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Recently, ChatGPT, a chat robot with "generative artificial intelligence" (Generative AI) as its core technology, is popular all over the world. Baidu, Alibaba, iFLYTEK and other domestic enterprises have thrown out the relevant progress of ChatGPT to build a Chinese version of ChatGPT.

IFLYTEK previously said on the investor interaction platform that ChatGPT, which is mainly related to natural language processing technology, is one of the applications in the field of cognitive intelligence, and the company has long-term and profound accumulation of technology and applications in this direction. It is also said that in December 2022, the generative pre-training large model task has been further launched to tackle key problems, and ChatGPT-like technology will be the first to land iFLYTEK AI learning machine products in May this year.

Recently, Liu Cong, vice president of iFLYTEK and executive director of the Research Institute, revolves around what is ChatGPT, and what is its strength? What subversive effects will it have on the future world? Further elaborate the mode innovation and industrial reform from ChatGPT.

What is the major impact of ChatGPT on the future world?

In Liu Cong's view, ChatGPT is essentially a deep neural network model represented by floating-point parameters, which belongs to the framework of deep learning. The introduction of ChatGPT is another milestone of technological revolution after the introduction of deep learning, which will provide a new "historical opportunity" for the development of cognitive intelligence technology with natural language processing as the core.

This ChatGPT has aroused heated discussion and attention in the academic and industrial circles around the world. the key reason is that ChatGPT has achieved a preliminary "emergence of wisdom" through a significant improvement in at least the following five dimensions:

1, the full online memory ability of massive and high-value information; 2, the ability of arbitrary tasks and multi-round dialogue understanding of natural language input; 3, the thinking chain reasoning ability of complex logic; 4, the ability of multi-role and multi-style long text generation and expression; 5, the ability of learning, application and evolution of real-time new knowledge. In addition, due to the introduction of code as a training corpus, ChatGPT has an additional ability to write and understand code automatically.

Generally speaking, the ability of ChatGPT is not only a man-machine conversation in a single scene, but also a general "conversational AI system" with multiple capabilities at the same time. Different from the system that traditional cognitive intelligence needs to customize for tasks in various fields, it can not only complete multiple scenes and rounds of quite natural man-machine dialogue, but also, more importantly, use the new "humanoid" paradigm of natural language interactive learning. it can communicate, learn and progress in a "humanoid" way in multiple rounds of interaction, and can learn professional knowledge in various fields independently, quickly and continuously and reach the level of human experts.

He further said that the current impact of ChatGPT's initial breakthrough and the room for imagination in the future is huge. On the basis of technological evolution, artificial intelligence algorithms represented by natural language processing may reconstruct the product form of the Internet and mobile Internet. promote the upgrading of many industries, such as education, medical, automobile, financial, consumer, media, service and manufacturing, and finally bring about changes in the corresponding business model.

Liu Cong believes that the sustainable development of ChatGPT-like models will promote industrial change and model innovation in at least the following four aspects:

One is to change the existing mode of human-computer interaction. In the future, people may interact with intelligent products in the way of natural dialogue. ChatGPT can meet the needs of users and improve the interaction efficiency and task success rate by accurately understanding the user's intention and calling all kinds of software or services of the system. This change in the mode of human-computer interaction may change the way current applications such as App are used, such as the integration of software capabilities of multiple functions, and even the emergence of super-general APP with "unified" capabilities.

The second is to change the mode of information distribution and acquisition. Based on cognitive intelligence technology, more efficient information integration and knowledge recommendation can be realized. Take search as an example, traditional search engines match content according to keywords, users need to filter out useful information in massive search results, while Bing, which is blessed by ChatGPT, gives the answer directly, improves the matching accuracy of questions and answers, and greatly improves the user experience. Changes in the mode of information distribution and acquisition will affect the distribution of traffic and change the business model in which traffic is realized.

The third is to innovate the content production mode and improve the productivity. As a typical representative of AIGC (artificial Intelligence to generate content) technology, ChatGPT has been widely used in document writing, email writing, code writing and so on. The programming ability of ChatGPT will greatly expand the ability of ordinary people to use computers and networks for innovation and creativity. In the future, after ChatGPT is integrated into word, excel, ppt and other tool software, it will improve the content production efficiency and richness, change the way people work, and become a new industry-wide productivity tool. ChatGPT will also promote the development of AIGC technology and industry in the form of image, audio and video, so that the content of AIGC not only has a "good-looking appearance", but also has "rich connotation".

The fourth is to accelerate the development of "AI for Science". For researchers, ChatGPT can not only help generate abstracts and literature reviews, but with more and more scientific research data, it is possible to provide professional research suggestions or even take the initiative to explore and discover new theories in the future, bringing about a brand-new change in the whole scientific research paradigm and pushing "AI for Science" to a new level.

The revolution brought about by ChatGPT will profoundly change the production and life style of the world today, and reconstruct the industrial pattern. It is a major strategic opportunity in the field of artificial intelligence to promote industrial and social change, and it is also a necessary place for military development in the future.

What layout does iFLYTEK have in terms of ChatGPT? What are the future R & D plans?

Under the background of the new upsurge of AI technology triggered by ChatGPT, iFLYTEK, based on the national key laboratory of cognitive intelligence, has established advantage guarantee in core algorithms, industry data, numeric support and team formation.

In the core algorithm, he has rich experience in Transformer deep neural network algorithm, and has been widely used in iFLYTEK's speech recognition, picture and text recognition, machine translation and other tasks and reached the international leading level. The innovation puts forward a unified understanding framework of knowledge and large model, X-Reasoner, which is expected to make up for the deficiency of fuzzy memory technology of large model. In the field of cognitive intelligence technology, it has won a total of 13 world championships in 2022, including the Common sense Reading comprehension Challenge (OpenBookQA). Open source a series of Chinese pre-training language models in 6 categories and more than 40 general areas, and the monthly average transfer amount of the related model library is more than 10 million. The number of stars in the Github platform ranks first and far exceeds the second place in the same kind of Chinese pre-training language model.

In terms of data accumulation, on the premise of strictly abiding by applicable laws and regulations, more than 50TB industry corpus and active applications of more than 1 billion user interactions per day have been accumulated in the R & D and promotion of cognitive intelligence systems for many years, which provides a large amount of industry text corpus and user feedback data for training and realization of industry cognitive large models that reach the level of human experts, and also provides scene guarantee for innovative application research and development and pilot promotion based on large models.

In terms of computing power, iFLYTEK has built an industry-class data center in its headquarters, which has laid a good hardware foundation for the construction of a large model training platform. In addition, it has achieved nearly a thousand times acceleration of the reasoning efficiency of the large-scale model with tens of billions of parameters in engineering and technology, which makes it possible for more and more large-scale application of cognitive intelligence model technology and economy in the future.

Liu Cong said: "combined with our accumulated advantages over the years in deep learning algorithms, large model technology, industry big data, knowledge graph, multimodal perception, and systems engineering technology, through system analysis and rapid verification in the past two months, we are very confident that we will achieve similar technological progress in ChatGPT and reach the international leading level in the field of Chinese cognitive intelligence."

In order to further improve the practicability of the large model in industry segments, Liu Cong said that iFLYTEK plans to adopt the "1x N" architecture, wherein "1" is the general cognitive intelligence large model algorithm development and efficient training platform, and "N" is the special version of the large model used in education, health care, human-computer interaction, office, translation, automotive, industry and other industries. For example, through the study of a large number of medical textbooks, papers and cases, to achieve a professional medical field dialogue AI system, to create "every doctor's AI diagnosis and treatment assistant, everyone's AI health assistant".

In addition, iFLYTEK also hopes to carry out in-depth cooperation with partners in various industries in enterprise digitization and industry content production based on the cognitive model to form intelligent customized solutions based on industry data and knowledge. Our technology base and industry accumulation work together to help partners overcome cognitive intelligent technical barriers, improve product competitiveness, achieve collaborative innovation, jointly speed up industry transformation and upgrading, and promote the construction of digital China.

In addition, talking about the current upsurge in the capital market, Liu Cong believes that global capital has seen the major industrial opportunities that artificial intelligence has brought to society after the technological breakthrough of ChatGPT, and many industries have the opportunity to be deeply reconstructed, and the process of reconstruction will certainly produce huge new commercial value, so the excitement of the capital market is understandable.

However, if we want to do a good job in scientific research, products and services, we finally have to return to the three major criteria of whether artificial intelligence dividends can be realized: "are there real application cases that can be seen and touched? is there a product that can be popularized on a large scale, and are there any statistical data that can prove the effectiveness of the application?" only these can stand the test of time. In order to really do a thorough implementation of artificial intelligence.

Note: Liu Cong, Vice President of iFLYTEK, Executive Director of Research Institute, Deputy Director of National Engineering Research Center for Voice and language Information processing, and national leading talent.

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