On December 27-29, Baidu Create 2021 was held in the "Xilang" APP, which is the first conference held in the meta-universe in China, which can accommodate 100,000 people to interact with the same screen at the same time.
On December 27, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said in his speech at Baidu Create 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) that in the era of "human-machine symbiosis", China will usher in the golden decade of AI. In the next decade, AI will significantly reduce the technical threshold and provide a technical "big base" for the intelligent transformation of all walks of life. Robin Li judged that intelligent transportation will make China's first-tier cities no longer need to limit purchases and restrictions within 5 years, and basically solve the congestion problem within 10 years; the two major capabilities of perception and control possessed by AI will be widely used in the aerospace industry, and driverless cars are also expected to drive on the moon.
Robin Li also revealed to the outside world the latest progress of Baidu's AI technology and business: Baidu's deep learning platform Feipao has gathered 4.06 million developers, served more than 157,000 enterprises and institutions, and created 476,000 models; the autonomous driving travel service platform "Radish Run" will expand to 65 cities in 2025 and 100 cities in 2030; Jidu's first automotive robot will also be unveiled in 2022 and mass-produced in 2023.
"AI Toolbox" Provides Technology "Big Base" for Intelligent Transformation
Technological innovation continues to liberate creativity, and Baidu, which has been deeply engaged in artificial intelligence for many years, has always been committed to lowering the threshold of technology application and improving the innovation efficiency of all walks of life.
Robin Li said that after years of research and development precipitation, Baidu Brain not only prepared an "AI toolbox" for creators, but also provided a technical "big base" for the intelligent transformation of society and industry. As a collection of AI technology and industrial practice, Baidu Brain has exceeded 1 trillion daily calls. Among them, the flying propeller deep learning platform, Kunlun chip, as well as core AI technologies and platforms such as speech, vision, knowledge graph, and natural language processing, have become new infrastructures that help all walks of life.
At the conference site, Robin Li showed the latest achievements of Baidu flying propeller platform to the outside world. Baidu Feipao Platform is China's first self-developed, feature-rich, open source and open industry-level deep learning platform, which has gathered 4.06 million developers, served more than 157,000 enterprises and institutions, covered dozens of industries, and created 476,000 models. "As long as you have some of the most basic computer operation foundation, have a certain text understanding ability, even if you don't know anything about the algorithm, you can design and generate AI models through flying propellers, so that the hardware can be intelligent." Robin Li said.
As an important direction of the current development of artificial intelligence, pre-trained large models have become a new technological highland in the field of AI. Baidu recently released the big model brand "Wenxin". Robin Li said that since 2019, Baidu has trained a large model with massive general knowledge, and the Wenxin big model is a knowledge enhancement model that can really achieve landing. At present, Baidu Wenxin has been open to the outside world through the Baidu Flying Propeller platform, and has been applied to industry, energy, finance, communications, media, education and other industries on a large scale.
At the same time, the application of AI tools in life sciences is bringing well-being to human health. Baidu's ecological company, Batu Shengke, has successfully shortened the prediction time of typical protein structure from the current industry benchmark of 30 minutes to less than 5 minutes by using its own biocomputing platform and large-scale pre-training model.
Robin Li believes that the "AI toolbox" is built by the creators and should be used by the creators. "Baidu's mission is to 'make the complex world simpler with technology', we provide a technology platform, to institutions and creators without technical resources and research and development capabilities, so that everyone can do what they are good at, and jointly promote the development of the entire artificial intelligence technology, which is also in line with our original intention."
Smart transportation will solve congestion within 10 years
The breakthrough of core technology will accumulate innovation potential and stamina for China's AI. In terms of application scenarios and industrial practices, especially in the field of intelligent transportation, AI is opening up new development space.
Robin Li believes that intelligent transportation will be a major change affecting the next 10-40 years, so that China's first-tier cities will no longer need to restrict purchases and traffic within 5 years, and basically solve the problem of congestion within 10 years. He believes that intelligent transportation can solve three major problems, namely reducing road safety accidents by 90%; solving congestion problems in the system; and autonomous driving and intelligent transportation to help reduce carbon emissions.
The data shows that 94% of traffic accidents are caused by human factors, and autonomous driving will eliminate human factors. As technology matures, autonomous driving will be safer than human drivers. At the same time, Baidu's intelligent road system is achieving unimpeded traffic through vehicle-road collaboration. Experimental data prove that when all intersections in a city are intelligent and city-level regional information control optimization, the traffic efficiency can be improved by 15%-30%.
In the field of autonomous driving travel services, Baidu has also created another milestone in the history of intelligent transportation. Baidu's Radish Run, released in August this year, has provided 115,000 services in the past quarter, making it the world's largest provider of self-driving travel services. At the conference site, Robin Li also announced the next stop of "Radish Run": "Expand the service to 65 cities in 2025 and expand to 100 cities by 2030." ”
Such a huge industry as intelligent transportation can not only be participated by large enterprises, but also by every creator. At present, Baidu Apollo has grown into the world's most active autonomous driving open platform, with more than 210 global ecological partners and 700,000 open source code lines. As a pioneer, Baidu has explored technologies and models that are bringing more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises and creators.
Auto robot is Baidu's judgment on the future of automobile development. At the meeting, Robin Li announced the latest progress of Jidu automotive robots: in the first half of 2022, Jidu will announce the first concept car, and in 2023, the first automotive robot will be mass-produced and delivered. The automotive robot developed by Jidu will have L4 level automatic driving capabilities, running through the three major product concepts of "free movement", "natural communication" and "self-growth". Robin Li said that revolutionary car robots with emotion and intelligence will bring about a long-term change in the way travel is done.
The two major capabilities of AI are applied to China's aerospace
AI will not only reconstruct the future industrial pattern, but also carry the dream of human exploration of the unknown. Not long ago, Baidu and China reached a strategic partnership with China's lunar exploration space project, and the two sides will carry out cooperation in space technology and artificial intelligence technology in the field of deep space exploration, including lunar exploration and planetary exploration.
At the conference site, Li Yanhong and Ouyang Ziyuan, a famous astrochemist and geochemist, the first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration project and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted a "moon" dialogue across time and space. Robin Li believes that the two major capabilities of perception and control possessed by AI will have a wide range of application space in the aerospace industry, which can make the future Chinese lunar research station more intelligent, and can also be applied to unattended scientific exploration and the development and utilization of resources. ”
Ouyang Ziyuan said that China's deep space exploration has made great achievements, the future establishment of lunar scientific research stations, the realization of manned landing on the moon, and to Mars and more distant deep space, will be the next step in China's aerospace, AI will certainly be deeply integrated with spaceflight, play a huge role.
While artificial intelligence has brought many conveniences to human production and life, it has also brought new challenges. Robin Li once again emphasized the four principles of AI ethics, that is, the highest principle of AI is security and controllability; the innovative vision of AI is to promote human beings to acquire technology and capabilities more equally; the existence value of AI is to teach people to learn, let people grow, rather than surpass people and replace people; the ultimate ideal of AI is to bring more freedom and possibility to human beings. For the long-term adherence to the ethical principles of AI and the creation of responsible and sustainable AI, baidu's consistent technical thinking.
In the next decade, AI will become a powerful tool to change the world, thousands of industries will be reconstructed, people's living space will be greatly expanded, and the value of technology will be fully developed. "A new artificial intelligence society is coming, and I have always had firm confidence in this." Robin Li said.
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