The Baidu Brain has been upgraded to 7.0, realizing a comprehensive enhancement of its capabilities.
"At present, a new generation of information technology represented by artificial intelligence is booming, driving a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change. In the new stage of development, AI technology is becoming more and more complex, and convergence and innovation is becoming the new normal; at the same time, with the penetration of AI technology in various industries, it is becoming more and more important to reduce the threshold for different application scenarios. ." Baidu Group Vice President Wu Tian said at the September 13th "AI face to face" media communication.
"Integration and innovation" covers four aspects. In terms of the integration of knowledge and deep learning innovation, the creation of a pluralistic heterogeneous ultra-large-scale knowledge map with 550 billion pieces of knowledge, the release of the "knowledge-enhanced large model" - ERNIE (Wenxin) 3.0, will be large-scale knowledge and massive data to carry out ERNIE (Wenxin) 3.0, a "knowledge-enhanced big model", is released, which trains large-scale knowledge and huge amount of data together to have richer knowledge, and trains language comprehension and language generation together to have more powerful language comprehension, reasoning, and literary creation abilities. Wenxin has refreshed 54 Chinese NLP task benchmarks in one fell swoop, and its English model topped the global list on SuperGLUE, the international authoritative evaluation of complex language understanding tasks, breaking the 90-point mark for the first time, refreshing the list history, and surpassing human scores.
In terms of cross-modal multi-technology fusion innovation, through the integration of language, speech, vision and other different modal technologies, it is able to realize cross-modal deep semantic understanding of complex real-world scenarios like human beings, and then obtain a unified cognition of the real world. Based on this technical capability, it has achieved the world's best results in five typical multimodal tasks, namely, visual common sense reasoning, visual question and answer, quoted expression comprehension, cross-modal image retrieval, and cross-modal text retrieval, and has surpassed organizations such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook on the authoritative list of multimodal domains in the Visual Common Sense Reasoning task (VCR), and has reached the top of the list.
At the same time, AI technology is y integrated into practical application scenarios, and fused with scenarios for innovation. Currently, AI has released its value in application scenarios such as search, simultaneous interpretation, office meetings, as well as in fields such as industrial manufacturing, energy, finance, cities, media, and healthcare. For example, intelligent quality inspection allows work efficiency to multiply, intelligent inspection of the power grid can prevent accidental risks in a timely manner, 7 24-hour work of the digital staff has been inducted in financial institutions, dump trucks and other urban governance problems in the AI brain in front of a welcome solution.
In the integration of hardware and software innovation, its self-developed AI chip Baidu Kunlun, optimized for voice, natural language processing, image and other AI technologies, can support the flying paddle and other deep learning frameworks, flexible support for training and prediction, so that the AI model is more efficient in terms of computing, better application; for the far-field voice interaction developed by the Bird's Nest chip, so that the voice of people and automotive, smart home and other equipment The company has also developed the Hongqiu chip for far-field voice interaction, which makes voice interaction between people and devices such as cars and smart homes more convenient and smooth.
"Fusion innovation" is making Baidu's AI capabilities stronger and stronger. In the past few years, Baidu has been recognized by Harvard Business Review as "the enterprise with the earliest investment, the strongest technology, and the most complete layout in the field of AI in China", and has been selected as one of the "Top 5 Global AI Companies 2019", and has been selected as one of the "50 Smartest Companies" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for two consecutive years. MIT Technology Review's "50 Smart Companies" for two consecutive years. In the past year's CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, INTERSPEECH and other top global AI academic conferences and related competitions, AI has taken nearly 30 championships; as of the end of 2020, it has contributed more than 260 academic papers to the international AI top conference, and the international influence of AI academics has continued to increase.
But the value of technological innovation needs to be reflected in the high-quality development of the economy and society. The first step is to make the AI technology more accessible to the public. "The Baidu Brain 7.0 is another feature of the Baidu Brain 7.0, which is a new version of the Baidu Brain 7.0. "Lowering the threshold" is mainly realized through the core base "flying paddle deep learning" platform. Flying Paddle is the earliest open-source, feature-rich, industrial-grade platform independently developed by Baidu, and has always been committed to meeting the needs of different industries, different stages, and different types of developers.
"From the perspective of the paths observed during Flying Paddle's cooperation with its partners, the process of enterprise application of AI can be divided into three phases: AI pioneer pathfinding, AI workshop application, and AI industrial mass production. With comprehensive and rich technologies, functions, products and services, Flying Paddle supports its partners to cope with the difficulties of each stage, realize the leap of stages, and introduce AI more and more and y into their own business." Wu sweet said.
In addition to providing rich tools to help developers use AI technology quickly and efficiently, we also use Flying Paddle as an innovation pedestal to unite academia and industry to ****together cultivate composite AI talents who know algorithms, understand business, and know engineering, and we have now constructed a full-cycle service system that covers learning, practicing, competitions, certification, and employment. Up to now, Flying Paddle has more than 3.6 million developers from all walks of life, developed 400,000 AI models, and served 130,000 enterprises and institutions cumulatively.
Currently, various industries are experiencing the transformation and upgrading of industrial intelligence driven by AI technology. In the industrial field, to create a safe and controllable industrial intelligence infrastructure, empowering the design and development, manufacturing, supply and logistics, sales and operation of the link, to help enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, green dual-carbon, intelligent upgrading. In the financial field, digital employees, remote banking, intelligent marketing and other intelligent financial applications are accelerating the landing, helping audit, wind control, customer service and other aspects of the quality and efficiency, and helping to upgrade China's financial infrastructure and services.
Smart city solutions based on Baidu's brain technology are gaining insights into urban development in Xiongan, realizing accurate city brain governance in Lijiang, empowering industries in Shanghai's Zhangjiang, and landing intelligent sensorless parking applications in Chengdu. The evidence-based AI of Spirit Medicine Wisdom empowers primary healthcare, jointly building a fundus screening machine with Aier Eye Hospital to make eye disease screening more convenient; landing auxiliary diagnosis and treatment in primary hospitals in Hubei Province to make high-quality diagnosis and treatment more accessible; and landing national diabetes healthcare and prevention integration pilots to make chronic disease management more standardized.
In today's world, scientific and technological innovation has become a key strategic layout of countries and the focus of international competition for the right to life, the right to development and the right to speak. "The 14th Five-Year Plan clearly states that innovation should be at the core of China's modernization, and that self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology should be the strategic support for national development. Science and technology innovation is being given an important role in leading the overall development of the country.
Analysts point out that the growing power of AI-led independent scientific and technological innovation in China is conducive to China's ability to take more initiative in the new round of AI-driven industrial change, accelerate the transformation of cutting-edge technologies into advanced productive forces, establish a new advantage in international competition, and seize the high ground of economic development in the era of intelligentization.