land on the screen, to become the Shanghai Broadcasting Corporation Oriental Satellite Television morning a live news program "host! "
Artificial intelligence has become a hot topic in academia, industry, and even society today. Global prophet in the field of science and technology, author of "Out of Control" Kevin . Kelly recently said that the most important technology in the world in the next 20 years is artificial intelligence.
Huaan Securities believes that the concept of "Internet +", with the development of artificial intelligence technology, can see the use of Internet technology and artificial intelligence automation technology in-depth fusion will become a new field of high-precision science and technology.
Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Research Institute President Wang Yongdong confessed that the development of artificial intelligence development was slow at the beginning, but this year or two with the development of the Internet, the accumulation of a lot of data, so that ordinary users to contribute to the data has become possible to the basis of big data and cloud computing, the development of artificial intelligence play a great role in promoting the development of the former algorithm-based model development to the "Algorithm + big data" combined development mode. Search engine and big data technology is the basis for the development of artificial intelligence.
Investment has increased dramatically
Developed countries have fully recognized the strategic significance of artificial intelligence, and have increased investment from the national level. For example, the U.S. Department of Defense, the European Union in recent years to support the development of artificial intelligence technology in the form of funds or projects.
Foreign technology giants have also accelerated their investment and research and development in the field of artificial intelligence. Information shows that as of April 2014, Google has spent huge sums of money to acquire a number of robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, and has also spared no expense in acquiring deep-learning neural network technology companies that represent the direction of AI development. Facebook announced the establishment of a new AI lab in late 2013, claiming to bring major breakthroughs in AI, with the data generated by its 1.5 billion users and search technology serving as the foundation for its development of AI. Microsoft is also an early researcher of artificial intelligence, in addition to the layout of deep learning, Microsoft has also strengthened the application of artificial intelligence and basic research at the software level, and based on Bing search technology to Windows 10 as the entrance to the direct launch of artificial intelligence products for the public Xiaobing and Xiaona.
Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Research Institute, senior director of the "Ice" project leader Li Di said bluntly, artificial intelligence investment is huge, Microsoft has carried out a lot of technical accumulation, the future will provide basic services of artificial intelligence, and then access to the upstream and downstream of the corresponding vertical industries, to form a new industry or matrix.
Tesla CEO Elon. Musk recently announced that it will launch the OpenAI artificial intelligence project with a number of Silicon Valley investors, which has received $1 billion in investment.
Development to meet the inflection point
China's science and technology enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence research and development and human resources and other aspects of the investment has been increasing, the field of artificial intelligence technology reserves and accumulation and the gap between the enterprises of the advanced countries continue to narrow. According to Baidu, it has built the world's largest deep neural network, containing 20 billion parameters, and has reached the world's leading level in a number of application areas of artificial intelligence.
Industry insiders and experts believe that AI technology will greatly enhance and expand the boundaries of human capabilities, which will have a far-reaching impact on promoting technological innovation, enhancing the country's competitive advantage, and even promoting the development of human society. Currently, the development of AI technology has ushered in an inflection point.
From the macro level, since AI technology is closely related to the Internet, and the "ubiquity" of the Internet is penetrating into all corners of production and life, the impact of AI technology on human society will be comprehensive and far-reaching. Whether it's robots, unmanned aircraft, or other intelligent devices, they all need a strong AI system as the core technology support.
From the micro level, AI has the potential to change operating systems, Internet portals and even various traditional products. Microsoft global vice president Lu Qi said, through hearing and based on big data and user personalized research, will greatly enhance the user experience and access to information. For example, as an operating system on the level of artificial intelligence, Microsoft's artificial intelligence assistant "Ice" behind not only can be connected to the entire Internet big data, but also from the partners of the information, services and products included in the realization of the value of the artificial intelligence portal.
The future commercialization of AI has huge potential. Lu Qi believes that the development of AI from a business perspective is disruptive, and many business models and new demand behaviors will be formed with it. At the same time, AI is also a fundamental technology with significant industrial spillover effects, which can promote change and leapfrog development in many fields.
Baidu CEO Robin Li believes that AI can accelerate the discovery of new treatments for diseases, reduce the cost of research and development of new drugs, and promote innovation in the healthcare industry; it can lead to the development of industrial robots, driverless cars and other emerging industries, and will become the enabler of the new round of industrial revolution.
"At present, it can be said to be a better time to get involved in artificial intelligence." Li Di said, "AI investment is huge and requires in-depth accumulation, and AI may form an industrial chain in the future, but it is still in its infancy."
Li suggested that the country needs to change the traditional "horse-racing mode" scientific research mechanism into a "horse-racing mode" market mechanism, to attract the broad participation of all parties concerned.
At the same time, as soon as possible to build artificial intelligence basic resources and public **** service platform, support the data call, model debugging and application development of the program participants, efficient docking of the whole society's intelligence, data, technology and computing resources, relying on a unified platform to realize resources **** enjoy, and promote research and development and innovation.