What kind of future will artificial intelligence bring us? Is there a development prospect?

"Strengthen the development and application of a new generation of artificial intelligence, and promote 'Internet +' in many fields such as medical care, pension, education, culture, sports, etc. Develop smart industry and expand smart life. Use new technologies, new formats, new models, and vigorously transform and enhance tradition Industry.” In the 2018 government work report, the second time that the artificial intelligence was written into the report, “the drama is more adequate”.

At present, artificial intelligence has become a national development strategy. In July last year, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" clearly stated that by 2030, China's artificial intelligence theory, technology and application will exceed the average level and become the world's major. Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center.

Today, artificial intelligence is blossoming across China's land, writing a new era of intelligence. Whether it is artificial intelligence chips, smart medical care or intelligent industrial robots, artificial intelligence has ushered in the golden age of development in China, and it has also announced to the world that the Chinese forces in the field of artificial intelligence are emerging.

At the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the artificial intelligence robot is like a brush, depicting a gorgeous "future show". The colorful Beijing is amazing for 8 minutes. The 24 line of artificial intelligence robots, 24 dancers, and coordinated human-computer interaction performances are the first in the world.

The 24 artificial intelligence robots were designed and manufactured by the technical team of Shenyang Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd. "In terms of human-computer interaction artificial intelligence robots, our team has rich experience and is well prepared. Therefore, the task was successfully completed," said Zhao Jinchao, an algorithmic engineer.

"Human-computer interaction is one of the important components of artificial intelligence in the manufacturing industry." Xu Fang, technical director of the company, told reporters: "In the future factory, workers and industrial robots with certain thinking skills will appear in the assembly workshop. The scene of cooperation. For example, the process that requires two workers to complete the process, with the development of machine vision, gesture recognition and other technologies, will gradually become a collaboration between humans and robots."

In fact, artificial intelligence technology can be applied in all aspects of manufacturing. Take product quality testing as an example. In the past, many products can only rely on experienced engineers to judge, and the judgment rules are more complicated. After the introduction of artificial intelligence technology, the efficiency can be greatly improved. At an artificial intelligence conference held last year, Baidu cooperated with Beijing Shougang to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence technology to test the quality of steel plates, with an accuracy rate of 99.98%, which is very similar to the results of manual testing.

In the plan of "Made in China 2025", it is clearly pointed out that manufacturing is the main body of the national economy, and it is the foundation of the country, the instrument of rejuvenating the country, and the foundation of a strong country. The wide application of artificial intelligence technology can obviously help China's manufacturing industry to transform into smart manufacturing, and further upgrade from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power.

If Beijing 8 minutes shows China's strength in the field of artificial intelligence, then the breakthrough in smart chips is even more exciting for the people.

As early as 2016, Cambrian Technology Co., Ltd., which was born out of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, released the world's first commercial deep learning special processor, Cambrian 1A. This product has been applied to Huawei's flagship products, Cambrian. Ji also received a $100 million Series A financing, becoming the first unicorn company in the field of smart chips in China.

In an interview with reporters, Dr. Chen Yunqi, one of the founders of the company, said that the 2018 Cambrian will work on the cloud artificial intelligence chip, focusing on solving the high-speed artificial intelligence processing problems of cloud computing platforms and big data centers, if 2017 The Cambrian deep learning processor has entered the life of ordinary people. In the future, Cambrian will strive to work hard for the intelligent helpers who cannot be separated from everyone's life.

"China has a good opportunity in the competition of artificial intelligence chips, and stands on the same starting line with international counterparts." Chen Yunqi said that in the field of deep learning dedicated processors, the Cambrian research team of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The earliest in the world: the first deep learning processor architecture, the first multi-core deep learning processor architecture, and the first deep learning processor chip were from the Cambrian team.

In addition to Cambrian technology, the financing of AI chips in the recent period has continued. AI companies or teams such as Shenjian Technology, Hangzhou Zhongtianwei, Shangtang Technology, and Think Force have won the favor of capital, and some of them have been founded less than a year ago.

Although he has achieved certain achievements, Chen Yunyi also reminded the industry that the competition in the AI ​​field technology is very fierce, even if a mistake in the decision may lead to the team. "In order to continue to lead in the international long-term deep learning processor competition, the combination of production, study and research is very important. The paper becomes technology, technology becomes product, and the product is formed into a paper. The faster the cycle turns, the more opportunity."

Artificial intelligence, especially deep learning, has a huge demand for data. In China, there are more than 700 million Chinese netizens, and the data generated is of great significance for training machine learning and training artificial intelligence models.

"Compared with other countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the development and practice of China's artificial intelligence industry has a better soil, and it has certain advantages in both promotion and popularization." Qin Ye, chief engineer of the Institute of Policy and Economics of China Information and Communication Research Institute, told Reporter, 2018 will be a year of artificial integration of artificial intelligence technology and the real economy. More products and services with artificial intelligence characteristics will profoundly affect traditional production and life in this year.

"In terms of artificial intelligence chips, China has made progress in the design of architecture and neural network chips, which has greatly reduced the cost of independent and trusted artificial intelligence terminals." Qin said, "such as home appliances, mobile phones, drones, Artificial intelligence will appear widely in industrial terminals, etc."

"Recently, the application of artificial intelligence in medical fields in China has also made substantial progress. The applicable diseases include esophageal cancer, lung cancer, diabetic retinopathy, etc." Qin said, "From the perspective of effect, the application of artificial intelligence technology is obvious. Landing has increased the speed of manual reading and reduced the dependence on expert doctors, which has great significance for improving the medical ability of small and medium-sized cities."

In terms of intelligent manufacturing, quality inspection, process optimization, and fault diagnosis will become an important breakthrough for artificial intelligence penetration into the manufacturing industry in 2018. A series of relatively mature solutions will emerge in the metallurgical, petrochemical, and machinery industries.

In addition, security and home products, which use face recognition and voice interaction as the core technology, will be further popularized.

"The application of artificial intelligence technology in China is large, but the degree of application is still relatively primitive. The technical threshold for enterprises to apply artificial intelligence is relatively high. This requires the government to strengthen the guidance of the industry in artificial intelligence chips, basic tools, and open source. Platforms, technical standards and other aspects to strengthen the research, and gradually form a collaborative and shared artificial intelligence technology and product ecology." Qin said.