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At the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said that artificial intelligence has made great progress in the past year, both at the technical level and at the commercial application level, some even directional changes.

Speaking of autonomous driving, Li stressed that "L4 is likely to be the first to enter commercial use after L2, not L3." In addition, he said, new things from "no one optimistic" to "no one can reach," the victory often lies in the word "persistence," especially scientific and technological innovation.

This year, milestones in China's autonomous driving field have been constantly refreshed, and various relevant policies and regulations have sprung up, providing an internationally leading policy environment for commercialization and large-scale expansion. As of July, Baidu radish fast running automatic driving travel service accumulated orders of more than 1 million units, operating in Beijing, Shanghai and other more than 10 cities. Chongqing and Wuhan have opened up completely unmanned commercial operations respectively.

Li Yanhong judges that L4 is likely to be the first to enter commercial use after L2, not L3. Because the accident liability of L2 and L4 is clearly defined. The driver is responsible for the L2, and the L4 operator is responsible for the accident. L3 is different, the driver takes over when needed, which makes it difficult to define accident responsibility. Therefore, he believes that the popularity of L3 will take longer.

In addition, technological advances have enhanced the generalization ability of autonomous driving, and scale effects have gradually emerged. "When we want to obtain autonomous driving operation qualification in a certain area of a city, it usually takes only about 20 days to prepare technically, because the versatility of technology is already very good, and our autonomous driving is not achieved through transition fitting to specific areas. "Li Yanhong said.

On the site of the conference, Baidu AI digital person Xijia used AI painting assistant Wenxin·Yige to automatically create picture works of "Dream of Ten Thousand Lights Liujiazui,""Ink Lane with Unique Charm,""Bund Cruise Ship,""Impression Fried" including Van Gogh, Monet and other styles through text description. This ability belongs to AIGC (AI Generated Content), which relies on pre-trained large model technology.

Li Yanhong said that the AI painting that everyone saw was a representative of the progress made at the technical level over the past year. AI has moved from understanding language, understanding text, understanding pictures and videos to generating content. AIGC will disrupt existing content production models, creating content with unique value and independent perspectives at one-tenth the cost and a hundred-thousand times the production speed.

With the positive results of artificial intelligence development, the production mode of thousands of industries is being reshaped, and the production efficiency is also constantly improving. The road network construction of intelligent transportation, the intellectualization of energy and water conservancy infrastructure, and the realization of cost reduction and efficiency increase by industrial enterprises through cloud are all the achievements of deep integration of artificial intelligence and real economy. Li Yanhong believes that the commercial application of AI in these fields requires end-to-end technical optimization for each industry.

According to the data, Baidu has been deeply engaged in the field of artificial intelligence for ten years, from the bottom AI chip Kunlun, to the deep learning platform of flying propeller, and then to the pre-training large model, with a cumulative R & D investment of more than 100 billion yuan. Li Yanhong stressed that such pressure and marathon investment make Baidu have leading self-research technology at all levels of artificial intelligence. A new thing, from "no one is optimistic" to "no one can reach," the victory often lies in the word "persistence," especially scientific and technological innovation.

At the end of the speech, Robin Li made another appeal. He said that scientific and technological innovation cannot be separated from the supporting system of institutional innovation. At present, the popularization of unmanned vehicles still faces the problem of "four noes and one difficulty," that is, unmanned vehicles cannot enter the market, cannot be licensed, cannot remove safety officers, cannot operate charges, and it is difficult to identify accident responsibilities. China's autonomous driving technology is in the forefront of the world, but opportunities are fleeting. It is necessary to continuously promote institutional innovation and further break through policy bottlenecks. Only in this way can the two-way rush between artificial intelligence and the real economy be realized and great progress in society be promoted.

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