The development of artificial intelligence is unstoppable

The digital economy and the real economy are accelerating the integration and development, bringing new development opportunities for enterprises (introduction)

The Unstoppable Development of Artificial Intelligence (Theme)

Worker's Daily - China Industry Network reporter Li Guo

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In recent years, artificial intelligence has been repeatedly mentioned at the national level, and "Industrial Internet" has been included in the government work report for five consecutive years. Artificial intelligence is one of the core driving forces of the new generation of industrial transformation. The technological innovation and industrial achievements based on large model applications, represented by AI, are fully blooming in my country, and are becoming a new trend in the development of artificial intelligence.

On March 11, ZTE announced a unique computer product that is only the size of a business card and weighs more than 50 grams. It is lightweight, portable, efficient and extremely easy to use. This is called ZTE Taichi Cloud Computer W100D, the reason why it can realize the function of office is more dependent on the computing power of the cloud.

In fact, from the State Council's inclusion of artificial intelligence into one of its key tasks, to establishing a three-step strategy for the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence, and then to "struggling key core technologies"... As the country has written digital economic governance into the government work report , the artificial intelligence industry will become an unstoppable trend. According to Tianyancha data, there are currently more than 2.228 million artificial intelligence-related enterprises in my country, and 682,000 newly registered enterprises will be registered in 2021, with a growth rate of 56.89%.

Intelligent manufacturing empowers and upgrades traditional industries

In the unmanned workshop, robots flexibly wave their arms to work together, and the large monitoring screen not only displays all production data in a timely manner, but also completes information such as enterprise orders, materials, warehousing, and logistics... On March 13, the reporter was in Chongqing. Feixiang Industrial Internet Company simulated a "smart factory" to see such a scene.

In Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, Baidu Intelligent Cloud Kaiwu Platform cooperated with a daily chemical manufacturer to install intelligent brains on the production line to realize intelligent operation and maintenance of equipment and reduce the loss of shutdown caused by abnormal equipment. The AI "Master" uses the AI model for parameter tuning like a professional engineer. The work time is reduced from 30 minutes to 1 minute, and the efficiency is increased by 30 times.

"Traditional manufacturing is characterized by large batches and homogeneity. It is like an elephant. It is large in size and slow in turning. It is more and more difficult to adapt to new consumer demands with high individual requirements and fast iteration." Executive Vice President of Feixiang Industrial Internet Company General Manager Mu Jingang said that the company is trying to integrate the industrial Internet and the consumer Internet to provide a smarter and more flexible platform for the manufacturing industry, so that the "elephant" can also fly.

"How to solve the problem of the lack of sanitation labor in the future, I think it must be solved by machines, not people sweeping the road." Chen Haibo, chairman of Shenlan Technology, said.

In the Shenlan Robot Intelligent Manufacturing Factory located in Nan'an District of Chongqing, the AI intelligent road sweeper produced by the company can automatically drive and avoid obstacles. It can successfully complete the outdoor cleaning task of about 500 square meters in less than 5 minutes.

As the backbone of the national artificial intelligence team, DeepBlue Technology cooperated with Chongqing Nan'an Economic Development Zone to create an artificial intelligence Auto ML (automatic machine learning) intelligent manufacturing open platform, which is favored by many enterprises.

The reporter learned from the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology that last year the city's total industrial output value above designated size achieved 2.6 trillion yuan, and the added value increased by 10.7% year-on-year, hitting a new high in the past six years. This year, the city will promote 1,250 intelligent transformation projects, build 10 smart factories and 100 digital workshops, add 15,000 new enterprises to "go to the cloud and use data to empower intelligence", and build 10 innovations in industries such as automobiles, equipment, and electronics. Demonstration of a smart factory.

The rapid development of Chongqing's artificial intelligence industry is only a microcosm of the country. Statistics show that the scale of China's artificial intelligence market will continue to grow from 2016 to 2021, from 15.4 billion yuan to nearly 200 billion yuan in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 60%. As the new infrastructure industry is increasingly valued by the state, the artificial intelligence industry will continue to grow in the future, and it is expected to reach 270 billion yuan in 2022.

The once cold venture capital returns to the "highlight moment"

In the just-concluded National Two Sessions, high-quality-oriented and stable growth has become the most important issue for the delegates, and the manufacturing industry, which accounts for an important proportion of GDP, has the strongest demand for digital transformation, and the industrial Internet has become the key to promoting the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. Grasp.

As Li Shuo, vice president of Baidu, said in an interview with reporters: "Artificial intelligence and industrial manufacturing are intertwined, allowing us to see many changes in the application of artificial intelligence in industrial production, reflected in new connections, new data and new knowledge, and Gathering and connecting these elements together yields new business models and industrial value."

Once upon a time, the wave of artificial intelligence entrepreneurship far surpassed the current metaverse and virtual idols. However, the commercial implementation of AI technology behind the huge sum of money has not progressed as smoothly as expected, and 90% of artificial intelligence companies have been in a state of loss for a long time. Investors who have been waiting for a long time have shaken in 2019, and then some investment institutions and investors have even fled the field of artificial intelligence completely.

In 2021, the field of artificial intelligence will usher in a "highlight moment". The national level has implemented a series of support for artificial intelligence, and has issued a series of action plans and outlines. In the outline of the "14th Five-Year Plan", it is more clear that artificial intelligence will become one of the most powerful boosters for building an innovative country, realizing new industrialization and informatization, and promoting high-quality economic development.

Last year, artificial intelligence unicorn companies collectively "passed the threshold" for IPO, and 9 artificial intelligence companies submitted listing applications in A-shares or Hong Kong stocks. Among them, SenseTime, whose valuation frightened many investors, successfully landed on the Hong Kong stock market at the end of 2021; 5 days before the Spring Festival, Innovation Qizhi, which was personally led by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, successfully became the "second AI stock".

At the beginning of this year, Shenshi Technology grabbed the first prize of artificial intelligence financing, and obtained tens of millions of US dollars in Series B financing. Relying on the "AI + molecular simulation" technology, Shenshi Technology has opened up new application fields in China.

According to statistics, in 2021, there will be a total of 247 financings by Chinese companies in the field of artificial intelligence, with a total financing of 54.99 billion yuan, and the total investment in start-up projects before the B round will account for 53.4%. 11 artificial intelligence unicorn companies, including Horizon and Tudatong, received more than 1 billion yuan in financing last year.

AI governance is a bottleneck that must be broken

Although artificial intelligence is becoming more and more important to the value of the real economy, with the increasingly close integration with the real economy, the problem of AI governance has become increasingly prominent.

According to Fu Yingbo, partner and president of Megvii Technology, artificial intelligence is not only an important means of empowering social governance, but also an object that needs to be properly governed. The deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy is destined to be a long-distance race.

It is understood that Megvii Technology Co., Ltd. is the first in the industry to set up an "Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee", which is responsible for supervising and formulating regulations and management mechanisms related to AI ethical governance. And released documents such as "Artificial Intelligence Application Guidelines" and "Proposal for Correct Use of Artificial Intelligence Products" to guide employees and partners to jointly develop responsible AI.

"The independent and controllable artificial intelligence technology and the large-scale application of industrial achievements are of great significance to strengthening the independent controllability of my country's industrial chain." Liu Qingfeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK, said that intellectual property protection should be strengthened, the cost of rights protection should be reduced, and scientific research achievements should be guaranteed. convoy.

Intelligent and connected vehicles are booming, but how to protect data security and user privacy? Zhu Huarong, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Changan Automobile, believes that the regulations need to be further studied and improved, including the lack of legal provisions in the identification of intelligent networked vehicle product safety responsibility, traffic accident responsibility identification, automatic driving responsibility subject identification, and autonomous driving ethics.

"Artificial intelligence, as the key core technology of scientific and technological innovation, has attracted much attention from all walks of life. Generally speaking, artificial intelligence can provide strong technical support for economic and social development, with a large contribution, but the role of artificial intelligence cannot be arbitrarily exaggerated." On the occasion of "3.15", Mo Yuanming, a researcher at the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle Coordinated Development Center of Chongqing Technology and Business University, reminded the public to be alert to some people in the society who use artificial intelligence to conduct new types of fraud, or promote artificial intelligence in the name of artificial intelligence. Products under the guise but with no technological content.