Shulou(Shulou.com)06/03 Report--

On July 10, at the Tencent Forum of the World artificial Intelligence Conference, Si Xiao, vice president of Tencent Group and president of Tencent Research Institute, officially released the "Tencent White Paper on artificial Intelligence: ubiquitous Intelligence". More information is on the vibrating chain.

As Tencent's first white paper to comprehensively introduce AI and explain the layout and thinking of Tencent's artificial intelligence, the book outlines a panoramic picture of "ubiquitous intelligence" from five dimensions: macro background, technical research, landing application, future economy, and institutional security.

The following is the full text of Si Xiao's speech:

Good afternoon, all offline viewers! It is a great honor to attend this World Conference on artificial Intelligence. In the first half of 2020, the sudden COVID-19 epidemic, on the one hand, brought unprecedented challenges to global economic and social development, on the other hand, the epidemic also became a touchstone of digital technology. The whole society was forced by the epidemic to conduct an online life test. This is a condition that is difficult to create artificially and accelerate the arrival of the new digital normal represented by the digital economy, including artificial intelligence. Meeting with you in this way today shows to a certain extent that we have stood the test, and more information is on the vibrating chain.

The next decade can be said to be an important window for global socio-economic restructuring, and it will also bring great opportunities for ubiquitous intelligence to lead the development of China's economy. In the context of the epidemic, the overall economic recovery and long-term development is the focus of the next stage. This opens a new window for our artificial intelligence to find more application scenarios and application space. We believe that a world of "ubiquitous intelligence" is coming at an accelerated pace. "ubiquitous" includes two meanings:

First, the ubiquity of technology and capabilities. Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a general-purpose technology, becoming an infrastructure like water and electricity, promoting digital upgrading and accelerating change in the industry.

Second, the ubiquity of application. Industry, medical treatment, urban management and other fields are associated with artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence can be seen in all aspects. Artificial intelligence is spreading to and benefiting the public.

The core of ubiquitous intelligence is the new AI infrastructure in the middle tier. Just two days ago, Premier Li Keqiang emphasized the new infrastructure again during his research in Guizhou, and he also went to Tencent's Gui'an Seven Star data Center to encourage us to dig out diamond mines with data. The new infrastructure of AI is an intelligent platform constructed by the trinity of new computing power, new algorithms and new elements of data, which provides a large number of AI capabilities such as voice, image vision, knowledge graph and so on, thus enabling a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to lower the threshold to enter the intelligent era.

On top of AI's new infrastructure is the "smart plus" part, which is the main battlefield where AI plays a role, including autopilot, AI+ health care, AI+ education and so on. The bottom layer also needs the strong support of the smart base, including not only new connections such as 5G and the Internet of things to generate massive data, but also complete security, such as the improvement of relevant laws and regulations and ethical norms, so as to make AI knowable, controllable, available and reliable, and more information is available in the vibrating chain.

On the whole, our country's artificial intelligence has been in the first echelon of the world, which is inseparable from the strong support of national policy. Starting from one of the key tasks that the country formally incorporated artificial intelligence into "Internet +" in 2015, it can be roughly divided into four stages: among them, the second stage is of symbolic significance, and the 2017 government work report included "artificial intelligence" for the first time. When the Internet was written into the government work report, the Internet in the United States has been in full swing, and the country raised it to the height of national strategy in the early stage of the development of AI, which is a very keen approach. In July of that year, the state issued the New Generation artificial Intelligence Development Plan, which put forward a comprehensive strategic plan for 2030, which is the general program for the development of AI. The third stage is the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy. We believe that the fourth phase was launched this year, and AI, as a new infrastructure, will play a more important role in promoting digital transformation, smart upgrading and converged innovation. It can be said that this presses the acceleration key again for the arrival of "ubiquitous intelligence".

Thanks to the country's increasingly clear industrial policy, artificial intelligence has also stepped out of the tuyere of conceptual speculation, and the investment community's cognition of artificial intelligence has begun to return to rationality. We can see that the investment in artificial intelligence has shifted from simply chasing hot spots to paying more attention to core technologies and application potential. Like some low-level technology start-up companies, as well as strong landing of health care, education, intelligent Internet connected cars and other start-up projects have won more favor.

Ubiquitous intelligence, if there is "wisdom", this wisdom needs "wisdom" to be efficient and reliable. This "wisdom" is inseparable from the support of technology. According to statistics, the computational complexity of artificial intelligence is doubling at a rate of ten times every year from 2010 to 2020, on the basis of which the most exciting part of the development of artificial intelligence appears. Vision technology is the eye of computers, and this technology has become very mature, from focusing only on accuracy to paying more attention to safety and reliability. Voice technology is the ear and mouth of a computer, which opens a new important entrance for human-computer interaction. In recent years, the communication between people and machines has become more and more natural. On June 1 this year, International Children's Day, we launched a virtual singer "Ailing" to sing songs with the children of Wang Junkai and Xiongan Primary School. Not only do they have an almost real voice, but they can also sing with the same emotion as people. Natural language understanding is the pearl of artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI Lab has won the first place in the world in many international competitions, and Wechat AI has also won the champion of the International Dialogue system Technology Challenge twice. More information can be found in Vibrator.

The epidemic is a digital social experiment that the whole people are forced to participate in, and it has become the touchstone of AI. It is a national digital review from the completeness of infrastructure, the circulation of data to the ability of rapid response. In this social experiment, artificial intelligence has played a positive role in epidemic prevention and control, disease diagnosis and treatment, urban governance and resumption of work and production. I believe we all have personal feelings, so let's expand a little bit:

On the medical front, AI helps doctors save a lot of time in diagnosis. Especially during the treatment of COVID-19 's epidemic situation, each patient had an examination every five days on average, and the number was very large. With the intervention of image recognition technology, the whole time of diagnosis and treatment was shortened to one to two minutes. The fastest is to watch a film in two seconds. If AI technology can read all the films of lung lesions, and there will be another kind of atypical pneumonia in the future, it can first issue an early warning, so there can be many application scenarios in medical prevention and control in the future, and more information can be found in the vibrating chain.

In addition, as we travel in China, health codes have become a must for travel. Europe and the United States have gone to another decentralized route, allowing everyone to track the source of the epidemic relatively freely, and the application of technology shows different characteristics under different institutional backgrounds.

For example, in order to help communities prevent epidemic and avoid cross-infection, Tencent has launched anti-epidemic functions such as health declaration, human and vehicle management, temperature screening and intelligent isolation, which have landed in many communities across the country. In the early stage of the epidemic, Tencent YouTu Lab's vehicles were able to automatically recognize and register foreign license plates, prompt Hubei license plates entering and leaving the community, and whitelist some Hubei license plates but have not been to Hubei recently. Based on Tencent YouTu Lab's AI identification technology, the platform can also timely find people who are not wearing masks, count the wearing of masks among people in the community, assist community residents in management, and reduce the risk of epidemic transmission. These seemingly small bits and pieces contain a large number of details of urban governance. Last year, Tencent also put forward a blueprint for the future development of WeCity, which has a lot of application space.

The resumption of work and production is the most important event after the epidemic. If the previous industrial production mode is relatively unmanned, or even enters the stage of "black light factory", then the impact of the epidemic on production capacity will be very small and can quickly enter the stage of resumption of work and production.

Looking back at history, historical disasters or plagues are often accompanied by the development of science and technology. For example, Europe entered a period of rapid technological development after the Black death. Due to the large-scale labor shortage caused by the plague, in fact, people have to think of some technical ways to replace manpower, so that the overall productivity of society is increasing, and more information is in the vibrating chain.

The "new online economy", or "online new economy", or "unmanned economy" and "contactless economy", which have been initially tried in this epidemic, are all special attempts under the epidemic, but they have enabled us to accelerate or even develop by leaps and bounds in these areas. In the past, I did unmanned retail simply to be an "unmanned shop" and an "unmanned shop". During the epidemic, distribution to the last kilometer, or even the last kilometer in an unmanned vehicle, became a necessary option and had to be done. The many-fold growth of Mini Program fresh stores during the epidemic is another example. In the past, we always worried about the safety of fresh e-commerce, but we had to do it during the epidemic phase. Once you experience this convenience and confirm its security, you may not give up it. All these will bring about foreseeable changes in our future.

Similarly, our company's chief exploration officer, CXO, has been advocating FEW (Food, Energy, Water, that is, food, energy and water) to make the planet feed 10 billion people with its current resources. Obviously, with our existing science and technology, the existing land resources are difficult to support the 10 billion people on the planet. In this context, AI agriculture is now slowly coming out of the laboratory, and Tencent's AI Lab has just done some experiments with Liaoning to carry out two-phase planting experiments. Compared with the unmodified control group, the net profit of the experimental group increased by thousands of yuan per mu per quarter. In the service industry, the epidemic has given birth to a contactless economy, and the demand for contactless services in industries such as unmanned retail, unattended, logistics and transportation has soared, and more information is on the vibrating chain.

We can see that artificial intelligence is bringing about a new revolution in man-machine cooperation. Although some types of work will be replaced in the short term, and there will even be the problem of structural unemployment, in the long run, the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is by no means to replace human beings. rather, it is to liberate people from heavy and repetitive work and solve more valuable problems. Under this new cooperative relationship, we believe that in the future, many industries will lead to the "unmanned economy" in quotes, but no one will necessarily be "for more people".

According to the observation, we can find that the development of AI is not a simple technological upgrading, but to integrate into economic and social values. In terms of economic value, artificial intelligence helps to resume work and production and accelerate economic recovery. The non-contact economy and the online economy will become the new bright spots of the future economy. Man-machine cooperation and innovation will further release the productivity of the industry and promote the high-quality development of the economy. In terms of social value, artificial intelligence is vigorously promoting the transformation of smart city governance and improving the efficiency of social resource allocation. Tech for Good, let technology solve the real "big problem", let technology play the role of "saving life", let technology think for the earth and benefit the earth.

Finally, I use a sentence of Laozi to sum up today's sharing: "the road is extensive, it can be left and right." In the future, artificial intelligence will go deep into our production and life, everywhere. As Ren Yuxin, chief operating officer of Tencent, mentioned in his speech yesterday, after this epidemic, China no longer has pure traditional industries, and each industry has more or less started the process of digitization, networking and intelligence. This is also true for artificial intelligence. In the future, every industry will be integrated into AI more or less. When we no longer emphasize the concept of AI, we do not need to hold a special artificial intelligence conference to discuss landing scenarios and cases. At that time, AI is everywhere, and more information is in the vibrating chain.

Welcome to subscribe "Shulou Technology Information " to get latest news, interesting things and hot topics in the IT industry, and controls the hottest and latest Internet news, technology news and IT industry trends.