Science and Technology News On June 8, 2016 Baidu Alliance Summit was held in Dali, Yunnan. Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, attended and delivered a speech themed “The Next Act” to hundreds of guests attending the summit. In his view, the next scene of the Internet is artificial intelligence.
Mobile Internet in Deep Water faces’ Growing pressure ‘
Li divides China’s Internet into act I PC Internet (which started in 1994) and Act II mobile Internet (which started in 2012). But in his eyes, mobile Internet has faces a demographic dividend is thin and the size of the market tends to saturation, the penetration of the Internet has reached 50%, if the children and the elderly to take out, can have access to the Internet, online population dividend did not have the “, so “mobile Internet went only 4 years, many people have felt the growing pressure of”.
“The country depends on ‘Internet +’ to ensure growth, what does the Internet depend on?” this is the core question Raised by Robin Li in his speech, and he gave his own answer: not big data, not cloud computing, but artificial intelligence, and the Internet will enter the third act of development, the era of intelligent Internet will come.
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Artificial intelligence has become a new driving force for the Internet
Why artificial intelligence? Li reviewed the development of ARTIFICIAL intelligence in the past 60 years. Li believes that 2006 is an inflection point for artificial intelligence, “because of the increasing amount of data, computing power is getting stronger and stronger, the past was not practical, to 2006 gradually entered the practical stage.” In fact, to Li’s surprise, in the past year, ARTIFICIAL intelligence from a sophisticated technology, to a topic of conversation. Robin Li has repeatedly said that artificial intelligence is ushering in a “blowout” innovation and is about to enter a golden age of development. “Without the ability of artificial intelligence, the Internet of things and the Internet will have no essential impact on manufacturing — China is a big manufacturing country. But with AI, it can have a huge impact on almost every area of manufacturing.”
Since 2013, Baidu has established the Deep Learning Research Institute, which is the earliest enterprise in China to conduct artificial intelligence research. At the scene of the summit, Robin Li showed baidu’s achievements in artificial intelligence technology, such as baidu’s high-precision dialect recognition, realistic personalized speech synthesis, intelligent image question-answering ability, Baidu’s driverless measurement, and the intelligent robot that entered KFC to order food for customers. It shows the possibilities of artificial intelligence in everyday scenes.
What is the concept of Baidu’s speech recognition accuracy currently reaching 97%? Li demonstrated three recordings, which were either in dialect or fast and fuzzy, so that most of the audience could not hear them, but the machine could accurately recognize them.
Robin Li demonstrated baidu image recognition results. In 2015, Baidu image recognition can achieve the degree of more accurate identification of high-definition images, such as high-definition images can identify athletes are playing tennis and he is wearing blue sports clothes. By 2016, Baidu Image Recognition was able to identify the content of photos taken casually with a phone, such as the color of a laptop.
At the summit, Li showed off a robot named Dumi at a KFC concept restaurant in Shanghai, helping customers complete the whole process of ordering food instead of a cashier.
At the same time, Li showed off a synthetic voice of McDull, which is not like the robotic voice people have heard in the past, but very much like the voice of McDull in the cartoon. Li said that after the machine can not only can synthesize the voice of the people, also can synthesize the action of people – perhaps later Hollywood actors need not to do actually, the machine can according to his shot past gather direct synthesis, a big shots now only take 2, 3, with synthesis technology after the possible can shoot 23000 play a year.
Later, Robin Li demonstrated the live video of Baidu’s road test at the alliance summit. He noted that driverless cars can already accelerate, merge and overtake like normal vehicles. He said driverless cars could be a reality within three to five years.
Baidu has partnered with Wuhu, Anhui province, for a pilot driverless car, and plans to set up a special experimental area for driverless cars, where “human cars” are not allowed to drive.
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“Ai will not destroy humanity in my lifetime”
In the context of continuous breakthroughs in ARTIFICIAL intelligence technology and continuous emergence of product innovation, Robin Li believes that there are two possibilities of “ARTIFICIAL intelligence + traditional industry” in the future. One possibility is that ARTIFICIAL intelligence will replace many simple mental work; The second is the deep integration of artificial intelligence with all walks of life to realize the reconstruction of traditional industries and make the mobile Internet realize the qualitative change from “improving efficiency” to “restructuring industry”. He also explained its subversive influence with the application of ARTIFICIAL intelligence in financial credit investigation, “For example, baidu education loan basically decides whether to give a loan to a person in seconds, whereas in the past, I am afraid it is in days”.
The growing power of ARTIFICIAL intelligence has long been viewed with suspicion by many as a threat to humanity’s existence. Li gave his own answer: “I am optimistic that AI will liberate human beings, at least in my lifetime will not destroy mankind.” He explained that the technology to destroy humanity had already existed, but that humanity had not been destroyed because it was ultimately in their hands. (spa)