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With the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic of discussion in today's society. Recently, Liang Jianzhang, co-founder of Trip.com Group and a well-known population expert, said in an exclusive interview with the media that the impact of artificial intelligence on the whole society is mainly in philosophy.
Liang Jianzhang said that from the perspective of improving efficiency, artificial intelligence is not as disruptive as the early Internet or mobile Internet. This is because it does what people can do, and the Internet used to do things that people couldn't do.
Liang Jianzhang further pointed out that one trend in the future is that AI will be able to play an important role in more fields, but at the same time, its limitations should be recognized. He emphasized that the most efficient algorithms often simulate human intelligence, which reflects the high complexity and irreplaceability of human intelligence. Therefore, we should be in awe of humanity and its evolutionary process.
When talking about innovative activities, Liang Jianzhang believes that people's innovative activities represent the highest level of happiness. Human beings should keep this higher pleasure to themselves and play a leading role in innovative activities. Although artificial intelligence is powerful, it is ultimately an auxiliary tool and cannot completely replace the innovative spirit and creativity of human beings.
At the same time, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is also optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. He believes that artificial intelligence will change the world, but it will not lead to the disappearance of human jobs. Conversely, with the spread of AI technology, businesses will be able to further increase efficiency, which in turn will allow them to scale up and create more jobs. He emphasized that there has never been a company in history that has grown profitably without increasing the number of employees.
However, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk gave a more radical prediction about the pace of development of artificial intelligence. He said that next year AI may be smarter than any individual human being, and by 2029, the overall level of intelligence of AI could surpass that of all humans.
The artificial intelligence industry chain covers a huge industry
The AI industry chain can be divided into three parts: upstream, midstream and downstream. The upstream is hardware equipment and data equipment, including chips, sensors, big data and cloud computing services, which provide data services and computing power support for artificial intelligence; The midstream is the technical core of the AI industry, including general technologies, algorithm models, and development platforms, covering core technologies such as machine perception, natural language understanding, machine learning, graphs, and basic open source frameworks. The downstream is the application products and scenarios of artificial intelligence, involving transportation, medical care, security, finance, home furnishing, manufacturing and other fields.
The investment and financing of the artificial intelligence industry in mainland China is concentrated in the field of enterprise services
From the perspective of the distribution of investment fields, the investment events in the artificial intelligence industry in mainland China are mainly concentrated in the fields of enterprise services, advanced manufacturing and automobile transportation, accounting for 38%, 31% and 13% respectively.
The revenue scale of listed companies in the artificial intelligence industry
Compared with the general software industry, the cost of the artificial intelligence industry is higher, which makes it difficult for enterprises to increase their revenue, and even faces losses. From the perspective of the overall revenue scale, the revenue of the artificial intelligence industry is not high. Among the upstream chip companies, Ziguang Guowei has the highest revenue of 1.541 billion yuan, among the midstream listed companies, SenseTime's operating income has reached 1.433 billion yuan, and among the downstream enterprises, Joyson Electronics has the highest revenue of 13.222 billion yuan.
Zeng Yi, a researcher at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an expert group of experts from the United Nations High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, said that he is not worried about the development of artificial intelligence in the industrial and scientific sense, but is worried that in the application of artificial intelligence, users will give up the responsibility that human beings should bear. For example, using a brain-computer interface to control multiple drones at the same time is far beyond a person's cognitive capabilities; Another example is the use of artificial intelligence to control disastrous weapons. "These irresponsible designs are evading the responsibilities that humans should have shouldered," he said. ”
Wu Shenkuo, executive director of the International Center for Cyber Rule of Law at Beijing Normal University, believes that China's governance in the field of artificial intelligence is advanced. First of all, at the governance level, the regulatory implementation scenarios are richer and more diverse, because China's artificial intelligence industry is more abundant. Second, there are a variety of mechanisms for the implementation tools used in governance, such as risk assessment and security review.
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