Will the world be a better place because of AI? YES, AI DO.
Source: Baidu
Robin Li set three flags
At baidu’s AI developer conference on July 4, Robin Li said: “The once-touted cow has come true, the world’s first L4 self-driving bus’ Apolong ‘has rolled off the production line.”
Now, Apollon has been operating safely for 120 days.
Now, four months later, Robin Li has set three more flags at baidu World Conference:
Flag 1: Baidu is about to release L4 autonomous driving mass production passenger cars cooperated with FAW Red Flag
Baidu cooperated with FAW Hongqi to jointly create China’s first L4 automatic driving mass production passenger car, and released the mass production plan: in 2019, a small number of production line demonstration operation, in 2020, a large number of operation in more cities.
Flag 2: Transform Beijing and Shanghai into world-class smart cities
Baidu officially launched the AI smart city “ACE ACE Plan”, which will build a city-level platform ecology based on Baidu Apollo, intelligent cloud, Baidu Brain and other technologies and capabilities, and first land in Beijing and Shanghai.
Flag 3: Donate AI fundus screening all-in-one machines to medical centers in 500 poverty-stricken counties to help 56 million people at risk avoid blindness
Baidu has officially launched the all-in-one fundus screening machine based on AI capability development. 500 sites are donated and selected for application promotion, which is expected to cover 56 million people and help grass-root patients find the risk of blindness as soon as possible.
China’s first L4 autonomous passenger car will be mass-produced, and the world’s first AI park has been officially opened
Nowadays, AI is developing faster and faster in all walks of life, and has penetrated into every aspect of life. Next, Robin Li will use 42 pages of PPT and 6 videos to show how Baidu AI continues to land.
The opening of the conference, Robin Li and “small degree” first launched a human and artificial intelligence dialogue.
Xiao Du made her debut at baidu World Conference in 2015. Now that she is three years old, she can chat with people more and more like a real person. In conversation, it will try to ask you questions; After a round of conversation, you can continue the conversation without using the wake word. Such a natural pattern of conversation is very similar to everyday conversations between people.
Dialogue between Robin Li and “Xiao Du” at the World Congress
Behind the eloquent xiaodu is another new development in Baidu’s intelligent voice interaction technology — “Endless Conversation”, which is also an innovation in natural language understanding.
In the past year, not only the voice interaction ability, but also all AI technologies and capabilities of Baidu have been improved a lot, and are gradually applied in various offline scenarios. Next, Li announced that the world’s first AI park had officially opened!
Baidu has teamed up with the Haidian District government to transform Haidian Park into the world’s first AI park using AI technology, where you can ride an Apperon driverless minibus, experience intelligent rest booths, AR Tai Chi and more.
The world’s first AI park
In addition to the landing operation of L4 autonomous commercial minibus Apolon, Robin Li also announced a more exciting news: Baidu and FAW Hongqi jointly created China’s first L4 autonomous mass production passenger car, planned to roll off the production line in small batches in 2019 demonstration operation!
The car, a collaboration between Baidu and China’s FAW, is a new Red Flag model. Through the perfect combination of HONGqi R.FLAG and Baidu Apollo, the company has built China’s first mass-produced L4 autonomous passenger car. Today, Xu Liuping, chairman and Party Secretary of China FAW Also came to the scene of Baidu World Congress.
Speaking about when the new car will be available, he said: “We will be rolling out the new car in small batches at the end of 2019; By 2020, mass production will be achieved. These cars will be put into operation in Beijing, Changchun and other cities in the first batch.”
In the process of global autonomous driving development, Baidu and FAW have taken the lead in inserting a “red flag”!
Even though we have smart cars, the traffic problems cities face are not just about cars.
According to public data, the annual loss caused by traffic problems in New York City amounts to about 220 billion yuan. Using the same method, Beijing loses 150 billion yuan a year due to traffic problems.
How to solve this problem? Robin Li gave the answer in the following speech.
Using Internet thinking to solve traffic problems is outdated, Baidu is using AI thinking to do intelligent traffic
In order to solve the problem of urban traffic congestion in the new era, Baidu advocates a new way of thinking — AI thinking.
Compared to AI, the Internet is an outdated idea. Internet thinking is just sampling the data and may only reduce congestion times by 10-15%; AI thinking, on the other hand, uses full and real-time data to solve traffic problems, reducing congestion time by 30-40%.
Intelligent transportation built with AI thinking is characterized by comprehensive perception, comprehensive decision-making and real-time control, which can greatly improve the efficiency of urban transportation and improve people’s living experience.
AI City in the video shows two key technologies for building intelligent transportation:
1. Vehicle-road coordination. Taking an intersection with complex traffic conditions as an example, vehicle-road coordination is equipped with “perfect perspective” roadside sensing equipment, which can break the limitations of human drivers and vehicle-mounted sensors in perspective and line of sight, and eliminate hidden dangers to the greatest extent.
▲ “Houchang Village Road” vehicle and road cooperation demonstration
2. Valet Parking According to statistics, people spend 30% of their driving time looking for a parking space. Valet Parking enables the car to have the ability of autonomous parking. After getting off, the car can find a parking space by itself and solve the problem of parking fee.
And smart city is not just about autonomous driving, it is a large-scale integrated project. Today, Baidu officially launched the AI smart City “ACE ACE Plan” (Autonomous Driving, Connected Road and Efficient City), a full-stack solution platform.
Baidu will build city-level platform ecology based on the world’s leading autonomous driving Apollo, intelligent cloud, Baidu Brain and other technologies and capabilities, with autonomous driving, vehicle-road coordination and smart city as the development process, adhere to the concept of intelligent, automatic, connected, activated and efficient, let AI into every corner of the city.
Next, Baidu will take the lead in transforming China’s two most representative mega cities: Beijing and Shanghai with its AI City solution!
In Beijing, Baidu will cooperate with Beijing municipal governments at all levels to focus on intelligent upgrading and renovation of super-large and mature cities. Relying on Baidu’s cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, the city brain will be jointly built to achieve “full perception, full interconnection, full analysis, full response and full application”, and promote ai-based urban governance system and capacity.
In Shanghai, it will focus on the implementation of cutting-edge innovative technologies. In the future, we will rely on Baidu’s cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and blockchain to jointly build a future-oriented “smart city” with Shanghai, and create a “city of the future” that combines innovation, r&d and application implementation.
It is believed that the aiization of these two cities will become the textbook benchmark of the world’s super-large smart cities.
Baidu Brain has landed in the three basic industries of the national economy
Previously mentioned new capabilities of DuerOS, Apollo unmanned cars and AI City are all supported by Baidu Brain. From 1.0 to 2.0 and then to 3.0, Baidu brain continues to evolve from the technology layer to the application layer, and has penetrated into the three basic industries of the national economy.
1. Agriculture: AI remote sensing DRONES to monitor pests and diseases
Zhang Yujun, a farmer in Panjin, Liaoning province, has contracted more than 2,000 mu of farmland. Once diseases and insect pests occur in these farmland, if they are not prevented and controlled in a timely manner, they may cause a large area of production loss or even loss of harvest. Therefore, pesticide application has always been an important link in China’s agricultural production.
By using the agricultural remote sensing intelligent monitoring system cooperated by Baidu Cloud and Maifei Technology, and introducing edge computing, maifei detector is equipped with AI capability to implement intelligent monitoring of crop diseases and insect pests, and complete precise scientific application, which can reduce pesticide usage by 50%. This will not only mean a significant reduction in the cost of growing food, but also greater food security and less pollution to the natural environment, such as soil and water.
▲ Agricultural remote sensing intelligent monitoring system cooperated by Baidu Cloud and Maifei Technology
We believe that ai-oriented agriculture is the trend of The Times. It can help thousands of Zhangyujun people to make China’s grain better, and also help every Chinese to make China’s bowl better!
2. Manufacturing: unmanned autonomous excavators liberate manpower
In Tianjin Wuqing Laogao, purchased 10 excavators, contracted small engineering business. Because it is difficult to recruit qualified excavator operators, it often leads to the idle situation of 3-4 excavators. Why is there a shortage of diggers? It’s because the work is so hard that young people don’t want to do it.
The unmanned autonomous excavator cooperated by Baidu and Tuojiang is the world’s first engineering equipment with low-cost and mass-produced solutions based on vision technology, which can reduce manpower in engineering projects and realize intelligent construction. Using Baidu’s unmanned autonomous excavators can reduce labor costs by 40% and increase project benefits by more than 50%.
It is not difficult to see that the AIization of manufacturing can not only liberate manpower, but also activate the industry and promote the development of intelligent manufacturing.
3. Medical treatment: AI fundus screening all-in-one machine to prevent blindness
After solving the problem of eating and liberating labor, what changes will AI bring to the tertiary industry?
At this point in the conference, the lights suddenly went out and didn’t come back on until three seconds later.
“The lights have just gone out and the world has suddenly gone dark, and there can be a bit of panic and discomfort.” “For us, the darkness is just a moment; But for people with glaucoma, macular disease, diabetic fundus, that pitch black can become every moment, every moment.”
The following images are a comparison of the first field of vision of a person with healthy eyes and those with all three types of eye disease.
▲ The world through the eyes of patients with three diseases
At the scene, Professor Liu Yizhi, director and dean of Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center, told us: At present, there are about 80 million patients suffering from various ocular fundus diseases in China, and all of these diseases have the risk of blindness in later stage. That is, almost every minute someone in our country goes blind.
If these patients can be detected in time, they can be saved and blindness avoided. However, at present, professional ophthalmologists in China are mainly concentrated in hospitals in big cities, and there are few ophthalmologists in grassroots and community hospitals.
Baidu has been thinking of ways to solve the problem of the lack of grassroots ophthalmologist, today Robin Li announced: and Zhongshan ophthalmology cooperation developed baidu AI fundus screening all in one machine!
The machine can help patients quickly screen for a variety of fundus diseases, including glaucoma, macular disease and diabetic fundus, and detect the risk of blindness as early as possible.
▲ AI fundus screening machine physical picture
Professor Liu Yizhi was also on site to analyze and confirm the results of the machine diagnosis.
So far, Baidu has worked with Liu’s team to promote the machine in zhaoqing, Guangdong province and other areas.
Later, li also announced that baidu public foundation will through the national health committee, the medical donations to the 500 counties “baidu” AI retinal screening machine, is expected to cover 56 million risk category, help detect blinding of eye disease risk at the grass-roots level, timely medical treatment, let more fundus diseases can be early discovery, early treatment.
AI is not just a technology for a few people. Baidu hopes to use AI to protect everyone’s life and health. No matter who you are or where you are, you can equally enjoy the convenience brought by AI.
Will AI make the world a better place? YES, AI DO
At the end of the conference, Li asked a question: Will AI make the world a better place?
This question has been asked since the day AI was born, and every AI related enterprise or practitioner has been searching for its own answer.
Baidu’s answer is: YES, AI DO.
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