At the invitation of Baidu’s chief scientist Andrew Ng, Liu Cixin participated in a dialogue program with the theme of “20 Years of Artificial Intelligence in the Future”, which is also liu Cixin’s first public appearance after officially joining Baidu’s “Verne Project”. The two guests and the host Liang Dong talked about the collision between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and science fiction in the next 20 years, as well as the development trend of AI and its application in driving, finance, medical care, education, home economics and other scenes.
From Verne to the Golden Age of American science fiction, human imagination has guided the evolution of human science and technology. As early as the 19th century, Jules Verne, the “father of world science fiction”, created a large number of excellent science fiction works such as “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “Journey to the Moon”, and the technological products described in the novels, such as submarines, helicopters, neon lights, missiles and tanks, have become reality.
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include editing robots, writing robots and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
To that end, The company has launched Project Verne, which aims to make technology more imaginative by combining Baidu’s cutting-edge technology with science fiction writers. The project has invited top researchers in the field of futurology and science fiction at home and abroad, including Liu Cixin, the “father of Chinese science fiction”, David Brin, Ken Liu, Yao Haijun and Chen Qifan.
AI may change the structure of society, but don’t worry about the threat of ARTIFICIAL intelligence
In the program, host Liang Dong gave a vivid example: “Man did not need to understand birds to invent airplanes.” This analogy can be compared to the relationship between the human brain and AI, that “we do not need to fully understand how the brain works in order for humans to develop an alternative system of intelligence.” “The neural networks that AI studies actually have very little to do with the human brain, so learning ai doesn’t have to rely on learning how the human brain works,” Ng said.
Liu pointed out that the impact of AI has been underestimated and may change the structure of human society and existence at a deeper level in the future. Still, humans need not panic. As for the threat theory of ARTIFICIAL intelligence, Liu and Ng both hold an optimistic attitude, and it is the general trend that scientific and technological development will promote human civilization. Technological development also determines that AI will not emerge any time soon like a new human life, human reason will have sufficient defense against this. Liang Dong also pointed out that the world is the projection of our inner values. When you worry that AI will become a bad child, you are actually worried about the evil in your own human nature.
Baidu has made remarkable achievements in voice technology and unmanned driving in the field of artificial intelligence
Referring to the original intention of joining Baidu’s “Verne Project”, Liu cixin said that Verne’s fantasy has the characteristics of the near future. Baidu’s AI technology has similar characteristics and is possible starting with existing technology. For example, baidu Brain, intelligent car, intelligent education, etc., may become reality and change human life in the next 20 years through efforts. In response, Ng said Baidu is not behind the US in terms of what it is doing with ARTIFICIAL intelligence, and in some ways even exceeds it. In February, MIT Review listed speech interface as one of the top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016, and Deep Speech2, the latest development of Baidu’s Silicon Valley ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Lab (SVAIL), is one of them. It is also the only technology achievement from a Chinese technology company selected in this year’s selection. Baidu has made major breakthroughs in voice technology and autonomous driving, two technologies that could change the way people work in the future.
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
In fact, Baidu has been playing a long game in ARTIFICIAL intelligence, setting up an ARTIFICIAL intelligence lab in the United States, inviting Ng to join Baidu, and digging deep into the heart of Silicon Valley to find cutting-edge talent. At present, Baidu brain integrates deep learning algorithm, data modeling, large-scale GPU parallelization platform and other technologies, with 20 billion parameters, to construct a deep neural network. In addition, Baidu Brain will further promote the research and development of key technologies such as computer vision, intelligent speech processing, biometric recognition, natural language understanding, intelligent decision control and new types of human-computer interaction. At present, the brain has to baidu baidu driverless car field application, Wu En da is preferred in unmanned at the scene, “I think no one car relatively safer, there will be no driving after drinking, there will be no texting while driving to happen, so there is no distraction.”
At the end of the show, Ng formally invited Liu to visit baidu’s RESEARCH and development center in the United States as the first step in the verne Project collaboration. Ng said Baidu respects people with imagination, and hopes that science fiction writers, full of humanistic fantasy, can deeply feel the “Baidu brain” and work together to turn the magnificent imagination of science fiction into reality.