This time artificial intelligence is really here!

In March this year, Google AlphaGo and Lee Sedol’s go century battle set off a global discussion of ARTIFICIAL intelligence AI; While the world was still in shock from that iconic event, in August IBM’s Watson opened up a new world. In 10 minutes, after reviewing 20 million cancer research papers, it confirmed a rare form of white blood disease in a patient who had been misdiagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia

The arrival of each technological tide will profoundly change the way of living and working in the future. Many people are beginning to think about how this wave of technology will change the world of artificial intelligence. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Amazon… Almost every great company has put itself in this position; Tens of thousands of entrepreneurs have also become active in ai, trying to “live great” and being seen as a new force rewriting history.



With this worry comes the maturing of AI

“Have you ever felt like you weren’t sure if you were awake or dreaming?”

Remember that famous line from The Matrix? Similar doubts are occurring. Big names like Bill Gates and Elon Musk see AI as a big threat, worrying that humanity will be swamped by virtual worlds. Although some people always worry about the development of technology out of control, whether it is Microsoft’s “Xiaoice 4th Generation” or Tesla’s autopilot, they have proved the importance of AI with practical actions.

From another perspective, the fear of the future also stems from AI’s great creativity and transformative ability. AI will profoundly change manufacturing, automobile industry, entertainment, health and medical industry, etc.

“The accumulation of technological innovation in the past has facilitated the transformation of innovation from quantitative to qualitative. At the same time, the market application window has been opened, and the social change brought by scientific and technological innovation and its accompanying butterfly effect are taking place. AI is at such a technological and historical juncture. Lu Zhang, founding partner of NewGen Capital, said AI has made a technological leap through the sedimentation and maturity of technologies such as robotics, language processing, computer vision and machine learning.

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.

   

Take machine learning as an example: “In the past few years the technology was mainly supervised learning, now it has developed to unsupervised learning. “Both supervised and unsupervised learning are algorithms for building ARTIFICIAL intelligence networks, but unsupervised learning enables deeper, broader and more complex learning and can be used to build higher performance neural networks.” She said.

The AI revolution is everywhere

The BBC predicts that the global AI market will reach $18.3 billion by 2020.

As an investor, Zhang Lu, who has been based in Silicon Valley for a long time and focuses on cutting-edge technology development, said that the industry is now paying attention to the application of AI in virtual personal assistants, autonomous driving, health care, IOT and network security, nano robots and other fields, many of which have achieved stage development.

For example in the field of virtual personal assistant, NewGen start-up team MedWhat Capital investment in the United States, built based on healthy assistant application of artificial intelligence and data mining technology, make everyone can have their own private mobile health aides, the user can voice to ask questions or input related health problems, the system will make an immediate reply, And follow up further.

Prisma, the image-processing app that has become popular on social media, is also an AI app for ordinary people. Prisma uses convolutional neural networks, algorithms that learn the color, structure and texture of images, to turn an ordinary photo on your phone into a masterpiece in just over 10 seconds.

Everyone wants to be king

“The dream of artificial intelligence is finally coming true.” Although he believes artificial intelligence could be a threat to the future of humanity, Bill Gates said it is “the ultimate goal of all our efforts”.

Tech giants Google, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Amazon and others are all hoping to be ahead of the pack in their quest for the ultimate goal. For example, in the chip field, In May this year, Google independently developed a new chip to support artificial intelligence; Intel announced in August that it would develop a chip dedicated to AI. IBM is also designing chips based on brain structures, while Facebook and Microsoft are strengthening AI development by designing new chips.

These big companies have not only announced their technology layout to compete in the AI market, but also started to focus on getting more people to join their AI journey in order to attract talent, increase influence and accelerate innovation.

At present, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others have built open source machine learning platforms, so that business customers can use TensorFlow, TorchNet, CNTK and other AI products for free. “For Google, it wants to be the standard setter in the industry, and the more people use its products, the more that’s going to happen.” However, from another perspective, Zhang Lu believes that through free and open source AI platform services, people can truly open their minds exponentially. After all, the power of an individual is limited.

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.



AI: Birthplace of the future unicorn

For startups, meanwhile, AI is becoming the next big thing.

CB Insights recently released a report on the artificial intelligence industry for the first quarter of 2016, showing that the value of investment in the first quarter of 2016 reached $602 million. As of June 15, 2016, more than 200 AI startups had raised a total of nearly $1.5 billion. In IDG’s list of three future investment areas released earlier this year, ARTIFICIAL intelligence ranked first, proving the market’s vitality.

Unlike the big companies building AI platforms, startups are seen as the ones that can really explode the AI market, as everyone waits for the next killer app. Just as Microsoft was born in the PC era and Facebook was born in the Internet era, the AI era will bring a new wave of benchmark companies, so the “legends” of the future may come from today’s startups.

“AI is becoming embedded in every industry and driving change. People are always afraid of what the future will be like, but the interpretation is in our own hands.” “Zhang Lu said.